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Dragon Age 2: Fuckin' Bitches, Stabbin' Dragons
KvP:
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--- Quote from: KvP on 12 Jul 2010, 18:46 ---A couple of tangential links, first SA doesn't take kindly to internets not taking kindly to whatever minimal reveal the DA2 announcement was, and on the other hand, the co-founder of the Escapist on how the gaming industry is now the movie industry.
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To be fair, that SA article is a completely accurate skewering of how the message board culture turns even the slightest bit of information into a melodramatic catastrophe. I actually stopped reading the SA thread on DA2 after the first 3 pages because it read almost exactly like that article, only they weren't being sarcastic. People actually used the phrases 'Dragon Effect' and 'when will they talk about a cover system'. It was fucking absurd. The SA forums are better than the vast majority of video game-based forums but I still generally stick to threads for console games because there's a contingent of the archetypal bitter, self-important PC gamers who are completely intolerable.
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Oh you don't have to tell me, I'm a member of the Obsidian forums, which are basically the same 4 or 5 thread templates repeated over and over and over (DRM will kill us all / Bethsoft's Fallout Sucks For These Reasons / Make another KOTOR plz / Bioware is the Best Ever [alternatively Bioware is the Worst Ever] / Japan boo, Eastern Europe yay).
All that having been said, I think there are legitimate gripes to be had with Bioware's design philosophies, and I've repeated those to the point where I don't really need to anymore.
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 12 Jul 2010, 23:23 ---C) the narrative might actually be a deeply personal story to Hawke and not really a massive epic like DA:O.
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The more I think medium hard about this point the more I hope it's true because that would make this the Odyssey to DA:O's Iliad and that is a concept I can shake hands with.
Johnny C:
it better be true because otherwise they're just going to redo da:o but with voice acting and people saying your character's name
Alex C:
I would love a smaller scale story to death. I'm not really that terribly interested in Helm's Deep: The Game, to be honest, and even if I were, making a game that can approach the kinda visual standard required to really make such a thing suitably impressive is an uphill battle. Not really trying to hate on the betrayal at Ostagar there or anything, but when you have cinematic aspirations you're going to have to face up to the fact that your audience is going to make cinematic comparisons, consciously or not. Anyway, I'd say I love Bioware games best for the li'l things, not the saving the world stuff. Shit, I can barely even remember what Irenicus's big ol' plan was in BGII, and I played the hell out of that game. He wanted to get into the elf pantheon, right? Whatever. Fucker took my party members, so he was gonna die regardless. Honestly, with enough writing the DA:O team could have got me to sign off on a "Let's just murder the shit out of Arl Howe" or "Catch the Blood Mage who was also your friend," plot line if they had wanted to and promised me more good dialog and less big cutscenes. I'm that easy.
est:
I really liked the first one, so I am intentionally trying not to read anything more about it until there is actually some meaty info online, because I'd rather not read dribs and drabs and form an expectation (as I stupidly do sometimes) then have it be not at all like I imagined. I am tentatively enthused, though.
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