Greedfall

I killed Wynne in the Tower in my first playthrough. Just because she insulted Morrigan. Just saying...

I like Wynne  ...never killed her, well except that one time I defiled the ashes with her and Leliana in the party in a BadDecisions playthrough...

That's good or bad chills?

I personally think Focus has been doing an awesome job with game marketing. Which means the game is super presentable otherwise they wouldn't have anything to show. Unfortunately, that's not the same thing as being a good game, but it's a good sign.

I can understand. In my first playthrough I killed Zevran before talking to him in the ambush... then I read online that he was a companion, lol.

Yesh! Oh, those glorious mutton chops! Sold! Guess I'll start out with a male character after all. A pair of chops and that pointy Little-Finger mustache and goatee should do nicely.

The IGN 9 minutes gameplay without the interview over it. (edit: replaced by youtube version because ign website player is crap).

More music preview from Olivier Derivière (the composer), looks like we are going to get a "mysterious" tone to the soundtrack.

Gamekult impression of the game (it's a video in French).

He played previous Spiders games and was anxious about the combat, but ended up liking it. He's quite happy with less HP bloat and avoiding combat via dialogues or stealth (stealth works better than in Technomancer according to him, he used it to bypass enemies after freeing some prisoners). He liked the writing/dialogues and graphics/art style. His negative is that the game isn't a pure open world despite mentioning that Spiders is 30 people so you shouldn't expect it anyway...

The previewer talked about it more in context of exploration (invisible walls, "corridors", etc) and not storytelling. Seems like he doesn't like the "Bioware-map design" (even DAI/MEA and Anthem use it, just with larger zones) that Spiders is using, as their previous games were all like that too, but GreedFall seems to have much larger areas and a bit less corridors (I'm pretty sure the city approach shown in a recent video would fit all of Mars War Logs)...or he's saying that because "open world" wins you brownies points with the mainstream since 11/11/11.

Personally, I like my open worlds and my "Bioware-map design" games, but I have totally different expectations from both type of games.

JorRaptor's preview. He's a youtuber I never heard off, but he got to play the game and leave Gamescom with new footage and lots of information.

Hmm. Disappointing how the PC keeps slashing with swords obviously better suited for lunging and poking. That's always been a pet peeve of mine. Hope that isn't the case with the game's bayonets and spear-like two-handed weapons too. Nothing stupider than banging a monster with the side of your spearhead without ever using the point.

Otherwise looks promising. And yeah, the open-world thing is a bit overrated. If they do corridors and open areas well then that's always been more than enough for me. Also avoids Wild Hunt's terrible system of letting you run into enemies who are arbitrarily deemed too powerful for you to mess with in the middle of nowhere in areas where you're otherwise quite comfortable engaging the local wildlife. Smaller, self-contained leveled regions make everything much simpler.

Bah. I've played through each Souls game at least twice. A few minibosses scattered around the map don't scare me. That isn't the same as a group of bandits or drowners identical to every other you've been thrashing in the area inexplicably taking hours to kill because someone decided they should have red skulls above their head for... reasons?

Difficulty spikes are fine. Immersion-breaking variations in enemy toughness that justifies itself by pretending you're suddenly punching above your weight when you obviously aren't... isn't.

My single biggest gripe with Wild Hunt is the ridiculous mess they made out of leveling challenges. And equipment, for that matter. I seriously doubt Greedfall is going to handle it half as badly, even if they're poised to fall into some of the same traps.