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I remember this thing on Twitter. Dear god, it's the lead writter.
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MerchantKing
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Speaking of Rogue Trader... Is it fixed yet?
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Compared to him, Gaider was quite decent. If you have played DA:I, remember the character Cole. You remember Cole, right? As if you could forget him. He was such an expressive character and such a popular companion!
I remember this thing on Twitter. Dear god, it's the lead writter.
Even DA:O was shit. It had a couple cool ideas buried in it but it was mostly dreck.
Bioware's best game was NWN and that game was 90% Toolset. Supposed industry pros are so regularly outshined by lone hobbyists working on modules in their spare time
Bioware's best game was NWN and that game was 90% Toolset. Supposed industry pros are so regularly outshined by lone hobbyists working on modules in their spare time
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More like: NWN was a great Toolset but a poor single player campaign.
It's a shame that the idea of outsourcing modules to other videos wasn't fully exploited when it had sense.
Cat Headed Eagle
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You jest, but Cole ended up being the only companion I cared about in DAI.
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Cat Headed Eagle
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Cole was the only companion that has a worthwile backstory, a worthwile development, and a worthwile conclusion. He has a satisfactory character arc. There is a reason, plotwise, that you could care for him, and see him develop his character, and on top of it all, his transformations are plot related too. He is one of the few, if not the, companion that actually has some sort of feedback with war table missions that feels organic. He's actually that rare, late Bioware companion that feels like a remnant of what Bioware used to bring to their games.
MerchantKing
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I had to fix this.
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Maybe you're right, but I had no patience for Coke. I mean, I did his quest, which I don't remember anything about (I think I chose the "evil" option), but for me he was never an integral part of the team. In a narrative and gameplay sense.
But I remember this:
Or this.
Gayblade of Bioware.
Heroic Liberator
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I'd say that Blackwall was the best. Nothing too fancy in his character concept, but it was well executed. And unlike Cole, he's just a regular guy.
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Dishonoredbr
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There's a lot of angst on BlackWall story and i quite liked how many outcome he had to end his story.
Cat Headed Eagle
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Technically the good ending is getting him to be more human, but it's not set in stone like that. It really feels more like something Obsidian would make as opposed to a pure Biowarian type of character.
Blackwall is good, though. He could be a second best companion imo. They put more attention in characters and their stories than anything else in the game I'd say.
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Cole was an almost slightly tolerably written character hidden under an ugly, retarded and aesthetic-breaking visual design.
He wasn't good, but a talking pile of shit would look alright next to Sera or Iron Bull.
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I think this declaration is true. And that's one of the reasons why their games are so terrible.
F. J. Rothchild III
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I just started replaying the series.
Had only ever played Origins over a decade ago, now. Loved it then and am loving it now. Morbidly curious to finally play 2 and to try and find good things about it, despite its near universal negative reception (from fans, at least). Inquisition, from what I've seen (and in my opinion) has the most appealing art style of the entire. I booted it up just once, briefly, and its opening menu, along with the illustration on the cards in the character creator is all quite beautiful. I always heard that while its open world was unnecessary and there were way too many fetch quests, not to mention other "one step forward, two steps back-type issues that made its near-universal critical perfect scores a load of bull, that it was at least an obvious effort to mix all of the things people loved in Origins with the few good improvements people admitted her present in two. Whether it was successful, in my opinion, remains ot be seen as I'm still in the beginning stages of Origins (Drwarf Commoner Rogue, baby! If an RPG doesn't let you join in with NPCs rudelly lusting after your sister and agree with them that she's hot and talk about how you want to fucker, as well, then it's not a true RPG).
That all said, everything about Dreadwolf, from the timing, the context, those involved, the history of the project, etc. makes me think it will genuinely have people re-evaluating DA2 as a misunderstood masterpiece in comparison. I have such low expectations for this game...
Had only ever played Origins over a decade ago, now. Loved it then and am loving it now. Morbidly curious to finally play 2 and to try and find good things about it, despite its near universal negative reception (from fans, at least). Inquisition, from what I've seen (and in my opinion) has the most appealing art style of the entire. I booted it up just once, briefly, and its opening menu, along with the illustration on the cards in the character creator is all quite beautiful. I always heard that while its open world was unnecessary and there were way too many fetch quests, not to mention other "one step forward, two steps back-type issues that made its near-universal critical perfect scores a load of bull, that it was at least an obvious effort to mix all of the things people loved in Origins with the few good improvements people admitted her present in two. Whether it was successful, in my opinion, remains ot be seen as I'm still in the beginning stages of Origins (Drwarf Commoner Rogue, baby! If an RPG doesn't let you join in with NPCs rudelly lusting after your sister and agree with them that she's hot and talk about how you want to fucker, as well, then it's not a true RPG).
That all said, everything about Dreadwolf, from the timing, the context, those involved, the history of the project, etc. makes me think it will genuinely have people re-evaluating DA2 as a misunderstood masterpiece in comparison. I have such low expectations for this game...
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Today I will remind them.
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Nice one!
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