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[AresKeith]

If I had a dollar for everytime someone said "x will be the death of Bioware"

[Darkly Tranquil]

Agreed. I find a.i. in DA2 to be very responsive. I like how ranged characters run and change their positions when melee attackers come try to surround them. The combat in DA2 is the most entertaining, imo.

Totally agree. DA2 was the sweet spot as far as core combat mechanics is concerned (putting aside the parachuting waves). It was fast paced enough to be exciting to play, and still had a good amount of tactical depth and options for party builds and cross class combos. DAI feels extremely shallow by comparison; it plays alright, but it lacks depth and ends up feeling like a button mash fest in which tactics are superfluous.

[TheOgre]

I guess one thing DA2 did well was the menus, really easy to navigate compared to Origins. It's sad when the only positive I can find for a game is its menu system.

 

sad for maybe you, but others found it good for the amount of time it was spent in development.

[Teddie Sage]

I really need to do a full romance playthrough with Merrill... even though one of her romance scenes is just gross. You all know which one I'm talking about. The animation is just... BlEh... However, her romance path is one of the sweetests.

[Eternal Dust]

If I had a dollar for everytime someone said "x will be the death of Bioware"

 

Let me guess, you'd have enough to buy their DLC? 

 

It's not a stretch to say their games progressively lose more heart and soul the more iterations there are--just like the amount of veteran BW employees leaving. 

 

But back on topic, I really liked the idea of friendship and rivalry in DA2 and was disappointed that relationships with companions in DA:I became even more simplistic. For each companion, I would have sacrificed one empty open world map to boost the content and options with them. 

[AresKeith]

Let me guess, you'd have enough to buy their DLC? 

 

No, I'd have enough to buy a PS4

 

It's not a stretch to say their games progressively lose more heart and soul the more iterations there are--just like the amount of veteran BW employees leaving. 

 

You act as if ME and DA are the only game their doing

[Eternal Dust]

You act as if ME and DA are the only game their doing

 

They're the only ones they're milking to death. 

[AresKeith]

They're the only ones they're milking to death. 

 

ME I'll give you that since I also think it should have ended after ME3

 

DA however isn't being milked since during DAO Bioware even said they were doing more after that

[C0uncil0rTev0s]

I really need to do a full romance playthrough with Merrill... even though one of her romance scenes is just gross. You all know which one I'm talking about. The animation is just... BlEh... However, her romance path is one of the sweetests.

You really do, Teddie. Merrill is the sweetest of the Bioware female sweethearts to date :3

[Lilithor]

If I had a dollar for everytime someone said "x will be the death of Bioware"

Bioware died in 2009 so you wouldn't get a lot of money.

[AresKeith]

Bioware died in 2009 so you wouldn't get a lot of money.

 

[Teddie Sage]

Bioware died in 2009 so you wouldn't get a lot of money.

The money speaks for itself, the company is still alive and kicking even if they took a different direction that doesn't... no longer corresponds with yours. Time to move on, yes?

[AWTEW]

The money speaks for itself, the company is still alive and kicking even if they took a different direction that doesn't no longer correspond with yours. Time to move on, yes?

 

If there is one thing I have learn't from my time on BSN and DA fandom, is that some people will never be able to let it go..like-ever. However, the DA fandom has not descended into the entitlement childish drama, of the reclaim ME3 movement..Lordz that was embarrassing.

[Teddie Sage]

Personally, I'm still sour with ME3's ending but consider ME2 one of the best games of the franchise. I no longer really enjoy ME3 but whenever I feel like shooting some stuff, I go back to ME2. My only regret was how the patches messed up ME3's romance scenes, my Kaidan looked so derpy in the final one before the final mission that I just sighed hard and told myself this was the last time I would invest myself in a Mass Effect relationship. If I decide to play this franchise again, I will just do a non-romanced Shep with bros and galpals instead. BioWare never fixed that glitch and it pisses me off a little bit. I'm over the endings, I always choose Destroy High EMS, but like DAI, the lack of true final battle was disappointing. DA2 is my jam for that reason, it feels like a video game and it plays like a video game should. Well, at least for me. I know a lot of people out there didn't like DA2's gameplay and it's their choice. 

[AWTEW]

Personally, I'm still sour with ME3's ending but consider ME2 one of the best games of the franchise. I no longer really enjoy ME3 but whenever I feel like shooting some stuff, I go back to ME2. My only regret was how the patches messed up ME3's romance scenes, my Kaidan looked so derpy in the final one before the final mission that I just sighed hard and told myself this was the last time I would invest myself in a Mass Effect relationship. If I decide to play this franchise again, I will just do a non-romanced Shep with bros and galpals instead. BioWare never fixed that glitch and it pisses me off a little bit. I'm over the endings, I always choose Destroy High EMS, but like DAI, the lack of true final battle was disappointing. DA2 is my jam for that reason, it feels like a video game and it plays like a video game should. Well, at least for me. I know a lot of people out there didn't like DA2's gameplay and it's their choice. 

 

There is being sour, and then there is just...yeah..oh well at least food shelters got a lot of cupcakes.

 

DA2 is my jam as well. But it shouldn't have been called DA2..

[Teddie Sage]

Citadel DLC made me enjoy ME3 a bit, but that was the only part of the game I actually enjoyed and where my choices and the outcomes of the other games felt personal. Everything after the Asari homeworld mission felt rushed and... meh. Just my two cents.

[Erstus]

The combat in DAI is too flashy and nonsensical for my personal liking. The spell effects and special abilities remind me of World of Warcraft (and I hate that game). I much preferred the morr realistic combat animations and abilities from DAO. That said, I love the mage staff casting changes introduced in DA2

Just my opinion. The biggest flaw at the moment is combat followed by the vast emptiness of filler quests

[Eternal Dust]

DAI combat is flashy to compensate for how boring it actually really is. Nothing ever happens that makes you feel like "Holy ****, I am a total badass." They took some of the best abilities from DA2 and turned it into focus powers which I hardly ever use because everything's dead in like 2 seconds. Then they took the most boring mage school and split it into 3 branches (LOL!), took out blood magic and just upped the particle affects. But you get to be a mage Jedi so that's got to be worth it, right? 

[Teddie Sage]

Rally + Resurgence = Instant Win.

[Ashii6]

I also feel like Inquisition was a major step back, or a step into the wrong direction. While exploration was amazing, locations were beautiful ( Hissing Wastes. Omg. ), those locations were simply... empty. Nothing to do except holding R2 on my pad and waiting for enemies to die. Some quests were interesting, sure, but most of them were just fetch quests with no impact whatsoever.
Closing rifts and claiming landmarks, this is what I was doing most of the time in game. I know I didn't have to, but what was I supposed to do beside that?

Companions are very unique in Inquisition, but I'm not attached to them as I was attached to companions in Origins and DA2. I like Sera very much, I like Vivie and Dorian, yet I don't see that special bond between them and Inquisitor. They don't feel like your companions or friends, just your collegues from work. Even Varric was just... meh in this game. Maybe we had too little interaction with them or... I don't know. I just wish there was some deeper connection with them.

And Inquisitor herself/himself... is the worst PC so far. No backbone, no humor, no true compassion responds. No backstory. No CHARACTER. Just a blank, dull person we are suppose to play.
I totally loved my sarcastic Fem!Hawke. Even my Grey Warden was more fun to play than Inky.

DAI was in development for long years and main story is outrageously short and boring. Boring because we are yet again special snow flake and our quest is to defeat big ancient evil before it will destroy the world. Another reason why I loved DA2 so much. Story was so much more personal to us. It was finally about US, not about some dude that wants to become a god.

Don't get me wrong: I love DA2, it's my favourite DA so far, but I know its flaws. Very badly handled time jumps, location recycling, enemies waves and so on, so on. But even so, I had so much more fun with DA2 than I had with Inquisition.

I just feel disappointed. I wanted to play a good RPG game with interesting story and BioWare delivered game about exploration. I felt like a damn Christopher Columbus....

 

[electrifried]

Yeah I'm playing DA2 at the moment and have to say I'm having WAY more fun than I was in Inquisition. Not saying Inquisition was a bad game because I love DA as a whole....but the combat and storytelling feels so much better in 2 (despite the clunkiness and lag in combat in 2). I love DA coz of the combat mostly, it's unique and the thing I like about Origins and 2 is the focus on strategy. Inquisition feels like a spam of clicks and keyboard smashes, Origins and 2 has moments where I had to reload multiple times to retry completing one single battle. I never felt like Inquisition was much of a challenge, I mean sure they can bump up the enemies levels to make things harder, but the entire strategy of 1 and 2 is practically all gone. Why get rid of the tactical screen? They did improve on the combat smoothness but I doubt many actually used the tactical cam in 3 because it was pretty much not needed. 

 

Also the story in Inquisition was so lazy and boring, except for the Solas bits which kept things interesting. The characters were like cardboard cutouts and the quests were yawn worthy. I mean DA2 resused heaps of maps but at least the quests and stories were interesting. Hawke was also really quite cool too, unlike the Inquisitor who really does not deserve the title of Inquisitor. If only Bioware had had enough time to polish 2..

[Eternal Dust]

I also feel like Inquisition was a major step back, or a step into the wrong direction. While exploration was amazing, locations were beautiful ( Hissing Wastes. Omg. ), those locations were simply... empty. Nothing to do except holding R2 on my pad and waiting for enemies to die. Some quests were interesting, sure, but most of them were just fetch quests with no impact whatsoever.
Closing rifts and claiming landmarks, this is what I was doing most of the time in game. I know I didn't have to, but what was I supposed to do beside that?

Companions are very unique in Inquisition, but I'm not attached to them as I was attached to companions in Origins and DA2. I like Sera very much, I like Vivie and Dorian, yet I don't see that special bond between them and Inquisitor. They don't feel like your companions or friends, just your collegues from work. Even Varric was just... meh in this game. Maybe we had too little interaction with them or... I don't know. I just wish there was some deeper connection with them.

And Inquisitor herself/himself... is the worst PC so far. No backbone, no humor, no true compassion responds. No backstory. No CHARACTER. Just a blank, dull person we are suppose to play.
I totally loved my sarcastic Fem!Hawke. Even my Grey Warden was more fun to play than Inky.

DAI was in development for long years and main story is outrageously short and boring. Boring because we are yet again special snow flake and our quest is to defeat big ancient evil before it will destroy the world. Another reason why I loved DA2 so much. Story was so much more personal to us. It was finally about US, not about some dude that wants to become a god.

Don't get me wrong: I love DA2, it's my favourite DA so far, but I know its flaws. Very badly handled time jumps, location recycling, enemies waves and so on, so on. But even so, I had so much more fun with DA2 than I had with Inquisition.

I just feel disappointed. I wanted to play a good RPG game with interesting story and BioWare delivered game about exploration. I felt like a damn Christopher Columbus....

 

 

Wow, I didn't know you post here! Agreed on all points btw.

 

It's kind of funny but when DA2 was released it was so under appreciated because it fell under the shadow of DAO. As dear as DAO is to me, I have to admit the gameplay was awful and sluggish. Though DA2 got some deserved flack for the reused environments and illusion of choice, I had so much FUN playing it. I actually looked forward to the combat. It's a shame that it took Inquisition to get me to realize this. 

[Ashii6]

@UP: I didn't know you post here either! I stopped after ME3 and came back when I finally played Inquisition.

Anyway. I always loved DA2, even before Inquisition and I was surprised everyone was bashing DA2. Well, it's actually funny seeing that now DAI takes most of the criticism.

[Eternal Dust]

@Ashii6 

 

I also stopped after ME3. I came back and mostly lurked until I saw that a lot of people didn't like Inquisition either. I hope all of those Game of the Year awards didn't drown out the important criticism it's getting. Basically every review I've read so far has completely glossed over the inadequacies of the game. 

[turuzzusapatuttu]

Bioware died in 2009 so you wouldn't get a lot of money.