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Post by Mark7 on Nov 4, 2017 16:25:02 GMT
I don't like DAI either,the story is shallow and the sidequests do not even exist,not to mention those endless unnecessary returning characters that are there just for the sake of being there.
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Post by House Targaryen on Nov 5, 2017 6:20:28 GMT
This topic is still going? This troll patsy doesn't even exist any more.
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Post by shinary on Nov 5, 2017 7:35:34 GMT
This topic is still going? This troll patsy doesn't even exist any more. Apperently so. Noone took to my "Doom for all" thread for ha...ehm... realists and "Unichorn and rainbows" thread for people, who just want to enthuse and get excited about Dragon age. :sob:
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Post by cloud9 on Jan 3, 2018 5:43:44 GMT
Josephine's romance is the best romance in Bioware history. It was pretty much perfect. One of the most boring ones.
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Post by cloud9 on Jan 3, 2018 5:51:28 GMT
I have a question for majesticjazzWhy are you here? On a Fan Forum for Dragon Age? This is a fan forum made by fans. You are obviously not a fan. You are a Witcher Fan. Can you go there, where the other Witcher fans hang out? As I said: Hardcore fans will persecute and ridicule anyone who criticizing BioWare games even if it's constructive criticism. Insecure much?
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Post by patrickbateman on Jan 5, 2018 11:42:39 GMT
I got the digital delux edition on PC at launch and I hated the game then, at launch it was just so full of bugs it was practically unplayable. I had to force myself to complete it on normal difficulty (the frame rate drops practically made nightmare unplayable).
But then I decided to give it a new try out of the blue 6 months ago, and I really really enjoy it now. All of the major bugs were fixed and the frame rate is totally ok, just a shame it was such a mess at launch.
Now I'm in to my 3rd consecutive playthrough on Nightmare with Friendly fire and trials on (the only critisism I have is that the vanilla game is a bit to easy) but the DLCs with trials on is a blast.
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Post by alanc9 on Jan 5, 2018 16:32:01 GMT
Josephine's romance is the best romance in Bioware history. It was pretty much perfect. One of the most boring ones. Still on that necro binge, eh?
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Post by House Targaryen on Jan 5, 2018 18:04:37 GMT
Just when you think a topic is dead and buried. :poop:
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Post by Tuchanka Love on Jan 5, 2018 22:03:13 GMT
even though from time and again I replay DAI I agree with you. I only finished once though, and I tried to start 4 or 5 characters since then, but it ends with me just giving up on the game because the amount of filler really drags the game to the ground.
When you leave Haven and get Skyhold, that's when things start to get boring as all fuck.
I'm replaying right now and I'm trying a different approach, which is not to stay too long in any area in the game just so the filler content won't ruin the game for me. So I guess around 80% of content will be left untouched. Also, trying not to outlevel the main story missions, so I can get some fun out of the combat. Playing on hard difficulty.
It's a beautiful looking game though with some awesome moments (when it comes to the main story). One thing Biower still kick ass at is in the level design department.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 22:38:40 GMT
even though from time and again I replay DAI I agree with you. I only finished once though, and I tried to start 4 or 5 characters since then, but it ends with me just giving up on the game because the amount of filler really drags the game to the ground. When you leave Haven and get Skyhold, that's when things start to get boring as all fuck. I'm replaying right now and I'm trying a different approach, which is not to stay too long in any area in the game just so the filler content won't ruin the game for me. So I guess around 80% of content will be left untouched. Also, trying not to outlevel the main story missions, so I can get some fun out of the combat. Playing on hard difficulty. It's a beautiful looking game though with some awesome moments (when it comes to the main story). One thing Biower still kick ass at is in the level design department. For me the two biggest stumbling blocks are the 30 power points lock on the Whicked Hearts, the 40 Power Points on the What Pride Had Wrought and repeating the companionsβ missions. There are two traps for me: - to get more power points you need to unlock new areas, and each costs power points to unlock, so i feel like I am getting back a return on investment. - the companionsβ quests give a lot of power points, so itβs a choice of seeing precisely the same cutscenes vs closing the rifts by the dozen. Oh, how I wish they had an NG+ that was set up exactly like the Andromeda one, where you just reimported the top level character, rebuild it, and could run just the story missions. The story missions save for the Winter Palace one imo are good in the vanilla game.
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Post by colfoley on Jan 5, 2018 22:57:28 GMT
even though from time and again I replay DAI I agree with you. I only finished once though, and I tried to start 4 or 5 characters since then, but it ends with me just giving up on the game because the amount of filler really drags the game to the ground. When you leave Haven and get Skyhold, that's when things start to get boring as all fuck. I'm replaying right now and I'm trying a different approach, which is not to stay too long in any area in the game just so the filler content won't ruin the game for me. So I guess around 80% of content will be left untouched. Also, trying not to outlevel the main story missions, so I can get some fun out of the combat. Playing on hard difficulty. It's a beautiful looking game though with some awesome moments (when it comes to the main story). One thing Biower still kick ass at is in the level design department. For me the two biggest stumbling blocks are the 30 power points lock on the Whicked Hearts, the 40 Power Points on the What Pride Had Wrought and repeating the companionsβ missions. There are two traps for me: - to get more power points you need to unlock new areas, and each costs power points to unlock, so i feel like I am getting back a return on investment. - the companionsβ quests give a lot of power points, so itβs a choice of seeing precisely the same cutscenes vs closing the rifts by the dozen. Oh, how I wish they had an NG+ that was set up exactly like the Andromeda one, where you just reimported the top level character, rebuild it, and could run just the story missions. The story missions save for the Winter Palace one imo are good in the vanilla game. it probably could've tried to learn from Andromeda and only open new areas for story reasons. Of course it's hard to learn from a game that isn't out yet.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 23:00:28 GMT
For me the two biggest stumbling blocks are the 30 power points lock on the Whicked Hearts, the 40 Power Points on the What Pride Had Wrought and repeating the companionsβ missions. There are two traps for me: - to get more power points you need to unlock new areas, and each costs power points to unlock, so i feel like I am getting back a return on investment. - the companionsβ quests give a lot of power points, so itβs a choice of seeing precisely the same cutscenes vs closing the rifts by the dozen. Oh, how I wish they had an NG+ that was set up exactly like the Andromeda one, where you just reimported the top level character, rebuild it, and could run just the story missions. The story missions save for the Winter Palace one imo are good in the vanilla game. it probably could've tried to learn from Andromeda and only open new areas for story reasons. Of course it's hard to learn from a game that isn't out yet. Would buy a DLC that adds NG+ for DA3
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Post by colfoley on Jan 5, 2018 23:06:37 GMT
it probably could've tried to learn from Andromeda and only open new areas for story reasons. Of course it's hard to learn from a game that isn't out yet. Would buy a DLC that adds NG+ for DA3 while I do agree I also appreciate them keeping them separate in this way. Though I suspect we will see profiles and NG +for DA 4. Of course don't mind either way. Pumped five PTs of DAI in and will do a sixth sometimes this year.
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Post by Tuchanka Love on Jan 5, 2018 23:54:48 GMT
Oh also it pisses me off a lot that the real ending of the game is in a DLC. Maybe one day I'll pirate the whole thing because I refuse to pay to get the ending of a game I already paid for.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2018 0:37:54 GMT
Oh also it pisses me off a lot that the real ending of the game is in a DLC. Maybe one day I'll pirate the whole thing because I refuse to pay to get the ending of a game I already paid for. Heh, I did Trespasser once, and wish I did not buy GOTY. what you get in vanilla and a couple of spoilers are better imo.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Jan 6, 2018 0:42:20 GMT
Just when you think a topic is dead and buried. yeah some idiot rvives it.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Jan 6, 2018 0:45:44 GMT
even though from time and again I replay DAI I agree with you. I only finished once though, and I tried to start 4 or 5 characters since then, but it ends with me just giving up on the game because the amount of filler really drags the game to the ground. When you leave Haven and get Skyhold, that's when things start to get boring as all fuck.I'm replaying right now and I'm trying a different approach, which is not to stay too long in any area in the game just so the filler content won't ruin the game for me. So I guess around 80% of content will be left untouched. Also, trying not to outlevel the main story missions, so I can get some fun out of the combat. Playing on hard difficulty. It's a beautiful looking game though with some awesome moments (when it comes to the main story). One thing Biower still kick ass at is in the level design department. I think that's a matter of opinion because for me that's when the game really starts to get interesting. The whole Haven section to me just feels like one big long prologue compared to when we get to Skyhold.
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Post by midnight tea on Jan 6, 2018 4:35:57 GMT
I think that's a matter of opinion because for me that's when the game really starts to get interesting. The whole Haven section to me just feels like one big long prologue compared to when we get to Skyhold. Well, it kind of is. It's a prologue to Inquisitor actually, well... becoming Inquisitor. Apparently the first plan was to just make Herald the Inquisitor after shutting the Breach for the first time. I personally do prefer it the way they eventually decided to do it.
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Post by FireAndBlood on Jan 6, 2018 15:56:44 GMT
One of the most boring ones. Still on that necro binge, eh? The man once liked a post I made that was nearly six months old.
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Post by alanc9 on Jan 6, 2018 21:31:28 GMT
How does he even find this stuff?
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Jan 7, 2018 1:51:44 GMT
I'm counting this as more evidence that open world games mostly need to fuck right off. This shit is worse than the modern military shooter plague, at least that crap only affected one or two genres. Bloody Skyrim seems to have infected the whole damn industry with its shallow, diluted mediocrity. This. It simply seems to be impossible to make an open world game interesting for longer than 30 minutes, which is the time span you need to see and experience 95% of what the game has to offer, the rest is just rinse and repeat in a bunch of slightly different ways. This has been the case in Skyrim, it was the same story in Mass Effect Andromeda and in DA:I as well. But thats not all what the games had in common, the really good parts of all those games (Yes they had some really good parts) were the story elements, which totally proves for me that those games could have been wonderful without the dull open world mechanic. Open world games is just one of those things that sound absolutely fantastic on paper but does not work at all in reality. Or...simulated reality. Fantasy. Whatever you know what I mean. Since the developers of games simply cannot find their way back to story driven games with tight atmosphere some middle ground has to be found. Semi-open world games?
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Post by Reznore on Jan 7, 2018 5:01:13 GMT
DAI was semi open world. I enjoy open world games such as Skyrim and Fallout NV .... and I could write pages why Bioware suck at open world/ semi open world. But anyway one very very obvious issue is, for example in DAI, all the fleshed out quests are either main quest material or companions/advisors quests, you all take them in Skyhold and then you teleport to some self contained place. The results is the semi open world is mostly walking around the wilderness stumbling on letters of people who aren't there (so exciting!) and what you never stumble upon is an actual quest hub with good quests fleshing out the world and its inhabitants. With the quests being divorced from the semi open world, the big areas end up some kind of gamey dump where you kill stuff, get the most generic quests you've ever dreamed of, puzzles, shards to pick up and rarely a dungeon.
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Post by boxofscreaming on Jan 7, 2018 7:49:01 GMT
I have a question for majesticjazz Why are you here? On a Fan Forum for Dragon Age? This is a fan forum made by fans. You are obviously not a fan. You are a Witcher Fan. Can you go there, where the other Witcher fans hang out? As I said: Hardcore fans will persecute and ridicule anyone who criticizing BioWare games even if it's constructive criticism. Insecure much? Persecute? Isn't that a little hyperbolic?
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Post by ApocAlypsE on Jan 7, 2018 9:19:38 GMT
I have a question for majesticjazz Why are you here? On a Fan Forum for Dragon Age? This is a fan forum made by fans. You are obviously not a fan. You are a Witcher Fan. Can you go there, where the other Witcher fans hang out? As I said: Hardcore fans will persecute and ridicule anyone who criticizing BioWare games even if it's constructive criticism. Insecure much? And I've felt it's the exact opposite in here, that it is illegal to like DA:I...
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Post by fylimar on Jan 7, 2018 9:43:59 GMT
I like DAI and I have no problem with people who don't like the game
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