Poll: Dragon Age 2: Console or PC

[Korten12]

PS3, mainly because where its my original saves are, but after playing the demo on both platforms, I enjoyed it on PC and Ps3 but I liked the PS3 controlls.

 

[Korten12]

I'm going to play it on the correct platform.

Do you really have to get snobbish about this? Really?

I think he was just being a smartass, not a snob. It's well known by now that Dragon Age (the first one at least) was designed primarily as a PC game. Honestly, I still have trouble comprehending how it was even playable on consoles.

Regardless, I hear Bioware put some good effort into giving a different combat system for the console versions so good on them for that.

DA:O was really easy to play on Consoles, I am on my seconde playthrough and its really easy. Not that hard to comprehend.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Definitely PC, though I'm a little torn between this version and the 360 version, as the latter has the story I've carved out for my character there. Repurchasing Origins for the PC seems like a waste of money at this point...

 

[Vault101]

Well, I've played both the 360 and PC demos, and I can safely say this. Both are awesome, but the PC version is more like a more fast-paced version of Origins, while the console version is just completely different, and just a lot more action-based. Even on medium settings (why can't we set it to high, dammit?!) it looked fantastic on my rather modest machine, but I honestly just preferred the control setup (and the ability to play from my couch and on a big-screen TV...) that the console version offered. I'll be getting it on 360 first, then maybe the ultimate edition on PC when it comes out.

Oh, and I saw the ps3 version today at a friends house, no noticeable difference between that and the 360 one.

So for the console is it like you have to press the button for each attack kind of thing?

Yeap, each time you hit attack, you attack. Honestly, while I liked Origins on PC, I just really like the more immediate feel in the console version of DA2.

you know....I think I'd prefer that... since I really sucked at the forst one

 

[infohippie]

Yes, unfortunately they have twisted the game so that the correct platform is now one with a controller.

Not sure I agree with that bit. I think mouse & keyboard will still give you more fine-grained control over combat, and I don't think you can really get immersed in an RPG while sitting back on your couch. Even pen & paper RPGs work better and feel more immersive when everybody's sat around a table, in proper chairs. I've tried playing them on couches and it just doesn't work right.
Admittedly, the PC version will be gimped a bit due to the need to fit the game within the limitations of consoles. The models will be simpler and textures lower-res than they could be, and the areas you wander in will be smaller and less complex, all because they have to fit within the smaller memory footprint of consoles, and run smoothly on the less-powerful graphics hardware. But I still think the game will be a better experience at a desk, with a mouse and keyboard.
Besides, there will be mods on the PC version. Even if Bioware doesn't include official support for mods, modders will still do their thing, like they did for many other PC games that didn't include official mod support.

 

[Yureina]

I play games on PC, so I'd be playing this on PC as well.

 

[Continuity]

Yes, unfortunately they have twisted the game so that the correct platform is now one with a controller.

Not sure I agree with that bit. I think mouse & keyboard will still give you more fine-grained control over combat, and I don't think you can really get immersed in an RPG while sitting back on your couch. Even pen & paper RPGs work better and feel more immersive when everybody's sat around a table, in proper chairs. I've tried playing them on couches and it just doesn't work right.
Admittedly, the PC version will be gimped a bit due to the need to fit the game within the limitations of consoles. The models will be simpler and textures lower-res than they could be, and the areas you wander in will be smaller and less complex, all because they have to fit within the smaller memory footprint of consoles, and run smoothly on the less-powerful graphics hardware. But I still think the game will be a better experience at a desk, with a mouse and keyboard.
Besides, there will be mods on the PC version. Even if Bioware doesn't include official support for mods, modders will still do their thing, like they did for many other PC games that didn't include official mod support.

Oh I agree wholeheartedly that RPGs are eminently suitable for m&k controls, but when you have a hybrid OTS view and abominations like wheel menus and all the lack of complexity that that entails, I think you have to concede that the game is made primarily with the controller in mind... therefore making the controller the correct control device for the design
Yes, even with a game designed for a controller its possible for the mouse to give you more fine grained control, arkham asylum for example, you can get more precision movement and combat with a mouse... but because the game is designed for a controller using the m&k controls feel awkward and its definitely a better experience with a controller (I've played it with both).

 

[WelshDanny]

PC definitely, its by far the best way to enjoy a 'proper' RPG with the keyboard and mouse controls. Bioware have previously stated that the PC is the best way to enjoy their games: http://bit.ly/hwKh0X

I still need to test out the demo me.

 

[ImprovizoR]

I played the first on on PC and I have a save file that I'm going to import. Games like these are better suited for PC anyway so even if I never played the first one I'd still get it for PC.

 

[sheah1]

I'm going to play it on the correct platform.

Do you really have to get snobbish about this? Really?

Well, yeah, that's what we PC gamers do.
It was meant tongue-in-cheek, really. Unfortunately that seems not to come through very well in text.

Ah, I see what you mean, sorry, I sometimes get the same problem... It once led to the death of several puppies...

 

[infohippie]

Ah, I see what you mean, sorry, I sometimes get the same problem... It once led to the death of several puppies...

No probs, sorry to cause offence.
I would like to observe a moment of silence for those poor puppies, though.

 

[Jacob Lucas]

Does platform really matter?
Just play your damn vidya.

Also PC.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I'm going to play it on the correct platform.

Do you really have to get snobbish about this? Really?

I think he was just being a smartass, not a snob. It's well known by now that Dragon Age (the first one at least) was designed primarily as a PC game. Honestly, I still have trouble comprehending how it was even playable on consoles.

Regardless, I hear Bioware put some good effort into giving a different combat system for the console versions so good on them for that.

DA:O was really easy to play on Consoles, I am on my seconde playthrough and its really easy. Not that hard to comprehend.

thank you, i swore

Spoiler: thou shall not speak these words on forums

VOLDEMORT! just kidding. but i swore i was the only one!

who enjoyed playing dragon age with a controller, the snap functions for enemies mixed in with the easy to use wheel for everything you would ever need on it made fights run like a dream. Now i HATE being snobbish most of the time but if you seriously couldn't play this game because it was on controller you either

1) seriously suck with controllers, and really need to learn how to use one

2) are just that damn ignorant

 

[NickCaligo42]

I'm going to play it on the correct platform.

Yes, unfortunately they have twisted the game so that the correct platform is now one with a controller.
IMO any RPG that doesn't positively require a mouse and keyboard just isn't trying hard enough.

Ehhhhhh. Not true. You're really supposed to be playing it with a mouse and keyboard, they've just sort of kind of half-assedly added in a second control option on top of that which almost makes controller play viable. Having played the demo, I can attest that they put no effort into the so-called "action-RPG" controls and that it's the exact same game as the first one.

 

[lacktheknack]

I haven't actually played the demo, but I hear that console is very action oriented, while PC is much more strategy oriented.

I'm more of a thinking man, and I don't own a console, so...

 

[Continuity]

I'm going to play it on the correct platform.

Yes, unfortunately they have twisted the game so that the correct platform is now one with a controller.
IMO any RPG that doesn't positively require a mouse and keyboard just isn't trying hard enough.

Ehhhhhh. Not true. You're really supposed to be playing it with a mouse and keyboard, they've just sort of kind of half-assedly added in a second control option on top of that which almost makes controller play viable. Having played the demo, I can attest that they put no effort into the so-called "action-RPG" controls and that it's the exact same game as the first one.

Perhaps, I guess I was just sounding off about console creep that's been going on over the last 5 years, the console platform is slowly but surely moving though the stock of traditionally PC games and beating the shit out of them with a big fat retard stick. Its like a rot or a cancer really.
Plus I really didn't like the first DAO so I guess I'm biased against the second... I was promised something to equal Baldurs gate and what I got was the worst RPG I've ever played. That sort of thing leaves an impression.

 

[Danceofmasks]

My PC is some 15 times more powerful than a PS3, so there's really no question ...

Well, unless the glitchy shadows bug from the demo doesn't get fixed.

 

[NickCaligo42]

Plus I really didn't like the first DAO so I guess I'm biased against the second... I was promised something to equal Baldurs gate and what I got was the worst RPG I've ever played. That sort of thing leaves an impression.

Agreed. I'm no fan either. Frankly I feel like Bioware misses the core of the RPG experience just as much as any other company; they forget the creative problem-solving in favor of a skinner box made of abstract statistics and spreadsheets of equipment. In a lot of ways I get a truer RPG experience out Metal Gear Solid--and definitely Deus Ex--than I do out of anything Bioware has ever made.