Happy birthday, Neme 😛
So as I'm charity-ing it up in video games this weekend (helping host my server in an annual GW and now GW2 fundraiser on Saturday), I'm thinking of doing Extra Life, if I don't work on Sunday. Playing games for 24 hours straight for a good cause = hell yeah.
Originally posted by ScreamPaste
Except I can, as I just said, get a refund, lol. I haven't opened it, I went here: http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/
Wow, Dishonored actually has some decently hefty system requirements.
My computer destroys it, though 😄
Remember Amanda Todd who was harassed by a cyber bully? Anonymous found him.
Originally posted by Phanteros
He's from Bioware right? So what shit they are brewing up this time.
They're arguing over the dialogue wheel.
Originally posted by FinalAnswer
Is this the same guy that has to deal with the pissy Bioware "fanbase" on a daily basis?
He doesn't have to deal with anyone. The dudes a writer, its not his job to argue with the fans. He just gets as pissy as the fanbase does when theres the slightest amount of criticism for his work.
I wish. No, people are suggesting that the dialogue tree in Origins is superior to the wheel in DA2. Which I absolutely agree with since the wheel was handled atrociously in 2.
The OP said that she found the tree more intricate. Gaider told her that she was wrong and suggested that her screen must have been gunked up. He said that in Origins the dialogue was still just Nice/Sarcastic/Aggressive choices. Which is complete poop.
Threads here. I'm at the bit where he's defending the paraphrasing the wheel does. I don't know why this is even an issue, Deus Ex already solved this:
Boom, problem solved. Theres a paraphrase for the guys who don't want to read every line and then hear it said to them and theres the whole spoken line for those who don't like it when they pick one line and the character says something else.
And as someone pointed out, you could easily create the option to display the full-text or paraphrase in the options menu, to switch between them or turn one option off at your leisure. Bioware is just being lazy and uncreative here.
Of course the real reason why won't change the wheel is because they've patented it.
Actually that whole issue of dialogue trees where solved way back with Alpha Protocol(in fact better a better dialogue tree than both as character will catch you being inconstant and call you out on it if memory serves me right) , but it never got credit for it due to its low scores. But Yeah DE solved that issue pretty much.
Originally posted by Nephthys
He doesn't have to deal with anyone. The dudes a writer, its not his job to argue with the fans. He just gets as pissy as the fanbase does when theres the slightest amount of criticism for his work.
So he's embittered over the "fanbase" hating on virtually every aspect of Dragon Age 2 since it came out.
Fair enough.
Originally posted by Nephthys
Well it was a shitty game
Opinion, I had about as much fun with it as I did with Origins
that changed a lot of things
"Wahhh, the elves no longer look like smaller humans with pointy ears"
^This being a legit criticism I've seen 😐
Spoiler:
I also happened to LIKE the dialogue wheel 0:
and moved away from stuff that attracted a fanbase to the franchise in the furrst place.
What, you mean the Baldur's Gate-esque gameplay that I found to be complete garbage? Most of what was wrong with DA2 was with the fact EA rushed them, but that hardly matters, the game could have come out in 2012 without the bogus of re-used maps and no item descriptions, and it would still be regarded as the worst game of the year.
There's nothing wrong with criticising Dragon Age 2 anymore then any other game, a lot should have been done different and it was a rush job, but good lord that game is probably the single most reviled videogame I've seen on the internet.