Aaryn Flynn says: We Have Learned From The Mistakes of Inquistion....

I don't think I have seen a radial menu that can implement the number of spells/items an extended hotbar DA:O style can contain.

Can a radial menu have 20-30 skills and items in it? I find it very hard to believe.

It was probably a combination between the incessant desire to "streamline" everything, and to make it easier to play with a controller.

If you're a rogue in DAI (or a warrion or a mage) , you do forget how to do it.  FOr a time, anyway.  Since if you want to do someting in a fight and you have no button for it, you physically cannot do that action.  Even if you want to fall back on old tried and true techniques.    

Yes you should have access to all your moves at all times unless they require a piece of equipment you do not have.  Taking that away feels extremely artificial and "gamey"

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It's not that the radial menu can't handle it. It's an EA philosophy to make games easier to learn
(link was posted in the old BSN).

That premise automatically excludes complexity and DA:I certainly followed that corporate directive.

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Yeah I agree with that, I have no doubt that's why they did it. People just have been literally stating the 'radial menu can't do it' which seems silly considering BioWares past of doing just that.

You know, it's funny but if BioWare had stuck to the old style of auto-attacking from past games instead of requiring holding down a button they could of used RT this time as a secondary hotkey swap and gotten 12 hotkeys on controller lol. It's like the one time they get more efficient with how they map keys and they limit other things anyway.

Ahh well, I personally am hoping MEA allows for more then 3 bound skills on console. I know they could do it with the bumpers, I just hope they actually do it.

It's my hill.

I draw a distinction between learning new moves as you gain experience and become a more effective warrior/rogue/mage.  But to forget what you have already learned just because you learned something else?

Not really.  I preferred sorcerers.  

Well it's before ME3. We know that pretty clearly. They've said it doesn't take any endings from ME3 into account and from the scenes we saw of prior to launch there was no Reaper invasion at Earth. So regardless if you'd like this to be some kinda reboot that still doesn't take place in the Milky Way it's gonna happen prior to ME3 and still be a psuedo-reboot.

I think this was discussed in another thread (it's getting a little murky at this point) theres something like a 2 and a half year gap between ME1 ending and ME3 start. So we have about a 2 year-ish window for them to 'do' this project. And one could point to the Keepers issue (in ME2) as the catalyst that got the project finished and resulted in it's public debut and eventual launch. Sure new tech would have to be devised for it but 2 years you would assume in a world like Mass Effect would be enough time to figure out how to deal with the static build up.

Add to all that it's been made semi-clear that the Council, and definitely Anderson/Admiral Hackett definitely believe Shepard about the Reapers it makes sense how the project could get started in the first place. As far as it being public knowledge of it's existence, I figure going under the guise it's 'for science' makes enough sense. Think of the Moon landing.

There was basically 2 reasons we landed on the Moon. The Cold War and 'because science', or well, because humans like to try to do things that're hard for the sake of advancement. And as far as I'm concerned, the ARK Project fits that bill pretty well. Secret government reasoning with a different public face.

If there 'is' no public face to it, and it's literally just 'The Reapers are coming ohmergerd guys' then I'll be a bit disappointed. Considering every government, including the Council, publicly was saying other shit since telling everyone the Galaxy was going to end on 1 guys word isn't really feasible.

Oh for fucks sake, Bioware was bought out by EA because they were on the verge of bankruptcy. Since they were bought out nine years ago they were increased to three different studios working on four different IPs, possibly five.

And also someone should tell these dumb asses EA never bought Lucas Arts, it was Disney who shut them down.

Gosh it's satire, it clearly states it's satire.