Comments on Blessing of Kings: Dragon Age and Mature Games

much love for Baldurs Gate..so much so that my fir...

2009-10-06T20:17:16.480-07:00

much love for Baldurs Gate..so much so that my first character for WoW (starting back in beta and still played) was/is a dwarven hunter with a bear pet.. named Boo

:)

Damn you for bringing up Minsc. Now I have to go ...

2009-10-01T09:41:40.861-07:00

Damn you for bringing up Minsc. Now I have to go find my old discs and play through that again! I absolutely forgot how good a character he was.

Play the Witcher. Ignore the stupid card collectin...

2009-09-30T10:49:50.306-07:00

Play the Witcher. Ignore the stupid card collecting (bleh).

Other than that, it is the picture card of what a good "mature" rpg can be about.

PS. Enhanced version.

Maybe I am alone in this, but after seeing the tra...

2009-09-29T10:07:40.716-07:00

Maybe I am alone in this, but after seeing the trailer, I am excited to play DAO.

Don't get me wrong, I don't revel in gore and sex or anything like that. But it looks like a good storyline that could be entertaining to play.

Rhii said what I was going to say. Reading about O...

2009-09-29T09:47:43.156-07:00

Rhii said what I was going to say. Reading about Origins has really peaked my interested. WATCHING Origins has dropped them by some amount.

I agree with everything you just said, Rohan. Vio...

2009-09-29T09:16:28.277-07:00

I agree with everything you just said, Rohan. Violence and sex does not equal maturity when it's dealt with in an adolescent way. And humorlessness isn't fun.

When I found out WAR didn't have dances, and touted that as a selling point, I knew it wasn't the game for me. Adults like to have fun too.

That trailer was a significant turn-off for me, wh...

2009-09-29T06:32:55.649-07:00

That trailer was a significant turn-off for me, which is sad, because that's a game that I might be interested in. Not that one trailer is going to destroy my interest in a game from Bioware (very few things could, actually), but it's not really encouraging.

Why don't design companies get that there's a middle ground between gratuitous and sanitized? I don't want sanitized, I'm not a small child living in a world of fluffy bunnies and rainbows anymore... but I don't need oceans of blood and intestines for party streamers either. Something in between would do.

I have faith in Bioware's track record of firm sto...

2009-09-29T06:19:28.367-07:00

I have faith in Bioware's track record of firm storytelling. I'm not as concerned with the backdrop as with a cinematic game that tells a story, and bioware has done enough for me to give them the benefit of the doubt. I am going to read reviews on Dragon Age when it comes out, and if it looks good, I will probably buy it.

They're doing a similar thing with Mass Effect 2 a...

2009-09-29T03:42:41.912-07:00

They're doing a similar thing with Mass Effect 2 as well ( http://www.kiasa.org/2009/09/29/society-drives-people-crazy-with-lust-and-calls-it-advertising/ ). Like Brian Green points out in a comment, it seems likely it's a result of the "EA" bit of "EA Bioware"...