I mostly agree on the combat but at level 13 I still can't kill dragons
Well, this is one of my favorite games this year. But, I will say, if that is going to be a gamebreaker for you, if that is your primary fun, then you will hate it.
I tried the prologue on KB/M. couldn't do it.
tweaked my character, switched to 360 controller, and it was much better. I don't think there is any way to "fix" keyboard and mouse for this. combat, and the design of the skill system, was all about 8 buttons on the gamepad.
There are less skills, and even within those skills, you have stacked effects (basically--what would have been 2 or even 3 skills in DA:O or other comparable games, is combined into 1 skill in DA:I). Honestly, I don't think that's a horrible design choice, but I can see why people would balk over that. For one thing: passives tend to be far more powerful than active skills.
Mages are a good bit neutered in comparison to most RPGs
So, build design, far beyond combat, pretty much says that there is no hope for KB/M in this game. Now, people still use their KB/M--because they are stubborn, I guess--but even tolerating that means that you accept only moving in cardinal directions which, to me, is revolting.
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DA:I is quite a bit of a shock when you see how much they change from previous DA games,no manual attribute assignment,stripped down mages,only 8 active skills slots.
As to K and M,well a lot of PC gamers prefer to use mouse and keyboard and most of us have a decent gaming mouse and in my case a good quality mechanical keyboard(QPAD) so why should we have to use a controller on good gear(K and M) we already have,also remember the first two DA games had pretty good M/K controls,but then DA:I came a long and turned the game upside down on its head.
Sorry I can't defend this game with all the bad things they have done to it.
I hope they do a 180 turn around with DA4.
I could also point out if I want to use a gamepad then I might as well go console and be 100% consolized,sorry it's not going to happen.
RPGs have been keyboard and mouse for a very long time especially on the PC,why should that change just because DA:I has been dumbed down and consolized.
Little rant by me
DA:I is quite a bit of a shock when you see how much they change from previous DA games,no manual attribute assignment,stripped down mages,only 8 active skills slots.
As to K and M,well a lot of PC gamers prefer to use mouse and keyboard and most of us have a decent gaming mouse and in my case a good quality mechanical keyboard(QPAD) so why should we have to use a controller on good gear(K and M) we already have,also remember the first two DA games had pretty good M/K controls,but then DA:I came a long and turned the game upside down on its head.
Sorry I can't defend this game with all the bad things they have done to it.
I hope they do a 180 turn around with DA4.
I could also point out if I want to use a gamepad then I might as well go console and be 100% consolized,sorry it's not going to happen.
RPGs have been keyboard and mouse for a very long time especially on the PC,why should that change just because DA:I has been dumbed down and consolized.
Little rant by me
I don't think there is anything wrong with M&K for RPG either, as I have said several times. much preferred, as you don't have to navigate through several useless menus to get to the one that you want, for example.
I also don't mind being limited to 8 skills, though. It's certainly not unprecedented and, quite frankly (as I've said over and over), I find the typical MMO style of plastering your screen with dozens of skills you don't need to be terrible design. I like design around something like 8 or 9 well-synced skills, given a choice of dozens of skills to pull from. it allows for much greater diversity and solid build choices in the end, and isn't as mindless as just running out with everything blasting from your arsenal.
That being said, DA:I doesn't really provide such diverse skills, and in great number, because they are so repetitive from tree to tree. I don't know--I guess I am both for it and against it in this case.
I don't think there is anything wrong with M&K for RPG either, as I have said several times. much preferred, as you don't have to navigate through several useless menus to get to the one that you want, for example.
I also don't mind being limited to 8 skills, though. It's certainly not unprecedented and, quite frankly (as I've said over and over), I find the typical MMO style of plastering your screen with dozens of skills you don't need to be terrible design. I like design around something like 8 or 9 well-synced skills, given a choice of dozens of skills to pull from. it allows for much greater diversity and solid build choices in the end, and isn't as mindless as just running out with everything blasting from your arsenal.
That being said, DA:I doesn't really provide such diverse skills, and in great number, because they are so repetitive from tree to tree. I don't know--I guess I am both for it and against it in this case.
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I had the opposite experience with only having eight slots,just spamming same ones,no point getting new skills because no room on skill bar so you go for passive ones that help,however you do spam those same eight skills when only limited to eight skill slots,my mage got boring really quick and felt so restricted,infact I did not really enjoy the game that much because of the changes for the worst,crafting was ok however,as for "game of the year" far from it IMHO,but hey it's a Bioware game so comes with lifetime guarantee of game of the year sticker regardless.
I did miss manual assigning of attributes as well(again were in previous DA games),all these little things add up and it's like "here have a dumbed down game and get on with it",thanks for nothing Bioware.
At least we will have Witcher 3 to the rescue
I cant' imagine how that is possible!
though..It does seem that the game is designed around run 5 feet this way, talk to this one person for 10 minutes, run this way, talk for 10 minutes, run down this tunnel and shoot about 5 people, run back (that's the first main mission that I finished--rescue the Turian diplomat dude). So, if good RPG means standing in long conversations, interspersed with a few minutes of combat and non-explorable tunnels with bright shiny things to activate for random XP that is never explained, then I can buy that
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