Game News Dragon Age 2 Announced

[Hamster]

That just sucks. Instead of improving what they got, Bio goes even further along "let's totally force somethig from our previous hit into our new game even if it makes no sense" road. Damn it, preset badass commander character worked well in ME because Sci-Fi genre called for it. It's not how things are done in fantasy crpg genre, people love creating hawt elven chicks as their chars, ffs.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

It's not how things are done in fantasy crpg genre, people love creating hawt elven chicks as their chars, ffs.

These elven chicks slay dragons while wearing a bikini for armor. That's as badass as it gets.

 

[Sceptic]

Wow, I had forgotten that Gaider was such a dick.

Also, if you can't spell French properly, don't use French expressions. Moaran.

 

[Volourn]

"Yeah, it seems like a really strange decision. Basically with this new direction they will lose a huge chunk of the DA:O audience. Will the ME2 fans/consoletards make up for it?"

"Not really. Check the DA2 forums - 80% of the people are disappointed. Check the DA:O forums - LOTS of bitching about Bioware shitting out crappy DLCs and neglecting the goddamn 1.04 patch"

Idiot. Every fuckin' so called 'unpopular' announcement by BIO is followed by some shit storm and people saying 'BIo doesn't care about their fans' or 'the fans will not buy x game' yet they always fuckin' do.

Bottonm line is Bio knows what theya re doing. People whined about DA's amrketing scheme, and we all know that turned out. FFS


Also, I find it HIALRIOUS the Coex of all palces is bitching about others being 'bitches' or 'jerk's. LMFAO

Good on Gaider. the nmore crying by the Butthurt is fuckin' hilarious.

 

[Some Moron On Welfare]

Will you buy DA2, Volly, if turns out to be a fantasy version of ME? Honest answer, please.

 

[Volourn]

"Honest answer, please."

STFU I don't lie about my opinions about games and the fact you would besmirch me in such a way as to imply that I would makes it impossible to give you any answer because you do not deserve one. Period.

 

[Some Moron On Welfare]

rofl BUTTHURT xD

 

[racofer]

 

[Hamster]

No, i still don't get it. Everybody, even the most popamoliest of consoletards, love choosing character's race in fantasy games. What was the need to cut that feature?

 

[Some Moron On Welfare]

Voice acting.

 

[racofer]

Voice acting -> more realism -> more maturity -> more cinematic -> more immershun -> more xtreme -> more $$$

 

[hoochimama]

The three races could share the same voice the way voices were done in DA, especially with the same character background, I really doubt that's it.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Yes, the constant baaaawing about silent protagonist probably led them to "solve" the problem by having some no-name voicing a set character (but rest assured your fatherly figure who will die 10 minutes into the game will be voiced by a hollywood celebrity)

 

[Hamster]

Voice acting.

I am really not sure that people who value voiced PC outnumber those who prefer the ability to choose character's race. I can understand preset PC in ME's sci-fi setting where being an alien makes no sense and human character variations can be viewed as a feature for hardcore gamers, but in a fantasy setting where you can be hot elven chick or grumpy dwarf? Fuck no.

 

[Hamster]

Yes, the constant baaaawing about silent protagonist probably led them to "solve" the problem

The question is, are they in Bio sure that all those people baawing about silent protagonist understood what the price of such feature will be and if they would still want it if they knew?

 

[Annonchinil]

Yeah but BGII was great because they only improved the engine, allowing for them to focus on other things

Like dialogue, story, characters and combat?

In comparison to BGI, yeah.

Actually I think the idea of a gaming spanning 10 years is cool. Not sure about the possibly new art direction but it can't be worse than the original.

 

[Drakron]

Excuse me but ... Oblivion and Fallout 3 do not have voice acting for the player character and sold a lot more that Mass Effect.

Clearly the issue is not voice acting, Dragon Age even got the attention of traditional Bethsoft mod sites.

I guess Bioware is going down Origin path ...

 

[Zed]

who cares you'll all cum over the game when it's out anyway

 

[racofer]

Poor KC...

 

[Twinkle]

Will DA2 have proper bouncing boobs? Troika used havok physics for a truly important purpose unlike all these next-gen faggots .

 

[hoochimama]

I believe the proper term for that is jiggle-tech.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Breast physics done right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afrt2-rvNgA

 

[Antihero]

Naysayers rejoice! According to rumour (not just speculation unless it's a troll), early copies of the upcoming Game Informer issue tell us that Dragon Age 2 will be getting an enhanced Mass Effect dialogue wheel. And people were afraid it'd be getting dumbed down.

Quote:
"An icon in the middle of the wheel even illustrates the line's basic
intent (like aggressive or sarcastice[sic]), so you can focus more on the
interaction rather than reading and analyzing your dialogue choices."

Sounds good to me. I always felt I spent far too much time reading my responses when I could have been staring at Morrigan's cleavage instead.

Now I hope they don't forget to colour-code my good and evil responses, since it'll be confusing enough without a morality system in place to guide me. Maybe use grey for the really morally ambiguous ones.

 

[kris]

I already hate DA2, it brought back Warden here.

Why are you holding a grudge for so long... It will ruin your health even more.

The irony of this statement hits me like a sledgehammer from hell (+3).

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

I like what I have heard so far. DA:O was by design a game from the 90s, so I'm glad they finally bring DA2 into the 21th century. I also prefer the conversation wheel over the chore that was DA's dialog vending machine.