Phil Owen's discussions
this is a lesson I've had to learn the hard way in real life, as a freelance journalist. Not being staff means money for my work comes out of a limited budget pool that editors aren't going to dip into without good reason, and repeating other writers' talking points is not the way to get them to do that. Read more
I just don't agree that the problems with DA2 were about vision. That shit came out less than a year and a half after the first one, AND they put out Awakening in between as well. But I can look past the rushed jankiness of DA2 now (i hated it so much when it came out) and see really great and fresh ideas that never… Read more
like, percentage-wise DA2 is very action-lite. Dungeons are short and combat is very fast compared with DAO, and there's much more emphasis on conversation. I think the recycled dungeon environments made all the combat stuff seem much shittier than it really was just because you went through them so many times. Read more