Being so
goddamn stereotypical, they worship Bioware's droppings like they are the Messiah of the genre. Descent is seemingly not tolerated- I'd find out, but like hell am I going to post about how their morality systems are hogwash and the 'FULLY GAY' shit for DAI was at best condescending and kinda homophobic at worst.
Hail David Gaider, the one true savior of dark fantasy.
The blind worship of RPG elements and "hardcore" gameplay is grating on me. Old school gamers especially RPG fans are some of the most self-absorbed, elitist, little shits in the geeksphere. RPG elements aren't even all that great, most of them are a quagmire of crap. Nothing is more exciting than inventory management, user unfriendly interfaces and mechanics and pointless/cheap skill checks needed to move on in the game.
"Waaaa, I can't beat this game that doesn't hold my hand, waaaa! I can't sit down and think for a minute, I must be able to hack the enemies with a button press!"
Edit: Also The Witcher sucks and Dragon Age will forever be superior. At least DA protagonists are customizable and not stuck as a broody albino asshole.
I'm going to sperg out a bit here and explain why this fucker is an idiot.
One, Dragon Age is a poorly constructed setting. The whole thing is essentially
Forgotten Realms with bits of
A Song of Ice and Fire poorly attached. It also tends to double over on itself with retcons and the writers treat the lore like
shit. For all intents and purposes, it's David Gaider's
Sonichu.
Two, the concept of create-a-PC is ultimately a leisure. It's a nice thing to have, but in a genre that is so heavily driven by story telling and immersion as RPGs, I'm not going to bemoan a lack of it so long as the setting is immersive and the story is well executed.
Three
, Geralt isn't a fucking albino. While his design is seemingly influenced by Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone- who actually
is albino- Geralt isn't. His hair and complexion were changed by the potions used in the process of becoming a Witcher- even then, it was a very rare mutation.
This person would know this
if they read the books or played the goddamn games.
Say what you want about Dark Souls being brutal and hardcore it has nothing on Frogger for the PS1 when it comes to difficulty. Right at the start the game is against you, speeding cars ready to turn you into frog paste, hungry alligators, killer beavers, snakes, and don't even get me starting on those damn turtles even the water hates you and it all gets worse from there. Frogger is the classic example of "everything trying to kill you" and you can't do anything about it, at least in Dark Souls you can defend yourself.
oh and Frogger is actually fun, approachable and does a good job explaining it's own mechanics.
They didn't notice that the game actually does explain its controls. Literally, the first area of the game is plastered with messages explaining button placement before it shows you how to use them. Hell, it even tells you to do a plunging attack on the Asylum Demon, which widdles the damn thing's health down to near-nothing.
It's also not as unapproachable as they say- you just need to be willing to think tactically. It, by most accounts, is a solid title with little in the way of glaring flaws.
The fact that Dragon Age: Inquisition pisses off gamerbros for having the audacity to be an inclusive, realistic, dark fantasy without rampant sexism, racism, trans/homophobia, and gratuitous use of sexual assault as drama, pleases me. Go ahead, cry about Bioware and EA pandering to your boogeyman the "ess-jay-warriors" while the rest of the industry panders to your entitled ass.
These people so pathetic, at times I have hard time believing they exist and they're everywhere.
This is where this sperg goes
full retard. Dragon Age is not even
remotely a realistic setting. It fails to emulate the grim, conservative nature of medieval times, immediately disqualifying it from that. There's a reason I said it was Realms with bits of ASoIaF sown on.
It's also absolutely toothless- it's 'dark fantasy' in the same way as Disney's Cinderella is an adaptation of the original story.
There is no real grim, uneasy mood. There's no melding of horror and fantasy. The heroes are rarely, as far as I remember, assholes. The closest thing there is to any of that is Tevinter. And that's basically the Empire of Melnibone, except minus the shit that actually made Melnibone such an eerie, creepy place since their audience doesn't
want dark fantasy.
