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Manchu wrote:Red Dead Redemption was at least as much a RPG as Mass Effect 2. Or FFXIII, for that matter. Companies producing RPGs outside of the Bethesda style could/should learn a lot from RockStar. In fact, Necros, you may just want to save your money for LA Noir.

I totally agree. Although i do not want to consider FFXIII a RPG, the fact is the definition of an RPG has changed quite a bit in the last 5 years.

True, but FF is hardly a good example of that. FF games have always been railroads. More cinematics just make that more obvious. That said, "RPG" is getting to be a rather notorious expression around here . . .

It is isn't it? I am finding it harder to describe RPGs nowadays.

It is very similar to the music industry. You have Metal then there is Black Metal, Pirate Metal, etc. Gaming genres have expanded but I think people want to keep it simple on the definitions. I mean there are major differences in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Bioshock. FPS as a descriptive for both? Seems odd.

Categorizing games into genres probably makes them easier to market. I would not be surprised if it's as simple as that.

More than likely. I mean when it comes down to it, Red Dead Redemption, Final Fantasy XIII, and Secret of Mana have similarities in the way that Doom and CoD have, (As much as I hate to admit it).

Dragon Age 2 all the way.

It is supposed to fix all the various problems Origins had, along with much more aesthetic loving (like ranged and caster sync kills)

As well, they said something about not making any more "fade type missions", referencing the gakky mission that was going through the fade at the Mage Tower.

There is a mod to skip it, but it shows that they are at least looking at what people liked.

I have never played Killzone, though :/

Yeah, I really wasn't a fan of the whole fade thing. I thought it was just kinda boring. It would have worked better as an optional quest kinda thing. I know it's one thing I wouldn't want to do again if I were do play through another time.

I'm hoping for more actiony combat. Even now though, I play as a human warrior and when fights break out I just run around and kill stuff, and I just leave my party members on auto pilot and for the most part they do fine. I have a harem with leliana shooting stuff, morrigan doing CC with paralize and fear and backup heals and wynne for heals and buffs. We blow through almost every fight without breaking a sweat.

What difficultly are you playing on? (Just wondering if this tactic would work on higher difficulties).

I suck, I play on the easy setting

But anyway, I made sure to upgrade as many tactics slots as I can for everyone I use. I spent like 2 hours going through each one and adding the spells and things that I wanted to happen, and stuff for my main guy for the times when I have to switch to someone else. But I pretty much just have a shield and I pretty much stun and knock down everything I fight so they never get a chance to fight back.

I have morrigan casting sleep, horror, waking nightmare and paralyze all over the place, leliana does scatershot to stun groups. I keep Threaten & Shield wall on me, and as soon as the group gets close I taunt so they all jump me, then maxed war cry to knock em all down. That gives morrigan time to get all her CC stuff done. Then I make a beeline for the closest mage and cut em to pieces.

Melissia wrote:Meh, the reviews of KZ3 have all said it looks exactly like KZ2-- gameplay, graphics, audio, etc. If you liked KZ2, and REALLY liked KZ2 and thought you couldn't get enough of it, you probably should get KZ3. But if that weren't the case you'd probably not be asking here.

Really? Because all of the reviews I have been reading have said the opposite, Graphics have improved, gameplay is much more streamlined, etc. etc. Certainly multiplayer is a big step up from where it was (having put a few hours into the beta and many hours into KZ2.

Personally, I would go KZ3 over DA2. Dragon Age Origins was a fairly boring experience IMO, and seemed rather unpolished as well.

Necros wrote:I suck, I play on the easy setting

Well no wonder you were breezing through it! I admit I have set the difficulty to that as well. However if I find the game boring and too easy I knock it back up. Takes care of those thoughts very quickly!



BTW, OP: I still think you should go for Killzone 3 first. I do not think it is a good idea to go from DA to DA2. Too much of a good thing. If you don't believe me, just go play the entire Fallout 3 game and then immediately start New Vegas. You need a break in between similar playing games.

Karon wrote:Dragon Age 2 all the way.

It is supposed to fix all the various problems Origins had, along with much more aesthetic loving (like ranged and caster sync kills)

As well, they said something about not making any more "fade type missions", referencing the gakky mission that was going through the fade at the Mage Tower.

There is a mod to skip it, but it shows that they are at least looking at what people liked.

I have never played Killzone, though :/

Never played Killzone at all, but I can say that, as far as Dragon Age 2 went, the Cake is a Lie.

I thoroughly enjoyed Origins, and I'm sure I'm going to enjoy DA2.

I'd say you'd get a lot more replay value out of DA2 than you would KZ3, but that's just me.

Requia wrote:Bugger updated graphics. Graphics are the least important part of a game.

Hardly.

Good, interesting graphics can salvage an otherwise mediocre game and make it good. It wont' make it great... but it will make it worth buying.

Key word is interesting. Not just high definition like that boring, practically greyscale BF3 preview, but graphics that are visually striking and interesting.