Quick Look: Dragon Age II

Well I didn't know that Merrill's looks were randomly generated - or maybe all the characters are? In my game only Merrill looks different (besides the main character).

Dragon age 1 quicklook: This looks sweet 
 
Dragon age 2 quicklook: are they serious?

The last 3 mins of this quick look are so awesome

The first game featured performances from both Kate Mulgrew and Tim Russ.  Do any cast members from Voyager show up in this sequel?

an hour, wow

So I played the first DA on my friends ps3 and It did not seem to interest me much but i did only play maybe and hour or so. Would getting DA2 be worth it since number 1 never got me hooked? If i did buy it would be for computer and not console.

Do Americans really have that much trouble telling Scottish and Irish accents apart? Them there elves are meant to sound Irish and Welsh.

" @Jazz said:

" wait..so the Dalish are welsh? Does that mean Tom Jones is going to be making a cameo? Anyway, that....makes no sense. Shouldn't they, if anything, be Irish? The Welsh are hardly known for being Elfin. That's like making a Scottish pixie. It's just..odd.  Perhaps i'm over thinking this. "

Actually, if I remember correctly, the elven names and language in Middle Earth were all based on Welsh. Think of all the "th" and "w" sounds in there. Leprechauns are the famous Irish "elves" and they're nothing like the Tolkien take on elves that has become the standard in fantasy stuff ever since (before him, they were just little fairies that lives in toadstools etc). "

" Well I didn't know that Merrill's looks were randomly generated - or maybe all the characters are? In my game only Merrill looks different (besides the main character). "

" Do Americans really have that much trouble telling Scottish and Irish accents apart? Them there elves are meant to sound Irish and Welsh. "

I was surprised to see that the shadows looked terrible on both versions, a rather low res shadowmap and the real time shadow stuff getting drawn on top of it in a really odd unnatural way, I didn't expect to see that in a game so 'late' in this generation.

Late to the party, but Dave Snider is my new hero.
 
The sole purpose being that he brought up Farscape during this quick look.  FUCK YES DAVE!!!  Farscape was the greatest TV show in the history of everything.  EVERYTHING!!!!!

I'm a wizard and this shit looks watered down.

Reeeeeeal Busy ;)

"Still unsure about getting this.   The voice actress for the young Elf sounds very very familiar put can't put a name to it.  "

I used to live in Wales, and those character voices are effed up.

You've got red on you

I fucking hate the conversation wheel/voiced: your character always says something-mildly-similar-to-but-not-quite what you select. In DA1, it was much more classic-RPG style, and I loved it. It seems kind of like they turned Dragon Age into Mass Effect because they realized how many people loved ME2. ME2 is a great game, but it's not what I come to Dragon Age for. 
 
Of course, I haven't played it yet, these are just my observations of the quick look.

"I fucking hate the conversation wheel/voiced: your character always says something-mildly-similar-to-but-not-quite what you select. In DA1, it was much more classic-RPG style, and I loved it. It seems kind of like they turned Dragon Age into Mass Effect because they realized how many people loved ME2. ME2 is a great game, but it's not what I come to Dragon Age for.  Of course, I haven't played it yet, these are just my observations of the quick look. "

  She is Welsh, the rest of the Elves are Irish. Why there is one Elf with a Welsh accent in a community full of Irish accents I am yet to determine.  Then again the Irish Elves have accents from all over the freaking country.

" @Skillface said:

"I fucking hate the conversation wheel/voiced: your character always says something-mildly-similar-to-but-not-quite what you select. In DA1, it was much more classic-RPG style, and I loved it. It seems kind of like they turned Dragon Age into Mass Effect because they realized how many people loved ME2. ME2 is a great game, but it's not what I come to Dragon Age for.  Of course, I haven't played it yet, these are just my observations of the quick look. "

DAO outsold ME2. "

" @RVonE said:

" @Skillface said:

"I fucking hate the conversation wheel/voiced: your character always says something-mildly-similar-to-but-not-quite what you select. In DA1, it was much more classic-RPG style, and I loved it. It seems kind of like they turned Dragon Age into Mass Effect because they realized how many people loved ME2. ME2 is a great game, but it's not what I come to Dragon Age for.  Of course, I haven't played it yet, these are just my observations of the quick look. "

DAO outsold ME2. "

Wow, is that true? Everyone has been treating DA:O as something of a fringe traditional CRPG that is of little interest to anybody who didn't love the Infinity engine era of PC-RPG's, and sold accordingly, while Mass Effect are BioWare's magnum opuses and smash hit that everybody and their grandma have been playing. "

As with the last Dragon Age game, I can still use the same comment. 
 
You got red on you.

Really enjoying the game so far. But the engine is really, really showing its age.

" So is the PC version in this quick look actually using the PC high res textures? (That you have to login to their website and then download and then install, in order to use.) "

They have taken dumbing down to a new level. Congrats, BioWare... and also... WHY, GODDAMN, WHY!?

Why is there an elf with a Jamaican accent?

" Why is there an elf with a Jamaican accent? "

WHERE THE EFF IS MY REVIEW!!??

Rewatching old QLs. Is this normal?

@ThatDuckGuy: It certainly is, at least for cool people.

Still haven't had the chance to play this game!

@ThatDuckGuy: It is when you are looking to buy DA1/2 :D

@ThatDuckGuy: yes

@thatduckguy: yes

@silock: have you had the chance yet