Dragon Age 2 - Way of the Shepard - Fear of the Witcher ?

lost_soul on 11/3/2011 at 23:36

Quote Posted by Eldron

It'll just make them not buy their games next time.

You don't honestly believe that, do you? These companies can do pretty much whatever they want to the gamers and we (most of us) will just keep buying the games anyway.

Eldron on 11/3/2011 at 23:41

Quote Posted by lost_soul

You don't honestly believe that, do you? These companies can do pretty much whatever they want to the gamers and we (most of us) will just keep buying the games anyway.

And what do "these companies" gain from doing that?, what's their ulterior motive?

lost_soul on 11/3/2011 at 23:46

It is rather obvious: more control. They can control the used market, what region you're allowed to play your game in, and whether you can play your game if you called someone a doo-doo head. I'm waiting until some company revokes a players' rights for posting bad reviews.

CCCToad on 12/3/2011 at 01:15

Quote Posted by steo

(http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/11/ea-forum-bans-can-lock-you-out-of-games/) Looks like EA have given one player a 72 hour ban from playing DA2 because he referred to EA as devils on their forum. Wow.

Don't worry, I'm sure big business(and government) would NEVER misuse the powers that are necessary in order to prevent piracy. This is just a misunderstanding.

june gloom on 12/3/2011 at 02:40

(http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/11/ea-retracts-game-ban-for-forum-violation/) Apparently so.

(sure)

Phatose on 12/3/2011 at 05:21

Now if only we can get them to retract the 1001 ways this game got fucked up.

mothra on 12/3/2011 at 07:30

Quote Posted by Jason Moyer

The first thing I did whenever I had a new party member was check the 'disable tactics' button. Dunno why they got rid of that in DA2, although with some effort you can get a similar effect.

ok, sorry, you are right then. do you have at least more than one set of tactics ?
I loved tactics in DA:O, the "better tactics" mod was pretty damn good and I had a "normal mob fight" "mob fight plus boss" and "lonely boss" setup so I could sit back and watch, only occasionally
intervening (mostly when the enemy casts crushing prison or when you had 20 archers all spamming scattershot - another bad design)

Phatose on 12/3/2011 at 07:49

You actually used tactics in DA1? Much like DA2, DA1 came in 2 flavors for me - "Micromanage everything" and "Curb stomp, who gives a shit?". Only difference is that most DA2 battles are the latter, most DA1 battles are the former.

mothra on 12/3/2011 at 09:05

yep, on nightmare+ I loved it. this is what motivated me to get good in tactics:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E-CCr3-vmA&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL)

first 2 playthrus i microd as well on hard but it was just unnecessary except for the few mages casting crushing, any other spell had no real impact on my party.

EvaUnit02 on 12/3/2011 at 16:31

So I've read that the amount of copy-pasted locations in DA2 is a zillion times worse than ME1's side-quest worlds+dungeons. HURRAH FOR 18 MONTH DEV CYCLES!!!!!111