Dragon Age 2

[Jice Virago]

Its a middle act, with all the problems that entails. Plus, it seems like the budget got cut short, especially in the level design department. Still, voice acting was good and the story was what it needed to be. I played it three times and enjoyed it a bunch, but I dislike some of the Mass Effect style streamlining of the game. My only real issue was with the repeater maps and the lack of a nuetral option for the ending. Balance was a bit off, with the need to coddle Anders if you wanted any sort of healing beyond potions. Also, if you manually run Merril as an AE bloodmage rape machine, she breaks the game.

[Asheran Mojomaster]

Its a middle act, with all the problems that entails. Plus, it seems like the budget got cut short, especially in the level design department. Still, voice acting was good and the story was what it needed to be. I played it three times and enjoyed it a bunch, but I dislike some of the Mass Effect style streamlining of the game. My only real issue was with the repeater maps and the lack of a nuetral option for the ending. Balance was a bit off, with the need to coddle Anders if you wanted any sort of healing beyond potions. Also, if you manually run Merril as an AE bloodmage rape machine, she breaks the game.

I pissed Anders off at every possible opportunity and he kept healing for me. This next play through is going to be interesting too. I actually screwed around and supported mages early in my last play through then decided to go templars, so didn't get the mage hunter achieve. This time I am playing with my main character as a mage, but also going to be anti mage in every way. I want to see how that plays out.

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BTW, I loved killing Anders at the end. Wish it would have given me the option of going into a rage and giving him a nasty, horrible death though. Freaking whiny little bitch.

[Winnow]

Dragon Age II was easily one of the worst games/sequels of recent memory. Even the developers recognized how awful it was eventually.

That said, next gen's Dragon Age: Inquisition looks very promising:

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IML4hhg8Yz0&hd=1

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6rV1Y6Vcxg&hd=1

Bear with the technical difficulties and camcordered'd pax video and you can see the Frostbite 3 engine looks promising (also will be used for next Mass Effect game)

There are clean HD trailers showing DA2: inquisition but this one shows some game play which is what matters. The graphics look great but seem too "clean" at times, meaning they seem to be missing some dirty/grungy look. As long as they get rid of the ridiculous bloody faces after every battle, it will be a step in the right direction. I think the developers actually learned from their mistakes this time...that, and Skyrim put them to shame.

Hope it turns out well. The more decent RPGs the better.

[Fairweather Pure]

It looks like a single player MMO. Nothing wrong with that, but after many hours in these games I actually miss real people being behind the toons.