So I beat Dragon Age: Ori- Wait what? Oh fuck you EA!
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You were thoroughly enjoying it all the way to the ending, but now it's now a bloody horrible game?
You, dear sir, are why we cannot have nice things.
You, dear sir, are why we cannot have nice things.
Yeah, it's one of those RPGs that just sorta... end at the end. I've played games like that before, and I didn't immediately hate them. Actually, when it comes to RPGs I usually expect them to be those types of games.
And like it's been said, you can't rely just on autosaves. I have about 20 for just one DA:O campaign. Not counting any of the post game DLC campaigns.
And like it's been said, you can't rely just on autosaves. I have about 20 for just one DA:O campaign. Not counting any of the post game DLC campaigns.
well you could always, i don't know.....start a new character and choose different paths? or you could buy Awakenings and continue your character....Solo-Wing said:
Stop complaining about things that are your own fault and get on with life.
The better question is where you get off from? Name me a game like DA:O that has post-endgame content? It's not an open world game, it's a linear RPG with some diverging paths.Solo-Wing said:
I'm fairly sure NWN/NWN2 ended this way as well. More examples are not coming to me, but could someone confirm Baldur's Gate did as well so we can take the "EA" and "bad game" arguments behind the shed and put them to rest?
The game's DLC has nothing to do with it, it's just DLC, more content. The game, the base game, is fine by itself and it does not need a post-endgame.
Solo-Wing said:
Umm, since the first Bioware game I played their games have always been like that... The stories usually have a rather final ending. The reason it offers DLC is because the DLC was composed of out of the main game side stories and the expansion which was a whole new quest.
Yes, this is your punishment for using Auto-Saves, and for more importantly going to the final mission when you still have side quests... It isn't a Bethesda game, when it ends it ends.
Edit: Side note: I'm still with you on the "fuck EA" bit though. I'm just saying, slow your roll son.
Because people who bought DLC after completing the game (ie 99% of people who bought the game before any post-day-1 DLC was released) would complain that they had to start a new character to see the content they just bought.Azure-Supernova said:
Also at a guess i'd of said saving back to the camp hub worked as a placeholder for any content that would take place after the main game like Awakening.
Anyway sucks that you didnt save manually before the end of the game (which really you should of given there was plenty warning that it was the END OF THE GAME) but thats not really Biowares fault... the only thing they could possibly have done was create a separate autosave for you to go back to but apart from that its not really their fault.
I( wont have a problem with this game just ending whe n i get around to beating it..but for some reason fallout new vegas bugged the ever living hell out of me that it just ended...it was a great game..better than fallout 3.. but after i beat it..i actually lacked the will to go back and play the rest of the quests.. i dunno it was kinda a stupid thing to do that with... now however..you relied only on autosaves..even i manually save every 3 to 3 hours.. its only the wise thing to do.
Proof?Solo-Wing said:
There are plenty of things to hate EA for, but sadly you're just grasping at straws on this one. Either you're too proud to admit that it's your own fault or your hate for EA is overwriting all logic in your brain.
I can't even begin to tell you how false this statement is. All Bioware games I own have manual saving. Sadly, games like Batman: Arkham Asylum/City, Singularity and a couple of others don't have this but it's the same for all platforms they're on.Blood Brain Barrier said:
Which begs the question why didn't you finish those quests before you hit the giant glowing "Last chance to turn back" screen? Did you think that it was lying, that there would be a chance to turn back? It's not a Bethesda game, it's Bioware. They don't construct their games around exploration and a landscape, they construct it around character and narrative. When the narrative ends, then it ends. When you design something as cataclysmic as the ending to Dragon Age: Origins, then that rightfully becomes the culmination of all you've done. YOu don't get to go from Hero of a nation back to doing the mopping up. There's no more mopping up, because the mopping up is assumed to have already been done. Homer didn't tell the Iliad and Odyssey, then have ten chapters of the heroes eating their lunches and taking roll call for the soldiers--when the epic tale has finished, then bam, done, move on, close the book, pick up the sequel.Solo-Wing said:
Though, Golems of Amgarrak, Witch Hunt, and Awakening are all good DLC's, as these things go. You can probably skip the others, without missing anything.
I remember manually saving all the time on my xbox ME, mostly because the autosave was so rare, and it took me awhile to get the hang of the Mako. Dying several times is a row and starting the section over each time teaches you not to be stingy on your saves.MercurySteam said:
Also, I've totally been staring at your icon for like a minute straight O_O
The god damn story is god damn over if you want to continue with that god damn character play god damn Awakenings.
Seriously, out of all the convoluted excuses to bash EA, and even more so to bash Dragon Age, this is, bar none, the most ridiculous, petty, and pathetic I've heard.
When you beat the Archdemon, that story ends. Everything else you COULD HAVE done, can no longer be done because they were either wiped out in the battle of Denerim or they're too caught up in post-blight/post-civil war politics.
It isn't an open world game. Bioware doesn't do that. The ONLY reason it was done in ME2 was because some of the DLCs can take place after the main story. It would make no sense for any of the DA ones to take place after the Archdemon is defeated.
Seriously, what did you expect?
I've played plenty of game, Dragon Age games included, on console that have a manual save option, so I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.Blood Brain Barrier said:
Just saw, though, that you haven't played a console in about 8 years.
'Cause... yeah.
Saves... saves never change.
What?
Blood Brain Barrier said:
bull crap i play on consle and have many Manuel saves plus to its your own fault
Probably been answered by now but I will anyway.Solo-Wing said:
DLC have their own isolated areas so continuity isn't an issue. If they let you go wandering post-game, however, they'd have to ruin Denerim and Redcliffe and just basically completely change the world which isn't worth the minimal time you'd spend in it. Don't fault Bioware for making a responsible design decision.
Besides, if I'm remembering correctly, you're given plenty of warnings to do your side quests before the Landsmeet.
and this is why I got the edition with all of the dlc for $15. no complaints here.
EDIT: never mind, I have one complaint. the dlc didn't download through steam alongside the game, i had to activate the game, and then set up a bioware account, then enter a long-ass code, and then wait an additional hour to download and install everything. hooray convenience!
EDIT: never mind, I have one complaint. the dlc didn't download through steam alongside the game, i had to activate the game, and then set up a bioware account, then enter a long-ass code, and then wait an additional hour to download and install everything. hooray convenience!
