Does anyone even care for Dragon Age 2

[Zarule6]

I have seen so view remarks of it without any praises,i played threw it 3 times already and still it rocks!What is you're opinion?

 

[Dash85]

Everybody who likes it are too busy playing it to go on forums. for me, im eating right now. When im done, back to Kirkwall!

 

[Kiba The Wolf]

I agree with you. I have played and beated it twice already. I am still excited to do a third one. It is a pretty good game, I am very happy with it.

 

[Radeonx]

It's good, just not as RPG-ey as the last one.
This is the same thing that happened to Mass Effect/Mass Effect 2, the only difference is that because Origins was much more RPG-ey than Mass Effect 1 was, people are bitching a lot more at the change in direction.
It is still a good game.

 

[naam]

I liked it more before I realised just how much I'd be 'discovering' copy paste dungeons in just the same act
I thought the first time I instantly recognised the dungeon was sloppy

 

[Alana Daum]

I enjoy it, but it should not have been pushed out as early as it was, and it really shows. It's also very depressing.

 

[Fidelias]

I liked DA2 a lot. My main problem with it was that you don't get out of Kirkwall much. Almost everything else was an improvement in my opinion. Of course, I never enjoyed DA as much as Mass Effect, so it's not as big a deal to me if DA2 hurt the series as a whole or not.

 

[Optional Opinion]

It gets stale far too fast compared to the last game.

I'm on my second play though and I think I'll leave it as that.

 

[kasperbbs]

It wasn't bad, it was just disappointing, i felt like i was playing some weird mass effect mod. I enjoyed it enough to do 2 playthroughs, even if the first one got bugged on the last mission when fighting meredith and i couldn't finish the game. I doubt i will play it again since most of the dungeons are copy/pasted and no matter what choices you make the ending is the same.

 

[AlphaEcho]

I really liked it and the ending was surprising to say the least. I am glad they went with a new fun direction and I am getting ready for my third play through.

My review which I brought from another site for all who care:

Dragon Age II

Review:
Oh Dragon Age, it has been far too long since I have played thee, with good reason of course. I will make this clear, I liked the previous game, I beat it three times with different back stories and different characters. With all of the endings, openings and choices in the game it seemed like it would never end, then there was this wonderful story rich world full of anger, religion and racism, however I would have only gave it a three out of five due to how underused said world was and the repetitive combat and glitches. Not to mention if I had to go to the fade one more time on that damned quest I may have had to kill some one in real life merely out of me and everyone else's hate for that portion of the game.

Instead of improving on these aspects Dragon Age II redid almost everything and I MEAN EVERYTHING, fans of the original will be happy to meet characters from the last game with a much needed face lift. The combat has been revamped to make everything easy and fun (may I also say it reminds me deeply of the ultimate awesome destruction of minions that Mortal Kombat Armageddon gave me.) The combat, instead of you pressing a button and your character walks over lazily and starts fighting like he doesn't give a damn (normally getting stuck getting to the fight) with glitchy animations the combat is more of a button mashing sort of thing. Attacks no longer seem to pause combat and all moves are fluid, not to mention fun. It was so easy that with my massive sword I was able to slice down the group of bandits in front of me, spin behind me and cut down the two behind me, then sprint and dive forward to stab my blade through the eye of there leader, all in the click of three buttons.

Players of the last game will also be glad to see that they can import there characters from the last game, sadly you will not be able to play as your last character but instead as an equally story driven (and now voice acted! Yay!) Character for you to tear the masses down with. Your old character will instead perform the role of a back ground character and his/her choices will be mentioned through the game, minor and major, going so far as effecting how the game is played (much like Mass Effect II.) Your new character will start as a fully armed and armored mega character (due to one of your companions telling the story wrong while in interrogation) when all of a sudden you get the real story, a small scared man/woman who has a rusty old blade and his/her family. Seeing this makes you want to become this character and will push you through the game hoping to be that.

Character creation is still deep and intuitive and you can design your killer from head to toe.

Finally the story is rich and fully developed unlike its predecessor, all the quests are well done and interesting, all the companions are rich in story and unique and no two missions will feel the same. All of the aspects of the last game that were forgotten are brought forward, and now the inner conflict of this world is shown never before as if in an exhibit. The player will experience racism, unfairness and evil first hand now instead of it all being stuck under a cliched plot of an attack on the world (the blight x zombie apocalypse anyone?) I have already played seven hours and I am still stuck in the first city doing missions, and not regretting it.

In ending this game is amazing in many ways, although the new combat system makes it seem like it is baby sitting you that is easily over looked.

I give this game, five strange amulets out of five.

 

[manythings]

It wasn't bad, it was just disappointing, i felt like i was playing some weird mass effect mod. I enjoyed it enough to do 2 playthroughs, even if the first one got bugged on the last mission when fighting meredith and i couldn't finish the game. I doubt i will play it again since most of the dungeons are copy/pasted and no matter what choices you make the ending is the same.

The ending is always the same in every game.

OT: I like it. It has been out less than two weeks, the only people talking are the ones who hated it or just played it once so far.

 

[silversword2010]

I really liked it. It has some of the greatest characters in any game, i literal could not decide who to bring on many of the missions and i will be playing through the game again just to have romances with different characters. the story was good (not as good as the first but still good). and the combat was a lot of fun. i think that the problem is that people are comparing it too much with Origins. Origins was an amazing game (Perhaps one of the best games of this console generation, and definitely one of the best RPG's of this generation) where as Dragon age 2 is just a very very good game. saying DA2 is not as good as Origins is like saying a Boston cream doughnut is not as good as a chocolate cheesecake, its true but I'm not going to complain if i get the doughnut.
sorry for the long post but I've been thinking a lot about this.

 

[kasperbbs]

It wasn't bad, it was just disappointing, i felt like i was playing some weird mass effect mod. I enjoyed it enough to do 2 playthroughs, even if the first one got bugged on the last mission when fighting meredith and i couldn't finish the game. I doubt i will play it again since most of the dungeons are copy/pasted and no matter what choices you make the ending is the same.

The ending is always the same in every game.

OT: I like it. It has been out less than two weeks, the only people talking are the ones who hated it or just played it once so far.

There are exceptions, but i`m not only talking about the game's ending, but most of the quests, you can`t stop certain people from dying or leaving, no matter what you do

Spoiler

you can`t save Merill's village or stop anders from blowing up the chantry, mother always dies, brother/sister will always leave and hate you until the game ends, etc..

 

[scnj]

I liked it, but I have no interest in defending it against people who are zero-bombing it.

 

[manythings]

It wasn't bad, it was just disappointing, i felt like i was playing some weird mass effect mod. I enjoyed it enough to do 2 playthroughs, even if the first one got bugged on the last mission when fighting meredith and i couldn't finish the game. I doubt i will play it again since most of the dungeons are copy/pasted and no matter what choices you make the ending is the same.

The ending is always the same in every game.

OT: I like it. It has been out less than two weeks, the only people talking are the ones who hated it or just played it once so far.

There are exceptions, but i`m not only talking about the game's ending, but most of the quests, you can`t stop certain people from dying or leaving, no matter what you do

Spoiler

you can`t save Merill's village or stop anders from blowing up the chantry, mother always dies, brother/sister will always leave and hate you until the game ends, etc..

Yes those are called plot points. Movies and books have those too.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

I'm liking it a lot, I'm just missing being able to talk to my companions whenever I wanted instead of getting generic remarks back. The combat is a lot better, seeing how much experience you've gotten is easier and the graphics are great. But I can definitely see why people don't like it.

 

[BENZOOKA]

I've played it 23 hours and had some great fun. I don't think I'm even halfway through yet though. Actually probably the most fun I've had while playing, in a long time.

I've had issues with the game kind of slowing down to a 0,5fps pace at times. I haven't yet figured out what causing it. Some kind of memory leakage, I'd assume. It took me two days to realize that pressing Esc cuts the slowdown to be much shorter. So as long as they don't happen on a cut-scene, they don't really bother.

Oh, and spoiler your spoilers for fucks sake.

 

[NotSoNimble]

Over 70 hours in....

Yeah, I care for it.

 

[OctoH]

Yep. It's fun.

 

[PPB]

I'm having fun with it, though it doesn't leave as great an impression as many other RPGs. My main annoyances with it isn't the reputed dumbing down of RPG mechanics, but rather the reusing of areas, lack of isometric view, side quests-driven storyline, etc. Basically, it leaves me with the feeling that it was rushed and it doesn't seem to be up to BioWare's standards.

I don't regret my purchase and I'll probably give it a few playthroughs, but it's not a game that I really see myself playing for years to come.