Aaryn Flynn talks to Gameinformer about Andromeda and "New-IP" for 31 minutes

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Aaryn Flynn talks to Gameinformer about Andromeda and "New-IP" for 31 minutes Dec 1, 2016 16:03:40 GMT

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Post by thedarkprince on Dec 1, 2016 16:03:40 GMT

Nov 28, 2016 21:43:33 GMT Iakus said:

Nov 28, 2016 21:16:33 GMT Obliviousmiss said:

So tired of Inquisition bashing.

If you haven't noticed, this is a Bioware fan forum. There are tons of Dragon Age fans here and lots of people, like myself, who thoroughly enjoyed Inquisition.

Every time a dev says "so many quests," there's a band of brother haters on this site saying it's "Inquisition all over again. " soooooo sick of it.

Sorry you didn't enjoy Inquisition. It is made by the same company. It definitely will have some similarities no matter what, but there's definitely core differences because, you know. Dragon Age isn't Mass Effect and Mass Effect isn't Dragon Age.

DAI is, overall, a decent game. I've done multiple runs myself. But it does have some glaring flaws.

Inquisition was had way too much filler.
80% of the game were fetch quests and the story quests of the game were less than 15 hours. Sorry but no I don't want Andromeda to be anything like Inquisition, which felt like a single player mmo.

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Post by The Elder King on Dec 1, 2016 16:16:36 GMT

Dec 1, 2016 15:17:31 GMT Addictress said:

I honestly don't see Inquisition get bashed enough. I feel like I see scatterings of occasional bashing which I'm drawn to like a beacon because they're not the majority.

Well, the 'enough' part doesn't happen because many probably consider it a good game, despite its flaws.

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Post by Iakus on Dec 1, 2016 16:18:05 GMT

Dec 1, 2016 9:04:42 GMT The Elder King said:

Dec 1, 2016 7:13:07 GMT Ivory Samoan said:

1. I also have Torment booked and locked in for some seriously delicious adventuring next year...can't wait!

2. I'm curious, why would you want to spoil the game if you ever think you may play it: isn't that a bit self flagellating? What if the story/twist is amazing and you miss out on them Sixth Sense reveal feels....you don't want that surely.

I think because he doesn't want to buy a Bioware game without knowing something like ME3 would happen again. While there's the negative side of being spoiled, he avoids the negative part of feeling how he felt during ME3, while playing, with all the emotional investment you might have while playing.

Also, as a general rule, people don't all feel the same in regards of spoilers. For some, knowing how a story or plot goes doesn't have their enjoyment.

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Aaryn Flynn talks to Gameinformer about Andromeda and "New-IP" for 31 minutes Dec 1, 2016 16:43:51 GMT

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Post by linksocarina on Dec 1, 2016 16:43:51 GMT

Nov 28, 2016 21:43:33 GMT Iakus said:

Nov 28, 2016 21:16:33 GMT Obliviousmiss said:

So tired of Inquisition bashing.

If you haven't noticed, this is a Bioware fan forum. There are tons of Dragon Age fans here and lots of people, like myself, who thoroughly enjoyed Inquisition.

Every time a dev says "so many quests," there's a band of brother haters on this site saying it's "Inquisition all over again. " soooooo sick of it.

Sorry you didn't enjoy Inquisition. It is made by the same company. It definitely will have some similarities no matter what, but there's definitely core differences because, you know. Dragon Age isn't Mass Effect and Mass Effect isn't Dragon Age.

DAI is, overall, a decent game. I've done multiple runs myself. But it does have some glaring flaws.

All games do.

It's how you overlook them to keep playing it.

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Aaryn Flynn talks to Gameinformer about Andromeda and "New-IP" for 31 minutes Dec 1, 2016 16:55:37 GMT

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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 16:55:37 GMT

^linksocarina, yeah. but I love to come back after some time to games like DAO (or even DA2), ME1 or ME2, yet coming back to ME3 (SP) and especially DAI (both SP & MP) is not the same, those games feel more ''finished'' after playing them for 2-3 times, replay value is in the older games much higher for me, yet I'm not hating on them, cuz they are still good games, I just love more replay value in older BioWare games, and I ''silently'' wish for a little bit more of it in MEA.

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Aaryn Flynn talks to Gameinformer about Andromeda and "New-IP" for 31 minutes Dec 1, 2016 16:59:47 GMT Blast Processor, Element Zero, and 4 more like this

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Post by Pearl on Dec 1, 2016 16:59:47 GMT

Nov 30, 2016 15:22:05 GMT Andrew Lucas said:

Nov 28, 2016 21:03:00 GMT Link"Guess"ski said:

If there's just a good core plot somewhere in the narrative that doesn't try to account for every single place you can go, making it feel as vague as possible like DA:I it could be great. I don't want exploration to be justified so hard that the plot becomes wishy washy, so I hope they occasionally acknowledge the player has freedom outside of the narrative itself in the game than some tacked on "everything you do adds to the "plot"... somehow" notion.

Yeah... Well, I'll stop doing that if something gets shown off soon that actually looks impressive and not just potentially good on paper.

Impressive to you then? Because most people here are liking what they hear. Perhaps it's time for you to log out and just keep quiet.

Are you really that bothered by dissenting opinions that you want them silenced?

Last Edit: Dec 1, 2016 16:59:59 GMT by Pearl

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Aaryn Flynn talks to Gameinformer about Andromeda and "New-IP" for 31 minutes Dec 1, 2016 18:05:50 GMT

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Post by Link"Guess"ski on Dec 1, 2016 18:05:50 GMT

Dec 1, 2016 16:55:37 GMT @lukensen87 said:

^linksocarina, yeah. but I love to come back after some time to games like DAO (or even DA2), ME1 or ME2, yet coming back to ME3 (SP) and especially DAI (both SP & MP) is not the same, those games feel more ''finished'' after playing them for 2-3 times, replay value is in the older games much higher for me, yet I'm not hating on them, cuz they are still good games, I just love more replay value in older BioWare games, and I ''silently'' wish for a little bit more of it in MEA.

If I were you I would rather follow studios like Beamdog or Hinterland Studio or the makers of Banner Saga. I have a feeling those small-time studios will grow into AA studios and eventually reach DA:O scale without all the EA focus-test fluff some day.

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Post by Sondergaard on Dec 1, 2016 18:15:20 GMT

Nov 30, 2016 15:22:05 GMT Andrew Lucas said:

Nov 28, 2016 21:03:00 GMT Link"Guess"ski said:

If there's just a good core plot somewhere in the narrative that doesn't try to account for every single place you can go, making it feel as vague as possible like DA:I it could be great. I don't want exploration to be justified so hard that the plot becomes wishy washy, so I hope they occasionally acknowledge the player has freedom outside of the narrative itself in the game than some tacked on "everything you do adds to the "plot"... somehow" notion.

Yeah... Well, I'll stop doing that if something gets shown off soon that actually looks impressive and not just potentially good on paper.

Impressive to you then? Because most people here are liking what they hear. Perhaps it's time for you to log out and just keep quiet.

Dissent will not be tolerated? Wind your neck in you bloody fool.

And I say that as someone disappointed with ME3 but willing to give ME:A a chance.

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Aaryn Flynn talks to Gameinformer about Andromeda and "New-IP" for 31 minutes Dec 1, 2016 18:28:29 GMT

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Post by Andrew Lucas on Dec 1, 2016 18:28:29 GMT

Dec 1, 2016 18:15:20 GMT Sondergaard said:

Nov 30, 2016 15:22:05 GMT Andrew Lucas said:

Impressive to you then? Because most people here are liking what they hear. Perhaps it's time for you to log out and just keep quiet.

Dissent will not be tolerated? Wind your neck in you bloody fool.

And I say that as someone disappointed with ME3 but willing to give ME:A a chance.

Wrong. There's a big difference between making actual criticism based on legit information, and inserting your feelings into a question which can't or won't be answered at the moment. Many are calling out the OP's try hard behavior, and there's a good reason for that.

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Aaryn Flynn talks to Gameinformer about Andromeda and "New-IP" for 31 minutes Dec 1, 2016 19:17:53 GMT Element Zero, KingDarious BBB, and 2 more like this

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Post by Pearl on Dec 1, 2016 19:17:53 GMT

Dec 1, 2016 18:28:29 GMT Andrew Lucas said:

Dec 1, 2016 18:15:20 GMT Sondergaard said:

Dissent will not be tolerated? Wind your neck in you bloody fool.

And I say that as someone disappointed with ME3 but willing to give ME:A a chance.

Wrong. There's a big difference between making actual criticism based on legit information, and inserting your feelings into a question which can't or won't be answered at the moment. Many are calling out the OP's try hard behavior, and there's a good reason for that.

And that's fine. But telling him to "Log out and just keep quiet" serves no purpose, apart from making it look like you can't handle opposing viewpoints.

edit: changed some words to remove ambiguity

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Aaryn Flynn talks to Gameinformer about Andromeda and "New-IP" for 31 minutes Dec 1, 2016 22:04:09 GMT

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Post by napoleon on Dec 1, 2016 22:04:09 GMT

Nov 30, 2016 16:37:12 GMT Iakus said:

Nov 30, 2016 16:15:39 GMT Andrew Lucas said:

No, I predict the future dealing with facts and evidence, not guessing a bunch of numbers. Try guessing which Edition you will get for Andromeda. Probably the most colored one.

Well, here's a fact for ya: I already pre-ordered a game due out in 1Q 2017. But it's not set in Andromeda. It's set on Earth, a billion years in the future. I predict that it will take me a good long time to finish it too, based on the Early Access I've been playing around with.

If I do get Andromeda, it will be after I have thoroughly spoiled myself regarding the game. Just as I did with DAI. Because, as noted, they lost my trust.

What I don't get Lakus is if you have such a huge disdain for Bioware and their games now what are you doing here? Nobody hangs around a place dedicated to something they despise (as you seem to).

Also it is hard to compare Tides of Numenera to ME:A as it is an isometric RPG in the same vein as Planescape Torment. ME:A being more of an action based RPG is pretty much a different type of game.

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Post by Iakus on Dec 1, 2016 23:51:55 GMT

Dec 1, 2016 22:04:09 GMT napoleon said:

Nov 30, 2016 16:37:12 GMT Iakus said:

Well, here's a fact for ya: I already pre-ordered a game due out in 1Q 2017. But it's not set in Andromeda. It's set on Earth, a billion years in the future. I predict that it will take me a good long time to finish it too, based on the Early Access I've been playing around with.

If I do get Andromeda, it will be after I have thoroughly spoiled myself regarding the game. Just as I did with DAI. Because, as noted, they lost my trust.

What I don't get Lakus is if you have such a huge disdain for Bioware and their games now what are you doing here? Nobody hangs around a place dedicated to something they despise (as you seem to).

Also it is hard to compare Tides of Numenera to ME:A as it is an isometric RPG in the same vein as Planescape Torment. ME:A being more of an action based RPG is pretty much a different type of game.

I don't have a huge disdain for Bioware (though they are not what they once were) As I've said, I actually rather enjoyed DAI. But MAss Effect , yeah I make no bones about the disdain I hold for it. Particularly since it started with such promise.

And the only comparison I've made with Tides of Numenera was that it is due out at roughly the same time as MEA, and is likely to take up a lot of my time.

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Aaryn Flynn talks to Gameinformer about Andromeda and "New-IP" for 31 minutes Dec 1, 2016 23:59:49 GMT

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Post by napoleon on Dec 1, 2016 23:59:49 GMT

I get that. I've been playing their games since I fell in love with Bladur's Gate and they stopped making those kinds of games a long time ago. DA:O was their last game that followed that formula. And I don't think that they are going back.

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