Poll: Dragon age 3 do you care about importing your old save?

[Chris Tian]

I'm very sorry, your feelings are very important to me so I obviously never wantet to hurt you

Bioware just has to stop promising how descisions will matter and all that bull. I dont care if the games are only loosely connected and if choices I made won't carry over. Like I mentioned, that works fine with TES games. What annoys me is if they build up my expectations and then don't deliver.

Yeah your right. I think every time I've seen a Bioware advert they talked about multiple choice/player choice a good 70% of the time. If theres anything I learnt from Mass Effect 3 is that my choices don't matter and all possible ending are pretty much the same.

If they really want to make games about choices etc. they should take a different aproach. Instead of trying to make it look like your choices matter in the next game they should make them matter within the same game you made them. The Witcher is a good example for how that works far better.

It makes a lot more sense this way. Making a sequel to a game that had 3 or more vastly different endings, that result in vastly different outcomes in the next game is impossible. But by making the player choices matter within the same game and then end that game in endings that all result in the same status quo, you can make a game about choices and still make a sequel.

 

[otakon17]

I did at one point but then I lost my ultimate save file to real life. And I don't want to EVER play Dragon Age 2 again.

Off-topic: The hell is wrong with the captcha right now? There is no image in it at all... good thing the entry is still observable.

EDIT: Your poll seems to be broken by the way.

 

[aivalera]

Sort of, after all DA and DA2 was pretty much all about choice.

 

[EternallyBored]

uh so there seems to be some conflicting information in this thread, some people are talking about save imports, but others are saying that they've been eliminated entirely in favor of the keep feature where you plug in your decisions from previous games. Is that only true of consoles, or have they eliminated save state importing in the PC version too?

OT: I don't particularly care that much, there really weren't any decisions from 2 that seems like they would really impact 3 except maybe character cameos, and DA 1 was far enough removed, that we are really only going to get vague changes at best. The plot just doesn't have the immediacy of the ME series, so I'm just not seeing where there's going to be any real incentive for me to drag out old save files to import them.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

I wont be buying it because i didn't finish number 2.

But if I can go a little off topic; are there any games where the save files between games make a considerable difference?

 

[votemarvel]

Imports can never have a HUGE difference as that much variation is pretty much impossible (within time and budget constraints), they can however make the game feel that bit more personal. Take for example Telltale's "The Walking Dead."

Spoiler: mild spoilers for The Walking Dead

In the first season you have the opportunity to swear in front of Clementine, a very mild swear word I confess. If you do so then in season two Clem will also use that word.

However if you refrain from swearing then Clem will also do the same in the second season.

If Lee cuts his arm off then Clem will not find a joke about amputation funny in season two. If he doesn't, then she will laugh at that joke.

Neither of those examples change the story in any great way but they do make it feel that little bit more like your own story.

Edit: Mr INK. I loved Battlechasers.

 

[Therumancer]

I was not so impressed with "Dragon Age 2", "Mass Effect 3", or Bioware's attitudes surrounding them that I am looking forward to more sequels. "Dragon Age 3" is in the "maybe I'll get it after the fact" column if it turns out to be decent and has a proper ending. As such I haven't put a lot of effort into considering transfers of my saved games (if I even have them anymore since I've deleted the games).

As a general rule the entire point of transferring saved games between the "Dragon Age" chapters would largely be to carry over things that happened to the supporting characters that make a transfer or influence the storyline. For example that Dwarf with the crossbow is supposed to be in "Dragon Age 3". However looking at how much the things I decided mattered in the scope of the storyline I don't see the point, for example in "Dragon Age: Origins" my hero was a mage and romanced Leliana, and she didn't go back to being an assassin after the end of the storyline. When she showed up in Origins she was back to being an assassin, and doing a whole "I am part of the church based Waffen SS that hunts and kills mages" which pretty much represents a hybrid of the two things she could have done at the end of "Origins" and more or less ignores the actual storyline and decisions, especially seeing as she's supposed to be in love with a mage. At that point, why even bother? Bioware is going to do what it's going to do, and any choices I make are likely just going to involve some background news flash or whatever, so who cares? Perhaps if they ever get the series back on track and it becomes good again, I might replay the series for a proper ending (DA 2 will be like pulling teeth though). Right now Bioware gets little credit from me, and I don't see much of the point of saving and transferring play data because it doesn't seem to matter, Bioware just encourages it because it gives an illusion of connection while they pretty much ignore it in any tangible way.