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post #51 of 88

You know what? I hate civility.

 

You have cooties.

 

Stelios out.

post #52 of 88

Spoken like a true, weak greek philosopher, Stelios.

(I kid, i kid, i know you're a chiseled spartan)

post #53 of 88
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Spoken like a true, weak greek philosopher, Stelios.

(I kid, i kid, i know you're a chiseled spartan)

 

A spartan? Me? Nah, they have fed me to the wolves as soon as they saw my big-ass melon head. "That baby has another baby in his head!" Even my mother can't deny I was an ugly baby.

post #54 of 88

This is going to go a long way towards determining how interested I am in Bioware's next project. Individual tastes will vary but Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2 were clearly games trying to coast to an extent on the success of their predecessor, and I'm curious to see if Bioware can deliver the goods without EA holding a gun to their heads for a speedy turnaround.

post #55 of 88

Mass Effect 3 is an excellent game on its own.  Dragon Age II isn't.

post #56 of 88

I'd say pretty good, but either way yes, debatable story points aside Mass Effect 3 is a high quality game, because it's almost entirely Mass Effect 2 with a mixed batch of minor gameplay improvements and problems. The Assassin's Creed II sequels were pretty good as well, because "if it ain't broke, throw in some small upgrades and multiplayer," isn't a terribly hard path to success. What I'm wondering is whether this EA controlled Bioware still has the capability of blowing us away with a sequel, because as far as I'm concerned they're 0/2 in their last two attempts.

post #57 of 88
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A spartan? Me? Nah, they have fed me to the wolves as soon as they saw my big-ass melon head. "That baby has another baby in his head!" Even my mother can't deny I was an ugly baby.

I guess a big head would had prevented you from raising your shield up high enough.

Also, Wasnt the actual baby test being drenched in wine? i know some big headed folks who would had passed that one with high marks.

post #58 of 88

ME3 was a good game that showed signs of rush (most notably in the abundance of fetch quests and lack of enemy variety), but not to anywhere near the extent that DA2 did.  Notably, both imo featured "improved" graphics (don't know the technical specs, but I'm sure there is an increased number of pixels or whatever) that actually produced a worse looking game than its immediate predecessor.  

post #59 of 88

You think ME3 looks worse than 2?  I thought they were pretty comparable overall, but that faces and overall detail were a bit better in 3.  Liara and Vega in particular looked great.

post #60 of 88

The lens flare didn't do much for me, and the environments were not as varied or rendered in the same detail.  Also all the humans appeared to have unexplained second-degree burns on their hands/wrists.

 

Not terrible, but certainly not a step up from 2.

post #61 of 88

Miranda's model was a definite and horrible step backwards. They somehow managed to make a model based on Yvonne Strahovsky unattractive. Liara's didn't fare that well either.

post #62 of 88

Miranda's model is the same one as in ME2 without the Cerberus logo.  Same with Legion and Tali -- they're exactly the same character models.  Liara's the only one with a major upgrade (which is still pretty much her Lair of the Shadow Broker model).

post #63 of 88

Miranda's basic design was also never that good to begin with.

post #64 of 88

The notion that ME3's graphics are not a significant step forward from ME2 is baffling to me.

post #65 of 88

Shallow, monochomatic level design was a big culprit.  And harsher lighting maybe?  Much like the big cinematography brouha in the superhero threads recently, I feel like I don't really have the vocabulary to express what I mean in this area.  ME2 had richer colors and more distinctive character designs.  I think.

post #66 of 88
Thread Starter 

Kotaku:

 

"You Can Thank Women for Dragon Age III's Lack of Creepy Sex-Plot."

 

Evidently, the majority of the game's writing staff is comprised of women this time around.

post #67 of 88

I'm cool with that.

post #68 of 88
Stupid slut! Whore! Idiot chicks shouldn't be allowed near pens!

Sorry, I'm just trying to emulate how BioWare fans react to female writers.
post #69 of 88

What? If anything, the people that raised a stink about Dragon Age 2 will be happy for less relationship stuff and sex plots.

post #70 of 88

I doubt we're going to see less relationship stuff. We just lost some typically male game writer bullshit with a character.*

 

In fact I hope with a majority of female writers we actually see a lot more cute relationships like they did with Merrill! That's what I want more of.

 

*I.E. Rape.

post #71 of 88

I'd be fine with all of the relationship stuff taken out of Bioware games, altogether. Call me crazy, but I don't think they've added anything significant to the story lines of their games since Knights of the Old Republic.

 

And I'll tell you one thing, I got sick of rejecting the advances of my teammates in Dragon Age II, only to have the game punish me for it. Add the optional wartime romances if you must, but don't make them a factor in how well your team performs.

post #72 of 88

They don't add a lot of significance to the stories for the most part.

 

But I've never once given a shit about the central narratives in these games. Fun character interaction and cute romance moments? Sure! Intelligent sophisticated storytelling that's not haphazardly cobbled together from Hero's Journey cliches, Buffy reruns, and doorstop fantasy novels? Ehhhhhhhh......

post #73 of 88
The relationship stuff added immensely to the original Dragon Age, and was in fact one of the best stuff in the game for me, over several playthroughs with different characters. The weird high school shit with Lelianna and Morrigan. The incredible redemptive gay relationship with Zevran. The dwarf sex. Easily better than the Mass Effect equivalent.

I didn't play the second one enought to know or remember it, but I didn't mind it, that's for sure.

I hope it's as well integrated in the new one.
post #74 of 88
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I'd be fine with all of the relationship stuff taken out of Bioware games, altogether. Call me crazy, but I don't think they've added anything significant to the story lines of their games since Knights of the Old Republic.

The FemShep/Liara relationship in Mass Effect 3 is downright touching if you've carried it over from the original game.

Maybe I played Dragon Age II differently than others, but I don't recall ever being punished for rejecting relationships.
post #75 of 88

The romance in Dragon Age 2 is really the only thing I absolutely love about it. They've got varied characters and some actual twists and turns to the relationships that I really enjoyed on a cute soap opera level.

 

 

I didn't give a shit about the plot, but I'm one of those few people who didn't give a shit about any of the major events in the first Dragon Age either. I mean putting me in a position where I'm supposed to care elves and dwarves? I'll almost refuse to engage on principle.

post #76 of 88
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The FemShep/Liara relationship in Mass Effect 3 is downright touching if you've carried it over from the original game.

 

It's pretty much my favorite part of the series.

 

 

 

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Maybe I played Dragon Age II differently than others, but I don't recall ever being punished for rejecting relationships.

 

 

You aren't at all.

post #77 of 88
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I didn't give a shit about the plot, but I'm one of those few people who didn't give a shit about any of the major events in the first Dragon Age either. I mean putting me in a position where I'm supposed to care elves and dwarves? I'll almost refuse to engage on principle.

The plots are basically just framework to hang the characters on. Mass Effect is my favorite video game series, and I'm very interested in the goings-on of the Reapers, but not-so-much because of how awesome that storyline is as much as how much it affects the characters I love. The finales of ME2 and ME3, at least on first playthrough, were sort of terrifying for me because I didn't want to lose any of them.

I mean, Dragon Age? Wonderful game. Great characters (Morrigan, please be back in DA3...). But the Archdemon? The Darkspawn? Yeah, 'cause I haven't read some variation of this story twenty times in the last decade.
post #78 of 88

I have a hard time connecting with a lot of epic scaled storylines in general. Like as soon as giant armies and the fate of civilization comes into view it takes remarkable writing for me to be to care about what transpires.

 

 

Like I think a lot of the choices are really nifty in Dragon Age: Origins but I'm not one of those people really agonized over them. I think the kingsmoot is a fun sequence but I never stopped and thought "God! I really need to think carefully about the fate of fantasy-England's monarchy!" I just dicked around a few times and selected whatever amused me. And most of the major quests happened to go that way.*

 

 

 

 

Leliana wanting a pet on the other hand?! NUMBER ONE MISSION IN LIFE!

 

 

 

 

* To this day I don't think I've ever

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Not turned all the Dalish into werewolves.

post #79 of 88
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You aren't at all.

 

But you are. They made character relationships and interactions as such that when you piss off a character and lose favor with them, or accept their advances and shower them with gifts, their effectiveness in combat goes up and down.

 

The only way to maximize the effectiveness of your party is to play a bisexual character who flirts with everyone around you.

post #80 of 88
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post #81 of 88
Or just someone who knows how to let people down gently.
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Leliana wanting a pet on the other hand?! NUMBER ONE MISSION IN LIFE!


* To this day I don't think I've ever Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Not turned all the Dalish into werewolves.

I generally play characters who are a little too 'nice' to inflict that on a population (I'm the guy who refuses to pick Destroy in Mass Effect 3 because I won't sacrifice EDI and the Geth), but I won't lie; the second I was unexpectedly given the chance to be king, Alistair went bye-bye.
post #82 of 88
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But you are. They made character relationships and interactions as such that when you piss off a character and lose favor with them, or accept their advances and shower them with gifts, their effectiveness in combat goes up and down.

 

The only way to maximize the effectiveness of your party is to play a bisexual character who flirts with everyone around you.

 

Seriously the game doesn't do that.

 

 

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Friendship_and_rivalry

 

 

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Both friendship and rivalry have rewards. Bonuses along the rivalry path are often combat related while those along the friendship path tend to benefit Hawke or the entire party. The objective of the system is for the PC to be consistent in his/her decisions and push every companion towards either friendship or rivalry.

 

 

If anything the fact that I can spend the game actively castigating half my party members for seemingly every single personality defect they have and still get bonuses is a flaw. Considering that in previous Bioware games I had to be very careful with how I managed my party unless I wanted to deal with having to murderize them at the least convenient moment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I generally play characters who are a little too 'nice' to inflict that on a population (I'm the guy who refuses to pick Destroy in Mass Effect 3 because I won't sacrifice EDI and the Geth), but I won't lie; the second I was unexpectedly given the chance to be king, Alistair went bye-bye.

 

 

I'm actually much nicer in Mass Effect as a general rule. But that's probably because I love the various races in Mass Effect and don't care much at all for (*sigh*) goddamn elves and dwarves.*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Qunari on the other hand are delightful and I'm still holding out hope that they make some awesome amazonian Tal-Vashoth available for romance.

post #83 of 88

I usually play through once as a nice guy and another time as a complete prick, just to see the differences.  I'm not so much concerned about the gameplay effects as I am with how the dialog choices affect the storylines.

 

It is erroneous to state that the choices that you make don't have an affect on the game, though.  In DA:O, you could actually have party members that you piss off turn on you or just plain leave the group.  You couldn't really do that in DA2, but you could make story decisions that caused companions to get killed, captured, or otherwise leave the game.

post #84 of 88

That is true party members will still leave at certain junctions.

post #85 of 88

After playing Mass Effect, I felt like I had played an awesome role-playing game.

After playing Mass Effect 2, I felt like I had watched a good interactive movie.

After playing Mass Effect 3, I felt like I had watched a so-so, and barely-interactive movie.

 

 

 

After playing Dragon Age: Origins, I felt like I had played an awesome role-playing game.

After playing Dragon Age II, I felt like I had watched a Troma (Toxic Avenger) movie.... I would have been better off reading a "choose your own adventure" book than playing this piece of shit. Anyone that worked on Dragon Age II should have a restraining order against them being within 500 feet of a gaming studio.

 

 

Seeing the pattern, there's no way I'm dropping $60+ on Dragon Age III. If I have a friend that buys it, I might consider playing his copy just to see how much more they dummed it down, and how hard they push their gay agenda.... but David Gaider 'aint gettin my money.

post #86 of 88
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but David Gaider 'aint gettin my money.

Oh yes he is.

post #87 of 88

He's gettin' ca$h and a$$.

post #88 of 88
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some words and stuffs........

 

and how hard they push their gay agenda.....

 

Huh?  I have played both Dragon Age games......did I miss something?  The only game I can ever remember trying to make me gay was ME2.  Gay for that lovable little "very model of a scientist salurian!!!!!!"  I miss Mordin.

 

So, anyway, in DA3 we get our own castle?  Nice!

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