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Post by Gileadan on Dec 23, 2023 9:30:10 GMT
A single adjective isn't much of a critique.
Singleplayer and multiplayer can certainly coexist, but most games have a clear focus on one or the other. The Battlefield and Call of Duty series have their 4 hour singleplayer experiences with a quite high production value for the short time they last and the later Mass Effect games have their shoe box sized arenas for co op MP.
What I don't like is when the singleplayer part gets simplified because it has to work in multiplayer too - four abilities is enough, who needs that skill/gear wheel anyway?
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 21, 2023 6:34:34 GMT
I didn't need to click that video to remember how terrible Anthem was, both as a project and as a game. Guns that rolled properties that only worked on other guns, the lowest tier ones doing more damage than the supposedly better ones and all of them looking like a single manufacturer's product line. The most entertaining thing about Anthem was Jason Schreier's article.
I really wanted to like it and play it with my future wife, but she opted out after less than five minutes because of the crazy camera shakes and I called it a day after a few boring missions.
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 9, 2023 20:33:14 GMT
Don't we all like the tale of passionate David versus soulless corporate Goliath? When a dev studio achieves something greater than their size and resources suggest we believe that it is the result of passion for their craft. It is also the result of professional skill and competent leadership of course and when you add BG3's early access period with lots of communication between devs and fan base to all that you get gaming's next heroes. And well deserved too, because they produced a high quality entertainment product and then sold it for a fair price. Something like Assassin's Creed Odyssey on the other hand, no matter how much people enjoy it, feels very much like a big corporate product by the numbers, even if we don't know how its developers feel about it. Of course, in the case of UbiSoft games we often don't even know who the developers actually are so it's hard to get past that "anonymous corporate product" feeling in the first place. I think BioWare is a very tragic case in this context. Their developers and artists seem very passionate about what they are doing only to be sabotaged time and again by an almost maliciously incompetent management. I feel sorry for Mr. Darrah - it feels like the modern day version of the stables of Augeas. Yeah but casting devs as heroes is very ridiculou and disrespectful to fanbase who like “villain” games like assassins creed. Who cares if it’s “corporate” or not? it’s made with love and care from devs. We really need to get out of this mindset of “good guy, bad guy” mentality especially with games. I used to have that mindset about the underdogs going against the corporations, but then I realize that mentality hurt people who like those kinds of games and just want to enjoy them. I mean at the end of the day, the devs are human and have sacrificed a lot of their personal lives to make a game even it’s something you don’t like. I don't think that giving someone some well deserved respect for an outstanding achievement is somehow disrespecting someone else. What should people do differently? Pretend that said achievement actually isn't that special and act like everything else is the same quality so no one feels bad about their preferences?
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 9, 2023 9:08:06 GMT
Don't we all like the tale of passionate David versus soulless corporate Goliath?
When a dev studio achieves something greater than their size and resources suggest we believe that it is the result of passion for their craft. It is also the result of professional skill and competent leadership of course and when you add BG3's early access period with lots of communication between devs and fan base to all that you get gaming's next heroes. And well deserved too, because they produced a high quality entertainment product and then sold it for a fair price.
Something like Assassin's Creed Odyssey on the other hand, no matter how much people enjoy it, feels very much like a big corporate product by the numbers, even if we don't know how its developers feel about it. Of course, in the case of UbiSoft games we often don't even know who the developers actually are so it's hard to get past that "anonymous corporate product" feeling in the first place.
I think BioWare is a very tragic case in this context. Their developers and artists seem very passionate about what they are doing only to be sabotaged time and again by an almost maliciously incompetent management. I feel sorry for Mr. Darrah - it feels like the modern day version of the stables of Augeas.
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 8, 2023 11:09:08 GMT
I think that trailer was clearly meant for existing fans to give them something to talk and speculate about. It doesn't look like it's suitable to attract any new players since it's so completely substance free without any glimpse at the actual game itself. If I didn't know any better I'd think it's showing something that's in pre-production instead of close to release. To the average person it probably just says "Here is a fantasy setting and something's awry". That's as generic as it gets.
The only thing that I found mildly interesting was that apparently Sir Patrick Stewart is voicing someone who'd like to be in charge of the world and thinks he's going to do a better job than everyone else including Solas just after we handed the previous ancient evil an eviction notice. No wait, that was ten years ago.
As far as trailers go BioWare really needs to up their game a bit... but maybe their actual marketing trailers (as opposed to this one being another from the "we're not dead yet" shelf) will be great.
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 5, 2023 13:25:33 GMT
Take this with a huge grain of salt, there's a supposed leaker in this discussion thread: www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/s/ojCfN5RNyFThe gist is: Dragon Age Andromeda - characters are snarky and quibby as hell, as if everyone is sarcastic Hawke or Varric. Marvel humor (which already ruined Andromeda for me) basically. - very different from previous games, going to be very devisive, especially the combat which is described as Andromeda melee without guns If that is even remotely true this game will be exactly the kind of trainwreck I feared. Old school BioWare/DAO fans are not the target audience. If this game has writing even remotely like Andromeda, I won't even be getting this game on a discount. Sorry I'm ruining the mood again with my negativity. Thought it was worth sharing the link though. Ouch. BioWare's Marvel style humour was always terrible and reminded me of a bunch of giggly teens who all seemed to think they had Robert Downey Jr's charisma for some reason. Andromeda melee without guns? Double ouch. MEA's and Anthem had no melee to speak of, just some extremely basic attacks. Then again, can't blame them for going for a new target audience ten years later.
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 5, 2023 8:38:46 GMT
It's an announcement of an announcement, a slightly shinier version of the good old "we're excited to tell you more next year".
But any life sign is a good thing.
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 4, 2023 6:13:41 GMT
Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrahMy daughter's Christmas concert is on the 7th, so I am cancelling my Game Awards stream Sorry all. Excellent choice. Good man.
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 1, 2023 19:55:10 GMT
I don't think anyone makes RPGs quite like BioWare - band of quirky diverse misfits snark their way to inevitable victory - but several dev studios have made RPGs that I've found to be overall way more enjoyable experiences than BioWare's "recent" (if that word can refer to time spans measured in that many years) offerings.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 22, 2023 21:40:17 GMT
For a game about discovery and exploration Andromeda was way too much "to boldly go where someone else had gone before".
And for my personal taste it overdid the space magic by a lot. Eos is a an irradiated hell hole when you get there but when you activate the alien Jesus tech the entire planet is 100% viable. Planet wide ecological cleansing and resurrection.
I also never understood why we bothered with the Krogan in their sinkhole or Kadara. It's an entire planet. We could settle thousands of miles away and just leave the only other inhabited speck on that entire world alone.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 21, 2023 8:38:27 GMT
The original audio clip from Liara was overlaid against the footage of the mass relay being constructed wasn't it? Hence the defiance somehow refers to the building of the relay? You would imagine that the Council would be all over relay construction so it kind of makes sense if Humanity/Cerberus is off on its own building its own gate somewhere, for some reason. All guesswork obviously. Until we have the context it's impossible to judge whether it would be appropriate or not. Ooh, good catch, that makes sense. I'm no big fan of the Council but constructing a gateway of any kind when you can't be sure what's going to come out of it is monumentally stupid. Didn't they learn anything from Doom? It could lead to an interesting situation though with humanity getting booted from the Council and such. We could have so many smug, insufferable Volus characters...
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 21, 2023 5:11:51 GMT
The only real information worth anything will be the final product. Youtubers often pull things right out of their rear ends and BioWare has given us enough of the shroom treatment over time too.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 20, 2023 15:37:34 GMT
Taken out of context, I hate the whole phrase "human defiance". As if defiance is somehow typical of only humans. Just sounds like lazy writing at this point without knowing what it really refers to. Sounds like plot buzzword bingo to me. Human defiance, a distress signal from Andromeda (I suppose it didn't take another 600+ years to get to the Milky Way) and the Council being furious (about what? Why would they care about Andromeda 600 years later, it's not their jurisdiction anyway). I'm sure it will make sense somehow.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 18, 2023 10:06:33 GMT
MEA, a great game if you like the letter "A". In Andromeda we meet the Angara and our new companion Jaal Ama Darav. Sadly the Jardaan are gone. Maybe we were just there to bring them new vowels?
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 15, 2023 11:27:59 GMT
RoboCop: Rogue City
Justice was brought to Old Detroit, again. As a fan of the movies (mostly the original one really) I'm very happy with how seriously the game is taking them. It made me feel like I was walking through the movie set, being RoboCop. None of that "adapted for a modern audience" garbage on display here.
Hearing the movie's iconic music during epic shootouts was something else. Also I really like how two of RoboCop's prime directives (Serve the Public Trust and Uphold the Law) can actually oppose each other. The ending was satisfying too since I got to talk to most main characters near the end and a last episode of Media Break telling me how everyone was affected in the end.
I will definitely play this again.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 13, 2023 10:40:27 GMT
Is it just me or does concept art female Phyre look a lot like male Ventrue PC in Bloodlines 1?
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 10, 2023 21:25:46 GMT
It's going to be a sci fi gem. Travel between two galaxies completely trivialized, in fact, the distance between them as a whole seems to have shrunk to somewhere close to insignificant.
"A distress signal from Andromeda"? I don't even want to know how that managed to reach the Milky Way. Maybe they are peeking through the Geth's space magic telescope again and someone on a planet in Andromeda is making SOS flag signals?
Can't wait.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 9, 2023 8:21:58 GMT
Peter Parker is a beloved, popular/legacy character so naturally he must be humiliated before retirement so a relatively substandard replacement takes over. Off the top of my head, this process has happened with Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones, the Mandalorian, Blade, the Punisher, Joel and Ellie, James Bond, etc. Peter Parker is just the most recent casualty of this creative hatred. It's quite depressing how often present day "creators" go the route of "if I can't make it as good as the other thing I'll just drag that other thing down to my level".
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 8, 2023 10:19:08 GMT
Liara's (or most asari's) head crest most likely wouldn't fit into a human helmet. I think crest of this helmet is big enough, this isn't a small helmet.
But I'd rule out Liara due to my previously mentioned post.
It's a rather small and very round helmet, including its rear side where Liara's backward pointing crest would be. Unless asari head crests are inflatable there's no way any of them could wear that. But yeah, the entire body shape is not very Liara... looks a bit too tall and slender.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 8, 2023 9:34:34 GMT
Liara's (or most asari's) head crest most likely wouldn't fit into a human helmet.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 8, 2023 7:56:50 GMT
Some people say that n7 are the bad guys now Hail Hydra Cerberus!
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 7, 2023 8:29:58 GMT
Heh.
Especially DAI could have generated unlimited side content of the "Conscientious Objector" variety that way. Have ChatGPT write the letters or diary entries and let some AI pick the mobs that spawn near the second letter. Boom, instant "quest".
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 6, 2023 14:24:22 GMT
According to the leaks we won't be controlling our companions directly anymore so there probably won't be any healer class since there's no way that we could rely on BioWare's super-wonky companion AI for well timed, effective healing. Companions will probably just follow us around and act as a minor distraction and damage over time source.
And as far as that skill tree is concerned I expect most of the nodes to be passives that modify a handful of active skills. Controllers have four buttons and the leak had a display of five active skill icons (one looked special and required pressing two buttons simultaneously or some such) so the gameplay will probably be even more simplified than DAI was.
This is not necessarily bad if the combat itself is good. Darktide for example has two active skills and a passive aura and you can spend up to 30 points in a character's skill tree but the combat is fantastic and your skill choices can change a class a lot. It can be done with some skilled game design.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 1, 2023 9:58:43 GMT
"Phyre" is an interesting choice for a name - Armenian, unisex, meaning "Burning bright".
Overall I'm still cautiously curious. It doesn't look like the vampire game I wanted, but it could still turn out okay. Does any vampire try to blend into human society in Seattle? Have they heard of hunters and the Inquisition?
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Post by Gileadan on Oct 29, 2023 7:39:14 GMT
I think it's way too late for DA4 to change from the "drop kicks in full plate" action comedy seen in the leaks to anything remotely resembling BG3. That would essentially be another complete reboot which I doubt BioWare could accomplish or survive in its current state.
Also I'm not sure if the cause of BG3's success is that it's an isometric party based RPG - it's more the quantity and quality of content that players get for their money. All we can hope for is that Mr. Darrah gets DA4 polished into a presentable state so it can be released with some confidence instead of constantly running and hiding from the competition.
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