Yes that fight was just the epitome of the imbalance of DA2's combat system. It was the easiest thing in the world for a mage or rogue (if you had a bow on you) and the hardest, most annoying fight of the whole game if you were a meleefighter. I just sat there and thought, who in the f*cking world could have playtested this and said: "Well this is perfectly okay this way." It was properly more like: "This sucks, but its optional and we have to finish this game in 2 weeks and haven't even started on the third act so, whatever".SpunkeyMonkey said:Ha ha ha ha, yep, that was THE breaking point of the game for me. I don't know how I stuck the game that long, but when I fought him I actually fell about in hysterics laughing at that fight it was so bad. I still tortured myself by playing through to the end for some strange reason, but that fight will live long in my memory for all the wrong reasons.Chris Tian said:It can't be the Arishok, I killed that mofo in this maddening, unbalanced crapfest of a duel, if they revive him I will find out whos decision that was and show them a few cool moves that involve breaking limbs in ways that don't heal properly.
And deciding between the game thats the sequel to the best recent RPG and which has trailers that look awesome and show lots of gameplay and the seuqel to the most disappointing recent RPG, which has one short pure CGI trailer that was most likely not even done by the Devs themselves. I cant even find a metaphor for how easy that decision is for me....
Aye, no real contest is it? Is anyone at Bioware/EA aware of just how many of their sales for DA:2 were on the back of Origin's brilliance/success? They can't be, else they wouldn't have included anything to do with DA:2 in anything ever again, ever.
It embodys exactly what I mean when I say DA2's combat is a bad and unbalanced mix from action and "classic" rpg combat systems. You have to manually evade his attacks like in a Dark Souls type action rpg, without the tight and for that sort of thing optimised controls of a Dark Souls type action rpg.
Its really no contest, thinking of Dragon Age: Inquisition makes me go "meh", thinking of The Witcher 3 makes me want to dance in the middle of the office, again.