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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 22, 2017 18:16:16 GMT
Geez, have you seen some of the sex scenes!? They went full-HBO! I recall when Witcher 2 and 3 came out BioWare fans were saying "nudity doesn't make a game mature, it makes it marketed to horny teenagers". Now the shoes on the other foot and BioWare fans are becoming obvious hypocrites. Sad. Lol, great one Sir, you make my day!
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 22, 2017 7:35:28 GMT
How could anyone seriously give MEA a 0? A game should be basically unplayable AND severely offensive to give it a score of 0. Even with the technical issues, which there are some, and if you happen to not like the dialogue, anything less than a 6 for a playable game with minor issues, at least decent writing, and fairly good RPG systems is ridiculous. Personally, having played about 16-20 hours so far, I love it! I've had like two glitches and two time being kicked out of the game, and that's pretty much it for technical issues. I like the writing, the combat, the RPG elements, the acting, everything just seems great to me! I'd give it at least an 8.5. Probably a 9. People are not reviewing it based on what the game is. People keep reviewing it on what it isn't! This doesn't happen with many other games. For Honor gets a higher Metacritic store with what people call basically a throwaway main plot and pretty good but in general very simple rock-paper-scissors combat, because why?? It's not compared to Zelda, HZD, etc. How is For Honor a better game than MEA?? You are telling me Daganropa 1-2 Reloaded is a better game than MEA? For what reason? It's ridiculous. Gameranx does a Before You Buy of MEA and complains about the platforming and SudoKu puzzles of MEA vaults, but Zelda BOTW gets praised for it's what? Simple platforming and stupidly-simple shrine puzzles?? Come on! HZD gets praised for it's great visuals, which MEA has, stripped-down RPG system, which MEA has expanded upon, and combat, which is shoot the thing on the glowy parts until it dies, or hit it with your stick until it dies. Sure, that's a bit more than that, but come on, the combat in MEA is way more exciting and variable. HZD may be more polished than MEA, but it's also about 1/4 as large and as long. And has the same type of fetch quests. "Bring me a lense of a Strider." "Find my father's spear." Simple fetch quest, but it gets praised for it! Even TW3 gets praised for its side quest design, but many of them boil down to "There's a thing terrorizing a place. Go kill it." There's the one "Go put this ring on a grave. Fight the thing. Tell me how it goes." Yeah, that's way different than any fetch quest. *sarcasmIt just really pisses me off. Sure, some people probably genuinely dislike the game. But for it to get a user score of 3.8 or so is unforgivable for those reviewing it. Skyrim is one of the buggiest games ever but gets praised. It just.... ugh! There needs to be a verification system on Metacritic for user reviews to prove you own the game and have played it. That way butthurt morons can't jump on some hate bandwagon and give a freaking good game a ZERO because of "endings" or "pandering" or "the facial animations I saw on YouTube." If only people who played the game got to give a review score, the score would be much MUCH higher. At least more in the range of the critic reviews. I don't think you've played TW3... It literally has the best side-quests in the RPG genre, ever. There's a reason why Mass Effect devs said this: "But we've also observed what other games have been doing, like The Witcher." Condominas continues, stressing that bigger isn't always better in that sidequests must be "meaningful" in order to be impactful—something The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in particular carried off particularly well. "And it was very important for us that the quantity of scope doesn't downgrade the quality of whatever your are doing there." Apart from the loyalty missions, the side-quests in ME:A are largely filler, and certainly not meaningful. Feel free to disagree... Some TW3 sidequests is so amazing, it tells a full story on its own. E.g. A towerful of mice; wild at heart; Crache children's story, Where cat and wolf play etc. Each and every single one of them require player's choice (which will shape its outcome ) even influence the main story line as well. When it comes to writing quality, they are far superior than them MAIN story of DAI and MEA. So yeah MEA team obviously don't know what are they even talking about.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 21, 2017 21:58:08 GMT
Please. If Duke Nukem can be revived and Planescape can get a sequel, NOTHING can ever be truly dead. What is dead may never die!
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 21, 2017 20:37:16 GMT
From what I hear, they intentionally fucked up the face of FemRyder at the last minute to make her more relatable. They did photo of pre day 1 patch Sara (left) , the model they used for her (center), post day 1 patch Sara (right) Video of pre-patch Sara (sorry its in French) Is there a way to remove the day one patch? This is beyond ridiculous now.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 21, 2017 19:02:06 GMT
ok, thanks for sharing two pre-alpha leaks. What is your point exactly? That often the final product does not look as advertised when it comes to video games. We all remember No Man's Sky and the first watchdogs game, and they are hardly the only examples. Taking that into consideration, it's hard to find justifications for the practice of pre-order, especially when it's an online copy for the same price. Agree, pre-order has become the original sin of game development, prepare a amazing demo then wait for the money to flow. As for the final product quality, who cares.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 21, 2017 18:51:41 GMT
Second it. Looks how great before players decide to throw money at Bioware. Da texture, animation hell even game design is simply top-notch. DAI: MEA: ok, thanks for sharing two pre-alpha leaks. What is your point exactly? Point being, if player would not fall for the bait/leaks, we might see end product as good as shown in the demo/leaks.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 21, 2017 18:49:56 GMT
Is the first image legit? When I saw it I thought people painted it for the lols. Bioware is human after all.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 21, 2017 18:30:49 GMT
Second it.
Looks how great before players decide to throw money at Bioware. Da texture, animation hell even game design is simply top-notch. DAI:
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 21, 2017 18:24:41 GMT
Lol, they put off the animation alright in all demos. Once people finish their pre-orders, things start to go south.
E.g. DAI
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 21, 2017 17:25:40 GMT
Lol good luck to get 80 mill for your next project Bioware! Not Introspection for all the wrong decisions and stupid ideas in project design and resources management. But blame one of the most loyal fanbase 'toxic'. Ignore all the advantages by working with leading engine team DICE and enjoying one of the biggest digital problisher EA's marketing resources and access to massive talented in China. But blame CDPR has 80m budget.
A classical division of EA, no doubt.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 21, 2017 17:13:29 GMT
Great find mate!
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 21, 2017 12:40:49 GMT
Lol the magnificent Alpha build of BW RPG again!
What's new? I do remember the Alpha build of DAI shows potential on par with TW3, I have preordered immediately for that Alpha build!
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 20, 2017 23:15:47 GMT
TW3 is CDPR's first open world game, first multiple platform development, and first time work with the completed in house Red engine (yup, TW2's engine is still WIP when it ships). So I'm not too sure inexperience is a valid excuse here. Every new project brings uncertainty, is dev team's attitude makes all the difference. Witcher 2 is semi open world with area hubs within the limits of the hardware at the time i.e. Xbox 360 and they had a 3 game development cycle much as the original trilogy did and each game improved on its faults I know they changed engines but they learnt lessons from the first two games the combat in Witcher 1 was quick time events and it wasn’t particular good in Witcher 2 either although you can’t fault story setting or characters and the combat in 3 is amazing. I’m just saying BW b team should be given time to be allowed to learn from their mistakes. People are acting like CDPR made a perfect first game where in reality they had a 3 game development cycle to refine and make one of the best games I have ever played. Did you really expect ME A to be better than the trilogy that’s one of the reasons that there is so much disappointment. They expected ME A to fix the ending of ME 3 and be better than the OT. TW2 semi open world!? 😂 What r u even talking about? TW2's 360 port is done with the witches traditional enhanced patch, which is almost 1 year later since TW2's PC release. Given the improvement in the Red Engine, it is possible to port TW2 to other platforms. A fair comparison would be BW A team's first open world RPG vs TW3, we all know how that goes.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 20, 2017 22:56:09 GMT
Personally, i'm puzzled how a Bioware fan can not at least somewhat appreciate the Witcher series. And seemingly just because you can't craft your own character. In reality, you can define your personality pretty much like in Mass Effect, so in the end, it's just about visuals we can't change. Oh, well, to each their own... I love both games but I prefer ME but that’s more to do with the fact that I prefer sci fi to high fantasy, but let’s not forget that the TW3 is the lessons leant over three games where as the BW b team is their first game. What annoys me is when people pretend the Witcher didn’t have any glitches and pretend it didn’t have any bugs at launch. With good patching ME A could be turned in to a lot better game it just needs time its a solid game, the other issue is that people though it was going to change the ME 3 endings and magically have better characters and writing than what the trilogy had over three games. Much like the Witcher evolved over 3 games in to the excellent Witcher 3 perhaps the BW b team should be allowed to learn and develop instead of pretending because ME A isn’t goty ME is dead. TW3 is CDPR's first open world game, first multiple platform development, and first time work with the completed in house Red engine (yup, TW2's engine is still WIP when it ships). So I'm not too sure inexperience is a valid excuse here. Every new project brings uncertainty, is dev team's attitude makes all the difference.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 20, 2017 22:31:11 GMT
Agreed.. but I find myself more annoyed that they promised "meaningful side quests" akin to the Witcher 3 (witcher 3 side quests were all short contained stories that were genuinely interesting and many had truly terrific writing... not MMO fetch quest style nonsense). So far most of my side quests are barely better than the garbage sidequests from Inquisition... hoping they get better, but these side quest stories do not remotely compare in quality to the side quests of witcher 3, they're still just mmo style nonsense mostly. Obviously MEA dev team has not a clue about the sidequests quality in TW3.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 20, 2017 22:27:56 GMT
Thought I'd drop in to share of the more entertaining and informative video reviews I've seen today: Great video, I'm also waiting for Super Bunnyjump's review, if there is ever going to be one.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 20, 2017 21:44:45 GMT
I like the immersion as it's supposed to simulate space flight. My only wish is they allow a 3rd person toggle so it feels more like you are traveling What exactly is it simulating when you can spin wildly around the entire planet and change direction at a moment's notice? Internal organ blasting...
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 20, 2017 21:42:00 GMT
Nah, EA will push a ME battlefield with frostbite 4.0 from DICE, problem solved. I'd take a Battlefield: Mass Effect spinoff myself. Lots of potential there, and the combat in Andromeda is already solid enough to support it. As for the OP, I doubt it. Bioware survived DA2, it will survive this. EA isn't axing studios over one game anymore, else DICE would have fallen prey to its jaws after Hardline. It is not the first time EA do that. Look at Dead Space 3, Plant and Zombie Garden Warfare etc. And more importantly, compare to the marginal market share of RPG, Shooter would not fail easily. A 7.5 Metacritic for RPG is basically death penalty but a decent score for shooter.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 20, 2017 21:17:33 GMT
You really don't want to read Sapkowski's Witcher tales and novels then. He's definitely not on your hard-guy side of things and you'd probably cry into your cereal about it. The games are fun but they don't have the depth of his work and they don't reflect as much on his pro-choice stance (it's there) or his hostility to organized religion and racism. I have read the novels in fact and I adore them. Geralt is one of the greatest most complex fictional characters I've come across. All these quirky companions of Geralt are basically old Bioware banter awesome. The games by their limited nature lack much of the complexity of the novels. But by itself W3 is one if the greatest games ever made. It sucked me in and enchanted me in a way I haven't been since the trilogy. Most of he misconception about game Geralt comes from playing him like a womanizing unfeeling asshole. But that's not being true to the novels at all. You can play him that way though and that's nice. Book Geralt is a very moral very kind person. But the author is not being particularly preachy about it. Nor is CDPR. They are show, not tell. Current Bioware on the other hand is so pretentious with parading their inclusiveness around... Been saying for a while that CDPR took the good stuff from Bioware and expanded on it while Bioware lost what made them great. Pretty sad. Geralt is a relatable character with the heart of gold. He stays away from fancy words but cynical and dark humor + professional witcher complaint/excuses to cover what he really is. A real man, a real pal and a real hero. CDPR nails his character with an entirely different story. A job well done I say. As for the original characters created by CDPR, Gaunter O'Dimm is the most complex yet intriguing villain in this decade. The whole storyline and characters in Heart of Stone simply push the RPG writing to another level. A good review of HoS: Unfortunately for Bioware, this is the competition it has to face. Mediocre is far from enough.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 20, 2017 20:48:37 GMT
Just a friendly reminder for the fellow sceptics here. An accurate summary indeed.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 20, 2017 20:13:04 GMT
What makes you think I don't go to CDPR forum then? Then stay there then Lol, it just happen I stay here as well. Bite me!
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 20, 2017 20:12:01 GMT
Yeah....that one was kind of inexcusably bad. Agree, it is bad.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 20, 2017 20:10:06 GMT
The most irony lies within the fact that CDPR is founded and running by a group of old Bioware fans, hence they have approach the traditional BW audience better than current Bioware could ever hope to. All these stupid delights have stupid ends, farewell Bioware, it was fun. Why don't you go to the CDPR forums then? What makes you think I don't go to CDPR forum then?
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 20, 2017 20:08:51 GMT
Nah, EA will push a ME battlefield with frostbite 4.0 from DICE, problem solved.
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Post by panzerwzh on Mar 20, 2017 20:03:57 GMT
I almost feel bad for CDR because the first time they stumble (and it will happen). It will get ugly. The worst parts of the old bioware fanbase has migrated to them. The reason so many old Bioware fans have jumped ship and flocked to CDPR is because THEY are now writing amazing characters and stories that move you to tears while Bioware has turned into an embarrassing parody of its former self. Bioware's creativity is gone because the people who wrote these beloved great characters are GONE. They jumped ship years before most fans realized that the blank eyes of MEA are what Bioware has become under EA. Those freak show faces and awful animations couldn't be any more symbolic. MEA is a caricature of Mass Effect, it's a dating sim for teenagers to me. It's so wooden and dull, it's bordering on the bizarre. And the biggest irony of all is that Geralt allows for far greater roleplaying/real consequences than Ryder or his equally boring predecessor the inquisitor. Geralt is like paragon/regenade Shepard. You can be the sweetest helpful guy ever or sell out your friends to be tortured to death. Apparently Ryder is four shades of paragon that boils down to the same thing. How is that for roleplaying?? How can anybody defend this crap and hate on Geralt as a set character?! It's HILARIOUS! Can't create the face you want for Ryder, can't make the choices you want because the game won't allow you to be a big meanie. Can't even save your progress whenever you want. LOL. So does it boil down to who you can shag or what? Is that all that matters to people these days? Because that's the only thing Bioware still has to offer that other developers don't: LBGT romances. That's all that's left. Everything else is done way better by others now. Hell, Horizon has a MUCH better cinematic emotionally rewarding intro that drew me in the way Bioware once did. Aloy, another set character, feels more alive that this wooden creepy doll that is Ryder. It's only a matter of time until CDPR realizes that they can get away with a lot less effort too. Uninspired buggy games sell just a well. Why make an effort? Just look at all the people here not believing these reviewers all saying the writing is weak and the characters dull. And the quests are nothing but busywork. Having watched the opening and mission bits on YT I can only agree. CDPR has replaced Bioware for me as the most engaging storytellers. They don't care about SJW whining and political correctness one bit. They just do their thing, writing good stories and complex characters. I wish Bioware had done the same. But they chose to ride the special snowflake wave. So that everybody can indulge in their personal fantasies rather than play a good story. And it has killed all their creativity. The most irony lies within the fact that CDPR is founded and running by a group of old Bioware fans, hence they have approach the traditional BW audience better than current Bioware could ever hope to. All these stupid delights have stupid ends, farewell Bioware, it was fun.
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