DAI-Style dialogues camera

Proportion and placement. Tali drinking at the bar was a nice humorous addition to the environment, not a quest or story-additive. Also, while the Citadel had zoomed-out fetch quests, the main story had so many tightly-crafted missions with cut scenes, it didn't dilute the experience.

Inquisition's main story, companion side quests and everything were weak all around. Adding hundreds of zoomed-out fetch quests with cyclically-animated NPCs only exacerbated the crap feel

I don't play DA:I, so my info is third-hand... but my understanding was that it was overused in DA:I... possibly because of budget and resources being used to accommodate the variety of PCs that could be played in that game. 

I still don't see a good reason to flip over a couple of shots in ME:A though that probably involved two very inconsequential conversations.  From what I've seen (e.g. first 13 minutes), this is not going to be used in primary conversations in ME:A... they've gone with traditional cutscenes for those.  For sidequest acquisition, I prefer the camera angle seen here to just finding a datapad or terminal (a la ME1).  How much of each we get, I'm sure is a question of resources - money/budget and demands on the computer itself.  ME:A, at least, is rid of the old-gen consoles, so that should mean they can make more demands on the computing power than they could before; and hopefully, they have enough budget  going towards developing more and better core conversations in the game.

I mean.. the worst part of Inquisition was the fact that we traveled hundreds of miles to these far-flung entire regions that are so huge, and then when you get there, besides Scout Harding, it's all zoomed-out NPCs.

I didn't come all the way to this magnificent Storm Coast area that seems rich with history and mystery to talk to Scout Harding. I didn't travel hundreds, thousands? of miles to see Scout Harding.

I don't know of a single cut scene in the Storm Coast, honestly. The central issue there - the Blades of Hessarian? Possibly the red templars' cavern and dock? - all treated with zoomed-out cam.

The Dragon Age team built this incredible lore and this incredible world, with a stunning hidden villain and story, and they fuckin insulted it, and trashed it all with the disrespectful treatment of zoomed-out cameras and cyclical NPCs.

It feels like a huge waste, that's what it is. It's outrageous.

Cinematic treatment means you respect the story and characters and assets you've designed, because that's what a cinematic camera is - it's a tool to draw attention to the subject of your choosing and to engage the audience closely with something you, as game creator, deem important. Because that is how we in this century and society have been trained to engage with anything at all in all media. The camera is important.

And just... on a meta level, it's torture. It's torture because on paper, Witcher 3's story and lore aren't even that intriguing. They certainly aren't as interesting as Bioware's lore - the blight, the reapers.... damnit... Bioware's lore is better than any of them. That's why I keep clinging to Bioware games.

CDPR....story is good, ok, it's well-executed, and most importantly, it uses CUT SCENE CAMERAS to draw your attention to their stories and possibly deceive you into thinking the story is even greater than it really is, but honestly I could find monsters and witches anywhere any time of the goddamn day.

And then Bioware just goes around and tortures me by forcing me to watch their amazing stories through shitty zoomed-out cameras.

I hate cinematic dialogue, and I support any feature that diminishes it.

DAI's non-cinematic dialogue was brilliant. I wish all the dialogue were like that.

>implying that Bioware doesn't just want to milk the franchise

Uggh, the faces don't even look good when it zooms in in this game. I'm also a bit worried there's no dialogue wheel but maybe that's a good thing, if it means zoom-conversations are only informative comment thingies and there'll be actual conversations elsewhere.

Meh, as long as it remains primarily centered around irrelevant characters/side quests it's not a huge deal for me.