BioWare Unveils Dragon Age 2 - UPDATED

[ProtoChimp]

Wait, the whole refugee thing just sounds like one origin story. I hope they don't bin origin system.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

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??

Same way that Valve works on their numerous projects, minus adjustments for Valve Release Time.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Cool ^^ I can't wait to see who ends up being the homicidal misanthrope x3

::Sarcastic Speculation: Perhaps their new homicidal misanthrope will be more memorable than a certain Droid?::

 

[ProtoChimp]

What loose thread?

Spoiler

Morrigan's demon-child abomination, of course. Which not everyone will consider "canon" (one of the many failings of the "choose your own adventure" bullshit that modern RPGs insist on using) but certainly significant enough to warrant a follow-up.

Spoiler

I got that ending, thats what I really hope is explained more what happened to them in this sequel...

I was kind of hoping there would be an expansion or something where Morrigan's devil child tries to take the throne from Alister and has an awesome battle with you and possibly Sten and Ogren... and I guess Zevran. But seeing as in not everyone got that ending it wouldn't make sense.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I'd looking forward to it.

But they still need to make a Jade Empire 2.
And they'd better not pull off a Mass Effect 2 and make combat assy as hell.

 

[10thDegree]

Am I the only one that doesn't really like Bioware?I just dislike them for forever changing what people consider RPGs are.

Think Final Fantasy 1, or 10, it doesn't matter. You have no story options. You can only go from point A to point B.And has anyone EVER questioned if it was an RPG?

Yes. Many, many people. In fact- believe it or not- The 'RPG' predates Finaly Fantasy entirely. They were originally these things you played with books and dice.

:::::* The more you know!

Well, I think I would be pretty stupid if I didn't know about Tabletop games.
I mean really, who doesn't.

But I think video games have made a new type of media, and even though there were RPGs before Final Fantasy, such as DnD, the video game RPGs are an entirely different genre, defined by different things.

You cannot question that Final Fantasy is a video game RPG.
You just can't.
It is its genre.
It has always been its genre.

That is like saying Monkey Island isn't an Adventure game, because it is point and click, so it isn't very adventurey

 

[Eleima]

Spoiler: (caution: spoilers to the ending of DAO ahead, but you wouldn't be here if you hadn't played it, right?)

If they start telling me that he's the bastard deamon child of Morrigan, I will have a fit. And don't start telling me that's the canon ending, it was bad enough when they told us the canon Revan, canon Shepard and canon DAO protagonist were male, but this is just crossing the line.

How can that be the canonical ending? The Grey Warden was a hero, whereas that was certainly the more evil path. I know there are multiple endings, but surely the canon one is that the hero makes the good, noble choice rather than being the bad guy?
As for your fears,

Spoiler

I very much doubt it. In the newspost, it says the character will be a refugee from the Blight. Unless it's set far in the past, or far in the future, then this person will have been an adult or at least a late teen at the time of DA:O. They may try and wrangle out of it by claiming that demon-babies grow up really fast, but then why would he be a refugee?

I'm not saying that's the canon ending, I'm just saying that it annoys me to no end that a lot of people are saying it, and apparently, some folks at BioWare are saying that too (I'm just repeating what I read on the BioWare forums, I have absolutely no proof of this).
And I certainly hope that you're right, although:

Spoiler

I'm still afraid that they'll saddle us with the Swamp Witch and her brat, whatever we decided.

For all their claims that our saves will carry over, they certainly didn't do a very good job of that with Awakening.

And I would like to use this opportunity to state, for the record, that I love BioWare game to bits, been fan since day one when Baldur's Gate came out; I'm just wary of all this new stuff...

 

[Supernaut565]

Yes this sounds awesome but I am a little disappointed that I won't carry on my character from Origins he still had shit to get done.

 

[Korten12]

What loose thread?

Spoiler

Morrigan's demon-child abomination, of course. Which not everyone will consider "canon" (one of the many failings of the "choose your own adventure" bullshit that modern RPGs insist on using) but certainly significant enough to warrant a follow-up.

Spoiler

What if said Refugee is her child that's a possibility

Spoiler

I wondered this, got the ending on my first character but then made a second character girl, do girls is it impossible for them to get this ending? I always wondered that.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Here's hoping that everyone's favorite bloodthirsty omnicidal droid makes a cameo. I think he'd kinda get along with Shale.

 

[Borntolose]

Sweet. I'd better hurry up and finish Origins. I'm loving that game.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Since I finished the first time Dragon Age I couldn't stop thinking about the next one hoping that it will involve Morrigan's demon child.Where you could continue with your premade char from DA1 and find Morrigan and alternate from the refugee(supposed child)and your old character looking for him.How awesome would that be?

I could be mistaken and this game will have nothing to do with the decisions that you made in the first one,which would be a bit of a disappointment for me.We will just have to wait and see...

I'm eagerly waiting to see what Bioware has in stored with this one and since they did so well with Dragon Age Origins,I bet this one will be even better than the first.

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

Huh, another one. Good idea about changing the characters overall, though I hope the funny guy with a dark past won't be something that I want to slap by the end of the series.

Seriously, I loved Allister, but when I got near the end I just wanted to punch him in the throat.

But I guess my actual irritation to the first was that I had to randomly keep all moral up, if one slipped even at 75%, I'd randomly lose at least one person. Last time I played, I lost Zevran, despite the fact I had him about as high as I could get him without romance....>.>

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Well i'm a little dissapointed now as much as i love Dragon Age and can't wait for Dragon Age II . I thought it was going to follow the story with the same protaganist you created in Dragon Age: Origins and that you could import your character from Dragon Age: Origins into Dragon Age II .

And Oghren won't be in it!! :O

 

[chaos order]

i really hope there is atleast some cross over from DA:O like say if u talk to a dwarf and he mentions something ur orginal character did in the dwarf city. even just a little mention like that will make me go giddy

 

[RatRace123]

The survivor's name is Hawke.

I really hope Hawke is customizable, since it sounds like it's a fairly gender neutral and species neutral name like Jaden in Jedi academy, it could probably be an alias.

I'm hoping they don't stick you as one default guy who you can then tweek a little, that's kind of a big change from Dragon Age 1, and even a lot of the other Bioware games.

Still, Dragon Age 2!!!

 

[Amphoteric]

I can't remember the last time, if ever, Bioware has released a bad game. I would be shocked if Dragon Age 2 is not greeted with immediate critical acclaim.

 

[Boba Frag]

Crap... haven't finished one yet.... and I think I clicked on the spoiler... damn my half awake brain!!!

I like DA... but I just hope they tighten up the combat more. It's not as fluid as KOTOR, sadly.

Still- woo!

 

[Citizen.Erased]

Hawke? Where did that come from? Does that mean we can't play as a female? Because I will be pissed off if that is the case. Pissed off is actually too mild for how I will be feeling.


nevermind. "Chris Priestly and David Gaider confirmed on their Dragon Age 2 General Discussion forum that you play as Hawke, but that's only a surname, so you can still be male or female.