Koki on 22/10/2009 at 09:54

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So you'd say it's more of a fatal blind spot or simple denial than blatant stupidity?

Jason Moyer on 22/10/2009 at 12:57

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I like Bioware games...maybe not as much as what third parties have done with their technology, but they're solid nonetheless. In any case, they've been making the same game over and over for 10 years. No, that doesn't mean Dragon Age will follow every story or gameplay convention that they've used during that time, but until I've played it (which I plan to) their history gives me no reason to assume it won't. The climax of the story will involve someone close to you deceiving you, there will be some incredibly shallow romantic subplot, you'll fight in an arena, the first area of the game will be a giant tutorial section, the middle part of the game will feature some non-linear exploration, then the ending will be a drawn out linear slog towards whichever character deceived you earlier. The dialog will consist of obvious good/evil/neutral moral choices mixed with informational dialog that you can access infinitely by saying the same thing to someone over and over. I'm kind of curious to see how they're going to fit their more recent "personal merchant" thing from JE/ME into a D&D setting, but I'm sure it will be there somewhere. There will also be some sort of minigame involving transportation (and if it's an action sequence involving dragons I will stab forks into my eyes).

entertainer on 22/10/2009 at 15:48

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Nice fanboy defense.

EvaUnit02 on 22/10/2009 at 16:08

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I believe that you just met Entertainer, he is wrung on the ladder below Koki.

Rolander on 23/10/2009 at 00:54

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What we can glean from the trailers etc. are bits and pieces. Unless you have already played DA:O to some extent (somehow pirated a review copy, part of the development team, reviewed the game for some game magazine or website, etc.), you have yet to see the full picture or a substancial portion of it.

How much do we know of the main plot anyway? PC joins a certain group with a objective, someone important falls, group held responsible, group scrambles to meet objective, then what? Maybe you think I'm simplifying, but that to avoid really spoiling it.

What about the in-game dialogue? How much of the in-game dialogue have we heard/read?

I have been and will be wrong again, and so will you (you admitted that it is not impossible for Bioware to pull out a good script). Til we actually get DA:O, can't we keep an open mind and wait to see what the game really is like, then exhort it or tear it to pieces as we choose?

And what is most important to me in a game is that I enjoy it. If DA:O is enjoyable to me, I consider my $$$ well spent. The script may be whatever you said, but if I have fun playing it, what is it to you? Am I being disrespectful to you?

And I know who Uwe Boll is; I played Far Cry quite a bit and liked it despite some people not liking it (I'm not saying anything about you liking or disliking it).