Dragon Age 3 to deliver 'marriage' of DAO and DA2
Bioware's Dr. Ray Muzyka claims that Dragon Age 3 will be a "marriage of the best from both games, Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2."
Although Dragon Age 3 has yet to be "officially" announced, Bioware CEO Dr. Ray Muzyka discussed what fans can expect from a sequel. According to the good doctor, he and the rest of team are well aware of the polarizing response that Dragon Age 2 received, both from critics and fans, due to its more action-focused turn from the more methodical pace of Dragon Age: Origins. Though not a simple task, Dr. Muzyka asserts an effort to blend the best attributes of both previous games in Dragon Age 3.
"The number of the reviews was... very polarized, awesomely so. Lots of 90+ reviews, we also got fans that I think in some cases who were expecting more Dragon Age: Origins," Dr. Muzyka told PC Gamer. Muzyka points to "a misalignment of expectation" for the sequel, which explains the negative reaction some die-hard fans had when experiencing the changes made to Dragon Age 2. That said, he also recognizes an "obligation" to fans who were "surprised and delighted" by Dragon Age 2's more accessible approach.
It shouldn't be too surprising that Dragon Age 3's new direction is being determined, in large part, by fan feedback. "What we need to do as developers is take that feedback from both sets of fans to heart and see about marrying that in future games in the Dragon Age franchise," he explained.
While no specific examples were shared, Dr. Muzyka seems enthusiastic about the new direction. "The team is going to have some things that are going to surprise both sets of fans, both core fans and new fans with a marriage of the best from both games, Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2," he promised.
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I think DA3 will hit it out of the ball park, while sort of hating by a lot to DA2 was quiet the accomplishment technically with its new engine on the PC as well as new gameplay mechanics. Personally I quiet enjoyed DA2 sure its not perfect but still a very good game.
If they combine the two games and add some open world gameplay to the ares with the pimp DA2 engine its going to be a incredible game.
Can not wait, I have 100% faith in them, just take your time don't rush it, having the new engine done I would think they will have more time this time around.-
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I agree. :)
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I thought it was fun until Ch3. I've had three characters never make it past that ch.
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Agreed. I've been playing through DA:O after hearing all the hype and am underwhelmed. For example, implementation of rogue stealth and tactical positioning is a joke: position team of three at end of hallway with ranged weapons and tell them to hold (check), scout ahead with rogue main character in stealth mode and (unwittingly) pass by invisible enemies that only trigger/insta-spawn when someone "unstealthed" enters the room (lame); or, better yet, tactically position team down hall or at a good, defensible choke point and tell to hold, then go forward with main character and open door, whereupon - entire team is teleported into small room for cutscene and CQB (yay!). So lame.
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Unless it includes the strategic overhead camera, that quote is a lie.
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Yeah, the overhead camera NEEDs to come back. Thats what made combat in DA:O enjoyable for me.
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They will say it's coming back in modified form, then it will come out as a third person shooter.
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Lol, indeed. Bioware dropped the ball with DA2, big time.
I just it by number of playthroughs :-
DA:O = 3 (and will happlily be playing another one after Deus Ex HR)
DA 2 = 1 (and what a chore it was, shelved that fooker soon as I was done with it) -
My thoughts exactly
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So basically a divorce with DA2, right?
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I've always ran with the assumption that DA2 was just a filler while more time went into the true sequel.
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If you take a quart of shit and mix it with a quart of ice cream, what you will get will taste more like shit than ice cream.
Full disclosure: I didn't finish DA2. I just.. couldn't. Perhaps someone will tell me that it gets much better after the first two chapters, but as it stands count me among the disappointed. -
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The talent trees for one, as it made certain each character had unique abilities. Also, fully voicing the hero was better than everyone voiced but the hero, which always felt weird to me in DA1.
I could go either way with the most action rpg-esque combat...but the "wave" mentality of DA2 was dumb.
My biggest issue with the game is the reusing of dungeon layouts over and over, everything else I was okay with but that shit was just obnoxious.-
You were ok with literally every mage being crazy evil blood mage? I mean, that kind of undermined the entire plotline of "We are so oppressed because they unjustly think we are all crazy evil blood mages" when in fact they are. Makes supporting the mages an undefendable, illogical choice.
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I generally play as evil as humanly possible, so no that didn't really bother me. It was all in one city anyway, so it's not like it really had implications for the larger world.
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I guess I looked at it as though they largely felt they had no choice but to embrace blood magic to defend themselves in the grand scheme of things.
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http://www.deviantart.com/download/201747093/da2__orsino_spoilers_by_fishmas-d3c451x.jpg
Sums up DA2 nicely. Crock of shit.
EVERY Mage you encountered was a deviant, there wasn't a single forthright mage in the entire game, hard to sympathise with them, just reinforces the fact your decisions have ZERO weight.
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The next Blade Runner movie isn't out yet.
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Well for one there was... welll.. ummmm...
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I liked the focus of one area. Even though DA:O was a larger world it still felt like you weren't traveling through all of it commuting.
I would think a spin off of Mass Effect set solely on the Citaldel a la DA2 would be awesome. Being something like a C-Sec detective/Agent would be awesome.
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So I see it as the first one being a stud and the 2nd one was a ugly fat chick...how will the child turn out??
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Christ almighty. What a load of crap Mr Bioware CEO spouts. If he'd just said, "The game missed the mark and we need to improve the sequel in many respects," I'd have no problem with him. But this verbal diarrhea is an insult to every gamer who bought the game on the strength of the first game and couldn't believe how Bioware had so badly fucked up.
Let's just hope that ME3 doesn't go the same way, because the Dragon Age franchise is a joke now. Not because the second game was crap, but because they can't admit it was crap.-
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Well he has a financial obligation to the company not to trash talk its products, and an obligation to his employees not to denigrate their work publicly.
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I agree it sucked, and that's why I didn't buy it. But he's not required to say "Man, DA2 sucked dick, then tongued the ass. But I fucking swear the next one will kick ass."
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I agree with you, but I have trouble seeing what makes Mass Effect still such a holy grail for everyone.
Perhaps it is because I've played both on PC, but they have both seemed disappointingly mediocre to me. None of the characters are interesting, the villains are boring, the central conflict is predictable, sidequests are lame "go kill this" type affairs, and combat is subpar compared to any full-fledged shooter or RPG. The graphics and art are well done, though. What is it that makes people so gung-ho about this series?
DA2 did have a few strengths: the story and characters i thought were some of the strongest in any recent RPG. The environments, art, combat, gameplay, and inventory systems were terrible though. I'm not buying DA3 unless I hear some absolutely stellar reviews from a critical reviewer.
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It didn't sell very well, it sold medium or so. I'm sure it was profitable because it was obviously a brutally cut up game made on a strict budget but it wasn't a blockbuster hit like Mass Effect or anything to justify going there again for commercial reasons.
Developers don't necessarily push this shit because it's in the numbers, they push it because they think it will get numbers somewhere down the line. Dead Space is a franchise not because DS1 was some huge hit, if anything it was a very expensive game and a failure, but in the minds of EA producers it's a thing they can build into a success. Likewise with Dragon Age they're determined to get those CoD kids and they'll keep pushing till they get them or they run out of money to make Dragon Age games with.
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Bioware has already made it clear that they believe games created in the vein of Baldur's Gate cannot be successful. They struck that cruel blow against us lovers of that genre when they made DA2. I find it extremely unlikely that the 3rd one will give us the evolution we all hoped to find in DA2. Our genre, like the space sim, is dead. I'm sure many people who never played BG or its ilk probably found DA2 more entertaining than DA1. Unfortunately for me, Bioware thinks you guys are the majority or will be in the future.
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I hope they keep the cinematic presentation and the huge amount of party member dialog from DA2.
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Yeah, he made the game worth it.
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I'll defo be waiting for the reviews and such before commiting to buy. Fuck pre-ordering it, Bioware lost a lot of cred with DA:2.
Wish they'd just man up like Stardock and say "Sorry guys, we let you down, we made a bad game." instead of trying to big up the minor things it got right and blatantly ignore/refuse to comment on the GLARING faults (of which there are MANY).
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