Dragon Age

[Drewbacca]

Nobody cares this isn't the Left 4 Dead 2 thread. We should talk more about Dragon Age and how awesome it is. Or in Yellerdogs case how disappointed and duped he was by TNL in to buying it.

[Error]

I think Yeller should start over with a different race. He might enjoy a different origin.

[YellerDog]

It's a retarded argument altogether. YOU DON'T LIKE A GAME I PLAY SO FOR NO REASON YOUR GAME SUCKS NOW AND HERE IS SOME STUPID REASON WHY. He failed to explain why the game had merit in any way in regards to Yeller's candid critique from hands-on experience. Left 4 Dead 2 has nothing to do with it at all.

I think he just saw it in my "recently played" list??

[bVork]

That would be correct.

[YellerDog]

Nobody cares this isn't the Left 4 Dead 2 thread. We should talk more about Dragon Age and how awesome it is. Or in Yellerdogs case how disappointed and duped he was by TNL in to buying it.

Luckily, it was a rental! Fucking TNL. Others won't be so lucky. They will buy this shitty, shitty game.

I don't really think the game is That Bad, or that it is infact "Dragon Aids". It's just not for me. Girlfriend likes the game! I mostly just got bored and tried to get characters to get their bone on.

[Drewbacca]

It was obvious he just got all butt hurt you didn't like a game he did and tried to take one down you did.

Funny thing is I actually like Dragon Age. But because I've been so far removed from the fantasy setting cliche for many years now that it's kind of a blast from the past in a way. I like the game and strategy going on. The +3 swords and elven-kin shit. That being said I don't think anybody can really refute that the game is really derivative and maybe even needlessly complicated. I think they did a good job of putting out the game they intended to put out.

[animegirl]

I like it because I don't have a D&D group anymore now that I moved and this is a great replacement.

[Yoshi]

Holy shit. When did you move to Michigan? And how does a Texas girl like the winter?

[Hero]

The more I play this, the more I'm realizing that every game BioWare makes is just Trying to Make a Better KotOR. Not that that is bad (I <3 their games), but it's kinda true. MAss Effect was Sci-Fi sans lightsabers. DA is Star Wars with Elves. Sure the story details are seperate, but it dwindles down to:

1) Some starter segment story

2) The 'choose your own adventure' freedom of tackling 3-4 'main' quests, each of which must be finished before the Final Showdown.

3) LOTS OF SIDEQUESTS

4) Getting into someone's pants LOLOLOLOLOLOL

5) Until DA, a quantifiable jackass::goodguy quotient.

6) The Final Showdown, where (I'm guessing on DA) someone's gonna die, or your're gonna have to make some Ultimate Choice.

If nothing else Dragon Age is derivative of BioWare's past..

[bVork]

Yes, BioWare is pretty much all about perfecting their own formula, though I notice you left off the Baldur's Gate games and Neverwinter Nights, which inconveniently deviate from the formula. You also missed Jade Empire, but that follows the intro -> 4 hubs -> showdown formula fairly well. Also, Mass Effect can't really be compared to KOTOR since Mass Effect is science fiction while Star Wars is just fantasy in space.

The thing is, BioWare is getting really good at this formula - and they're continuing to tweak it. In Dragon Age, decisions you make in one hub (and the order in which you go through them) will affect other hubs, while in their previous games like KOTOR, hubs were pretty much independent of each other and nothing you did in one would affect or be referenced in another.