Your opinion of Dragon Age 4 releasing in late 2022 (possibly early 2023)

I just want a goddamn release date and knowledge about whether or not it will be ported to the PS4 despite being a next gen game.

Appreciate it, PS3 DA:I was an unstable mess, fun but unstable.

My guess is that since it was being released right at the start of a new generation the thinking was there would be a lot of people still using old hardware at that time and most people only play a game once.  The problem is with the content that was cut the old consoles were blamed due to their lower power.

Not even power, but memory pools. On PS3 its 256MB & 256MB, on X360 its 512MB - so same amount but way too little for what they had in mind for the game. I havent seen it on PS3 but some wizardry was probably done
Does the horse run as slow as on PC?

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I would be surprised if they would support current gen at all unless it was coming out prior to the release of a new console.  Mark Darrah has made that statement too many times for me to ever think they would release a split game again or at least under his leadership and I don't blame him.

Its more then just that is about future proofing the game as well.  Think of what happened with Inquisition when the final DLC was not for the older consoles just because they couldn't get it to work on that hardware.  The transfer of data and how data is set to load is also a big thing.  Instead of having a massive loading screen at one point they could design it around SSD so content is streamed onto the platform to have a much smaller loading size.  It could even give BioWare more functionality when it comes to companions for there will be more memory available to them.  Just because we might not see the difference it doesn't mean just being eye candy is the only thing that they can see.

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Not to mention the most important thing, to minimize how people can complain about the game at launch for with BioWare people are going to scour the game for what they can scream about on the internet.  With Inquisition the content that was cut that was only shown behind closed doors was probably removed due to the multiple console phase or how people claim BioWare scammed them with only showing the latest console instead of what the older consoles looked like.

The quests in the Witcher 3 deserved all the praise they got.  Made you want to do each and every one.  They just weren't run of the mill.

You had a quest where you had to join a knight tournament and compete in all of the events just to find out what was going on with the person overseeing it.  Then when you found out it turned into a quest within a quest, where you ultimately had to make a decision where either both of the other people involved could die, or one or the other.

The Witcher contracts weren't even fetch quests in my opinion because a lot of the had their own story, and once you looked into the further, you had a real choice in a lot of cases as to if killing the monster was the right thing to do, and a lot of times you wouldn't.  At least I didn't.  Then there's a quest later in the game where you track down some monsters and the quest plays out differently depending on choices you made in prior contracts.  You can give them examples from completed quests to prove what kind of person you were when it came to monsters.

That's what set the quests in the Witcher apart for me.  There was no black and white in most quests, there was always gray area for the player, and the quests had meaningful choices in them.  Not just for the current quest, but future quests as well because they stacked on each other.  There's a quest for one of the best swords in the game, where you will or will not get it based on virtues or lack there of you displayed with your choices during prior quests.

Also the randomness of the quests.  You can be exploring and find someone on the road begging for help.  They say they were attacked along with their brother in a cave.  You take a contract go into the cave and find the brother who says that it wasn't the monsters, but his brothers that tried to kill him to cut him out the family business.  Then when you come, you see the brothers standing with some other men.  You have the chance to fight your way or talk to them.  Turned out the extra men were from a nearby hunting camp, and came to help and you would have killed innocent people rather than work it out without bloodshed.  This was a quest from a random person near a cave, and there were many instances like this in the game.

I could go on and on with examples, but the quests in the Witcher 3 were of far higher quality than in most games.  They weren't the normal quest where the armorer tells you he needs 5 wolf hides and you go out and kill wolves until you have enough hides to bring back to the armorer for a reward.  Then later on in the game he comes back asking you to get him some more supplies.  Those are fetch quests.  That's what you got a lot of in DA:I.

really? i would have thought reasons such as reaching to customers that uses the latest platforms, reducing cost and man power from working on outdated platforms and being on par with the latest tech would also apply. but maybe it's just me.

Don't really care, as long as the result is good.

And I want a decent character creator just for once. Hell, I'd settle for a character creator with proper in game lighting for once, because that's been atrocious for the last few games.