Dragon Age 2

[Masumi]

Age of Big Lizard thingy 2? what is it about?

[Levantine]

Australia makes me sad. I have to wait till tomorrow to get my mits on my copy.

[Brutalicus]

Love the game, not sure where I stand yet on the blatantly copypasted dungeons, though.

Agreed. It's really my only complaint about the game, and that's saying a lot coming from someone who couldn't see past Origins' flaws and poor design. They streamlined more or less everything I found clunky and unfun in Origins. Although I would love a more detailed character sheet for stats from armor. I have no idea what "2 Mana/Stamina regeneration" actually means. Is it per hit for rogues/kill for warriors/second for mages? Some of the stats still have that Mass Effect 1 feel. Physics threshold? Fucking win!

It's hard to put my finger on the reason, but I find myself much more interested in the characters this time around. Well, aside from the fact that Merrill is basically Tali. I was happy to see there's some strong character interaction when you're running around (i.e. Varric fucking with everybody).

[Shyrtandros]

Question?

on xbox if you download and complete the demo do you get a free ingame thing? I thought I read something like this.

[sahiel]

Question?

on xbox if you download and complete the demo do you get a free ingame thing? I thought I read something like this.

Should do, exactly the same as completing the facebook DA: Legends game should unlock items on both pc and xbox.

[Brutalicus]

As long as you log into your EA account and beat the demo then log in on the full game, the free stuff should show up in your house in Kirkwall. I rocked that greatsword for like... ten hours of gameplay!

[Shyrtandros]

As long as you log into your EA account and beat the demo then log in on the full game, the free stuff should show up in your house in Kirkwall. I rocked that greatsword for like... ten hours of gameplay!

Crud.. I don't know / remember if I have / log into an EA account LOL

[Brutalicus]

Heh, Merrill just got in my character's pants and for some reason she changed armor afterward... that was unexpected.

[culhag]

Heh, Merrill just got in my character's pants and for some reason she changed armor afterward... that was unexpected.

You got her loyalty, now you can do the suicide mission !

err... wait...

[Vanifae]

Age of Big Lizard thingy 2? what is it about?

http://dragonage.bioware.com/

[Vanifae]

I don't mind the copy pasta dungeons so much since there is so much more light content now. I love content.

[Shyrtandros]

The new combat system is VERY REFRESHING.

During the demo I just pressed attack once and my character sat there and didn't move and I went.. HRRRRM?!....Noo... wait....

*press attack 2 more times* slice / slice... OMFG DRAGON AGE HACK N SLASH CONTROLS!!!! <insert broken button from spamming the same button with random presses of off cooldown stuff...>

I really like a lot of the changes, I can only imagine how at higher levels rogue are probably OP as hell! AoE Stun, fight, Dodge back, rush forward, fight, strike, tele+strike.... omg

[Sabindeus]

I am sorely disappointed if this is accurate. I wanted to take Isabela's clothes off.

[Mcduffie]

From the videos on the previous page, it looks like there will be a serious lack of cartoon cleavage. It's truly devastating.

[Fivelives]

I've actually got rather mixed feelings about the game, having just beaten it.

Combat changes = awesome. SO awesome.

Inventory changes = Mass Effect-ified. I do NOT like the "streamlining" of the inventory. In Mass Effect, it was a good change - having to micromanage everyone's equipment to the point of 3 armor mods and 2 weapon mods was a pain in the fucking ass. In Origins? Not so much. The system they already had was JUST FINE.

Story/writing = awesome, but that's to be expected - Bioware pretty much sets the industry standard as far as depth and characterization is concerned in RPGs. It feels sort of filler-ish, though.

Graphics = so bad it almost wrecks the game for me. It almost looks like the cheesy FX where they paste a moving mouth onto a static image. The textures for the areas aren't much better, either. Hell, Origins had better graphics!

And a special note for the recycled dungeons. Shit, Blizzard was making random dungeons populated with loot and mobs as far back as fifteen years ago. Why couldn't Bioware do the same?