Bah slotted weapons is merely a Wow clone and not very good customization at all.
Customization should be on the fly,meaning you see a certain type enemy you equip yourself accordingly.You learn what you need to equip over time,experience the game world and instantly know your enemy.
An example would be your fighting Leviathon,a water based creature,you might want a Thunderous ability or gear to do better damage.Your fighting Ifrit a FIRE based enemy,you need Water based attacks,or perhaps your fighting Undead,then you need to fight it in the day time ect ect,that is game customization,not slots or gems that is weak sauce ,not much of an effort at all.
Originally posted by lugal Customizing is nice. EA should imstead focus on non linear story and making a world that feels alive.
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
The two come from the same pot of development money. In an MMO I want customisation, crafting and all the other stuff that comes with it. In a single player game I want an excellent game experience. I don't care if my character looks like a million others around the world, I do care about the quality of the game mechanics and the size of the game. RPG's have been getting smaller and smaller in recent years. Remember when games taking about 80 hours to complete was commonplace? Now we are lucky if a game cracks half that. So less of the fluff and more game please.
Looks good the only problem with the Dragon Age games is that they are far too easy to complete, amd offer no real challenge.....thank godness for mods!
Originally posted by lugal Customizing is nice. EA should imstead focus on non linear story and making a world that feels alive.
this...it's what I really wanted to MMORPG.com to ask. Will your story vary depending on race, economic class and all that stuff....like the first one. The second dragon age was a HUGE letdown in this category
I wonder how many of those customization options will be day one dlc.
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Originally posted by mayito7777 PCs= hummers, Macs= Prius
Not for long, Been a slow role reversal going on thanks to MSFTs new take on the OS...they are doing more to get in the way and limit the PC to mobile abilities.
Anyway, I was hoping to see something about easing the way to mod the game like Bethesda was doing with their games.
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I love Bioware, and I'm glad theyre still around even after EA aquiredd them (we all know how EA usually eats up developers and spits our their carcass) but one thing I've always found lacking in their games is the way the character models never quite feel finished or proportioned... I know it sounds nitpicky but just a personal peeve of mine.
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I was a big fan of DA:O and even liked DA:2 but I must admit, the more I read about DA:I the more I am thinking I will give it a miss. They seem to be pandering to all the wrong things. I want a complex RPG with tactical combat and meaningful story choices, and I am not sure this is it. It looks very watered down. They are focussing on all the wrong things, like simplified combat mechanics, a linear story and gay romance. Not really my cup of tea.
I was a big fan of DA:O and even liked DA:2 but I must admit, the more I read about DA:I the more I am thinking I will give it a miss. They seem to be pandering to all the wrong things. I want a complex RPG with tactical combat and meaningful story choices, and I am not sure this is it. It looks very watered down. They are focussing on all the wrong things, like simplified combat mechanics, a linear story and gay romance. Not really my cup of tea.
It also costs a bloody fortune.
Dragon Age has always had gay/straight/bi romance.
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Yeah, they did that. It's called DragonAge: Inquisition.
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The two come from the same pot of development money. In an MMO I want customisation, crafting and all the other stuff that comes with it. In a single player game I want an excellent game experience. I don't care if my character looks like a million others around the world, I do care about the quality of the game mechanics and the size of the game. RPG's have been getting smaller and smaller in recent years. Remember when games taking about 80 hours to complete was commonplace? Now we are lucky if a game cracks half that. So less of the fluff and more game please.
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So in this linear story-telling game you can customize your character?
That's awesome..
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Mac users are still a thing? Wow...
Then again, some people still drive hummers too.
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What is wrong with Hummers? Many people still drive Prius.
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A Prius at least gets good gas mileage. Anything a Hummer can do can be done better with a cheaper vehicle.
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Prius get smahed by hummers.
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If that is what they are using it for, then sure. But I havn't seen Mac users throwing their macbooks at PCs yet.
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this...it's what I really wanted to MMORPG.com to ask. Will your story vary depending on race, economic class and all that stuff....like the first one. The second dragon age was a HUGE letdown in this category
want 7 free days of playing? Try this
http://www.swtor.com/r/ZptVnY
Quotations Those Who make peaceful resolutions impossible, make violent resolutions inevitable. John F. Kennedy
Life... is the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come - Lester Freeman
Lie to no one. If there 's somebody close to you, you'll ruin it with a lie. If they're a stranger, who the fuck are they you gotta lie to them? - Willy Nelson
Not for long, Been a slow role reversal going on thanks to MSFTs new take on the OS...they are doing more to get in the way and limit the PC to mobile abilities.
Anyway, I was hoping to see something about easing the way to mod the game like Bethesda was doing with their games.
"People who tell you youre awesome are useless. No, dangerous.
They are worse than useless because you want to believe them. They will defend you against critiques that are valid. They will seduce you into believing you are done learning, or into thinking that your work is better than it actually is." ~Raph Koster
http://www.raphkoster.com/2013/10/14/on-getting-criticism/
Nobody said that about DA:2.
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EA is evil, Bioware is long dead. I did not forget about DAII and these guys are not getting a penny out of my pocket...
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I was a big fan of DA:O and even liked DA:2 but I must admit, the more I read about DA:I the more I am thinking I will give it a miss. They seem to be pandering to all the wrong things. I want a complex RPG with tactical combat and meaningful story choices, and I am not sure this is it. It looks very watered down. They are focussing on all the wrong things, like simplified combat mechanics, a linear story and gay romance. Not really my cup of tea.
It also costs a bloody fortune.
Dragon Age has always had gay/straight/bi romance.