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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 23:56:55 GMT
Well I've finished the game and looked up on YT the romance content I didn't see first hand, gotta say pretty disappointed overall :/ I've been rather disappointed as well. If I were to rate LIs across the board for BioWare games, the bottom of that list would be pretty much all the ME:A LIs except Vetra(Anders would be dead last though). I just didn't take to this cast of characters like I did for Dragon Age Origins, Inquisition, the Shep trilogy, KotoR, Jade Empire, etc. I liked that it didn't always start with them being walking backstory dispensers like they could kind of get to be in previous games, but I quickly found myself not really caring a whole lot to search them out on the ship to see what new stuff they had to say because nothing that interested me really developed. It's not as bad as DA2 for me since I at least liked Vetra and Drack, but I'd probably say it's the second worst game in terms of characters that I liked for a BioWare game. I was worried that this squad would overall be the B team in terms of ME characters. It is sad to see that come to fruition. I have a theory on why the MEA squadmates are so....dull compared to other ones, might put it down into a thread
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 23:35:27 GMT
Morrigan in DA:I
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 23:24:53 GMT
the devs themselves wished to make comparisons
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 23:22:21 GMT
Well I've finished the game and looked up on YT the romance content I didn't see first hand, gotta say pretty disappointed overall :/
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 23:03:06 GMT
Oh and to make you happier, those black/eastern folk are highly respected in the world of the witcher. Not respected enough to be included in any of the game footage I've ever watched, apparently. But y'know, I could give two shits about The Witcher or the fact that the setting is whiter than a salt mine at a cracker factory. My whole point was, "No, I really don't like the Witcher, and would rather prefer not to make Dragon Age a Witcher clone." At which point, the rabid fanboys started coming out of the woodwork to exclaim, "Well, clearly you haven't seen enough of the game to appreciate the richness of the setting! Gather 'round, and let us sing you a song of the Bloody Baron and our convoluted crafting system!" I've seen what The Witcher has to offer. Accept that not everyone regards it as the pinnacle of RPGs. "I havent seen it therefore it doesn't exist!" If you must have the info, look up the Koviri from the Hearts of Stone DLC
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 19:34:36 GMT
do you dislike personal stories or do you think TW 3 failed to deliver? Probably that the story wasn't very "personal". Which I think is weird, the personal aspects of TW3's story, ie the relationship between Cori and Geralt, worked a lot better than the parts that focused on the Wild Hunt
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 18:23:05 GMT
BioWare doesn't have the market clout or resources to strike off on their own, nor do I think such a move would be wise even if they did.
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 18:20:18 GMT
I'm not sure, a lot of the core design of Andromeda needs to be reworked.
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 18:19:04 GMT
it was a good idea but it fell flat on its face
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 18:17:53 GMT
the enemy variety wasn't particularly good and there wasn't a whole lot of variety in the different enemy types, the boss fights were repetitive, and there was nothing to break up the standard fighting method.
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 18:11:01 GMT
Oh, zut, I found an article on the Cyberpunk 2077 dated March 2017. Off the list, because it's another solitary fixed male protagonist, no mention of the party: Cyberpunk 2077 takes place in, you guessed it, the year 2077. In a sprawling metropolis called Night City, you take on the role of a streetwise young man who was raised in the gutter and wants to improve his life. The street gangs and megacorps will do all they can to keep people down. I guess, it is just BiOWARE then. Too bad that all CDPR wants is to keep pumping out the geralts. damn it! I was hoping to play a female in this. I was so looking forward to this game. 😡 relax, there's no official confirmation of no CC, just that in this one preview the character was a man
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 17:47:04 GMT
I'm just salty I couldn't get with Cerys tbh
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 17:21:46 GMT
its always quite amusing to read people's opinions on TW games as compared to BiOWare games, who haven't played TW games You can certainly compare the known features of one game to another. As far as I know, it is accurate to say that you can only play as Geralt and you do not have characters joining him during his adventures in the Witcher. Sure, if you ignore the parts where you play as Ciri or when you have Triss, Yennefer, Hjalmar, Lambert, Eskel, Vesimir, Dandelion, or any number of more minor characters along
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 16:18:56 GMT
Yeah, I'm not gonna call that a definitive confirmation of no character creator, especially since this character doesn't have a name, or even a general description. There is no mention of party mechanics either. It has a different, new type of an MP component instead. Should have guessed it from the half-naked babe in the trailer it's going be just like Witcher. pfft like BioWare's party mechanics are anything to wrote home about, retarded AI that took self preservation lessons from kamikaze pilots and aiming lessons for storm troopers I was fine not haivng a part in TW3 and I'm sure it'll be fine in Cyberpunk
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 16:15:38 GMT
Yeah, I'm not gonna call that a definitive confirmation of no character creator, especially since this character doesn't have a name, or even a general description.
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 16:13:06 GMT
its always quite amusing to read people's opinions on TW games as compared to BiOWare games, who haven't played TW games
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 16:10:50 GMT
Oh, zut, I found an article on the Cyberpunk 2077 dated March 2017. Off the list, because it's another solitary fixed male protagonist, no mention of the party: Cyberpunk 2077 takes place in, you guessed it, the year 2077. In a sprawling metropolis called Night City, you take on the role of a streetwise young man who was raised in the gutter and wants to improve his life. The street gangs and megacorps will do all they can to keep people down. I guess, it is just BiOWARE then. Too bad that all CDPR wants is to keep pumping out the geralts. Source?
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 5:26:30 GMT
Bandit camps and caches aren't quests though..... No... they're even worse filler than the side quests... a hindrance getting to and from the various points that the little quests take you to. Then there's the distance between your cache bases and the nearest fast travel sign post or the distance that the merchants, armorers, etc. are from those sign posts. Also, with nothing showing the enemy level of those bandit camps or bear dens or whatever, the player runs into enemies completely under-scaled (cause of unnecessary deaths). It really isn't much fun at all. For me, the story line is now completely lost amid all these "distractions." I'm, what, less than 1/3 through the TW3 and just plain ready to quit. I MUCH prefer ME2 (where the side quests - i.e. loyalty missions) didn't feel like side quests or even the limited number that ME3 had (what was it - 5 N7 missions and then some "meetup" missions you could have with your old ME2 crew like Lessus or Grissom Academy). If you're not consider the bandit camps, etc. as side quests.... then clearly none of the "fetching" done in ME3 were side quests. For "meaningful" side quests in TW3, we have the infamous frying pan... and just to show it's not a one-off... what about having to stop just to tell some jerk to not challenge you to a duel and go back to the Maid Bilberry... total filler junk, IMO. someone totally missed the purpose of the frying pan contract
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 2:37:22 GMT
kinda relevant I guess
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 2:03:56 GMT
Forgive me for not committing your arguments to memory. I admitted there were flaws to discuss, you just want to shit on it completely, and for what reason I wonder.... can't handle that BioWare has been so thoroughly outdone? According to what? Mass opinion? Inquisition and Andromeda are far better than TW3 to me. It is not fact tgat TW3 outdid anything, despite the preaching of its fanboys that feel this insane urge to continually bring it up on a forum for BIOWARE. Must not be all that great if you have to tear down other franchises constantly. Saying TW3 is better is not tearing down DA or ME, its just saying the TW is better. I enjoyed DA:I quite a bit, MEA less so, and I discuss them on here. TW3 is relevant to this thread as a AAA game title that incorporated open world aspects in an RPG.
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 0:40:35 GMT
This is how her story arc read to me. She was always looking for love and acceptance but got continually "rejected." She absorbs herself into her work because she doesn't know who she is or what she wants (or if what she wants is obtainable for someone like her.) Her friendship/mid-romance scene shows her coming to terms with having a fresh start and making her own way. I thought the asari thing was a waste considering they could have really went all illusive man sabotage. That is what I was expecting and hoping for. The whole TIM theories were actually fun and could be connected with the Ryder family story. When Cora said that both her parent were death or gone, I was half expecting it was related to something but nop... her personal mission was finding the Asari ark? sigh. but you see she trained with Asari huntresses
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 0:30:19 GMT
Anyone can post random bullshit, back it up What makes characters like the Bloody Baron or Ciri one dimensional? What makes the monster contracts or things like the assassination of Radovid repetitive? There are valid criticisms to level at TW3, it does have weak main antagonists in the form of the Wild Hunt leaders (though I'd say it makes up for this with the likes of the Crones). I backed up pre official forum closure. You were one of those that didn't want to listen then. And the fact you don't think the Witcher contracts are repetitive just shows how unwilling you are to even try to understand a dissenting opinion. If you want to praise TW3 and not here my thoughts on it, go to CDPR based forums. Unlike many here, I don't embarrass myself by hanging around those boards to troll TW3 and raise my favourite games over it. I'm fucking done with the TW3 fanboys and their annoying bullshit. Forgive me for not committing your arguments to memory. I admitted there were flaws to discuss, you just want to shit on it completely, and for what reason I wonder.... can't handle that BioWare has been so thoroughly outdone?
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 0:26:39 GMT
I felt like his whole role in the game was p*ssymagnet. It was a little too much for me and then he had that weird lumpy bony body. I prefer F/F romances typically but every once in awhile I enjoy F/M or M/F romances like Garrus, Morrigan, and Solas. I was kind of disappointed overall by Jaal but I understand why so many women like him. He was written to be a "perfect" guy. Does Jaal sparkle like the Twilight dudes? Will Cora ever stop emailing me asari prayers? Have I shitposted enough today?no such thing
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 0:15:26 GMT
just outsource the writing to BioWare Edmonton
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Post by Steelcan on Apr 19, 2017 0:12:44 GMT
I mean its a bit more than a phase in how it comes across. She served with their military as part of an interspecies initiative that's what she should have focused on, not quoting asari poetry to us every other line. I also don't trust BioWare withing 500 yards of anything relating to "cultural appropriation" they already have a reputation for totally unsubtle examination of social issues (particularly in ME). Sure but still that would be explained by Cora identity being too connected with her military life with the Asari and she does tell you that looking for a mentor is kinda of a thing. Also Cora personal reaction to Sarissa decision to sacrifice the pathfinder is obvious again an id crises. Overall I think her story arc wasnt the best, it needed some work to come across as someone finding themselves in the civi life after being 24/7 a soldier. See I'm not convinced that was the aim of Cora's arc in the first place though. I'm reasonably sure her role was to show us how amazing the asari seem to other species and then subvert those expectations with Sarissa and VasarinameIforget
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