Pachter: Dragon Age III Pushed Back Due To The Old Republic

[370999]

Maybe they can make it a proper RPG with this extra time.

They have only pushed it back not given an indefinite amount of time to come up with stuff , they are only men not gods.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I'm fine with a delay. DA2 had potential, but they didn't connect it enough to the first game, so it couldn't stand as a sequel, and it was not good enough to really stand on its own.

As for ME3, I enjoyed 99.9% of the game. The ending was lame, and the added cutscenes they plan to add will not help.

Spoiler: ME3 ending spoilers

Unless they figure out some way to make the mass relays exploding not an issue. That was my main problem with the ending.

Bioware has been slipping a bit. I'm not blind to that. But I can still say that I have yet to see a bad game from them.

 

[LiquidGrape]

DA2 had been an unequivocal improvement on Origins had they been granted another year of development.
As it turns out, it was a diamond in the rough with vastly more latent ambition and potential than its predecessor.

I'm very optimistic with regards to DA3.

 

[oldtaku]

Don't make fun of the setting; it's a brilliant setting... Just poorly written and designed.

I've got no hate for the setting, just DA2's implementation. I even thought the writing was pretty good, just crippled by lack of resources.

 

[oldtaku]

I don't think this will happen. Bioware's pretty good at responding to criticism, especially when it comes to something this plainly obvious.

Well, I certainly hope so (I'd love a new DA with a broader scope). But if (if) this news is true, and from what we saw with DA2, DA is bottom of the heap for Bioware, so there's a big difference between what the people working on it would like to do and they're given the resources to do.

I certainly don't think the initial design for DA2 involved the massive cut and paste it ended up with.

 

[Shavon513]

Dragon Age 2 had its rough parts, that's a given. Still, some parts of it were incredibly enjoyable. It also sets up nicely for the next installment -- if Bioware can make it as good as DA:O. I am all for waiting an extra year or two if it means a quality game. After the ME3 fiasco, though, I won't hold my breath. The EA overlords are doing a great job so far running this company into the ground.