Should Dragon Age 2 Follow on directly from the first?

[Meggiepants]

Yes, but those corpses don't need that stuff. If we don't take it, someone with a less important mission than ours will. If I had to count the number of people I killed in games against my Karma, I'd be an amoeba on a flea on a rat. Oh man, did I just quote Grease? For shame. I think I need to go scrub out my skull now.

Blimey, I only meant karma in the game :-O Imagine if it was actual karma....................
And yeah, you totally quoted Grease, but at least you quoted Grease not Grease 2 *spits* ;-)

Ohhhh, game karma. I'm all good with that. I'll stick with my original statement then. Those corpses wanted us to take their loot. Yep, that's what I'm going with.
Grease 2? I'm sorry, there is no Grease 2.

I just want my warden to make sweet love to Morrigan again.
That is all. D:
EDIT: Looking forward to Awakening though... Or is it already out? I haven't been paying much attention.

Awakening will be out in about two weeks, I think.

Yep, March 16. Exciting stuff!!

 

[squid5580]

Haven't Bioware already said it will take place a few hundred years later?

I figured the whole

Spoiler

you dying and all

would have put an end to the discussion long before it began.

 

[Amnestic]

Haven't Bioware already said it will take place a few hundred years later?

I figured the whole

Spoiler

you dying and all

would have put an end to the discussion long before it began.

Yeah, except that doesn't have to happen. There are more endings which don't have you die than do.

 

[manaman]

I never thought that the DA2 was going to take off after the ending of the first one. They made it pretty obvious that they wanted to make a trilogy of the series, and according to the story there are two more blights left. Since the blights have many years between them I figured they where going to use DLC to further the story in the first, and then pick up centuries later with the second one, with throw backs to the actions in the first ME2 style.

 

[squid5580]

Haven't Bioware already said it will take place a few hundred years later?

I figured the whole

Spoiler

you dying and all

would have put an end to the discussion long before it began.

Yeah, except that doesn't have to happen. There are more endings which don't have you die than do.

I am well aware of the other endings. I just don't see how they can say one ending doesn't exist. It never happened. It was all a dream but all the other endings are valid. If they had planned a direct sequel I don't think that ending would exist.

 

[reg42]

Nope. I think it would work better as a completely different story in the same place.

 

[Amnestic]

Haven't Bioware already said it will take place a few hundred years later?

I figured the whole

Spoiler

you dying and all

would have put an end to the discussion long before it began.

Yeah, except that doesn't have to happen. There are more endings which don't have you die than do.

I am well aware of the other endings. I just don't see how they can say one ending doesn't exist. It never happened. It was all a dream but all the other endings are valid. If they had planned a direct sequel I don't think that ending would exist.

Well consider Awakening, which does follow (pretty much) from Origins. If you did follow the single ending, they have you make a new Orlesian Grey Warden.

I don't see why they couldn't for DA2.

 

[Jenova65]

Haven't Bioware already said it will take place a few hundred years later?

I figured the whole

Spoiler

you dying and all

would have put an end to the discussion long before it began.

Yeah, except that doesn't have to happen. There are more endings which don't have you die than do.

I am well aware of the other endings. I just don't see how they can say one ending doesn't exist. It never happened. It was all a dream but all the other endings are valid. If they had planned a direct sequel I don't think that ending would exist.

Well consider Awakening, which does follow (pretty much) from Origins. If you did follow the single ending, they have you make a new Orlesian Grey Warden.

I don't see why they couldn't for DA2.

Absolutely, anyway if they can just have it that you can't import a ME2 save into ME3 if you let Shepard die, they could easily do something similar to that, given that sometimes people pick up the second part of something never having experienced the first part they have to implement a new to the game, player option.

 

[Ascarus]

Oh, and by 'involve Morrigan' I mean "Let me kill her at some point."

i must object. she was by far the most interesting of your party mates. mind i didn't pick up everyone during my play through (e.g. never got shale since i never did the DLC), but alistair is too vanilla and whiny, leliana (sp?) was the hooker (er, assassin) with a heart of gold, zevran (sp?) i killed, the dwarf i ignored, the dog was useless but cool (my character was a tank) and wynne was a generic healer.

i would have to say that allistair's character was the WORST given how much impact his role can have on the end of the game.

anyway, keep morrigan alive. she was at least somewhat interesting.

 

[Vet2501]

Sounds like a good idea. I can imagine there would be problems in particular areas however, for instance, whether in your story Alistair became king or not, and all the little details. There would have to be an established cannon so that references to them can be made in the sequal.

They could do what was done in Oblivion and invent some temporal paradox that meant that all possible endings happene at the same time.

I know it would be hard having Alistair both dead and the king at the same time, but if any writers could make it work then it would be the writers from BioWare.

So yes I like the idea of DA2 taking place at a different time.

 

[squid5580]

Haven't Bioware already said it will take place a few hundred years later?

I figured the whole

Spoiler

you dying and all

would have put an end to the discussion long before it began.

Yeah, except that doesn't have to happen. There are more endings which don't have you die than do.

I am well aware of the other endings. I just don't see how they can say one ending doesn't exist. It never happened. It was all a dream but all the other endings are valid. If they had planned a direct sequel I don't think that ending would exist.

Well consider Awakening, which does follow (pretty much) from Origins. If you did follow the single ending, they have you make a new Orlesian Grey Warden.

I don't see why they couldn't for DA2.

Well the fact of the matter is we don't know where and when in the storyline Awakenings takes place. But we do know you can import any character from any save to get there. So my guess is there will be some random guy somewhere easily accesible that will take you character away. Just like they have done in previous expansion packs. Which is far different than a sequel (well it should be and usually is).

 

[ProtoChimp]

I hope they either
A) Do the mass effect 2 thing and let you port over the character so story elements and stuff relate to the first game.
B) Base it in another country like Orlais or Antiva.

And whatever they do I hope you get to play as a Qunari.

 

[Axeli]

Meh. Honestly, I rather have my old character back.

While KoTOR2 was in many ways superior to the first game (..and in many way's inferior), there was one haunting disappointment in it, which was that it completely erased the previous awesome-badass player character of the map.
I'd rather not see that happen again, since it would mean the new player character would be much less interesting to me, as I would spend too much time missing the old one.

Besides, what interesting does the setting of DA really hold in itself? It's pretty much as basic rip-off of LoTR as it gets. It was the characters that made it interesting and if they aren't coming back I could as well play a completely new IP from Bioware. Much rather, actually.