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PureRok
Mar 27, 2010

Good as new.

Kirios posted:

Man I'm not sure how you can say that after watching some of the interactions and gameplay in the Giant Bomb video. I've moved from aggressively mediocre to this it not a very good game at all.

Well, I've played it, so I have first hand experience on it. I mean, there's the occasional funny glitch, just like the original trilogy; like when the doctor phased into my body while talking to me. For the most part, the game looks good and plays well.

Maybe it's just different when you're playing versus just watching it.

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Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:

I literally have not even looked at this thread until like last page, I'm judging based off how my facebook friends are reacting, and it is extremely negative

and many of them are non-goons and pretty hardcore Bioware fans, and were outright hype as hell for this game until the past couple days, so it's not like they're biased against the company the way you could argue SA is

I dunno what to tell you then, I haven't noticed this outpouring of disappointment and negative impressions except from this thread and even in here it's mixed.

Guess we'll all have to wait for the game to come out.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Avalerion posted:

The game play is also quite different, real time twitch/quick time event style combat in witcher vs dragon age's tactical real time with pause party based combat. Other than both being fantasy rpg's they are really not all that similar at all.

yeah but ME and DA are also totally different, so i was not focusing on that.

Abroham Lincoln
Sep 19, 2011

Note to self: This one's the good one



Kirios posted:

Exactly, this is from multiple sources and multiple locations.

Stop calling it SA overreacting. It's not.

i can't believe SA has gotten viral overreactors to counteract the viral marketers

i am the only real poster left not swayed by corporate greed

Mirthless
Mar 27, 2011

by the sex ghost

Lumpy the Cook posted:

There's a pretty substantial correlation between people who really vocally like Bioware games and vocally hate the Witcher. Come to think of it, I don't think I've really seen much vocal dislike of the Witcher anywhere except discussions of Bioware games, DA:I in particular. Why is this?

Because it's 1995 and you can only have a Playstation or a Nintendo 64, you can't have both!

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!

Captain Oblivious posted:

They lost Chris Avellone and one other big name who escapes me, but no Obsidian has not seen massive turnover. It also can't be emphasized enough that, despite the cult of personality around Avellone, he has never been responsible for writing whole games or even the majority of any game.

He is a good writer (usually) but his influence is way overemphasized by a lot of people.

I'm quite sad at the loss of Eric Fenstermaker, who's probably the other one you're thinking of, but they've hinted (as has he) that he might be back at some point

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Kirios posted:

Man I'm not sure how you can say that after watching some of the interactions and gameplay in the Giant Bomb video. I've moved from aggressively mediocre to this it not a very good game at all.

Because they said they played the 10 hour trial and liked it.

Holy poo poo, this thread is loving bad and VideoGames needs to get in here and clean it up. People who want to discuss anything related to multiplayer are drowned out by posts like this where it's all "after watching the streams and looking at the gifs blah blah it's a bad game" and it adds nothing to the discussion. I would much rather read people's actual impressions, and then see tips for multiplayer and other things about the game itself than all this poo poo.

But no discussion can happen because of the shitposts.

Serf
May 5, 2011


I think it's fairly obvious by now that Andromeda is gonna get beaten up pretty badly when it gets released. The game certainly did not put its best foot forward, and this trial is chum in the water.

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



Abroham Lincoln posted:

i can't believe SA has gotten viral overreactors to counteract the viral marketers

i am the only real poster left not swayed by corporate greed
i am actually a turnip that was given life and learned to post

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Serf posted:

chum in the water.

If there is an outpouring of negative impressions I would wager it's because of this since it's well established that there are shitloads of people (not necessarily itt) who are determined to make bioware games look bad regardless of their merit or lackthereof because sjw's or some dumb poo poo

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


Abroham Lincoln posted:

i can't believe SA has gotten viral overreactors to counteract the viral marketers

i am the only real poster left not swayed by corporate greed

*sticks syringe in your neck and drags you into a waiting vehicle*

katkillad2
Aug 30, 2004

Awake and unreal, off to nowhere

Fojar38 posted:

I've noticed this too. I like Bioware games but had a really hard time getting into the Witcher and I am genuinely at a loss as to why because I should like both.

I loved DA:I, thought 2 was garbage and Origins was great.
Not interested at all in the Witcher, I tried playing all of them and I don't get it. I realize it's not a popular opinion though so don't bring it up much.
ME1 was my favorite, I think they ruined single player combat after that turning it into Gears of War. At this point I'm just mostly interested in new ME multiplayer.

Hobo Clown
Oct 16, 2012

Here it is, Baby.
Your killer track.




If i enjoyed DA:O ages ago and never touched DA2 can I still enjoy DA:I?

Big Bowie Bonanza
Dec 30, 2007

please tell me where i can date this cute boy
i've played about 3 hours of multiplayer and no text chat is literally hitler

just watched 2 dudes run around in circles murdering stuff when the wave is infinite because they have to do the objectives until they lost

LITERALLY MY FETISH
Nov 11, 2010


Raise Chris Coons' taxes so that we can have Medicare for All.

Codependent Poster posted:

Because they said they played the 10 hour trial and liked it.

Holy poo poo, this thread is loving bad and VideoGames needs to get in here and clean it up. People who want to discuss anything related to multiplayer are drowned out by posts like this where it's all "after watching the streams and looking at the gifs blah blah it's a bad game" and it adds nothing to the discussion. I would much rather read people's actual impressions, and then see tips for multiplayer and other things about the game itself than all this poo poo.

But no discussion can happen because of the shitposts.

Guess the Defense Force is out in Full Now!!!!!

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters

2house2fly posted:

I'm quite sad at the loss of Eric Fenstermaker, who's probably the other one you're thinking of, but they've hinted (as has he) that he might be back at some point

Thaaat's who I was thinking of. I was totally drawing a blank for some reason.

I do hope he can collaborate on Eder at the very least.

DoctorGonzo
Jul 25, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Im from the CDPR marketing team. They pay me in alcohol.

cams
Mar 28, 2003


Hobo Clown posted:

If i enjoyed DA:O ages ago and never touched DA2 can I still enjoy DA:I?
i put about 450 hours into DAI and never played DA2, you'll be fine.

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

DoctorGonzo posted:

Im from the CDPR marketing team. They pay me in alcohol.

Can you spare some for me?

Big Bowie Bonanza
Dec 30, 2007

please tell me where i can date this cute boy

Big Bowie Bonanza posted:

i've played about 3 hours of multiplayer and no text chat is literally hitler

just watched 2 dudes run around in circles murdering stuff when the wave is infinite because they have to do the objectives until they lost

also finally bottlenecked the stock clock i5 2500k with all the physics

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
Still waiting for EA's check to clear before I commence posting.

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



Fojar38 posted:

If there is an outpouring of negative impressions I would wager it's because of this since it's well established that there are shitloads of people (not necessarily itt) who are determined to make bioware games look bad regardless of their merit or lackthereof because sjw's or some dumb poo poo

actually this is true that i have seen people crowing on twitter that it's a victory against those dastardly sjws and progressives that this game should turn out so ugly and broken and bad, so i'll agree that it's a real thing, but i think that's an extremely vocal minority

LITERALLY MY FETISH
Nov 11, 2010


Raise Chris Coons' taxes so that we can have Medicare for All.

Also my favorite RPG of the past few years or however long it's been since it came out was Shadowrun: Hong Kong, and all of the shadowrun games have been miles better than any of the witcher games I tried and bounced off of hard.

Waffles Inc.
Jan 20, 2005

PureRok posted:

Well, I've played it, so I have first hand experience on it. I mean, there's the occasional funny glitch, just like the original trilogy; like when the doctor phased into my body while talking to me. For the most part, the game looks good and plays well.

Maybe it's just different when you're playing versus just watching it.

yep it's this

there's no way the negative narrative turns around at this point tho

Serf
May 5, 2011


Fojar38 posted:

If there is an outpouring of negative impressions I would wager it's because of this since it's well established that there are shitloads of people (not necessarily itt) who are determined to make bioware games look bad regardless of their merit or lackthereof because skeleton's or some dumb poo poo

I think you might be barking up the wrong tree on this one.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Personally I like being a spaceman who flies around and does space things and fucks crewmembers

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->

Serf posted:

I think you might be barking up the wrong tree on this one.

no those people do in fact exist and are loud as gently caress

it is unironically one of the reasons i look at those gifs and youtube videos of wacky animations with extreme skepticism because they straight up manipulated footage back in 2014 to try and do the same thing to DAI

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010
If they disabled manual save (during priority missions) and had decent autosaves, it would be fine. As-is, it's loving ridiculous.

The actual gameplay is pretty sweet though.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Big Bowie Bonanza posted:

also finally bottlenecked the stock clock i5 2500k with all the physics

Isn't this literally the sort of thing offloading physics to the GPU a decade ago was supposed to sort out?

They sure aren't spending their GPU budget on animations.

Dongicus
Jun 12, 2015

Nazzadan posted:

*crosses legs, taps pen against chin*
Bloodborne is my least favorite Souls game. The removal of shields was bad and I even enjoy DS2 over it. :colbert:

mods

LITERALLY MY FETISH
Nov 11, 2010


Raise Chris Coons' taxes so that we can have Medicare for All.

Waffles Inc. posted:

yep it's this

there's no way the negative narrative turns around at this point tho

laffo if you think that all of these fuckers aren't going to play the game within the next week or two regardless of what they post.

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters

Serf posted:

I think you might be barking up the wrong tree on this one.

He's not entirely wrong. There is an extremely vocal contingent of alt right grognard fucks who are celebrating this as proof that the dastardly SJWs have perverted the purity of Bioware and that it was their RACE MIXING WAYS that have led to this terrible catastrophe.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Captain Oblivious posted:

He's not entirely wrong. There is an extremely vocal contingent of alt right grognard fucks who are celebrating this as proof that the dastardly SJWs have perverted the purity of Bioware and that it was their RACE MIXING WAYS that have led to this terrible catastrophe.

I blame the lizard people from mars who secretly hoard the world's gold myself.

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Cowcaster posted:

actually this is true that i have seen people crowing on twitter that it's a victory against those dastardly sjws and progressives that this game should turn out so ugly and broken and bad, so i'll agree that it's a real thing, but i think that's an extremely vocal minority

the last post I looked at regarding animations on reddit was submitted by a guy who frequents /r/WhiteRights

love too hang out with fellow gamers on line

like you said there's not THAT many of them but all of them are present and accounted for if that makes sense

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

If I ever do buy this game, it'll be after I've upgraded my video card, because among other things everyone's ears look like they were cut from dried playdo by preschoolers.

Kirios
Jan 26, 2010




LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:

laffo if you think that all of these fuckers aren't going to play the game within the next week or two regardless of what they post.

uh

Definitely going to continue playing Zelda and then continue Horizon in the next two weeks? Lets be real, there are far better options out there than the worst Mass Effect game to date

Serf
May 5, 2011


Fojar38 posted:

no those people do in fact exist and are loud as gently caress

it is unironically one of the reasons i look at those gifs and youtube videos of wacky animations with extreme skepticism because they straight up manipulated footage back in 2014 to try and do the same thing to DAI

I definitely know they exist. And they are annoyingly loud. But the people I see trashing the game in my Twitter feed are the exact opposite of those people. The journalists who have given middling to overtly negative impressions are obviously not in that group either.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Pattonesque posted:

the last post I looked at regarding animations on reddit was submitted by a guy who frequents /r/WhiteRights

love too hang out with fellow gamers on line

like you said there's not THAT many of them but all of them are present and accounted for if that makes sense

and again back when DAI was being released they were manipulating screenshots and poo poo to try and make the game look horrible and ugly including that infamous "sera but with graphics all turned down to superlow and with a photoshopped pixel filter overlaid" picture that was being passed around

Maybe this game is a turd but I'm not going to be leaning on selected gifs and internet commentary to tell me so.

LITERALLY MY FETISH
Nov 11, 2010


Raise Chris Coons' taxes so that we can have Medicare for All.

Kirios posted:

uh

Definitely going to continue playing Zelda and then continue Horizon in the next two weeks? Lets be real, there are far better options out there than the worst Mass Effect game to date

I also like that you're convinced the game is poo poo without ever having touched it yourself, too. It really adds to the discussion.

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A 50S RAYGUN
Aug 22, 2011
this game is worth 60 dollars if you are good at third person shooters and want to shoot aliens with your friends. hell, i'm on like my 13th hour of multiplayer.

i played a bit of the single player. it was okay. the models did not look great and there were some funny animations but it's not like i'm playing glover 64.

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