In a few weeks the game will be out... and I'm still contemplating if I'll buy it or not. I'm conflicted.
I played the demo last night and it was really... a sexy beast. Combat is more immersive and wicked. The mage effects are beyond amazing and the new life bars/mechanics look like a vast improvement over the original. The voice acting as usual is top notch and now since your main character is Shepardized you get a fully voice acted character with Mass Effect like dialogue controls. The demo left a really good impression on me. The effects and music are top of the line and real selling points. Dialogue choices ("the middle one") is particularly funny. The storyline, especially Avaline? is particularly funny. I found myself holding back my emotions... and I barely met her in the game 10 minutes ago. Once again, the dialogue and music.... fantastic.
The negatives and sadly I will dwell on them.
- I really hate the fact there's a DLC on Day 1. To me, this is complete bullshit. It's enraging that a game that is billed at an impressive $60 has an additionnal cost for the DLC the first day that sadly will at one point or time be purchased.. To me, this tells me they are charging me for additionnal content. This is unacceptable in my book.
- I feel the interface is lacking, I don't like the fact I cannot move the camera around anymore or look below my chest if I zoom in. The interface looks very "console" like. I'm afraid of what this may cause in future games, like Mass Effect. Obviously, a "skill" bar is needed to play the game, however, I don't feel it needs to take up 1/5 of my screen all the way to the left to the right.
- I'm still upset that Steam users didn't get the FULL pre-purchase deal (we don't get the DLC). Once again, I feel that Bioware is coming across as greedy fucks by not being able to provide the premier game market what they should get. And while I'd rather not fuck them and simply torrent the game in revenge of this, I do want to support the product.
- The demo revealed obviously that you cannot pick an "origin". You're a human, deal with it. And while the original game at one point or time congregates to the same thing, I like how distinctive if you picked X or Y as an origin, you got a special reaction or talked to a special way. Those are nice touches. Now, it seems that the distinction is simply, "are you a mage?" "are you a rogue/warrior?" "are you a man/woman?". I miss being an asshole elf who got chewed on and called elven curs.
- Noticed a few bugs with the game and I don't like the fact that I cannot play better than "moderate" grphics because I have Windows XP. (DX 11) Yeah yeah, I should upgrade, but I'll do that on my new rig. I just don't like seeing "sorry you play moderate because LOL DX9", yet my rig playing a video orgasm such as Crisis can handle hight quality with no qualms.
I played the demo last night and it was really... a sexy beast. Combat is more immersive and wicked. The mage effects are beyond amazing and the new life bars/mechanics look like a vast improvement over the original. The voice acting as usual is top notch and now since your main character is Shepardized you get a fully voice acted character with Mass Effect like dialogue controls. The demo left a really good impression on me. The effects and music are top of the line and real selling points. Dialogue choices ("the middle one") is particularly funny. The storyline, especially Avaline? is particularly funny. I found myself holding back my emotions... and I barely met her in the game 10 minutes ago. Once again, the dialogue and music.... fantastic.
The negatives and sadly I will dwell on them.
- I really hate the fact there's a DLC on Day 1. To me, this is complete bullshit. It's enraging that a game that is billed at an impressive $60 has an additionnal cost for the DLC the first day that sadly will at one point or time be purchased.. To me, this tells me they are charging me for additionnal content. This is unacceptable in my book.
- I feel the interface is lacking, I don't like the fact I cannot move the camera around anymore or look below my chest if I zoom in. The interface looks very "console" like. I'm afraid of what this may cause in future games, like Mass Effect. Obviously, a "skill" bar is needed to play the game, however, I don't feel it needs to take up 1/5 of my screen all the way to the left to the right.
- I'm still upset that Steam users didn't get the FULL pre-purchase deal (we don't get the DLC). Once again, I feel that Bioware is coming across as greedy fucks by not being able to provide the premier game market what they should get. And while I'd rather not fuck them and simply torrent the game in revenge of this, I do want to support the product.
- The demo revealed obviously that you cannot pick an "origin". You're a human, deal with it. And while the original game at one point or time congregates to the same thing, I like how distinctive if you picked X or Y as an origin, you got a special reaction or talked to a special way. Those are nice touches. Now, it seems that the distinction is simply, "are you a mage?" "are you a rogue/warrior?" "are you a man/woman?". I miss being an asshole elf who got chewed on and called elven curs.
- Noticed a few bugs with the game and I don't like the fact that I cannot play better than "moderate" grphics because I have Windows XP. (DX 11) Yeah yeah, I should upgrade, but I'll do that on my new rig. I just don't like seeing "sorry you play moderate because LOL DX9", yet my rig playing a video orgasm such as Crisis can handle hight quality with no qualms.
