"DA2 sold very well on its opening weekend, but sales dropped quite sharply in the following weeks due to negative public reception, causing the game to fall quite below Bioware's initial sales projections. Sales and public reception declined thoroughly enough for them to cancel their final expansion pack to the game."
Considering time cost for DA2 it made pretty good coin. It also outsold most other BIO games including the precious BGs and even NWN which was BIO's most successful game prior to DA1. As for expansion cancellation, that was dumb. An expansion is cheaper and they may have bena ble to garner some good will if they did well.. Afterall, NWN OC got (unfairly) bashed but they made 2 expansions for it which were more well received (though SOU is overrated). The same easily could have happened with a DA2 expansion.
"I liked Corypheus from a lore perspective - he's a myth that turned out to be real. But they never went anywhere with him."
I never played that expansion yet thoguh I am close to it on my current playthrough. However, what little I've seen of him in DA3 is hugely dissapointing. The archdemon in DA1 had more personality. Hell, his dragon pet had more eprsonality shown in the one scene where it comes face to face with the Inquisitor. L0L
"KOTOR actually had sidequests that were pretty damn good."
That's true, but the game play is basically NWN/DnD dumbed down with pretty light sabres. That's where it loses marks for me. Plus, the joinable npcs have some really good ones but also some real bad ones. That's what brings its mark down. NWN OC also has some really nice side quests.
"Sure, and I attribute that to the SW D&D ruleset being bad. Not all tabletop rulesets are quality, in case I was giving off that impression. But the D&D fantasy ruleset is >>> whatever Bioware and Obsidian came up with in their latter days for their RPGs. I also don't understand the rose-tinted glasses on DAO. Back when I played it, DAO combat felt as shitty as KOTOR where every battle was against a group of archer/mage/warriors where the strategy for defeating them was always the same: aoe the back line, freeze the front line, keep up the heals, win. It's your standard MMORPG combat with a few ridiculously OP control spells.
D&D fantasy combat, by contrast, varied from encounter to encounter. I credit that to D&D having a much larger beastiary and system of effects interactions than DAO did. Beholders, giants, dragons, illithids, groups of high-level NPCs, etc. were all challenging, but in completely different ways. And yes, I understand that's because D&D has had decades of content development while DAO was made in <5 years - and had Bioware continued to add complexity into their ruleset instead of taking complexity away from it, who knows?"
Yiou still haven't expalined why most DnD games are crap and nowhere near the level of BGs/NWN? None of them have been remotely close to their success. Not even the GB games. Even TOEE which was the 'best' at following DnD rules was a flop (combat rules were good combat was bad). Why is that? Why was POR2 a complete and utter joke. IWD series fcoused on combat which a lot of people think DnD is just dungeojn crawl yet it never came close to touching BG's success or popularity. It's obviously. BG/NWN's success is because of BIO not DnD.
"you faggots must stop projecting and realize that Bioware dont need +15mln sales like fucking GTA,CoD or Skyrim."
BINGO. The asanine often used quotes of '20mil sales' or 'Skyrim numbers' to deride BIO's 'lack of success' is stupid. That is more of a farreachingd ream not a legit goal. People actually think that EA expects BIO games to sell 20mil copies when their bests elling game pre purchase (?) sold no more than 5mil? FUCK OFF. 20mil may be the dream goal but it's certainly not the primary legit business goal. Certainly, when they go over their projects and plan their budgets their not basing it on a 'required' 20 million sales or bust strategy? FUCK OFF.
"Care to comment on my Let's Plays? (see sig)."
I've read it. It was entertaining.
"The OC was sub-par, but I think Hordes is superior to Dragon Age: Origins."
I wouldn't go that far. Lots to love about Hordes, but I'd still give the edge to DA1. Maybe.
