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As far as excuses for developer laziness go, that's a pretty poor one. Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 10/04/2011 12:02:23 AM
You're still in the same city. It is a quarry, those tunnels are carved from stone. And as much as 3 years pass between each act. Why WOULDN'T new gangs use the tunnels? It's not like you blew them up on your way out.


It's fine that the Foundry looks the same each time you visit it. It isn't fine that a random cave on Sundermount is identical to a buried thaig in the Deep Roads, or that Sundermount Caverns is identical to

every

single

cave

you come across.

Using a hallway here and there is fine. Modularity is fine. Being too lazy and blatant to even remove the unused parts of the map that you've just copy-pasted? That's horrible.
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I don't feel bad paying for it, solely cause I never paid for DA1 *NM* Kronin al'Sulc - 04/04/2011 10:01:43 PM 482 Views
Re: They could have done a LOT more with all the in-city strife. Dannymac - 08/04/2011 04:43:24 PM 1030 Views
As far as excuses for developer laziness go, that's a pretty poor one. Ghavrel - 10/04/2011 12:02:23 AM 837 Views
Yah this is what I was talking about. The repeat of tunnel systems in totally unrelated areas. *NM* LadyLorraine - 10/04/2011 05:32:11 PM 397 Views
It's not an excuse. Dannymac - 11/04/2011 06:36:45 PM 928 Views
Re: It's not an excuse. Ghavrel - 11/04/2011 07:06:11 PM 882 Views
No, it's not that they keep coming... LadyLorraine - 10/04/2011 05:38:30 PM 856 Views
Re: No, it's not that they keep coming... Dannymac - 11/04/2011 06:41:30 PM 882 Views
...did you even read my main post in this thread? Ghavrel - 11/04/2011 07:08:31 PM 872 Views
It's not like I said they broke the game for me LadyLorraine - 11/04/2011 07:40:23 PM 956 Views
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Pretty much. EA likes to churn out franchises. *NM* Ghavrel - 04/04/2011 07:41:57 PM 391 Views
Huh? Dannymac - 08/04/2011 04:59:49 PM 926 Views
Penny Arcade had a good post on this topic recently beetnemesis - 09/04/2011 09:39:21 PM 1333 Views
Point of fact: in DA: O you're fighting the Fifth Blight, not the First. Ghavrel - 09/04/2011 10:10:17 PM 993 Views
Yeah seriously, the Fifth Blight was pretty lame in retrospect beetnemesis - 11/04/2011 04:01:03 AM 898 Views
That's pretty much true. Ghavrel - 11/04/2011 04:08:48 AM 870 Views
Wow, yeah, you're right. Dannymac - 11/04/2011 06:43:40 PM 929 Views
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In fairness to Bioware, in this game you get different bonuses for "rivalry." *NM* Ghavrel - 04/04/2011 08:50:29 AM 418 Views
Oh, that's nice. Fanatic-Templar - 04/04/2011 09:45:21 PM 880 Views
I will let you know when the game comes down to less than 20 bucks... MightyYT - 04/04/2011 07:50:06 AM 849 Views
Yea, the times I do play this game just gives me a longing for DA *NM* Kronin al'Sulc - 04/04/2011 09:58:03 PM 499 Views
That's just bullshit Fox and Ravens - 04/04/2011 06:42:14 PM 850 Views
i bet he still initiated all his romances Foxhead - 05/04/2011 10:42:40 PM 893 Views
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