Dragon Age: Origins Trailer Introduces Zevran

I just don't understand where all the bad feeling for this game is coming from....WTF is wrong with you people.
Have you even read an article by someone who has played the game? Go read a Games mag or website, the previews are POSITIVE as hell! They say it's coming along great!

As for the marketing, I don't get why some people are so ticked off about it. Bioware are billing it as a "dark, heroic fantasy" so yeah, shit sometimes goes down like in real life (minus the Magic/Swords etc). Hate to break it to you guys but people have sex! OMFG! And although it looks "in your face" in the trailers, we aren't seeing the lead-up! Can you not understand this? Bioware have always made the "romance" portion of their games tasteful, and to good effect, just look at ME. Probably the most tasteful sex with an alien encounter ever created.

Every time a new vid/bit of info comes out all you get are the naysayers with their "losing interest" shit. Guys, seriosuly, where is your faith! Bioware have an outstanding history of great RPG's, just trust that this game is gonna pwn!

I think most of you have built up a different game in your mind when you saw the "spiritual successor" line about BG, and basically already have an opinion of the game YOU want. I say let the dev's give us the game THEY envision, and then we'll decide if it's good.

So in conclusion, naysayers remember my shackname, and if it turns out that DA:O is wank, feel free to flame me all you like, but if it ISNT! and i strongly believe it won't be, prepare to eat your words.

Rott, don't worry. I am sure that I and all the other shackers that like RPGs will buy this. The fun we're having with this game revolves around two simple points.

1) "This is the New Shit" is the new "John Romero is Going to Make You His Bitch". Or, at least, we're trying to make it that. While it has echoes of the "bitch" advertisement, no one is going to pretend like it could possibly supercede it for unintentional hilarity. Still, it's pretty bad/good.

2) It's pretty clear they saw The Witcher become a sleeper hit, with lots of positive reviews and press, both good and bad, for the naughty trading cards and harsh language, and decided to revarnish their game as some kind of edgy 18+ gamer type experience.

I am betting it'll be great, but it might be great in spite of the "new shit".

Kinda lame but Im still going to play it.

Are the people who made BG2 still there?

I was sad enough seeing the marketing from THIS Bioware game, but it looks like Mass Effect 2 is following suit. A sad, sad time indeed.

I don't see what the big deal is. I think it looks like a good game.

It's pretty funny though, with every Dragon Age news post, there are 50 "I'm losing interest in this game" threads. Strangely, I see many uninteresting game posts that just have no comments at all. It seems that people are interested in this game enough to make it known how uninterested they are.

wow the voice acting of that one character is horrible. Not only is the accent terrible but he sounds like hes talking with a golf ball in his mouth.

shitty marketing != shitty game

(note that this equation is not an axiom)

The last retarded trailer made me not want to buy the game anymore, which is sad. This trailer made me not like bioware anymore, which is also sad.

What are they doing over there? I think it's finally dawning that they will NEVER release a game as good as Baldur's Gate (either) ever again.

I have no idea what to think of this game... The art direction of this game has no appeal to me....

I seem to recall planning to buy this at one point.

Can't remember why now.

This game has fallen off my radar for some reason I can't quite define.

I really hope the assassin mechanics are like that of BGII, ie- Cloak, backstab multipliers, poison dagger...

Great you got blood splatters. WTF is next, pearl necklaces?

a) who the hell greenlighted this at BioWare
b) what were they thinking?
c) is it too late to stop them reproducing?

I mean come on. BioWare made GREAT games without having to resort to this shlock. If you're going to put pixsex in your game, at least make it LOOK good.

Give me a break.

PS: No way I let that assassin live. You come after me and I survive, you're a dead assassin, not a failed assassin who I let join ... ass ... ass ... in ... somewhere in there there's a double entendre ... or at least a bad bioware pixsex

When I first saw footage of this, I was really looking forward to it, and I thought it looked really classy. Lately it just looked like an ugly The Witcher, with brown textures everywhere and crappy models/animation. And the marketing makes me cringe.
It does shock, but not with sex, violence or music but with crappiness. Not purchasing anymore.

/rant

Sex and shock marketing indeed. Between this and Mass Effect 2 it seems BioWare is aiming their mature rated games squarely at the adolescent crowd. I guess it's time to "expand their consumer base" like the credit card companies did in the late 90's / early 2000's.

All those awful trailers about their new games kinda makes me wanna play Baldurs Gate 2 again. I still don't remember why I played it from start to finish only once (including the very cool addon concerning bhaal)... oh yes, must've been highschool. But still, best RPG ever (especially story- and party-wise) with so much playtime for your money, you'll never find that again (I think combined with the addon it was approx. 80+40 hours of gameplay). Yes, NWN was big, too, but the party was meh and so was the story (imho).

I have a feeling this is going to be an incredibly buggy game

I wonder if this shitty advertisement campaign would even exist had EA not bought Bioware. They are the publishers and have been known to grip the balls of their developers when they think they have an idea they want implimented. I wonder how many people predicted EA was a bad move for Bioware...

Why is their marketing department trying to prevent me from giving them money?

The eyelids of everyone in the entire game are permanently locked in the "Meh..."-position, and it spreads to anyone watching the trailers. It's like a design theme, the game is "Meh" by design. Weapons, armor, player races, enemy races, dragons, interior decoration, exterior decoration.

What else do they expect when they drench red arterial spray on the chests and faces of warriors and then give them facial expressions like "God, two whole hours left on my shift at the shower-curtain factory...YAAAWN".