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Post by smilesja on Aug 22, 2023 4:07:45 GMT
Thank you for voicing many people's childhoods Charles! You've been THE voice for Mario and whoever is replacing you has LARGE shoes to fill!
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Post by smilesja on Aug 21, 2023 18:59:35 GMT
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Post by smilesja on Aug 21, 2023 7:12:29 GMT
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Post by smilesja on Aug 20, 2023 15:11:17 GMT
Well good thing Bioware has mostly bug free games, even Andromeda which is considered to be the buggiest game has been smooth especially compared to Cyberpunk.
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Post by smilesja on Aug 20, 2023 6:20:59 GMT
I have not been a big fan of the bioware villians in their last few games. Arishok was a drunken buffoon, corythmuffins was just rawr!
Sorry but Arishok is the best villain in the series. 
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Post by smilesja on Aug 20, 2023 6:19:20 GMT
I have to echo the Cassandra praise. She best girl. She is beautiful. 
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Post by smilesja on Aug 19, 2023 6:30:55 GMT
Well at least the conversation is shifting back to Bioware after multiple post saying how BG3 is saving videogames. (I'm kidding lol.) So is there any aspects people like about DA:I? Because you would think it was the worst game ever based on how people are flaming it.  |
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Post by smilesja on Aug 18, 2023 22:01:42 GMT
thing is most of those side quests are optional. Edit: plus BG 3 has gone way out of its way to advertise all of its *big numbers* much of that would have to be filler. So what? I don´t care if this is side quests or not. That´s no excuse in making most of them in DAI so boring and tiresome. I bet that Baldurs Gate 3 have like DAO some bad or lame ones but those aren´t that common and the rest of the game is fun. Sadly, the Dragon Age forums have devolved into BG3 gushfest. I guess I'll wait for Starfield and play other games until we get some Dragon Age news then.
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Post by smilesja on Aug 18, 2023 20:19:49 GMT
I feel there's almost a consensus that DA:Dreadwolf will be shite, all hail Larian, our new overlords. I just want to talk excitedly about Dragon Age. I will happily talk about Dragon Age once there is something to talk about  Right now, the sequel to one of Bioware's old games, even if made by a different studio, is the closest we have. Then take it to the other threads please, this thread is for Dragon Age. 
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Post by smilesja on Aug 18, 2023 15:52:43 GMT
I mean, there are always going to be ignorant people abound (note, I'm talking about general keyboard warriors, certainly nobody here) that makes one hyperbolic claim after the other with little to no actual knowledge about the subject. But why are we getting so riled up about it? I've come to the realization that many of the times media or people online claim there's this big movement for something the truth is usually that it's just a handful of people making some ridiculous claim and it then being magnified. So yeah, don't get too worked up about people online, and certainly don't let them influence your opinion about other things. Judge BG3 based on what you've seen and experienced, and the same goes for the DA-series. To be honest, it's just like The Witcher 3 way back in BSN prime. Super fans are going to spam other game threads with extolling BG3's virtues to the unwashed masses. It's already starting on Youtube and even on this thread. But in all seriousness can we talk about Dragon Age here and move BG3 to the appropriate threads? There are two threads that specifically talk about BG3.
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Post by smilesja on Aug 17, 2023 17:23:24 GMT
Silly potentially batshit tbought I had this morning: There are a few upcoming games with Dragon in the title. Dragon Age Dreadwolf Dragon's Dogma II Dragon Quest XII All of them could potentially release in 2024. 2024 is the Chinese year of the Dragon. COINCIDENCE? Anyway, I've become one of those clowning people it seems, hehe.
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Post by smilesja on Aug 17, 2023 16:51:56 GMT
MY GAME IS PRELOADING NOW!
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Post by smilesja on Aug 16, 2023 17:51:30 GMT
Bio should look at a BG3 feature that Larian is now working on to allow players to change their char appearance once they are in the game.
This is awesome. I've wanted to change my DA:I char in game many a times.
We're actually at that point where people are bragging about Larian adding a feature that Bioware already had in the first place lol.
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Post by smilesja on Aug 16, 2023 17:10:27 GMT
Not gaming news but LinusMediaGroup may be imploding. Started out as gamingnexus stomping on them a bit, then a couple of hours ago sexual harassment and general harassment accusations by an ex employee on twitter. Before that it was youtube drama, but could possibly explode now. Also won't be visiting Linus' youtube anymore. Nothing of value is lost and not going to support what is increasingly looking like a very scummy corporation. I wonder if it could explode into a multitude of allegations, could it be a Blizzard situation?
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Post by smilesja on Aug 16, 2023 4:00:22 GMT
Can't wait for the conversation to shift to Starfield.  |
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Post by smilesja on Aug 14, 2023 19:53:53 GMT
If you want to continue this discussion let's take it to PMs because you mentioned me in your post to colfoley so yeah I'm going to defend myself. I'm tired of this as well but you just keep trying to make me into something I'm not. So yeah let's end this and if you still want to analyze me let's go to PMs. Reasons why you don't like BG3 and what you don't want Bioware to do in their games going forward: 1. turn based combat 2. 3. 4. ??? etc. Feel free to complete. This isn't something to be done in PMs because I asked you here and it's relevant to the current discussion. You don't feel like doing it, thank you for making it clear I have no reason to take anything you say seriously and we're done dragging this out. It's the third time I'm asking for relevant arguments from you and you still fail to provide anything. What I said to colfoley is nothing I didn't say to you directly. If anything, I defended myself from his allegations and gaslighting that I insulted you. No, saying "the game lives rent free in your head" is not an insult, you've made worse assertions about others in this days long discussion. Also you can delete posts instead of leaving them empty when double posting. Last time, let's take the argument to PMs if you want to keep on going.
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Post by smilesja on Aug 14, 2023 19:52:55 GMT
I'm near 100% certain DA4 will not be turn based. Gods, how I wish it were, though. To be able to slowly and methodically destroy your enemies with the sophisticated prowess of surgeon combined with a chess master. Not like combat that ARPGs use, which are terrible. You're just pushing buttons as fast as possible like a coked-up, illiterate ape. ARPG should be the weird niche, not turn-based. Sorry, I feel more immersed in action RPGs than turn based just because you button mash doesn't mean there's not much thought involved.
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Post by smilesja on Aug 14, 2023 18:12:06 GMT
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Post by smilesja on Aug 14, 2023 18:08:51 GMT
And me calling out how BG3 will influence future Bioware games does not constitute me as "the game living rent free in my head." It's something that may affect my future purchases on Bioware games. So I appreciate you toning down the insults and the analysis that you just love doing. No, you constantly engaging with arguments that have no factual worth because it's merely feeling and we all just have to trust you or read your mind constitutes as the game living rent free in your head. I didn't reply to you because you wanted me to stop, which I did. I replied to colfoley who took up an interesting attempt to gaslight. If you replied back to me to reengage in this, the least you could have done was take the exact thing I said in the very post you just quoted would shut me up but yet again, you failed to give any argument. What are you so afraid of besides turn based combat? What exactly about BG3 has you so fearful that any imaginary Bioware games that take inspiration from it will be poison for you? Is this just circular arguing at this point? Because I'm kind of tired with this. If you want to continue this discussion let's take it to PMs because you mentioned me in your post to colfoley so yeah I'm going to defend myself. I'm tired of this as well but you just keep trying to make me into something I'm not. So yeah let's end this and if you still want to analyze me let's go to PMs.
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Post by smilesja on Aug 14, 2023 18:06:17 GMT
Er...yes. That is literally what the guy was doing. 'Don't expect this to be the new standard' - where 'standard' means 'you must reach this level in order to be acceptable'. Well yes, by making it seem that doing a really good job is the exception and at least partly the result of good circumstance and therefore can't be expected to be the norm. I think most gamers are already very aware that in game development there are vast differences in dev team size and development time and all that and adjust their expectations accordingly. I don't think anyone needed to be told that you can't expect something the size and quality of BG3 from someone with half the team size and half the dev time. I mean, did any dev ever come out saying "You can't expect something as huge as AC Valhalla from us because we are way fewer devs and have way less time and resources and we aren't working on the Nth iteration of a big franchise here" and being worried that this amount of content would be the new standard and anything smaller than this would no longer be acceptable? No, because everyone already knows this. This was not about time or resources... this was about the quality of work that shouldn't be expected. You'd be surprised how many gamers are not aware of this. I had to flat out tell people that CDPR had funding from the Polish government to make their games. A company Laridan had a lot of special circumstances and lenience to make BG3 a success.
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Post by smilesja on Aug 14, 2023 17:22:31 GMT
Ok, I am very very sensitive when it comes to people being mad at each other and I never felt that was the case with this discussion. On the contrary, compared to other discussions I’ve seen here, this is rather low key. I’ve seen discussions get way more heated about purely DA related stuff  . You should've been there back when DA2 was released, discussions were pretty awful. XD
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Post by smilesja on Aug 14, 2023 17:04:37 GMT
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Post by smilesja on Aug 14, 2023 15:50:38 GMT
Seems to be the day for windmill jousting... Because with all due respects this is a pretty inaccurate statement. The post I have quoted above, while maybe not directly insulting, certainly is inflammatory as heck editing someone else's post to make them sound dumber and then go 'fixed it for you'. And as smiles referenced there have been other instances of direct actual insults coming from people like Grog.
To be fair this seems to be an inflammatory issue with both sides tending to jump to conclusions and make smears about one another...but it does cause my eyebrow to arch that everyone seems to be acting like Smiles is the sole badguy here and the only one who is getting butt hurt...for lack of a better word... when that is demonstrably not true. Calling out lapses in logic and (allegidly) bad faith arguments is insulting? Nice strawman. Let's look at what I actually did. They said they're annoyed that everyone treats BG3 as flawless, I pointed out a post that had a list of summarized criticism. They said it's the first time they saw something like that which I called out as either being a lie or a problem with the places they frequent, because those criticisms are not hard to find if you look for them in good faith and not cherry pick only the ones that annoy you because you're trying to create a narrative to protect. I also pointed out that it's very easy to not engage with a game that annoys you just by existing. I then asked if they even played any bit of the game. They said they have worries about Bioware following in BG3's footsteps but failed to provide any sort of example outside of turn based combat. They could easily shut me up by saying "yes, I played it/no, but I watched streams and I don't like a,b,c,d,e etc and don't want Bioware to do that." This is not what they've done all the while they've engaged in discussion about BG3, only went on feeling, no actual hard argument and then got defensive. They're not a "bad guy" but they do have some lapse in arguments and attitude and calling that out does not constitute me being butt hurt. And me calling out how BG3 will influence future Bioware games does not constitute me as "the game living rent free in my head." It's something that may affect my future purchases on Bioware games. So I appreciate you toning down the insults and the analysis that you just love doing.
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Post by smilesja on Aug 13, 2023 22:47:00 GMT
Stop analyzing me now. I've explained my concerns and we'll leave at that. It just seems you don't know when to stop do you? Then for God's sake, stop being mad at the mere mention of BG3 or Larian when we're still in the phase where people are still playing through it and discovering stuff.
It's getting tiresome.
I'm not mad at all lol seesh. I said I'll drop it but it seems that people won't leave me alone after I said I'll drop it.
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Post by smilesja on Aug 13, 2023 22:36:39 GMT
Nah, It's just me wondering if people are just going to shove the game down other people's throats like people did with TW3 back in BSN prime and current BSN. Are you through with the analysis on me though? Because these constant guesses on me are ridiculous. Like I said, it's very easy to ignore anything BG3 related, no one is shoving the game down your throat. And if the examples you gave are so relevant to what you think is happening now, you should already know it'll last for a few weeks then die down. No need to get so pent up over it. Nah I'm done, if you wanna make some crazy claims that a game "been living rent free in my mind" when I'm trying to express concerns over how it'll affect Bioware and games in general, then I'll leave. It's not like I had a great introduction to the Bioware community anyway. Have you actually played any bit of it? Do you know anything about it outside the fact it has turn based combat? You claim to not care, not be interested in it and not want to play it. How can you consider you can have any kind of rational conversation that's not based on ignorance and "feeling as fact" if you have no knowledge of the game you're talking about? Stop analyzing me now. I've explained my concerns and we'll leave at that. It just seems you don't know when to stop do you?
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