12 Ways Consoles Are Hurting PC Gaming

[zarx]

Zkuq said:

zarx said:

pah they didn't make Dragon age 2 for the "console" crowd they made it for the CoD crowd. They even came out and said that they were making an RPG that people that think they can't play RPGs because they are to complex.

I always felt the made it for the Mass Effect crowd.

so you think it was more the Gears of war crowd than the CoD crowd then? 

here is the quote btw "Traditional weak points of the classic RPG are ... they're daunting. High barrier to entry. They're hard to get into. ...So our goal with 2, I think, is to strip away a lot of that barrier to entry to let you ease into the game. I think Dragon Age II sidesteps what I see as almost like traditions,"

For a franchise built apon the idea of a return to classical PC RPG roots for bioware it's pretty damning, it's clearly not aimed at the RPG crowd but at the more "casual" action gamer from the faster combat involving button mashing on consoles to the enemies exploding when they die, the tells are all there.

Considering that Dragon age according to VGchartz sold 2.09 million on 360 and 1.2 million on PS3 and Mass effect sold 2.4 million on 360 and Mass Effect 2 sold 2.41 mill on 360 and 0.33 mill on PS3 changing the franchise to be more like Mass Effect seems like a bad busyness decision anyway...