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Ingmar
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The healing mechanic is going to be potions and to have enough of them, you have to cast barriers and shields at every cooldown (on harder difficulties obv). I don't see how that is any better than healers. It's not necessarily worse either, but it does cheapen the setting for those who care about it. Personally, if I didn't like the lore, I wouldn't even consider playing anything past DAO. Especially not the terrible multiplayer that has no redeeming qualities.
You don't have to micro the barrier stuff if the tactics stuff is available still, and I believe it will be. |
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tmp
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I don't think the Keep is NDA'ed to the point of not being able to say you're in it? I don't remember clicking anything like that, anyway.
You can say if you are in it and that's about all that's allowed, unless it recently changed. |
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Goreschach
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Are we still pretending we care about nda's?
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Paelos
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Are we still pretending we care about nda's?
Yes, other than opinions. No specifics or details about stuff under NDA. |
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rk47
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single player NDA now? what are you gonna do, EA? ban me from buying your game?
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Trippy
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Nah they'll let you buy it but then you'll ban you from playing it through Origin  |
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tmp
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You can say if you are in it and that's about all that's allowed, unless it recently changed.
So I went to check and turns out they've been allowing more than that for a while. YOU CAN
•Show off your favourite art tiles in avatars, backgrounds or other works! (Though please keep in mind there is still a fair amount of art with bugs and inconsistencies, so please avoid sharing those for the time being).
•Talk about the art, but remember to mention that the art is NOT FINAL
terribly exciting, I'm sure.  |
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jakonovski
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The fact that I haven't been lynched yet by the beta players here leads me to believe I'm not too far off being bummed out already.  |
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Velorath
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Nobody is playing a beta of Dragon Age 3 as far as I know. Some people are in the beta for the Dragon Age Keep.
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Reg
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The fact that I haven't been lynched yet by the beta players here leads me to believe I'm not too far off being bummed out already. If it helps. I'm already tired of your whining. Please don't take my unwillingness to feed the Bioware trolls as a sign of agreement. Edit: Hey, sorry for the snark. I mistook you for someone else. |
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« Last Edit: October 15, 2014, 05:55:10 AM by Reg »
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tmp
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Nobody is playing a beta of Dragon Age 3 as far as I know. Some people are in the beta for the Dragon Age Keep.
Yup, this. I think some youtube channel people were sent earlier build of the game recently to spread the gospel try it out, but if there's any actual beta that goes beyond in house stuff, I haven't heard about it. The  things are about their import-savegame-by-hand website thingie. |
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Samprimary
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I can't wait to play a woman mage tal-vashoth and be a if not the most completely utterly KOS affront to any Qunari we encounter in the game
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Trippy
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Hmm...not sure how much I'm going to like that mode.
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Velorath
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Doesn't look as good as ME3's multiplayer, but they were also playing low level characters and it was hard to see how classes other than the caster played (they were also only playing the basic classes that start unlocked).
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jth
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« Last Edit: November 11, 2014, 04:32:12 AM by jth »
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Tmon
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I was thinking about getting this next week. Those reviews have me leaning towards waiting till it's on sale.
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Paelos
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Reviews seem to center on complaints like "it's too big" or "tactical camera is tactical"
I'm getting it for the multiplayer and the time wasting.
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Signe
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Me too. Eventually. Mostly for the time wasting.
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Paelos
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One complaint was that the bad guy wasn't bad enough, we didn't care.
The first bad guy was a nameless archdemon that manifested itself as a dragon you barely if ever saw before the end of the game. But I would bet they lauded the crap out of that story.
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« Last Edit: November 11, 2014, 11:48:49 AM by Paelos »
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Meanwhile, the second game was mostly a Villain of the Week type of story.
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Rasix
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I watched the Gamespot review, mostly because I just like Kevin VanOrd. It was glowing outside of the "it's not very difficult" caveat. That could honestly be said about all of them (and most RPGs in general) unless you jack up the difficultly. I wouldn't recommend watching that review, however. I think I spotted a pretty huge spoiler that I won't be able to get out of my brain before launch.  |
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murdoc
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I'm actually really looking forward to this. Been itching for a new RPG to play and this'll do nicely.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Merusk
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When did people start expecting their story-driven RPGs to let them deviate from the story? Because that's what the two reviews I read were complaining about. As if "The hero Decides, Fuck you all and cleansed the world of all life" was ever going to be a viable option. As an example. None of this is remotely deep or strategic. When asked if a situation calls for diplomacy, spies or military strength, any of them will work and few require any more effort on your part than actively not declaring "Zhu Li, do the thing!" at an unlistening monitor. Wat? So what, you should get to "game over" screens when you make a "BAD" decision? Nah, we had that and people rejected it years ago. Ditto the complaints about being able to actually complete things without your race being a real factor. No, you don't get to be a Qunari and decide to kill all the mages from the get-go, or a Daelish and decide, "fuck this I'm going back to nature." Both are a different story & game altogether. |
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eldaec
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Is this a thread in which we consider the opinion of published games journalists to be in any way relevant? Because I don't think that is something we ever did before.
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Rasix
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Dunno, but VanOrd is one of the few that I actually like. Sure, the reviews scores are usually inflated and the language can get a bit effusive, but he'll let you know what the actually problems worth giving a shit are. Also helps that he has a seemingly similar taste in games from what I can glean from his reviews. I'm just glad McShea's gone so I don't have to sit through one of his attempts to sound intelligent. Yes, it's sad, I pretty much only count on Gamespot and you all for my video game reviews. I don't think the rest of them are worth it and suffer from a lot of inconsistency in their quality. Also, this game sounds like it's fucking long. RIP FFXIV. I'll be gone for a while. |
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Merusk
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Also, this game sounds like it's fucking long. RIP FFXIV. I'll be gone for a while.
Yeah, when a reviewer says 50 hours, I know I'm dumping at least 100 into it on the first play through. Fuuuuck. Is this a thread in which we consider the opinion of published games journalists to be in any way relevant? Because I don't think that is something we ever did before.
Fair point, and no. Just something that stuck out as a theme, because "game journalism" now follows narrative threading like all other "journalism." Probably because they're all getting blown by the same hookers while tweeting at each other. |
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lamaros
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Is this a thread in which we consider the opinion of published games journalists to be in any way relevant? Because I don't think that is something we ever did before.
I read about games here because I get non reviewer opinions. I still read the odd review though. Reading between the lines this game seems to have under-whelmed a few. |
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calapine
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PcGames.de. seems to like it. - Complains mainly technical nature. (Console menus, loading times) - Combat somewhere between DA:O and 2. More tactical than 2, as least as long one plays with friendly-fire on. - Very "content heavy". Lots of quests, crafting, dialogs. - Graphic/optic good, with some bad spots. (overdone wet- and metal- surfaces, darkspawn) They don't give a score though, as they say they need to play it more to reach a verdict.  |
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rk47
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18/11/14 Guise. See you in-game. |
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lamaros
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PcGames.de. seems to like it. - Complains mainly technical nature. (Console menus, loading times) - Combat somewhere between DA:O and 2. More tactical than 2, as least as long one plays with friendly-fire on. - Very "content heavy". Lots of quests, crafting, dialogs. - Graphic/optic good, with some bad spots. (overdone wet- and metal- surfaces, darkspawn) They don't give a score though, as they say they need to play it more to reach a verdict. Golly I hate crafting. |
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rk47
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Then you'll hate online play very much.
Instead of simplifying it to token drops, they continue to drop random crafting shit.
And you can break down un-usable weapons for mats.
Enjoy your RNG.
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Riggswolfe
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Reviews seem to center on complaints like "it's too big" or "tactical camera is tactical"
I'm getting it for the multiplayer and the time wasting.
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Paelos
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I like co-op. If they let me play the story in co-op I would, but they don't because they're bastards.
The multiplayer game won't bother single player people at all. They are unconnected for the most part.
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