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Dragon Age II |OT| The Revenge of Shit Mountain
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glaurung said:
There are bosses that have that. I know that you have to hide behind a pillar when he does his super move. I highly highly doubt that positioning will be nearly as important in DAO than it is in WoW though.
As long as its little things, like hiding behind a pillar to avoid an insta death AoE, I really have no problem with it, since I think it would add a bit of variety to the boss battles, and make them feel more unique.
Blue Ninja
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That is one awesome OP. I'm still getting this game, but dammit, that's one awesome OP.
Oh god, the humanity! Upwards of 8 sentences!! I can't actually remember that happening, mostly the options were too few and short.shinobi602 said:
This is one of my favourite parts of Baldur's Gate:
You missed quite a lot, including my biggest complaint: friendly fire being relegated to Nightmare only from being the default in the first game (which only had no FF on easy and casual). That, to me, shows exactly what they are going for with the battles, and I don't like it.shinobi602 said:
shinobi602
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Durante said:
Dude, I have no problem reading. That's all I do in college.
It's the fact that it took out of the immersion factor during the conversations. If my character and party are having a conversation with others, and I'm getting into it, then a bunch of sentences pop up, I read each one, deciding which to pick. My main gripe, is while this is happening, my character is standing there like a zombie staring into space. It really breaks it up for me, because it takes longer to read the sentences than a few words that summarize what I'll say next (Mass Effect).
Durante said:
It's not like you'll play DA2 on Normal anyway, will you?
The OP was cool and I got a good laugh out of it.
Still buying the game day 1, but I do wonder why make an official thread like this? I thought that these things were for people to discuss the game in a more positive light. If you don't like it at all, then why do the official thread? More curious than anything else, though.
Still buying the game day 1, but I do wonder why make an official thread like this? I thought that these things were for people to discuss the game in a more positive light. If you don't like it at all, then why do the official thread? More curious than anything else, though.
Since I know that there are people on these boards who are very well acquainted with the game already, some questions:
- Is there a New Game+ feature? If yes, what does it carry over and what not?
- What are the default difficulty settings available from the start?
- Which unlockable difficulty settings are there and how are they unlocked?
- Any integration with the first Dragon Age?
- Is there any kind of crafting in DA2?
Hot Coldman
Banned
I remember a MW2 troll |OT| like this.
It got locked and the user got banned. Hmmm.... (disclaimer: this game looks like the absolute fucking worst)
It got locked and the user got banned. Hmmm.... (disclaimer: this game looks like the absolute fucking worst)
HadesGigas
Member
glaurung said:
Save importing from DAO "world changing decisions" like who you made king. If you never played DAO you get to pick from a few choices of what the story was when you start a new game.
Crafting is in but not done like it is in DAO, you don't carry around the ingredients with you, you have to find "sources" of the ingredients. Something like that...
Casual, Normal, Hard, Nightmare. Nightmare is the only difficulty that has friendly fire. Don't know if there's unlockable difficulties or ng+.
glaurung said:
1. No
2. Believe its easy, normal, hard, and nightmare.
3. Believe you have access to all of them from the beginning.
4. A bit, basically your state of the world transfers over (who is Ferelden's ruler, and what not)
5. Yes, but it is a bit different than DAO.
Basically, crafting is now based on exploration instead of hording. You find a material vein out in the world some where and then that material can be accessed by shops. The crafting is done there. So no more crafting skills, but you still need recipes. Not sure if crafting at shops cost money or not
MrHicks said:
Because in the world of video game fantasy, a huge universe usually means "this happened then this happened then this happened then you play the game and then 100 years in the future the next game comes out and between that time something else happened", and after all that effort creating history where you have to remember the names of the people who did important things, you just make sure the dwarves are still greedy and live in underground mountains, elves come from trees and humans are all powerful guys that fuck things up and also a dragon. By that time you've created a HUGE UNIVERSE and can successfully put 20 novels in the game containing said universe that nobody ever reads.
shinobi602
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EDarkness said:
I agree...this is no place for people who want to discuss the game in a positive light...
Why not make two separate threads or something...
That happened because of the bigoted language the OP used in the MW2 thread as opposed to the concept of an OT that isn't a glowing PR marketing piece.Green Scar said:
On this note, this actually fits very well with the spirit of the Marilyn Manson campaign from the first game. Mike Laidlaw argued that it was a fantastic advertisement because it garnered a ton of attention, even if it wasn't all positive. This thread is certainly more memorable and attention getting than the standard format.EDarkness said:
shinobi602
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canova said:
Considering it's optional to play the game like that, I don't see why people focus on that so much.
Truant said:
Loved DA:O, probably put more hours into it than any other RPG I've played in the last decade. I would rank it as a great, but flawed game. I'll still probably pick up DA2 at sometime, if only to see all the changes myself (and how they handle the consequences for save importing. I'm expecting a nice letter and codex entries.)
ROFL
I didn't realise Carver died if you rolled melee! The sister died when I rolled mage and all I could think was "why did they just kill the only character they'd established a sub plot for?"
To be fair though she deserved to die for not realising she could just run away like a douche and spam fireball until all the Darkspawn were dead.
I didn't realise Carver died if you rolled melee! The sister died when I rolled mage and all I could think was "why did they just kill the only character they'd established a sub plot for?"
To be fair though she deserved to die for not realising she could just run away like a douche and spam fireball until all the Darkspawn were dead.
IoCaster
Member
An awesome |OT| and I got some genuinely good laughs out of it.
This pretty much reflects my opinion of the design and intent of this game. I don't fault EAWare for chasing a console audience and hoping to make a quick cash-in off the back of DA:O. It's a business decision and I can see how it makes sense. It's probably good for the bottom line and the console crowd gets a game that's tailor made for their platform of choice. A win-win.
Fortunately, there are other developers making games (Witcher 2, Skyrim, etc,..) that cater more to my preferences and I can happily ignore this crappy port. Another win-win.
This pretty much reflects my opinion of the design and intent of this game. I don't fault EAWare for chasing a console audience and hoping to make a quick cash-in off the back of DA:O. It's a business decision and I can see how it makes sense. It's probably good for the bottom line and the console crowd gets a game that's tailor made for their platform of choice. A win-win.
Fortunately, there are other developers making games (Witcher 2, Skyrim, etc,..) that cater more to my preferences and I can happily ignore this crappy port. Another win-win.
lastplayed
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Plywood said:
Honestly, if "Hawke" is in DAIII then I'm done. Done I tells ya!
lastplayed said:
I highly doubt he will be since the devs have always stated that what ties Dragon age together is not the main characters, but the world.
Personally, I am holding out hope that Dragon Age 3 has something very similar to Suikoden 3's narrative structure. I think Bioware's choice consequence deal would be really really interesting in that sort of structure. Just think, on your first play through, you could select all of the goody-two-shoes choices and on your second play through do the same, but could get a different experience so long as you played your 3 PCs in a different order.
lastplayed said:
All I know is that my warden better make a return at some point in the series. I don't even mind if they give him an actual voice. I don't want to walk into the sunset and never be heard from again...especially after I walked away with Morrigan. There needs to be some resolution to this.
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I laughed.
SenorDingDong
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Very funny OT, the death of the brother and the A for awesome gif being the highlights. The latter reminded me of another hilarious gif I stumbled on in my lurking pre-approval days when it was revealed Aliens Colonial Marines would have QTE sequences. I'm fairly sure a GAF member made it, can't recall who however.
As for Dragon Age 2, despite my disappointment in the direction they've taken, the demo didn't really dissuade me from picking up the final product. It will be interesting as has been brought up before, if they reverse some of their design decisions come Dragon Age 3 if Dragon Age 2 sales don't meet or exceed Origin's. I guess time will tell on that front, in any case I'm still looking forward to it.
As for Dragon Age 2, despite my disappointment in the direction they've taken, the demo didn't really dissuade me from picking up the final product. It will be interesting as has been brought up before, if they reverse some of their design decisions come Dragon Age 3 if Dragon Age 2 sales don't meet or exceed Origin's. I guess time will tell on that front, in any case I'm still looking forward to it.