Thread: My rant on why modern RPG's suck. IE: Why I hate Dragon Age

Originally Posted by Langrad

I know some of DnD's mechanics from various other games that used the dice methoid of damage dealing. My biggest thing was when there wasnt an inn nearby... or when you wondered into an area with way to strong opponents cause the game didnt really tell you where you should be going. New RPG's (like DA) fixed this by making everything level with you. If you entered an area everything there would scale down to your level to allow you to beat it without major difficulties.

It's also easier for the developers to be lazy and not have to balance and tweak everything appropriately, too.

The new way of doing things pretty much sucks.

Originally Posted by judedeath

So what I'm getting from this is I should run over to gog immediately and buy Balder's Gate 2 correct?

Any of the black isles rpgs are worth paying for.

Sent via highly charged bolt of electricity.

A lot of it comes down to the writing and depth of the characters.

Early games like the Final Fantasy Series (See FF3/FF6J) and Chrono Trigger are prime examples of masterpieces. FF3 had multiple character arcs that you could travel down and learn more about the different people you used and the writing in the game was just masterful. Many of the characters you actually cared about and wanted to succeed, and I just don't feel that in the more recent games.

It's like the developers said fuck the story, here's a whole bunch of GLITTER!

I do have high hopes for FFVS13 and really wish we had some of the old writers doing these games. I mean find a game whose graphics are designed by Akira Toriyama and you normally have a really solid story along side it.

I do love me some Chrono Trigger but its hard to compare the really old RPGs with the ones of today. Most kids these days cant deal with a game unless the graphics are amazing. We old timey PC gamers know that graphics arnt everything but developers cant afford to pander to such a crowd. They got to go appease the masses.

For a new age RPG dragons age is great (along with mass effect) DA1 and ME1 both had a shit ton of equipment customization and plenty of dialoge you could choose to go through if you wanted to know + all the codecs + journal history stuff in the games. Compared to old games the side character development is shit and ya the difficulty isnt all that grand. I remember losing hours of work cause I died at some random point in a game and hadn't saved. The autosave feature is great but the checkpoints every 15 feet is kinda bullshit. There needs to be SOME punishment for playing poorly... DA2 and ME2 kinda pussied out on characters by giving you only a few weapons/ armor to equip, and both games have like... 2 missions per side character that "fleshes" out their reason for helping you. Its weak but its better then nothing.