Dragon Age: Origins coming to consoles Comments by Robert Purchese
BioWare clears up any confusion.
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Coughthulu
18/08/08 @ 11:46
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Oh doh! Numbing clown deferred!
I for one welcome our new Dragon Age overlords, and hope the conversion's good, cause I didn't want to have to beef the PC up. :) |
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They announced the new name at E3. Apparently the 'Origins' will make sense when you start playing the game.
But again having announced this for consoles as well I am quite concerned to the level of tactical gameplay this will allow. Even just seeing those screens of the camera being behind the shoulder of the main guy was enough to make me concerned. |
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JediMasterMalik
18/08/08 @ 12:31
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I don't think they'll fuck the game up or dumb it down. They will for consoles of course, but the PC version will be the definitive one, and hopefully will remain as good as it could be for PC.
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I don't know, this might be good news. If we assume for a moment that it will be a decent port to the 360, and people on the 360 will like it, it could mean a bit of a return of the more tactical stuff to PCs and consoles, as opposed to only the more action-based stuff like Mass Effect (as good as it is).
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Well, we all knew that it would be coming for consoles at some point in time, but I had expected it would be more of an afterthought than it appears to be.
This probably means that they have been taking what's possible to do with a controller only into consideration when designing what is supposed to be an old-school PC sort of game. I'm hoping to God that it won't be, but I'm fully expecting generic, simplified console hybrid-RPG-trash now. Calling it a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate sets expectations very high and very specific - good luck with that! |
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I really don't see anything that makes me think they'll remove features that have already added in order to "dumb down" the game for consoles. Especially not control of multiple characters (not if they want us to consider it any sort of successor to Baldur's Gate).
As for simplifying the mechanics; they are already simple, you have 4 characters with a quick slot bar per character. How hard would that be to replicate with a console controller (where your quick slot bar becomes a radial menu)?
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Aye, the toolset looks just as deep as the NWN one, I can't imagine someone trudging through that with a meager game pad. NWN pretty much got most of its appeal because of all the free fan modules (gonna be funny to see these not show up on Xbox Live knowing MS's stance on mods), too bad DA:O isn't going to provide multiplayer.
"Game is using UE3 so this was expected." Nope, it's using Bio's own Eclipse engine, DA:O does use some of the same facial animation/dialogue techniques of Mass Effect but without the dumbed down "only express your feeling instead of making some more intelligent choices when choosing a reply"-kind of dialogue. |
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