Cosplay/Dress Ups

[Psychosplodge]

The likes of 6/7 have always been referred to as JRPGs for as long as I can remember. It's only the modern ones that have gone down the diablo esque route isn't it?

Dragonage as I said is a dumbed down for consoles RPG

[eldargal]

It's not at all dumbed down though, if anything there is more of a focus on actual roleplaying than most popular classic RPGs. There is certainly far more choices and opportunities for shaping your characters development than any Baldurs Gate game, except in a purely mechanical stats and abilities sense.

[Psychosplodge]

The story maybe not, the gameplay certainly is.

Your BG character is fully yours to evolve, no pre scripted cutscenes or other BS it's all down to what you do with it.

[eldargal]

Well I wouldn't say it is dumbed down, DAO had as much depth as most RPGs of its generation, DA2 focused perhaps too much on roleplay and not enough on gameplay with its simplified more action-y gameplay but DAI has got a good balance. I've always believed that a RPG is defined more by its ability to facilitate roleplay, immersion and charcter development than by raw gameplay mechanics.

[Path Walker]

The story maybe not, the gameplay certainly is.

Your BG character is fully yours to evolve, no pre scripted cutscenes or other BS it's all down to what you do with it.

There were cutscenes in BG, in exactly the same way as in DA:O, I don't know what you're basing your assumptions on, but you're totally wrong about Origins. 2 was tighter in its focus but this allowed it to tell a different type of story, you still to to role play how your Hawke got the job done and interacted with the city and its inhabitants

[Psychosplodge]

Not really. there were a few story setting ones nowhere near the DA ones.

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To be fair you could argue that was down to the tech of the day though.

[Path Walker]

Depends what you mean by cutscenes, DA:Os cutscenes were almost all part of the conversation system or were triggered by your choices within a conversation, not many where you had nothing to do but watch what happened, its just a prettier version of BG conversations

[Tyrendian]

I was pretty unimpressed with Origins somehow, especially the story - felt extremely generic and predictable to me... and most of the party were either bland or annoying as well...
2 I've skipped so far, dunno if that'll change
Inquisition was totes amazing though - except from the rather bad console port, especially with the crummy interface it had on PC. Rest of it, be it gameplay, world, characters or story, are just plain great imho

[eldargal]

The story of Origins was fairly generic, but it made up for it by excellent characters and world building and the way it propelled you through the story. DA2 had a much better story, and it was more unusual in that you completely fail to stop the poop hitting the fan, which I think is something a lot of people didn't like because they are used to sweeping in as the Heroic Protagonist and forcing everyone to do what they want.

[eldargal]

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