Dragon Age Writer Suggests That Everyone Just Calm Down

[Meemaimoh]

Huh. You'd think he'd know by now that this is what the gaming community does: hear about changes, freak out, wait, calm down, and then aggressively mock whoever's still freaking out.

Oh well. I trust Bioware... though I'm going to miss my evil elf mage.

 

[Lykosia_v1legacy]

I agree; at the same time, having just finished Leliana's Song I am a lot more hesitant to criticise Dragon Age 2 - that DLC has a pre-set main character, with a voice and back-story, yet was probably the best quest in Dragon Age - certainly the most personal. If Dragon Age 2 is like that piece of DLC then I'll be happy.

However, the whole "simplified combat" is still worrisome...

Leliana's Song was ok, but it wasn't really an RPG. There wasn't any real choises to make and in dialog no matter what you said, the end results were same. It felt more like an JRPG. If Dragon Age 2 is anything like LS, I'll pass.

I fear they are trying to make Dragon Age to fantasy Mass Effect. Mass Effect is good, but Dragon Age was supposed to be an old school RPG series similar to Baldur's Gate. I heard from their forums that the PC version will have the same combat system the first one has, which is good.

 

[Paragon Fury]

You've already announced that you are completely forgoing one of the most interesting and praised things about the first game.

Yeah, I think people have a right to question you and be pissed.

I agree; at the same time, having just finished Leliana's Song I am a lot more hesitant to criticise Dragon Age 2 - that DLC has a pre-set main character, with a voice and back-story, yet was probably the best quest in Dragon Age - certainly the most personal. If Dragon Age 2 is like that piece of DLC then I'll be happy.

However, the whole "simplified combat" is still worrisome...

Yes, but many of us were interested in Leliana's character after interacting with her as our own personalized character.

We had just gotten Leliana's Song with no context, would we have cared?

 

[Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon]

Should give them chance though. I mean when has Bioware really disappointed?

When they didn't make KOTOR 2
OT: Why do you take out the things that made the game good!
I hate playing humans, it's so... normal!

 

[Kiefer13]

At the risk of sounding slightly fanboy-ish, I'm going to agree with him. I've never played a Bioware game I didn't think was excellent, so I'm not particularly worried about the changes they're making.

 

[quiet_samurai]

At what time period does the game take place relevant to the original? Because if it's many years later....

I'm just gonna call it... You are Morrigans/demon/Gray Warden love child.

OT: I agree, people need to calm the EF down. Bioware always delivers in the end.

And besides, I'm pretty confident that this will not be the only sequel to the game. So who's to say you won't revisit your beloved Gray Warden character in a later installment.

 

[demoman_chaos]

What they need to fix is the combat. I only played the starting level because I absolutely hated the combat. I started as a dwarf noble and did the tournament thing. After tapping X once, everything was done for me. I quit the game almost right after. I abso-fucking-lutely when combat (especially when it is a big part of the game) is done entirely for you or even feels like I (As the player) am doing nothing but watching the game do everything for me.

Make it more of a hack & slash ordeal and I may be interested. The more combos the better (or rather, more useful combos the better).

 

[Meggiepants]

While I don't really have a problem with the changes, I understand why people are vocal about it.

Isn't Bioware the company that said they listen to fans and make changes accordingly? If that is your business model, then how can you be upset when the fans use the forums to voice their concerns over your changes? Unless you really don't plan on listening to your fans this time.

Personally, my suspicion is it is being done this way because it's faster to do, and they wanted a product out in 2011. Like I said, I don't have a problem with the changes. But I do see why people might be upset about them.

 

[DeathWyrmNexus]

You've already announced that you are completely forgoing one of the most interesting and praised things about the first game.

Yeah, I think people have a right to question you and be pissed.

Pretty much this though I plan to check it out. I can get into these types of games.

 

[Kelethor]

Dude...Being worried and pessimistic about things that haven't happened yet is what in internet is all about.

 

[Mr. Grey]

Eh... I wasn't going to make a clear call until I actually saw what they were going to do with it anyways. So... victory for them?

He's right, of course, but still:

"simplified combat."

Why does the combat need to be simplified? The nice thing about having Origins and ME2 at the same time was the way they both approached being RPGs in different ways. I.e. Origins was "hardcore".

It's not like the combat was difficult to get to grips with - although it was bastard hard to play in some cases. Still, I liked that.

Calm down, man! You're losing it! You haven't seen a single footage of the action yet, you can't make such claims or queries!

You just need to breathe deep and calm down. [/sarcasm]

 

[DTWolfwood]

starting to sound more and more like Dragon Effect or Mass Age to me XD

rather thought it refreshing to have an actual RPG like DA:O once in a blue moon. Though the way the story was told in ME1&2 are also great immersion imho.

Regardless, if you enjoy both games this is win on all fronts an epic tale in the DA universe told through the style of ME. yeah i want some of that please!

 

[Mr.Lucifer]

The combat of orgins was a clusterfuck and i didn't feel like I was getting enough action with all the npcs fighting all at once. Besides, Custon created characters aren't that interesting alone. You can't connect to them because they have no personality.

 

[Mimssy]

I just know they are going to put in that stupid alignment system.
I wish they would go away~ that's one thing I loved about Dragon Age more than anything, moral choices were grey.
That's really my only gripe.
But Mass Effect is pretty much revolving around that alignment system, and I am starting to hate alignments.
It adds nothing, other than
"Be a good guy, and get tons of awesome stuff. Be a bad guy and get kicked in the nuts."
If alignments were done so that where when you think you are doing a good deed you actually do a bad one, then it would be interesting. Buuut we can't have that.

For the love of all things holy, I hope that don't change it to a moral alignment scale. Those things are dreadful. I liked characters reactions to your actions based on their own morals (Sten disapproving if something didn't seem the most practical choice, Leliana wanting to give people a second chance)

 

[Jaranja]

Should give them chance though. I mean when has Bioware really disappointed?

Kotor and Mass Effect 1.

 

[FoolKiller]

Couldn't Shepard in ME be more or less built from the ground up? Why is this a big deal that he's voiced?

OH, is it the origin story thing? I honestly didn't think that was a big deal.

They only needed two voices to record the thousands of lines of dialogue. One female, and one male. With Dragon Age there were dwarves, elves, humans and the such that each would have required two voices: one for each gender. On top of that, male or female Sheppard had the exact same story. With the different origin stories, character would react differently to you in the future depending on your background. That would have been a significantly larger undertaking.

Now for my two cents worth:
Simplified Combat???? Was the first one so difficult to understand.

 

[Quadem]

Refer to the comment below.

 

[Quadem]

What they need to fix is the combat. I only played the starting level because I absolutely hated the combat. I started as a dwarf noble and did the tournament thing. After tapping X once, everything was done for me. I quit the game almost right after. I abso-fucking-lutely when combat (especially when it is a big part of the game) is done entirely for you or even feels like I (As the player) am doing nothing but watching the game do everything for me.

Make it more of a hack & slash ordeal and I may be interested. The more combos the better (or rather, more useful combos the better).

Perhaps you should invest your interest in another genre of game then. Might I suggest... Oh, I dunno... A HACK-AND-SLASH! If your tastes are so shallow that they deny you enjoyment from a game that doesn't demand you barrage the X button ad nauseum, then I suggest you squander more hours through Ninety Nine Nights, and cease bleating about your distaste towards a game that was never intended to appeal to your Hack-and-slash demographic!

 

[Zing]

I'm not worried at all, in fact I welcome the change, I love RPG's that are in the same style of freeflowing combat that ME uses, Origins was a bit too slow for me, not to say I didn't love the game and still play through it.

I'm more concerned about the graphics, current screens look really bad, I realize it's early but i'm pretty sure it should look better than it does, I was expecting at least ME2 level of graphics, instead they look worse then Origins. But honestly in the end graphics is probably the thing I care about least, so I won't care.