Dragon Age - Interview @ GameSpot
 

Once again Executive Producer Dan Tudge fronts for an interview at Dragon Age. This time, GameSpot focuses on the different class roles available, although here's a bit on the titular dragons:
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Pretty cool idea on dragons…..looking forward too seeing how they handle this.

Maybe like Shadow of the Colossus, a game I'd really love to play, if only it was available for PC … from what I know, basically the bosses were the levels. Huge.

Or like Zelda, where there can be many parts to a boss that you have to defeat independently before you can charge at the heart.

I just love Bioware games, but I just keep questioning how they're gonna pull off many of these things, from making a party-based pause-and-play RPG work on consoles, to epic sized creature battles. I'm sure they'll do it, and do it well, but that doesn't mean I won't be any less shocked when I see this stuff.

I just hope killing a dragon gives me a MAJOR sense of achievement. Now… where my stack of BG CDs go…

Oh, and edit - If noone noticed, the new trailer is there too. :)

Dragon Age will be so innovative.

Bear in mind, we're trying to lure in people who played Mass Effect. Not everyone grew up in the old glory days of the SCRPGs.

EDIT: No, that's too vague: I'm not trying to say that it's dumbed down or simplified or anything like that. I'm trying to say that the interviews are going to talk about things that are of course old hat to some people. I don't think that Dragon Age is trying to be innovative. Dragon Age is trying to be, as Tycho from Penny Arcade said, "…like some Hot Rod version of Baldur's Gate, all roaring chrome and fire up the side."

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I have nothing to say.

Good. Marketing strategy is probably not a topic an anonymous poster should be talking about. ;)

Since this site has rules against overt rudeness, and I don't believe I'm able to put guests on the ignore list, I'll take that as an end to attempts at useful discussion on my part.

Why so serious?

One more reason to deman registration before posting….oh well.

Because you are an anonymous troll. Dealing with you is a waste of time. Do us all a favour and go away.

That's exactly what I proposed in the internal forum two minutes ago. We'll see if the others agree.

I've always agreed with the concept of no registration= no posting!!

Not commenting on the quality of the actual game, but the bit about classes is just hilarious… Really, I can have my Rogue enter sneak mode and lay traps? Really, I can have him have do sneak attacks from behind?!! Whoa, mind blown. It's just kinda funny.

The only drawback to Dragon Age I've seen so far is the fact that it got pushed back by quite a few months. I was hoping to play it during Easter.

Can we please, please require registration before posting. The right to post insipid asinine drivel is something that will probably always exist online, but this is intolerable.

You do realize that you're feeding the troll, don't you?

Agreed I like everything I have said and read from the developers. Was pretty upset when hearing it got pushed back. But in the end in BW delivers a game as good or even better than the BG games all will be forgotten and the wait will have been worth it.

I think I'm going to adopt a "wait and see" approach for this one. I am not convinced enough of the old school RPG stuff is going to survive the need to attract the Mass Effect fans.

Sounds good to me. Can't wait to see how they tackle the diffeferent ways to handle the "corrupted" dragon. Hopefully there will be more than one way to deal with these demi-gods instead of just the usual "kill the dragon."

I'm beginning to feel nauseated by the media blitz and the over-hype with DA…. especially considering the onslaught of it we're going to face - on a daily basis, it seems - now that it's been pushed back till the end of the year.

I remember being much more exited about this one when the devs were very hush hush about the game. Just have to wait and see, I guess…..

Hmmm, I don't see that big a media blitz. Aren't you blowing it a bit out of proportion?

You don't have to read every preview or interview. Atleast I don't. Building huge expectations based on previews..well I've walked down that road too many times :). Also reading every info about the upcoming game is an easy way to spoil oneself.

I think it is more that there is a current frenzy of info coming out … I do think it will die down for a while and then ramp back up in the fall. Much of the frenzy, though, was related to the delay.

I had huge expectations till the day they announced that the game will be called Origins.

My 'hype' for the game went from 100 to 0 the day they announced they delayed it to coincide with the consoles launch, which would coincide to the new focus on these 'previews' and 'interviews'. So rogues can backstab and lay traps, and fighters can choose talents and mages can cast spells…
Wake me up in November please.

This is no blitz yet. But I do think they might be doing a bit too much too early. Chances are they'll quiet down a bit.

My hype was at 0 too, but then David Gaider sweet-talked me back. I'm still not overly excited because I'm just not that much of a BioWare fan, but this still looks like one to watch.

I really don’t understand this. In one post everyone complains that overblown hype is bad, how gaming media is crooked, etc. In another post you’ll say how people have the right to their opinion, that you can say what you want unless it is a personal attack.

Guest made two statements, neither of which contained a personal attack, nor were they extreme. He made a positive statement that DA will be innovative, which, anyone can see was sarcastic and meant the exact opposite.

Then he stated he had nothing to say. This of course came after putting two quotes together that did not make any sense when viewed together. I played Mass Effect, no sane person can say the game was not dumbed down. It was retardedly easy. It failed in every conceivable and unconvievable way as a game. The story and character interaction was the saving grace of it (and made it worth buying and playing), but mechanics-wise and challenge-wise it failed horribly. In my opinion. We’re still allowed to have those, right? This is the only game I ever played where the story and character interaction was good enough to carry the PoS game and actually make it worth “playing.”

It seems there are some unspoken rules on this forum (which are self evident from reading this thread):

1) Its okay to attack someone and call them mean and hurtful names, such as trolls, when someone expresses an opinion the hive-mind does not agree with.

2) General forum rules do not apply to game developers. You are never allowed to be critical of a game in which a developer of that game posts in. This is probably due to game devs being a big draw, and unregistered posters not being a big draw. But, for whatever reason, pointing out the obvious to a game dev is not allowed.

3) Sensibility goes out the window when it comes to bioware and hype. It is well know, and accepted, that games for both PC and console are dumbed down for the console market. But that does not apply to Bioware since their games have never presented a challenge to players on any medium. But neither does Blizzard. It’s not a bad thing. They want their games to be accessible, accessible means removing the challenge. Challenge doesn’t sell and both Bioware and Blizzard want their games to sell well. How can we claim to be adults, and sane, if we are not allowed to accept self-evident truths. Bioware’s goals are to make blockbuster super-selling games and you can’t do that without accessibility, and accessibility now is a synonym for “unchallenging.”

People play video games to have fun; some people think challenge isn’t fun, some people do. If you want a challenging game, don’t look to Bioware or Blizzard to provide it. If you want a blockbuster game that millions of people will love, then look to those two companies.

The bottom line is people should be held accountable for the words of their mouths. If a bioware dev wants to claim their games are challenging (not dumbed-down) they should have their games provide a challenge, or be held accountable for the statement. If Rpgwatch wants bioware devs not to be held accountable for their words and off-bounds for criticism, then add it to the forum rules. Because this makes no sense at all. Don’t hype a game with nonsense and expect intelligent people not to see through the hype.

That the poster was unregistered was just a scapegoat, as I believe any scenario would’ve led to attacks and craziness being directed at the poster of the two statements that did not break the forum rules.

And no, I was not the guest.

Okay, flame away and call me a troll and tell me how wrong and stupid I am.

Unrestigered definitely likes to talk a bit too much, but he actually has a point. Guest's posts were lazy and in being lazy probably meant to provoke (and that's the definition of a troll), yet his point was clear (and fair, BioWare does hype their games and the point on Mass Effect and dumbing down is fair). Dismissing it as rudeness as Weekes did is Weekes' own choice, but not really something I feel we should all get behind.

But…er…all these site policy discussions are spreading out a bit too much. It might be a good idea to focus them before they take over real game discussion, which is what this forum is here for. Fair enough Unrestigered?

My fear is, that they have to reveal more and more of the game to keep the buzz alive. That also was a problem of Mass Effects PR, because it spoiled half of the game.

Nah, Avantenor, like txa said we should expect them to tune it down before raising it up. If they have to keep up this stream until release then yeah, we'll know everything

Besides, you can always just tune out the PR and ignore any news if the info barrier you feel comfortable with has been reached. At least you have that option, I don't :P

Uhm, unfortunately I'm in the same situation as you.

Oh, sorry, I didn't realise that. Who're you covering the game for?

If I didn't I would be called lazy

Stop! You’re making me blush!!!! :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush:

I guess he needs to talk too much.

If it wasn't lazy it wouldn't have meant to provoke?

In that case, a lazy hype statement that is lie is also provocative, in which case Mr. Weekes is also a troll. Or we can say calling someone a troll is a personal attack, as the trollishness will always be a matter of opinions and degrees, and opinions are always as wrong as they are right. Some people say very retarded things, but calling them a retard is still agianst the forum rules.

Well, that was a lot of talking, but I managed to read it all, and fair is fair, Mr. None. :iloveyou:

Dealing with me is a waste of time? Insipid asinine drivel? What did I post to get such a response? I don't remember insulting anyone. Not in this news post, anyway. ;)

get over it already