shoryuken.ie

Dragon Age:Origins gets good reviews but….

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Sitting pretty atop a mountain of decent reviews is great and all (91 on metacritic ) but I can’t help but think that releasing a big budget RPG less then a week before Modern Warfare 2 is a bit suicidal.

Mass Effect 2 was originally set for release this month but is now being released at the end of January, cosy in the fact that it’s close to pay day after xmas. Was it a case of release against Modern Warfare or try and flog two big RPG’s in one month!? Could they not have just released Dragon Age in February or something? Surely the slew of developers clearing out of Activision’s way was enough to tell them that it was suicide? Every site you go to has trailers for Biowares latest splashed all over them so what was the plan? Was it to swoop in and give gamers an offer they couldn’t refuse just before Infinity Ward dropped the smack down on the whole planet? I don’t know but if it was then Borderlands may well have went and dropped a big green turd in Bioware’s drink.

Hey, I’m sure they know what there doing but I know for me personally after Borderlands got the review hype it did I splashed out on that title last week, as lots of people did. So, this is the thing – borderlands has enough content to do me on till Modern Warfare comes out, ergo I will trade it in for Modern Warfare. Not a bother but if I fork out for Dragon Age this week and love it, I have to throw down full price for another game a couple of days later.

Am I the only one in this predicament? Doubt it.

So is the extra success of Borderlands going to funk up Biowares plans to hopefully exploit the lull in the pre Modern Warfare 2 market? If they weren’t trying to exploit the lull then it was just straight up madness to release such a big expensive and ambitious title less then a week before a game that has 240 Ka-Gillianananan pre orders.

Maybe I’m just raving on but I still don’t have the cash to buy three €50 games in three weeks. If only Dragon Age had come out 2 weeks earlier, it would have been a no brainer for me even up against Uncharted 2.

Anyone want to weigh in on this? I’m sure there is a point somewhere in there?

Tags: , ,

Posted in Articles, Console, Microsoft, News, Sony

About the Author

TWHR has become unstuck in time and now hes a Staff writer on shoryuken! Email: paulwhyte.twhr@gmail.com-Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/TWHR

  • twhr
    With the success of Fable 2, Fallout 3 and Mass Effect a new audience has come to console RPG's especially western ones. You are dead right it will defo take off eventually I'm just wondering if they considered how much better it would have done had they not brought it out the week before COD. I think people like myself will get the game in a few months but there is so much out there at the minute a better release date would have given people the space to buy it before MW2.

    I think I'm just a little irked because I want the game but I also want MW2.
  • mooface
    i don't think this title is competiting with the call of dutys etc. it will find its audience. sure it wont sell a billion copies, but would it ever have done so? id say this one will work well, it will probably attract more peoplpe because they DONT want cod6 or any other big aaa titles released this month
blog comments powered by Disqus