I deleted my save, so I guess I won't get a random comment from an NPC about the golem army or the specific political figure that ruled hundreds of years ago. I'll try and get over that.

I'm really hoping that Hawke is the product of Morrigan and Flemeth's plans as was revealed by the final DLC story.  This would be most awesome since I desire more Claudia Black and Kate Mulgrew. 
 
Edit: Especially since Mulgrew is the narrator of the DA2 trailer.

I'm so excited for this game!! Ahh I can't wait! <3

Since none of the DLC correctly transferred the choices of my (unavailable) Warden, I doubt the sequel will pull my choices correctly.

that is kind of cool.

I can't f-ing wait! Dragon Age is the most successful game for Bioware and I really hope they will make the same jump in quality as Baldur's Gate - Baldur's Gate 2 and Mass Effect - Mass Effect 2.
 
P.S. - Dragon Age > Mass Effect 2.

Goddammit. I wanted to play this on PC but my save is for the 360 version. Maybe I'll just play it again on PC. Wouldn't that just be terrible...

I just really hope the combat in the new game is more fun. I hated the stamina management system and the feat trees were terrible. Other than that I loved the game.

I don't see any difference between this and Mass Effect.

If that's how they see Dragon Age, why didn't Awakening work like that?  If your Warden died in Origins, you had to either just pretend they didn't die, or abandon your World State from Origins and use the expansion default.  That was a lame decision by Bioware's standards.
 
I'm pretty sure DA2 doesn't focus on Ferelden btw.  That's how they'll avoid making an unreasonable amount of Origins related content.  Same reason ME2 went as far away from ME as possible.
 
I thought ME2 actually delivered on the carry over stuff quite well.  I guess it comes down to your expectations going into it - mine were very low and they surpassed them.  They were smart to make it more about tone than actual content (which would be a huge undertaking).  It only takes a few changes to alter the tone of a story.  I acted like a Space Nazi in ME1, and the little radio clips around the spacestations managed to convey that quite well.

I still say that DAO2 is a massive step backwards for PC gamers.

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I still say that DAO2 is a massive step backwards for PC gamers.

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damn i have to play through that again...

Oh man, I really need to crack open my original copy....

I'm glad to hear that, now I have to fight that last battle to finally finish that game :-)

I am nowhere near beating the first Dragon Age, but I still can't wait for DA2.  I have some catching up to do.

" @sixghost: I don't know what you expected other than dialogue changes.  Considering half the game is dialogue, it is pretty important.  And considering how many of them are, it would be real difficult for our ME2 or ME3 games to be the exact same (especially considering how many people I smoked in ME2).  That establishes a verisimilitude.  And really, what did you expect, and what would you even want?  A combat mission that can only be accessed by killing Wrex?  Whole characters that you have no access to unless you made a specific decision in a game that came out three years ago?  That's not good economic or creative thinking. "

Very cool that they're doing something with the first game's save file. I put 20 hours into it, but did not pass it.

That is still cool. I don't mind not keeping my stuff. It will be cool to have a new character but still have the effects from the old one in place. 

Great, now I'll have to play through DA:O again the month before release.

" @Cybexx: There is a save editor out there already for ME2 files that lets you adjust all the triggers on the character import. There are only around 30-40 triggers. And some of them don't even have any impact.People were right to be upset considering the biggest event that should have had a huge impact on ME2 was boiled down to a couple of different lines of dialogue with Anderson without changing anything really, so much for the big decision of saving/killing the Council and deciding who represents humanity. (plus some little one line mentions from a few other characters) "

"If that's the case, than maybe it's not a good idea to talk this up as a huge feature. It all sounds cool in theory, then when you think about what's actually changing it all just seems extremely hollow. "

" @eccentrix: Swords and magic =/= guns and magic. "

" @sixghost said:

"If that's the case, than maybe it's not a good idea to talk this up as a huge feature. It all sounds cool in theory, then when you think about what's actually changing it all just seems extremely hollow. "

It is huge.  What the game is attempting to do is establish that you are a part of its reality.  See: verisimilitude.  It's to establish that your presence has impact within the fiction.  What you're seeking is to have some sort of impact outside of the fiction, which is far-reaching and a fine design idea, but not germaine to the discussion.  To lambaste the BioWare's elasticity within their fiction, especially considering their contemporaries, seems grossly illogical.  It's unreasonable to expect any writer to write completely diverse stories that all manage to be fulfilling in a single game.  Most don't achieve the latter to begin with, let alone offering choice.  What can be offered is a single story that can be seen at different angles at a player's presence.  It's a third dimension, which shouldn't be discounted on the grounds that it isn't a fourth dimension. "

" I'm calling bullshit on this after the huge letdown that was importing your save into ME2. It'll change 6-7 meaningless things and be largely the same exact game regardless of what you did in DA:O. "

I wonder how players get treated that dont have any saves..

WAIT! So does that mean I cant create my own character and HAVE to go a human and HAVE to go a mage?!?!

" WAIT! So does that mean I cant create my own character and HAVE to go a human and HAVE to go a mage?!?! "

Can't wait for Dragon Age II. Let's hope they don't water it down too much so we start calling it Dragon Effect 2.