proficiency.bsky.social
Anti-Fascist. Anti-Democrats. Anti-Zionist. Free Palestine. GNOME Desktop Jihadist. cRPG fundamentalist. Armed.
Watcher of Caed Nua, Herald of Berath, Hound of Eothas and Duskspeaker.
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They're in "don't buy the game camp" since they don't.
And I remember the buzzwords used by the Tumblr fanbase during early release was "BioWare fans are traditionally bigger in the console". So no steam
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You're a minority among the casual BioWare fanbase if you agree that later Dragon Age games have been watered down since DAO. Most casual either don't buy the game after hearing the review or blindly liking the DATV, there is no in between.
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BG3 is a good larian cRPG that happens to be popular enough to reach casual audience, I think they should keep doing at what they're doing instead of changing their recipe to please their newer supposedly bigger audience.
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Larian is at tipping point they ether: Found their footing and create a good game consistently, or become BioWare who sacrifice everything for their newer audience.
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I bring it up because the arguments sounds too much like a grifter fascist complaining about nu-bioware or some such.
cRPG audience is big enough for a game created for sustainable in mind, think Owlcat Studio.
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Because everything you say about RPGs is going to be connected back to BioWare.
BioWare hasn't been Okay since Andromeda and folks want to know what happened to BW since then.
I personally think Mass Effect is the beginning of the rot. Mass Effect is what made BioWare/EA abandoned us RPG player.
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I'm sorry, English is not my first language, the summary is this:
You wonder why people don't understand what you mean, I say because you're surrounded by people who always agree with you and understand you, but a lot more people out there don't. I say, don't get stuck in this bubble.
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It's disrespectful to Andrew Wincott, Larian and Raphael to be compared to a one note villain like this.
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You're not the target audience this new game is aiming for.
And no, this isn't about "modern audiences". It's about casual audiences vs. cRPG enthusiasts.
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You got blocked yet?
100% agree with you btw.
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While I agree with you 100% in this matter, I would like to remind you that this space is a bubble. Unless you think the audience within this bubble is enough to sustain you then I have nothing else to say.
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Veilguard is not a good game though. Unworthy of BG2 and DAO legacy.
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LMAO, we ain't voting Lesser Trump.
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I think the most important thing is that "Souls-like" shouldn't claim to be an "RPG", because "Souls-like" is its own genre already; if it was an RPG, it would've just simply called an RPG.
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I just think that DATV is a deeply flawed game, insulting to the Dragon Age Origins legacy and I am confident that the dev knows this too.
It goes beyond EA being shit corpo (they are), I think the Dev also aren't blameless.
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I think the question is moot, I can tell you as a cRPG player for 20 years, BG3 is RPG par excellence, it's absolutely perfect. And then some random person just can whine about "but Wyll romance hur dur!" And "prove" that I'm "wrong".
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There is something close to it: Baldur's Gate 3.
Better RPG.
Worthy and surpass BG2 Legacy (something DA meant to do).
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I think DATV shouldn't include Solas at all. It was a mistake to pander to AO3 demographics and I think there should've been somebody within the team to inform the team of this.
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They done paywalled your talk ðŸ˜
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God I hope the measles got them en masse.
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I wish the pope actually had the power to interfere.
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LMAO. What a fucking tool.
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why did you changed the thumbnail, btw? (not watching it, I haven't finished Avowed)
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A lot of MAGAts are literally just Gen X having perpetual midlife crisis unfortunately.
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No chaos no disruption.
This will change nothing.
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Small notes about sales slowdown:
KCD2 being sold well practically making that argument obsolete (I'm not touching that game though).
I think Swen Vincke said it best: the game just need to be good.
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Anyway, good vid, subscribed.
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I agree with most of what you're saying but your criticism feels subdued and underplayed a lot of DATV shortcoming while almost constantly giving justification for its shortcoming.
Lack of choices in general, you mentioned there were only few "hard choices". I think that warrant a discussion.
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No discussion the difference how we interact with companion (you can't disagee disagree!) - and I think it needs to be discussed in-depth how "stoic" response aren't stoic 90% of the time.
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Comments from me:
No side quest choices discussion (there wasn't any).
No discussion about writing style ('modern' real life lingo pull you back from being immersed to the world, compared to, say, PoE 2: Deadfire - which made you can tell which culture an NPC belong based on how he talk)
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It's already dead and killed. Depending who you asked, some would say it's been dead for 15+ years.
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that's why most of them (ex-bio writers) are here. Bluesky is a bubble for them.
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On contrary I love BioWare more than most people that I do not accept them or those who praise the mediocrities that they have been spewed for over 15 years.
Pay attention to your surrounding and how many of them praising DAV as if it wasn't a shit product resulted from EA meddling.
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Ps. That being said I don't support sending him death threats.
I just think he is incompetent and incapable of making RPG, and those who do, already left a long time ago.
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And finally, to close my comment on Mark Darrah:
Shit management could not magically turn a Good writing into Bad writing - unless it's already bad to begin with.
BioWare is complicit to whatever degree it's up to each of us interpretation.
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Mark Darrah said Anthem isn't the game he wants to make, no shit that's obvious, he was dragged to it, he wasn't there day 1. And that kind of catastrophic mismanagement cannot just be pinned to EA alone.
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On Mark Darrah: He is out of touch and plenty of what he said was similar/akin to EA damage control speech (nod to that 70$ and cruelty). James Ohlen is as credible as he is if not more.
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Or "Since EA took over everything went to shit"?
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So your line is on Inquisition? Do you consider Inquisition is the last game that is "good" and isn't really meddled by EA?
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Let's close the forks and focus on the main questions.
Where/When do you draw the line of EA involvement has been catastrophic to BioWare development?
I say: Dragon Age Origins, all of the game after Origins are sucks and I blame EA for it.
How about you?
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why would they want developers that don't know shit about rpg?