did you like Dragon Age 2?

[Deleted]

As the topic says: Did you like DA 2?

[moaradin]

yes.

filler

[Zhabin]

Playing it now, liking it much better than part one.

[Valore]

I just bought the Ultimate edition of Dragon Age: Origins for half price! I'm going to play it through first.

[Deleted]

I just bought the Ultimate edition of Dragon Age: Origins for half price! I'm going to play it through first.

That's a real bargain.. 60+ hours of gameplay on 1 playthrough. I've probably spent more than 500 hours playing that gae.

[Shad0wembrace]

I loved it. It was also a very emotional game, IMO. I played a mage and just finished the entire go through but going to roll a warrior in a few weeks (hopefully they'll have some extra areas/quests to purchase by that time.)

[Deleted]

i like it nice to spend my free time on

[moaradin]

Yea my first playthrough is a mage with no DLC or mods installed. I'm going to be doing a playthrough with all DLC and some mods next.

[Deleted]

As the topic says: Did you like DA 2?

No.
I had some cheap laughs, but in the end that's all it had for me.
The story is bad and shallow and so are the characters, terribly predictable. Your choices rarely mean anything in the end and the ultimate end of the story, which was a horrible cliffhanger end with no conclussion what so ever where the story really gets chopped off and ended. You run around in the same damned places the whole game and it gets really boring.
And the sex scenes are gone!

And the same day as release day they throw out 2 DLC's! A real WTF-moment. Why not just bloody include these things in the launch copy? Greedy SOB's.

It's obvious this game is a rushed job and it suffers from sequel-sickness. I have no idea why they changed it at all, how Origins played worked perfectly. And next time, EA need to take their dirty ape hands off of Bioware and let them produce a decent game.

[MikeBogina]

have yet to beat the first one, got it when it first came out, then quit for wow, started it up again a couple months ago, with a new character and I think im like half way through that(theres so much) I played the demo and i like the combat, how its more engaging, but i got this feeling that their sacrificing some good ole story in some ways. Really dont like how they try to sell you that Hawke is this badass, even though its the first appearance of the character ever. I like it where a character is called a badass after you played the game, not where the makers are telling you this before you even play the game : /


Will get the game...in the future, but one thing i'll keep in mind, the Warden was badass cause we made him/her badass, Shepard was badass cause we made him/her badass, Hawke is not a badass until we make him/her one.

[mordale]

to quote my favorite WC:3 tFT character "indubitably" , now guess who I'm quoting.

[MikeBogina]

No.

And the same day as release day they throw out 2 DLC's! A real WTF-moment. Why not just bloody include these things in the launch copy? Greedy SOB's.

It's obvious this game is a rushed job and it suffers from sequel-sickness. I have no idea why they changed it at all, how Origins played worked perfectly. And next time, EA need to take their dirty ape hands off of Bioware and let them produce a decent game.

I'm seeing more and more of that too, theres a term for it but I forgot what lol. dragon Age origins gave you the DLC for free that was made before the game launched, seems like companies are getting greedier and greedier : /

Oh i know this term! If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

[Deleted]

I would have to say yes, overall I'd've given it a 7.5/10, with major negatives being: Repetition, lack of innovation regarding environment(outside the city itself), lack of innovation regarding the main storyline, dumbing down the 'talents'(I want my dual-wielding warrior without having to bloody reroll a damn rouge, I've always hated them) also ''warriors(templars)'' against ''mages''....Nox much?

[MikeBogina]

to quote my favorite WC:3 tFT character "indubitably" , now guess who I'm quoting.

Anub'arak! my favorite hero

[moaradin]

DA2 gave you all DLC for free too if you pre-order it. Some DLC is still free. Not sure what the problem is. It's nothing but a bonus. All content made after the game was finished.

[Niroshi]

I'm seeing more and more of that too, theres a term for it but I forgot what lol. dragon Age origins gave you the DLC for free that was made before the game launched, seems like companies are getting greedier and greedier : /

Oh i know this term! If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

I think this is to ensure that people buy the game new, instead of used, since you wouldn't get the DLC then. If I recall, it's the same for Mass Effect 2 on the PS3. You get codes to redeem the DLC when you buy it new.

[mordale]

I think this is to ensure that people buy the game new, instead of used, since you wouldn't get the DLC then. If I recall, it's the same for Mass Effect 2 on the PS3. You get codes to redeem the DLC when you buy it new.

yup.
you can blame gamestop for it if you wish.

[Deleted]

to quote my favorite WC:3 tFT character "indubitably" , now guess who I'm quoting.

A noob? (see what I did there?)

I played the demo to DA2, actually got me to play DA:O again, since I haven't finished the game yet.. After that's done, I will buy DA2

[Phraun]

DA2 was overall pretty solid, but there were two things I really didn't like about it:
1) You spend way too much time in one place. It feels like you're doing the same old thing over and over after about 20 hours
2) The way the quests are set up is completely disjointed; there's no logical order to anything. You just run around doing random sidequests until the game arbitrarily decides the plot needs to advance.

The new combat system is a big improvement over the old one though, imo, and the new dialogue system was also a good change.

I didn't like it as much as DA1, but it was definitely a good game. I'm taking a breather before jumping back in on playthrough #2

[Vlerk]

I voted yes, but so far I like Origins better. I still like this game so that shouldn't affect my choice.

Combat, while animations look flashy and fast, still feels relatively the same. I still pause the game a lot, or I would simply die. Every character has gotten some more mobility, including the enemies, which makes you think slightly more ahead. The enemies in Origins were rather predictable. Bossfights are kinda fun as well (try doing Ancient Rock Wraith on hard with no healer, yeah, took me a while... )

Difficulty is quite nicely tuned. Playing on hard for the first time usually works, but there are many times I still die. I tried on nightmare when the
game started, figured that since I could in Origins, I should be able to in DA2 as well..... died horribly on the first pack of mobs ^^
The character design is quite nice, except for Fenris, he should just go to a black corner and cry in the mirror of his absurdly huge sword.

What I don't like is that the game feels like a ride. It's a nice ride, but it's still a ride. Origins felt really like a world, you could stop and talk for a rather long time with your groupmembers, you could interact a lot more, quests weren't all of relatively the same size. Right now it feels like DA2 has only roughly 3 kind of quests:
- Turn-in quests of items you discovered.
- Side quests of either companions or random NPC's that usually require you to go to 1 area and kill a bunch of mobs.
- Main quests are an obviously longer chain of things.

And just a little thing: Why do all the women have to have such huge chests.... =/. Even worse than in DAO.