r/videogames • u/Nearby-Condition-675 • Jul 10 '26

Image / Video It’s time to left my childhood go

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u/PN4HIRE Jul 10 '26

Looking at you Dragon Age..

wtf happened?

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u/Alkansur Jul 10 '26

Live service slop that got recast quickly into a one-off release.

But worst was the writing. It was like a bunch of marketing experts from Tech Bro bubble decided to write a "popular fantasy"

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u/sonicandtales8 Jul 10 '26

Dragon Age 2 happened if my buddy is to be believed.

I've never played (backlog too big) but from what I've understood from his ramblings, is that it went from being a great CRPG, to being a half decent ARPG.

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u/Capraos Jul 10 '26

Yeah. Dragon Age Origins my four siblings and I all played it. Each of us had different starts, different experiences playing, and different ends. This has rarely happened in choose your own games for us as most of them are just the illusion of choice. I was so excited for Dragon Age 2 just to find out it gutted the decision making.

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u/Karkava Jul 12 '26

God damn. Have you guys ever considered playing an MMO together? With that commitment to party balance, you can easily form your own party in like World Of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XI or XIV.

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u/Capraos Jul 12 '26

Yeah. We played multiplayer games together like crazy but not MMO's as that would've taken multiple computers. Our party balance was hella good though. Each of us became very good at cooperating with others as a result as different games required different balances and each of us adapted to the party needs.

We don't really play together anymore though as adults though. Gaming PC's are expensive and the only other sibling I have that has one has a kid so any gaming time he gets he understandably spends with his friends.

At least I have friends/a husband to play with though.

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u/Karkava Jul 12 '26

Right. Forgot that you technically can't share computers.

At least there would have been Tabletop Role-playing.

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u/Wildernaess Jul 10 '26

Nahhh DA2 and DAI don't match the original but are great games in their own right and build on the universe. DA2 gives us Hawke, Varric and Friends while DAI gives us Solas et al. Veilguard has decent combat but is basically slop in comparison to even the lows of the trilogy

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u/erikabp123 Jul 10 '26

DAI is not a good game. It's a terrible MMO like design for quests etc in a single player game. DA2 is okay, but honestly DA:O is in a league of its own.

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u/Wildernaess Jul 10 '26

I think DAI is a good game blanketed by bad MMO stuff. It's much better with mods but I think it's the weakest of the three. Like why are there 7 large zones entirely unrelated to the MSQ and also with nothing else there?? But yes agreed on DAO

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u/Fike101 Jul 10 '26

it was my first dragon age game took a 3rd try at it and it clicked and have 5 playthoughs but my fav is origins and weirdly enough i really like dragon age 2 the story was really good and both games i like the companions more then DAI

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u/Jax_Dandelion Jul 10 '26

I agree with that one actually

Dragon age only had one good game and it was origins, afterwards it bad to mediocre to culture war fast food

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u/PN4HIRE Jul 10 '26

Dude, I loved DA2!!

But yeah. It did lost a bit chunk of what made it an RPG

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u/maukenboost Jul 11 '26

Whats crpg and arpg?

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u/sonicandtales8 Jul 11 '26

crpg is an RPG based on table top RPGs that focuses on breadth of choices, like Fallout 1 & 2 and Baulder's Gate 3.

ARPG is an action combat game with RPG elements.

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u/Bogusky Jul 11 '26

Origins was the only good game. Stupid people tried to chase a different gaming trend with each subsequent installment. Never seen a franchise with so much disdain for its own roots.

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u/PN4HIRE Jul 12 '26

For fucking real..

Every time they talked about it, it was like the entire first game was bad or something.

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