Basileus777
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I'm 30 hours in playing on hard and not done yet, though I've been doing every quest and have left the game idling a bit. I don't think taking 40 hours to beat this game is "absurd."
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Dragon Age II |OT| The Revenge of Shit Mountain
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Durante said:
I think the people being done ~18 hours and doing all the sidequests is pretty insane to think about. I'm on normal, and the game has sooo much side stuff to do. I'm doing them all before I go onto the deep roads and go into act 2 and I'm already at 12 hours.
The amount of side quests are relatively small in number after deep roads, I think I spent 22 hours before deep roads and 10 for the remaining game.
Really enjoyed the game, even with the recurring dungeons that have been mentioned to death already, I was hooked until the very end.
Really enjoyed the game, even with the recurring dungeons that have been mentioned to death already, I was hooked until the very end.
CadaveriaIX
Member
Started this today on PC, I can only run it on DX9 with my rig, and wow at the visuals, everything looks awkward, I know it's not on high settings but damn, I expected a lot more.
Was pleasantly surprised by the combat, at least so far I am, playing as a warrior and the attacks feel like attacks not just swinging around a weightless sword.
The conversations/dialog wheel seem much better this time round, though I'm only 2 hours in so can't really comment on the story yet. But at least for the moment it looks promising and better then I thought it was going to be.
Was pleasantly surprised by the combat, at least so far I am, playing as a warrior and the attacks feel like attacks not just swinging around a weightless sword.
The conversations/dialog wheel seem much better this time round, though I'm only 2 hours in so can't really comment on the story yet. But at least for the moment it looks promising and better then I thought it was going to be.
Dog Problems
Banned
For anyone who has completed Herbalist's Tasks (2), I need some help finding a Varterral. I read elsewhere that I encounter it through a sidequest of Merrill. Where and how do I get access to this?
Rahxephon91
Banned
This is quite possibly the laziest made game I have ever played.
Basileus777
Member
gdt5016 said:
It's easy to repeat that mistake when you are trying to find corners to cut in order to get this game made in less than 2 years. It's a real shame.
Lostconfused
Member
I would say that's debatable. At least in the copy paste department. I will accept that the planet design in ME1 was incredibly lazy in the sense that its as if some one went in some kind of a terrain brush and just fucked up a flat surface into some kind of an insane mess.gdt5016 said:
Basileus777
Member
zoner said:
It does, but I think they are more willing to throw the manpower and money needed at the ME franchise to make these kinds of design decisions unnecessary.
Lostconfused
Member
Different teams. I don't think its shocking to expect the team who made ME 1 and 2 to do a better job of making a Mass Effect game than the team who made Origins. Also the gameplay is pretty much solid at this point and they don't have to spend time working on those mechanics anymore. Most of their time is probably spent on creating new art and environments.zoner said:
Rahxephon91
Banned
But it's not even that.gdt5016 said:
You can barely interact with your team members outside of thier quests. Remember in DA1 you could talk to them all the time.
Romances are poorly developed for some characters at least. It's like Anders is already in love with you after 1 conversation. In 1 you you had to continually talk to your members, the romances were way more developed then they are in 2.
The copy and paste developments are worse then ME1. In ME1 tere were at least numerous locales. You basically seem to stay in 1 area for a good portion of the game. They couldn't even make Kirkwall interesting and put effort to make the areas deverse and interesting. They are so bland it's not even funny. When you go to say the Red Light District, you should make it seem like it's totally different from the rest of the city. In DA2 it's just some lights and whatever. Outside of that the areas basically repeat, but there aren't that many anyway.
I mean I still like the game, because it's fun. But man it sucks that I defended this game at all. It's so rushed and it feels so poorly handled. What happen Bioware?
Actually it does. The short development time and the fact that all the pr points to earth being the focus make me kind of worried about it as well.zoner said:
Yep mentioned it before. Anders is basically ready to blow you the moment you meet him. Isabela the self titled whore isnt even that easy to fuck. Fenris is not much better. They basically approached it that all gay characters are super sluts ready to fuck anytimeRahxephon91 said:
samus4ever
Banned
zoner said:
Mass Effect 3 coming almost 2 years after Mass Effect 2. Plus, the team already started working on Mass Effect 3 before the 2nd one came out.
Fimbulvetr
Member
antonz said:
1 step forward, 3 steps back. :/
Someone was complaining about the stat restrictions on armour. Looks like there's already a mod to remove them: http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2143
mercenar1e
Member
Just finished the game.. it's very clear that the whole thing was rushed, pretty much a guarantee that Bioware will release an expansion or bombard us with DLC
24 hours.. spent the beginning part of the game tackling every side quest
24 hours.. spent the beginning part of the game tackling every side quest
shinobi602
Member
Rahxephon91 said:
You haven't played many games then....
mercenar1e
Member
the Witcher 2 will eat this fucker for breakfast and shit him out before lunch.. ill be surprised if Dragon Age 2 gets nominated for GOTY
Rahxephon91
Banned
Nope. I've played many games. Dragon Age 2 is so half assed it's not even funny.shinobi602 said:
Fimbulvetr
Member
You guys really know how to kill off that little bit of positive hype I got a few pages ago.
ColonelColon
Member
Is there a way to get your guys to "hold" a position yet still attack nearby enemies? It seems like the "hold" command tells the whole group to hold... not just one person. If I tell, say, my mages to "go to" a location, they'll run over there and run right back into the fight. If I switch on "hold", even though I only have them selected, they'll stay in place and cast spells. Unfortunately my tank will just stand where she is and not attack anything around her unless I hit "go anywhere", which causes my mages to idiotically run into the fight again. Ugh.
DanielJr82
Member
I was just about to write this. Mass Effect 2 came out in January of 2010, people. Mass Effect 3 is scheduled for holidays 2011, that's two weeks shy of January 2012. Do the math, lol.samus4ever said: