Black Mantis
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That moment when he dived into to sea sold me on this game. Should have a decent story too, unlike Destiny at launch, considering it's Bioware.
But... is it even a RPG?
He was asking if he could play as a RPG...
But... is it even a RPG?
He was asking if he could play as a RPG...
the OP says that 'the game is a shared-world action-RPG'
so RPG is a given.
Except it isn't as "RPG" can be anything from surface level customisation and a few skill trees layered over the top of a shooter to Morrowind.
There's no way this isn't simply indicative VS gameplay. It's all too smooth. Unless the UI simply didn't exist and they put it on in post, because it's just too perfect. Might be made worse by the fake friends teaming up nonsense?
I mean, don't get me wrong: I want this. I would pay stupid money for this. I want it. But this doesn't feel even slightly real to me.
People get hyped way too easily.
After all the shit you've heard about Bioware having troubles with Frostbite, all the years of bullshots from this company alone, people wills till be fooled.
It was just a sequence of pre-scripted events with pre-scripted "these people are friends for real" dialogue that's so painfully contrived that i'm surprised people even put up with it.
This was this E3's The Division trailer, and it wasn't even as well done. At least Ubisoft is good at making believable promises that are blatant lies.
Geoff interviewed Bioware after the show and asked if you could play it by yourself, the answer was clear, you can play through it from beginning to end all alone. They said that they just wanted to give you the choice to play it however you want to play it. By yourself or with friends, it's your choice.
'Is it even an RPG' is the new 'But what do you do'
Just watched it again. No way. I mean, i'd love this to be real Scorpio gameplay. But i just don't believe it.
I'll never understand the new found obsession of trying to reclassify what an RPG is.
I'll never understand the new found obsession of trying to reclassify what an RPG is.
Okay... It's a Bioware RPG
It's been a while since that was a seal of quality.That moment when he dived into to sea sold me on this game. Should have a decent story too, unlike Destiny at launch, considering it's Bioware.
This seems excellent tbh. I'll keep my hype levels in check considering vanilla Destiny and The Division (both were hyped as much as possible) but if it gives me a Destiny meets Mass Effect kind of game, I'm all for it.
It's been a while since that was a seal of quality.
Is it?
'Action RPGs' labels are kind of misleading. They are usually 90% action, 10% rpg in form of items and stats.
All games are "open world RPGs" now so it's like people don't even know what the term means anymore. I wish they would just go back to calling them "experiences"
Devs create action games - call them RPG's - enough people accept that - the definition for an RPG is stretched even thinner than it was.
Eh, to each their own. I thought Andromeda and Inquisition both had great stories. Not perfect, but in the top 5% of AAA games if not higher.
And what games have been called RPGs that actually weren't? Maybe I haven't been paying attention to some games, but as long as a game has stat-based character progression (not gear progression), it's an RPG. From what I've seen in the genre discussion it's mostly people having a specific RPGs in mind, mostly sandbox RPGs and dismissing a majority of Japanese developed RPGs it's not something they care about.
I'll definitely agree with Inquisition, but I'm not so sure about Andromeda. There are moments when it reaches greatness, but for the most part, it was below BioWare's usual standard
"But what do you do" was pretty well founded given how NMS turned out lmao
This seems excellent tbh. I'll keep my hype levels in check considering vanilla Destiny and The Division (both were hyped as much as possible) but if it gives me a Destiny meets Mass Effect kind of game, I'm all for it.
It's been a while since that was a seal of quality.
Looks beautiful, but very scripted. Wished the people talked like actual people instead of some NPC dialogue. If it's just flying around shooting stuff with strangers, I'm not interested. But then I knew that from the start, I don't like Destiny style games.