That Mac Walters has said that Mass Effect at its heart is a third person shooter, I think pretty much all my remaining interest in the game has gone.
This is my expectation.chrissx2 said:It will be Dragon Age:Inquisition in space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Inquisition#AccoladesBloatedGuppy said:I'm sorry, when did Dragon Age: Inquisition "break everyone's GOTY brackets"? Was this on some bizarro earth?MysticSlayer said:Step 6: Andromeda breaks everyone's GOTY brackets by going on to win it all.
You monster.Maximum Bert said:One good thing though is that at least Garrus wont be back (I hope) easily one of my least liked characters in gaming, felt good killing him off in 2.
Oh I'm sure it won SOME accolades. GOTY awards are so ubiquitous that almost every functionally made game wins at least one of them from some backwater publication. MysticSlayer was asserting that it broke "everyone's" brackets by winning GOTY, which implies a universal sweep. Even allowing for the usual 300% internet forum hyperbole modifier, this is too much praise for what was essentially a crapsack game.Kerg3927 said:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Inquisition#Accolades
I thought it was easily the worst Bioware game ever made, and I've played almost all of them.
From what I understand, Inquisition did win a fair amount of GOTYs. From what I also understand, this is mainly chalked up to the fact that 2014 didn't see a lot of major releases, and that if Inquisition had been up against 2015's competition, it probably wouldn't have won much.BloatedGuppy said:Oh I'm sure it won SOME accolades. GOTY awards are so ubiquitous that almost every functionally made game wins at least one of them from some backwater publication. MysticSlayer was asserting that it broke "everyone's" brackets by winning GOTY, which implies a universal sweep. Even allowing for the usual 300% internet forum hyperbole modifier, this is too much praise for what was essentially a crapsack game.Kerg3927 said:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Inquisition#Accolades
I thought it was easily the worst Bioware game ever made, and I've played almost all of them.
I concur. Hearing they wanted to make Andromeda more like DA:I made me cringe.Saetha said:That being said, Inquisition's the sort of game that pains me because I want to like it, and sometimes I even do - sometimes I love it, even. But those brief spots of excitement are buried under so much tedious crap that it's difficult for me to go "Inquisition is a good game." Bioware announcing that they were keeping DA:I's open-world for Andromeda damaged my confidence more than anything else they've said about it, since the open-world was Inquisition's worst feature, and really brought it down as a whole, IMO.
Actually, I think the original dev team knew exactly what they wanted it to be - a modern reimagining of Baldur's Gate for the PC. But when EA arrived, they wanted console focused games for the mass market, rather than for the hardcore CRPG crowd. Ever since, DA has been caught between the vision of its original creators and the corporate executives who only care about console sales. The shift from a mouse based tactical RPG in Origins, through to a controller oriented action adventure game in DAI is a pretty clear medication of the direction EA us pushing Bioware.BloatedGuppy said:Virtually EVERYTHING ELSE merits savaging, imo. What's so galling about it isn't that it was an ambitious game undone by a lack of developer talent. It's a soulless, designed-by-committee exercise in feature creep and slipshod craftsmanship. They've never had the slightest idea what they want Dragon Age to be, from the moment the franchise was birthed with Origins, and it shows. I wish they'd just retire it already. Give me Jade Empire 2.
EA isn't "pushing" Bioware anywhere. Bioware does not exist as a distinct entity from EA any more than Maxis does. The original creators and staff are long gone. It's EA's RPG division now.Bilious Green said:...is a pretty clear medication of the direction EA us pushing Bioware.
Here on The Escapist actually. I remember during the whole GOTY voting how many people were complaining about Inquisition breaking their bracket every time it won a round. They thought, because of the noise on the forum, that it had no chance of getting far, much less winning, as it eventually did.BloatedGuppy said:I'm sorry, when did Dragon Age: Inquisition "break everyone's GOTY brackets"? Was this on some bizarro earth?
Hardly. I have my own criticisms of Dragon Age: Inquisition. It's more poking fun at the overblown hatred around pretty much anything BioWare now, especially from those eagerly counting down the days until BioWare closes, despite the fact Inquisition was BioWare's greatest success [http://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-inquisition-had-most-successful-launch-in-bioware-history/] and that it won about a dozen GOTY awards, was nominated for more, and won plenty of other, lesser awards.Also, is this where we're at with DA:I now? Hand-waving any criticism as the work of a tiny, noisy cabal, and hailing it as an underappreciated classic?
I have no time for "trve, hardcore RPG fans" either, and have spent much energy arguing against grognards who seem to feel good RPG development stopped in the late 90's. I also think Bioware is a perfectly CAPABLE developer, if a much reduced one from their heyday. If I didn't feel they were capable of delivering much, much better than their recent efforts, I wouldn't bother hectoring them.MysticSlayer said:Say what you will about BioWare, but despite their faults, they're not exactly pushing out awful games no one buys or likes anymore. As far as I can tell, the general view of them is significantly more positive than what many "trve, hardcore RPG" fans give the impression of.
Here's how I think it went down...MysticSlayer said:Here on The Escapist actually. I remember during the whole GOTY voting how many people were complaining about Inquisition breaking their bracket every time it won a round. They thought, because of the noise on the forum, that it had no chance of getting far, much less winning, as it eventually did.BloatedGuppy said:I'm sorry, when did Dragon Age: Inquisition "break everyone's GOTY brackets"? Was this on some bizarro earth?
Hardly. I have my own criticisms of Dragon Age: Inquisition. It's more poking fun at the overblown hatred around pretty much anything BioWare now, especially from those eagerly counting down the days until BioWare closes, despite the fact Inquisition was BioWare's greatest success [http://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-inquisition-had-most-successful-launch-in-bioware-history/] and that it won about a dozen GOTY awards, was nominated for more, and won plenty of other, lesser awards.Also, is this where we're at with DA:I now? Hand-waving any criticism as the work of a tiny, noisy cabal, and hailing it as an underappreciated classic?
Say what you will about BioWare, but despite their faults, they're not exactly pushing out awful games no one buys or likes anymore. As far as I can tell, the general view of them is significantly more positive than what many "trve, hardcore RPG" fans give the impression of.
Dunno, seems exactly like BioWare to me.BloatedGuppy said:As for DA:O...it was sold to us as dark/gritty/political fantasy in the vein of A Song of Ice and Fire, and when it eventually arrived it was a standard Boy's Own Adventure story about a horde of underground monsters.
Yep, BioWare. They have a..."soft spot", let's say for this kind of story. Or you might call all of their stories are that. To be honest, their writing is good but they've been re-weaving the same threads with a different facade for a while. It makes it all so predictable. At least they are willing to leave their safe place with sequels and expansions, yet, amusingly, they always go the more action-y root.BloatedGuppy said:Every time the series brushes up against something interesting or "mature", such as the Qunari, or the Templar/Mage conflict, it either recoils and takes a hard right turn into "demons are raining from the sky" or it grossly simplifies everything with the introduction of an evil artifact that turned everyone insane or some other gibberish.