Peter Thomas confirms no Friendly Fire in Dragon Age 2

[commie]

Anyone that starts a Biowhore new shit thread should be banned.

Enough of the shit already, just dump it all in one fucking thread!

 

[torpid]

It'll only get worse the closer we get to release date. And once the game is out, expect pages of "so I'm playing DA2," "your DA2 impressions," etc.

And those are some of the ugliest current-gen graphics I've ever seen.

 

[Jaesun]

So who's going to be doing the LP for this shit game? I sure the fuck am not going to play this piece of shit turd.

Looking forward to the LP, and I feel sorry for the fact you will have to play this shit just for our amusement.

 

[grotsnik]

So who's going to be doing the LP for this shit game? I sure the fuck am not going to play this piece of shit turd.

The question is, has Twinkle suffered enough already?

 

[Nickless]

It's absurd that they integrated friendly fire into the game's base difficulty, I agree emphatically. I consider FF to be an exercise in micromanagement as far as it comes to real time games (most especially real-time games with no auto-pause and the control of multiple characters) and with the level of filler combat Dragon Age is reputed to have I can see me quickly becoming bored with the tedium. I never played Dragon Age though, so it may have actually worked fine.

 

[Overweight Manatee]

Stuff

Heh!

I actually think I've moved on from rage with regards to Dragon Age 2. I've also moved on from sadness, from despair, from disgust. I now exist in a sort of twisted Zen state in which no new announcement can surprise me.

Mike Laidlaw: Yes, we decided to take out the stats. We felt that having to choose what you were good at would be confusing to players. And what if players want to be good at everything? In the end, the nay-sayers are going to complain whatever we do. But I do believe that this decision will help Dragon Age 2 be our most exciting RPG yet.

Me: (Wistfully) Ah. Of course.

Frankly Bioware should just go ahead and let you choose your stats. No restrictions. Let people play strong or weak characters as you like. You can even take out the difficulty levels then.

Listen, I'm by no means a graphics whore, but one thing I absolutely CANNOT STAND is this trend on the current generation of consoles of not implementing any anti-aliasing WHATSOEVER. If this is how games on the current generation of consoles look, fuckin' release the next batch already. This is ridiculous. The hardware obviously isn't capable of producing a clean image, which I care infinitely more about (almost obsessively so) than high poly emo hair or fancy shaders/effects. Fucking Deus Ex looks better than this shit.

In defense of consoles, you are supposed to be 20 feet away from them when you play so that you can't see any aliasing.

 

[Achilles]

How far can Bioware go before most Codexers stop repeatedly playing/buying their games?

That will never happen. If their game is still an RPG, we buy/play it in the hope that it will be good. If Bioware goes full derp and fully dumbs down the game, we label it "not an RPG" and enjoy it for what it is. In layman's terms, Bioware's got us by the balls.

 

[JarlFrank]

The only Bioware game I've bought was Baldur's Gate 2 and its expansion.

The others I've all torrented.

 

[Silellak]

In defense of consoles, you are supposed to be 20 feet away from them when you play so that you can't see any aliasing.

In a (more accurate) defense of consoles, that screenshot looks fucking awful, even for a console game in the current generation. It seriously looks like a PS2 or XBox screen.

 

[Multidirectional]

I don't think it's even possible that DA2 will end up looking exactly like that screenshot. Shit, how many reviewers complained about graphics in New Vegas being outdated? Bioware would be really fucking stupid to release DA2 that looks like that. Or maybe I'm just too healthy-minded to understand them.

 

[Pegultagol]

I volunteer to play this goddamn piece of extremeness whenever it becomes released. I am not real good with words but LP of this game just might write itself.

 

[CrimsonAngel]

NWN 2 and not any of the expansions vanilla from some random goggle picture search.

VS DA 2

VS DA 1

VS the Witcher 2

 

[Volourn]

" Bioware must really think of their audience as a bunch of lazy illiterates."

Well.. their audience consists of the Codex and Obsidianites. 'Nough said. Hard de har har.

P.S. the graphics are fine. Not the best, but PAG.

 

[Pegultagol]

Retconned Electron graphics.

Because you know...they have to ensure compatibility across three different platforms. Still would run like shit on PC though.

 

[JarlFrank]

P.S. the graphics are fine. Not the best, but PAG.

No, they don't. Even if we ignore that they look like shit from a technical standpoint, that particular screenshot (and most we've seen of DA2) also look shit artistically. There's nothing, absolutely nothing positive you could say about DA2's visuals. Nil. Zero. Nada. Nichts. Nothing.

 

[Overweight Manatee]

P.S. the graphics are fine. Not the best, but PAG.

No, they don't. Even if we ignore that they look like shit from a technical standpoint, that particular screenshot (and most we've seen of DA2) also look shit artistically. There's nothing, absolutely nothing positive you could say about DA2's visuals. Nil. Zero. Nada. Nichts. Nothing.

I dunno, the shadowing looks pretty good to me

 

[Stabwound]

So Nightmare= Normal for non stupid people? Anyway, that screenshot really is ugly as hell. Vampire the Masquerade Redemption had better graphics than this.

I honestly thought that was a picture of Redemption. I've never played it, and now I think I want to.

This is VtM: Redemption. A 10 year old game.

Does that not look better than the DA2 screenshot?

 

[JarlFrank]

Redemption looks far, far better though, from an artistic perspective.

DA2 is just so fucking bland and soulless. It's as if they don't care about making the game look good or giving it any good gameplay (combat, char system) because they know exactly that they only need to include lots of buttfucking and tit-groping in underwear to make their fanbase go all FUCK YEAH BEST GAEM EVAR.

 

[Silellak]

There's nothing, absolutely nothing positive you could say about DA2's visuals. Nil. Zero. Nada. Nichts. Nothing.

They aren't taking up space on my computer?

 

[Volourn]

"Does that not look better than the DA2 screenshot?"

No. Only morans think DA2's graphics suck.

 

[Jim Cojones]

Don't worry, it will look better after you buy all the DLCs with textures for buildings and ground.

 

[Heartwarden]

Don't worry, it will look better after you buy all the DLCs with textures for buildings and ground.

Some of the textures will probably be little more than an advert to buy the associated DLC. The best armour in the game will turn your character into a walking billboard.

It'd probably look better that way, too.

 

[Silellak]

 

[Jools]

Anyway, I hope they fix that annoying bug that makes your characters lose health when they get hit by enemies.

 

[Tycn]

Listen, I'm by no means a graphics whore, but one thing I absolutely CANNOT STAND is this trend on the current generation of consoles of not implementing any anti-aliasing WHATSOEVER.

Contradiction detected.