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BioWare Announces Dragon Age Inquisition For October 7th
An anonymous reader writes "Today BioWare announced a new game in its popular Dragon Age RPG series titled Inquisition. The game will follow the story of an Inquisitor trying to rally the world against the magic-laden forces spewing from rifts opening to another place. The game's creative director, Mike Laidlaw, says players will be able to watch the world descend into chaos, and then deal with the burdens of power as they rally forces in opposition. BioWare is also taking the opportunity to fix all of the things they broke in Dragon Age 2: 'Top-down tactical view is back. Playable races are back. The game seems to have more of an emphasis on challenge thanks to non-regenerative health.' The game will launch on October 7th for the PC, PS3/4, and Xbox 360/One."
Are the enemy spawn waves gone? That's why I stopped playing DA2: having enemies spawn into the middle of my party when I thought I was done fighting and (as such) had expended all my mana was not fun. I liked that I actually knew what was happening in DA:O and had some capacity to plan and deal with it.
Those people are lacking principles. DRM is intolerable to anyone with a brain.
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Try...
DRM infested great game created by a company that is unfortunately at the mercy of EA.
Don't get me wrong, I believe you are probably right about the DRM infested bit, and I'm personally of the opinion that EA blows ass in general.
But despite the mistakes they've made in the past, I still generally regard Bioware as a company that creates excellent video games, and as such, the announcement of Dragon Age 3 to me isn't something to snort derisively at, but something to look forward to with a bit of wariness included for good measure.
The characters look great and the tactics compelling but there's one important question the preview didn't even try to address: Is the gameplay as carefully balanced and the world at least as immersive, large, and interesting as Skyrim plus expansions? No amount of eye candy can make up for weak gameplay mechanics or a small world. Is the dialogue matched to gameplay? Is it matched to the gamer's style? Is it close enough to bug free that immersion isn't lost? Is the mechanic for buying and selling goods balanced? Does the game support all possible playing styles without falling apart in some way? Is the AI at least decent?
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
Meh, Origin's crap and I haven't played an EA game in over a year because of it. If they release on Steam, I'd consider it.
Bye!
To speak in the words of the venerable Michael Scott, "Fool me once, strike one, but fool me twice... strike three." What Bioware has proven over and over again is that they haven't been able to make any proper decisions involving their games since they released the "are you ready for the new shit?" trailer to promote DA1. Again and again they have alienated their core player base in order to appeal to a wider market... and failed. DA2 was a pile of shit, the ME3 ending an abortion that turned everything they said over the course of the development of the entire ME series into a lie ("the ending won't simply be a button you push in the last five minutes of the game!"), and the departure of the Doctors the final nail in the coffin. I'm not even going to pirate this. Before ME2, the last game worth my time Bioware produced came out in 2003. It's over, we're never going to get another Baldur's Gate 2, at least not from Bioware.
Though I'm hopeful about Pillars of Eternity.
EA corrupts everything they touch: BioWare, DICE...
DRM is what actually makes the service better for people who choose to pirate. If you buy DRM'd official cd's you have to deal with DRM bugs and just waste time on making it work while a torrent with cracked version from tbp relieves you from those hassles. DRM only punishes people who choose to donate money to game-makers by buying games.
"It's different, now i hate it. It's the same, now I hate it"
I never pre-order anything. I'll never trust that a sequel will automatically be as good as the first. They have to change things up, but they also have to keep good things in. They are liable to make mistakes. Hopefully 3 will incorporate learnings made from the failure of DA2. But I won't pre-order it. I wouldn't pre-order a Borderlands 3 game, even though I was very happy with both BL1 and BL2.
They should never be able to fool people, but so many fall for the pre-order bonusses. I'm too pragmatic/cynical too go for them. I always wait for a steam sale, and more importantly, a video driver update or a post-launch patch to fix bugs not found in testing.
It's a popular opinion, but I have always failed to see why.
Because it is attempt by scumbag companies to control your computing.
As a legal gamer who pay for my games I experience no problems with services like Steam whatsoever.
You seem to be presuming that DRM only affects people who don't get the game from authorized channels, but even Steam sometimes affects 'innocents.'
But that's besides the point. I'm someone who wants full control over my computer, so of course DRM is going to be intolerable to me.
I never have to worry about keeping/maintaining physical discs for later install, no worries about media format changing or anything like that.
Guess what? Services like GoG exist, and they don't use DRM.
Steam games don't always use DRM, though, but since it supports a DRM scheme (Steamworks, I think it's called), I cannot support that company.
I forgo many convenient things simply because I stick by my principles.
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Yes, I still play very old games on old equipment. Some of us do care about things like ownership and control.
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How do you suggest these Bioware stop everyone just downloading their game?
It is unjustifiable to unleash DRM against people just to stop the copyright infringement bogeyman. Furthermore, how does GoG do it? They don't. They don't treat their potential customers like scum and trust them to buy the games. DRM almost always fails to stop anyone but normal people, anyway, and when it doesn't, it's so horribly draconian (e.g. Diablo 3) that the game is worthless.
Because although a lot of /.ers complain about DRM and wanting everything to be free, these games actually cost A LOT of money to make. You can't hate a company for at least trying to break even.
Incorrect. I can hate a company for trying to make money through immoral means. Digital restrictions management, that which attempts to take control of your computing from you, is immoral.
It's hard to believe so many pieces of ignorant trash are still around. How is it that there are still fools like you repeating myths about DRM that were repeated so many times in the past, and subsequently debunked?
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