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| I hated DA:O's combat, I hated the fucking shit out of it. by Worm 11/29/2014, 9:42am PST | ||||
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| At best it was a simplified version of BG1's combat, and at worst it felt like some SAW movie where my cock was going to be chopped off if I couldn't multi-box Molten Core. However what gets me about DA:I is the obvious progression to some ideal of dreck combat and how I didn't see it coming. DA:O had a lot of MMO stuff in it ability-wise, there were tanks, taunts, cooldowns, etc. Obviously it's tempting to put MMO shit in your RPG because MMOs are games that literally anyone can play proficiently. I didn't mind it too much, on harder fights it felt like I was just cycling through cooldowns and stuns. It was probably just rose tinted glasses that made me feel like casting Assay on a mage and quickly beating him to death in Baldur's Gate 2 was much more amazing, but it sure was a lot more fun than beating on a Reverant for 10 minutes in Dragon Age: Origins.
Then came Dragon Age 2 which not only still had the MMO systems but also had MMO fights where you had to hide behind pillars, walk out of fire, deal with damage break points, deal with adds, and do all the unfun stunlock shit. At least it was fucking violent and replaced all the HP sponge enemies with tons of trash enemies that you could easily massacre and feel cool doing it. However it was definitely worse than DA:O and just a chore that only people who were lobotomized could enjoy. Now I'm playing Inquisition and realizing that they weren't idiots all along. For some nefarious reason they wanted to create the worst RPG combat system possible, I don't know if this amazing advancement will save or destroy the world, but we've got a system that's even more shit that The Witcher here. I'm pining for fighting raptors and hornets in Gothic 1. People told me it gets better about 10 hours in because you get more abilities to spam or something. Though even then I'm not looking forward to switching between 4 MMO characters and doing their dumb MMO rotations as I snore through an MMO fight and then die because I didn't move them out of the fire quick enough. Maybe people really like this kind of combat, maybe it's designed for people who hate combat? So they just want to unthinkingly hold the right trigger and watch their character throw plasma? I honestly don't understand. I don't understand why they didn't just put in shitty hack and slash combat if they want it to be ignored. It amazes me that this was a concious decision by human adults who design video games. Even going back to old posts I found a of some Bioware schmuck defending Dragon Age 2 and the Euro Gamer review of Dragon Age 2 features heavy review apologetics too. I geuss I got caught up thinking that DA2's combat was an aspect of the game being so heavily rushed but it really was a concious decision. Somewhere someone thought there was a market for single player MMO combat where you hold the right trigger to auto attack and spam your cooldowns over and over. |
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