Dragon Age: Origins text volume?

[Baron]

Ah, you must be Gaider's red dated alt.

It's RPG text. I didn't purchase Pong. If you tell someone to skip the plot, lore, dialogues, and quest notes of an RPG what am I playing? A clumsy squad based Diablo.

Actually I did stop reading the text. At the 1.8 million mark. Just. Couldn't. Make. It.... To. The. End. Fuck. Your. Assertion. That. I. Was. Expecting. Classic. Literature.... As. A. Minimum.... Standard.

 

[Xor]

I'm surprised the game had that much text, because it felt like they cut the text out in some places. Instead of traditional side quests, DAO had those fucking billboards with no flavor text about why the player should give a fuck.

 

[Angthoron]

I'm surprised the game had that much text, because it felt like they cut the text out in some places. Instead of traditional side quests, DAO had those fucking billboards with no flavor text about why the player should give a fuck.

I was very surprised by those billboards, and by the side-quests in general. Thieves' den? Gather 8 quest with a 20-word description. Chantry? Already handled. I'm guessing they were too busy writing flirt lines for Morrigan and Zhevran and such.

On the serious side though, this is a classic case of padding. I'm quite sure that the side-quests of that sort didn't even exist to begin with until someone in the boardroom said that guys, you know what, we should give the players more of a chance to get that shiny armor, and that extra level-up. Go on and add in some quests, but since we can't really integrate them into the current build properly anymore, just make it minimal.

So it isn't cut content, it's content that got hastily sewn on.

 

[Roguey]

That's true, I remember reading how they added all those job board quests during the six month-delay it took to port it to consoles. And it's not like they didn't have traditional side quests (I recall Orzammar being full of them with every other area getting maybe a couple).

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

Then don't fucking read them. I don't understand what the problem is.

Yeah, Dragon Age had dialogue ranging from cheesy and eye-roll inducing to decent at best, but ffs, you don't go into a title like that expecting BROthers Karamazov.

You are absolutly right. I just ignore the tedious dialogue and writing and concentrate on remaining fun parts of the game. There are a lot of them. Right guys? Right?

Hey, at least the combat is kinda fun. Ah wait, no it was utter shit. Hey, but you can ignore the combat too! Well not really ignore, since its mandatory. But while your hacking trough endless tons of trashmob, just close your eyes and think of Bioware.

After all, for going trough this chore you will be rewarded with a piece of dialogue and a cutscene. Yeah, it will propably be shit. But you can ignore it!
I mean hey, you don't go into a title like this expecting Brothers Karamazow and Jagged Alliance 2. No. You expect a shitty game, so be happy with your shit and like it. Just ignore the game while playing trough it.

 

[Volourn]

Here's a thought, if it's shitty, don't play it at all. R00fles!

 

[Gondolin]

I think even the writers themselves hate having to write all that fluff

Nah, at that level the writers are professionals. They don't give a shit either way. It's all in a day's work.

 

[Angthoron]

I think even the writers themselves hate having to write all that fluff

Nah, at that level the writers are professionals. They don't give a shit either way. It's all in a day's work.

Yeah, this.

 

[Xor]

Here's a thought, if it's shitty, don't play it at all. R00fles!

At last, true wisdom from Volourn.

 

[Angthoron]

Well actually, he's wrong. How would we know it's shitty if we don't play it through seven times?

 

[Gondolin]

Since we're talking about DA2, you should do the smart thing. Play the game for a bit, preferably until you hit the fabled Derp Roads, then use your head and do the right thing. If you don't like the game, click that Uninstall.exe and... voila!