I decided to replay Dragon Age: Origins after, like, 6 years. So far, I've been pleasantly surprised with how much I'm enjoying it. The writing and worldbuilding hold up well, as does the actual roleplaying part. The combat is still mediocre, but there have been fights that felt intense and genuinely gratifying (the revenant courtyard fight, for example). Overall, I've been pretty satisfied.
It's funny to think how uninterested I was in the game's initial release as a result of its embarassing marketing. The message I got from it was "see how much blood, sex and unmitigated EDGE we can pack into this shallow dark fantasy world!" and the preorder bonuses certainly didn't help. I mean, this trailer really says it all:
Other games like that include Fire Emblem and Yoshi's Island, two otherwise good games which had some... questionable [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-s5C0dnZs] advertisement [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJJQHF4tTo], too. So, what are some games you enjoy that could have been sold to the masses better?
It's funny to think how uninterested I was in the game's initial release as a result of its embarassing marketing. The message I got from it was "see how much blood, sex and unmitigated EDGE we can pack into this shallow dark fantasy world!" and the preorder bonuses certainly didn't help. I mean, this trailer really says it all:
Other games like that include Fire Emblem and Yoshi's Island, two otherwise good games which had some... questionable [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-s5C0dnZs] advertisement [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJJQHF4tTo], too. So, what are some games you enjoy that could have been sold to the masses better?