#datv positivity

It's got it all: dynamic gameplay, a strong story, great companions, immersive banter, awesome skill tree and companions skill, easy loadout management, narrative consequences and choices, visuals, fantastic character creator, new developing lore from previous games...

Sure some things could be improved, not every game is perfect and you can't please everyone. But tbh it's doing a lot more right than it's doing wrong. And for the chaos that production was, the devs did one hell of a good job.

I'm especially thinking about gameplay and the fighting mechanic which has improved SO MUCH. Do you remember playing mage in any other games??? you stay put and auto attack until you had enough mana to cast a big spell. That was it. Now?? 2 weapon choices, you can dodge, parry, combo?!! And it all feels amazing. I need people to realize it's insane and that must have taken a shit load of time to tweak and I am so grateful bioware chose that path. Dragon age isn't only the lore, narrative and romance. It's not a movie. It's not a book. It's not an interactive visual novel. It's an ACTION rpg. Action. And they did a damn good one. Shout out to the people in the back that are less in the spotlight but just as important to make a great game. Programmers, Testers, Game designers, level designers, animators. The ones that get into the thick of it to make the creatives' dream come true as best they can with the time they're given. They're the one in the trenches, and I appreciate their work so much.

Next time you play take time to notice the little things. How the camera feels when you move it, how your character moves and respond to your inputs, how the attacks chains depending on the direction you're aiming at. Notice the decor, the way the environment is shaped, how it feels to navigate it. Those things are really really hard and take years to perfect.

And err... errr.... many things ppl accuse datv of not having but bg3 having? These things are... not in bg3?

Like, in bg3 NPCs do not really react to my race (drow, which is slightly weird tbh). I rarely have any race specific or class specific dialogue options, even when situation prompts it. Companions are all pretty straightforward and with little subtlety or nuance.

It is also not very dark, I'd say much less than datv. I mean, it's not a dark fantasy setting, so why would it be, but still that's an argument people make.

I mean, it's a good game and I enjoy it a lot, and it follows a lot of the same video games conventions as datv. The things I pointed out here were non-issues for me, these are just arguments I see a lot. So I was paying attention to these aspects.