Learn About the Makings of Dragon Age 2

Nice.  Now I just need to get to actually playing Dragon Age 1.
 
STOP MAKING AAA TITLES!  JESUS!  FOR LIKE A FEW MINUTES, PEOPLE...  I need time to catch up!

this should be good...

Hooray!!! DA2!
 
Some cool insight here.

As long as they don't change the gore covered post battle conversations I'll give this a chance.

Now I want to play Dragon Age this weekend.

The opening cinematic at the battle of ostagar... christ, it felt like a LotR battle.

I WANT combat that is like dice rolls. That's the point. I don't want responsive combat, Dragon Age is not Dynasty Warriors.

Sounds like much needed improvements were made.

" I WANT combat that is like dice rolls. That's the point. I don't want responsive combat, Dragon Age is not Dynasty Warriors. "

needs multiplayer

good insight in to the game here.

"Dragon Age is not Dynasty Warriors. "

DRAGON AGE 2! WANT! THIS! NAO!

Are the number of people that need this quest diminishing? Long live the GB community!

Yes, its an ARPG now! Maybe I will like this one...

This is how you kill a franchise

so they made Mass Effect in Dragon Age...

Hopefully it turns out good.

So they had already decided the direction they wanted to take DA2 in (Xtreme, bro!) before DA was even out?  Figured as much.  I think they assumed DA:Origins would be rejected by console gamers, and by the time they realised they were wrong they were already well into DA2.
 
It's also amusing how they set out the Dragon Age universe to be this grim and grounded Martinesque low(er) fantasy setting, and then in the sequel they've had to introduce a framed narrative in order to justify your character being able to kill enemies 'by the million'.  It's fantasy; if they wanted a regular ass OTT fantasy setting, why did they bother with setting it up differently in the first place?
 
It'll still be a good game -because Bioware don't make bad games- but it's kinda sad to see them backtracking on so many things, especially after they tried something a little less safe with Origins and the market (PC & console) rewarded them for it. 

Well, it still looks like a Bioware game. So I am automatically sold.

So looking forward to this.

I only want to know how the combat plays on the PC ... thats the only thing that keeps me from preordering it.

I'm looking forward to this game. Bioware hasn't put out a bad game yet, so I have faith in them to deliver in DA 2.

Literally every thing they said they were doing to "improve" the game makes me sad and is the exact opposite of what I want from a Dragon Age game.  The first game was one of my favorite games in over a decade, and it makes me sick to see them going out of their way to dumb it down for the console kids.
 
Please Bioware, stop trying to dumb down all your games. You are one of the few people who still make RPG's with any kind of production value. If I wanted to play a brainless game I would play Halo or Call of Duty. I want my RPG's to have complexity.

"we're trying to make a game that we would find fun to play" 
 
That is how good games are made. Love that line.

It's wonderful that, despite Bioware's essentially perfect track record, there are STILL doomsayers who think this game is going to not just be bad, but straight-up suck. Change does not equal bad and streamlined does not equal dumbed down. This is Bioware, folks, let's not lose sight of that. As for those who don't want "cutting down murlocks by the millions," did you play the final act of the game? They essentially made all normal-level enemies one-hit kills. 
The problem with "dice-rolling" combat like you found in the Baldur's Gate games, in Dragon Age and even in World of Warcraft is that it feels like your character is doing a canned animation and then the enemy is taking damage, it doesn't feel like there's a point of impact. This looks like it's going to change that.

" Yes, its an ARPG now! Maybe I will like this one... "

Dragon Age + Mass Effect! YES! I am sold.
Dragon Age wasn't bad, but what I loved about Baldur's Gate II was that it told a story of a Bhaalspawn and you had little effect on that story. It was your interactions within that story that you controlled.
This is exactly what they want to do with Dragon Age 2! I hope it beats Baldur's Gate 2.

The direction they are taking this game is making me a little nervous, but hopefully it's good.

Eh the truth is pretty clear. They want to make it so its more appropriate for consoles, plain and simple. Its a smart move because theres more money in it for them.  Having two different versions is just annoying because one will always be the primary game.  
 
On other things I like the character design of the main character, to be honest I love crafting my own character but I'd prefer if he was more narratively involved. Its hard to be immersed when hes standing there with a dumb blank look on his face the entire game.  
 
That said I played Dragon Age for 80 hours straight between sleeping and sometimes eating, and I think this will be just fine. 

Okay.. I'll give it a try, but I do not like the way this is heading. This is no longer spiritual successor to Baulder's Gate whatsoever.

" It's wonderful that, despite Bioware's essentially perfect track record, there are STILL doomsayers who think this game is going to not just be bad, but straight-up suck. Change does not equal bad and streamlined does not equal dumbed down. This is Bioware, folks, let's not lose sight of that. As for those who don't want "cutting down murlocks by the millions," did you play the final act of the game? They essentially made all normal-level enemies one-hit kills. The problem with "dice-rolling" combat like you found in the Baldur's Gate games, in Dragon Age and even in World of Warcraft is that it feels like your character is doing a canned animation and then the enemy is taking damage, it doesn't feel like there's a point of impact. This looks like it's going to change that. "

Oh my god they didn't use the word 'innovative'. This is madness!

Goddamn conversation wheel...

Am I crazy for being sad that even Bioware is giving up on the RPG format?

I enjoyed Dragon Age but I love Mass Effect. A happy medium would be perfect. 

To the naysayers complaining about its similarities to a certain other Bioware franchise. Do you really think this game is going to suck? Really? It may be different but I bet it will still be good. Bioware is the only dev to never actually let me down on a game.

Yess! finally i have a game that i am genuinely looking forward to! 
 
i loved dragon age, maybe even because it was so oldscool but change often times does good things.  
still like 3 months but maybe ill will even pre-order it somewhere 

I've had this preordered since forever...fucking March can't come soon enough

I can't wait!

fuck bioware we liked its combat style they would screw up the one game they make that i really like.

That lady has video game boobs.

Would they have the temerity to call this some semblance of successor to Baldur's Gate that gave up ghost eons ago now? Come on now, I dare them. Essentially Dragon Age: Mass Effect, the developers saw how little work of streamlining to the consoles made everything that much better for the second installment of that 'Action RPG', so isn't it only natural introducing the same dumbed down concepts to this game as well. Oh don't worry, it will still have a laughably limited and linear story with castaways only possibly conceived by fanboys lurching left and right to any NPCs with boobs on them, with more EXTREME elements including but not limited to those silly canned animation quick time events and overwrought blood splashes, topped with overbearing marketing blaring with some generic metal trope. Boy, Bioware sure knows how to pander to their base and I thought Jade Empire was an abhorrent change of vision.  
 
Yes, fancy art and a pretty trailer courtesy of some outsourcing and whatnot, but how about gameplay? Go to Youtube, there are videos for your revelatory experience. Hack and slash, stiff and repetitive at that, bolstered with replenished health meter and severely trimmed skills system are what portends to be the biggest features of the next year's biggest RPG. And no, your character will not carry over and some pansy named Hawke with a debonair goatee will hijack your experience from the first game. So edgy and radical! And EXTREME! Rise to the power begins on March 8!

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I enjoyed Dragon Age but I love Mass Effect. A happy medium would be perfect. 

To the naysayers complaining about its similarities to a certain other Bioware franchise. Do you really think this game is going to suck? Really? It may be different but I bet it will still be good. Bioware is the only dev to never actually let me down on a game.

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