So "we moved on". Did it benefit the franchise afterall?

May 12, 2017 19:06:59 GMT decafhigh said:

May 12, 2017 17:08:36 GMT @carefull said:

Nah, I just want a game in JE world with those upgrades to fighting and pretty backdrops.

What I REALLY want is more and shorter Games released every year across a few familiar IPs with different styles. Do a 15 hrs stories of untold adventures for Hawke around Kirkwall, an agent working with Sagacious Zhu in JE world, Quarians fighting a conspiracy against launching their Arc, or Exiles fighting Angara on Kadara or whatever. Short, different, with three to four companions each, sort of like Awakening, put in prod simultaneously, and being released often. I think they must have done something like that with Origins, judging by the number of DLCs.

I want them to maintain ME, JE, DA as settings and add a steampunk IP similar to Arcanum. 

They do settings well, characters well, short stories well. So, gimme that. A lot of it, and I will pick and chose.

hells, link it to a persistent companion or two that can be called upon in each game, like a dog or an Automation, if you don't like IP specific chars, and let's roll.

That's what I want. Those 100+ hours titles are too high risk if they fail.

Oh a steampunk IP would be really cool!  Not so sure about yearly releases, ME2 is about as short a game as I would want to spend money on.

I am watching Tyranny for purchase. It's 15-20 hr game at $50. I want it for $30.  That's with 20 year old updated engine/graphic/set up & limited voice. A beautiful 20 hr game with new graphic and voice in the IP I like, I would pay $50 on the day it's out.

I would MUCH prefer to buy a 20 hr game every year  to waiting 4 years for a 100 hrs game (which to me is a 50 hrs per run  because I certainly am not going to collect all 20 pieces of flora and mieral samples, and do every quest).

May 12, 2017 19:36:50 GMT xetykins said:

May 12, 2017 19:11:52 GMT colfoley said:

i would.

Enlighten us! What makes an open/semi open world?

www.google.no/amp/s/www.vg247.com/2016/09/13/mass-effect-andromeda-open-world/amp/
"But, yeah, y’know, it’s funny. To bring Mass Effect to more of an open world play style where players are not just moving down a very linear narrative, albeit a very highly polished linear narrative… But also giving players the chance to move in the direction they want to go much more openly, explore where they want to go too, and then the narrative keeps up… that’s been a real big learning point for us.
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Skyrim is supposed to be open world but you have loading everywhere you go from houses to caves. TW3 does not have that problem, but you load when you go to Skellige and Kaer Morhan and a couple of quest related caves.

I think that is called "seamless" rather than "open" world when you do not have loading screens, and just fly around one gigantic world. "Persistent" and "dynamic" iirc referred to things going on in the world while you do not control them. "Open" used to be for a style of the world where you did not have quest markers, but just walked around, pulling the threads as you happened on them, and just discovered a plot as you went. That's as best as I understood my friend on that Fallout structure. Basically, you did not know what needs to be done next and where...

I continue to live in the state of bewilderment why from all games it was MET's endings that wounded people so badly. I just don't get it what so bad about them, they look like the same standard heroic fare as any other game, and you could chose your own, so I just... don't get it.