DA fans, what do you think so far of the game?

I voted 5/5 because it's not just a 3/5 (enough money to buy a good engine) and I make a point not being that guy who rates restaurants they loved "4 out of 5" because of the fleeting nature of perfection awarded lightly compromising my integrity as a world reknown rater of restaurants and fuck if that single mom waitress needs steady employment.

What are we taking about?

Score's held steady. The vote has doubled and still around 3.3/5 from BSN

And in case anyone is wondering, I haven't voted

It was ten years in which many stuff members were replaced multiple times and playing the game you really feel that. I'm sure it also affected the writing

It's really hard to get an accurate indication just on poll numbers. If you plan on playing on Steam the advice a lot of people give these days is to buy it on Steam and try and get a lot done in 2 hours to try and get a feel for the game, and if you don't like it just return it The other way of finding people who reflect your opinions in games is a bit spoilery

It's true, but this game had different directors and was a live service online game at one point etc. I'm sure the script went through many many revisions.

We never know for sure how the writing process is. I think I recall reading somewhere that at least for ME3, the writer for each squad mate etc. also wrote Shepard in their scenes together, and someone made sure the general tone was fitting. If it is the same here, that each writer wrote companion and Rook in their scenes, it might explain Rook feeling a bit inconsistent here and there.
I can't complain about my Rook so far though, really liking him and how I can respond with him.

And I finished recruiting Lucanis earlier. That was pretty good, liked it a lot, also the scenes afterwards.
The general mission design is not bad I think. Recruiting for example Sera and Viv in DAI always felt too fast and strange. Here the road to the actual joining is longer and you learn more about the characters right away. It's quite nice.

I'm 10 hours in and it just seems to be an action game.

When I was 6 hours in people assured me it was going to open up and have hubs and stuff... and that still hasn't happened.

I am purposely avoiding any of the button mashing combos that have come up. I'll use the 1/2/3/4 shortcuts for abilities and the special E overpower or whatever move, but that's about it. I have been using the ring thing for companion abilities but not due to any strategy - mostly just 'cause it's there. I do like the option at the top center to have them both attack the same target as Rook.

Gonna need a bit more data to make this hypothesis stick.

I remember people complaining that Bio needed to fire the people who wrote NWN1 and hire back the BG2 people.

I'm only a few hours in, since I had to restart after missing the "Customize Your Inquisitor" option. 🤦🏻‍♂️

I'm liking the game so far, though some of the criticisms here are definitely fair. The companion dialogue is uneven. The Captain Obvious stuff has repeatedly had me cursing the TV, "STFU!" Yet, other times they're good. There hasn't yet been enough banter, and too much lore dump and Captain Obvious. I hope that improves.

I like Rook. I'm playing Human Male, Mourn Watch Mage, British Voice/Medium Pitch. He's been great, though it looks impossible to be anything but friendly, or at least cordial.

I'm enjoying the combat quite a bit, despite an annoying sluggish latency. I'd have preferred more snappy responsiveness. I'm a "character build" guy, and I can already see so many Mage builds buried in the overly designed (for my tastes) skill tree. I look forward to trying at least two this playthrough, thanks to free retraining.

The very gamist elements like color-coded health pots and glowing sacks of gold are terrible. I hate that kind of stuff.

So far, I'm tempted to give it a 4, but a 3 is also very fair. The two conversations I've had with Solas are the story highlights thus far. Even early on, he managed to drop a huge lore nugget that Rook didn't even acknowledge or seem to catch. Minus Solas, I'd give it a 3. I'm giving a tentative 4, subject to change.

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Staff turnover

The project has been marked by a high turnover of leading staff. Several veteran Dragon Age staff, including Laidlaw, left the company in response to Joplin's cancellation in 2017.[29] After the 2018 restart, Mark Darrah remained as an executive producer, while Matthew Goldman took over the position of creative director for the project from 2017 to 2021.[36] By December 3, 2020, Darrah had resigned from BioWare, replaced by BioWare Austin studio head Christian Dailey as executive producer.[37] Goldman left BioWare by November 2021,[31] and was replaced as Creative Director by John Epler.[38] Dailey left BioWare in February 2022.[39] Corinne Busche became game director thereafter, Benoit Houle director of product development, and Mac Walters production director.[39] Walters in turn left BioWare in January 2023.[40] In March 2023, Darrah returned as a consultant for the game and the Mass Effect team joined the production of Veilguard, according to EA.[41][42]



In August 2023, BioWare laid off 50 people working on Veilguard and the next Mass Effect game;[43] this included Mary Kirby who was one of the series' original writers and credited with "creating Varric and the Qunari".[44] PC Gamer commented "that's not to say there are no veterans of the good old days left, but you're looking at a very different group of people than the one that made the studio's greatest hits".[44] In October, seven of them sued BioWare for additional compensation, complaining that BioWare's NDAs prevented them from adding their work on Veilguard to their portfolio.[45]

out of Wikipedia, might be a suficent answer to the other person as well who claimed "no writer left other than Gaider"


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