MyGaming: Dragon Age II

The players only choice is gender AND class?
AND name?
AND path (good, neutral, evil, a combination thereof)?

No, I'm sorry that sells the game far too short! Even plot elements are adjusted based on class and gender. I won't elaborate on that as it may contain spoilers, but suffice to say that even choosing a different gender changes some things.

Console versions require that you constantly tap a key to perform a generic attack. A vast improvement on the click and wait manner of battle in DA:O

Graphics better, colours more vivid, dragons. Lots of dragons :)

I guess its different strokes and all that, but seriously, that review missed the mark in my opinion.

Which, I recognise, was his opinion too. But I don't have to like it :D
 
It's not as good IMO. The Mass Effect style of play doesn't work for this type of game.

However it's still a good game and is lots of fun, when viewed on it's own. However compared to the first one it's not as good.

I am thankful that they got rid of the mute though. Having your char actually talk is far better.
 
Agreed! Maybe not as epic in scope or as revolutionary as DA:O but still good by its own merits
 
I finished this last night, and I have to say I quite enjoyed it. It's no Mass Effect 2, but for me it's a step forward from the first one. The combat is certainly a lot more fluid and engaging, a talking protagonist really adds to the immersion, and the story was solid.
I would have liked more control over my party equipment though, same as in ME2, and I had a romance bug on me - I schtupped Isabella, but that didn't go anywhere and I ended up getting into a relationship with Merril instead, but the game got confused and treated her as the love interest in the final summary Varric gives, despite the fact that Isabella wasn't even in my party any more.
Speaking of love interests, does anyone else think it's a little too easy to start a romance with the male characters in this game, when compared to the females? It's a little suprising to get flirt options with Anders and Fenris pretty much as you say "Hi", where with the ladies it takes some work. Hell, you can hit on a certain recurring character from DA:O the first time you meet him, when he's only in the game for like 5 min, and you're already in a well established relationship with one of your femal party members. Does our Hawke have some not-so-repressed tendencies I wonder? :p
 
For me the game played very much like a movie that every now and then paused to ask you what facial expression the lead actor had when he did something.

I sepose that is what you get when a game is mainly focused for the console gamer and ported to PC as an afterthought (Or that is how it feels like it). Hell most of the fights I didn't actually have to do anything, I even went to make coffee during a fight or 2.
That being said I did enjoy playing(watching the movie) it but I don't see myself playing it 3 times over like I did with DA:O.
 
*bump*

I started playing DA 2 last night and boy oh boy was I disappointed!!!!!!!! After many many many hours spent exploring DA:O and thoroughly enjoying every part of it DA2 has to be the worst sequel of any RPG game I have played (played most...)! Bioware you failed big time here by trying to please the console crowd waaaay too much. In all honestly its as if they the took DA:O and scaled back the minimum age requirements to 3+ and changed the genre to a Kings Quest "Point and click" adventure game, BORING! That and the gfx seem worse, the ai is useless, interface is utterly useless and the inventory WTF :confused:

Am I the only player who feels like this? It seems like the online reviews just love the increased simplicity and lots of extra gore, is that what a good RPG has been reduced to?
 
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