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Re: Dragon Age
Posted: 31 Jul 2008 05:28 PM |
Yeah, it looks sickly and awful.
Also, it's single-player only! Bah! :( |
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Re: Dragon Age
Posted: 31 Jul 2008 05:48 PM |
Looks like NWN2 without Multiplayer.
I hope it won't run as jerkily as it looks like on the gameplay trailer, but knowing how atrocious Bioware's programming division is, I won't be surprised when (if?) it will.
Personally, I've kept my expectations low so the disappointment won't strike me too hard.
Electronic Arts (who have taken over Bioware) have a habit of releasing clones one after another, and even though people think Mass Effect is a good game, I'd say it's a lame clone of KotOR at best with many bad design choices that constitute the majority of the game.
Bioware promises Dragon Age will be a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate. Spiritual successor is a word thrown around a lot lately in the gaming industry, and seems to be almost equivalent to "we can't give you any new ideas so here's an old one under a new guise" (not that there is anything wrong with it - see Bioshock). It wouldn't be the first time Bioware praise their unreleased games which end up less than what they were made up to be.
Discounting Mass Effect and NWN (which can be forgiven since it was tailored to be a community building platform and kicked a$$ at it), Bioware still has a good history in the realm of RPGs. My only concern is: did the arrival of EA spell the death of quality for the biggest RPG developer out there, or will Dragon Age prove to be the original title it is said to be? |
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Re: Dragon Age
Posted: 31 Jul 2008 11:07 PM |
By one of my favorite game reviewers.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/18-Mass-Effect
Being one of those people who enjoyed KotOR (much in part to being a Starwars nerd for many years) I did like Mass Effect. For one play-through. Granted I got a pi*at*d version so I had to jump through a few fiery hoops of poop to get it working.
That being said I'll go through the same hoops to play Dragon Age, but without multiplayer it doesn't look worth buying. Multiplayer makes or breaks many games these days. Clones or not. |
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Re: Dragon Age
Posted: 01 Aug 2008 03:30 AM |
It's true that multiplayer can keep a game alive well over its years. Single player campaigns can last only for several hours long while multiplayer can keep it going for weeks and months and years.
The success of NWN as a game is largely in thanks for having a multiplayer option for which the community to could build modules and play them with other people, even to the point that we managed to get Persistent Worlds up and running.
Makes me wonder how successful a possible toolset in DA would be in garnering a similar community interest without the option for multiplayer...
Overall, since the multiplayer ability extends a game lifetime a great deal over what its single player campaign can achieve, it might not be worth for some people to spend money they don't have on this game when there are possibly others that they could get more out of. Bioware pulled a Peter Molyneux on us by promising too much (like multiplayer) and then backing down on it as the development process progressed.
On the other hand, if cutting off multiplayer means they can focus on single player and make Dragon Age truly the title that the RPG genre needs right now, as an RPG fan I might definitely find it worth buying - assuming I'll have the money available or I could use DA to develop my own SP modules along with and for a potential community. |
WickedArtist: I think he needs a proper elf.
WickedArtist: A christmas elf!
Tasra: Any sort of elf that actually smiles ;o
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Re: Dragon Age
Posted: 01 Aug 2008 06:53 AM |
| Never mind the graphics, show me some spreadsheets. :) |
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