Now, this is what I want to hear in a player review. I think I just gotta play this game and judge for myself.
You can always sell me on good writing. "a masterpiece of writing and atmosphere and deals with adult themes without apology" since your a "lurker" just adds street cred to your opinion.
Regular unapologetic violence doesn't bother me. I just don't like misogyny for misogyny's sake. I read about the one scene where the guy beats his wife and your PC can be sympathetic to him for beating the crap out of her...but it's a player choice.
Yeah, think I'm going to give it a spin. Who doesn't love a good RPG? (It's rhetorical.)
You don't seem the type to throw around 'masterpiece of writing'. Gotta check this out. Now the real question...PC or console?
It looks like we're having a feast of good RPG's rolling out.
Ahhhh, it's good to be player!
I can't recommend it enough tbh and the scene you refer to is part of a long and well built sub plot, there is far more to it than meets the eye and it is anything but shallow or straight forward. You absolutely can sympathise with the man in question, not his actions (and you can tell him that) but his life, his marriage, his state of mind and in particular his willingness to sacrifice everything to try to make up for it and rebuild his family.
That is a particularly good example of the quality of writing we are talking about, actually. I don't want to spoil anything, but you should not trust the superficial headline chasing reviews that appear to be floating around. The world is full of tragic anti-heroes, sympathetic mad men and 'good guys' with blood on their hands. Nobody is clean and gleaming.
It's obviously very different from any Dragon Age title in that respect, although I still love the party based writing that Bioware produce. Clearly, it has to be broader and less prescriptive, because I can drop in and out of conversation at any time and I can ask about different, unrelated, subjects etc.
There has ALWAYS been a market for Dragon Age type games and there always will. Despite what some poorly informed people on these boards think, that market exists and has, in my estimation, a good chunk of its members who are now 30+ and have greater disposable income than ever before. I personally have spent significant amounts on games and micro transactions in both single player and MMOs in the last couple of years and will continue to do so for games like DAI. Happily, I don't appear to be alone!
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