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Dragon Age II |OT| The Revenge of Shit Mountain
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Lostconfused
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Yup thats why you had to have high dexterity for sword and shield abilities/talents in DA:O. For the 2handed warrior you were only supposed to dump points into strength. Because that was the most usefull stat since it effects characters attack rating and weapon damage.jackdoe said:
BoboBrazil
Member
They didn't even give me the choice. I went to the brothel and paid and all I could choose from is guy elves. Also most of the love choices are only available for guys in the story so far....they've let me flirt with one girl and like 5 guys.
BoboBrazil
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gdt5016 said:
Unfortunately she turned into a knight captain or whatever in the Dark Roads Expedition after I chose to take her with me. Maybe she is still alive if you don't take her?
Fimbulvetr
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Grisby said:
Wincest!
Rahxephon91
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I think a lot of Gaffers are and some are going above that.Smokey said:
Lostconfused
Member
Unless you game the mechanics you don't have an optimal party make up in the beginning. If you picked a mage than you have to get healing no matter what. If you picked warrior than you are pretty much useless the entire fight because you are just taking extra damage from the Ogre. If you picked rogue then you can just go ranged and own everyone, lololololol ballance.Synless said:
Lostconfused
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Just for fun
Kinspiracy, clearly the most ardent defender.
Also, holy crap I have way way too many posts in this thread. God what a boring week it has been.
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User Name Posts
Kinspiracy 101
kai3345 96
Lostconfused 83
Thnikkaman 64
jackdoe 60
shinobi602 58
Fimbulvetr 58
WanderingWind 54
Gvaz 50
water_wendi 50Kinspiracy, clearly the most ardent defender.
Also, holy crap I have way way too many posts in this thread. God what a boring week it has been.
Rahxephon91
Banned
I'm a wizard, and that's fucked up.Fimbulvetr said:
Lostconfused
Member
Well sure abusing stupid game mechanics is always an option. I was just talking about doing that fight without resorting to something so absurd.Smokey said:
Lostconfused
Member
DX11 is more stable but your frame rate will still get murdered on very high settings with an Nvidia card. Pretty sure you can't use a gamepad on the PC version either.Hawk269 said:
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Lostconfused said:
Whoa.
Basileus777
Member
10 hours into the game, and having played DAO on Sunday, people saying that the first game looked better on the PC are crazy.
Lostconfused
Member
The demo looked asstacular. The game just came out today so not everyone had the chance to see the best sights DA2 could offer but everyone could see some awful shit thats in the demo. Not to mention that not everyone can actually play at high settings since the game doesn't like Nvidia cards.Basileus777 said:
Orzammar is the best looking area in DA:O in my opinion. I would say Kirkwall might be better looking, but I haven't played enough of the game to see for my self yet.TheExodu5 said:
Edit: Oh right the new UI is a pile of ass as well, so thats one thing that will probably always suck in DA2.
Lostconfused said:
While I don't like the look of them, I prefer the new health bars. The reason being that I'm a little colorblind, and the red in the top left most portrait isn't super obvious, which made it sometimes difficult to tell that I was dying.
Dice said:
DA1 had baked god rays, but they looked really damned beautiful, as posted in my shot above. Like I said, DA2 is technically superior. But something is off about it. It lacks polish, and there are many glaring flaws in places (judging by shots here and the demo). The hilltop at the start of the demo, for example, felt extremely claustrophobic, despite having a large scenery. It just looked very, very fake, and it was obvious that only a very tiny portion of the scene was a rendered environment.
bluedeviltron
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Loving it so far on PC.
Is anyone else getting low volume in cutscenes? It wasn't a problem at all in the demo for me, but I'm having to turn up my speakers every time.
Is anyone else getting low volume in cutscenes? It wasn't a problem at all in the demo for me, but I'm having to turn up my speakers every time.
Lostconfused
Member
The lighting in Crysis 2 is better than anything in DA2 and it runs in a DX9 renderer.Dice said:
Because they didn't start working on DX11 one yet! Heyoooooo!
Edit: Not to mention that some of the best lighting in any video game ever made is in Mirror's Edge and that's entirely pre baked.
Guess there is some positive in all of that then, sorry that it gave you trouble.TheExodu5 said:
bishopcruz
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Lostconfused said:
Those who hated the PC UI in the demo should be happy to know that that was NOT the final UI BTW. The newer one, while not amazing, is considerably better, and it also plays much better than the DA:O UI on a HTPC. I can easily read codex entries now without straining my eyes, amen hallelujah. Also thank god that hard to read font is gone too. still it is a little plain.
Got a few hours in on the game before my roomate took over the TV and I am quite enjoying it so far. The bonus items are REALLY powerful for early on, so hard is a bit of a cakewalk so far, my Primal mage just splats everything with his Staff of Parlathan. We'll see if this evens out over time. The characters seem cool, the conversations are much better than they were in the demo, and I like the way that even early choices have affected the game so far.
You get different clothes and side quest availability depending on who you join to get in the city during the prologue for example.
It's also nice to see that Dog has dialogue stuff in the game, I figured he'd just be a cosmetic summon. I also like how Hawke tends to reflect the choices I have made even outside of the dialogue wheel. I am a hard-ass most times, and he tends to be so when greeting NPCs. Very cool.
Combat on hard seems pretty easy thus far, might have to kick it up to nightmare if this continues. Still, early DA was pretty easy too, so we shall see.
bishopcruz
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TheExodu5 said:
I got it for my second playthrough, it is a lot better, though it still has that horrible, horrible font IIRC, that mod wasn't done the first time I played through DA:O.
What I will give the DA2 UI is what it lacks in beauty, it makes up for in usability. It is much easier on the eyes and information is much more readily available.
GillianSeed79
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I kind of asked this a few pages back, but I'm still confused. I'm going to import my save data from DA:O, but this thread reminded me about The Witch Hunt continuity bug and save game glitch in DAO.. Essentially, I'm OCD and want to have my perfect import save for DA2 even if it means little. I'm considering doing another quick run through of The Witch hunt if it, specifically for consoles, has been patched. I don't want to waste two hours for nothing. I guess I could find out from the Bioware social site, but I thought someone here might have a quick answer. Thanks in advance.
Lostconfused
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Perfectly reasonable but at that point in time, unless you are going for the achievement, you might as well turn the difficulty down to normal to get through it.Smokey said:in that particular fight (on hard at least) i had to resort to such tactics because doing it the non-absurd way caused my entire team to get wiped out
Gattsu25 said:
For getting armor, duh!
Glad to see Bioware is still sticking with the Diablo 2 stat distribution system: pump enough of a stat to be able to equip gear, max best stat after that.
Stat distribution should just disappear entirely. It brings nothing to the games whatsoever.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
TheExodu5 said:
...goddamn it.
I decided against my better judgement and to just buy the game using my stockpile of GG blue coins so I only paid about 25 for it. I am not proud of myself, but I was honestly kinda bored.
Of all the various offenses the game has committed the absolutely terrible skill tree UI takes the cake. Having to click and sit through a zoom animation just to be able to see the tooltips so you know what does what is nothing but extremely annoying.
Of all the various offenses the game has committed the absolutely terrible skill tree UI takes the cake. Having to click and sit through a zoom animation just to be able to see the tooltips so you know what does what is nothing but extremely annoying.
It sucks it doesnt let you copy the gamesaves of DA:O /Awakening. Now I had to switch ps3's do my wife could continue her story.
what is it with these games that do not let you copy game saves? pretty fucked up if you ended to turn it in for replacement or something.
Also the forced social@bioware .com shit My wife wanted to bonus that came with the GS preorder, and they only way to get it is to sign up /login with social.bioware.
so why the fuck would you preorder?? Is it based on the UPC? I think not cause it unlocked for the ps3, 360 and pc.
She is playing it now, looks pretty good. Good voice work and music too.
But I would be happier if I can put my ps3 back in its spot and give her, the other one back.
what is it with these games that do not let you copy game saves? pretty fucked up if you ended to turn it in for replacement or something.
Also the forced social@bioware .com shit My wife wanted to bonus that came with the GS preorder, and they only way to get it is to sign up /login with social.bioware.
so why the fuck would you preorder?? Is it based on the UPC? I think not cause it unlocked for the ps3, 360 and pc.
She is playing it now, looks pretty good. Good voice work and music too.
But I would be happier if I can put my ps3 back in its spot and give her, the other one back.
You keep posting that tower shot, but really, that doesn't accurately represent the visuals throughout. The game looks pretty uneven and plain most of the time.
Stylistically, DA:O seems very generic. DA2 isn't amazing, but I think it looks quite a bit more stylized and unique.