Meh, I'm a MGS fanboy.
To me, this is just the cutscene explaining how to used the Directional mic.
To me, this is just the cutscene explaining how to used the Directional mic.
Dragon Age 2 Packs 103 Minutes of Cutscenes
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I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of Planescape: Torment.Wombat of Doom said:
Still, it doesn't mean the characters are invariably stereotypical or anything like that. But yes, slightly odd-seeming dialogue, and fairly predictable stories. Now, my experience is admittedly limited to BG1/KoTOR for the most part, but I'm not sure why Bioware gets credit for being the best ever. They're good, certainly. That said, I can't help but raise an eyebrow when I'm told they have the best plots, of all things.
Ah well. To each their own, I suppose. I don't plan to ever play Dragon Age in any case.
...wait that many cutscenes...i still want Dragon Age 2 so much, i love the dragon age series...i cant wait for it and i will love the cutscenes...if they are great
Are these outright cutscenes or scenes in which you'll be choosing dialogue and stuff? I won't be buying this game anyway since I hated the first one. Still, seems out of character for a Bioware game to have cutscenes that you just watch.
I already pre-ordered it. Geezus.
I have enough reasons to fangirl over this title.
Seeing as there's so much to do and so many options, I feel like I'm not even going to see some of those cutscenes the first time around.
I have enough reasons to fangirl over this title.
Seeing as there's so much to do and so many options, I feel like I'm not even going to see some of those cutscenes the first time around.
Shhhh don't give them any ideas!!Soods said:Just think how many quick time events you could fit in there
OT: I've never minded cutscenes, as long as they stuck to the story, for example, I watched all the cut scenes from the first Uncharted game. On youtube. For no reason. And I could tell they were all connected to the game, and made sense, and I've never played the game. 103 minutes? nothing.
Yeah well that's probably my biggest problem more than anything is that they're announcing it as if that's supposed to be some sort of selling point in the game's favour.DustyDrB said:
I actually kind of hope that's a very conservative estimate, considering I intend to spend Minimum 100 Hours in this game...
100 minutes sounds pretty bare.
( 100<1.5% of 6000 )
Realistically 100 hours is being pretty conservative to, though past that likely extends to multiple playthroughs so the cutscene count starts over anyways.
The real monster here is the 10 hours of loading I sat through in Dragon Age: Origins.
They should really not have another one of those data leaks... Or at least I should be less stubborn and restart the game when it starts getting bad instead of suffering the literal hour per screen loads.
100 minutes sounds pretty bare.
( 100<1.5% of 6000 )
Realistically 100 hours is being pretty conservative to, though past that likely extends to multiple playthroughs so the cutscene count starts over anyways.
The real monster here is the 10 hours of loading I sat through in Dragon Age: Origins.
They should really not have another one of those data leaks... Or at least I should be less stubborn and restart the game when it starts getting bad instead of suffering the literal hour per screen loads.
Fine by me. As a long-time fan of JRPGs, I have nothing by love for the standard cutscenes. It's a dying breed. Everything has to be "interactive".
Oh, you're definitely right that Torment has probably the best characters/writing/everything-but-combat of any video game ever. It's probably my favorite video game. But two things:
1. I didn't say there weren't any games in the whole world with better characters, I just said there weren't many: I challenged the author to name five, not one.
2. Torment was developed by Black Isle, using BioWare's Infinity Engine (from BG1), and Black Isle was also closely connected to BioWare, helping publish Baldur's Gate and the like. They were, of course, a division of Interplay, but the interaction between the two studios was always very big: many of the members of Black Isle went on to found Obsidian Entertainment, developers of KoTOR 2. So, while BioWare hardly deserves credit for Torment, they are still all kinds of tangled up and involved with the people that do.
Also, if your experience is mostly limited to BG1/KoTOR (both good games, mind) then you haven't experienced most of the great characters I mentioned above. While Minsc and Jaheira are both in BG1, it's really more their BG2 incarnations to which I was referring (which I probably should have said, so that's fair.)
I don't mean to sound like a total fanboy-- there are plenty of problems with BioWare games (romance subplots that make little sense, occasionally anticlimactic moments, ALL of Dragon Age: Awakening) but I just think that they more or less lead the pack in terms of characters and writing. Nothing yet to rival any of the great characters in literature or film, sure, but substantially better than most of the other games out there.
