Is Bioshock good ?
Is L4D good ?
is Mass Effect good ?
is Witcher good ?
is Dishonored good ?
is The walking Dead good ?
New games are amazing and bring up superb graphics and new always improved AI
I will never trade this
for this
New games are amazing!
And i know Dragon Age Origins was good. Inquisition was very good to. It had much more character development and much more dialog. And the combat was much better.
Yes it was hard to get the gear. In DA Origins no one got the npc top grade store items without cheats. You had to farm forever,and as the game was made it kinda was not that easy. Point you could still finish the game in high difficulty even without the top items. 30k for an amazing ring in the store, you played 1 week and all you had was 4k.
I finished Inquisition 2 times. First go around i did not farm for 1 second. Second time it was harded cuz i wanted to be.
Bottom line can not w8 for the new DA!
Well boom spot on I'd say. New games CAN be amazing and that Total War screenshot to me is a perfect example of how a franchise can ALSO evolve, how it can grow and after many many sequels finally finds a setting and formula that works miracles (TW Warhammer is that game IMO, I would easily put it on par or above Shogun 1, but at the same time, I would still enjoy firing up Shogun 1 for all its atmosphere and same good mechanics) and tickles everything a strategy game should tickle, while executing its mechanics very well.
But I really have trouble counting Inquisition among them. Consider also how different the game has become from Origins, it turned from being a highly strategic live chess game with customizable characters and incredible depth, into a 'mash three buttons' clickfest where the only choices are in how you progress, not what you progress towards (every character has a very limited skill tree, choice is narrowed down to an order of picking available skills really, no real freedom but just the illusion of it). The strategy part is completely marginalized, the customization is marginalized (simplified) and at the same time the game had some sort of identity crisis trying to fit MMO theme park nonsense into a single player experience.
Mass Effect kind of did the same thing as the Inquisition route, I just finished Andromeda, and it is Inquisition in space, same concept, same ingredients, more focus on combat with less chance for real choices (respecs are readily available, no class restrictions) same generic shit maps with some side quests, overall writing in the game is super basic and makes you want to spacebar through all the time. While the early Mass Effect wasn't a matured concept, it DID offer some really cool moments, it DID have memorable characters, it DID have soul and it DID show a dedication from the developer in shaping a new world and a very cool setting. In Andromeda, all of that is taken as a given, and no new cool sauce is added. You colonize a new galaxy, and your nemesis is some weird Warframe- Grineer looking badguy (no really, go look at them side by side, even the assets are similar) who above all seems rather pathetic and not at all threatening.
In the end it shows how different people can look at the same game, I guess