Remember when Bioware said that Dragon Age: Origins' franchise would be kept as a PC exclusive, and the markets of Mass Effect and Dragon Age essentially being different beasts entirely, appealing to different people, and that one would focus on cinematicism and the other a more hardcore RPG experience?
I find it hard to believe that Vincke has somehow come up with a way to bypass the inherent limitations of the console format and controllers. I have no doubt in my mind that he is serious in not wanting to dumb things down, but the fact of the matter is that we've heard this line countless of times, and it's never been true at the end of the day.
Multi-platform always compromises gameplay, choices and controls. No exceptions. It's naive bordering on the absurd to think that D:OS:EE would be an exception just because you're fed a quotable marketing line. They've already shown that they give zero fucks about previous customers and have no qualms with giving the big middle-finger in what was supposed to be an extensive patch, not a new game.
I'd recommend you save your criticisms for a time when you can justify them...;) At this moment they are completely unjustifiable: Bioware/EA is not Larian--it can't get much simpler than that...;) Right now all you are doing is speculating about software that hasn't been released.
I love D:OS, I've recently started my *fourth* playthrough, but will admit it's finally getting a bit long in the tooth...;) But that's OK, most games I won't replay at all or maybe just once, years later, etc. Getting this EE version is an unexpected treat...!
Injecting a console controller into the game could as easily mean that while the game is playable with a controller, it's still better to play it through with the keyboard & mouse. Adding controller compatibility doesn't automatically mean the controller becomes the preferred method of navigating through the game. I can imagine a rather clumsy controller interface because to me all console controllers are clumsy & primitive...;) To that end, the current consoles, PS4 & xBone *are* themselves PCs now, in every sense of the word--admittedly they are scrawny PCs but that's what they are. It's a different breed from the 360/PS3 days--so I don't see Swen as having to compromise anything to include them.
I think you are just shooting yourself in the foot by lambasting the product before you've even looked at it. I understand your criticism generally & it is true that some games are first built for consoles and then later ported to the PC, along with their correspondingly clunky interfaces, but D:OS is the opposite of that scenario, isn't it?
I'm never wrong about anything, and so if you see an error in any of my posts you will know immediately that I did not write it...;)
