You LITERALLY cannot make this shit up.
BioWare, not even once.
>multimillion dollar CGI cinematic work vs in-game-mmorpg cartoon-styled model
Wow bait threads are running rampant today
>>345192146
Right, never mind the fact that she looks like a fat asian bitch compared to the cinematic trailer.
>>345191801
I love how their ENTIRE GAME IS VOICE ACTED gimmick was not only ditched by Bioware with future content because it cost too much money, the VA itself was easily surpassed by the Secret World's VA.
>>345191801
But Bioware didn't make that cinematic, Blur Studios did.
>>345192892
This. TSW was fully voiced, done better. And never crowed shit like bioware
>>345191801
vanilla models look like ass and they never brought them to the level of latest expansion characters
>>345192892
God TSW, such lost potential.
Aside from the TERRIBLE combat and the ABHORRENT world-building/quest design, the most ridiculous thing was that your playing character had no VA. Just stood there in silence like a sperg while the NPCs droned on.
>>345193069
Quest and combat I'll give you but what was wrong with the world building?
Bioware has been a shit tier developer close to bethesda after KOTOR
>>345193268
more like they never learned how to use modern technologies. only department DAI looked good at were the environments because frostbite engine lends itself well to that and environments team actually gave a fuck.
>>345193069
Why was it ok when DA Origins did it?
>>345191801
I don't even care about the visuals, I'm more annoyed about how the game is mechanically a WoW clone and just how poorly it runs because of shitty engine.
>dat feel when you have to constantly go through loading screens to get anywhere
What was it, three loadings to get from any point to faction hub?
>>345193069
All of those are excused by game's general level of writing. Ragnar Tornquist is underrated as FUCK and is probably one of the best writers in the industry who never gets any credit. Longest Journey was amazing but when he writes mysteries he writes fucking mysteries, not that "follow your compass" bullshit. This is why TSW is so amazing if you care about puzzles and adventure games overall.
>mfw people asking for spoilers in channels because they can't solve basic puzzles in Kingsmouth
Why are you even playing this game?
>>345194551
Some of those puzzles were bullshit. Like the unexplained suicide one. I also defy any rationale that I'm supposed to know Fucking musical notation
>>345194729
That's why they included the ingame browser. You weren't supposed to know everything. Also musical notation is fucking easy as shit. Learn to play an instrument.
>>345195032
>Learn to play an instrument
Fuck you, that is the devil's work.
>>345194729
>Some of those puzzles were bullshit.
I ain't gonna deny that, but like anon said game includes the browser for a reason.
>>345194551
>Ragnar Tornquist is underrated as FUCK and is probably one of the best writers in the industry
>>345193134
The entirety of Kingsmouth was great. However the world-building completely falls flat after that.
I felt like some story/design elements did not jive, like the lighthearted inner earth portals with the conductor from Polar Express and a Big Daddy...
Not to mention the backstory behind the black goo, and setting the climax in neo tokyo of all places.
Stuff that was good:
Whole of Kingsmouth
Transylvania
Templars
The CONCEPT of Illuminati was interesting, but poorly executed imo. Dragons were just too out of place for my liking. Egypt was too samey.
I would've liked it more if they focused more on traditional urban legends and folklore, instead of trying to 'modernize' it.
>>345197118
I disagree. Each zone simply does a different thing. Dragons were shit, though.
>>345197118
>>345197232
templars really are the only canonical choice that makes sense.
>dat feel when many within funcom apparently fought for secret world to be a singleplayer adventure
>funcom execs said no because of dreamfall piracy and they wanted insurance they would get their money
>>345192146
Fucking this.
OP is a clickbaiting faggot.
>>345191801
u do know the cinimatic takes place many years before the game, right? she's much older on the right.
>>345193069
>wanting a voiced protag in a RPG
You fucking faggots ruined the Fallout franchise for all time.
FOR ALL FUCKING TIME.
>>345197480
Man, I hope this game dies so 10 years from now we can get a non-shit Star Wars MMO. SWG had its flaws but it had its high points too. SWTOR is a mix of mediocre and bad.
I still don't know how on earth wasn't Bioware sued for ME3 femshep.
>>345191801
The CGI and Game assets aren't even done by the same studio.
>>345197721
TOR's main problem is that it's just so poorly made. Yea sure, it's another WoW clone with a different skin, but holy fuck can Bioware not into technical aspects.
>>345197480
This looks like someone tried their first serious video in source filmmaker. Not bad, just a lot of room for improvement.
Reminder that BioWare Austin made TOR
BioWare Austin is only a brand
BioWare Canada, which is made of Edmonton (the original studio) and Montreal (formed to help Edmonton) is the actual BioWare
>>345191801
>Women use certain camera angles that make them look better
NO WAY
>>345191801
She obviously aged in the years between the trailer and game.
>>345197818
Agreed, I would love a true sandbox but I don't expect that anymore, I'd be totally satisfied with a competent WoW clone.
reminder that this >>345197932 anon is retarded
All of Bioware(the main dev team mostly) made SWTOR and Bioware Austin is the one that maintains and keeps developing SWTOR since the release.
>>345197480
>that fucking full body headroll at the end
>>345197818
They let someone fast talk them into choosing an incompleted engine. Then after the game initially tanked, they purged the team and had no one to even attempt to fix it.
>>345197818
whats the problem there?
they btfo KOTOR2fags
it was well deserved and still love to see you faggots be this much butthurt about it after 5 years
>>345198035
>DEVELOPED by BioWare Austin and a supplemental team at BioWare Edmonton
>>345198005
>true sandbox
What, like Eve or Guild Wars?
>>345197932
You realize that all of Bioware's notable writers/coders/etc touch TOR at some point right? There's a reason why the Imperial Agent storyline is that much better than anything else in the game.
>>345197932
Reminder the "actual" Bioware hasn't existed for years, EA replaced all the talent with art school interns.
>>345191801
pssh kid
get on my level
>>345198147
>wikipedia
lol
DAI sold well too right?
No wonder it was GOTY.
>>345198163
None of the Guild Wars are sandboxes.
>>345194551
I agree. Dude wrote the original plotlines for Anarchy Online, as well. And that's the only fucking MMO I've ever been addicted to. Its character progression has stopped me from ever enjoying another MMO now. I hate it.
>>345198246
Morrigan was supposed to be ~18, instead they made her look and sound like a 35 year old woman.
Same thing happened to Alistair, come to think of it. Except the woman bit.
Not the only MMO dev who pulled that shit
The only good thing to come out of TOR were those CGI movies which looked absolutely nothing like horrible, ugly, godawful shit the in-game game looked. Pretty sure they cost a pretty penny, too, not ALL of the investment dollars poared into TOR was embezzled by BioWare/EA management.
>>345198353
>Morrigan was supposed to be ~18, instead they made her look and sound like a 35 year old woman.
You make that sound like a bad thing when it's Claudia Black.
>>345198285
Sure they are.
In GW2 you reach max level super quickly and once you get exotic gear, which is super easy to get, you can do whatever content you want. There is no real gear grind in order to beat harder content like dungeons. The "endgame" in GW2 is about cosmetics and unlocking skins.
>>345198246
Going by DAO's cinematic they realized she was too uggo and needed a sex symbol for their game. Hence her ingame look.
>>345198353
Everyone in Dragon Age: Origins is 30+, m8
Even the kids
>>345198479
DAO just had a rough development and they kept changing shit.
>>345197352
>Piracy
Lmao ok
So companies actually drank this koolaid?
>>345193004
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZEmFT6VxSw
>>345198443
You can do something similar in XIV because of scaling, doesn't make it a sandbox though.
>>345198397
they fixed her, but that was the least of wildstar's problems. now the team is basically dead.
WoW had just launched and was raking in like a billion jewgolds a month, Funcom execs decided to make TSW an MMO because the whole industry wanted to get in on that. And then it caused the whole MMO market to become immensely oversaturated and implode.
but yeah TSW hires actual actors to do voices, not the same 5 american dub actors who do literally everything
>>345198623
They did the same with her in Inquisition, this time because people kept saying she looked like a tranny. I'm pretty sure some SJW designer cried zerself to sleep that night.
>>345198808
kek
her face there does resemble Wu
but the final one in DAI is 10/10 beauty
>>345198856
except the texture shimmer on her eye lashes.
>>345198808
I still think they never did better than that original DAO concept art
>>345198801
it's not like funcom doesn't have their own staple of VAs, like that one guy who does every black character in their every game, but VA were clearly given some time to actually develop characters and not just power through lines maybe adding an accent here and there.
>>345198940
Final DA:I version is pretty damn good looking. I like it more than the DAO concept art.
>>345198886
Everything shimmers and shines in DAI.
>>345198886
It's Frostbite. Almost every game made on it looks like it has a layer of grease over everything.
>>345199219
Not even that, Bioware's been having problems with material diffusion and whatnot since NWN1 effectively since they jumped to 3D. At some point all the mediocre developers like Bioware and Bethesda who can't into technical aspects had those identical problems.
>>345199405
>at some point
And they still do.
>>345198705
what the fuck happened to wildstar man? i saw so much hype for it when the first trailer was released, then the closed beta, which a lot of people shat on because the character designs were garbage, and now it's just non-existant. do people play it?
>>345199639
incompetence aside, team basically fucked themselves over
>everyone on their forums keeps saying they want a hardcore raiding game
>carbine makes that and every other aspect is mediocre
>turns out casuals don't care about hardcore raiding and leave in droves
>it is once again proven raiders don't keep games alive
and well, their brand of humor was shit that gets old really fast unless you're twelve
>>345199639
For me, they put too much focus on combat which wasn't enjoyable to me as it came across as throwing colored geometry at everything.
The paths had potential to separate the game from other generic clones but they did nothing interesting or meaningful with it. They gave some advantages here and there but you weren't really crippled without them.
>>345199760
If they wanted to learn that, all they had to do was research Everquest.
>>345199884
I had a lotta hope for it three years ago when they released the very first intro trailer. Because, fuck yeah man, bunch of cool alien species teamin up to do rad shit to other alien species sign me the fuck up.
Then it came out and y i k e s.
>>345197850
>not bad
Yeah for a first-time amateur project
>>345200223
thats what I meant. Looks like a source movie that could become a good porn artist
>>345199760
From a pve-tryhard's kinda perspective it was also a fucking mess, don't make the mistake of thinking that it was all pandering and no real incompetence. The 40man was unfinished and buggy as fuck, 20man a bit less so but still not great. Even the attunement to play 20man had steps that felt extremely barebones in the sense that they barely worked and were just rather nonsensical, good example being world bosses essentially had very little purpose or reason to be done outside of just kinda being there for the quest. The same went for world content in general, it was wildly more efficient to tank rating in arena and farm losers for chances at amp / ability upgrades (((100% class A retarded system))), the only more retarded piece of out of raid character progression I can think of was getting pvp weapons that were better for pve than anything you got from the pre-raid pve content or heck even the 20man in many cases. And only requiring you to reach their rating once.
Oh and pvp itself was an abysmal mess of no balance and plenty exploits (like the funny macro using a healing trinket enough times to go to full hp before cd triggering), go figure.
TL;DR the problem was that the game aside from veteran dungeons was wet shit even from a pvefag's pov and had essentially nothing to allow a raiding scene/community of its own to grow from, which takes time and accessible content. You don't start by trying to recreate wow t5 era.
>>345191801
TOR was a mess from the get-go. Not to mention their entire "special feature" was basically to just have singleplayer story in their MMORPG, defeating the entire point of the damn thing. I guarantee you at any point in time half the player base was just following their own class story and ignoring everything else.
>>345199063
Whoever did the original DA:I model must have felt ashamed. I wonder if they had to outsource this version to an artist who can actually sculpt pretty faces.
>More realistic faces mean uglier faces
Ok Bioware.Not our faults if the only women you saw are the creatures that dwell into your office to talk about tumblr and PC culture
