I'm ok with it as well. To a certain extent.
lord-of-shadow Send a noteboard - 05/05/2011 10:18:24 PM
I'd still buy and likely love the game if they discarded all RPG aspects and just gave us a shooter with a story and story choices, but that's not the direction I want the game to go, ideally. Either way the game will be good, but they would be very different games.
Personally, my FPS needs are better fulfilled elsewhere, so I'd rather my Mass Effect lean more towards the RPG side of things.
Really though, the two are not mutually exclusive. The "RPG" label has more to do with how your character progresses, what sort of choices you can make, how tactical/strategic battles can be, what sort of resources you have to manage, and how complex the gameplay is. "FPS", on the other hand, is defined by the method you interact with other objects in the environment.
There is zero overlap between these two things, and it is absolutely possible to make a successful merging of the two. It's just difficult. And in practical terms, achieving the RPG traits requires an increase in the game's complexity. And even if that's not technically against the concept of an FPS, it does generally alienate your typical FPS gamer.
Personally, my FPS needs are better fulfilled elsewhere, so I'd rather my Mass Effect lean more towards the RPG side of things.
Really though, the two are not mutually exclusive. The "RPG" label has more to do with how your character progresses, what sort of choices you can make, how tactical/strategic battles can be, what sort of resources you have to manage, and how complex the gameplay is. "FPS", on the other hand, is defined by the method you interact with other objects in the environment.
There is zero overlap between these two things, and it is absolutely possible to make a successful merging of the two. It's just difficult. And in practical terms, achieving the RPG traits requires an increase in the game's complexity. And even if that's not technically against the concept of an FPS, it does generally alienate your typical FPS gamer.
ME3 delayed.
04/05/2011 11:51:04 PM
- 965 Views
For a second, I thought they were adding content. Then I realized it was Bioware.
05/05/2011 12:40:27 AM
- 696 Views
You'll love this.
05/05/2011 01:24:06 AM
- 807 Views
...
05/05/2011 01:46:53 AM
- 691 Views
ME3 will fully morph three genres: RPG, Shooter and Bejeweled.
05/05/2011 02:23:13 PM
- 612 Views
agreed
23/05/2011 04:19:48 AM
- 738 Views
I'm in agreement with the delay towards making the game more shooter friendly...
23/05/2011 09:51:38 AM
- 604 Views
I do love it
05/05/2011 08:42:09 PM
- 596 Views
It seems like they're losing a more valuable market (imho) for the larger one.
05/05/2011 09:03:48 PM
- 705 Views
Yeah, they're saving me sixty bucks with comments like the one in the link...
23/05/2011 05:51:35 PM
- 920 Views
I gotta agree with one of the comments in there
23/05/2011 09:47:54 PM
- 685 Views
But that comment is someone's interpretation, not what they're actually doing
24/05/2011 05:38:00 AM
- 881 Views
I think they realized that if they brought out ME3 anytime aournd Skyrim, no one would care. *NM*
05/05/2011 06:59:31 PM
- 267 Views
Releasing at the same time as Skyrim wouldn't hurt it too much. The only ones they'd lose out on...
05/05/2011 08:49:16 PM
- 653 Views
Re:
05/05/2011 09:32:00 PM
- 640 Views
Nah. I love RPGs, but I'm okay with the series not being a "real" RPG.
05/05/2011 10:02:35 PM
- 635 Views
I'm ok with it as well. To a certain extent.
05/05/2011 10:18:24 PM
- 776 Views
E3 anticipations...
05/05/2011 10:10:29 PM
- 822 Views
Skill trees don't concern me. The ability to make meaningful decisions concerns me. *NM*
05/05/2011 10:25:14 PM
- 290 Views
Is it bad...
05/05/2011 10:42:31 PM
- 733 Views
It shows that you are a gentleman of discerning taste.
06/05/2011 02:49:39 AM
- 637 Views

Still playing thru DA
rigins, I'd say it plays more like KotOR than Baldur's Gate.
06/05/2011 03:20:49 PM
- 629 Views

hope you're playing it on the computer.
07/05/2011 03:48:59 PM
- 645 Views
Yep-on the PC. The removal of the strategic cam view sounds obnoxious in DA2. Probably won't play. *NM*
07/05/2011 04:57:02 PM
- 315 Views
you know...not overly bothered
10/05/2011 03:07:37 PM
- 782 Views
I am far more interested in a quite a few games that'll be out toward the end of 2011
10/05/2011 06:10:02 PM
- 603 Views