BioWare Unveils Dragon Age 2 - UPDATED

[Dorian6]

Hm...So your character has a name, does that mean he'll actually speak this time?

 

[dancinginfernal]

Is anyone else excited for the new locale purely for the fact that it means the lore will be expanded?

Anyone?

Meh, but either way I'm very interested in DA2 and will be looking forward to it on my ever growing list of games-to-purchase.

 

[Knight Templar]

Does this mean they're going to force us to play as a human? Playing as a human in a fantasy RPG is like choosing accountant for your class. I want to be a dwarf damn it! Or at least a Quinari.
Also: I noticed they didn't say which blight Hawke was a refugee from. Maybe this guy ends up being the first Warden Commander.
Still; I'd rather play as Paragon Aeducan if they're doing that part of the timeline.

Sadly we've been told (via gameinformer) that you are a former resident of Lothering, so not only is your race, name and backstory made up for you, its a bit bland. Also the first Wardens (not to be confused with The First Warden, who is the leader of the Gray) all died killing Dumat (the first Archdeamon). So I doubt they would make an entire game were the end is allready known.

So yeah, its less Dragon Age and more Mass Effect, which although not bad, isn't the direction I would like to see.

P.S. Whats with people wanting to be Quinari?

 

[Pearwood]

I'm looking forward to this, I understand how it sounds disappointing to have your race chosen for you and there to be an entirely new cast but my favourite race was Dalish elf, one that if you chose it had absolutely no connection to any NPC you'll come across except one. The more choices of races there are the more likely it is for Bioware to end up rushing one of them and it coming out as a disappointment.

As for NPCs, I'll miss Zevran, Shale and Wynne. I hope we get a replacement surprisingly deep pervert, master of sarcasm and at least one person who isn't in her early 20s/late teens just to mix it up a bit.

 

[duchaked]

wow...so soon
haha haven't played the original, but it doesn't seem right for me

but still, that's pretty fast
dang BioWare haha
even Epic is taking forever to get Gears 3 out

 

[Lord_Jaroh]

I'm worried that they're changing the style from one that I liked in DAO to one that I won't like...I don't yet understand the need. I hope that it will be good, but I will wait and see.

 

[DarkHuntress]

Did you say "HE"???? HE as in male character. What? No choice of gender??

If this is true, no matter how much I loved Dragon Age, I will NOT be buying DA:2 and you can take that to the bank!

 

[Kavonde]

In other words, it'll follow the standard BioWare [http://www.bioware.com] formula pretty much to the letter, which means you can also expect a romance option with a troubled, reluctant sexpot, an oversized goon with a propensity for violence and a cheerful sidekick whose light-hearted wisecracking masks a deep, dark secret.

Hey, that one time, the oversized goon with a propensity for violence was a skinny robot...

Well, he was still really tall, though...

Hrm.

a cheerful sidekick whose light-hearted wisecracking masks a deep, dark secret.

Seriously? That sounds exactly like Alistair.

*facepalm*

EDIT: Also, everyone's freaking out about having your character "set in stone" and "chosen" for you. Guys. It's probably a LAST NAME. It's just so voice acted NPCs will have something to call you, like "Shepard."

I really hope I'm not the first person in eight pages to point this out.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

So something just hit me. When the hell did Bioware become so massive that they can simultaneously work on whats possibly the largest (in terms of development size not the game itself) and expensive MMO ever created, Mass Effect 3, AND Dragon Age 2, not to mention whatever secret projects they might be working on that we don't know about??

Shortly after Mass Effect 1 if I'm not mistaken. They had Dragon Age "in the works" for quite a long time and they even did a lot of the preliminary work in the Aurora engine (the one that powers Neverwinter Nights and the Witcher). After Mass Effect, Bioware was purchased by EA and sometime around then all this activity started. Hell, they're big enough to have an office in Austin Texas when they are based (if my knowledge of geography is correct) somewhere a few miles south of Santa's Workshop.

 

[StarCecil]

Am I the only one who thinks this sounds bloody horrible? Why aren't they doing what they did with ME2 and allowing you to cross characters over, that was brilliant and worked extremely well. There's so many loose threads at the end of my playthrough, I want to find out what happened, not play as some stupid refugee I couldn't give a damn about.

Absolutely. I can't help but notice that not only is BioWare going the cheap route with the story by having someone else resolve the likeliest threads to end up in the sequel, but they're changing things about the first that were much loved, to the point where members of the fanbase are accusing them of trying to please ME fans.

Granted, pretty much anything they did would have sparked WWIII, but then they announce so many major changes to a formula that people liked. I don't know about you, but I was hoping for DA:O with a new story.

 

[PeterDawson]

Here's hoping they fix the blatant combat flaws...

 

[Nairang]

i gotta say this i just rly gotta put this out there
I LOVE YOU BIOWARE!!!!!!!

 

[Humble85]

Players will take on the role of Hawke, a refugee from the Blight who becomes "the single most important character in the world of Dragon Age."

I am so sick of these plots. Really. I cant stand being the single most important person in a game world, or saving it from certain doom. The pressure is just...too much!

 

[McNinja]

I think I missed something: now I go from saving the world to being a champion of a city? Doesn't that seem like a downgrade? Although I would love a new art style, the old one was kind of bland. Realistic, but bland.

 

[Jack Da Ripper]

Dragon Age II... AWESOME I LOVED THE FIRST ONE!!! I seriously hope the new location as the Tvinter Empire, all the codex related stuff makes it out to be an awesome place and maybe there people will respect a mage character.

 

[OrdinaryGuy]

Can't wait for this. Dragon Age: Origins was amazing. I kinda wanted to continue the story from the first one though. Awakening left me with some questions, soo... yeah. Hopefully they'll give us some cameos from Origins? Or somehow tie some of the story bits in.

I like that they're going to be updating the graphics and art direction, but hopefully they add some better animations too. I get sick of seeing the same ones over and over again. And DA:O had some spotty animations during some of the cutscenes that made me cringe a little bit.

Also, the game takes place over ten years!? That's awesome! I can't wait to see how that plays out. There aren't many games that take place over that amount of time. The only one in recent memory is Assassin's Creed 2.

 

[Kristoffer Sivertsen]

Can't wait

 

[Blue Musician]

Still not very interest on BioWare's games or basically every other RPG though. But I may check this one day.