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irstupid on 18 February 2011
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Mummelmann said:
irstupid said:

1. How is the sequal to Dragon Age look worse than the original?  Does that ever happen?

2. Witcher 2 looks amazing and can't wait to get it.

Doubt i'll get Dragon Age 2, the first one wasn't that great.  It was fun for a while, but then it sucked and thinking back on it now I don't have ANY incling to play it again ever.  So unless they changed and made dragon age 2 a crap load better i'll be ignoring that this time. 


1: Increased focus on console versions take a lot out of the tech, having a flexible cross platform engine beats out using the full available tech on the PC. And the first one wasn't even great looking to begin with.

2: Agreed. Very much agreed.

Expanding upon point 1; look at Dungeon Siege 3, Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 2, Final Fantasy XIII, the Command & Conquer series, Civilization V, recent statements from EA regarding racing sims (I made a thread on it that no one bother to read... ), every single FPS being made (practically) having more and more narrow corridor gameplay, regenerating health and near infinite ammo and you'll see a trend. Consoles are making games as a whole, dumber and are the main reason that depth is being sacrificed for action and effects. Stories get dumber, everything gets easier, more and more elements being tossed to move more units (and generally failing to do so). RPG's are where this is the most evident since there's the most depth to remove here, in five years' time, there won't be a single RPG in development that isn't either a MMO or filled to the brim with pure action with nearly no stats, skills, inredible item variation. Heed my words; the RPG genre is decaying slowly but certainly. The Witcher 2 is a fresh breath on this putrid wind but will remain the exception, sadly. Pretty soon, "RPG's" will be too action packed to satisfy RPG fans and just a tad too deep to satisfy action fans, ending up in a no-man's land from which there two means of escape; going full retard (i.e; pure action) or rebooting the genre and heading back to the roots. Both these will be of great risk to developers and both may very well fail.

In short; I don't like where things are headed at all.

i like when i hear companies make the game for the pc, then outsource for the console.  Like blizzard is looking for someone to make diablo 3 on console.  they aren't wasting their time or dumbing down the pc versino so that it is able to be console.

even though dragon age wasn't that good, you could still tell it was done for pc first and ported to console.  Things start to turn to shit when it is the other way around or they want to make them the same. 

What annoys me most is when this attrocity happens and you hear console only players going crazy over how amazing said game is.  Its like shut up, they RUINED the game, and you guys are praising them?