» Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:29 am You said they were catering to casual, not hardcoe. And you most definitly made it sound like those kind of changes would just annoy hardcoe players. My point is that that is simply not true. Just because someone likes ME2 more than ME1 or other RPGs, doesnt mean their more causal. In my opinion they simply improved the game.
Dumbing down/watering down is again just your prespective, not a fact. Streamlining does not equal dumbing down.
And DA:O taking some pages out of the book of ME2 is nothing bad. Inventory management is definitly one thing they could improve a lot. The narrative can profit from them having a fixed main character. ME2 definitly offered more cinematic and engaging dialogues.
I love DA:O, one of my favourite RPGs ever, but I definitly think ME2 is overall the better game.
Again you're just saying as if they are only catering to "casuals"(whatever the [censored] that is, because people who play RPGs are rarely casual in my book). Another person can definitly say they are improving the game.
But we won't know one or the other for sure until the game is released anyways
Dumbing down/watering down is again just your prespective, not a fact. Streamlining does not equal dumbing down.
And DA:O taking some pages out of the book of ME2 is nothing bad. Inventory management is definitly one thing they could improve a lot. The narrative can profit from them having a fixed main character. ME2 definitly offered more cinematic and engaging dialogues.
I love DA:O, one of my favourite RPGs ever, but I definitly think ME2 is overall the better game.
Again you're just saying as if they are only catering to "casuals"(whatever the [censored] that is, because people who play RPGs are rarely casual in my book). Another person can definitly say they are improving the game.
But we won't know one or the other for sure until the game is released anyways
Those changes do annoy hardcoe players, look at the DA2 forums, people are pissed, and what I said was my opinion, how you see it has no effect on what I said, I never said I spoke for all core players. Just because you see it that way dosent mean I did. And IMO they made the game more casula by removing rpg elements in favor for more fps or specifically gears of war elements, I expect DA2 combat will become like oblivion/fable and rely little on stats and limit customization, and streamlining isnt dumbing down, removing good content to make a game easier/more accessible is dumbing down.
Yes and in ME2 book inventory was reduced to a few guns... Yay/sarcasm
And while they can do more with a fixed character it limits replay valuse, red ead redemption shows this, a pre set character, very well done, but leaves little room for change.
