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Post by SwobyJ on May 27, 2017 20:51:55 GMT
Before getting to excited remember what game we are talking about. The screwed the pooch with MEA, they've tried to make it better but let's not kind ourselves. This dlc will very likely be as mediocre as the main game. Bioware DLC, especially bigger ones, almost always tend to be better in my experience than the main game. Maybe they have unforgivably problematic elements that make me dislike them to a degree, maybe they don't sync so well with the base game, maybe they are not so quality or quantity for the price, but usually for what we get, it is generally better than what we get in when we do similar stuff in the base game. So if anything, I'm considering a Quarian DLC to be like the other ark missions (Human intro/outro, Salarian main, Asari loyalty, Turian side) but bigger and better. Might its story mess things up with the main game? Maybe. Might it have parts that make me cringe and resent it? Maybe. Might it not feel worthy of the $10-20 (whatever they choose; maybe sticking to $15 but it could go up or down) price? Well, that's a pretty common thing for me, so sure. But I'd be rather surprised if its only as good or makerforbid worse than most of the adventures so far. And if they want to sell it for ~$15, it'll probably be more than just an 'ark mission' too - hopefully multiple parts, and I think it'd be cool if those parts could be done whenever before or after the ending, altering little parts of the later/post-game, but I don't want my imagination to get too ahead of me - I'm just drawing on what Bioware's done with ME3 and DAI. |
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Post by SwobyJ on May 27, 2017 20:58:29 GMT
They kept the Dragon Age franchise going and pumped an obscene amount of cash and a new engine into it; even after it became a high society sport to hound little DA2 copies through the internet underwood. My personal assessment is that they're merely struggling with the ripples of an ill-timed release and the necessary fixing, all while the staff traditionally gets to take some time off after crunching a game out the door. The patching must mess up the timetable & workforce management quite a bit, outsourcing or not. As for the DLC, I am of course very excited and optimistic. Cause otherwise, you'll just become dull, you know. Yeah I don't see the doom and gloom, and I'm one who generally considers MEA good at best, and the release sales probably somewhere in the disappointing range for EA. We could very well end up with 2-3 moderate-to-large sized DLCs for MEA and its just that a bigger final one is more of an unlikely thing until confirmed. I'd imagine Bioware wants to tie SP and MP 'service' together so a Summer and Fall DLC, timed with MP updates, still seems pretty likely enough to me. Will this continue into Winter-Spring? Maybe, maybe not. Technically a MP team could just push out smaller MP updates - this happened a bit with ME3 and certainly happened with DAI, but DAI suffered more on the MP end I'd guess, where MEA may suffer more on the SP end, so *shrug*. Of course the 'best scenario' would be SP DLC and MP updates continuing into next year and a 'MEA2/ME5/whatever' releasing 2019ish, but I think we've seen enough to at least make it unlikely that this'll happen. But this doesn't mean the series is 'dead', or that SP DLC won't happen. |
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Post by abaris on May 27, 2017 21:00:19 GMT
Bioware DLC, especially bigger ones, almost always tend to be better in my experience than the main game. Begs the question anyway, what is one to expect besides another Arc rescue mission? Maybe a prolonged one, following some clues leading up to it, but still yet another rescue. |
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Post by bshep on May 27, 2017 21:04:16 GMT
Before getting to excited remember what game we are talking about. The screwed the pooch with MEA, they've tried to make it better but let's not kind ourselves. This dlc will very likely be as mediocre as the main game. Bioware DLC, especially bigger ones, almost always tend to be better in my experience than the main game. Maybe they have unforgivably problematic elements that make me dislike them to a degree, maybe they don't sync so well with the base game, maybe they are not so quality or quantity for the price, but usually for what we get, it is generally better than what we get in when we do similar stuff in the base game. So if anything, I'm considering a Quarian DLC to be like the other ark missions (Human intro/outro, Salarian main, Asari loyalty, Turian side) but bigger and better. Might its story mess things up with the main game? Maybe. Might it have parts that make me cringe and resent it? Maybe. Might it not feel worthy of the $10-20 (whatever they choose; maybe sticking to $15 but it could go up or down) price? Well, that's a pretty common thing for me, so sure. But I'd be rather surprised if its only as good or makerforbid worse than most of the adventures so far. And if they want to sell it for ~$15, it'll probably be more than just an 'ark mission' too - hopefully multiple parts, and I think it'd be cool if those parts could be done whenever before or after the ending, altering little parts of the later/post-game, but I don't want my imagination to get too ahead of me - I'm just drawing on what Bioware's done with ME3 and DAI. My guess is it will come with at least one world where we can land and explore, maybe even one with dextro-amino acids lifeforms since both Turians and Quarians will need one. |
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Post by SwobyJ on May 27, 2017 21:43:55 GMT
Bioware DLC, especially bigger ones, almost always tend to be better in my experience than the main game. Begs the question anyway, what is one to expect besides another Arc rescue mission? Maybe a prolonged one, following some clues leading up to it, but still yet another rescue. I'll leave that up to the writers, who can always put in zingers that you don't have the imagination for. In terms of playable content: another planet, a surprise location, a different design to the ark, a weird situation of the ark merged with something or hitched to something or transformed into something, the ark evacuated so we have to check multiple locations (this time on planets not concerned about viability). The rescue is more the premise. What Bioware does with that is the actual STORY. |
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