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Pineapple on 07 April 2011
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vlad321 said:
cura said:
vlad321 said:
cura said:
vlad321 said:

Is this their way of saying "We are sorry for fucking up DA2 so badly, please buy it anyhow?"

I think it is simply a case of saying thank-you to those who bought the game. However, haters are always going to find an ulterior motive for this.

Here's hoping that bioware will move away from serving the pc elitist crowd!


I agree, we need more dumbed down games for the least common denominator. There just isn't enough already.

I agree, it may very well be a thank you, "thank you for actually paying us for this crap we put out, we feel kinda bad so here you go."

I anticipated this kind of response from you. However, I am not so pretentious to believe that all changes are bad and don't want to get into an argument over this. I am on my third playthrough and have enjoyed the game a lot. I also enjoyed DA:O and DA:A...

Just because you enjoyed it it doesn't mean that the game was dumbed down, with a lot of copy paste, and a shitty story compared to DA:O where you traveled around the entire country. I also forget the REALLY dumbed down conversation trees and character interaction. If you like it, I'm happy for you, but it doesn't change ANY of those facts.

Your idea of "dumbed down" is another's idea of "simplified". There's also the thing that while you may have preferred DA:O's story, plenty of people might have liked the story of DA2, where you're not instantly the future hero of Ferelden, but rather in a setting where you start off as more of an average person.

Your dislikal of the story doesn't make it crap. The combat being made for people who like simpler forms of combat, rather than complex ones, doesn't make it "dumbed down". It's different - and possibly with a bit less potential depth than DA:O's system - but for the majority of the people who play DA:O, they never used all the complex ways of playing the game. I know I didn't play DA:O in a more advanced way than I'm playing DA2.

 I'm sorry that DA2 wasn't designed to be a game for people who like the games that you do, but that hardly means you should go around calling the game crap repeatedly.

 Some people like simpler games. I do. You should let us play the game and be happy with it, rather than repeatedly having to rain on other people's parades. We don't do that, we just accept that some games are too complex for us, and don't play them.

General rule of courtesy, when a person says "I don't want to get into an argument over this, but I like this game" and ends it there, saying "The game is crap for the following reasons. That's a fact" is quite a bastardly thing to do.