Sure, but to then say all it is is a combat fest is BS.
Well, the demo most certainly is.
And, we have to keep a few things in mind :
- what is a demo trying to achieve ?
- what kind of "image" or impression on the player is it designated to create ?
- what parts of the full game were actually chosen for the full game ?
- why did they chose THESE parts and not others ?
- there was another thing I wanted to add, but I suddenly forgot it :lol:
IF a demo is designated to make an impression on player who is trying out a demo (I'm explicitely *not* saying "
this demo" !!!), THEn the question is, WHICH kind of impression should the player have ?
To just put an example into the discussion : It would imho be just nonsense to have an dialog-heavy game, and release combat-only sections of the game s a demo.
But on the other had, this could also be part of the what i call "Black Marketing" : Tricking people into believe that certain parts of a game were more important within the full game than they actually are …
This is an interesting thought. Could the maklers of the Dragon Age 2 demo do this kind of marketing as well ? Use combat-heavy portions of the game, but the game has much more dialog instead ? Kind of "luring" gamers who love combat into a game that has in fact not so much of it in it ?
We are just presented a demo. Full stop. We can only speculate on which approach was used by the "makers" of this demo :
- the "traditional approach" = the demo is actually meant to be typical for the full game
- the "Black Marketing" approach : what the demo presents will not be typical for the full game, or even rather the opposite
And this is quite a bunch of unsolved variables, imho.
Me, I don't think - trying to put the overall marketing regarding the game which I've seen this far into the context of the demo - that the people at BiowEAre use the so-called "Black Marketing" approach. Given what I've read and heard about this game so far, I'm rather leaning towards believing that the demo will be rather typical for the rest of the game.
What exactly does it show about this site? That not everyone has the same opinion?
I know that's hard for someone to accept once they've taken the fanboi stance on something.
I must agree - as a Drakensang fan.
For one who is serious, this is a very good learning lesson : Trying to accept different opinions …
I know certain DX10 features can actually be run on DX9 but there are also a ton of things that only DX10 and DX11 can do, it's not all marketing. Progress is a good thing.
I don't have nothing against this Direktx thing - I have something against limiting it to other OSses.
If the cards can do Direktx 11 - then why not implement the neccessary wrappers into Direktx 9, too ?
To be fair, he is looking at Drakensang 2 which was basically a copy of NWN engine(but inferior) which did not require as much horsepower. You are absolutely correct on why the DX 11 version has more bells and whistles.
And any gamer shouldn't be against things being there that their "current" machine can't handle. The worst thing ever is to limit it to the lowest power and not have a higher edge.
I don't have anything against this "higher edge" thing, as you call it.
I have something against excluding people.
I take this personally. This is my very personal crusade. And it has a background :
Unlike most of you here, Iwas heavily bullied at school. I call bullying as "social exclusion". Someone was trying to isolate me from the rest, a little bit like a pest that needed to be battled. Nobody helped me. They were all living in fear of the bullies. They all lived in fear of one day being bullied the same way they bullied me. And they were older than the rest, and reasonably stronger. And more aggressive.
I still don't know how I survived this, by from a psychological standpoint, I was a wreck. I've managed to heal myself quite a lot, but there are still parts in me that just detest exclusion from anything. And aggression, too.
I have lived to see what exclusion means. Social exclusion. Personal exclusion. Being excluded from the rest by force. (Psychological force, mostly. I was not physically beated.)
This is my background why I'm against excluding someone from something. I have madfe a very deep experience of it, and to me it is just a danger. Something I on't like at all.
This is why.
And regarding my machine : I'm playing rakensang 2 nowadays on my "gaming machine", and that is - according to Bioware's config program - a "Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3 GHz" with an "GeForce 9800 GT".
I think this should be enough for Drakensang 2.