Hi guys,
I think DA:I is a great game but here is an aspect that bugs me:
Too many abilities, both passive and acitves ones, are underlaid with to shiny, dazzling graphical effects and these effects sometimes do not even contribute much information regarding what is going on in combat. On the contrary, they make combat sort of confusing and in my honest opinion also ugly. The worst part about it is that they overlay the actual animations that compose combat so that one cannot even see the good old slashing and thrusting and all the stuff that one loves about the brutal combat of a rpg that offers such. The one arrow that kills the enemy mage, the sword bouncing of a shield, the fireball that sets someone on fire... it all goes down between the exploding, flickering and zapping of lights and colours and what not, that have actually nothing to do with the combat itself. Let me give you an example:
My mage uses "blistering pain" so the enemy glows in some strange purple light. My warrior uses "war cry" emitting some kind of light wave and is then glowing in some strange orange colour himself. Of course all party members are protected by the "barrier" wich glows bluish. My other warrior drank a regeneration potion and is literally blinking like the emergency light of a police car, while also glowing orange (?why why why?). All the weapons are improved by runes that all glow differently. I cannot even see the weapon anymore. On top of it my archer uses "Leaping Shot" and fires some star wars-like laser beams over the entire scene. Not to speak of the good effects like blood or fire or ice covering the little rest of my screen. Long story short: My screen looks like this: http://augenkrebs.de.vu/
Srsly, what is happening? It is soooo imersion-breaking. I mean this no WoW-Raid, this is no broken traffic light, this is not new year's eve, this is no special-effect-feast to amuse the children at the kindergarden.-> Can you not see that IT IS JUST TOO MUCH of annoying effects? <- I want to see the raw, brutal combat not some effects going supernova on my screen. Why i.e. do i search for materials, then craft my own weapons, my own armor that i like the looks of just to see it all being overshadowed by strange effects to the point that i cannot see anything anymore. There are SO MUCH of that, that the purpose of a single one (which is illuminating positive and negative status effects) is lost. The little icons on the corner of the screen are enough and do a much better job anyway in my opinion.
Don't get me wrong I like the actual ability effects like this gandalf-move "mind blast" the "firewall" and such but all the illuminating effects coming along with the original raw ability-effects are annoying and pointless. You know, when I use "blistering pain" i know that the enemy is burning and running around in panic BECAUSE HE IS ACTUALLY BURNING. I don't need a purple light to illume the obvious.
So please, if not for my sake then for the sake that it could even increase the performance for everybody, please add an option in the graphics menu to turn off unnecessary, illuminating effects. Thank you!
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) But its the additional effects i complain about. Or do you like laser-arrows? Or in that instance... why do warrios glow with this orange light? Are they mages? How can they do that? I am all for effects that do not brake the immersion.
. Its so annoying! Here i linked two pictures to show you an example of the craziness (effect quality on low):
