I don't know what those kids whine about concerning the grafics of DA:O.
They were absolutely superb!
They were absolutely superb!
[Game] Dragon Age 2
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The main character's surname is Hawke
Hawke survived "the Blight"
Hawke is known as "the Champion of Kirkwall"
Hawke is a "refugee"
DA2's story will span 10 years
DA2 will be released in March 2011 for PC, XBox 360, and PS3
Morrigan is NOT Hawke's mother; Hawke is NOT the "god baby"
Hawke can be male or female
Hawke is human
DA2 is a single-player game
"More than half" of the Dragon Age left by the time Awakening begins
There will be more DLC and patches for DAO before DA2 is released
There is no "morality meter" in the style of Mass Effect's Paragon/Renegade meter
The game does NOT take place "10 years after Origins." It SPANS a 10-year period. When it starts hasn't been revealed.
There will be companions/followers
Hawke will be voiced
Hawke lived in Lothering during the events of DA:O, fled north to Kirkwall
Game will use imported save from Dragon Age: Origins
Flemeth will appear
Intra-party conflict may be more significant
Mass Effect-style dialogue wheel with paraphrased lines and symbols denoting tone
Hawke survived "the Blight"
Hawke is known as "the Champion of Kirkwall"
Hawke is a "refugee"
DA2's story will span 10 years
DA2 will be released in March 2011 for PC, XBox 360, and PS3
Morrigan is NOT Hawke's mother; Hawke is NOT the "god baby"
Hawke can be male or female
Hawke is human
DA2 is a single-player game
"More than half" of the Dragon Age left by the time Awakening begins
There will be more DLC and patches for DAO before DA2 is released
There is no "morality meter" in the style of Mass Effect's Paragon/Renegade meter
The game does NOT take place "10 years after Origins." It SPANS a 10-year period. When it starts hasn't been revealed.
There will be companions/followers
Hawke will be voiced
Hawke lived in Lothering during the events of DA:O, fled north to Kirkwall
Game will use imported save from Dragon Age: Origins
Flemeth will appear
Intra-party conflict may be more significant
Mass Effect-style dialogue wheel with paraphrased lines and symbols denoting tone
Well no, they were not.
If you're talking about the art style etc. then I'd have to agree, but saying DA:Os graphics were superb is not valid. It came out after Mass Effect 2, yet looks very outdated compared to it. I never had any problems with the graphics while playing and felt they were quite fitting, yet they were no way any better than 'good' - so as consequence I and from what I've read pretty much anywhere else, most other players would expect improved graphics. Judging by those screenshots I don't see any improvement, it actually looks pretty bland. Especcially if you look at how this are the first screenshots, normally you'd only show awesome stuff.
Nevertheless Dragon Age 2 will surely be epic, as pretty much anything produced by BioWare. Just keep the facts right though.
I'd sooner the money and time went into providing a deeper gameplay experience than making the graphics better.
LOL Mike Laidlaw from BioWare said(in a joystiq interview) there won't be an aerial view mode in DA2(like there was in DA, allowing for better tactics). While I personally couldn't care less about because I was always playing in normal 3rd person and didn't switch once, the reason he gives for that decision is 
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I don't know if I'd go so far as to say "brilliant."
Enchanting? A joke.
Class/ability system? Fun, but extremely limited.
Overall combat? Set magic to pwn and relax.
Mechanically, Bioware games are RPG-lite. Sure it's got all the dialog and characterization, but the mechanics that back up game play are pretty transparent. I got half way through DA when the mechanics panned out in their entirety...and since I wasn't about to sink another 10 hours into the game just to sleep with someone, I uninstalled.
It's a good game, but brilliant gameplay? Nah. It's NWN, more polished, with a better written story and character interactions.
Compare it to any rogue-like RPG. Compare it to any MMORPG worth it's salt. WoW looks like a hardcore RPG compared to Bioware offerings. Compare it to NWN2, which was the crappier game, but mechanically it had a lot more going for it. Compare it to Planescape Torment, which while lacking clickable abilities, delivers more interactions between the skill system and the game world.
Or even compare it to many RTS/RPG hybrids. Weapon design seems to be where Bioware puts it's love; it's never into skills or abilities. I'm thinking specifically of ME's skill trees. Then reinvision them as DA's skill bars (or whatever you want to call those.)
Some RPGs work up their mechanics to the point where getting them and manipulating them is game play unto itself. I feel like with Bioware RPGs, they give just enough mechanics to keep you playing, then dump all the rest of the effort into characterization.
Or even compare it to many RTS/RPG hybrids. Weapon design seems to be where Bioware puts it's love; it's never into skills or abilities. I'm thinking specifically of ME's skill trees. Then reinvision them as DA's skill bars (or whatever you want to call those.)
Some RPGs work up their mechanics to the point where getting them and manipulating them is game play unto itself. I feel like with Bioware RPGs, they give just enough mechanics to keep you playing, then dump all the rest of the effort into characterization.
PCGames.de already played it @GC2010 and from their impression(they played the pc version, with a 360 pad) the game looks better and dialogue is awesome, but the game is moving towards consoles with less RPG and more action and controls feeling more like they were adapted to a controller.
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Well damn, after reading a review of the Witcher 2 presentation @gamescom + seeing the screenshots, this is gonna be an epic fight between Dragon Age 2 + The Witcher 2. It's safe to say that Witcher 2 is going to win in the graphics department tho.
Yep I saw the trailer and that's pretty much why I pre-ordered the signature edition(same price as normal). Of course it's questionable to offer release-day DLC that of course should've been included from the beginning, but I'm going to buy the game anyways so I might just as well get the DLC for free.
Demo is out. Won't try it though since I don't wanna spoil anything for myself, only 2-3 weeks till the full game is released anyways.
hockeywarrior
FNG / Fresh Meat
I played the demo yesterday and didn't even bother finishing it ... it looked like trash to me.
The IU is awful, (according to the demo) there appear to be even less spells and abilities than before, the graphics looked worse to me and ran terribly on my system (there is NO excuse for that ...), and the game played and felt like a cartoon to me.
This is Dragon Age Lite to me. I mean the entire game's design is flawed compared to the original's in my opinion -- the best part about the first game was the fact that you could make a character that started from a whole crapload of different backgrounds. That's what added to the replayability. Now they have taken that away.
That on top of all the things that I hated about the demo makes this a for sure NOT BUY for me.
The IU is awful, (according to the demo) there appear to be even less spells and abilities than before, the graphics looked worse to me and ran terribly on my system (there is NO excuse for that ...), and the game played and felt like a cartoon to me.
This is Dragon Age Lite to me. I mean the entire game's design is flawed compared to the original's in my opinion -- the best part about the first game was the fact that you could make a character that started from a whole crapload of different backgrounds. That's what added to the replayability. Now they have taken that away.
That on top of all the things that I hated about the demo makes this a for sure NOT BUY for me.