But here’s the thing, while graphics are nice and good and even somewhat important, it’s really not the #1 thing on the lists of people who primarily play RPGs. It’s RPG mechanics, choice, and replayability that tend to top those lists, and DA2 did not do well for that, though it was still better in some regards than TES (UI and interface especially). But they don’t want to make straight RPGs anymore, but Action Hybrids (again, like TES, but in a dif way).

I don’t care that much about ‘ooo shiny’ and considering the rest of what I have heard about DA3 has me feeling about the same thoughts of dread that I had when I was hearing the talk about 2, maybe worse now due to that track record, I am just not that excited about it. Sadly that still makes it my most anticipated game of 2014, but that’s not saying a lot. The only reason it bothers me as much with this game is because Origins had gotten my hopes up that the industry was going to occasionally putting out an old school, non-action, tactical, RPG again. 2 crushed that hope and 3 seems to be continuing that trend.

I still play games like Fallout 1 & 2, but I don’t play 3 & 3.5 anymore (don’t even have them installed anymore), I still play Origins but I don’t play 2 (I feel the same way about the sims, 1 and 2 were fun for me, 3 ruined it for me). Because graphics were just about all they had going for them over their predecessors, the parts I cared about were cut back, if not trimmed out entirely.

/climbs down off the soap box, collects the “DOOM, the End is Near” signs, and goes away quietly…

Haha, I know right? How ’bout instead of focusing on ‘ooh pritty’ they might focus on not making a travesty of the gameplay like they’ve done for their last three RPGs.