I get why Dragon Age 2 gets lousy user reviews.

[Venereus]

I haven't got too far into the story, but what I don't get is why the fuck did the story skip a year of Hawke's life, during wich he pretty much just did a lot of quests/missions, just to throw me into a playable quest/mission period to raise money. Why didn't you just let me play at least part of that year too? To at least get a feeling of what happened, and may be realise by myself that I made a name for myself, and not have someone else tell me?

 

[cystemic]

isn't there a tactics menu where you're supposed to flesh out your characters' moves? I do it every few levels to keep up with the new abilities i'm getting. this isnt supposed to be a hack and slash game but an rpg, thats why bioware wants you to either program your characters to do what you want or take direct control. if you haven't done player tactics and you you haven't paused your game a few times in the battle, chances are someone's gonna die.

 

[ultratog1028]

Also Bioware has recieved tons of complains about this, but have still to fix it.

Yeah, because they can create an update for 3 different systems to fix these problems, test them, Okay them, and release them to the masses IN TWO DAYS. Dragon Age is going to take WEEKS to update. They have limited supply of people, money and resources.

I honestly hated the first Dragon Age. I love Bioware, I just couldn't believe this was a Bioware game. The Mechanics didn't feel good, the characters felt like cardboard cuttouts, and the storyline has been done a million times, thousands of better ways. It's been a while since a game was so bad that I couldn't pick it back up again. Dragon age seems to be a goo/evil game. You either Love it, or Loathe it. No middle ground.

I think the other reason it is getting bad reviews, is it tried to change the engine to make those who hated the first one like this one. News Flash: Why would people who hate the first game even attempt the second one? This ended up pissing of those who liked the first one more then it brought the people who hated the first one back.

 

[Buizel91]

The recurring thing with these threads...Low post counts with the OP -.- seriously look back through these type of threads (including the MW2 that plagued this site about a year ago) and you'll see what i mean -.-

Speaking of MW2 threads...i'm putting a bet out, that Dragon Age 2 is going to get a hell of a load as well -.-

Simply by playing the demo, i can prove everyone of your statements false.

 

[Buizel91]

A Bioware game is buggy on release? In other news, the sky is blue.

Actually...it's colourless

 

[geldonyetich]

From what I gather, it's more like Dragon Age 2 is getting panned by users because they changed it too heavily from Dragon Age 1. They were expecting more Baldur's Gate-like RPG action, and found it streamlined out.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

16 hours in and I haven't had a single problem. No idea what you're talking about.

 

[Chase Yojimbo]

Newbs are funny this all made me giggle.

I already played through the entire thing. NOTHING IS WRONG, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING (Well a few things are wrong, but are very easily ignored. Then again, I have the patience of a castrated goat)! Infact, the combat got its massive upgrade that was greatly needed, the Leveling System got its much needed review, the graphics are far superiour to the original (which shouldn't matter anyways, but I thought I should point that out), and the dialogue wheel was a nice change instead of squinting my eyes and wondering whether or not my character is going to be a prick or goody too-shoes, plus a voice helps to the role-play, and I absolutely love it.

Once again, newbs, learn how to play games, and save the trouble of us explaining it to you and use common sense. This game was dumbed down for you, and it's still giving you trouble? I'm ashamed of you.

 

[ImprovizoR]

The only thing I complain about constantly is lousy characters and voiced protagonist with dialogue wheel. But it's not a bad game. It's a terrible sequel though. It's everything a sequel shouldn't be. If it was a new IP and not a sequel to DA:O it would probably deserve the official reviews it's getting. But I just can't separate it from the series.

And another thing that bugs me is that I will never be able to play as a mage unless a mod comes out because I think Bethany is one of the only characters in the game worth having around. I have a sister so I understand that bond.

 

[Korten12]

Just met Merill. I have a new favorite character.

"Korten Approves +500"

Seriosly, she is awesome. I love when she realizes she is babaling. xD

 

[stiffy]

Just met Merill. I have a new favorite character.

Yeah! She's a pretty funny character. There's eerie resemblance to the new DA2 Dalish Elf design and the Navi from Avatar, anybody notice that?

 

[LogicNProportion]

I'm just going to leave this here:

Spoiler

I agree with it.

 

[Halios]

I'm on win7 64 bit sig edition PC and when I found somebody not attacking it was because they were set on passive or cautious but all the problems I've seen on this tread seem to be fixable by settings the only problem I've had that I couldn't fix was sometimes the Mabari War Hound either doesn't attack or gets stuck at the top or bottom of stairs which also might be a tactics problem but you can't change the dogs tactics

 

[infinity_turtles]

Had the same problem as the OP. Had to manually edit my savefile because my tactics had been stuck to one setting and weren't changing despite what it said in the menu. Played for another ten minutes after that and haven't picked it up since. Stuff like that annoys the hell out of me, and between that and the crashing, I just can't get in the mood to wanna play it anymore.

And to everyone going "LOL, there's nothing wrong", perhaps you should realize that bugs tend to be triggered in specific sorts of circumstances and not everyone is going to have to suffer through them because of that. DA2 has a lot of bug reports for this linear a game, and ignoring that just because you haven't ran into many bugs is pretty shortsighted.

 

[sumanoskae]

8+ hours in and I have no idea what you're talking about. Nothing like what your are saying has happened.

My only complaint is that there isn't as much character development in the allies because I have to go through a load screen to see each one.

I thought that a first to.

It gets a lot better after the deep roads expedition.

 

[OrokuSaki]

Like 13+ hours in and I've also had no problems with AI being stupid (Other than stupid pre-set tactics.) my problem is..... I don't know really the game seems either too short or too filled in. I'm not at the end but it kinda seems like the game's going to end right before the epic fight with the Chantry, or maybe it's just because I've run around for HOURS and only now got to the plot, and it doesn't seem as long as Dragon Age Origins.

While I'm ranting why is it 2? It has little to nothing to do with Origins why not call it Dragon Age or Dragon Age: The Champion of Kirkwall? And am I the only one who gets the suspicion that the game's just going to end when the Dwarf finishes his story and we're going to have to wait for Dragon Age 2: 2 (two two, the sequel to two without being 3)?

 

[sumanoskae]

Just met Merill. I have a new favorite character.

Yeah! She's a pretty funny character. There's eerie resemblance to the new DA2 Dalish Elf design and the Navi from Avatar, anybody notice that?

Yeah, they look a lot like them, just not blue, without tails, and shorter

 

[MiracleOfSound]

A Bioware game is buggy on release? In other news, the sky is blue.

I've played Mass Effect 2 right through 4 times and am yet to encounter a bug of any kind.

 

[sumanoskae]

Gamers are, in my experience, by nature, children. And I don't mean young. I have seen so many people acting like this, that I am convinced that a gamer that doesn't ***** and cry and whine and go full out fucking Boston tea-party and riot in the streets and pull a million man march on the capital to call for the drawing and quartering of every employee of any game company that didn't spend millions of dollars to tailor-make a game to be perfect to their own personal standards and requirements is the exception.

I think that can apply to people in general

 

[Zechnophobe]

I'm just saying, just because it's unlikely, doesn't necessarily mean he's talking out of his ass. I never would've believed the stories of "cougar people" bugs in Red Dead Redemption if I hadn't seen them on youtube. To this day i've never encountered it. Who's to say he hasn't found something that we haven't?

It's entirely possible that what the OP is describing is a bug, but given the similarity of his description to what is basically a feature of the combat system ("Hold position"), we should definitely consider the possibility of him being full of shit.

This is kind of like starting a thread saying "OMG THIS GAME IS BROKEN! MY RESOLUTION IS 1280x720" and never suggesting that you ever tried to change it. Yes, it's entirely possible that it's a real bug, but at least give us a reason to believe that.

As a software developer, I know the complete HORRORS of how similar a 'user error' can sound to 'a really awful edge case'. "There's no way the software did that, they probably just mistyped it over and over again." "Wait.. what? Firefox doesn't send an update if you paste with the mouse... huh?"

*shudders*