Quote Originally Posted by Ouch! View Post
Vyk, what leads you to believe that the decision to have Hawke as a human only is not a story based decision?
No, I figured it was, I was just saying something like that had better be the reason. And I never noticed any accents in the first game. Just gruffer or lighter voices (I guess the Orleseans were pretty obviously accented, but that was about all I caught)

And I gotta say I really don't like a lot of design decisions going on at BioWare. Played through the demo the other day and what is with all this mashing the A-button garbage? Much preferred the more strategic aspect of the combat in the original where you tell someone to attack and they do it, rather than having to run up yourself and hit the A button a bunch. This isn't Fable or Diablo. Well, I guess it is now. But still. I liked how it was different from most games in its style, where you micromanage your team and give orders instead of actually running around whacking stuff. They're effectively dumbing down the combat. No longer the spiritual successor to the Baldur's Gate legacy. It'll probably still be a great game. But that's two complaints from me. And I still have very little faith in the conversation wheel. All the conversation options in the demo were pretty straight forward. I have no doubt it'll have quite a few misleading instances in the game. And the little icons didn't really mean much. I liked that an olive branch represented condolences though lol

Also, for 2 gigs, the engine wasn't running all that great. You totally just kinda floated over the surface. You'd think with a demo bigger than Mass Effect 2's it'd run at least as good as Mass Effect's. And I don't understand at all why it had to be that big when half the options were gimped out. You couldn't customize a character (which I believe the ME2 demo did let you do) and you couldn't fiddle with your inventory (can't say ME2 let you do that, since there is no inventory in ME2 lol). The graphics just seemed unfinished, which is understandable for a demo, but then why is an unfinished engine so freaking massive

And I completed it, but it didn't say I got anything. What's all this talk about completing it to get bonus equipment?