Befuddled Halfling said:
Exactly. Origins put lots of thought in 90% of its encounter design. Almost everyone complaining of trash/filler will fit into one of these categories:
1) Playing on console (so a different game basically)
Played on PC.
2) Playing on PC at normal or below (where enemy abilities have been nerfed to triviality and do indeed become "trash"). Think that hard = just more HP = more time
Played at hardest difficulty.
3) Primarily a storyfag (so any combat other than story specific = "filler")
I'm a combatfag. I can take punishment with extreme prejudice in "insane" mode in JA2 v1.13. But that's beside the point. The point is, there's no rule dictating any rule regarding grind and story so your position is invalid to begin with.
4) Only accepts turn based as valid combat system (or some other CGA system from the DOS era).
This is a plain stupid strawman. So the only valid reply is "fuck you". Therefore, fuck you. And for the record, I enjoyed BG2 and IWD series. Especially in IWD's case, the degree of challenge of the highest difficulty in DAO doesn't hold a candle to the normal difficulty in IWD.
5) Holds the length of DAO against it (after 50 hours you've seen it all, therefore combat = repetitive)
I've sunk several times more into games without complaining (or rather, falling asleep) as much as I did with DAO.
6) Ultra picky in pointing at a few overpowered skills (Mana Clash, Cone of Cold) as evidence of whole system being "shit". Or are under the illusion that 3 or 4 template tactics work for most encounters.
I went through the entire game in highest difficulty with 3 tactical templates. Read that again, asshole: E-N-T-I-R-E GAME.
7) Bragging ("beat Jarvia on nightmare solo, unarmed, first playthrough, while simultaneously fucking my cat's anus") and the 75% of players kept dying repeatedly on normal in the Tower of Ishal (per BIO telemetry) are retards compared to my awesomeness.
I don't even get what you're trying to say here, but I assume you are demonstrating your idiocy.
The funny part is, even after Origins' pre-planned ecnounters (which each took an hour to set up on paper, per Knowles)
Yep, those "pre-planned encounters" were the definitely the top of the game, the crop of the cream where the game telegraphed what was about to take place to you in advance from miles away every single time, as far going as giving away the positions of adversary and try to provide TEH CHALLENGEZ by resetting your party's last positions, teleporting them all of them to the predesignated spots set for the forced dialogue encounter. Yup, that's what I call some motherfucking quality in my games.
Hint: sinking time into something doesn't render it as high quality by default, just by the mere "virtue" of having sunk time into creating it. Oh wait, I'm talking to the same faggot who thinks he can judge an old game by the time and platform it was released on.
DA2's thin air spawning with all enemies indistinguishable from each other (which probably took less than 30 seconds to design),
Are you trying to say that enemies in DAO were distinguishable from each other? Well, yes I guess there was an average of 2 more ranks of any given enemy, like the darkspawn, humans, animals etc. Great variety.
I haven't played DA2 myself but enemy variety wasn't anything to write home. I can only say that it usually didn't make much sense.
half the Codex still doesn't see see the difference! Fuck DAO, and fuck everything - because we wouldn't know a promising step in the right direction if it bit us on the balls.
You are trying too hard son but the more striking point is, if you are so annoyed, why are you sticking around?
As a result, here's my own treatise of what this anti-KKKodeks movement defending shit games can be broken down to:
1) Likes to talk out of his ass
2) Likes to think that current crop of games present a fair challenge, especially at -wait for it- highest (OMG!) difficulties and consequently, considers himself a grand strategist for having beaten what's a dumbed down piece of shit game.
3) Can not differentiate between shit combat encounter and good combat encounter nor even explain what makes either good or bad.
4) Likes to antagonise on mere basis of the length of time between two references with utter disregard and ignorance of the predecessors. In short, a complete GAMING NIGGER! (a new addition to my special terminology, you heard it here first!), not much different than all the gaming niggers calling themselves "game journalists". All in all, just a bunch of niggers.
5) Militant ideologue that resorts to using a brief & incomplete argument he once read somewhere to try to fit into a complete "world view" on something else without the willingness to break it down. In other words, a damn stupid motherfucker.
6) If you have a little sister, or better yet, a little daughter, I'd like to have a round with her.
