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Dragon Age II |OT| The Revenge of Shit Mountain
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Guess that's not what initiates the bug then. But there's no denying it's screwed up :lolBoboBrazil said:
Check my post, http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=26464474&postcount=5141Stallion Free said:
Basileus777
Member
Deadly said:
The same happened to me, though it's only one line, so we really didn't miss much.
whatevermort
Member
zmoney said:
This had better not be an actual spoiler. If it is, there are tags, and you should really learn how to use them. If it is, I hope I get to ruin a game for you one day too.
TigerUppercut said:
There's a dagger you can buy in Act 1 that adds 50% to your cunning the purposes of opening locks and disarming traps. Won't make the contents of chests any better, but Isabela or a rogue Hawke will probably end up with 40 dex and 27+ cunning just from normal stat progression, which is all you'd need.
Basileus777
Member
Balphon said:
Do you remember where you can buy this dagger?
come to this thread for more DX11 goodness.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=26465175#post26465175
The game doesn't look bad at all maxed out.
Also I tried out hard and got my ass handed to me.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=26465175#post26465175
The game doesn't look bad at all maxed out.
Also I tried out hard and got my ass handed to me.
Blue Ninja
Member
Lol, it's a lot easier to trigger romances in this game than I thought.
Also, did anyone else think the conclusion of Anders' personal quest was... Strange?
Something that would be awesome (perhaps to be patched in) would be the ability to see the Friend/Rival status in the Character Select screen. Oh, and also the ability to see the effects of Belts/Rings/Amulets when you find them.
I didn't give Merill the trinket she needed to restore the Eluvian, told Marethari what she was planning, killed all of the Dalish (much to my regret, but oh well), and basically had her Rivalry meter filled up completely. She confronts me at my house, I select a "Heart"-option, thinking "it'll make her feel better", but apparently all heart options mean "I want to be inside you". Suddenly she jumps Hawke, and I quickly have to revert to my dashboard to make sure it doesn't save. I'm with Isabela, dammit. :lol
Also, did anyone else think the conclusion of Anders' personal quest was... Strange?
He makes such a big deal out of the 'potion' that can save him, and then the only thing that changes is his outfit. He didn't even tell me whether or not Justice/Vengeance had actually departed.
Something that would be awesome (perhaps to be patched in) would be the ability to see the Friend/Rival status in the Character Select screen. Oh, and also the ability to see the effects of Belts/Rings/Amulets when you find them.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
And that wasn't the same kind of reveal anyway. :lolHK-47 said:
Basileus777 said:
Seriously. Now she just comes to me at my house telling me how much she wants to be like me. I scold her and tell her that Im trying to make sure no one else gets hurt. She gets mad and says "Do you really think Id let anyone get hurt with what Im doing?"
......
I wish they had a "YOUR KEEPER IS DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU!!!!!!!!" dialogue option.
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I wish they had a "YOUR KEEPER IS DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU!!!!!!!!" dialogue option.
Does anyone have a good tank build because I've just been running with me as a two-handed warrior gathering shit up and its easier to do than with sword and shield but stuff is starting to hit pretty hard in Act 2 and I feel I'm just around the corner from a boss that will be too much to take on without a proper defensive character. Infact the game got considerably more difficult when I tried to respec my character to a full on tank!
whatevermort
Member
Hilaho said:
It's one thing spoiling a game from over a decade ago. It's quite another spoiling the story of a game released a few days ago, when most people here won't have had a chance to finish it. Don't be a dick.
Ickman3400
Banned
Blue Ninja said:
Keep playing, you'll get your answer to that by the end of the game.
gdt5016 said:
Yeah you can bug the companion quests if you trigger them without that specific companion in your party.
Happened to me with Aveline in Act 1. Triggered her companion quest somehow without her in my party, and when every enemy aggro'd on me I just killed them all and completed the quest, but Aveline was invisible in the next cutscene. A talking whisp of air. Fortunately it didn't seem to have done lasting damage.
Basileus777
Member
Kinitari said:
Check your PC's skill tree. The bonus is listed on the small tree with your mabari summon on it.
I'm really disappointed by the plot of this one. Are there only like 4 story missions? I'm in the third act and the only mission left is
. Really Bioware. They pulled a ME 2 again.
Where is it possible to lose party members? I've been reading everywhere they can leave you but none permanently left so far except
. I have Isabela, Fenris, Ander, Aveline and Varic with 100% friendship and I have a Merril with almost 100% Rivality. Sebastian is bugged in my game no matter how many points he gains in Friendship or Rivalry his progression bar doesn't change and stays in neutral position.
The last straw
Where is it possible to lose party members? I've been reading everywhere they can leave you but none permanently left so far except
Carver that is with the Wardens
So, I got the game and played for a few hours. I thought the graphics would be one of the worst things about it, but they're actually a high point. (Part of that is because they are better than expected, part because everything else is just so bad)
Some screenshots with everything maxed:
http://www.abload.de/img/dragonage2-2011-03-13-ttex.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/dragonage2-2011-03-13-bsy8.jpg (This one looks really good)
Some screenshots with everything maxed:
http://www.abload.de/img/dragonage2-2011-03-13-ttex.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/dragonage2-2011-03-13-bsy8.jpg (This one looks really good)
The visuals can be pretty good at times - the problem is that since you spend so much time in the city, it just gets visually tiring after a while. It wasn't too long before I started looking forward to going to the few outside areas, because even though there's nothing visually or thematically special about them either, at least they're something that isn't Kirkwall.
I'm running with a party of Hawke/Fenris/Isabela/Merrill now. I switched out Anders' uber-healing for some extra firepower with Merrill. Still manageable on Nightmare. I find that I usually wipe out groups so quickly that the lack of healing isn't as much an issue so far (my player mage has the basic heal spell as well and I might take him Spirit Healer with the second spec). And Isabela is just a monster.
I'm running with a party of Hawke/Fenris/Isabela/Merrill now. I switched out Anders' uber-healing for some extra firepower with Merrill. Still manageable on Nightmare. I find that I usually wipe out groups so quickly that the lack of healing isn't as much an issue so far (my player mage has the basic heal spell as well and I might take him Spirit Healer with the second spec). And Isabela is just a monster.
Hilaho said:
Yeah there's a pretty neat mix in my party. Like with Fenris and Merrill together - not only is Merrill a mage, but she's also a dalish elf (to Fenris' High Town city elf), so those two generally have stuff to talk about. And Isabela's banter with the naive, sheltered Merrill is also pretty fun.
Just beat it, took 56 hours, about the same amount of time the first time DA:O took. Don't get all the hate on this board. I thought it was a great game.
The combat really has not changed from DA:O, you can do the same stuff if you pause and issue commands, pressing "A" (360 version) between the big spells is no big deal.
I played a mage on Hard (well put it down to Normal on the High Dragon and the optional Demon). All those peps saying it took 20 hours must of been on casual and skipped a bunch of quests or just flat out skipped the dialog.
As of now, I'm on a 'high' from it still so can not say which one was better (1 or 2). The ending just set something big up for DA:3.
Going to go through it again with a sword and board warrior (so I don't have to take Aveline this time, she was with me 100% 1st play time) and as a evil bitch and side with the templars this time. Got everyone up to 100% friend status last time, going for the opposite this time.
The combat really has not changed from DA:O, you can do the same stuff if you pause and issue commands, pressing "A" (360 version) between the big spells is no big deal.
I played a mage on Hard (well put it down to Normal on the High Dragon and the optional Demon). All those peps saying it took 20 hours must of been on casual and skipped a bunch of quests or just flat out skipped the dialog.
As of now, I'm on a 'high' from it still so can not say which one was better (1 or 2). The ending just set something big up for DA:3.
Going to go through it again with a sword and board warrior (so I don't have to take Aveline this time, she was with me 100% 1st play time) and as a evil bitch and side with the templars this time. Got everyone up to 100% friend status last time, going for the opposite this time.
I am really loving this. It's what I wanted out of the first game (fantasy Mass Effect).
My only gripe is the city and getting around it. Don't like the way they've done it with leaving areas and choosing destinations. If it has been one giant seamless city it would have been so much better. The design of the city looks really great on the map, it would have been awesome to walk down from the high parts down to the docks. It would require some kind of fast travel of course.
My only gripe is the city and getting around it. Don't like the way they've done it with leaving areas and choosing destinations. If it has been one giant seamless city it would have been so much better. The design of the city looks really great on the map, it would have been awesome to walk down from the high parts down to the docks. It would require some kind of fast travel of course.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
mujun said:
I think my biggest issue with the game so far (10 hours in) is that the title completely lacks vision and scope. It's such a small adventure compared to Origins. What you do feels insignificant comparatively to the grand adventure of Origins. Nothing I accomplish feels important to the lore of the world, and that approach even seemed to trickle into the actual game design. The lack of cohesive "feel" of Kirkwall, and the lack of any distinct personality for The Free Marches. The inability to equip armor on your companions. How spread out your companions "Homes" are (no unified camp after all this time playing?). The lack of impact your Side Quests seem to have on the city itself. All the small, confined 'battle areas' - they said we'd have more tactical ability in DA2, but all the fights so far take place in such small corridors it's hard to really take advantage of the terrain.
The lack of compelling narrative force doesn't really makes sense for a high fantasy RPG, especially after the bar set for DAO. But hey, the graphics are a million times better (Xbox version)
mujun said:
The fast travel system is one of the larger mistakes they made in the game. Setting it mostly in one city wouldn't have been as big a deal if you didn't travel throughout it in a way that doesn't make it at all feel like a city. And that also compounds and is compounded by the fact that they re-use the same areas so many times, trying to disguise them simply by having you enter the same zones from different entrances. Instead of serving to make the setting feel more intimate (which was presumably one of their goals), it makes it feel smaller and far more limited in scope.
Even then, I don't really think the city design is that imaginative regardless. I mean, Hightown, Lowtown? With both having the cliched characteristics and general architecture you'd expect out of places with those names? It's just not very inspired. Only points in the city I found at all eye-grabbing were the Gallows and the Dock, but only before you've seen them so many times.
BoboBrazil
Member
Salaadin said:
It took me over 40 hours and I did all of the quests I found. I found alot of quests inside chests and I did all of the letters I received at the house. Anytime anyone asked for help I always said yes.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
I finished at about 34 hours. I did pretty much everything. There were I think only two seconday quests I didn't finish, and there were some things that were bugged and I couldn't finished. Still I'd say I went through over 95% of the content. The legnth wasn't really a problem, I was ready for it to end. Not that it was a bad game, just that there wasn't much else it could do.
A little but not much. I didnt feel as into learning the backstory as I usually am with games like this.Hilaho said:
BoboBrazil said:
I mostly did that too. I dont know. My sister just started Act 3 at 44 hours. My brother is on Act 2 with 33 hours. I beat the game at 31 hours. I had to miss something...
That, or they take their time while I was busy rushing to the next quest arrow.
BoboBrazil
Member
delirium said:
Yeah, by the end I was ready for it to be over. I actually thought the end of the game was the
Qunari fight
Salaadin said:
Difficulty settings will play a part as well. Much of the time you spend in the game is in combat - even with the increased speed, there's still a lot of it, since there are a ton of quests and nearly all are completed via combat. So if you're playing on Normal you'll generally be getting through battles much quicker than on the higher difficulties. I'm also not sure if the play-time count continues while battles are paused, which would also add to it.
Blue Ninja
Member
I'm right before what I assume is
So far, I'm nearing 50 hours of playtime, and I didn't complete some sidequests (
).
Now all that remains is
God, I've wanted to do that ever since Act II.
I can see why some people don't like this game, but as far as I'm concerned, this is a more than worthy successor to Dragon Age: Origins. It needs a lot of refinement (no more goddamn second waves of enemies, let alone third or fourth, especially during boss battles; refining the UI; ...) but the seeds of greatness are definitely there.
the final battle right now. Male WarHawke, mostly good guy/funny man, Bethany in the Circle, full Friendship with Anders, Aveline, Isabela and Varric, full Rivalry with Merril, a neutral Fenris and a bugged Sebastian. Sided with the Mages after Anders blew up the Chantry. Fenris originally joined the Templar side, but I convinced him to join me after all. I let Anders live (though part of me really wanted to kick him out of the city, at the very least), and Sebastian swore vengeance and left. Not that I care: I think the fucker was bugged anyways. I didn't get the "Heirloom" achievement when I gave him his grandfather's bow, nor did I get the achievement for confronting the killer of his parents. Romanced Isabela.
So far, I'm nearing 50 hours of playtime, and I didn't complete some sidequests (
the Qunari Swords and the ambush by lord Sphincter, since both seemed bugged
Now all that remains is
to kick Meredith and her Templar cronies into the ground.
I can see why some people don't like this game, but as far as I'm concerned, this is a more than worthy successor to Dragon Age: Origins. It needs a lot of refinement (no more goddamn second waves of enemies, let alone third or fourth, especially during boss battles; refining the UI; ...) but the seeds of greatness are definitely there.
