Save your time rather than your money. Go Icewind Dale instead

Shit, I forgot they took out races in this game. Oh well, human rogue it is.

The story has its flaws (act 1 was a pretty slow burn, and it jumps the shark a bit near the end of act 3), but overall I think the story was pretty decent. Act 2 in particular I found to be *really* good, the stuff with the qunari was handled very well. And the da2 story does a good job setting up the big conflict for DA:I

It does not do a good job of setting anything up. It leaves things in a state for Dragon Age: Inquisition to pull from, but the manner in which the set-up occurs is hamfisted and filled with poor writing. Lyrium sword. Who would be stupid enough to make, let alone use one of those?

I liked it. The ending is terrible, though.

Also, the story does not feel all that important in the grand scheme of things. I'm kinda worried Inquisition's won't either, considering they removed the 3 from the title......Actually, nevermind, I just remembered Dragon Age II was called Dragon Age II.

Definitely not. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. It's just that its not DA:O is why everyone hates it. Understandable, I guess.

Dragon Age 2 just felt lower quality and even incomplete and rushed compared to previous Bioware games. The core "components" are fine but things like the trimmed down story and limited maps and quest/missions just seem to say "EA paid us to make another game quick" instead of Bioware felt this was the next step in the story.

It's a decent game if you stop playing about 90 minutes from the end.

But the ending... everything about it... the plot twist... the party members you lose... the shitty two bosses you have to fight regardless of which faction you sided with... Ugh.

As a huge fan of the original everything everything they did to the sequel was massively disappointing. They dumbed down everything from the combat and story to the world size and exploration. It feels like a rushed product. There's so much they stripped out of it compared to the original. But as a game on its own it's fine.

Yes. Upto that point I had never seen a game reuse as many (or few in this case) areas. At first it was perplexing but then turned into a joke when you revisited the same mine/foundry, called different things, in supposedly different areas, with cement blocks blocking doors to create different branching levels.

The developers are not at fault here, the publisher is for having pushed this game on them with such an absurdly strict deadline.

If you like big budget fantasy RPGs it's worth playing as there aren't that many modern ones. It was fine but seemingly worse in every way to Origins. It's the equivalent to Mass Effect 3, worse story and dialogue and a terrible ending.

Man, now I'm depressed just thinking that Bioware haven't made a better than average game since Mass Effect 2.

I hate this game. It is NOT as bad as some make it out to be. It's not some unplayable mess. It is, however, a massive, MASSIVE downgrade from Origins. Sometimes I felt the developers deliberately tried to piss off fans of Origins. Story is terrible (the overall story in Origins wasn't that great either, but the scenarios were interesting and the writing way better). So it's not actually a terrible game. But I still fucking hate it.