Dragon Age: Origins, Awakening & DA2

Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 6:31 pm

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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:46 pm

I like how in the trailer it was a mix of melee and magic, I hope the game allows that, not as good as if specialised but a nice mix. It reminded me of fable tbh, and the qunari seem to be attacking, which is good, I always wanted to crush them in DAO because of thier constant invasions.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:49 pm

I like how in the trailer it was a mix of melee and magic, I hope the game allows that, not as good as if specialised but a nice mix. It reminded me of fable tbh, and the qunari seem to be attacking, which is good, I always wanted to crush them in DAO because of thier constant invasions.

That's what the Viki Qunari do, isn't it? DA2 was bound to feature a Qunari invasion at some point. ^_^
I think the Hawke they show is an Arcane Warrior. Would fit the both weapon-enhancing and purely magic spells. I like this a lot - main characters focusing on magic are actually rare.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:26 pm

Trailer was exactly what I thought it would be: a [censored] worthless cinematic one that doesn't say a damn thing about the game. Take everything it displays with a grain of salt, it's as representative of Dragon Age 2 as the Sacred Ashes trailer was to Origins.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:59 pm

Somehow the new trailer isn't convincing. I actually wanted it to end half away through and it gave a bad vibe (for some reason). Oh, well...
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:33 pm

I wish we could play as a Quanari. It looked to me like he might be a mage with arcane warrior and a blood mage specialties. It looks like he uses some of his own blood to cast the gauntlet spell.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 7:09 pm

Well, the trailer was pretty, your standard cinematic, but really, nothing shown about actual gameplay, though I was not expecting that at this point. However, I have to say, I was initially very "meh" about the re-do of the qunari, but day-umm, he looked badass!
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:55 pm

Well, the trailer was pretty, your standard cinematic, but really, nothing shown about actual gameplay, though I was not expecting that at this point. However, I have to say, I was initially very "meh" about the re-do of the qunari, but day-umm, he looked badass!

I dont understand why people dislike the new qunari, I like it, before they were just tall humans, they are more unique this way. I like it, now if only I can totally ruin the qunari society to stop then invading all the time, then I will be truely happy.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:52 pm

I agree that the Qunari look way better now. I hope we get into their lore much more.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:24 pm

I find the new Dragon Age 2 trailer lacks something distinct that made the original so special.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9dzNElTBHc&fmt=18#t=0m15s
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:54 pm

Why is it that RPG trailers these days all seem to focus on combat? And this wasn't even gameplay. I get that Bioware likes doing these cinematic trailers but would it kill them to release a trailer that tells us about the actual RPG elements, like... the story... or... the game world... or... well pretty much anything other than cgi combat? Seeing the combat would be nice and all at a later date when we know more about the actual game, but combat is not what attracts me to RPGs like Dragon Age...
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:28 am

Why is it that RPG trailers these days all seem to focus on combat? And this wasn't even gameplay. I get that Bioware likes doing these cinematic trailers but would it kill them to release a trailer that tells us about the actual RPG elements, like... the story... or... the game world... or... well pretty much anything other than cgi combat? Seeing the combat would be nice and all at a later date when we know more about the actual game, but combat is not what attracts me to RPGs like Dragon Age...

It does what draws the crowd in. You can't really make a nice, snazzy and short trailer showcasing quest gameplay. If we're the deep thinking players, we can as well do the more deep thinking and read an in-depth preview somewhere.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 6:07 pm

I find the new Dragon Age 2 trailer lacks something distinct that made the original so special.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9dzNElTBHc&fmt=18#t=0m15s


:laugh:

Anyway, the trailer is cool and all, but no amount of CGI can offset the design decisions they made.
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Post » Sat Oct 09, 2010 1:38 am

That's supposed to be the new quanari? I like it. They look much more demonic with the horns. :evil:
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:01 pm

A weapon fit for Sephiroth or Cloud. And of course the spikification of things continues as they stick two big horns in the Qunaris head. Next it will be the dreaded 2 horned frog. Or the razzor haawk that has spikes instead of feathers.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:24 pm

That's supposed to be the new quanari? I like it. They look much more demonic with the horns. :evil:

That's what really strong Qunari look like, yeah. People at the rank of sten or around it don't have them, apparently. Also explains why their dark counterpart has them. Personally, I also find them extremely nice to look at.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:47 pm

That's what really strong Qunari look like, yeah. People at the rank of sten or around it don't have them, apparently. Also explains why their dark counterpart has them. Personally, I also find them extremely nice to look at.

Because I have seen a "qunari romance for DA2" thread, your not alone.
Personally I think its great, I mean they are supposed to be alien to us, I dont know why people complain, its BWs race, they can change it, its not like getting something like a goblin and saying its an elf. The darkspawn however, I still hate the look. I hope that gauntlet spellis ingame, aswell as a class that lets me mix melle and magic, but become weaker in both unlike those who specialise.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:15 am

Because I have seen a "qunari romance for DA2" thread, your not alone.
Personally I think its great, I mean they are supposed to be alien to us, I dont know why people complain, its BWs race, they can change it, its not like getting something like a goblin and saying its an elf. The darkspawn however, I still hate the look. I hope that gauntlet spellis ingame, aswell as a class that lets me mix melle and magic, but become weaker in both unlike those who specialise.

Hehe, yeah, always was fond of Draenei girls, too. ^_^
Oh, Origins already had the Arcane Warrior, and I guess this is just what our official Hawke is. That, and a blood mage, seeing how he draws some to cast his Spell of Awesome Tearing?.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 7:33 pm

I wonder how the female Hawke will look like. And if she will get her own perty male pirate captain love interest. :shifty:
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:23 pm

Hehe, yeah, always was fond of Draenei girls, too. ^_^
Oh, Origins already had the Arcane Warrior, and I guess this is just what our official Hawke is. That, and a blood mage, seeing how he draws some to cast his Spell of Awesome Tearing?.

I didnt know what that was... safe search was off... never again.
Yeah but arcane warriors still had staffs. I mean you have a class that has half warrior abilities, half mage, but none will be as strong as pure warrior/mage.
Whats with trademarking Spell of Awesome Tearing?.

@abnaxus with the pirate LI, there needs to be atleast 1 refference to pirates of the caribbean.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:30 pm

I'm not too fond of the pirate girl, though I might like her ingame model more.

The Qunari, on the other hand... I approve. +80
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:17 pm

I didnt know what that was... safe search was off... never again.
Yeah but arcane warriors still had staffs. I mean you have a class that has half warrior abilities, half mage, but none will be as strong as pure warrior/mage.
Whats with trademarking Spell of Awesome Tearing?.

Welcome to teh internets.
To the contrary, arcane warriors would change to sword in combat, and only use a staff when casting. This sword-staff thing might just serve both purposes - and be not as powerful as a pure sword or staff, who knows...
Just fun way to say it, no other reason. ^_^
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:28 pm

I edited the vid to take some screenshots of the flashing parts

Spoiler

http://a.imageshack.us/img707/4213/screenshot010dq.png
http://a.imageshack.us/img413/3200/screenshot013r.png
http://a.imageshack.us/img202/6070/screenshot011hm.png as seen http://dragonage.bioware.com/resources/dragonage-ii/assets/gallery/concepts/strider-01-o.jpg
http://a.imageshack.us/img828/7145/screenshot012k.png
http://a.imageshack.us/img837/4549/screenshot014f.png :P

http://a.imageshack.us/img5/2324/screenshot015ry.png
http://a.imageshack.us/img836/2102/screenshot016f.png

http://a.imageshack.us/img191/9413/screenshot017u.png
http://a.imageshack.us/img580/2262/screenshot018l.png

There were also Burning Home, Deep roads, Flemeth, a dragon, a love interest (from what I guess anyway)


I feel like the classes are going to be merged together and you decide where to put the points, or Hawke was a Arcane warrior in that vid.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:28 am

Spoiler

http://a.imageshack.us/img5/2324/screenshot015ry.png


Looks more like an army of Morrigans. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I feel like the classes are going to be merged together and you decide where to put the points, or Hawke was a Arcane warrior in that vid.

As I said before, the contents of the trailer don't mean jack [censored]. Speculating on the nature of Hawke's class in it is pointless. Just because he's shown using magic while fighting with a sword and armor doesn't mean we will be able to in-game, for the exact same reason that I can tell you with absolute certainty his eyes will never glow like that.
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Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:00 am


I feel like the classes are going to be merged together and you decide where to put the points, or Hawke was a Arcane warrior in that vid.


They are gonna pull a ME2 maybe
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