Rumor: Dragon Age Getting Multiplayer
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The sad part is that when I thought of fighting dragons, Skyrim came to mind.
You'd think Dragon Age would have that market under control.
Anyway, as long as they don't mess up the whole single player experience, I could care less. I will probably buy it used and I won't buy the Online Pass at all (If it needs one). Hey, I've been doing fine playing Dragon Age 1 and 2 by myself. I think I can handle it.
You'd think Dragon Age would have that market under control.
Anyway, as long as they don't mess up the whole single player experience, I could care less. I will probably buy it used and I won't buy the Online Pass at all (If it needs one). Hey, I've been doing fine playing Dragon Age 1 and 2 by myself. I think I can handle it.
Thanks, Captcha error. Thanks for being so cryptic and giving me a double post. Thanks a lot.
Needless to say, disregard this post. -_-
Needless to say, disregard this post. -_-
With Dragon Age, multiplayer has to be completely optional[footnote]As in, it doesn't enhance your experience, except for, of course, playing with a friend.[/footnote] and possibly only co-op.
This is absolutely true. I want my cleave back! That bloody rocked for clearing out mobs. The older games were clearly attempts at creating a DnD style game, hence the settings of Neverwinter and Baldur's Gate which I think is a major fault of the newer games in that they stray from it. I felt like KOTOR was the perfect mix of engaging combat with control over a party of chars and the customization available from a DnD-esque game.SnakeoilSage said:
Yeah this is exactly what I thought of at first. Baldurs Gate and Neverwinter Nights were of course D&D games, which of course isn't a single player game. So you could play BG over LAN adding your friends to your party, and NWN with more advanced technology of course gave you a full world creating & DM toolkit.Worr Monger said:
That's the thing though. Bioware could simply announce that they're bringing multiplayer to Dragon Age the same way they did with Neverwinter Nights, and I'm sure their player base would applaud them for it. But from the announcement it doesn't seem to be anything of that sort, rather it seems they're saying 'EA believes every game should have multiplayer now, so we're tacking on a FPS like deathmatch mode to the game.' Of course we don't have full details yet and their could be more to it, but at the moment it looks like rather than any sort of previous old school Bioware multiplayer they're giving it the Dead Space 2 multiplayer treatment.
I will also join the bandwagon and state that I also have no interest whatsoever in a PvP mode in Dragon Age. What I want is a co-op campaign, as in NWN. BioWare's excuse for not doing this in DA:O was that the single player experience couldn't be as focused and involving if it's multi-player.
This is wrong. People can accept that one of the player will be the 'main' character while theirs is just a companion. Or you could go the way they did in SWTOR, all the players vote for the dialogue choices.
PvP/Arena is just a lazy way of saying "See? This game has a multiplayer component!" You just need to create a bunch of maps and throw players in. It takes much less efforts for the developer. Which makes it a lesser feature.
One day I'd like one of these guys to explain us how you can make lesser games with more money.
This is wrong. People can accept that one of the player will be the 'main' character while theirs is just a companion. Or you could go the way they did in SWTOR, all the players vote for the dialogue choices.
PvP/Arena is just a lazy way of saying "See? This game has a multiplayer component!" You just need to create a bunch of maps and throw players in. It takes much less efforts for the developer. Which makes it a lesser feature.
One day I'd like one of these guys to explain us how you can make lesser games with more money.
Aye! We want our Cleave! A few tweaks and you could kill everything within melee range.AugustFall said:
Well it's hard to start from scratch and make a setting as incredible rich and detailed as the Forgotten Realms, which has been enriched over the decades with contributing ideas. I think the Dragon Age setting has potential - or at least did before EA got their hands on it.
Knights of the Old Republic is also based on the Wizards of the Coast Star Wars RPG; I really wish you could be some other race than a human in KOTOR. Gamorrean Jedi!
I really would have liked to see a game that covers a vast chunk of Faerun (the central continent in the Forgotten Realms setting), with a table-top battle system (turn based, following D&D rules) and gameplay. The point of the game isn't to play out a pre-made campaign (although one would be included), but to be a means for players to play D&D together, with all the benefits of a video game. The GM creates the campaign using a simple editor that allows him to pick a location and build from there, creating quests and plots, and if the players just wanna dive into a dungeon, the game would be packed with them, including famous dungeons created for the table-top editions.
That would be the perfect RPG.
Oh the humanity. Dragon Age: Origins was so awesome, DA2 was playable, and now they are gonna ruin everything. This is what happens when you sell out to EA. Bioware used to be so cool.
I FUCKING KNEW IT! I knew this would happen eventually, and Bioware would buckle down to EA's retardation. Bioware is now dead to me. Single-player is now officially dead, for only companies like Bethesda stand as a beacon of hope (Obsidian gives Singleplayers a bad name though). I don't want to play with my friends, we never get together for such events on common grounds. Dragon Age is for fat nerds who don't generally have friends, not Modern Warfare tards who friend random people on facebook.
Despite this being a rumor, the fact that it even is a rumor frightens me.
Despite this being a rumor, the fact that it even is a rumor frightens me.
If this is implemented well, it would actually be fun. But it won't be implemented well, because tactical/pausing heavy RPG combat and multiplayer do not play well together. Now Jade Empire multiplayer, that would be a different story...
hey, remember the time when Jim Sterling said that not every game needs multiplayer?
and remember how he said that Skyrim proved it's true?
and remember how another example was Dragon Age?
well by my illogical logic, you just killed Jim, Bioware.
murdered him in the face, behind his back.
you're also now owned by Taiwan.
and they hate you for killing Jim.
and remember how he said that Skyrim proved it's true?
and remember how another example was Dragon Age?
well by my illogical logic, you just killed Jim, Bioware.
murdered him in the face, behind his back.
you're also now owned by Taiwan.
and they hate you for killing Jim.
By 'Narrative driven' I meant 'not open world' and more linear and traditional in nature. Which Skyrim really is not.42 said:
should i even be surprised, after bioware announced multiplayer for ME3
i'll say this one more time: do not shove multiplayer into a game just for the sake of multiplayer
i'll say this one more time: do not shove multiplayer into a game just for the sake of multiplayer