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Raganork posted...

Except when you're BioWare and you try to make Inquisition the best of both worlds and fail miserably

I blame the fans for that. So many people shat on DA2 in spite of the combat being fine, BioWare panicked and decided they had to have combat more like DA:O (which is what most of the loudest ranters claimed they wanted).

But they (and probably EA even more so) were also aware that the average fan doesn't really want turn-based tactical combat, especially with games like Skyrim exploding in popularity, so they still felt like they needed to have SOME level of hack-and-slash.

So they wound up trying to create a hybrid that incorporated elements of both, but wound up being worse than either.

It wasn't entirely surprising, though. When they first openly admitted they were looking at Skyrim for inspiration, my instinctive reaction was "Watch them copy all the worst parts of Skyrim and completely miss the actual reasons why it became popular", and they pretty much fulfilled that prophecy to a T.

And now that news has started to trickle out about DA4, I feel like they haven't learned a single worthwhile lesson and are going to wind up tanking another franchise for me.

BioWare has basically become my new Square - they've gone from being one of my favorite developers and the people putting out my absolutely favorite games, to being a company I don't want to touch with a 10-foot pole. Square was pretty much God for the 90s, BioWare was pretty much God for the 00s, and right now I barely want anything to do with either of them.

(Especially since BioWare is openly admitting that Anthem is basically going to be their Destiny clone - I'm not sure anyone on PotD could actually pay me enough to ever care about/look forward to that game now. So I'm basically left with two murdered franchises and one stillborn one.)


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