Poll: Is Dragon Age 2 a bad game?
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Its not a bad game but for those of us who enjoyed DA:O as a wonderful, slightly more old school RPG DA2 was a massive let down.
Back when ME2 was first making the rounds and old school RPG fans were complaining about the removal of all the RPG components one of the arguments was, well you have DA and after DA:O that felt very fair. Now much less so.
Its kinda like the FO3 case again, if FO3 had been called "Oblivion with Guns Set in Post Apocalyptic Washington DC" or perhaps something a little more catchy but without the name Fallout it would have been received much better. DA2 probably would have been received better if was called DA: Kirkwall or just not have the DA name attached at all.
There is also a sense that after DA2 and ME2 that the Bioware that was once a great RPG house is in decline as we would like to see it and there really isn't anyone else out there to pick up the slack.
Back when ME2 was first making the rounds and old school RPG fans were complaining about the removal of all the RPG components one of the arguments was, well you have DA and after DA:O that felt very fair. Now much less so.
Its kinda like the FO3 case again, if FO3 had been called "Oblivion with Guns Set in Post Apocalyptic Washington DC" or perhaps something a little more catchy but without the name Fallout it would have been received much better. DA2 probably would have been received better if was called DA: Kirkwall or just not have the DA name attached at all.
There is also a sense that after DA2 and ME2 that the Bioware that was once a great RPG house is in decline as we would like to see it and there really isn't anyone else out there to pick up the slack.
I had to go with the 'okay' option. While the game was stripped of several of the elements I enjoyed from the first one, I still had a good time playing through it. While you'll never hear me bash DA2, I can entirely understand where the criticism is coming from.
It's underwhelming, but by no means is it bad. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I also feel it was a step backwards in comparison to Origins.
I put other because i think the game was weak, but i didn't hate it. The plot was horrible, which for a Bioware game is very alarming. The writing was fairly weak for the majority of events besides certain aspects. Then, add in the dumb downed combat, the reused maps, the conversation wheel, and the voiced protagonist. Yea it was a bad game.
Loved it really. Loved the characters, interesting story, combat felt smooth and quick but still tactical. Streamlined compared to DA:O, but by no means a lesser RPG.
Only real downside was the incredibly repetitive quest environments. I was rather underwhelmed by Kirkwall's design as well. The native characters mostly felt like they came from the British Isles, but the city looks like some weird, rather drab Babylonian mash-up.
And how is the combat dumbed down? Most classes got a lot more talents and skills to choose from compared to DA:O. You still had the same tactical options, and even a couple more, and party AI was a lot less crap than in DA:O. The only thing that changed was the inherent difficulty, but I'd say it's a good thing to not camouflage Hard mode as Normal.
Only real downside was the incredibly repetitive quest environments. I was rather underwhelmed by Kirkwall's design as well. The native characters mostly felt like they came from the British Isles, but the city looks like some weird, rather drab Babylonian mash-up.
How on earth does a voiced protagonist and the conversation wheel make the game bad? The convo-wheel is just a slick way of presenting dialogue options, that's all it did. A voiced protagonist fits rather well with this kind of personal story if you ask me. It's about his life and influence, afterall.Juggern4ut20 said:
And how is the combat dumbed down? Most classes got a lot more talents and skills to choose from compared to DA:O. You still had the same tactical options, and even a couple more, and party AI was a lot less crap than in DA:O. The only thing that changed was the inherent difficulty, but I'd say it's a good thing to not camouflage Hard mode as Normal.
It's a very underwhelming sequel to an overwhelmingly great game. But I think the combat etc. has improved noticeably (with the exception of the goddamn waves system).
You either love it or you hate it. I enjoyed DA2's combat, characters and skills more, but I like the inventory system, story and awesome DLC (especially Awakening). I liked both but most people either love or hate DA2.
Yeah that's no going to happen, the will just devolve into another opinion war.LobsterFeng said:
From my view, Dragon Age 2 is a semi-masterpiece. It was a spectacular game that corrected the big problems that Dragon Age: Origins had. They fixed the combat(faster and fluid, giving the player more control is always better), they fixed the dialogue by bringing it into the needs of this day and age(Yea! No more boring list dialogue options that take 3 to 5 minutes to decide what to do because all the options look the same), they fixed the skills system by making awesome skill trees that made sense by making the options clearer and also removed unnecessary things like trap making and survival sub-abilities, leaving points for things that matter and bringing in more attacks and abilities that make sense.
The only reason it isn't a full masterpiece is that it had one problem, a minor one, but a problem nonetheless. It had around 10 or 12 dungeon/instance maps that they repeated a few times each. Though props go to them for covering up this flaw with some nicely placed blocking devices so that the dungeon would be slightly different in size.
But being grown up, understanding why it happened, and putting it aside to look at the rest of the game, Dragon Age 2 was a fantastic and entertaining game. I got at least 50 hours of playtime in for my first time beating it, and I expect to at least play it two more times, since I played a mage first and next I will do warrior and then a rogue.
I give DA2 a 9.5 out of 10.
I thought we put DA2 behind us? There are already enough threads out there.
OT: I enjoyed it. I thought the characters and combat were much better, but despised the copy-pasted environments.
OT: I enjoyed it. I thought the characters and combat were much better, but despised the copy-pasted environments.