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[MasterSmithFandango]

Can't we agree that they're both morons and be done with it?

 

[Wyrmlord]

You've probably read or heard of GoldenPigsy's review of Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne. He recently reviewed The Calling.

I do not usually make predictions as I read – I have no inclination to do so and hardly believe that anybody who reads for pleasure does – but I knew immediately what I expected to happen at some point in Dragon Age: The Calling when Fiona, the elf mage, gets into an argument with King Maric of Ferelden. She accuses him of being a poor father. He gets angry and tells her that she doesn’t know the first thing about him.

And all I could think was: “Oh no. He’s going to fuck her.”

How did a cult of personality behind David Gaider arise? It must have been fan-created only, because Gaider normally was a low profile person, and people earlier only knew him through his games and not the person himself.

Of course, I suspect it's Gaider-bashers who focus more on the person than fans of his games. Look at this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYfhTbNM-2Q

(No, I am not a Gaider apologist or hardcore fan either)

 

[circ]

Aw crap.

This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy prohibiting hate speech.

Not the one above, but another one where someone pasted Gaider's head to some guy beating the shit out of a woman in an unknown movie.

 

[racofer]

So I'm just gonna leave this here...

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/28641535/dragon-age-origin-combat-boring

So I played through ME2 and thought it was great. Saw that Dragon Age Origin is made by the same people, but was wondering how the actual combat is in it. It looked interesting, but was wondering if it gets boring after a while.

Dragon Age Origin was an awesome dice rolling turn based action RPG. It plays a lot better than the second to me, but i like taking it slow and thinking about what i am gunna do first. Which is crucial later in the game.

It's great ! it killed most of my hours.

Though it's hard to adapt to the gameplay for the first few hours. ME 2 was great but it's gameplay is simple.

DA:O offers a mch complex gameplay. But ME 2 has obviously better graphics.

strategy is what you need to win fights in dragon age..combat in me1 me 2 is fun i remember being relaxed while playing it..which is good..but in dragon age i had to think and retry a lot of times to get past certain enemies..which was fun too!again depends on what difficulty u play on..both are amazing games if u like rpg u should play both.

 

[anus_pounder]

I know, I know. I shouldn't be surprised at this point. But I love that emote.

 

[Roguey]

How did a cult of personality behind David Gaider arise? It must have been fan-created only, because Gaider normally was a low profile person, and people earlier only knew him through his games and not the person himself.

He is one of their more chatty devs on the forums. Plus

 

[Coyote]

http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=58193&view=findpost&p=1154915

Good grief. I have rarely had the pleasure to read such a self-important, insufferable twat. From that short exchange, you already know that any kind of answer is wasted on that "V.I.P.".

It seems he was not satisfied with the outcome of that thread (which was locked), as he reposted the post linked above on RPGWatch.

I don't use the phrase often, but if you feel compelled to chase down members of one forum across multiple other forums to tell them how much their forum sucks, well... major butthurt detected.

 

[Luzur]

How did a cult of personality behind David Gaider arise? It must have been fan-created only, because Gaider normally was a low profile person, and people earlier only knew him through his games and not the person himself.

He is one of their more chatty devs on the forums. Plus

Gatorades

 

[Stinger]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1n9na7nmkr5m6ct65fj090wo&page=450

Some thread on Dragon Age:

That's why I will never understand what is so evil about "streamlining." More than half the Mage's spells were either useless or just used as a stepping stone to better ones.

Complexity for the sake of complexity isn't a good thing.

God I hate this argument. Since when was Origins a needlessly complex game that needed to be dumbed down? And how did DA2 fix on any of that? Skills are even more imbalanced than before and now you have even less depth on top of that turning it from a rtwp game that had far too few decent encounters and too much trash mob filler into a really shitty hack n slash that is nothing but bad trash mob filler.

Is that really an imbalance? You can have both.

And there's also c) which is remove the problem without causing another. I'd point everyone towards Skyrim's levelling for an example of that.

Felt like quoting this because apparently Skyrim's character system is now a great example of removing the issues of Oblivion without introducing any more? I haven't played Skyrim myself so I can't comment but all I've seen in videos and streams is that Skyrim's become a hell of a lot more grindy and you just spam shit to raise your stats.

DA II's mechanics are actually pretty fun, it's encounter design that's the problem. The DLC has massively improved encounter design, so I'm actually pretty hopeful that they wont repeat their mistakes with DA III.

I'm not sure how you can determine that DA2's imbalanced and retarded character system can be fun when the only exposure you have is against some of the worst encounter design ever. I'm not sure you can separate the two like that without some kind of baseline.

Also....I played the dlc, Mark of the Assassin specifically, and that had the exact same bullshit encounter design. Seems like Biowhores really are stupid enough to believe the wave combat encounters have been fixed when all they've done is gotten rid of the stupidass "jumping out of the sky" animations.

Also, I feel like there's plenty of diversity in both Dragon Age's. I could easily come up with four mage builds for that are completely different but all playable.

is there some Dragon Age: "This one actually has a good character system" Edition that I haven't played?

DA2 apologists are the worst.

 

[circ]

I think the last one is probably a reference to how you can be a blood mage/spirit mage blood mage/shapeshifter blood mage/healer etc etc. WOW THE POSSIBILITIES.

 

[Stinger]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1n9na7nmkr5m6ct65fj090wo&page=452#11291

Oh wow, this thread might be going somewhere.

As far as character building goes, I'm just saying that Skyrim's system is theoretically more interesting than any other RPG's I've seen.

by theoretically, I mean just un-break the crafting skills and it's golden.

Fuck attribute-based character abstraction. Shit makes no sense until you've re-rolled and re-played the first two hours of an old-school RPG at least three times through or read 20 character building guides before you've even pressed the start button.

I've read some of this guy's posts and judging from what he's said/his profile he hasn't played a single RPG with an attribute system aside from shitty ARPGs like Oblivion and Fallout 3 as well as Dragon Age.

So...what the fuck is he on about?

Hell, in the Skyrim thread he says:

so basically instead of strenght/dexterity/bullshit, at every level up you choose between health/mana/stamina since those are really the only meters that matter in this game (and in most other RPG's but enthusiasts or whatever don't like to admit that and pretend they can feel those subtle +/- 1 differences to movement speed or damage or whatever)

Also something from another guy:

I still have no idea how the hell to properly level Shepard in Mass Effect (the first one), and it's only through copious read-throughs of online walkthroughs that I have any idea how to level in DA: O.

Mass Effect 1's character system is too complicated guys.

I think I've found something here. The best part is these guys really think they know so much about how RPGs.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I've read some of this guy's posts and judging from what he's said/his profile he hasn't played a single RPG with an attribute system aside from shitty ARPGs like Oblivion and Fallout 3 as well as Dragon Age.

So...what the fuck is he on about?

You just have to read carefully.

As far as character building goes, I'm just saying that Skyrim's system is theoretically more interesting than any other RPG's I've seen.

Meaning: Final Fantasy

by the way, your post isn't showing for some bizarre reason. I can see it if I quote it, though

 

[Stinger]

I've read some of this guy's posts and judging from what he's said/his profile he hasn't played a single RPG with an attribute system aside from shitty ARPGs like Oblivion and Fallout 3 as well as Dragon Age.

So...what the fuck is he on about?

You just have to read carefully.

As far as character building goes, I'm just saying that Skyrim's system is theoretically more interesting than any other RPG's I've seen.

Meaning: Final Fantasy

Clearly. Ugh, I hate seeing people attack a genre they've never played. When did the whole "The future of RPGs is to take out all the stats and turn it into a clunky action game" thing start happening anyway?

by the way, your post isn't showing for some bizarre reason. I can see it if I quote it, though

Fixed that, made a mistake with the URL tags which screwed up my post.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Clearly. Ugh, I hate seeing people attack a genre they've never played. When did the whole "The future of RPGs is to take out all the stats and turn it into a clunky action game" thing start happening anyway?

I don't remember the exact post, but a codexer nailed it: the moment someone realized that games that clearly fit into a genre will be criticized for problems since those can be easily spotted, while with unholy halfbreeds you can justify the shitty RPG content with "It's because it's mixed with action, duh! Action fans will love it!" and the shitty action content with "It's because it's mixed with RPG, duh! RPG fans will love it!"

 

[ironyuri]

I played Dragon Age:Origins and it gave me Gaider AIDS.

 

[Renegen]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1n9na7nmkr5m6ct65fj090wo&page=452#11291

I still have no idea how the hell to properly level Shepard in Mass Effect (the first one), and it's only through copious read-throughs of online walkthroughs that I have any idea how to level in DA: O.

Mass Effect 1's character system is too complicated guys.

Ironically it's the casual and streamlined gamers that are entitled, "Waaah, the games makes me read skill descriptions and plan ahead, Waaah"

 

[DraQ]

Clearly. Ugh, I hate seeing people attack a genre they've never played. When did the whole "The future of RPGs is to take out all the stats and turn it into a clunky action game" thing start happening anyway?

I don't remember the exact post, but a codexer nailed it: the moment someone realized that games that clearly fit into a genre will be criticized for problems since those can be easily spotted, while with unholy halfbreeds you can justify the shitty RPG content with "It's because it's mixed with action, duh! Action fans will love it!" and the shitty action content with "It's because it's mixed with RPG, duh! RPG fans will love it!"

You described oblivion perfectly and now everything, everything that's wrong with the industry makes sense.



...

Ironically it's the casual and streamlined gamers that are entitled, "Waaah, the games makes me read skill descriptions and plan ahead, Waaah"

:/


:D


The irony is too delicious.
It's time to play the entitlement card against the very morons who spam it like some derpy "I win" button.
You know you want to.

 

[Majestic47]

Dragon Age 3 Reveal Trailer

I should fucking LP it.

 

[anus_pounder]

WTF? I sincerely hope those guys in the comments are just joking.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Isn't that just footage from The Witcher 2?

 

[GarfunkeL]

http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=58193&view=findpost&p=1154915

Good grief. I have rarely had the pleasure to read such a self-important, insufferable twat. From that short exchange, you already know that any kind of answer is wasted on that "V.I.P.".

As one of the sites forum moderators, I'm not sure what you are implying with this statement. Do we on occasion get "racist, neonazi and spam" posts? Certainly. With our Open Registration policy, that's always bound to happen, though most of that behavior usually stays within the spam forum.

Please don't take this as a attack. But this is someone with vast experience under his belt of founding, running successful website communities. You are a moderator in title only. The codex wants to give the illusion there are some kind of standards or oversight. There isn't. If there was REAL moderation 90% of the garbage that is posted there wouldn't be allowed. The trolling, flame bait, personal attacks, harassment, etc. Let me let you in on a little secret. the reason you folks allow that is because if you actually enforced posting standards like most sites do then it would become painfully obvious what your site has become. A shell of its former self, living in its glory days as there would be only a handful of posts a day that would be posted/allowed as the majority of your 'community' would move on to another sire with a free for all posting policy as it mostly is now. As that is really all they want to do. Post the flames and personal attacks, etc.

A successful, helpful, useful, productive community site isn't measured in how many posts and traffic do I get (quantity), it is measures in how much quality is posted and when the signal is much higher then the noise you succeeded.

Looks like it's personal

prolly registered and got called a returd on the first post

HI THERE QWINN!

-QWINN

 

[corvus]

Isn't that just footage from The Witcher 2?

It is, that's the joke... and there are still far too many comments that seem genuine.

My jaw dropped at this video... Bioware.. I think I'm in love with you.

As long as Bioware takes their time with this game I'll be happy with it. DA2 was good, but it could have been so much better if it hadn't been rushed. Looking forward to DA3!!!

FCK!!!!!!!! My heart is boilingin desperation to know what happen to Hawke and the hero in DA1. Unless this game got a bit of follow-up i will surely die from desperation

I'm not gonna b the bald guy, or the elf. I wanna make my own character again, I don't care if I'm a child or some other person who's sucked into it, I'm not gonna b those two. I want the game to be pure perfection and pick my class again, health potions not on recharge(that killed me SO MANY times in DA2 and other poisons) and pick my gender but that will probably be an option, and I want strong allies, anders was more than awesome in DAO but in DA2 he was a weak little bi#\h. I want so many t

well...this bald macho, is there any chance for him to be Morrigans child? well, he has her eyes... XD ... and I quess I really have some elven fetish...first Zev, then Fenris and now this one eyed guy...hm should find a boyfriend with pointy ears XD

what i get off this is that we havent seen the hero yet so we might be able to chose race again. my guess is, were not going to be the kid, or anyone in this trailer but these people are tied into the main plot. my hope is that it will be like origins and each race will have its own entry into the plot, but thats just a hope. another cool idea is if they alowed you to play around with morals. the last games you always played a hero, how about a villan? i dunno, my guess is as good as yours.

I'm not going to lie, for the first five minutes I thought this was a strange trailer to an offshoot of Assassins creed. We can all only hope that Bioware listens to the community complaints over DA2, and makes DA3 a hell of alot better.

Can you be a girl? Because I don't want to be some steroid-addicted, macho-man, bald-headed dude. That would not be cool. They already took away the freedom of choosing your race, they better not take away choosing your gender.

Looks like CDProjekt didn't do a thorough enough job of poaching BioTards. Maybe they'll have better luck with the Witcher 2 console version.

 

[Majestic47]

Isn't that just footage from The Witcher 2?

exactly. Biotards got trolled. Hard.

 

[Wyrmlord]

He claimed the Codex is not relevant anymore. Relevant to whom? An internet message board is only relevant to the people who post there. Of course it won't be relevant to those who don't. If a forum had to be relevant to everybody, then every forum is irrelevant. Conversation ends there.

Someone was correct to point out to him that it's delusional to think developers care what people on their forums say.

Jeff Vogel became a well-to-do one-man developer by ignoring 100% of game mechanic suggestions posted on his forum. Indeed, you are only supposed to ignore what backseat game developers on internet message boards say. Their advice, my advice, any Codexer's advice, any Obsidian forum poster's advice is entirely worthless - we don't put the money where our mouths are when it comes to implementing our ideas. The developers do.

 

[The King of Comedy]

Skyway?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSXkuXV5nCU