Dragon Age 3

[Simond]

It's like they have one story and just roll a dice to fill in the names.

It's that time again!

 

mod edit: fuck that's huge.

[Hawkbit]

I recently thought about buying DA2, thinking I could get it cheap and something to play with my brain shut off.  However, as a 3-year old game it still would cost roughly $70 to buy the game and the dlc.  After three years that seems a bit silly.

[Reg]

That's the worst thing about EA's games. They never go on sale at decent prices while anyone is still interested in playing them. Even the latest SimCity is still selling at full price.

[Velorath]

It's like they have one story and just roll a dice to fill in the names.

It's that time again!

 

That time when the mods have to tell you to stop posting in Bioware related threads?

[Rasix]

I recently thought about buying DA2, thinking I could get it cheap and something to play with my brain shut off.  However, as a 3-year old game it still would cost roughly $70 to buy the game and the dlc.  After three years that seems a bit silly.

I didn't play any of the DLC.  Not sure if it's even any good. Base game would be worth the $20 they're asking for it.  I think the game is around 35 hours, if I'm remember correctly.

[Sjofn]

If you liked DA2, the DLCs are definitely worth it. They addressed the copypaste and derpy wave mechanic complaints (basically there are no reused maps at all in either DLC, IF there are waves they're disguised like in DA:O instead of hopping down from nowhere, etc), the story/world building is interesting (imo), and there's a lot of blibberblabber between companions. Legacy in particular is great, because you get MOAR FAMILY. And the fact the whole thing is just another Varric story, you can do them in any of the three acts (and the DLCs will know what act you're doing it in, and change accordingly, which is nice for replayability).

Basically, if DA2 was as good as its DLCs, I don't think people would hate on it as much.


edit: That said, DA2 is still full price on Origin? That's really dumb.

EDIT TWO, ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: Oh, no it's 20 bucks. Eh, whatever. The only DLCs worth buying are the two "real" ones, the stupid weapon packs and shit are totally skippable.

[Ingmar]

The DLC is IMO pretty good, and largely free of several of the things people complained about in the base game (enemies spawning right on top of you, area re-use). I think I like Legacy a little better than the Felicia Day one, mostly because she's really only an OK voice actress. She's not like, ME3 reporter chick bad or anything, but neither is she any great shakes, and she has a lot of screen time. There are some outrageous French accents to make up for it somewhat though.

[Phildo]

For as much as I shit-talk it, I still played DA2 a lot and agree that the DLC is a considerable improvement.  I think I got them all as a bundle at some point, and the weapon packs are actually pretty nice, although they make loot basically useless thereafter.

[Venkman]

I enjoyed both DA:O and DA2 but they're completely different games that as far as I'm concerned might as well be set in different worlds too, crossover cameos notwithstanding.

DA3 looks ok, not awe-inspiring, but I'm kinda innured to that anyway. And I'll be curious about the story, but am not so invested in the universe that the story is what's dragging me in. It comes down to how it plays.

And considering an Oct release could very well become a delay into Q1 '15, for any number of reasons, that puts it up against the graphics, story and game play that I really am looking forward to in Witcher 3 (I think Feb 15?).

[Rasix]

The thing is, you can always count on the first iteration of a Witcher game being really broken in some way.  And with the added ambition in 3, it may be even more so.   Of course, that won't stop me from being dumb and buying it day one.  A much savvier human being might wait until the inevitable massive steam sale.  

[Ingmar]

Did they de-shitify Witcher 2 enough that I should try it again?

[Rasix]

Can you hold your nose long enough to get through Chapter 1?  It's pretty long, but once you get past it, the game becomes worth the time you're playing it.  And to be fair, Chapter 1 is mostly OK outside of 2 completely stupid fights. And a lot of running.  But that never changes, that game loves to run your ass all over the place.

[Ingmar]

I can try I guess. My interest petered out back when it came out when I was in the basement of some burned out... insane asylum? Orphanage? With ghosts I could barely hurt that I had to dodge perfectly or reload over and over and over. Or something, my memory of it has pretty much faded at this point.

[Venkman]

Witcher 2 opened up in a castle under siege didn't it?

They did make the early experience easier, but that was after I had slogged through it. I played a few hours, walked away in frustration, tried again a month later and then couldn't put it down for another 75 hours or so. But that was before they vamped the early part.

[Zetor]

For me, Witcher 2 fell apart shortly after the start of chapter 2 (where you start doing stuff in the war camp). The combat was just plain unfun, and the writing made me wince -- instead of the "consistently mediocre" vibe I got from Witcher 1, it was all "trying-too-hard-and-failing", which actually bothered me much more.

[Phildo]

The orphanage is a quest area in the first chapter that totally fucks you up if you go in there too soon.  Need to level up a few times before trying that one.

[Khaldun]

I dunno, I got bored in the forest dealing with the troll at the bridge and a bunch of other stuff. The combat just annoys me too much. I like the setting, the feel of it, but the gameplay really puts me off.

[Falconeer]

Origin is so much fucking shit!

I had to change a computer and I had Dragon Age 2 on it, through Origin. Since Origin stores your saved games in the cloud, I didn't worry about keeping the save files since they were in the cloud right? WRONG! Once I reinstalled the game on a new computer I couldn't get the save files back. There's just no option to get them and it doesn't do to anything automatically. Maybe I am missing something, but I wonder what's the point of cloud saves if they are gone if your hard disk breaks. Fucking EA.

[Reg]

Dragon Age 2 came out a while ago. Are you sure Origin even did cloud saves back then?

[Ingmar]

I don't/can't use the cloud saves because they don't give enough space for my needs. It's only like 100 MB or so.

[Reg]

That's pretty half assed. Either they have cloud saving or they don't. It shouldn't be possible for the save to fail because they're pinching pennies on dirt cheap disk space.

[Stormwaltz]

I held out hope that it would be like a few other EA games, requiring Origin account registration, but not requiring install of the sticky-fingered client. Sadly, not so.

[rk47]

EA's Cloud Save: We have toilet but no paper. 

[Venkman]

Been working fine for me.

On the one Origin game I play per year 

[Ingmar]

Release date pushed back a few weeks to November:

http://www.dragonage.com/#!/en_US/news/dragon-age-inquisition-update

[Tannhauser]

I won't lie, I'm anticipating this game.  But I'm going in warily this time and reading reviews before I buy.

[Merusk]

I won't lie, I'm anticipating this game.  But I'm going in warily this time and reading reviews before I buy.

Ditto. I'm hoping they learned their lesson, but I'm not buying at release and probably not until after the holidays now with the push-back.

[Paelos]

If anything would make me put up with Origin, it would be this game. But it would have to be like Skyrim levels of awesome.

[rk47]

If anything would make me put up with Origin, it would be this game. But it would have to be like Skyrim levels of awesome.

[Paelos]

That bear seriously freaks me out.

[Signe]

I think it's adorably creepy. 

[Morfiend]

Can anyone summarize the differences between DA3 and the previous 2 games for me? I honestly know nothing about this one.

[Signe]

I don't really know anything about it either, Morfiend.  Just the bits and bobs I've read here, I think. 

[Rasix]

I'm purposely keeping myself in the dark for this one.  Might not be the best idea, but I'd rather just go into it knowing basically nothing outside of what I know from the previous games.   I'm going to buy it.  95% chance I'll love it.  So, why not?

[Ingmar]

The main big change is that there are a bunch of open world elements that weren't present in prior games. Giant zones that change depending on stuff you do in them etc.