Dragon Age 2

[Freya]

I romanced anders cause i'ma mage and I sympathized with him. It was cute but I think he's going crazy o.o

[Aerith's Knight]

I don't like Anders. He's whiny. My usual part consists of Varric, Isabel and Aveline. I'm a mage, so it rounds it off well enough.

I have too much money now that I'm out of the deep roads. I spend and spend but there is no end to it! It's madness!

[DMKA]

/v/ told me this is the worst game ever made.

[Jessweeee♪]

It'll be a looooong time before we get this game probably (I still don't have Brotherhood ) so I just have some questions:

1. Are mages as awesome as they were in the first Dragon Age?
It seemed so in the demo -- spells don't seem to have changed much. When I fought an Ogre and a mob of darkspawn the rest of the party fell and I was left to fight them on my own. Mage Hawke proved to be very squishy, but I was able to just run circles around the field, occasionally casting a spell before taking off running again. Once the goons were gone, the Ogre was very easy to avoid.

2. Does friendly fire still depend on difficulty? I like making GIANT FIRE TORNADOES but they just aren't as fun if my party gets boo boos

3. Importing! I read you could import a DAO save file. Is this true, and if so how much effect will this have?

[Aerith's Knight]

It'll be a looooong time before we get this game probably (I still don't have Brotherhood ) so I just have some questions:

1. Are mages as awesome as they were in the first Dragon Age?
It seemed so in the demo -- spells don't seem to have changed much. When I fought an Ogre and a mob of darkspawn the rest of the party fell and I was left to fight them on my own. Mage Hawke proved to be very squishy, but I was able to just run circles around the field, occasionally casting a spell before taking off running again. Once the goons were gone, the Ogre was very easy to avoid.

2. Does friendly fire still depend on difficulty? I like making GIANT FIRE TORNADOES but they just aren't as fun if my party gets boo boos

3. Importing! I read you could import a DAO save file. Is this true, and if so how much effect will this have?

1. A mage is dandy enough. Only once I had a problem with it. On the end of act II, you may have to fight a boss battle, 1 on 1, which was grueling for my mage. I just kept running in circles until my few effective spells recharged.

2. No idea. Only played on 1 difficulty.

3. Yes, and I have no idea how much, because I didn't have one left.

[Mikztsu]

By all means it's not a bad game, but very disappointing by Bioware standards.

Game feels too simplified on every department, plot is pretty weak ( big part of the game you collect money to travel to the Deeproads by weak motive), dungeons are identical copies of each other ( except the parts where paths are blocked by cement door) which makes the game feel pretty cheap. Something that was better compared to DA: O is companion quests; they are long and well done.

As I said, it's not a bad game and I'm having fun with it. I just hope Mass Effect 3 won't disappoint me this much.

[Freya]

1. I am damn squishy! But if done right, I can wipe out a whole mob very very easily. If they resist >.> I just got a load of aggro. It's best to have a tank at all times with taunt when you're a mage.

2. It hasn't affected me on normal. So I'm thinking it's based on what level setting you have.

3. Yes importing does kinda affect it. I haven't played too much but I hear some old faces pop back. Also there are some quests that you'll recognize that have something to do with what you did in the first game, and it's expansion.

[Aerith's Knight]

You're not that squishy. Plus, with upgraded Fireball, upgraded mind blast, that ice area attack, and a couple Force mage spells, no enemy even gets near me.

[NeoCracker]

Alright, just beat it. And after some of those last scenes, Anders is officially cemented as a bad ass.

And I don't think there was a big issue with why you go to the Deep Roads, it wasn't a great reason but It's nothing I'll call Bull on though. On a whole, I loved the story and characters.

Merril is my favorite though, she's a damn awesome character and a freaking beast in a fight. Her Sustained Area of Effect and Snare are amazing.

Plus, her outfit change after moving in with me was bad ass. My favorite character design in the game.

[Mikztsu]

And I don't think there was a big issue with why you go to the Deep Roads, it wasn't a great reason but It's nothing I'll call Bull on though. On a whole, I loved the story and characters.

To me it was, because I was expecting somewhat epicness through and through as in Origins, and first half it was far from anything epic. More whinge from me about the fact you actually spend all game around Kirkwall; not traveling on the world map was a big let down for me. Doesn't feel like adventuring. :S

[Aerith's Knight]

That mother quest is still creeping me out. I did not need to see that.

[Freya]

I literally said "WTF BIOWARE?!" after that quest.

[Aerith's Knight]

Holy.. (SPOILER) Did I just kill the entire SMURFING DALISH VILLIAGE?

WHY?

Also, why can't I bed Meryll and still have Isabel as my romance option. Ugh, I can't stand that elf.

[NeoCracker]

And I don't think there was a big issue with why you go to the Deep Roads, it wasn't a great reason but It's nothing I'll call Bull on though. On a whole, I loved the story and characters.

To me it was, because I was expecting somewhat epicness through and through as in Origins, and first half it was far from anything epic. More whinge from me about the fact you actually spend all game around Kirkwall; not traveling on the world map was a big let down for me. Doesn't feel like adventuring. :S

I was saying I don't call Bull on the basis that I didn't find it contrived at all. :P

I have no real issue it's story wasn't as epic in the sense that it wasn't solving some world wide crisis. I am actually very fond of following the Champions Rise to power, and their inevitable involvement in the start of a world wide event by the end of it. If you've beaten the game, you already know what it is, so I wont' bother with spoilers and just leave it at that.

More then anything, this game served as a bridge to another game.

Also, the final battle has far more tension and feelings of grandure then the first dragon age, where the last battle was sorely disappointing.

[Iceglow]

My only major comment so far in this game (I'm not very far in to it) is just about the Qunari, in the first game Sten and all other Qunari are depicted as tall gold skinned giants but still clearly human, comparing one to the Ferelden humans imho was much like comparing a 40k Space Marine to a normal Imperial Guardsman. In this game they're pretty much no longer even slightly resembling their appearance in the first game. I know it was pointed out in the first game that the Qunari did not consider themselves as Human and neither did the rest of the world but this is a major artistic change in depiction.