Am I the only one who thinks dragon age was bland?

[oranger]

Seriously, gameplay-wise its like baldur's gate 2 lite. which was dungeons and dragons lite.
And of all the dialogue, only a handful of segments were worth my time, the rest was filler that could have been used to develop the characters, but instead each character relies on huge amounts of exposition to reveal themselves as people, which they fail at for the most part. (though alistair and leliana were interesting, to a point).
My point is, I'm glad I bought it used so its devs get none of my money.
I guess that it hits that middle ground between what the knuckledragging button mashers and the elitist number crunchers want, and manages to appeal to both. But I'm still glad I didn't pay full price.

 

[sizzle949]

I found the combat was incredibly boring... something about every ability seemingly having a 15-30 second cooldown just made for extremely lame combat.

 

[Loop Stricken]

I got to like the second town thingie and gave up, personally. Considering it's from BioWare the graphics were dogshit and it was just plain awkward to play, especially when your healer decides to do absolutely fuck-all.

[Okay, so i did just buy it for the Mass Effect 2 Blood Dragon Armour, but still.]

 

[The Austin]

For the 4th time today, you are on the internet, you are never the only one.

And I liked Dragon Age. I thought it was another great victory for Bioware.

 

[Burningsok]

Wow in one day I have run across maybe 5 "Am I the only one who.. blah blah blah" threads

Well I haven't played it, but my friends love the game.

 

[Girl With One Eye]

It wasn't perfect but by no means 'bland'. Its definitely a favourite of mine.

 

[Sassafrass]

NO YOU AREN'T.

Seriously? Mods, can we please add something that instantly locks threads with "Am I the only one who..." in the title?

I back your answer and that request.

And to answer the question with my answer, no you aren't the only one and never will be.
And I am not with you. I'm enjoying it at the moment. Done three of the Treaties and working on the Dwarfs treaty now.

 

[AnthonTheSkabot]

no you wern't, the map was hard to read, the whole choose your own dialouge and story thing has been done way better and the combat was horrid

 

[SturmDolch]

Bland is a good way to put it. I liked the game and it was good. But it was just so... samey. I was extremely dissapointed with the combat. It was like playing a generic MMORPG, except you're controlling 4 characters and thus never have any real idea what's going on.

It's one of those games where I'll be playing to see the story and characters but eventually get bored of the gameplay and stop playing.


Edit: @ Everyone in the thread saying "UR NOT TEH ONLY ONE": That's not what the thread is about. It's about "Do you think Dragon Age was bland?" Not everyone has the expert knowledge you have in creating a good thread title so give the OP a break already. Honestly, it's amazing how negative you lot can be.

 

[oranger]

Bland is a good way to put it. I liked the game and it was good. But it was just so... samey. I was extremely dissapointed with the combat. It was like playing a generic MMORPG, except you're controlling 4 characters and thus never have any real idea what's going on.

It's one of those games where I'll be playing to see the story and characters but eventually get bored of the gameplay and stop playing.


Edit: @ Everyone in the thread saying "UR NOT TEH ONLY ONE": That's not what the thread is about. It's about "Do you think Dragon Age was bland?" Not everyone has the expert knowledge you have in creating a good thread title so give the OP a break already. Honestly, it's amazing how negative you lot can be.

thanks dude

 

[Vanaron]

Hmm, Steam tells me I have 180 hours logged on Dragon Age... Got every expansion so far... So I kinda disagree.

Honestly, I think it`s one of the best WRPGs out there and I found Alistair one of the most entertaining characters in any RPG.

But you know, that`s my opinion.

 

[Tallim]

Yeah I got pretty bored of it and I like long rpgs with tons of dialogue. Nothing about it grabbed me very much.

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

NO YOU AREN'T.

Seriously? Mods, can we please add something that instantly locks threads with "Am I the only one who..." in the title?

I am 100% behind this idea.

I mean, sure, a lot of people liked Dragon Age, so you're probably in the minority. But you aren't the ONLY PERSON who thinks that.

 

[DarkHuntress]

Yes.

 

[Biosophilogical]

I liked it, but after a bit I was just like 'This isn't a 'new' thing for me, and it isn't that fantastic once you know it'. And no, this is not me going 'I get bored easy' this is me saying that it isn't really my thing and the reason I initially found it fun was because I thought it looked interesting in that 'haven't seen this before' kind of way.

 

[theSovietConnection]

NO YOU AREN'T.

Seriously? Mods, can we please add something that instantly locks threads with "Am I the only one who..." in the title?

Agreed.

Unless it's something like "Am I the only one who thinks my neighbour is secretly zombie-robo-dino-Hitler?", chances are you are not the only one on the internet who thinks that.

 

[SnowCub]

I love the elitists on here who clearly haven't read the post and just the read the title. If he'd just said "Am I the only one?" then you'd have a point, but he's discussing that Dragon Age was over-hyped. Get over yourselves.

On topic, I agree with you. It seemed too much like 'generic western RPG themes' to me which has been done to death. It was too "vanilla" and didn't grab my interest past the first town. That, and yeah the combat was horrificly boring.

 

[Axolotl]

No you aren't. I found it to be the most boring and generic RPG I've played since Mass Effect, the setting was truly groundbreaking I thought that Forgotton Realms was the most bland generic setting possible but Bioware relly went that extra mile with Dragon Age to remove any attempt at creativity and to create a setting so generic it makes Mass Effect look like the pinicle of Originality.
As for the gameplay. It felt like a one way ride on the Diabalo railway. No turns no sidetrakcs no freedom just straight up linear grindfest occasionally switching between drawn out bland combat and drawn out bland dialog.