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I think I get it here. You're mainly familiar with SWTOR. The formula's been part of Bioware's thing for some time. Jedi, Spectre, Grey Warden, now Inquisition.

Based on what? based on the video above, it's very similar That video looks like every Bioware dialogue since they started using the wheel. In terms of animation, it looks like everything since KOTOR.

Based on what?

Animation is definitely kind of disappointing. It's all the Bioware stock again. They try so hard to be cinematic, but so much animation is directly from the can.

New spoiler going around, worth the price of admission alone for the game. I'm sold.

Maybe they couldn't. It's people who write stories, not companies. AFAIK most if not all of BG2 story was written by Lukas Kristjanson. For DA:O he wrote "Leliana's Song" DLC (a nice but very short module) and he also co-authored "A Paragon of Her Kind" quest. Which is probably why Orzammar subplot is considered the strongest part of the game story-wise. P.S. Notably, almost nobody has heard of Kristjanson but everyone knows Hepler and Gaider. It seems that the ability to troll the community doesn't necessarily coincide with writing talent. Interesting about Lukas. He's senior writer now on DAI. We'll see if he's still got it soon enough He wrote Sera and most videos floating around with the character are delightful.

One thing I'm surprised isn't mentioned more is that some locales are only bits and pieces. Like Val Royeaux is only the marketplace.

The subjective opinion is the important bit. I care more about the story being good than it having a few bugs.

I've read plenty. Reviews saying the story isn't terribly good and the combat's not that great either. Largely it sounds like it has good characters though, just not overall as good as DAO.

Update: Alien: Isolation was pretty sweet. Not game of the year sweet, but sweet.

A big part of ME3's ending problem is in why the players even played the game to begin with. The franchise became known for its strong characters and their interactions, but the ending had **** all to do with that. I could complain more, but it still falls under that line "why were the players there?" It's the expectations one builds. DXHR by comparison doesn't have very strong expectations at least for the ending. One expects conspiracies and cyberpunk. And an ending reflecting choices whether to embrace, reject, or a middle ground. Though perhaps one should rightfully have expected the final mission to differ based on choices. It's middling at best. But it's not completely anathema to why we are there. Dragon Age Origins did fantastically, despite it being able to be summed up in classic dragon slaying tropes, because it kept bringing the characters into the ending. Seeing everyone fight together at Denerim, saying goodbyes (which ME3 did do), getting to make a final choice about characters with who slays the dragon, then if you survive, seeing how those characters intend to go forward, and making choices about that. DA2 did somewhat good with that. You get companion reactions and everyone together (or even against). But I think it was the only good thing about how that game ended. It barely even had an epilogue.

Not a bad idea, although I work that day. Might be able to get my sister keeping an eye out.

I'm close, I'll have to buy a PS4 as well though.

And that spoiler I just found made me want to get the game. Not for any rational reason, mind you. A PS4 and the game.

So glad I abandoned that ship with 3. The hearbreak would have killed me.

Anyone able to explain why two Assassin's Creeds are coming out this year?

I stopped reading reviews around the DA2 time. Not because I disagreed with the initial round of reviews so much, but because of all the backpedaling they did afterwards. More like it taught me what Alpha Protocol already should have taught me: people who review games aren't people like me. My opinion is that reviews tend to be "undigested." I've noticed it time and again in myself, I'll form an early opinion of something, and then revise it in the later analysis. It's not until we've stopped and given ourselves a breath that we look at the whole picture. And sometimes we won't see that whole picture until we start discussing it. I'm not sure if the time table of reviews really allows for much of that, to be honest. I liked Dragon Age 2 at first blush, I really truly honestly did. And that's part of why I've come to this conclusion. I like the waves, they were exciting. But then that's all the game had. Once the excitement drops is when you can start seeing the formulas. When you forgave the game for how it handled Sister Petrice and make the good faith assumption that it will pay off, but then it never does, it only keeps giving you more scenarios like it. I don't want to assume Dragon Age: Inquisition will be like that. That it will be a game that's exciting so long as you can keep up the adrenaline, and once you let yourself slow down, it starts to crash. But we as people are constantly changing, not just on the longer time scales. We can change our minds and opinions within an hour if we're given cause. I need some freakin' analysis.

Is it not possible that the game could be deserving of 8/10? Not all reviews are about some inflated score due to some ulterior motive which I still don't understand Anything's possible. But Dragon Age 2 got better scores in its first rounds. I don't assume ulterior motives, but people get caught up in the flash.

Okay, of our Day 1 guys, who considers themselves to be the most bitter and critical?

Not excited by the review. But I'll probably be impossible until I get spoilers. Edit: Found one. Exciting. Edit2: Just had it confirmed.

Tried playing Last Court. Yay, Morrigan. Yay choices. What's this about trading resources I need what to get a bodyguard? What's that? Didn't I already do this one? Again? What's going on now? Okay, I'm done with this.

It has microtransactions... Honestly, I don't understand why this is such a big turn off for people. Yes, it's a ****ty practice, but you don't need to spend any money at all to play. I get not liking it, but not playing the game at all because of it? I'm playing it. It just seems like a joke.

It has microtransactions...