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So the old thread has this problem where because ZDR deleted some posts, it bugs the gently caress out for 4 posts every page or so and it's really annoying! Dragon Age is an RPG series. It has three entries: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Everyone liked the first one, basically everyone hates the second one despite it being GAME OF THE DECADE DARKER SEXIER BETTER, third game played it real safe and is mostly better but GET OUT OF THE HINTERLANDS ASAP AND ALSO BUY THE TRESPASSER DLC or if you are still doing this just the GOTY edition or whatever they call it where you get all the DLCs. They're okay. Also we fight about how bad DA2 really was. Rumors swirl of a fourth installment coming despite EA turbofucking the Bioware brand with DA2 and later Mass Effect: Andromeda. If rumors are to be believed the very very excellent Alexis Kennedy of Failbetter Games is writing stuff for Dragon Age 4, if it is really happening. So let's all continue to have derails about whether or not DA2 was bad until the end of time, but without that annoying bug in the forums.
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DA2 was good and more games should work with a smaller scope imho hth
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Dec 2, 2017 15:34
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a real rude dude posted:DA2 was good and more games should work with a smaller scope imho hth DA2 was actually terrible. hth
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Dec 2, 2017 15:45
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a real rude dude posted:DA2 was good No. quote:and more games should work with a smaller scope imho hth Yes.
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Dec 2, 2017 15:51
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Solas was right.
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Dec 2, 2017 16:04
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iron bull is an annoying preachy 
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Dec 2, 2017 16:16
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ugh its Troika posted:iron bull is an annoying preachy gently caress Bull, imo.
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Dec 2, 2017 16:18
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I like Sera and never recruit Cole. Don’t @ me
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Dec 2, 2017 17:16
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Anders was right. 
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Dec 2, 2017 17:22
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omg chael crash posted:I like Sera and never recruit Cole. Cole, Bull and Sera were trash, especially Bull when the quinari trips his activation code in trespasser.
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Dec 2, 2017 17:33
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Unashamed DA2 Liker here
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Dec 2, 2017 18:00
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I didn't like playing a Reaver, felt too arcadey for my taste (not what i want in a crpg). Is there a class that feels more like playing DA1 (where you are issuing commands more than taking direct control and trying to do combos 3 hit combos with a finisher)? *talmbout DA3 my b
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Dec 2, 2017 18:10
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Thank you for doing the needful shugoBloodyshinta1 posted:I didn't like playing a Reaver, felt too arcadey for my taste (not what i want in a crpg). Is there a class that feels more like playing DA1 (where you are issuing commands more than taking direct control and trying to do combos 3 hit combos with a finisher)? Mage maybe? Honestly pretty all the classes are pretty arcadey now but depending on how you spec mage, you can treat it as a "hang back and help your teammates" class.
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Dec 2, 2017 18:51
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DA2 was about $20 worth of good game and if you totally ignore sidequests it's probably even kinda great because the characters are the closest the series has come to an ME2 "killer roster". i think this is doable because i don't think much actual dialogue is locked behind maxing Friend/Rival; i think you only get actual combat benefits from that (and you can give merrill awesome white robes instead of the garbage bag she usually wears, but i think that happens if you gently caress her regardless of friend/rival status). in the same way you can give anders a cool emo outfit. "gently caress everyone", in fact i started replaying Inquisition finally, first time seriously playing with the DLC and the new skill options it gives you are nice the "pause and then advance time at your own leisure" system is actually very good and cool and it's a shame you don't really need to ever do it, a better game should use that system (like, Pillars of Eternity would be amazing with an "advance time" button rather than the shitshow of trying to time your pausing/unpausing)
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Dec 2, 2017 18:59
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DA2 was a great game ruined by an insanely short development cycle. The friendship/rivalry system provided for some of the most interesting party interaction options in a Bioware game and the small scale was a refreshing change of pace from incessant Save The Literal Entire loving World plots. Just some dude trying to do right by his family and his city. More of that please, just with an actual reasonable amount of time for development so that the ending isn't an oddly disjointed rush job and there isn't constant asset recycling.
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Dec 2, 2017 19:03
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Captain Oblivious posted:DA2 was a great game ruined by an insanely short development cycle. The friendship/rivalry system provided for some of the most interesting party interaction options in a Bioware game and the small scale was a refreshing change of pace from incessant Save The Literal Entire loving World plots. Just some dude trying to do right by his family and his city. More of that please, just with an actual reasonable amount of time for development so that the ending isn't an oddly disjointed rush job and there isn't constant asset recycling. This guy knows whats up
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Dec 2, 2017 19:18
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3 years later and I’m still bitter that I have to hold a button to attack. It’s loving baffling and makes fighting feel like a slog — especially on a controller
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Dec 2, 2017 19:57
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omg chael crash posted:3 years later and I’m still bitter that I have to hold a button to attack. It’s loving baffling and makes fighting feel like a slog — especially on a controller you used to have to tap it
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Dec 2, 2017 20:00
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Sinistral posted:Anders was right. Yes.
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Dec 2, 2017 20:24
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Captain Oblivious posted:DA2 was a great game ruined by an insanely short development cycle. The friendship/rivalry system provided for some of the most interesting party interaction options in a Bioware game and the small scale was a refreshing change of pace from incessant Save The Literal Entire loving World plots. Just some dude trying to do right by his family and his city. More of that please, just with an actual reasonable amount of time for development so that the ending isn't an oddly disjointed rush job and there isn't constant asset recycling. Was the end boss changed? One of the bosses from the DLC felt much more like an end game boss(lol) than the one we got.
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Dec 2, 2017 20:27
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Randaconda posted:Was the end boss changed? One of the bosses from the DLC felt much more like an end game boss(lol) than the one we got. The end bosses of the vanilla game are still meredith and what's his face from the mage's guild and it's still extremely dumb as poo poo and I say this as a DA2 liker
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Dec 2, 2017 20:31
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Ainsley McTree posted:The end bosses of the vanilla game are still meredith and what's his face from the mage's guild and it's still extremely dumb as poo poo No, no, I know that. (I sadly played it), I meant was the boss changed in development.
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Dec 2, 2017 20:41
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I wish they'd release smaller games every now and again, like a game on the fall of the elves for $30
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Dec 2, 2017 20:49
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:I wish they'd release smaller games every now and again, like a game on the fall of the elves for $30 Call it Dragon Age Stories or something. Could do one about Loghain and Alistair's daddy having adventures.
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Dec 2, 2017 20:50
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Randaconda posted:Call it Dragon Age Stories or something. Could do one about Loghain and Alistair's daddy having adventures. Even doing little companion things a la Leliana's Song might be cool. Just, you know, make them better than Leliana's Song. I'd totally smuggle mages out of Kirkwall as Anders or annoy people as Sera for a few hours, if it were done well
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Dec 2, 2017 20:55
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Crow Jane posted:Even doing little companion things a la Leliana's Song might be cool. Just, you know, make them better than Leliana's Song. I'd totally smuggle mages out of Kirkwall as Anders or annoy people as Sera for a few hours, if it were done well I liked Leliana's Song 
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Dec 2, 2017 20:57
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leliana's song was good witch hunt was awful
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Dec 2, 2017 21:03
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I liked the Witch Hunt companions
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Dec 2, 2017 21:07
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Crow Jane posted:Even doing little companion things a la Leliana's Song might be cool. Just, you know, make them better than Leliana's Song. I'd totally smuggle mages out of Kirkwall as Anders or annoy people as Sera for a few hours, if it were done well
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Dec 2, 2017 21:07
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Captain Oblivious posted:DA2 was a great game ruined by an insanely short development cycle. The friendship/rivalry system provided for some of the most interesting party interaction options in a Bioware game and the small scale was a refreshing change of pace from incessant Save The Literal Entire loving World plots. Just some dude trying to do right by his family and his city. More of that please, just with an actual reasonable amount of time for development so that the ending isn't an oddly disjointed rush job and there isn't constant asset recycling. What bioware are good at though is the sort of China Meiville level of "there's loads of depth here that I'm just skirting over, but you know it's there". They did it when they did Forgotten Realms games, they did it with the Old Republic, they did it with Dragon Age and with Mass Effect. When they're doing a small scale game like Dragon Age 2 you lose that. You need the world to have mysteries to bring the game along with it and DA2 doesn't have that.
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Dec 2, 2017 21:09
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Randaconda posted:Call it Dragon Age Stories or something. Could do one about Loghain and Alistair's daddy having adventures. I would play the hell out of a "Loghain before he became an rear end in a top hat" dlc gotta see how he got that ptsd
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Dec 2, 2017 21:16
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marshmallow creep posted:gently caress Bull, imo. 
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Dec 2, 2017 22:05
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I finished Dragon Age:Orgins like a year ago but have no idea if i want to play the expansions or sequels since their so divisive. Which is weird, I liked Orgins pretty well but nobody seems to agree on the others.
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Dec 2, 2017 22:28
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Captain Oblivious posted:DA2 was a great game ruined by an insanely short development cycle. The friendship/rivalry system provided for some of the most interesting party interaction options in a Bioware game and the small scale was a refreshing change of pace from incessant Save The Literal Entire loving World plots. Just some dude trying to do right by his family and his city. More of that please, just with an actual reasonable amount of time for development so that the ending isn't an oddly disjointed rush job and there isn't constant asset recycling. I think DA2 was a decent game that got a lot of hate. 1.Because the knights vs mage story was worse than the Grey Warden makes badass group to stop the Blight even though the latter was a lot more generic and standard. 2.UI in DA2 looked atrocious, really hated that whole simplistic aesthetic they went for. 3.The story mostly in one place compared to DAO where the story was played out through the entire world map so the sense of adventure was better in it. The "dungeons" were super simplistic and the layout/design was reused for most of them. Although many people didn't enjoy the combat. I liked it even though it was not the same as Origins which was more d&d and required more pausing.
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Dec 2, 2017 22:43
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Ughhhh I am ready to be done with this game and banished the grey wardens and now the next story mission needs 40 power points and I just have nine meaning I have to spend a few hours grinding on quests that I passed up earlier for being too tedious. Time to check Nexus for a nice mod that will let me bypass this horseshit 
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Dec 2, 2017 22:44
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Ulio posted:I think DA2 was a decent game that got a lot of hate. The storyline was better in the first one, as opposed to "Hawke & Co. destroy everything they touch." The most annoying parts to me, however, was the console game combat and the loving same 3 dungeons and buildings used 9000 times apiece.
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Dec 2, 2017 22:50
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My review of the Dragon Age Series... DA:O - pretty good! DA2 - pretty bad! DA3- ok I guess.
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Dec 2, 2017 22:51
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Xibanya posted:Ughhhh I am ready to be done with this game and banished the grey wardens and now the next story mission needs 40 power points and I just have nine meaning I have to spend a few hours grinding on quests that I passed up earlier for being too tedious. Go kill a couple dragons maybe? I think those give points?? It has been a while and I was too obsessively quest-y to ever need to care about ~ * power points * ~
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Dec 2, 2017 22:52
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I like the Dragon Age games and think there should be more of them.
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Nckdictator posted:I finished Dragon Age:Orgins like a year ago but have no idea if i want to play the expansions or sequels since their so divisive. Which is weird, I liked Orgins pretty well but nobody seems to agree on the others. If you want to check out DA2 for cheap, subscribe to origin's subscriber access thingy for a month and you get access to it for free. I think a month's subscription is like $5, and you might get a free trial or something so if you decide you hate the game within a week, it costs you nothing
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