*sigh*

This looks worse than the original to me just in terms of graphical fidelity.

I'll be frank, I was really surprised how little attention it seemed Bioware spent on these promo screens, for me it seems they're halfway finished and completely unpolished. I'm not dissing the game or the company, on the contrary, I have high hopes (and fingers crossed as well) that the sequel for my favorite RPG of 2009 turns out well.  
 
But yeah, check out a high-res version of the 2nd screenshot and let's compare it to an screenie from the original game. 
 
    

Are they seriously releasing those images as official? Thought they were leaked tester shots at first. Hope it visually improves. 

Like most people i'm not into the new art style & the idea of Dragon Age being more action orientated sounds stupid. (we dont need another Fable) But  I wouldnt mind a VO'ed character, (with good voice acting obviously) the voices you had to choose from in DAO were terrible with some of the most cringeworthy lines utterd constantly.. And like Brad said the whole emotionless sociopath thing kinda killed any sense of being connected to the character even if it was meant to represent you.
 
I really wish Bioware would stop churning out these "stylistic" art styles I have yet to find anyone who likes the way SWTOR looks and it's not as if there being original. (as of late most developers think there being inovative by implementing some variant of cel shading into their game.. Zelda anyone?)
 
..Anyway I'll try my best to reserve judgement but what I dont understand is why even show the game in it's current form if it's so far off release and then expect everyone to make excuses for it, the whole "It's Bioware there incapable of making bad games" is getting old.

i didn't know this was coming out on the N64.

In Niko Bellic voice: 
"THIS IS CRAP!" 
Well, got a while until release, I guess.  Hope they fit more than 2 polygons on screen.

yo the graphics look shitty now.

" @Jimbo said:

" Umm, what art style are we talking about here exactly?  The only vibe I'm getting from these is "blurry, drab textures".  I'd struggle to pick these out of a line-up of Dragon Age 1 screenshots.

Exactly what I was going to say. I'm sorry Mr. Nicholson, but I don't know what you're smoking. These screens don't look good at all. "

What is "new console combat" meant to be?? I hope they won't dumb down the combat system with some auto-targetting shit or whatever. Or if they do, at least please let there be an option to disable it! My mouse can handle aiming just fine thank you very much.
 
As for the two images that were released, uh.... I feel like the graphics are going backwards in time rather than forward. Dragon Age: Origins looks much better than this! Anyway... I love BioWare and I want to believe they will not let me down. I'm pretty sure I'll end up having a huge smile on my face when the game's released. I hope.

 I like the artstyle, but those textures look like chunky vomit. The troll doesn't look much better either. 

I love this. Someone sees something at Kotaku and makes a thread. Nicholson sees a thread and makes a redundant article so people can repost what they said in the first thread.

SIGH

This looks pretty metal. The model design seems a bit too straight and jagged, though.

What the.......

" What is "new console combat" meant to be?? I hope they won't dumb down the combat system with some auto-targetting shit or whatever. Or if they do, at least please let there be an option to disable it! My mouse can handle aiming just fine thank you very much.  As for the two images that were released, uh.... I feel like the graphics are going backwards in time rather than forward. Dragon Age: Origins looks much better than this! Anyway... I love BioWare and I want to believe they will not let me down. I'm pretty sure I'll end up having a huge smile on my face when the game's released. I hope. "

" @KillyDarko said:

" What is "new console combat" meant to be?? I hope they won't dumb down the combat system with some auto-targetting shit or whatever. Or if they do, at least please let there be an option to disable it! My mouse can handle aiming just fine thank you very much.  As for the two images that were released, uh.... I feel like the graphics are going backwards in time rather than forward. Dragon Age: Origins looks much better than this! Anyway... I love BioWare and I want to believe they will not let me down. I'm pretty sure I'll end up having a huge smile on my face when the game's released. I hope. "

How do you aim in Dragon Age? It isn't a shooter.  "

Its not an actual screenshot unless the camera is set in a way that people would actually play the game. I don't really care how a game looks at completely impractical angles.

First shot doesn't look bad, nice detail on the PC, but the second shot looks like garbage. 
 
I don't like the idea of Dragon Age becoming more like Mass Effect, for great character based interactions I've already got Mass Effect, I liked the homage to old-school CRPG's that Dragon Age: O was.

Looks cheap so far, eww

I don't understand.... Why are they changing the great, hardcore RPG aspects of Dragon Age: Origins (i.e. the reason why it is critically praised), and then making it look like a Unreal Engine 2 (or 1) modded game from the early 2000s?
 
Before the announcement and screenshots, I was really excited on the idea of a sequel to DA:O. Now, especially after looking at these awful graphics, I am completely turned off.

dude what the hell is going on with that second screen!? fugly 

I'm confused, this is less of a new art style and more of "just dial back the technology clock a couple years"

Maybe they're focus testing. Maybe they'll dial back based on feedback. Maybe they can check their egos and make the game people want.

" @KillyDarko said:

" What is "new console combat" meant to be?? I hope they won't dumb down the combat system with some auto-targetting shit or whatever. Or if they do, at least please let there be an option to disable it! My mouse can handle aiming just fine thank you very much.  As for the two images that were released, uh.... I feel like the graphics are going backwards in time rather than forward. Dragon Age: Origins looks much better than this! Anyway... I love BioWare and I want to believe they will not let me down. I'm pretty sure I'll end up having a huge smile on my face when the game's released. I hope. "

How do you aim in Dragon Age? It isn't a shooter.  "

Is it just me or does the bottom image look really blocky? 
 
Either way, I'm loving the new style of the game. I really didn't like the gameplay of Dragon Age that much, well I mean it wasn't bad but I just felt that it was lacking for my tastes, maybe even a little boring. I'm excited to see the results of the console version.

Not diggin it at all. Just makes everything look worse than it already did imo.

Looks like it's in alpha. It also looks exactly the same as the first Dragon Age.

Here are a few of my screenshots from DA1.  I was clearly mistaken when I said I couldn't tell the difference; these look much better:

Art style is cool. I'm assuming the graphics are poor cause it's so early in development.

I'm kind of worried they are changing what made Dragon Age: Origins great in the first place

" Here are a few of my screenshots from DA1.  I was clearly mistaken when I said I couldn't tell the difference; these look much better:

     

"

Boohooohooo! I love Dragon Age! What are you doing to it? STOP!!
 
:(

Stop using the argument that the screenshots don't look good because the game is still early in development. These screenshots are the first being used to promote the game. They're honestly embarrassing. I'd love to be wrong but I'm extremely skeptical of what they're doing to the franchise.

"NOW WITH EVEN MORE LORD OF THE RINGS!"

The art direction looks fine to me, but these images look kind of blocky and janky to me (especially the second one).

But I played my character as a sociopath...
 
I want this game colorful and not shit brown like the previous one. I'm going to be skeptical until Bioware can reassure me that everything won't have a next gen filter on it.

I think Bioware is starting to become too mainstream for my liking. they're ruining all of their hardcore RPG series. ME2 was a third person shooter with some lame excuses for RPG elements. I hated it. Mass Effect 1 was infinitely better. And I loved Dragon Age 1 to death.

Emo hair and tatoos... god dammit.

" I'm confused, this is less of a new art style and more of "just dial back the technology clock a couple years" "

Holy Polygons, Batman!

Why is he fighting Skeletors?

" @LiquidPenguins: Yeah really. Calling them "early" is as much as assumption as anything. if you're going "stop making assumptions, these shots are early" just shove your head up your ass and save some time. "

What is the new art style? I don't understand. First of all, those screens are terrible. And second, they don't look any different. People saying "I'm digging the new art style!" confuse the hell out of me. I see no improvement or difference yet.

I don't.... what?

thats just the thing you guys don't get it is concept art not graphic images.