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

That is the thing with bugs a lot of the time is that they aren't always 100% occurring for certain things need to happen or they just aren't notices (I know i wouldn't have noticed the elevator if I not nearly thrown up with Fallen Order).  The thing is there are other people complaining and why I don't have a problem when an individual like yourself makes the comparisons for you might not have had those instances.  The problem I have is when a place writes an article about a game and proclaims how broken it is because of issues like you mention and they don't have the same articles about other games.  With Fallen Order again the is an engine issue at play that is widely reported about that is causing all the stuttering and freezing while changing areas due to an I/O streaming problem within the Unreal engine itself and from what I have been reading Respawn isn't the first developer to have this issue.  I remember vividly how Polygon declared Andromeda an Early Access game when I saw people reporting similar issues with The Witcher 3 when it first launched including save game corruption.

I think there is always a difference on how people want to present things.  Saying that Inquisition was a good game, but its not as good as other GotY games I can understand, but it was saying that there wasn't any other games that year that were good.  It doesn't become about the game, but just keeping the position of how horrible Inquisition was and not getting past that others might have liked it or their opinions might even be in the minority about the game because nobody can go around and get an accurate sample of the people that played the game.

You're right. It was way better than those three games.

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.

I voted for "disappointed" but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Of course, it's disappointing after already a number of years it's not due to appear any time soon. But I'm also kind of glad because while I am still firmly in the "Inquisitor should come back as PC" camp, I find myself looking forward to the story Bioware want to tell rather than the story I want to hear and I needed time to let that happen. Still, I hope we get some information on the game soon; I'm looking forward to Tevinter nights and Blue Wraith in the meantime.

that's generally how I feel about 'the right to bitch', the more time you spend with something, the more you can comment on it.

2022 or later eh? Can't say I'm happy with it. I mean, I kind of get the reasons why, different projects take up resources. Less projects means less recources to share. But at the same time its a long time between games of a popular series.

So I choose dissapointend, but still optimistic about it. It's something to look forward too and not aimlessly wondering about it.

The first thing that popped into my head when I've read about the date was, well what have they been doing all this time between the release of Inquisition and today?

This would have been a decent date had Inquisition been released yesterday.

While I'm a much bigger fan of waiting longer for the game to get better developed, I didn't mean so long that those pesky elves manage to blow up their empire and I forget its name. Nor does this feel like, 'we've been working for years to make it awesomer.' It feels like, 'we've swept it under the rug and hardly bothered with it and now we promise to start working on something that should have been worked on intensively years ago.'

No Mabari steak for you.

But, I'll still wait for the game and hope it has excellent development! At least at this point in time I want to.