Huge improvement from DA1, if you check out the demo

And inter-racial sex wonder if desire demons are involved this time

Yeah don't use DX11, buggy

Bear in mind that your personal taste might not reflect the potential millions of people that play this.

Aren't they a bajillion years old?

Their ahems probably dried up like a prune (dragon) ages ago

I thought it's A for quicktime events I hates those things

Is there a new Dragon Age 2 topic opened in LYN?

This one is for DA:O 1

What graphics settings you using? Low spec?

Looks pretty rough

PC elitism is probably 10x worse... and I've been a PC gamer since the 80s.

Stop taking yourselves seriously and enjoy what is likely a good game

If only you can make Hawke look like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCmtdyi5fWw

Hmm the combat is a LOT better, mages still too powerful though. The dialogue and facial expressions are more robotic than the 1st game.

What team combo are you guys running?

I'm doing:
Shield Warrior (me)
2H Warrior (Fenris)
Mage (Bethany)
Ranged (Varric)

This combo is really easy at early chapters but I wonder if double mage (ala DA1) will be better?

WTF why they pull a Yoshimo on Bethany... she was my best mage.

Merrill has no heals, that leaves Anders which I built wrongly

edit: nvm black emporium solved my probs!

This post has been edited by Currylaksa: Mar 10 2011, 01:05 AM

WTF, every possible love interest in Dragon Age 2 is bi-sexual?

There is a potion you can buy in Black Emporium...

I was sooo lucky they put it there, since I screwed up on Merrill/Anders' builds.

Building a Tank is fairly useless in this game... your companions' DPS complete destroys your threat generation even with the battlemaster talent and bravery. I used goad, taunt and gave my tanks 20 seconds head start... nope that dragon/demon still comes and eats my Merrill. It's better to pump more into DPS build but with some select tanking talents.

It's a far cry from the old sword-shield Alistair which held every monster like elephant glue

When you say "epic-ness" you just want some typical "unite the nation and slay huge demon" story, or "unite the galaxies and slay evil reapers". That's kinda overdone now...

I didn't like the story at first, but in time I really appreciate how pieces of your actions comes along to form the entire ending, how an innocent gold dig changed the face of the world, how a murder left slide creates a personal tragedy in the end. In other RPGs, you can really forget about the quests you did on the way to your next chapter. Here, everything comes back to a head. You really feel personally responsible for the conclusion of the story, very bittersweet albeit anti-climatic.

We can all blame the hardware limitations of the Xbox 360

Here's what I felt about DA2:

+ Nice refreshing plot direction to explore causality. A cookie-cutter plot (aka DA1) normally makes you a drive-by victim of the game's overarching conflict, spurring you to end it. This one makes your actions the root of the problem, without absolving you of blame (e.g. Planescape).

+ Improved combat. You can script your teammates nicely and play it like an action game (well in normal difficulty anyways). The combat effects are more visceral and meaty for melee types.

+ Removed top-down. When you play the game using top-down, you really miss a lot of the graphics.


- Too few environments. Also Bioware put too much content in the the city, until it felt repetitive doing many plot points in the same zone.

- Trivialized dragon fight. So you get a random high dragon in an unassuming side quest, with bad loot to boot, how epic is that

- An overarching main plot/villain would still be nice. Despite the causality twist, it still feels like you're playing 3 different unrelated stories.

- Hard to target enemies due to enemy hitbox and wonky camera.

- Feels rushed and under-baked, Bobby Kotick would be proud

- Dull Teammates. Nothing compared to the holy trinity of Alistair, Morrigan and Zhevran.

TBH I always thought Witcher was kinda overrated.

And the E3 demo of Witcher 2 ripped off ME2's force field scene rofl.

Why do darkspawn look like skeleton warriors

Broodmother kasi makeover liao

Let the sales figure decide whether you are right or wrong