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Post by hammerstorm on Oct 30, 2016 13:56:28 GMT
These persons cannot even recognize an hero when they saw one..i saved DA4 and at the same time Laidlaw healt,only god know how unealthy is to eat as much as he does. It may have to do with the fact that nobody can see Mingo as a "hero".
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Post by maxon on Oct 30, 2016 22:10:29 GMT
I still find it extremely unlikely that DA4 will come out 3 years from now. They've already had 2 years to develop it, so I wouldn't even be surprised if it was released this time next year since a 3-year cycle is pretty standard for non-churn-one-out-every-year-for-cash games. They might stagger it to release a year after ME:A, though. I doubt it would be this time next year since that will be within a year of launch of MEA and the dlcs for that will still be being produced. I could see it the following autumn though.
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Post by Cantina on Oct 30, 2016 23:34:15 GMT
I'm sure DAI will get a sequel, what I'm not sure about is the quality of the product now that so many people have left the company. I mean, David frigging Gaider himself has left. He's like THE Dragon Age- guy and he wrote all the awesome characters and plots I like best. Honestly, knowing DA4 will not have this man behind it scares me most of all. I wouldn’t sound the horn of doom just yet.
Yes, Gaider left but in my opinion it was bound to happen. Gaider is well a brilliant writer but his attitude stinks.
Patrick Weeks has filled the position.
Weeks wrote, Iron Bull, Solas and Cole. He also wrote, Into the Abyss, Trespasser DLC and The Masked Empire Novel (I have yet to read it).
I’ve read the novel, Dragon Age Asunder, and to see Cole’s transition from novel to the game, Weeks did an amazing job. That right there gives me hope.
Perhaps with Gaider no longer in the picture the Dragon Age writing may get stronger.
But we have no information what-so-ever on Dragon Age 4 thus all we can do is wait and see.
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Post by midnight tea on Oct 31, 2016 1:11:33 GMT
I don't think DA4 will be released,We have no news about DA whatsoever aside from one comic.I think they are not working on DA4. Oh, Quijote... weren't you the one who "predicted" on old BSN that Trespasser ain't happening, because there was little to no info (and that's despite the troves of hints and teases from devs) on it prior to release? I mean, even if it weren't you, I'd like to point out that whenever people don't hear concrete information from devs for a while, there's a portion of fandom that get's all "Oh, we haven't heard from devs for a while, I don't think this game is happening anymore!" Nevermind that DA leads weren't assigned to anywhere else (and they've clarified multiple times on twitter and else that BW leads stay on one project), nevermind that they're obviously working on something, nevermind that they've hired Alexis Kennedy as their first ever guest (senior) writer for "major Dragon Age content", nerevmind that they keep announcing additional content for the franchise, like comics and tease us about even additional tactical games aside from the main one... no, apparently since the devs aren't reassuring everyone every day that the game is happening, it ain't happening Please... if you're going to provoke any sort of semi-interesting discussion, at least troll us with something new.
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Post by KaiserShep on Oct 31, 2016 6:06:15 GMT
There's no way they'd just up and abandon this franchise. Madness.
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Post by Lunatic on Oct 31, 2016 10:59:53 GMT
I wouldn’t sound the horn of doom just yet.
Yes, Gaider left but in my opinion it was bound to happen. Gaider is well a brilliant writer but his attitude stinks.
Patrick Weeks has filled the position.
Weeks wrote, Iron Bull, Solas and Cole. He also wrote, Into the Abyss, Trespasser DLC and The Masked Empire Novel (I have yet to read it).
I’ve read the novel, Dragon Age Asunder, and to see Cole’s transition from novel to the game, Weeks did an amazing job. That right there gives me hope.
Perhaps with Gaider no longer in the picture the Dragon Age writing may get stronger.
But we have no information what-so-ever on Dragon Age 4 thus all we can do is wait and see. I agree, Weeks is very talented and probably best suited to replace Gaider as the lead writer. But, I don't know, while the characters Weeks wrote are great, in my oppinion they just aren't on the same level as Morrigan, Alistair or Dorian, for example. Great example, in my oppinion, of someone not as talented taking over a character written by Gaider is Anders. His DA2 incarnation just wasn't up to par with his Awakening self. (Yes, I know Gaider set his role for DA2 prior to anyone writing him) As for Masked Empire, it was a good read, but not my favorite book on the franchise. Trespasser on the other hand was probably the best DLC I've ever played.
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Post by our_lady_of_darkness on Oct 31, 2016 17:11:11 GMT
There's no way they'd just up and abandon this franchise. Madness. Exactly, it just makes no sense. Why would EA kill their goose that lays the golden egg of DA? As someone mentioned before, it's an iconic series which still makes tons of money.
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Post by heathenoxman on Oct 31, 2016 17:37:35 GMT
In the spirit of Halloween, I'm going to egg and toilet paper this thread.
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Post by lundajfs on Oct 31, 2016 23:34:21 GMT
The only frightening thing in this thread is that people are not frightened of the game happening, this frightens me more than christian's hell. After DAO went downhill to DA2 and DAI made DA2 look like a master piece the idea of DA4 makes me cry in despair. I sincerely hope there is no DA4.
However, since the lore (and a tiny bit of the story)is interesting and I have curiosity to see things beyond Thedas (I just don't want to mash attack buttons, spam skills, jump through hills, and stuff to see it) they could perhaps do animations, movies, series, whatever or comics. Thedas/DA is not that interesting that I would read a book.
...sticking to the thread... Initially I was like those optimists except that since I hate the game that was all doom and gloom for me, the certainty of a sequel haunted me. Now I'm hopeful there will be no DA4, it is still too soon, I'm pretty sure after ME:A they will shatter all my dreams and announce DA4 officially, but for now, we can hope that DA is dead. "We take our victories where we can"
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Post by colfoley on Oct 31, 2016 23:37:49 GMT
Weekes writing Tresspasser just proves how much I like his writing (usually) and positions the series really well for the future.
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Post by Cantina on Nov 1, 2016 0:10:07 GMT
The only frightening thing in this thread is that people are not frightened of the game happening, this frightens me more than christian's hell. After DAO went downhill to DA2 and DAI made DA2 look like a master piece the idea of DA4 makes me cry in despair. I sincerely hope there is no DA4.However, since the lore (and a tiny bit of the story)is interesting and I have curiosity to see things beyond Thedas (I just don't want to mash attack buttons, spam skills, jump through hills, and stuff to see it) they could perhaps do animations, movies, series, whatever or comics. Thedas/DA is not that interesting that I would read a book. ...sticking to the thread... Initially I was like those optimists except that since I hate the game that was all doom and gloom for me, the certainty of a sequel haunted me. Now I'm hopeful there will be no DA4, it is still too soon, I'm pretty sure after ME:A they will shatter all my dreams and announce DA4 officially, but for now, we can hope that DA is dead. "We take our victories where we can" Sadly, this all to true.
Despite the game being two years old, I’m still perplexed as to how the hell it got, “Game of the Year.”
I feel as though DAI was a one of those projects of “biting off more than you can chew.” They tried to in-cooperate a so-called “open-world” but failed miserably since it is not as such. And the areas are seriously lacking content. Then you have other areas such as the main story which is about as dry as chalk.
DA2 may have had issues but at least the main story was interesting and fun. Not to mention Hawke had well executed dialogue and expressions. Whereas the Inquisitor seems to love repeating, “What’s going on here?” And the Inquisitor’s facial expressions are poorly executed, overemphasized, frozen from the previous expression, or simply a deer in head-lights.
There are some parts in DAI I did like, but as a whole, it just felt like the skeletal remains of what was left after cutting so much content.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2016 0:29:39 GMT
The only frightening thing in this thread is that people are not frightened of the game happening, this frightens me more than christian's hell. After DAO went downhill to DA2 and DAI made DA2 look like a master piece the idea of DA4 makes me cry in despair. I sincerely hope there is no DA4.However, since the lore (and a tiny bit of the story)is interesting and I have curiosity to see things beyond Thedas (I just don't want to mash attack buttons, spam skills, jump through hills, and stuff to see it) they could perhaps do animations, movies, series, whatever or comics. Thedas/DA is not that interesting that I would read a book. ...sticking to the thread... Initially I was like those optimists except that since I hate the game that was all doom and gloom for me, the certainty of a sequel haunted me. Now I'm hopeful there will be no DA4, it is still too soon, I'm pretty sure after ME:A they will shatter all my dreams and announce DA4 officially, but for now, we can hope that DA is dead. "We take our victories where we can"
Yeah... I've been less and less of a bioware fan... Although, I'm not optimist about Bethusda either, after hearing about how terrible Fallout 4 was. It makes me doubt that they'll make a good Elder Scroll's game... So, that leaves me wandering until I bump into a company that aren't slowly losing the will to make good RPG's (sorry, Bioware. You had a good run. But we all know that EA will absorb you like a vampire after blood and leave you like how Maxus is).
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Post by Lunatic on Nov 1, 2016 0:55:48 GMT
The only frightening thing in this thread is that people are not frightened of the game happening, this frightens me more than christian's hell. After DAO went downhill to DA2 and DAI made DA2 look like a master piece the idea of DA4 makes me cry in despair. I sincerely hope there is no DA4. DAI has it's issues and it did not deserve to be GOTY, but DA2 is definately not the better game. That game is the definition of rushed. Not saying I hate DA2, I actually grew to like it when I did a full playthrough with both Legacy and MOTA, but vanilla DA2 is decent at best.
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Post by thats1evildude on Nov 1, 2016 1:00:17 GMT
It definitely did deserve to be Game of the Year, given that the only real competition that year was Shadows of Mordor and Bayonetta 2.
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Post by colfoley on Nov 1, 2016 1:09:28 GMT
After DA I BioWare made a fan for life with me. Unless ME A or some future game really really sucks I plan on pre ordering ME A, while maybe not when it first becomes available, whenever I can, and I will continue to preorder any and all BioWare products as long as they keep on making games that are even somehwat passable.
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Post by Cantina on Nov 1, 2016 1:20:35 GMT
It definitely did deserve to be Game of the Year, given that the only real competition that year was Shadows of Mordor and Bayonetta 2. LOL! True to that.
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Post by Ponendus on Nov 1, 2016 6:21:49 GMT
The only thing that makes me look forward to BioWare releases is that I really have no other option. I've tried all the others but BioWare is the only one with the potential to create the great games I fell in love with. I totally agree the series took a nosedive after DAO, but until something else comes along that picks up the spirit of DAO... DA4 is the only thing I have hope for.
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Post by doflamingodonquijote on Nov 1, 2016 6:28:23 GMT
I don't think DA4 will be released,We have no news about DA whatsoever aside from one comic.I think they are not working on DA4. Oh, Quijote... weren't you the one who "predicted" on old BSN that Trespasser ain't happening, because there was little to no info (and that's despite the troves of hints and teases from devs) on it prior to release? I mean, even if it weren't you, I'd like to point out that whenever people don't hear concrete information from devs for a while, there's a portion of fandom that get's all "Oh, we haven't heard from devs for a while, I don't think this game is happening anymore!" Nevermind that DA leads weren't assigned to anywhere else (and they've clarified multiple times on twitter and else that BW leads stay on one project), nevermind that they're obviously working on something, nevermind that they've hired Alexis Kennedy as their first ever guest (senior) writer for "major Dragon Age content", nerevmind that they keep announcing additional content for the franchise, like comics and tease us about even additional tactical games aside from the main one... no, apparently since the devs aren't reassuring everyone every day that the game is happening, it ain't happening Please... if you're going to provoke any sort of semi-interesting discussion, at least troll us with something new. I don't remember to have said something about Trespasser prior to it's release,i did not know about it's existence. People tend to always misunderstood my godly intelligence as me being a troll. Midnight I accept this challenge.
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Post by Lunatic on Nov 1, 2016 10:41:30 GMT
After DA I BioWare made a fan for life with me. Unless ME A or some future game really really sucks I plan on pre ordering ME A, while maybe not when it first becomes available, whenever I can, and I will continue to preorder any and all BioWare products as long as they keep on making games that are even somehwat passable. Fair enough, but I suggest you drop the preordering as that does more harm than good to the gaming industry and especially us consumers.
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Post by Cantina on Nov 1, 2016 10:59:32 GMT
After DA I BioWare made a fan for life with me. Unless ME A or some future game really really sucks I plan on pre ordering ME A, while maybe not when it first becomes available, whenever I can, and I will continue to preorder any and all BioWare products as long as they keep on making games that are even somehwat passable. Fair enough, but I suggest you drop the preordering as that does more harm than good to the gaming industry and especially us consumers. Hmm. Really? Please explain. <grabs a comfy seat and munches on some popcorn>.
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Post by lundajfs on Nov 1, 2016 12:01:18 GMT
I'm happy with all other RPGs of this generation, Divinity OS, Pillar of Eternity and such, and I'm anxious for Divinity OS 2 (played early access, loved it), Tyranny will be amazing, I'm sure of it and so on. And then comes the most saddest sadder sadomni sadding thing, that is DAO was the perfect "middle" between the "awesome cinematic experience" and the "lot of choices in story and character creation/development". DAO could please people like me that love Pillars of Eternity and people who like these movies/screenshot factories Bioware is making now and calling them games, like DAI.
DAO was the proof that you can have option, variety, content, cinematics, choices, etc all in one game. It is/was lightyears ahead of The Witcher 3 because you had different characters/origins on top of a great story and world reactivity. Of course Witcher 3 excells in a lot of points making DAO look like Atari (not only in graphics), the same could be said about DAI, but the thing is no other game was so good at balacing all the things.
The problem with DAI is that it went way too much in one direction. So it was made only for "half" (we can't know exactly how many) of RPG fans, the thing is we already had/have lots of games that please "half 1" and "half 2" but we didn't/don't have a game to please that sweet "somewhere in between". Old school games are on top, Shadowrun, Wasteland (hell look at Wasteland 3!) and action bullshit useless crap (my opinion) is as always a success as seen with Witcher 3. But what if I want Witcher 3 cinematic conversartion and Pillars of Eternity stats based combat and conversation? I had DAO, and it was great, now I have nowhere else to go (well, I'm playing DAO right now, but I mean, there is nothing new)
It is not really a problem, it seems Obsidian (the best company ever) is going to make a Pathfinder CRPG and god, the world can end as soon as I spend a good 10 years playing it, screw Bioware. But still losing that almost perfect balance the DAO had is sad. Very very sad. The saddest. It is like having three friends, a radical feminist (stats based isometric RPGs), a nazist (any RPG with action, cause it is cancer), and one that just tries his best the soothe the pain of everyone around him (this is DAO)... unfortunetly this last one died =(
Unless David Gaider was the responsible for DAO fall, which I highly doubt since he went to Beamdog, I have no interest in a future game that will undoubtly be even worse (meaning more action) than the previous. Now as for the story/lore I hope they continue on other media, less painful. Gamewise Bioware died for me in/with/because of DAI. After the torture I made myself go through to watch DAI story playing that awful game, I would rather have stories without having to struggle with awful games, feels like eating garbage to get occasional pizza slices.
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Post by BansheeOwnage on Nov 1, 2016 21:01:56 GMT
After Trespasser was released either Darrah or Laidlaw mentioned on Twitter that they still didn't get the green light to develop DA4 but told us "not to worry". Its been a year since then and I'm sure they got started on DA4 by now but assuming the game takes a minimum of three years of development the game should be released sometime between October 2018 and March 2019. It seems incredibly improbable that EA wouldn't tell Bioware to get to work on another game after (or during) DLC development, regardless of it was officially greenlit or not, especially with DA:I's success. I mean, they have to be doing something to get paid, presumably Worst case scenario is that they concentrated on the script before being greenlit, and given they're going to reuse the Frostbite Engine, it shouldn't take nearly as long to make DA4 as DA:I. So it depends if you count "development" as starting when level-designers start making levels, or when the storyboard is being made. I still find it extremely unlikely that DA4 will come out 3 years from now. They've already had 2 years to develop it, so I wouldn't even be surprised if it was released this time next year since a 3-year cycle is pretty standard for non-churn-one-out-every-year-for-cash games. They might stagger it to release a year after ME:A, though. I doubt it would be this time next year since that will be within a year of launch of MEA and the dlcs for that will still be being produced. I could see it the following autumn though. Well, I still think 4 years between DA games (which although successful, are nowhere near EA's top-selling games) is simply too long a wait. People lose interest, sales fall. I don't think it will interfere much with ME:A if it releases a year from now anyway. I'm sure they can still sell one or two DLCs for ME:A even with DA4 coming out, especially since most DLC sales will be from hardcore fans and Bioware fans, who'll probably get both. DA2 may have had issues but at least the main story was interesting and fun. Not to mention Hawke had well executed dialogue and expressions. Whereas the Inquisitor seems to love repeating, “What’s going on here?” And the Inquisitor’s facial expressions are poorly executed, overemphasized, frozen from the previous expression, or simply a deer in head-lights.
There are some parts in DAI I did like, but as a whole, it just felt like the skeletal remains of what was left after cutting so much content. Actually, I thought DA:I's facial expressions were by far the best yet in Bioware games. Mechanically at least. They looked the most natural. Fair enough, but I suggest you drop the preordering as that does more harm than good to the gaming industry and especially us consumers. Hmm. Really? Please explain. <grabs a comfy seat and munches on some popcorn>. Well, the short answer is that pre-ordering a game encourages publishers to encourage developers (indirectly) to make worse games, because they already have their money. Or rather, it simply doesn't encourage them to make good ones. If pre-ordering wasn't a thing, games would sell according to how good they actually are, not how good they're expected to be, and so the developers would have a huge motivation to actually make good games (their paycheques), and so would publishers. Why do you think there are so many pre-order bonuses these days? Exclusives, early-access, etc.? It's so they can squeeze the money out of your wallet without having to make an actual good product, since the bulk of sales happen near release. In some ways, it's good DLC is such a big thing, because that at least encourages a developer to polish a game (with patches, often) so enough people will actually stay to buy DLC.
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on Nov 1, 2016 21:19:11 GMT
Oh, Quijote... weren't you the one who "predicted" on old BSN that Trespasser ain't happening, because there was little to no info (and that's despite the troves of hints and teases from devs) on it prior to release? I mean, even if it weren't you, I'd like to point out that whenever people don't hear concrete information from devs for a while, there's a portion of fandom that get's all "Oh, we haven't heard from devs for a while, I don't think this game is happening anymore!" Nevermind that DA leads weren't assigned to anywhere else (and they've clarified multiple times on twitter and else that BW leads stay on one project), nevermind that they're obviously working on something, nevermind that they've hired Alexis Kennedy as their first ever guest (senior) writer for "major Dragon Age content", nerevmind that they keep announcing additional content for the franchise, like comics and tease us about even additional tactical games aside from the main one... no, apparently since the devs aren't reassuring everyone every day that the game is happening, it ain't happening Please... if you're going to provoke any sort of semi-interesting discussion, at least troll us with something new. People tend to always misunderstood my godly intelligence as me being a troll. The problem with self-worship is that it's hard to grant yourself spells.
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Post by oyabun on Nov 1, 2016 21:43:04 GMT
After Trespasser was released either Darrah or Laidlaw mentioned on Twitter that they still didn't get the green light to develop DA4 but told us "not to worry". Its been a year since then and I'm sure they got started on DA4 by now but assuming the game takes a minimum of three years of development the game should be released sometime between October 2018 and March 2019. It seems incredibly improbable that EA wouldn't tell Bioware to get to work on another game after (or during) DLC development, regardless of it was officially greenlit or not, especially with DA:I's success. I mean, they have to be doing something to get paid, presumably Worst case scenario is that they concentrated on the script before being greenlit, and given they're going to reuse the Frostbite Engine, it shouldn't take nearly as long to make DA4 as DA:I. So it depends if you count "development" as starting when level-designers start making levels, or when the storyboard is being made. I doubt it would be this time next year since that will be within a year of launch of MEA and the dlcs for that will still be being produced. I could see it the following autumn though. Well, I still think 4 years between DA games (which although successful, are nowhere near EA's top-selling games) is simply too long a wait. People lose interest, sales fall. I don't think it will interfere much with ME:A if it releases a year from now anyway. I'm sure they can still sell one or two DLCs for ME:A even with DA4 coming out, especially since most DLC sales will be from hardcore fans and Bioware fans, who'll probably get both. DA2 may have had issues but at least the main story was interesting and fun. Not to mention Hawke had well executed dialogue and expressions. Whereas the Inquisitor seems to love repeating, “What’s going on here?” And the Inquisitor’s facial expressions are poorly executed, overemphasized, frozen from the previous expression, or simply a deer in head-lights.
There are some parts in DAI I did like, but as a whole, it just felt like the skeletal remains of what was left after cutting so much content. Actually, I thought DA:I's facial expressions were by far the best yet in Bioware games. Mechanically at least. They looked the most natural. Hmm. Really? Please explain. <grabs a comfy seat and munches on some popcorn>. Well, the short answer is that pre-ordering a game encourages publishers to encourage developers (indirectly) to make worse games, because they already have their money. Or rather, it simply doesn't encourage them to make good ones. If pre-ordering wasn't a thing, games would sell according to how good they actually are, not how good they're expected to be, and so the developers would have a huge motivation to actually make good games (their paycheques), and so would publishers. Why do you think there are so many pre-order bonuses these days? Exclusives, early-access, etc.? It's so they can squeeze the money out of your wallet without having to make an actual good product, since the bulk of sales happen near release. In some ways, it's good DLC is such a big thing, because that at least encourages a developer to polish a game (with patches, often) so enough people will actually stay to buy DLC. There are several companies who release their games after a long period of time,(example is Oblivion&Skyrim)so i don't think that casual gamers will lose interest in the franchise because of that,most likely the majority of players of the future DA4 will not even know DAI.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2016 21:57:48 GMT
The only thing that makes me look forward to BioWare releases is that I really have no other option. I've tried all the others but BioWare is the only one with the potential to create the great games I fell in love with. I totally agree the series took a nosedive after DAO, but until something else comes along that picks up the spirit of DAO... DA4 is the only thing I have hope for.
I wouldn't be so sure... They left a waste land out of the DA series after DA:I. I'm not quite sure I'm gonna play the new game after it comes out due to how terrible both DA2 and DA:I were...
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