Dragon Age 2 Will Look "Super Hot"

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SnootyEnglishman said:
Make Alister less of a whiny ass emo pansy ***** and i'll be good. Graphics don't bother me in the slightest.
alistair was actually my favorite besides morrigan, his "emo pansy bitchness" came from his sarcasm, and slight laziness, he was in no way emo or a panzy, considering he is a bamf grey warden, your opinion tho

and yeah who is complaining so much about graphics? if its a good game (which it was, i haven't been dissapointed by bioware) then mostly i could care less about graphics, they have always been fine, if your looking for graphics go watch transformers or something
Yeah I found Alistairs' character to be quite relate-able actually. Try putting yourself in his position during the game dialogue and maybe you'll understand why he was defensively sarcastic or negative in a lot of situations.

Graphically speaking - I've got crossfired Radeons so I amped everything to max. While it didn't blow me away I was still more than happy with the graphics. I wish there was a little more attention to detail in the smaller things though.
Plus, when a game's got a great (albeit unoriginal) story, incredible voice acting and so much potential for replay - who gives a flying f*ck about graphics :D
 

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Giving it "Super Hot" graphics to make the fans who didn't like it happy? Are we going to cater to every peasant we come across? (Morrigan Disapproves -15)
D:

*hands you Flemeth's Grimoire*
 

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ROFL @ tabriaswolfe and danosaurus.

I hope "super hot graphics" include a better blood effect. It was hilariously bad and it managed to ruin the "dark" atmosphere each and every time.
 

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I really would prefer game developers to not focus so much on graphics.

It's just sick in regard to how often computers need to be upgraded. :(
 
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tabriaswolfe said:
Giving it "Super Hot" graphics to make the fans who didn't like it happy? Are we going to cater to every peasant we come across? (Morrigan Disapproves -15)
FUCKING LOL

that just made my week
 

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Why on earth are they doing that?

"Super Hot" graphics do not make up for a dull art direction.
 

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how about working on believable, realistic gestures, facial expressions and just basic movement in general?? no matter how good graphics may be, if characters are moving around stiff as a mannequin, it's all just a waste of pixels.
 

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how about working on believable, realistic gestures, facial expressions and just basic movement in general?? no matter how good graphics may be, if characters are moving around stiff as a mannequin, it's all just a waste of pixels.
I play this game on a moderately crappy PC. I was surprised and delighted, since I can't even play Mass Effect on this thing, that it would even play. The graphics I see can't be very hot; I'm certain the game looks better on most PC's.

So why don't I have an issue with the graphics?

The issues I have are only in the characters' movements. Sometimes, in a cutscene, a mouth will flap open like a puppet's, or a character will make a motion like he/she's waving away a fly, and the wrist will bend at a funny angle.

Honestly, I think graphics are reaching a plateau. How high a resolution do you need before it doesn't matter anymore? Story and artistic style are going to matter a lot more. I hope. Maybe it'll be tits and ass and blood that are focused on instead.
 

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roffelito said:
how about working on believable, realistic gestures, facial expressions and just basic movement in general?? no matter how good graphics may be, if characters are moving around stiff as a mannequin, it's all just a waste of pixels.
Animation, facial expression quality is part of the graphics quality, as is art direction. If hes talking about "super hot graphics" he doesn't mean only higher resolution textures and high polygon characters, actually it's harder to make low res texture look good than high res texture.

And anyone saying that graphics (absolutely) doesn't matter are rather ignorant about the way game communicates with the player. Almost all information in video games come visualy, thus the whole experience is heavily enhanced by the visual quality of the game. If games indeed wouldn't be about graphics, we would still be playing text based games. What I'm saying that quality, art direction is extremely important, as is the animation quality, because this makes the games more immersive, believable and makes the whole storyteling, experience a lot more pleasant.
 

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I hope they sort out the amount of bugs in the game, the graphics are fine on Ps3, a bit of rendering problems but nothing that ME1 didn't have

Not having finished Origins yet due to the sheer amount of games I haven't finished, I wanna go to Orlais or Antiva in DA2 and have new characters, and not a continuation of the first group
 

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How about an original story first, updated graphics second? I was very put off from the use of a fairly cliche plot...and a violent illness, but that's for a different discussion.
Fairly Cliché? Are you high? It was almost exactly the same as Lord of the Rings just without a ring. Just look at it.

The graphics were fine. Although, the one thing that bothered me was the framerate at times.
 

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I really find it ironic that a guy from BIOWARE would say something as childish and stupid sounding as Super-Hot.
 

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Eclpsedragon said:
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I would appreciate it if BioWare could also fix one of my major Dragon Age: Origins complaints: having to constantly hold in the TAB key to highlight usable items and NPC names. Maybe I'm being a baby, but it bothers me, okay?
I haven't played Dragon Age: Origins on the PC, but it sounds to me like a pretty minor thing.
Although, BioWare's Neverwinter Nights has conditioned me into pressing the TAB key anytime I'm looking for an NPC, or a usable item, so it might just be me on this one.
It's an annoyance, more than anything. Wouldn't say it's a major issue but it can be a bit irritating.

I don't know why they're talking about Dragon Age 2, it seems a bit "rude". For a start, DA:O's been out just a few months. Secondly, the expansion is on its way and thirdly the whole mess they made of DLC. I'd rather BioWare focused on optimisation (ME2 ran and looked amazing) of the engine rather than "super hot visuals". Dragon Age's were fine and I don't really think they need to be updated.
It's not rude of Bioware to shove out a sequel just a few months after release. Remember who owns Bioware, and doing such a thing is right up EA's alley. If you don't believe me, how often do madden games come out with little improvement on the previous version?
Good point. I just think this seems very un-BioWare like, but mind you, Mass Effect 2 constantly reminds you about Mass Effect 3.
 

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I honestly didn't see any problem with the graphics.

I don't get what people are bitching about.
 

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Jaranja said:
Heart of Darkness said:
How about an original story first, updated graphics second? I was very put off from the use of a fairly cliche plot...and a violent illness, but that's for a different discussion.
Fairly Cliché? Are you high? It was almost exactly the same as Lord of the Rings just without a ring. Just look at it.

The graphics were fine. Although, the one thing that bothered me was the framerate at times.
"Fairly" is just my way of saying "I didn't get any farther than 15 hours into the game before I stopped playing." So, from my experience with the game, I can't say the game was heavily clichéd.