I've filled my bitching quota before it came out, and now I'm trying to salvage fun out of the release, which I wont lie isn't that hard. But, I've never put it down here so...
Shit:
1)ME2 Dialogue wheel: shitty shit shit. Its fine for a cruise control space opera story but fantasy RPG is built on different principles. In ME1+2 I was playing the role of Shepard so that was cool, but in DA1 I was playing the role of the character I made. Now I picking between three characterizations of one dude: Hawke. And sometimes WHAT I say isn't even matched by the wheel choice.
2) Hawke: Fuck that name. Fuck his golden sue eyes. Fuck him.
3) Changes in art design: The graphics ARE better in technological terms, but turning Hurlocks into emaciated crack addicts that can unhinge their jaws is a fucking joke. And that Ogre. Flesh skin. Good change for Gollum in LotR when you needed to sympathize with his character, bad for beefy mooks that are supposed to be corrupted monsters.
4) Keeping Art design: Most of the swords look like nerf larp weapons. Still.
5) Reducing the Threat per Enemy: By which I mean, killing an enemy means alot less this time around on any difficulty.
6)'Streamlined combat': this is slightly different. Your character hops around the battlefield like a hamster on crack, and is agile as fuck. Even in full plate as a sword and boarder.
7) Story: MINOR EARLY GAME SPOILERS: [spoiler]Family that happened to live in Lothering with three siblings who have no trouble cutting through more than a hundred total dark-spawn. Sure thier father was an apostate, but how many mages were cut down at ostagar? They aren't THAT special.
This is only so far but I'm doing a bunch of shit, meeting characters that are joining me and killing hundreds of human beings... to earn 50 sovereigns to get out of a city. It all feels very clusterfucky and pointless and not well paced.[/spoiler] This is early though it may earn this shaky start.
not shit: That dwarf guy is cool. And the elf chick. She's alright. Also I didn't like the huge pauldrons and those are gone so cool. The stats are a little better and the tech trees more streamlined. The city is well made and feels more city-y than, say, Denerim.
Shit:
1)ME2 Dialogue wheel: shitty shit shit. Its fine for a cruise control space opera story but fantasy RPG is built on different principles. In ME1+2 I was playing the role of Shepard so that was cool, but in DA1 I was playing the role of the character I made. Now I picking between three characterizations of one dude: Hawke. And sometimes WHAT I say isn't even matched by the wheel choice.
2) Hawke: Fuck that name. Fuck his golden sue eyes. Fuck him.
3) Changes in art design: The graphics ARE better in technological terms, but turning Hurlocks into emaciated crack addicts that can unhinge their jaws is a fucking joke. And that Ogre. Flesh skin. Good change for Gollum in LotR when you needed to sympathize with his character, bad for beefy mooks that are supposed to be corrupted monsters.
4) Keeping Art design: Most of the swords look like nerf larp weapons. Still.
5) Reducing the Threat per Enemy: By which I mean, killing an enemy means alot less this time around on any difficulty.
6)'Streamlined combat': this is slightly different. Your character hops around the battlefield like a hamster on crack, and is agile as fuck. Even in full plate as a sword and boarder.
7) Story: MINOR EARLY GAME SPOILERS: [spoiler]Family that happened to live in Lothering with three siblings who have no trouble cutting through more than a hundred total dark-spawn. Sure thier father was an apostate, but how many mages were cut down at ostagar? They aren't THAT special.
This is only so far but I'm doing a bunch of shit, meeting characters that are joining me and killing hundreds of human beings... to earn 50 sovereigns to get out of a city. It all feels very clusterfucky and pointless and not well paced.[/spoiler] This is early though it may earn this shaky start.
not shit: That dwarf guy is cool. And the elf chick. She's alright. Also I didn't like the huge pauldrons and those are gone so cool. The stats are a little better and the tech trees more streamlined. The city is well made and feels more city-y than, say, Denerim.
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When in doubt: It was sarcasm.