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Dragon Age II
Tiffanys:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 24, 2011, 10:05:10 AM ---your starting race is a human, a dwarf or a motherfucking elf! Could they be any more cliché?
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Well, wtf do you want it to be?
Besides, it's not like you just get that. There's Human Noble/Human Mage, Dalish Elf/City Elf/Mage Elf, Dwarf Noble/Dwarf Commoner.
What, that not good enough for you..? ::)
newy:
Oh, yeah. Something else I don't like about DA2. I use that... Mighty Blow, the one where you make a move down on the enemy with a 2h weapon, and the enemy explodes in thousand pieces and a cloud of blood... Why not just split in half? What are they trying to achieve with that? Attract stupid kids shouting, "Woah!!! Look at all the gore!!! So cool!!" and at the same time they get a PEGI rating of 17...
Fool010:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 24, 2011, 12:10:55 PM ---I think a fitting term for games nowadays would be "adventure game with few RPG elements"
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Didn't we already have that discussion ?
No video game can be considered to be an actual RPG, your choices are limited to the destinations Script Railways allows you to reach. Testing different paths all leading to pre-scripted endings is not my conception of roleplay.
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on February 24, 2011, 12:17:07 PM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 24, 2011, 10:05:10 AM ---your starting race is a human, a dwarf or a motherfucking elf! Could they be any more cliché?
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Well, wtf do you want it to be?
Besides, it's not like you just get that. There's Human Noble/Human Mage, Dalish Elf/City Elf/Mage Elf, Dwarf Noble/Dwarf Commoner.
What, that not good enough for you..? ::)
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I'd like to point at the fact Guild Wars managed to pull it off with .... 1 single race. Different races rarely offer a really significant difference in terms of gaming experience ... racials bonuses, yeah sure ... that's a lot or roleplay. (this is sarcasm, if clarification is needed)
--- Quote from: newy on February 24, 2011, 12:25:46 PM ---Oh, yeah. Something else I don't like about DA2. I use that... Mighty Blow, the one where you make a move down on the enemy with a 2h weapon, and the enemy explodes in thousand pieces and a cloud of blood... Why not just split in half? What are they trying to achieve with that? Attract stupid kids shouting, "Woah!!! Look at all the gore!!! So cool!!" and at the same time they get a PEGI rating of 17...
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Streams of blood aren't even gore, gore would mean dismemberement and severed bodyparts flying all around. Blood and gibs are fake gore, ludicrous but in no means gruesome.
JoonasTo:
Dragon age was kind of a failure in the RPG department. No matter what you did it didn't affect the story at all. Just switched a few persons here and there and the result was exactly the same. Maybe they could actually pull off alternative endings or diverging story paths for this one or something.
RPG doesn't need any more than one race or even one class and it can still be diverse and amazing.
That said, JRPGs shouldn't really be even counted as RPGs, they're stories on rails.
xfreidax:
The only way you're gonna get a "real" rpg like experience on the pc is in a sandbox type mmo, playing on a roleplaying server. The older Elder Scroll games come pretty close too. Single player rpg's these days are just glorified adventure games. Actually they've always been to a certain extent, but now more so than ever.
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