BioWare Unveils Dragon Age 2 - UPDATED

[open trap]

I love Bioware games, i hope it lives up to the legacy

 

[Yureina]

Blargh... Guess i'll keep an eye on this, but that's the most I will do.

 

[Nerf Ninja]

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.

Who's to say that isn't who Hawke is?

Bum! ninja'd

 

[Mr.Kitetsu]

oh well as long as it doesn't have you flower picking at the beginning(and everything else
blight victims do) i will not care

 

[Talvrae]

We play a character named Hawke?? duh... WTF?? I can,t create my character anymore? No more Origins story?

 

[Abedeus]

Oh God, please, make combat right this time, so Normal isn't impossibly hard against medium to big groups of enemies, Easy isn't a cake-walk and Hard isn't Impossible.

 

[Low Key]

Dragon Age 2 coming in March, huh? Isn't that normally a bad time to release games?

 

[Walkchalk]

We play a character named Hawke?? duh... WTF?? I can,t create my character anymore? No more Origins story?

Im assuming that they arent letting us choose the name so that other characters can refer to us as something other than "Warden" which we may not even be a part of in this game. My guess is that you can still customize his appearance, class, race, and what not.

 

[Buccura]

Well... I'm going to miss my gay elf.

 

[Talvrae]

Dragon Age 2 coming in March, huh? Isn't that normally a bad time to release games?

Not really it's sure not the pre-holyday seasons... but poeple have recovered from it by then and are ready to buy new video game.. unlike january

 

[Talvrae]

We play a character named Hawke?? duh... WTF?? I can,t create my character anymore? No more Origins story?

Im assuming that they arent letting us choose the name so that other characters can refer to us as something other than "Warden" which we may not even be a part of in this game. My guess is that you can still customize his appearance, class, race, and what not.

what about gender... Not really a good name for a femalle character...

 

[Joseph Harrison]

I'm calling that your Morrigan's kid

 

[mattttherman3]

Yay another Dragon Age! I hope the fact that the first is their best selling game doesn't affect Mass Effect 3.

 

[Flamezdudes]

We play a character named Hawke?? duh... WTF?? I can,t create my character anymore? No more Origins story?

Im assuming that they arent letting us choose the name so that other characters can refer to us as something other than "Warden" which we may not even be a part of in this game. My guess is that you can still customize his appearance, class, race, and what not.

It's been confirmed by BioWare that you're only human, you can't choose your race. You can choose your gender and class though.

 

[CriMs0nC0bra]

Ugh, I've been looking forward to DA2.. But this announcement of a pre-determined character and a "completely different location" couldn't make me any more disappointed. I want a sequel, so I can actually get some closure, since my ending did nothing but leave me let down. DA's ending ignored what I wanted as a player, and instead gave me what it thought it should be.

Spoiler

I'm of course referring to Morrigan. I don't care what she said, I wanted to go after her and my child. And the ending sort of made it seem like that could happen in the future.

If this game ends up just being Mass Effect in a fantasy world, I doubt I'll buy it. Even though I love Mass Effect, it's not a style meant to be plastered onto every game. I like CHOICE, and games like Mass Effect simply give the illusion of choice. Dragon Age didn't even give you choices that really mattered, but none-the-less it had more depth to conversations. What happened to games like Fallout, where you honestly had many ways to go about missions, and DIFFERENT outcomes based on them? I miss that. And it seems like these developers are just pushing further and further away from those kinds of choices. I'd rather have a full game with DEPTH and no voice overs, than sacrifice all of it for a main character with a poor VO (yes, I am talking about Mark Meer)

Also.. I resent not being able to choose my own race. So much for RPG. Cinematic flare is the new thing, and true roleplaying is dying.

 

[Borntolose]

Players will take on the role of Hawke

Wait, what? does this mean no character customization? The fuck?

 

[Keava]

Oh God, please, make combat right this time, so Normal isn't impossibly hard against medium to big groups of enemies, Easy isn't a cake-walk and Hard isn't Impossible.

Meh. As a BG, Planescape and other old time cRPGS i actually found Normal and Hard too easy, and Nightmare only challenging because mob stats scaled better with player character powers. I ended up downloading a mod to boost up the difficulty eventually on my second playthrough.
The combat was perfectly fine and i hope they keep it up that way, if not rise the bar a little further on the hardest setting.

Dragon Age 2 coming in March, huh? Isn't that normally a bad time to release games?

ME2 was released at end of January. Seems to me like BioWare likes to get their games ready for spring time. 2011 They will be getting lots of money from me at least if they can keep TOR release to spring as well.

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?

I mean, KOTOR was fine, still focused on stats and whatnot, but leveling up isn't that big of a deal in Mass Effect. It focuses more on the story, like an adventure game, and less on the leveling and stats.

They still are good games, I must admit, but it is kinda like my feelings with Activision/Blizzard, just a thousand times less intense...

What's with that odd mindset that RPGs must be about stats stacking? Stats only mean much for munchkins who always look for ability to create the most powerful character ever. Even in tabletop i almost never use characters above equivalent of DnDs 10th level. I play them for creating a story. Leveling is only a way to show how your characters evolves because of said story. Not the goal of RPGs.

And sure, FF is RPG, but in ajRPG sense. You go around single path, and kill monsters that apparently are damn common, surprising how anyone manages to live in the worlds presented there. It's like some of the anime worlds that mostly are made of few cities scattered in straight line and vast empty spaces in between without a single person, only monsters. Being a mailman there must be a real pain.

 

[sheah1]

So they're naming (Hawke) and giving an "iconic" (un-customised choice) character look to the protagonist..... Isn't this just a mass effect style reboot? After one game? Well, alright, I am incredibly excited and looking forward to it but, think about it, if you're a refugee from a specific area (probably specific) and you already have a name and a look.... do you really think you get to choose your species?