Dragon Age 2 - Page 44

I played male Hawke, warrior, 2 hand, reaver/templar.

When reading this thread, and just starting the game, I really didn't understand all the fuss about the game. The fuss about the game, it seems, is at the end. Or the lack thereof.

Basically, up to the hole Chantry/Circle conflict, the game was pretty good, and while there are some minor things that annoyed me (Like the lack of not being able to romance your own sister, I christened my character Commodus with a reason), and the gigantic amount of enemies there was in this game (If my character were at Ostagar, I single handedly could end the blight without the help of Loghain), the game was pretty good.

The fights, while extremely boring (it's either infinite mobs, or a high dragon with infinite hp), also never ended. Like they needed to delay the ending as much as possible, which is extremely odd. I remember Golems of Amgarrak, which had very very difficult boss fights, was a lot less annoying than the fighting here. The fights in DA:O were something special, something that didn't "happen", like the shit in this game does.

My brother was "Me ogre smash human!", my sister died, and mother was, well, she suffered a fate worse than death. And the dwarves! Like they have snuffed too much lyrium dust. What madness has befallen them! The qunari were fun, and if possible I had aided them in beheading the viscount. Anders "Imma firing ma lazer" blew up the chantry, a mistake, because he should have done an aerial bombardment on the gallows.

The real bugger is the ending, or lack therof. Just when I saved the whole city, and get ready to be crowned basileus and autocrat of kirkwall, the credits start rolling. For a proper ending, there was at least a chapter necessary where I am not in the mind of Varric, and a chapter which is a real ending.

Also, what I would have done, and I could not do:
I. Behead my uncle. His betrayal was much appreciated.
II. Romance Aveline.
III. Behead all mages I saw, because let's be honest: All mages that I did grant amnesty, turned on me. The ones that did not turn on me, well, they were already dead.

When you have finished this game, you get the feeling it's rushed. And bad. They 4gated. And they forgot the warp gate research. Dragon Age: Uniden. What could have been so good has been released too early, to the ridicule and embarrasment of EA games and Bioware. And of course, to you, the guy that needed to pre order this one because the previous game was that good (I'm that guy).

Concluding: This game is a marine. Here come the banelings!

I'm disappointed that there is only 1 ending to the game, no matter what you do. My friends took the mages' side while I took the templars side- we discussed what happened and it turns out it was practically the exact same thing, in just a slightly different order. The post-game sequence was the same, too, except for it mentioning who you had romanced. I was going to start a second playthrough with a mage (Figuring that, as a warrior, I had the "Bethany story" and a mage would get the "Carver / You're the Apostate instead of your Sister story") but if there is no grand finale that I can make different, I'll probably wait until DA3 comes out. Also, apparently i f you neglect to do Anders' quest where he sabotages the chantry, he somehow blows it up anyway. Okkkk.

The ending wasn't the only thing. The entire game was.. linear. I felt like my decisions didn't make any impact at all, and the choices I was often given were "agree with someone, agree with someone in a sarcastic way or disappointingly agree with someone" instead of wanting to shit down their throat and kill them. I mean, there were certainly a few choices, don't get me wrong, but most of them seemed to only take place in the side quests. When it came to the main story, it felt like my destiny was pretty sealed. This isn't to say that I didn't have fun. I did, but it has little-to-no re-playability, in my mind at least.

One of my major issues with the game is that, if you do every single sidequest (which no part of the game really encourages you away from- in fact, considering you would lose the ability to do those quests, you were encouraged to stay) you won't know anything about the main plot until ~15 hours in to the game, once you complete the expedition. It was off to a pretty slow start, and even when I finished the expedition, It still took a long while to figure out what the main goal of the game was. The goal changed with every chapter, from "find money to do the expedition" to "delegate qunari vs human relations" and finally "help the mages or the templars", but none of them seemed to really go together too much.

I played up until the end of the expedition on Nightmare, and then I met the big rock dude with 2 potions in my belt. I had a healing Anders with me, but I was still in a tough spot. I decided to turn it down to Hard when I realized that fight was literally impossible at that point, only to find that it became ridiculously easy. Friendly fire turned off, he seemed to die 4 times as fast and deal half as much damage. I'm just pulling these numbers out of my ass, but still. I didn't use a single potion. After I took him down, I switched back to nightmare for about 3/4 of Chapter 2, but eventually got tired of the AI Fenris instagibbing my tankHawke with mighty blow AOE and losing battles out of sheer hard-to-control friendly fire. So, I played the rest of the game on Hard, which was just.. easy, for me anyway.

deep roads, quanarri, mages/templars

The story was ok.. After i beat it i felt exactly after i beat me2. 'that's it?' The entire game is varric telling the seeker hawkes story. Is it too much to ask for a AAA rpg that isnt going to be at the very least 3 parts. This game was either rushed terribly by EA or bioware has lost their roots. I felt like we did the most boring parts of the game/story instead of the exciting parts. We worked for a smuggler for a year.. but nothing notable happened there. Varric was more interested in telling the seeker how we managed to get that 50 gold for the deep road expedition so we could get more gold. Act 2 was the best act imo but the main plot seemed so short in that act, maybe it's just me. The end was just awful. It made basically no sense. I side with the mages, and after the first wave of templars that my group just thrashed the first enchanter decides to use blood magic turn into a big monster and attack us ..HOW ABOUT THE TEMPLARS BUDDY??? Then we kill Meredith, the rebellion begans and the games over.. It was just about to get interesting.