About Dragon Age II's story...

[DustyDrB]

I mostly keep my copy of Dragon Age II as a remainder not to pre-order any fucking game ever again. Game was rushed and in no way a sequel to Origins.
I also didn't like what I considered to be lack of story focus and poor narrative. Now, some people may look deeper, say the game has slow build-up which eventually explodes into this world-changing conflict, but to me it just felt that with 14-month development time, they couldn't expand on the existing world in way they wanted to, so they just created a new setting. Chapters felt disjointed, which wasn't helped by those random jumps in time and stuff getting resolved behind the scenes.

Don't forget that they were releasing DLC for Dragon Age: Origins as late as September 2010, with a lot of other content for Origins also being released in 2010 (Awakening, Golems of Agmarrak, Leliana's Song, Darkspawn Chronicles, Return to Ostagar).

As I said before in this thread, I liked Dragon Age II. But I'm also very flexible and easy to please when it comes to RPGs. I can definitely see why many others hated it.

But I think Dragon Age 3 (I saw on Laidlaw's Twitter that the DA team has been meeting) is one of the most intriguing games that will come out for a while. I really am interested in seeing how they respond to all the criticism.