This. My God. This. I hated that my characters almost seemed afraid to fight. NOw I understand that combat can be terrifying, but my battlemage is competent with a sword and she had 43 (i counted) different flavours of kaboom at her hands as well as heavy armor. She has ZERO reason to hesitate in combat. srsly.Timmibal said:
According to the wiki, here are the dialogue options.Hjalmaror said:
I agree. I was also incredibly worried by the continuity. I knew they were going to bring in different darkspawn, but if they were going to bring them in, couldn't they do that in Kirkwall? Otherwise, it's a little strange for Hawke to encounter an ARMY of darkspawn that look completely different from in the first game while fleeing Lothering, and you as the Grey Warden never see this type of outfitted darkspawn in the first game. I don't know, how Flemeth was dressed was also vaguely annoying Don't get me wrong, I LOVED IT, but it was like: Okay, isn't this at the beginning of the first game sort of? Why wasn't Flemeth this awesome looking when you had to fight her for Morrigan? I don't know, it's just like... I felt like they didn't consolidate those things well.Straying Bullet said:
Let me get this straight, you think it's a good thing that you can take down a boss without dieing or putting in extra effort? Man up! Normally I hate the kind of hand wringing about RPGs being 'dumbed down', after all I think the combat in Mass Effect 2 is superior to that in 1, but you're just being wimpy. Why is it the games fault that it takes you more than one try to beat a boss, something which is meant to be one of the hardest points in the game? If a game in any other genre let you win every fight without dying once and not using all of your player abilities, that would be a bad thing. But because you might actually have to think about what you're doing to win, it's suddenly a good thing to make the entire game a cake walk.Azaraxzealot said:
No wonder you fail; cunning makes no difference to your attack score.
you fail for not seeing the blatant sarcasm.Geo Da Sponge said:
That's actually pretty easy to explain: The whole story is told by Varrick. And, just as you probably noticed in the very first part of the game, he sometimes may take a little bit of freedom in the way he tells it. He himself has most likely never seen Flemeth (or at least the Flemeth of Origins), so I guess he just describes her the way he imagines her. He probably tries to make the truth a little bit more colourful in other aspects as well. It's a pretty nifty way to allow the designers to use a different art style. The same goes for the new Darkspawn, although I think that Bioware already experimented with this new look in Awakening.FuzzySeduction said:
That was a joke, or at least partially. My real problem is that the exaggeration that you have a score of 'a billion' to hit is just plain nonsense. Unless you've been pouring your points into completely the wrong attributes you should still hit a reasonable amount of the time. In fact, both dexterity and strength add to your attack score so that you can build an agile character without completely crippling them when attacking. More importantly, Dragon Age 2 uses more or less the same system for determining whether you hit or not. Just because it's easier when your character is upgraded for you in the demo, does not make it better.Azaraxzealot said:
How long does it take you to level up? For me, it was never more than a minute per character. I don't know what you're doing wrong if you're spending so much time on just picking skills and gear, unless you're learning it all for the first time in which case it's hardly surprising that you have to spend time learning the details. Also I don't know how else you expect to learn the appropiate strategies or best way to build your characters without having to spend time on it.
You had to use a few potions and dodge some attacks. You consider that enough of a challenge, that you just to click on the potion button to heal occasionally and side step a few attacks? That's fair enough when it's near the beginning of the game, and since it's a demo it's not surprising that it doesn't put up much of a fight. But you're saying it's challenging having to do two actions, one of which is just clicking a button when your health bar is low. That makes me think that a game like Origins was never going to be your kind of thing anyway, and acting like that's the games fault is ridiculous. I'm utterly awful at rythm games, failing miserable on Rock Band even on the easiest setting. But I don't whinge about how that's broken when plenty of other people can clearly play it perfectly well.
