So......I'm thinking of playing Dragon age 2

[Asukachan]

I think DA2 is a good enough play. I had fun at least, mind you it's not likely to send tremors up your spine anytime soon but I finished it in only a few sittings so it managed to reel me in well enough I suppose.

Actually going in expecting it to be the worst game ever might even heighten the experience, I've noticed a lot of my friends that just now start to finish ME3 seem to appreciate the ending much more than the early birds because they've been told that it's the worst piece to grace our screens in decades whereas in fact there's been tons worse stuff out there.

I still want the white picket fence and quarian babies as promised though. Just saying.

 

[arnoldthebird]

Play it and create your own opinion, you may be pleasantly surprised

 

[luke10123]

I admit I never managed to kill the archdeamon in DA1...still gotta get round to that

I'd get around to that instead, DA:O is a much better game. Better characters, gameplay, story. If you're still keen for DA II after, go on, by all means (but don't pay more than a couple quid, it's just not worth it...)

 

[Vault101]

The problem with the DA2 freak-out of '11 was that it was just another in a string of freak-outs. Gamers find a new, "Worst game ever!!" every 6 months at the most.

DA2 had its problems. I played it on PC where the issues weren't as bad as they were on console. But I still enjoyed my time with it. I had my fun. It won't be topping my best-of list anytime soon, but I don't feel like I got ripped off either.

I dont know..having been on here since then it seems nothing gets people going quite like a Bioware game...I mean can you count how many ME3 threads there have been?

Just buy The Witcher 2 instead. It's much better.

blaaaaagghhhhh.,.I tried the first withcer but....eh....and no I wouldnt do the second one without doing the first...just not how I roll

However now, with the recent suggestion that Bioware will be scrapping the Hawke story line for DA3 in light of fan pressure, it seems like a rather moot point to waste ones time on playing the backstory on things that likely will not get used, even though the story was not actually the biggest problem of the game.

Play it, go in with low expectations, mod aveline and if you have to enable console cheats to work through the content quicker if you find yourself getting bored or unsatisfied with it.

awww...theyre gonna scrap hawke? having a fully voiced protagonist was somthing I was actually pretty psyched about...still I did like the DA1 aproach just fine

 

[endtherapture]

Just buy The Witcher 2 instead. It's much better.

blaaaaagghhhhh.,.I tried the first withcer but....eh....and no I wouldnt do the second one without doing the first...just not how I roll

Second one is nmuch better, it's completely different from the first one, and all the background you need is given in the codex. If you pass up on it you're missing out on the best RPG since Dragon Age Origins.

And CDProjekt is a much better company to give your money to than EA Bioware.

 

[Vault101]

Get it.

It's got plenty of major flaws, but it's an interesting game in it's own right, and not "the worst game ever" like some portray it to be.

Though, if ME3's ending was enough to damage your mental state, you'll probably throw a tizzy fit for DA2 as well. If you lower your expectations and just roll with it it can be enjoyable.

actually I havtn finished ME3 yet..all I know is that there is a mass "thing" going on about it (anyway I dont need anymroe info in regards to that..I am curious as to how bad it could be...just have to see I supose)

I had a theory that I probably would have loved DA2 had I not read/seen all the insane nerd-rage (at least then I was more easyly impressed..and more easyly influenced)

hence why I have remaned almost completly ignorant on anything ME3 related

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Go in with low expectations, there are good points to the game but those don't hide the rush job that Bioware did.

And don't play it like it's a tactical RPG, play it more like Dynasty Warriors instead. It will become a whole lot more enjoyable.

 

[Vault101]

Just buy The Witcher 2 instead. It's much better.

blaaaaagghhhhh.,.I tried the first withcer but....eh....and no I wouldnt do the second one without doing the first...just not how I roll

Second one is nmuch better, it's completely different from the first one, and all the background you need is given in the codex. If you pass up on it you're missing out on the best RPG since Dragon Age Origins.

And CDProjekt is a much better company to give your money to than EA Bioware.

I guess....

but it just wouldnt feel right not playing the first (Im weird that way)

one day I might...also I fidn the fact that Im "stuck" with Geralidt a little off-putting (jsut a minor nit-pick)

 

[Vault101]

Go in with low expectations, there are good points to the game but those don't hide the rush job that Bioware did.

And don't play it like it's a tactical RPG, play it more like Dynasty Warriors instead. It will become a whole lot more enjoyable.

that might work for me...I absolutly SUCKED at Dragon age gameplay wise...I guess the whole thing was more of a great big interactive fantasy movie/novel

capitcha: easy as cake <-no...it was not

 

[endtherapture]

Just buy The Witcher 2 instead. It's much better.

blaaaaagghhhhh.,.I tried the first withcer but....eh....and no I wouldnt do the second one without doing the first...just not how I roll

Second one is nmuch better, it's completely different from the first one, and all the background you need is given in the codex. If you pass up on it you're missing out on the best RPG since Dragon Age Origins.

And CDProjekt is a much better company to give your money to than EA Bioware.

I guess....

but it just wouldnt feel right not playing the first (Im weird that way)

one day I might...also I fidn the fact that Im "stuck" with Geralidt a little off-putting (jsut a minor nit-pick)

Why play DA2 then? You're "stuck" with Hawke.

 

[viranimus]

awww...theyre gonna scrap hawke? having a fully voiced protagonist was somthing I was actually pretty psyched about...still I did like the DA1 aproach just fine

Well I dont know it to be true, but I have about as much circumstantial evidence = that can be interpreted as scrapping Hawke and crew as protagonists for DA3

http://biowarefans.com/2011/08/dragon-age-3-will-feature-a-new-protagonist/

Which if any of the ME3 threads are representative, thats all you really need to condemn any action, just interpretations and half info extrapolated from ages past on the forums. ./eyeroll ... Anywaaaay.

However, it does not mean that they are abandoning the fully voiced protagonist motif that Hawke had, Just if they do full voiced it will likely be someone else. (though I would love to see Hawke and the Warden as two of your companions in DA3, specifically a female hawke, because after playing it and seeing everything that goes on with Anders I REALLY think the canon Hawke was a female.

Edit:
Other thought: Actually in retrospect that seems like a good idea for bioware to change the DA protagonist every installment. Helps to prevent people from getting entirely too emotionally invested in a char.

 

[Vault101]

Why play DA2 then? You're "stuck" with Hawke.

Hawke can be kickass female protagonist....as opoased to some miserable bastard with white hair

granted it is just a personal thing, I guess the amount of "dircection" you have over the charachters isnt much different

I REALLY think the canon Hawke was a female.

if they stick with fully voiced I dont see why they need to abandon hawke...

its just more I wouldnt want to get attatched to a charachter who gets snuffed (then again I have no Idea if they inteded ot coninue with hawke anyway)

and *sigh* why is it that "canon" females get a raw deal? (KOTOR 2) granted your statment with hawke is just speculation isnt it?

EDIT: but I LIKE being emotionally invested in a charachter....like femshep

 

[Nymi]

Honestly, I think people overdid how bad the game was. It wasn't terrible. I wouldn't replay it, but it's a fine 20ish hours spent gaming if you like the Bioware experience of RPGs. I'd say give it a shot.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Go for it. I have no idea why this site hated it so much. All the people I know who played it loved it.

 

[Pearwood]

I thought DA2 was pretty good. Not as good as Origins but still a good game in its own right.

 

[DeadYorick]

Yet another DA2 thread. Jeeze again?

There are loads, and loads of threads identicle to this with identical responses. I still don't know why people are so prone to defending mediocrity. I suppose the Bioware seal of approval just bumps it up to 5+/10

 

[Joccaren]

Common. The ending is pathetic. There's no colours. At least its got speculation.

My opinoin?

Combat is awful.
Story telling is alright.
Art is crap (Except Arishok. Probably the one thing I prefer to the original)
Squadmates are hit or miss, but I generally liked them.
Story itself is alright.
Overall? Below average, but not so bad that I'd want to murder myself.

 

[viranimus]

Why play DA2 then? You're "stuck" with Hawke.

Hawke can be kickass female protagonist....as opoased to some miserable bastard with white hair

granted it is just a personal thing, I guess the amount of "dircection" you have over the charachters isnt much different

I REALLY think the canon Hawke was a female.

if they stick with fully voiced I dont see why they need to abandon hawke...

its just more I wouldnt want to get attatched to a charachter who gets snuffed (then again I have no Idea if they inteded ot coninue with hawke anyway)

and *sigh* why is it that "canon" females get a raw deal? (KOTOR 2) granted your statment with hawke is just speculation isnt it?

Well think about it. You have a game that generated MUCH hate when it was released, and generated enough lukewarm response to cancel an expansion pack for the game. With the undue share of controversy Bioware has shouldered in the last 12 months it does seem like a good idea to shy away from anything related to something that caused them past controversy.

Also, I m sorry if I implyed hawke would die, I was just meaning they would not be the main protagonist of the next installment, but Mike even suggested that they may be involved in DA3.

And, I really dont know that hawke is a female because really only Bioware knows what is canon, but with much of the emphasis on Anders, and the game trying to make you emotionally invested in Anders, it really does seem as if Hawke is a female and it seems like if you play geared toward any of the females as romantic interest it ends up being forced and counter intuitive. Romance simply flows better with Anders and seriously if you focus on a female romance and do not use Anders in gameplay you find the times when Anders is involved in the story to seem very out of left field with a lot of "wait.. what?!?"

 

[Indecipherable]

It wasn't so bad. It wasn't great either. Luckily I was properly braced for it, didn't have high expectations (I wasn't a die-hard fan of DA:O), and found the combat to be fun enough.

 

[Tjebbe]

I recently bought it on sale as well, and I agree to most people here; It's not as good as DA:O, but certainly not as bad as it was made out to be. The story is much smaller in scale than that of origins, but nice in its own way, and I quite like the way it is told. There are also some interesting companions, though again, IMO not as much as in origins, there were a number that I did not care for at all. The gameplay is quite fun, but less tactical and certainly a lot easier than that of the original. The biggest complaints I'd have would be that annoying reuse of dungeons, and something feels very off in the choice/consequence department at a certain point.