Dragon Age 3 confirmed

Originally Posted by johnhughthom

Care to prove the highlighted part? My evidence that it's simply not true.

Metacritic, Amazon user reviews and generally any site that allows user reviews are the worst kind of "evidence" to use in this case. In the last few years most of them have devolved to the use of rage accounts made to vote bomb games into oblivion. Did you know that Battlefield 3 for PC had a terrible star rating on Amazon for the longest time? Wanna know why? Rage votes over it's use of Origin. If i am trying to form an opinion on a game those sites I avoid like the plague because the input I get from them is absolutely useless in most cases. Oh, really. A zero for it's use of origin? How quaint.

Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla

The majority of people who played DA2 were moderately satisfied, and complaints generally centre on gameplay rather that story.

The latter is a much bigger issue for an RPG than reused environments.

I disagree. Sub-par or buggy gameplay kicks you right out of your suspension of disbelief and can cause your immersion to be shattered pretty quickly. Those two are just as important as a believable and fun story experience, at least for RPGs where that's the whole point.

A good example would be the monster-spawner style combat in DA2. People literally just drop down from the ceiling or otherwise materialize out of thin air right in front of you after you complete the first wave of combat. This happens multiple times per combat phase in the later stages of quests. It completely removes whatever organic feel the game has built in your mind and reminds you of it's mechanical nature, something that an RPG should be trying very hard to make you forget.

Good RPGs try to mask this by either hiding them inside buildings, around unaccessible or hard to reach corners, or generally just build their combat around a single phase of enemies that you must battle through. Dragon Age II put it right in your face and it was a very jarring experience.

Originally Posted by Tiaexz

The rest was kind of inferior in many aspects.

To be fair I liked the game AND the story up until Act III when the plot just goes up and puts you on rails with little regard for the player's choices or intentions. At the end of the day who you supported, who you helped, none of it mattered because of forces that were completely out of the player's control. There isn't anything wrong with that, per say, but it's not how bioware supposedly builds or markets their games. Come to think of it... sounds like another game Bioware released recently.

Aw hell.