Peebee's Loyalty Mission - First 17 min. (IGN) [SPOILERS]

To be honest there wasnt much in ME or ME2 that they promised which remained either. They promised these huge alien worlds for us to discover new life and all, and our choice mattering and what did we end up getting? Barren worlds with copypasted buildings in the first game, and the second game pretty mych ignores your council decision and just throws "ah yes reapers" to you along with youre with cerberus now so screw you.

if anything exploration in MEA to me already looks 10 times betetr than in the original game. 

Maybe thats why they dont show us anything, they dont wanan overhype us so we can get mad to them afterwards over what what was promised vs what there is,

They're not comparing the games, they're comparing the pre-release marketing.

But wasn't this supposed to be a gameplay demo? 

I'm also not clear what sort of reshaping you're talking about. Reshaping to what?

I guess it's uhh.... Biotic punch or something?

Sara, what are your comments on the above?



Uh... okay...
 

I'm about 99 percent sure that the devs already answered this, as well.

You don't think people will be comparing the games themselves after release? I think people will 

And the question wasn't for the people here in particular, but I see people comparing it to TW3 in other places.

More power to you and I wish I felt the same.
There are definitely upsides to it, and as much as people keep pointing to the fetch quests and whatever, it may not be any one thing that makes it bad in my opinion (and anyone else that's so lukewarm about it). It's just that as a whole it doesn't do whatever it is games like KOTOR, ME1 or Dragon Age Origins did. It was a great and unexpected response to ME3 in a sense because I was so disappointed in BioWare almost making ME3 completely Uncharted in terms of how much agency I was given at times, but DA:I was brimming with customization.

If I had to really analyse DA:I my presumption is that I would end up pointing at the story and the way it is shaped. I knew at several points in the story that I was being disappointed right as the events unfolded and it's because of the 3-act model or whatever you americans call it. It's rather good for ME3 for one as the available story missions are laid out in a way that supports it the entire game, creating the perfect sense of highs and lows despite of whether you like the actual plot or not. DA:I had genre-problems IMO and its 3-act structure was a complete bust because of the way the story develops from its premise. Thematically it was great though and the characters were fine... they were just not tied very well to the story and the main concept, The Inquisition you run was a complete letdown from a story-standpoint too. To clarify a bit it's not the structure of the story in terms of plot I find to be at fault, it was the sense of rising and falling tension that was completely missing. Zero urgency, full-on Mary-Sue adventure instead creating a sense of "anything we do is just fun and games". I was missing some sort of footing in the plot after the first act ended and the characters constantly refering to the bad guy and how "evil he is" did nothing for me to invest me. As a bi-product of that the endearing conversations I had with companions started to feel tacked on and meandering.

I honestly believe that if just the story had not been handled with such contrivance, had Corypheus been sold a little bit better as a villain and had some of Trespasser been worked into the game originally people would forgive the lame side-quests more easily, but as it was that stood out next to an uninspired narrative.

Well, this i can pretty much agree with. It's almost like Bioware is not confident enough in their game to show it off.

Sure, why not? Right now, I just don't see myself replaying it or caring about it a month after release, just as with DAI... but who knows, maybe I'll be surprised.

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