Dragon Age Turd quality poll comparison:

[racofer]

Given our recently completed LP of the PS3 version and all the feedback we've been getting from our declined console players here on the Codex, and also knowing that the PC version will be exactly the same only with prettier shaders, I believe we now have the necessary resources to make a thorough analysis regarding this game.

Consider the first option to be the best score you would give the game and the bottom one the worst possible.

Vote!!

 

[Konjad]

IMO Dragon Age Origins is a okay game, nothing special and the second half (and addon) is filler combat only, but the first half was pretty decent.

 

[racofer]

Who's talking about DA:O, Konjad?

 

[curry]

Whohohoo, another Dragon Age topic.

 

[Jaesun]

When does Mass Effect 3 come out?

 

[racofer]

When does Mass Effect 3 come out?

It should be sooner now that DA2 is finished and Bioware is reallocating personnel for ME3's development.

 

[Arcanoix]

BLOBERT is not the new fucking King Comrade. Even with King Comrade gone, we don't need another trolololo typing in all fucking caps.

Am I right?

Thought so.

 

[Jaesun]

Why are you so butthurt Arcanoix?

It should be sooner now that DA2 is finished and Bioware is reallocating personnel for ME3's development.

 

[Volourn]

That won't haoppen. the DA2 devs are likely working on DA3 or DA2 expansion.

R00fles!

 

[Shannow]

http://www.hookedgamers.com/editorials/ ... c_rpg.html

Because of all the whining about Daatoo threads, I'll leave this here.
Even the Bio-cock-sucking casuals are starting to bitch:

Many of us enjoyed Dragon Age: Origins and felt it was a worthy successor to the legendary Baldur’s Gate series. BioWare delivered on a number of levels: an engaging story and world, an intelligent combat system and a wonderful character customization system. However, as the sequel drew nearer we noticed dark clouds of doubt were starting to form overhead. As developer interviews and the steady drip of details on Dragon Age 2 emerged, it seemed that many of the aspects of Origins that we held dear were being compromised.

The Mass Effect series supplies a superb Action-RPG experience and Knights of the Old Republic took the classic cRPG formula and placed it within the vast Stars Wars universe. Dragon Age: Origins followed more of a traditional cRPG route and it proved to be both a critical and commercial success. There is no solid evidence to suggest that Dragon Age: Origins was not a popular and well-made game, so the natural thing for BioWare to do would be to replicate this right? Well let’s just take a look at Dragon Age 2 and what has actually happened.

The game’s action-based combat is much faster and it is easy to see that the game would have become too difficult to play without pausing. To deal with this Bioware made your party’s attacks more powerful and enemies easier to defeat, breaking the game for pause-play game in the process. In Origins, combat required players to plan out their attacks strategically in order to succeed but those who are looking a similar, deeper pause-play experience in Dragon Age 2 will find the game all too easy.

The market has always been driven by sales, but nowadays the publishers and producers are sacrificing genres in order to make more money. As said previously, Dragon Age: Origins was a commercial success so there was no real need to change the game so dramatically. This declination is inextricably tied in to the popularity of consoles over PCs amongst today’s gamers. As gaming spreads to mass audiences, producers and publishers are lured by the money that comes along with it. In this case it seems that EA have encouraged BioWare to open up the game to a bigger audience, and in doing so have lost many aspects of the genre it once was.

Worse still, there are signs that the game has been rushed out to meet publisher demands. The graphics are not going to mesmerise anyone, in fact they don’t look any better compared to Origins, environments are fairly dull looking but worst of all is weak level design. The review in PC Games has said that the majority of Dragon Age 2 plays out very much like the demo, meaning a lot of copy-pasted and narrow paths - ugly. Narrow paths in an RPG is actually an oxymoron as the genre requires freedom and an open world and should not be bottle-necking its players. What this effect does however, is focus the game more towards combat as is the nature of an action-RPG. It’s quite understandable that all of these shortcomings have occurred as BioWare are making an effort to bring out all three of their big RPGs in one year. Given that Dragon Age 2 has only had a maximum of two years in development, many of us suspected that the game would fall short in some areas. This lack of an open world, combined with the simple combat means that the game slides even further from its origins.

More and more we see games being transformed to cater for only one type of player and quite frankly, many of them are starting to become unidentifiable from each other. Publishers want you to play the game as quickly as possible so you can move on and buy their next title. Ultimately though, this way of doing business will hurt the industry as a whole. A storm is brewing and it’s one that publishers are calling on themselves.

 

[Jools]

Could it be? The beginning of the end? ITZ coming to bioware?

 

[Crooked Bee]

Good riddance.

 

[Nael]

http://www.hookedgamers.com/editorials/2011/03/02/dragon_age_ii_the_decline_of_the_classic_rpg.html

*looks at author's name*

"Chris Priestman"



Also:

 

[Jaesun]

The natives are becoming restless it seems....

Did EA forget to mail a few checks to some Professional Journalists™?

 

[baronjohn]

DA1 was pretty much the worst AAA game ever, so I don't see how DA2 can be any worse. At worst it will be as bad as DA1.

 

[Jools]

Same as FO3. Dull, bland, repetitive visual design. Technically unimpressive (read: programmed by decomposing dead dogs on drugs). Lame plot and writing, so lame that the game doesn't even qualify as unforgivable, just forgettable instead. I doubt the actual release of the game will prove it any different from these initial impressions.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

I don't know why you clucking amateurs even bother when you could just wait for the review metascores to get an objective quality report.

 

[Ulminati]

That won't haoppen. the DA2 devs are likely working on paid DLC
R00fles!

 

[sgc_meltdown]

how dare you say they haven't been proactive enough to finish removing content from the original game months earlier and are now enjoying a well deserved corporate vacation

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

I saw a Dragon Age thread the other day down in retardo. Nasty creatures.

 

[deus101]

the fuck

 

[Konjad]

why did I read that topic...

 

[curry]