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Post by Lebanese Dude on May 11, 2023 13:11:55 GMT
A lot of the devs just aren't on Twitter much at all any more. Which is hardly confined to Dragon Age devs - a lot of the people I follow there have become quieter or stopped posting altogether. I think everyone is still milling around trying to work out if everyone is going to another platform. The DA developers aren't just posting less about the game lately, they're not dropping in to tell people what cute/annoying thing their pet did today as often either. This and there's lot of negative energy in that space right now. John Epler still posts a fair bit though. He's quite fun to follow.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on May 10, 2023 23:40:57 GMT
I went from not knowing what a Paradox game is to sinking 1000 hours into CK3. Send help. I literally had to uninstall it to stop myself playing. The number of times I'd find myself still playing at 2am on a weekday was not healthy. Crazy fun, though. There's an expansion coming out tomorrow that is basically tailor made for me. Not to mention all these new Elder Scrolls and Game of Thrones overhauls.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on May 10, 2023 23:36:29 GMT
In my case, it's hard to be disappointed when you've mostly moved on from the series. I'm looking forward to DAD because it'll definitely be a great RPG to play, more than it being a follow-up to the Dragon Age universe or a Bioware game really. I've been putting off a replay of the series til after marketing begins but I might just have another go. Been a while. I'm thinking Templar for DAO, Duelist for DA2, and Knight Enchanter for DAI. I usually prefer warriors in most CRPGs, but DA gave all best tricks and content to mages and rogues. Hopefully DA:D will give fighters some much needed love, in both abilities and interactions. I prefer warriors too but honestly BioWare is probably the first game that got me to really enjoy mages as well. I played both pretty often and I enjoy their iterations through all three games. I got a bit hyped watching that DAD gameplay preview cause it looked like they improved melee combat.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on May 10, 2023 18:45:31 GMT
Eh, "top game lists" are always an extremely subjective thing anyway. Like, my top 10 would include several Paradox Games I've spent literal thousands of hours in, in addition to several Bioware games. And yet the average person who plays games probably doesn't even know about PDX games
Also, about what was said in the previous tweet, as much as it's annoying not knowing anything about DA:D's release... it's certainly better from the dev's point of view not to have a release date in the first place, rather than delaying an already preset date and have to deal with the community backlash (which is always much worse if a release date gets delayed).
I went from not knowing what a Paradox game is to sinking 1000 hours into CK3. Send help.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on May 10, 2023 18:44:08 GMT
In my case, it's hard to be disappointed when you've mostly moved on from the series. I'm looking forward to DAD because it'll definitely be a great RPG to play, more than it being a follow-up to the Dragon Age universe or a Bioware game really.
I've been putting off a replay of the series til after marketing begins but I might just have another go. Been a while. I'm thinking Templar for DAO, Duelist for DA2, and Knight Enchanter for DAI.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on May 10, 2023 3:57:07 GMT
A decade huh.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on May 9, 2023 0:57:58 GMT
I'll echo the opinion that Anthem had good tech. Also maybe it's an unpopular opinion but MEA had my favorite Bioware combat experience. I was obsessed with multiplayer for a good few months. despite how much I loved MEs for some reason I just couldn't get into Inquisition's or Andromedas. Say what you will about tying mp into story I guess it did give you a reason to try it and then it grew on me. Well... this time it'll probably be a VERY unpopular opinion but I think the way they tied MEA's MP to the SP experience was actually quite ingenious and made the game a lot more fun for me. I always thought "why is my guy the only one doing something relevant in this universe" so whenever I thought it was appropriate I swapped to do multiplayer (usually for the dailies) to RP as someone else for a bit. That being said I am quite content to see MP being removed from DAD so that they'll focus more resources on the SP experience. Also Dragon Age multiplayer is kinda lame compared to what Mass Effect can do honestly. Shooters are a better format for it.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on May 9, 2023 0:31:53 GMT
I'll echo the opinion that Anthem had good tech. Also maybe it's an unpopular opinion but MEA had my favorite Bioware combat experience. I was obsessed with multiplayer for a good few months.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on May 4, 2023 3:19:24 GMT
People panicking about comments that are based on an experience from 7 years ago is something, especially when you consider the intentional changes to shift DAD to SP only after previous titles kinda bombed relatively.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 28, 2023 22:41:08 GMT
Just gonna say I'm far more likely to be bothered by inconsistent FPS than medium FPS. Sure, you'll notice an improvement in higher FPS, but if you aren't watching them side by side, odds are you won't really *notice* in terms of gameplay value.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 27, 2023 22:13:37 GMT
*sigh* Gamers needy about FPS with everything on maximum is going to kill the industry, especially when it's usually the vocal minority of influencers who can afford every top-of-the-line stuff making a big deal out of it. In turn, need studios to stop pushing too much.
There's only so much return on investment in constantly trying to one-up every metric of visual quality before the whole industry collapses.
Looks like my tag from 3 years ago is still solid.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 26, 2023 15:18:59 GMT
I believe the war table is tied to your system clock. I know that cause I did some clock shenanigans to force finish some brutally long missions.
I actually liked the system somewhat as it gave the impression of the flow of time, but I think the durations were unusually long at times. I also think it would benefit from allowing you to queue up missions if you want particular councilors to do certain tasks without having to micromanage timings.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 26, 2023 1:22:36 GMT
I should have specified PC. Dunno about consoles.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 25, 2023 23:51:54 GMT
Never needed internet for DAI ingame. Only time you needed it was for the keep and that's technically optional.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 16, 2023 9:51:11 GMT
Not sure how some of you have managed to remain committed to tracking Dragon Age for the better part of a decade. Kept the community alive too. I broke a few years in haha. Hope the wait will be worth it. This absolute nothing in years to be a DA Fan instead of a TES, Fallout or Beyond Good and Evil fans. And Shenmue 3 was only 18 years.
*cries in TES fan* Currently playing Skyrim for the millionth time.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 15, 2023 20:30:09 GMT
I feel like I should be counted as a veteran, I mean I posted on the official Bioware forum. Lmao same... been so long...
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 15, 2023 20:27:30 GMT
Not sure how some of you have managed to remain committed to tracking Dragon Age for the better part of a decade. Kept the community alive too. I broke a few years in haha. Hope the wait will be worth it. Does 1468 posts on BSN translate into not tracking Dragon Age? Talking about me? Yea 99% of them are from the time around DAI and later MEA. Just saying that Bioware is lucky to have the people here as dedicated fans even after all this time.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Apr 15, 2023 19:47:20 GMT
Not sure how some of you have managed to remain committed to tracking Dragon Age for the better part of a decade. Kept the community alive too. I broke a few years in haha.
Hope the wait will be worth it.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 3, 2023 15:38:07 GMT
Praying for a conventionally attractive basic male human fighter, sassy and sexy elf rogue, angry dwarf barbarian type, and tsundere female mage tbh.
Bring back the cliches. I miss em.
Well you have my permission to make the fighter at least bi this time around.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 3, 2023 15:36:08 GMT
Praying for a conventionally attractive basic male human fighter, sassy and sexy female rogue, angry dwarf barbarian type, and shy tsundere female mage tbh.
Bring back the cliches. I miss em.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 1, 2023 17:09:01 GMT
Owlcat's Pathfinder games might have way too many junk items in the world, but the inventory handling itself is smooth and easy. Completely free of console clunkiness... which is probably what we will be getting with DAD again. *Collects all Masterwork+ items even when I have 1 million gold*
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Feb 28, 2023 19:42:00 GMT
I've never played an outright evil character, especially in Dragon Age. In Mass Effect I've played a good portion of the renegade options with a few exception (rachni queen, David Archer), but never full renegade. I don't enjoy being an arse, I don't play these characters like they're saints either, though. My boy scout Paragon Shepard got pretty "renegade" (Mass Effect 1-style) towards the latter parts of the story as some of his walls started breaking down and the pressure got to him. I loved that BioWare did that.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Feb 28, 2023 15:12:46 GMT
I remember when I first played Final Fantasy 10 like 20 years ago, I fell in love with the sprawling skill tree with all the possible paths and choices. A decade or so later when I opened Path of Exile, I had that same feeling of wonder. It's genuinely my favorite type of progression. I don't care that there are generally optimal routes. I just like having the choice to go wherever I want and do whatever fits the RP I assign my character. If this is where Dragon Age is heading, I'll be quite happy. I mean I'm already happy there's some new for Dragon Age. Looking forward to see and hear more. I feel the same with a caveat though. Path of Exile is punishing on you if you choose the wrong skills and there's no way to respec past early game which means you can get a fair way into the game and you need to restart. Which results in most people thoroughly consulting guides before they make a character. So I don't mind there being optimal routes, just that the game doesn't punish you for not choosing optimal routes I know some people love that with PoE but it just gives me anxiety TBH Does anxiety include staring at the skill tree for hours in indecision? Can relate.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Feb 27, 2023 17:22:34 GMT
I remember when I first played Final Fantasy 10 like 20 years ago, I fell in love with the sprawling skill tree with all the possible paths and choices. A decade or so later when I opened Path of Exile, I had that same feeling of wonder. It's genuinely my favorite type of progression. I don't care that there are generally optimal routes. I just like having the choice to go wherever I want and do whatever fits the RP I assign my character. If this is where Dragon Age is heading, I'll be quite happy. I mean I'm already happy there's some new for Dragon Age. Looking forward to see and hear more.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Feb 14, 2023 0:07:21 GMT
There's been real time combat since DAO. The only thing that bothers me here is that the team will be more like ME2, but tbh if I can command them in a similar vein thats fine by me. What makes Dragon Age for me is the dialogue and roleplaying. Combat has never been the draw. I'd say the best Bioware combat is ME3/MEA and if thats where DA is heading, then I'm fine with it. My biggest annoyance with this to though I can easily see the reasons why they did it. I much prefer my squad to be 4+ as well and its going to be interesting if they keep DAs class mechanics (as I am still expecting them to do so) its going to be a lot harder balancing out things when your not going to be able to have all of at least one class with you, or mix and match, with just three. But this is the second most likely thing I find from the leaks, unfortunatley, since the picture back in the day also showed a team of three battling the Darkspawn... Hmm actually when I have time or maybe someone else can go through all the BTS material and see how many party members tend to be depicted at once. I want to see the actually product before I make a judgement tbh. I might dislike the evolution. Honestly it's been so long since I've played Dragon Age that I don't know what to think about anymore. I just hope the game is good, and my standards aren't all that high.
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