Dragon Age Origins vs Dragon Age 2

[bussinrounds]

I agree with most here. DAO was mediocre. And DA2 was PURE shit.

 

[racofer]

 

[4m3rica]

I can't say which is better...

I uninstalled DA:O after I got to the first town and realized how shitty and linear the gameplay would be. Spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate, my ass!!!

I will NEVER give DA2...one...fucking....kb....of space on my hard drive!

 

[Phage]

To be fair I played DA:O on console. Reasons - I have gamefly so it's cheap and legal, plus my laptop is an Inspirion 6400... I'd rather just play new shit on my lulzbox than on lowest quality. (And yes, lowest quality is surprisingly worse than Xbox)

I guess that's important because I had to play through DA:O without the overhead view, so combat in DA2 has felt a lot better compared to the clusterfucked hybrid of DA:O.

 

[DemonKing]

I left DAO on my hard drive for a year or so after I finished as I sometimes contemplated playing again (or at least, the different Origin chapters).

I unisntalled DA2 as soon as I'd finished and was glad to purge it from my hard-drive.

 

[Jaesun]

I threw my fucking DA:O DVD over my fence after I finished it.

I will never taint my HD with the filth of DA II.

 

[Phage]

Wrath of Jaesun

 

[4m3rica]

So....you all finished it?

 

[commie]

I threw my fucking DA:O DVD over my fence after I finished it.

I will never taint my HD with the filth of DA II.

But you waited until you finished it, so what's the point? This is a detail you conveniently left out the other times you proudly boasted how you; in the interests of the greater good; destroyed you copy of DA:O.

 

[Excidium]

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Which one is better and why? Discuss!!

 

[Ovg]

Well, I finished DA:O, but I was drunk when going through derp roads and all other combat-intensive places, and my ol' friend whiskey sure helped me get through.

...I also fapped to lesbian action.

 

[Konjad]

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Which one is better and why? Discuss!!

 

[UndetectedButthurt]

Bros why are you still posting shitty DA2 threads months after release? Don't waste precious KBs of space.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

It's because DA2 has upcoming DLC so we're all getting excited again

 

[Angthoron]

It's all shit.

 

[Konjad]

It's because DA2 is awesome game, which competes with Fallout and Arcanum.

 

[Baron]

I hated DA.

I didn't play DA2.

DA2 is therefore the more enjoyable game.

 

[dbx]

I threw my fucking DA:O DVD over my fence after I finished it.

I will never taint my HD with the filth of DA II.

 

[Carrion]

Reading the Let's Play threads of DA II is actually much more enjoyable than playing Origins. I don't think I could get past the fucking ugly and overtly homosexual characters the game is filled with, but otherwise the sequel looks much better of the two. I don't really intend to find out myself, though.

Origins was boring as hell and after an hour you knew exactly how the game would play out. It's like BioWare tried to make the game as generic as possible. It was just combat after combat after combat with no sense of pacing and no interesting encounters. You had to go through hundreds of exhausting battles to advance the "plot". If you visited a city, you had to kill about a hundred guards and a few dozen bandits with no possibility to avoid these encounters. Why did I put all those points in coercion anyway?

On the other hand, Awakening didn't even pretend to be anything else than Mass Effect with swords. It had shorter dungeons, tighter pacing and slightly better characters, and that made it already a lot better and entertaining game despite the fact that nothing in it made any sense whatsoever. DA II seems to be even more in that vein, so I can't imagine it being a lot worse than Origins. It's still a game for faggots, but the same thing could be said about Origins – its fans are just a bit more reluctant to admit it.

 

[sea]

Cut out the filler combat and dumb romance stuff in Dragon Age and it's a solid CRPG which probably needed another balance pass and a better character system. Dragon Age II is... almost impossible to sit through for five minutes without cringing, and its gameplay systems are damn near fundamentally broken. At least you can enjoy the first one if you're willing to put up with some of its faults; Dragon Age II has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

 

[Volourn]

"It's because DA2 has upcoming DLC so we're all getting excited again"

This. It's the Codexian cycle.

Anyways, they're botha bout equal and rate them about 8.5ish with strnegths and weaknesses.

 

[hoverdog]

It's because DA2 is awesome game, which competes with Fallout and Arcanum.

trying too hard.

 

[GrudHeap]

The friendship/rivalry system is a decent idea that could have led to some interesting character development decisions. But the whole game is pretty much a step down.

 

[Sergiu64]

DA2 goes from meh with some derp in Act 1, to starting to get annoying in Act 2, to I can't make myself play anymore in Act 3.

 

[Zlaja]

I hated DA.

I didn't play DA2.

DA2 is therefore the more enjoyable game.

Well played, sir. Well played.

 

[circ]

An excellent question.

When I first played DAO I groaned constantly. People kept saying, on the kodaks no less, that it was good. It looked like shit and everyone sounded like shit. The writing was shit. And it just kept getting shittier.

When I first played DA2 I laughed for about an hour straight. The blood was hilarious. Well that was pretty much it. The utter failure of everything was now hilarious.

 

[Jaesun]

I threw my fucking DA:O DVD over my fence after I finished it.

I will never taint my HD with the filth of DA II.

But you waited until you finished it, so what's the point? This is a detail you conveniently left out the other times you proudly boasted how you; in the interests of the greater good; destroyed you copy of DA:O.

Would you rather I lie and complain about a games tire textures and call it shit, or actually play the entire game and then discuss it further on my experience on actually playing it?

Seriously commie....

You have successfully removed commie from your BRO list.

 

[Konjad]

if you finished the game then it means it was at least mediocre for you, even if the only thing that made you play for so long were 'lulz'.