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Post by baihu1983 on Feb 5, 2023 17:53:10 GMT
I did think as I typed that have they ever sold a studio? |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 5, 2023 17:56:02 GMT
If sold means shut down then yeah, they've sold loaaaaaads of studios.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2023 18:17:17 GMT
Maybe they’ll convert them to another failed storefront like Origin.
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Post by aubergine on Feb 5, 2023 23:22:55 GMT
EA just bury the IP in a tip where it can never compete with their next big failure.
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Post by simple on Feb 13, 2023 18:29:10 GMT
Is the Netflix Dragon Age anime any good?
The Mass Effect one wasn’t but it is over a decade old and I quite liked the Castlevania one this looks similar to
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Post by Blue_Mike on Feb 13, 2023 19:15:04 GMT
I watched the first episode a month ago and now I literally can't remember a thing about it other than the fact that a minor character from Inquisition was referenced.
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Post by Ulythium on Feb 25, 2023 10:59:57 GMT
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Post by Blue_Mike on Mar 12, 2023 1:45:09 GMT
David Gaider shared how, when working on Inquisition, they cut a late-game attack on Skyhold by Corypheus that would have had Varric die.
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Post by aubergine on Mar 12, 2023 6:59:17 GMT
You have to wonder why they had to cut that but include giant pointless zones with fuck all in them of interest.
First time I played the game I think I fully skipped three or four of the zones - never set foot in some of them - and it made zero difference to the outcome. I went to them on a second attempted run but it was all such tepid bloat that I never finished it a second time.
I generally enjoy the storytelling with their games (elements of ME3 and all of MEA aside) but their actual gameplay and design has only become worse I feel. Origins remains the high point of DA, and I guess ME2 in pure gameplay terms for that series.
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Post by simple on Mar 12, 2023 9:37:57 GMT
MEA does open sandboxes a lot better than DAI
Its story was more of a context than the main focus of the game though
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Post by aubergine on Mar 12, 2023 10:21:48 GMT
In fairness I bounced off MEA before it even opened up, I just had a really powerful negative reaction to it. Same happened with DA2, barely gave it a chance, I hated it.
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Post by simple on Mar 12, 2023 10:33:23 GMT
To be fair neither MEA or DA2 looked like finished games. Especially not at launch. So totally understandable.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Mar 28, 2023 2:37:31 GMT
Which is odd, given that just over a year ago he was pretty harsh in his commentary about Bioware.
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Post by simple on Mar 28, 2023 7:55:32 GMT
That they’re coughing up a consultancy fee to bring him back and bringing the ME devs onboard to help complete the game makes me think the game they’ve got so far is very unfinished and probably not great.
It sounds a bit like how Andromeda was eventually rushed out the gate after its development stalled.
Considering the size and cost of these triple A titles it feels crazy that they’re always so amateurly managed.
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Post by ozthegweat on Apr 2, 2023 19:38:34 GMT
Yes, please also, but I would also settle for a collection of the 3 games that includes all expansions and other DLC, for consoles. |
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 2, 2023 20:55:13 GMT
Origins was the best. Really superb writing and I liked the combat systems.
However would realistically need rebuilding in a totally new engine. It's beyond a quick upscale job I think.
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 2, 2023 20:57:51 GMT
I certainly wouldn't say no to a Mass Effect Legendary Edition-style compilation, even though I already have Inquisition, as it's the only way I'll ever experience the first two games; however, I kind of doubt it'll happen.
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Post by aubergine on Apr 3, 2023 3:39:10 GMT
I’d rather a bells-and-whistles remake of the first game and let’s forget the second ever happened.
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Post by ozthegweat on Apr 3, 2023 7:38:40 GMT
On Xbox, a simple collection would suffice. You can still buy everything from 1 and 2, it's just ridiculously expensive.
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Post by ozthegweat on Apr 3, 2023 9:03:33 GMT
Well, what do you know, 1 and 2 are on sale right now on the Xbox store. DLCs still cost an arm and a leg though.
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Post by Vandelay on Apr 3, 2023 9:34:56 GMT
Never been able to get on with Origins, although that is mostly from my dislike of real time with pause combat. If they re-made it with a turn based system instead, I would probably love it.
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 3, 2023 13:52:47 GMT
I grew to like combat system. Prior to playing KOTOR I was very unconvinced by pause & queue command style systems but they grew on me. Origins did it really well with some nice AI routines you could configure. I preferred the combat in Origins to the rest of the series.
DA really did feel like a LOTR game at times. An epic quest involving different races and ancient fallen societies and mysteries. It probably helped that my expectations were pretty low as it got some mediocre reviews and I really only bought it because it was Bioware. The actual Origins bit of it (the different starting stories that lead to recruitment by the Grey Wardens) was a bit meh, but from that point on I was enthralled. It didn't even matter how janky and brown it all was. It was like reading a good book I couldn't put down. Then completed all the DLC which were also very decent and added a fair bit.
I was so disappointed by the second one. The plot was too small scale, there were too many reused assets and it was just a bit repetitive. All the ambition had gone.
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Post by aubergine on Apr 3, 2023 14:16:30 GMT
Never been able to get on with Origins, although that is mostly from my dislike of real time with pause combat. If they re-made it with a turn based system instead, I would probably love it. I just pause it at extremely regular intervals. It’s a great system once I realised you just need to pause the shit out of it. I’m also usually a turn-based guy. |
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Post by ozthegweat on Apr 3, 2023 14:25:13 GMT
I was so disappointed by the second one. The plot was too small scale, there were too many reused assets and it was just a bit repetitive. All the ambition had gone. Wasn't DA2 planned as an expansion to DA:O and then EA made BioWare make it into a standalone game? |
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Apr 3, 2023 14:31:54 GMT
I’d argue that the narrative in DA2 was more ambitious than any of the others. Tying it all to one location and focusing on the characters and how that place and the stakes surrounding events there grew over time was and still is quite unique as far as RPGs go.
Yes, there was a lot of asset reuse, but I think the game itself is excellent.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 3, 2023 15:20:16 GMT
I was so disappointed by the second one. The plot was too small scale, there were too many reused assets and it was just a bit repetitive. All the ambition had gone. Wasn't DA2 planned as an expansion to DA:O and then EA made BioWare make it into a standalone game? DA2 does make a lot more narrative sense if you think of it as a continuation of The Story Of Anders after he'd already been introduced in that DA1 piece of DLC. |
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 3, 2023 15:26:39 GMT
You might be right about the narrative design of DA2 being ambitious and I know a lot of people liked it for what it was. I really tried but I just couldn't get into it to the same extent and it wasn't what I wanted from a DA game.
I vaguely recall the same rumour that DA2 was a result of EA meddling and rushing it out prematurely, rather than being what Bioware had envisaged.
The best part about the Origins combat was using the AI tactics in satisfying ways. Lots of basic if x then y stuff IIRC. I think my guy was a backstabby dual dagger assassin type so I'd flit about mostly manually controlling him and had then set up the rest of the party to tank, buff, target mages, and heal when required using tactics. It still needed pausing and manual assignments for the tougher battles but smaller groups of mobs were dispatched with satisfyingly efficient autonomy. It was fun. Never really clicked with the combat as much since, even though it was more real-time and accessible. I played it all on PS3 too, so I'm sure the controls were better on PC.
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 3, 2023 15:32:05 GMT
Wasn't DA2 planned as an expansion to DA:O and then EA made BioWare make it into a standalone game? DA2 does make a lot more narrative sense if you think of it as a continuation of The Story Of Anders after he'd already been introduced in that DA1 piece of DLC. The DA:O DLC was very enjoyable. Which is also why DA2 arriving at full price yet not feeling much bigger in scope than Awakening (itself 30 odd hours) was underwhelming. If it had been £10-20 and positioned as the story of Anders I may have been in a better headspace to enjoy it. |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 3, 2023 15:37:52 GMT
I was glad that I eventually got around to playing through the first one to completion after I'd started it a few times and then fucked it off out of boredom each time, and the second one absolutely needed to be played modded on PC to be even approachable from my standpoint, but I was glad that I did because it gave me a more enjoyable, full experience of Inquisition that importing a world full of half remembered or made up choices from their world creator website would have.
On that note if there is anything I want to see in DA4, it's the return of DA2 characters like Fenris and Merill, and I honestly couldn't give a rats arse about any DA1 character now other than Morrigan.
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