Can DA4 even compete in today's quality of games?

TW3 is a strong game but it is not perfect (as any game). I would like to point out some main issues.
1. The main quest. Overall, the side quests are excellent but the main plot (finding Ciri and then fighting Wild Hunt) is tedious. In the first half, you just keep finding people for information of Ciri and helping them fetch whatever they need, and just be told to go to the next guy. The design purpose is to lead the players to visit all three open areas - Velen, Novigrad and Skellige Isles. However, I find it very boring when chasing any clue to find my girl.
2. The combat. 80% of the combat is essentially 'hack and roll'. You can use signs but it still feels repetitive after you kill a hundred enemies. The enemies are also repetitive. A large part of non-human enemies just act like drowners (They run around you and lunge. ). I like the design of noonwraith, but there's too few in the game.
3. The items. It is quite a mess when managing the inventory. Weapons are useless except for swords.
4. The characters. This is not a big problem but I still feel annoyed sometimes. I always feel that I am watching, not playing Geralt, because he likes to speaking out something that is only known by himself or the writer, not me. As for NPCs, sometimes I meet a guy and talk to him, and I can't get what he is talking about. Then I find out that Geralt and him have already known each other very well, but I don't know that guy before. It is supposed that the player has the background, but I didn't.
5. Some technical issues. I played it on Xbox One and the control is sometimes awkward.

They are not rushing to release the game cause the peoject was rebooted.

Come on guy, Bioware is not trying to take the time and quality care to make this game like Rockstar, Nintendo, Naughty Dog, or CDPR does with their games.

Its taking longer cause they started over.

Also the fact that just being enjoyable shows that you confirm that Bioware cant hang.

KOTOR and ME1 where industry wide hits and greatly critically acclaimed. Devs took aspects and features from Bioware games to put in theirs. Hell, games like Horizon as a spawn child of Mass Effect. Games like CP 2077 is a spawn child of Mass Effect. Bioware games of the past were more than simply "enjoyable" they were trend setters and industry influencers.

MEA and Anthem are the total opposite of that.

And while DAI got GOTY (in a weak gaming year BTW) after TW3 came out DAI became a case study in how to not do side quest and how to not do an open world.

Yes, but it is the circumstances of why it was rebooted.

Because it is:

www.n3rdabl3.com/2019/04/dragon-age-4-reboot/?amp

Care to explain how Jason S. reputation is questionable when he has been right so many times in the past?

Sounds like more denial to me. Denial like how MEA was supposed to get SP DLC and Jason S. said it would never happen?

Oh yeah, denial.


I wont flame you, just laugh at you.

In all I dont have to change your mind, the quality and reception of Bioware's last 2 products tells you everything you need to know about the current state of Bioware.

All we know is that Bioware is going to add some sort of live service element to DA4. At this point, anyone saying that it'll go down the path of Anthem in that regard is talking out of their ass or arguing in bad faith. For all we know, they can probably do something more akin to AC:Odyssey.

Hell, even Schreier's article says that Bioware's avoiding turning DA4 into "Anthem with Dragons":


A multiplayer mode is not an impossibility for their live service plans either, but I'm sure they'd make it separate from SP.


As for you, given you're talking about Schreier... your statement makes for one hell of a colossal 'bruh' moment.

majesticjazz and I don't see eye-to-eye on the matter of DA4, but we do agree on one thing: Schreier has a solid history behind him, and so I'm inclined to go with what Schreier writes on the matter.

Journalism is very flawed today so the mistrust is justified. That being said, DAI was one of the Bioware's best selling and critically acclaimed titles. I'm sure that as long as it keeps the game's strengths and improves on its weaknesses it'll be on par with a game like Cyberpunk.

It may have its downsides, but one major upside in reusing Anthem's codebase is that Bioware won't have to create a new one from the ground up, meaning they'll already have the basic building blocks for movement and other fundamental features, giving them more time to actually develop the game.

Now it's up to them to use it well... although, like I said before, Bioware's precedent means only that they need to spend more time crafting their story - the basic gameplay was solid so far. And as long as Weekes or Darrah don't leave the team during this period of time, I'm perfectly willing to wait and see what DA4 will be.

That’s all fine and good and I do hope this is the case. But it makes me concerned that since switching to Frostbite BioWare has started from scratch in each game. From reports it also sounds like the Anthem codebase is not robust, so it isn’t a strong foundation to build upon. 


We can hope with with the time gap that BioWare has enough time to learn how to overcome the engine issues but I’m not instilled with confidence when we’ve seen BioWare seem to ignore advice from earlier work.