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Dragon Age II Combat Walkthrough

Dragon Age II allows you to freely tackle combat as an fast paced action rpg or as a more tactical pause and play method.

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Lost In The Void

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Well this has helped aliviate some of the concerns I had regarding various things in the game, what would really make me happy though, to give complete confidence in my preorder that I've given, is to try the beta/demo whatever just to feel it myself
 

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Gotta say, I'm loving the new flow of this combat system. I saw the trailer yesterday when it went live on the main sight. The responsiveness is impressive at least, and it seems worked into every class, even my dearly beloved mage, should make battles more 'cinematic' i suppose. Although, really, the thing that struck me the most from the trailer, was the sight of Varric, archer rogue, attacking from stealth without instantly coming out of stealth mode. Good God would that game be a breeze with stealth that doesn't end after the first strike during combat. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
 

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Exort said:
Isn't that just the same as the first one?...
I think it's a drastic improvement over Origins, the combat flows much smoother and it looks like it's had a much needed graphical overhaul. I loved the first game, but I always thought it could use a touch up in a few places.
 

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Looks good. Don't think I'll be using the latter play mechanic as that was probably the one major thing I didn't like about Origins (hence why I think being a Rogue is awesome - a lot more hands-on than the the other classes). I like being able to use player skill and reflexes as opposed to random number guessing.

I'm nitpicking at this point, but while I'm not keen on the idea of having to play as a character with a "canon" name and appearance (i.e. Shepard for the ME series), at the very least I hope I'm able to customize either the name or appearance.
 

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SageRuffin said:
I'm nitpicking at this point, but while I'm not keen on the idea of having to play as a character with a "canon" name and appearance (i.e. Shepard for the ME series), at the very least I hope I'm able to customize either the name or appearance.
No, you will always have that beard. Even if you play as a woman. It's canon you see.
 

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Team Hollywood said:
Dragon Age II Combat Walkthrough

Dragon Age II allows you to freely tackle combat as an fast paced action rpg or as a more tactical pause and play method.

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Well that was silly and pointless. I'm not really sure how both styles can really work equally well. I mean, in one, you try to keep up with the action, but obviously aren't reacting fast enough. In the other, you are more accurate due to infinite time. The 'real time' version of things just looks like it'd be harder.

Anyone else surprised that the action rpg version didn't mention setting up scripts for characters, but rather had you manually giving orders to all your characters?
 

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Is it wrong to say that I think it looks "too" smooth? The action/rpg look made it seem like they were playing in 1.5x speed level. I loved my old clunky Dragon Age: Origins combat. Looks like I'll just stick with the tactical combat (even though it looks like it's going super fast as well) Don't worry Bioware, I already pre-ordered it and will be sticking to it.
 

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I'm relatively sure that rogue died in the next "turn" at the end of the movie. ;)
 

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Zechnophobe said:
Team Hollywood said:
Dragon Age II Combat Walkthrough

Dragon Age II allows you to freely tackle combat as an fast paced action rpg or as a more tactical pause and play method.

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Well that was silly and pointless. I'm not really sure how both styles can really work equally well. I mean, in one, you try to keep up with the action, but obviously aren't reacting fast enough. In the other, you are more accurate due to infinite time. The 'real time' version of things just looks like it'd be harder.
You don't have to stick to one playing style, you can, for example use the action method in easy small scale battles and the tactical pause method in the hard battles.
 

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In the first game play vid of DA2 i ever saw the first comment was something along the lines of: "Bioware r gay they made DA into a hack and slash devil may cry rip off WILL NOT BUY!!!111!1!".

I'm glad that man (and all others like him) can see how short sighted and stupid they were to think that BW would scrap a core game mechanic in DA's first true sequel.
I can hardly wait untill march. =]
 

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Pillypill said:
In the first game play vid of DA2 i ever saw the first comment was something along the lines of: "Bioware r gay they made DA into a hack and slash devil may cry rip off WILL NOT BUY!!!111!1!".

I'm glad that man (and all others like him) can see how short sighted and stupid they were to think that BW would scrap a core game mechanic in DA's first true sequel.
I can hardly wait untill march. =]
Can you blame me and others like me?

After what Bioware did with Mass Effect 2, how could I not fear for the same over-simplicity to strike in Dragon Age 2?
 

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Onyx Oblivion said:
Pillypill said:
In the first game play vid of DA2 i ever saw the first comment was something along the lines of: "Bioware r gay they made DA into a hack and slash devil may cry rip off WILL NOT BUY!!!111!1!".

I'm glad that man (and all others like him) can see how short sighted and stupid they were to think that BW would scrap a core game mechanic in DA's first true sequel.
I can hardly wait untill march. =]
Can you blame me and others like me?

After what Bioware did with Mass Effect 2, how could I not fear for the same over-simplicity to strike in Dragon Age 2?
You mean they turned Mass Effect from a mediocre title with horrid item management and controls, into one of the finest games put out in the last couple years? God, I sure hope they don't do THAT again.
 

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Zechnophobe said:
Onyx Oblivion said:
Pillypill said:
In the first game play vid of DA2 i ever saw the first comment was something along the lines of: "Bioware r gay they made DA into a hack and slash devil may cry rip off WILL NOT BUY!!!111!1!".

I'm glad that man (and all others like him) can see how short sighted and stupid they were to think that BW would scrap a core game mechanic in DA's first true sequel.
I can hardly wait untill march. =]
Can you blame me and others like me?

After what Bioware did with Mass Effect 2, how could I not fear for the same over-simplicity to strike in Dragon Age 2?
You mean they turned Mass Effect from a mediocre title with horrid item management and controls, into one of the finest games put out in the last couple years? God, I sure hope they don't do THAT again.
Thats complete opinion. however they did simplify it. that IS true.

hes worried that it would be simplified. its nothing to do with the game being "good" or "bad"
 

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Welcome to this weeks edition of "Hammering home the point, that you do not HAVE to play it as an Action RPG, seriously. Totally not lying.".
 

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mrwoo6 said:
Zechnophobe said:
Onyx Oblivion said:
Pillypill said:
In the first game play vid of DA2 i ever saw the first comment was something along the lines of: "Bioware r gay they made DA into a hack and slash devil may cry rip off WILL NOT BUY!!!111!1!".

I'm glad that man (and all others like him) can see how short sighted and stupid they were to think that BW would scrap a core game mechanic in DA's first true sequel.
I can hardly wait untill march. =]
Can you blame me and others like me?

After what Bioware did with Mass Effect 2, how could I not fear for the same over-simplicity to strike in Dragon Age 2?
You mean they turned Mass Effect from a mediocre title with horrid item management and controls, into one of the finest games put out in the last couple years? God, I sure hope they don't do THAT again.
Thats complete opinion. however they did simplify it. that IS true.

hes worried that it would be simplified. its nothing to do with the game being "good" or "bad"
It isn't complete opinion. Mass Effect sold very well, has been nominated for awards, and been reviewed on average quite good. Just because outliers exist doesn't mean the average doesn't exist too.

They did simplify some of Mass Effect when making Mass Effect 2. But that is rather beside the point of its critical and broad acclaim.