Last year in gaming Journalism

• Gamergate
• Quinnspiracy
• And then DA:I a game that quite frankly did nothing well. Still got so many rewards. Only some developers started realizing eventually that Riding the Bull was not all that fun.

I cannot wait for this Skyrim bubble of Quantity over Quality to blow over. And we can have devs respect the players time again instead of padding the game so they can put +100 hours on the box.

Not bad, assuming

1. It did not cost a lot to make
2. The game has legs

Notice how my two points were in seperate paragraphs? BSC is right. They were lying about the game not being p2w when in reality, it was.

@FelipeInside This excuse again?

I am not expecting a masterpiece in terms of polish. But this is still what they are charging people for. IT should at the very least be playable when they charge for it.

Considering the fact that they are charging for it. Those people have a right to be unhappy.

Even more so the case when the devs lied about the P2W stuff. Dishonesty should be punished, and I am glad to see it being punished.

Describes the quest design of DA:I quite well, doesn't it ;)

• Level Scaling, I dont mind upwards level scaling all too much, but downward level scaling is just awful.
• 9999 damage
• RTwP
• Awesome Button
• BioWare
• Bear Asses
• Romance
• Perk (I liked it in GURPS and I didnt mind it in Fallout, but far too often I see this concept be heavily misused)
• Story Driven (good stories are rare, and I only really trust MCA and CD Projekt with this)
• Dialogue Wheel
• Voiced Protagonist
• Fed-ex quest
• Single player mmo
• "Turn based games don't sell"
• Classless system. These always result in either picking between 3 perk trees which ironically enough make you more restricted and less flexible than what a proper class system would have offered, or you end up being able to master everything. There are a few exceptions to this.

And some general, that still concern PC RPGs

• Cover Based Shooting (Mass Effect)
• Freeroaming/Open World
• Cinematic
• 100+ hours
• Choices and Consequences (whenever it is advertised, it is almost always done really poorly)
• Always Online
• F2P
• Streamlined
• Respawning enemies

And while I am at it, here are some kind words and phrases in a PC RPG game

• Full Party Creation
• Multiclassing
• Death Penatlies, like a pemanent loss of 1 constitution/vitality for each death.
• Permadeath
• Bard
• Support Class
• Aging Mechanics
• Traps
• Turn Based Combat

Edit: Concerning MMORPGs (As in negatives)

• Temporary Content (or as it might go by any other name, such as living story)
• Action Combat
• x-10 Skill Limit
• Story driven is especially bad here

How many of these do @FelipeInside disagree with :P

Looks pretty good, but then again.

Josh Sawyer. Wait and see. Bad design decisions can ruin an otherwise good game.

Looks a hell lot more appealing than the whac-a-mole style crap we have been seeing for the past 10 years. Iirc, the people who have played the game also seemed to be positive.

Everything is bigger in America.

Including New 3DSes.

Not only that, but they were better executed too, including the generation mechanic.

It could even be compatitable with avatar mechanic. Seeing your guy be 40 years old, and still kick ass is badass in itself, or they could just have your avatar freeze in time, and then do the timeskip.