Rumor: PC Features Cut From Dragon Age 2

[Chunko]

Sorry guys.

Seriously though game designers should try to give equal support to all platforms.

 

[Woodsey]

Oh for fuck's sake. They really are turning Dragon Age into Mass Effect, aren't they?

I love both, but they're two different variations on how to tackle an RPG. Dragon Age was far more old school; I don't see why one platforms version of the sequel should see a reduction in features when they worked perfectly well on said platform.

I got Dragon Age: Origins for the tactical combat aspect as I'm one of those people who generally enjoy it over shooters and hack an slash games. It doesn't sound like they're changing that, just the camera angles so I'm not fussed.

"Combat: They want you to be able to "Think like a General, fight like a Spartan" when you play this game, meaning you're thinking about tactics while you're up front hacking and slashing."

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/706562/hands-on-with-dragon-age-2.html

Yeah...

Oh, and can I just add: OF COURSE THE GAME SOLD MORE ON CONSOLES. YOU'RE MEASURING TWO PLATFORMS AGAINST ONE!

 

[JeanLuc761]

Pc people should stop being cry babies. There's not the support you want because not enough of you actually bought the game. Console people did. You are not a priority anymore.

It sucks but, well, the alternative is fairly obvious if you want this kind of behavious to change.

End of story.

Look at it from the other way around. If Bioware outright said that they were going to give the PC preferential treatment over the console versions, do you honestly think that the console gamers wouldn't be bitching?

 

[Dr Bob]

It's not like Mass Effect 2 had good PC features.

We got dumbed down console controls, where one button would have multiple actions.

We also got less assignable buttons on the action bar.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

I know it is too early for doomsaying and stuff, but so far everything I've heard about Dragon Age 2 has only made me think that the second game is going to end up taking away what made the first game good. "Dumbed down" isn't exactly what I am looking for, but the last thing Dragon Age needs is to end up in the genre of "action RPGs" that is already full to the brim with God of War clones.

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

OH NO, NO MORE NUDE MODS AND ENHANCED SEX SCENES!!!

That's all I got from this article.

 

[JeanLuc761]

OH NO, NO MORE NUDE MODS AND ENHANCED SEX SCENES!!!

That's all I got from this article.

You clearly haven't played a GOOD Dragon Age mod

 

[AcacianLeaves]

You really hate to see developers move away from the PC as a platform, especially when by all accounts the PC version of Dragon Age was a more defined experience. Personally I bought it for the console and really wished I could have used an action bar interface to manage all of my spells and abilities. I plan on buying it for the PC as well now that it's on sale.

I say as long as there is better camera support, action bars, and a large mod community from DA:O most gamers won't be affected by it.

In before people who claim to support PC gaming say that they're going to pirate Dragon Age 2 in protest.

I can't imagine why developers prefer consoles.

 

[Drauden]

While I see why PC gamers are mad because of this, people have to realise that this is an industry. It just makes sense.

However, I had heard that the first DA:O sold more on PC than consoles.

 

[BloodSquirrel]

This is making me so depressed that I don't even want to buy Mass Effect 3 anymore.

Seriously, can't Bioware think of anythink nice to say about their own game?

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

OH NO, NO MORE NUDE MODS AND ENHANCED SEX SCENES!!!

That's all I got from this article.

You clearly haven't played a GOOD Dragon Age mod

I beg to differ. Heh heh.


Edit: How come whenever you search for someone on the Escapist, 50% of the time you get that damn naked Alistair pic as one of the results. Whose fault is that!?

 

[lostzombies.com]

Pc people should stop being cry babies. There's not the support you want because not enough of you actually bought the game. Console people did. You are not a priority anymore.

It sucks but, well, the alternative is fairly obvious if you want this kind of behavious to change.

End of story.

Maybe a sign of things to come for the music/movie industry?

 

[Buizel91]

Tbh i don't see the point in Mods anyway =S sure it may make the game better in different ways, but i buy a game because i like what the developers have done, i don't buy games just to see what the mods can do.

And guys come on...it's Bioware, as far as i know they up their with Valve and Bungie for great games and liking their fans? im sure they will do something else to please the PC crowd.

Have faith in them...i sure do.

 

[Lordmarkus]

Let me show my feelings for this news as elegantly as fucking humanly possible.

Spoiler

So your game sold poorly on the PC? Then way to go to relieve those numbers by axing a couple of features that made this game one of the best PC-games of the decade.

I'm so tired of this shit. *wonders back to Planescape*

 

[Assassin Xaero]

That sucks, but a lot like with MW2, I already decided that I wasn't going to buy it... first was just too much of a chore to suffer through finish.

 

[Notthatbright]

Looks like Never Winter Nights 3 is going to be the go-to PC RPG instead of DA2. Your loss, Bioware.

 

[Alar]

I... really didn't get that.

Are they saying that the from air tactical view will not be in consoles, but still be in PC versions? Are they saying that there will be no mod support, or just very little mod support?

I really don't get it.