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Post by Gileadan on May 26, 2023 18:32:41 GMT
Oh hell yes!
'nuff said.
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Post by Gileadan on May 22, 2023 17:59:32 GMT
At this point I'm merely mildly curious about DA4, just to see what kind of game BioWare is going to come up with. I really don't care all that much about continuing a mediocre story from ten years ago and no plans to buy this any time near release.
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Post by Gileadan on May 12, 2023 5:13:04 GMT
Do you honestly think that is what I meant? They didn't say it was a bad game so it must be good? I was referring to positive things not being mentioned. The idea of corpo PR after all is to sound as positive as possible without stating something that's obviously not true. For example a statement like "We tested this issue extensively" sounds good at first until you realize that it doesn't mention what the results of those tests were and whether any action was taken afterwards or not. Likewise, "the game can be played from start to end" means just that. There is a beginning, there is an end, and you can reach it through gameplay. That is all that is being said. Whether the gameplay is any good or anywhere close to a final iteration, whether all those quests are fully fleshed out, whether any side content has been implemented, whether the NPCs have their voice lines or are still silent, all that is outside the scope of that statement. Anything of this could be true or not. Always assume the minimum and you're probably not far from the truth. and the trouble is you didn't expand and say any of this in your initial post. All you did was leave anyone reading your post with a logical dead end which is not very helpful in a long term debate. And to the substance of your position now that it has been expanded on, sure on the face of it you are right. It is a vague enough statement as to suggest nothing about the quality. I myself have been pointing to several concerning aspects of BioWare's language. However the reverse is certainly as true as the negative which is why it's a mistake to go too hard on the speculation. Much like my comments to Sartoz bioware really shouldn't be saying too much about the game until the marketing is ready to go. If statements are made keep them vague. And nor should we assume that every statement they make is about Dreadwolf as was the case yesterday. You're right, I should have explained myself better and I apologize. I'm so used to talking to people about this several times a week (my colleagues at work mostly) that I incorrectly assumed it to be a rather common topic. Sorry about that.
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Post by Gileadan on May 11, 2023 13:26:21 GMT
Well, "can be played from start to end" technically just means that enough of a skeleton of the main quest line exits to allow you to go from the start of the game to the end in whatever its current shape is. As always, the interesting thing with corpo speak is not what's being said but what's not being said. Trouble with that logic the 'things not being said' are virtually infinite. For instance they aren't saying the game is a banana. Do you honestly think that is what I meant? They didn't say it was a bad game so it must be good? I was referring to positive things not being mentioned. The idea of corpo PR after all is to sound as positive as possible without stating something that's obviously not true. For example a statement like "We tested this issue extensively" sounds good at first until you realize that it doesn't mention what the results of those tests were and whether any action was taken afterwards or not. Likewise, "the game can be played from start to end" means just that. There is a beginning, there is an end, and you can reach it through gameplay. That is all that is being said. Whether the gameplay is any good or anywhere close to a final iteration, whether all those quests are fully fleshed out, whether any side content has been implemented, whether the NPCs have their voice lines or are still silent, all that is outside the scope of that statement. Anything of this could be true or not. Always assume the minimum and you're probably not far from the truth.
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Post by Gileadan on May 11, 2023 9:53:51 GMT
Well, "can be played from start to end" technically just means that enough of a skeleton of the main quest line exits to allow you to go from the start of the game to the end in whatever its current shape is. As always, the interesting thing with corpo speak is not what's being said but what's not being said.
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Post by Gileadan on May 10, 2023 11:52:03 GMT
Well, DA games became less complex and more actiony with every iteration so I'll believe the "complexity" when I actually see it. And yes, it got rebooted a few times, which is also a bad thing. What I was getting at was: how successful will it be compared to how much it has cost EA to produce - all the failed attempts included - compared to one of the Jedi games. This is not exactly a fair assessment. The tactical combat is maybe the only thing which can qualify for this...and heck even that is a trap because it got more complicated again from DA 2 to DA I. But graphics have taken a huge improvement from Origins to Inquisition. And listening to Darrah on the subject not just in terms of updates in tech, but that too, but also finding a distinct art style when compared to the bland Origins one. RP systems in terms of dialogue has gotten much more complicated. A voiced protagonist, actual dialog lines to write, program, and hire a voice actor to actually speak the lines. Which then the overall complexity in dialog. A lot more voice lines, more companions, advisors, more complicated friendship system...or certainly a more realistic one...larger map size which has led to a much longer game all things told. An entire new plot line based on a quest fork you choose between In Hushed Whispers/ Champions of the Just which then led to unique quests of their own and unique plot developments. All to say that Inquisition is a much more complicated game then Origins and in the only area where it might've gotten regressed on...well there is good reason to it. Fine, the tactical system is cool and all but isn't very accessible for the general audience and sometimes simplicity is a good thing, if it works out. Most of the things you mention here just mean more busywork, not some complicated problem to be solved. DAI actually avoided a lot of potential complexity - most of the main story quests happened on special maps unique to that quest that you couldn't visit before or after that point, saving them all the work of updating the entire world map according to the state and outcome of those quests (the Witcher 3 for example does this and is waaay more complex because of it). The side quests on the other hand are simple cookie cutter stuff of the go there, kill that, optionally pick up this and bring it back type. That's certainly not complex. Overall I feel that DAI was a less complex game than Origins but with more content.
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Post by Gileadan on May 10, 2023 11:10:12 GMT
Not surprising and not encouraging. They're taking more time than Respawn needed for either Jedi game and it remains to be seen whether they will be as successful. The Jedi games are not even close to the extra mechanic complexity you need for a Dragon Age title. And DAD was rebooted again somewhere around 2021, so in 2024 that will be the same time Respawn needed for Survivor. Well, DA games became less complex and more actiony with every iteration so I'll believe the "complexity" when I actually see it. And yes, it got rebooted a few times, which is also a bad thing. What I was getting at was: how successful will it be compared to how much it has cost EA to produce - all the failed attempts included - compared to one of the Jedi games.
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Post by Gileadan on May 10, 2023 8:39:32 GMT
Not surprising and not encouraging.
They're taking more time than Respawn needed for either Jedi game and it remains to be seen whether they will be as successful.
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Post by Gileadan on May 7, 2023 8:47:40 GMT
it would use Anthem's technology base I think the precise words were "Anthem codes", which I took to mean programming codes. Not everyone saw this in a negative light since it was possible to fly in Anthem, so people were hopeful it might mean the introduction of levitate spells (which are in the lore) or even riding on griffons. The former might be a possibility considering Absolution included scenes where one mage was levitating another but I think the latter is extremely remote. I have to admit I was a bit worried when I saw the mention of Anthem in connection with Dragon Age but it may have been nothing more than the team on Anthem came up with better ways of dealing with the Frostbite engine, which had been a problem for the DA team in the past. Anyway, Anthem codes or not, we definitely know it is going to be single player focused, so not "Anthem with dragons". Now that you mention it I think the word was "codebase". And the very base of Anthem is that of a drop-in, drop-out multiplayer game that actively badgers you to play public games with strangers should you "accidentally" choose solo game. Hence the expectation of "Anthem with dragons" back then. You're right that with DA4's re-focus on single player (likely with lots of ground based melee combat) there's should barely be anything remaining of Anthem's codebase to go into it. Anthem is a shooter with some tacked on, single-attack melee that seems hardly suitable as a base for DA4 even if turns out to be a God of War wannabe.
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Post by Gileadan on May 7, 2023 8:00:04 GMT
I recall reading somewhere that people working on the game had complained that with Anthem he was making "Dragon Age in space". I guess hearing that what you're doing is derivative of your own creation would make you easily get fed up. Wait, wasn't that the opposite? Like, it was DA4 that was being referred as "Anthem with dragons" before the switch back to singleplayer? Or is this a completely different thing? (By now all the rumours, lies, confirmed & unconfirmed news about the game just mix chaotically ) Both are true. Gaider was told he was writing a Dragon Age with Iron Man suits, and lots of people suspected DA4 to be Anthem with Dragons after an announcement that it would use Anthem's technology base.
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Post by Gileadan on May 5, 2023 9:07:51 GMT
And it doesn't help that the "aliens" tend to talk from a human perspective and/or use humanity as the standard for everything.
"We asari are a very long lived race." "We angara are very emotional."
... instead of "you humans are short lived" or "you humans seem a bit emotionally distant". They talk like humans pretending to be aliens. Rookie writing.
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Post by Gileadan on May 5, 2023 7:47:12 GMT
Redfall's AI (and I use that term extremely loosely) is so stupid and oblivious that stealth becomes useless because it doesn't make a difference anymore. This is immediately obvious.
But some developer thought that was good enough and clicked "commit and push", every journo doing a preview must have seen it, it should have been brought up in every QA meeting becausing it's such a massively glaring issue.
I don't know how this happened, of course. Maybe the devs bravely tried to fight for more polishing time and a greedy management said "no we publish this and run with the money", or maybe it was a general all around disaster like Anthem where no one really knew what they were doing. Who knows.
The result speaks for itself.
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Post by Gileadan on May 5, 2023 6:24:24 GMT
How does something like Redfall ever get published at all? Its problems are absolutely glaring, how could this not have been torn apart in the previews already?
But no, people know there's a stinker coming and they take people's money for it anyway, then expect sympathy for the awful time they're having here.
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Post by Gileadan on May 3, 2023 7:50:16 GMT
Well that sounds like a sad state of affairs if Mr. Gaider is not exaggerating here. Writing good stories and characters was what set BioWare apart from their competition. Without that they're just another AA action-RPG developer with a slow drift away from RPG to more and more action. And unfortunately they didn't do action very well so far.
Great writing in gaming is rather rare. But serviceable or even pretty good writing is plentiful. For example I'm enjoying the writing in Everspace 2 and Darktide - both action games with outstanding gameplay - at the moment. Nothing great in either, but it's enjoyable and makes me smile, laugh or even go "oh, wow" once in a while. It does its job. BioWare's writing used to be better than just doing its job, but it seems that has faded away. Without it they are nothing special.
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Post by Gileadan on Apr 28, 2023 10:00:35 GMT
This reminds me of people claiming they wouldn't notice the difference between 30 and 60 FPS because of the limitations of the human eye. The more fast paced a game is, the more FPS you generally want to avoid the stuttering teleport effect a fast movement would cause at a low FPS setting. An isometric strategy game or a really clunky action game would probably look and feel barely any different at 30 or 60 FPS. A game with smooth responsive controls, lots of speed and fast camera turns definitely would.
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Post by Gileadan on Apr 4, 2023 6:04:14 GMT
I think that they simply won't mention most previous choices at all and be vague about the things that do get mentioned. We're playing a new protagonist who has never met anyone from the previous games so why would they inquire about their life details at all?
"You know, person A and B were here once, on similar business." "Oooh but were they a couple or not?"
Who asks that kind of question? Please no more awkwardness like Varric's "Tell me about the champion" in DAI.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 31, 2023 8:06:48 GMT
Very good corpo speak - very polite deflections without giving out any actual information, and as always, the most interesting things are the ones not being said.
I don't think he has a choice though and he has to look out for his (former?) company.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 29, 2023 10:05:26 GMT
Chris Avellone filed a libel suit against his accusers. It was settled in March '23, with both accusers stating that Chris Avellone never sexually abused them and that to their knowledge he never sexually abused anyone else. They claimed that their previous public statements regarding Mr. Avellone had been "misinterpreted".
Make of that what you will.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 29, 2023 6:25:27 GMT
It seems Mark is a very nice and very diplomatic guy, I wish him all the best with what doesn't look like an easy job.
After all, if they thought that someone currently employed at BioWare could do it they wouldn't have gotten him back.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 28, 2023 5:24:15 GMT
Huh. Good thing for Dreadwolf? Probably. Good sign for Dreadwolf? Not sure. It begs the question of what was going wrong that they had to bring him back from retirement, so to speak? Hopefully its fixable, w/e it is. I suspect that in true BioWare fashion they took a look at what they had so far and went "well, shit..." (Hopefully not)
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 26, 2023 19:57:09 GMT
I'm sure they can come up with an easy explanation why the banter bug in DAI was never fixed. A timer that plays audio files with the occasional condition attached to it. Not saying that it wouldn't be dreadfully hard to do so, but I'd honestly be interested to learn why it would be dreadfully hard to fix.
So hard that they essentially capitulated to it and added banter activation points in Trespasser.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 26, 2023 13:13:30 GMT
Didn't read any book or comic. The ones from the short stories weren't very interesting. New characters all around please.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 24, 2023 11:27:08 GMT
I normally don't skip cutscenes... unless there's a "checkpoint" right before a cutscene that is followed by some really mean combat encounter and every attempt starts with said cutscene again... then I'll skip it with a furious barrage of Esc/Space.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 18, 2023 9:12:13 GMT
How do you even delete a build "accidentally"? Unless you think github etc is for amateurs you can always check it out again.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 14, 2023 15:06:45 GMT
I think the Reapers weren't an intelligent species. They were merely rogue machines that could never deviate from their programmed behaviour patterns. They never negotiate, they never try to find alternate solutions or try to make any intelligent approach to solving the organic/synthetic problem. They are basically a giant mechanical zombie apocalypse - completely unrelenting enemies that never give any quarter and never display any intelligent thought or insight. They just play clever sounding audio files (as long as you don't think too hard about them) while they're going about their genocidal business... while the geth, ironically, immediately stand down as soon as the Quarians stop shooting.
Killing off all Reapers has nothing to do with genocide, it's merely retiring a line of extremely faulty toasters on a really massive scale.
And the endings are so stupid that any intelligent discussion about them is a waste of time. The death of the geth if you pick Destroy is merely a writer ass pull to force drama and an artificial disadvantage onto that choice because who the hell would pick anything else if the result was "all reapers drop dead, no one else gets hurt, drinks are on me".
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