I love the over the top gore. I wish that my character could be dripping with blood but alas, its only the same pattern over and over....

Is DA:O clunky on consoles (with everything, especially movement and combat)?

They needed a few years to work on this more, but alas EA wants their money now.

Took me like 10 minutes. Wasn't that hard, just had to hide behind cover when it's doing that one attack, and then spam AoE spells when it's vulnerable.

Rock wraith killed me once, PWNed it the second time

I'm a saiyan, I get stronger after every defeat

holy crap 10 minutes?

which difficulty setting?

I've battle him twice so far, on Nightmare and Hard, both times I lost and both times the battle lasted 30-40 minutes before I died.

The Rock Wraith Fight is hard. It took me about 20-30 minutes to kill the thing. I only had Aveline Tanking and my Hawke Mage healing and launching Primal Spells.

I've played further into DA2. It's weird, I don't hate the game by any means, I'm interested to see how the story plays out, though thus far - to me, mind you, and I haven;t been getting into spoilers - they are making this political situation pretty obvious, a lot of stuff is pretty easily telegraphed. Foreshadowing with an anvil, as it were. Who would be pro-slavery? If you are playing a mage character (and I am, as usual) there are only a few decisions where I waffle for a few moments on whether to send someone for help at the chantry or help them escape. It's kind of like my brain is going "yeah, yeah... this will affect the outcome maybe, but... eh, I'll just go with column b for an answer." My Hawke has no real personality, in spite of being voiced and inspite of the decisions she's supposedly made - she still feels like a cipher.

The game is... fun and I will play it through. But I probably won't replay it quickly, if at all, unless the second half gets super awesome. DAO was an engaging, engrossing game. I was vested in the characters in that game, the dialogue made the story, the game had a heart, it seemed. This one feels kind of shiny and slick but souless. Again, I am not saying it's not fun... it's fun. The characters in this game are not, with the exception of Varric, that engaging at all. Yeah, a few clever witticisms, but they aren't that interesting. I havve a white-haired emo elf - what a depressing "romance" scene that was - he pulls emo bs and leave the girl sitting on the bed. I have a completely uninteresting Anders. You'd think merging with a spirit would make him kind of cool - nope, just makes him kind of whiny and humorless. Isabela is kind of fun, but she's a predictable stereotype. She could be wearing a tee-shirt that says "Saucy Wench" on it. Aveline is, thus far, pretty boring. Yeah, sorry being captain has some corporate bs to go along with it. boohoo. Carver, who I didn't take to the deeproads because he was just a really annoying character anyway, is now not available to my party. So if he was going to improve for me, too late. Merrill I kind of like, but I can sort of see where her story arc is going. The archer dude - boring. I hear echoes of the fun banter I had in DAO, sometimes it's not bad, but it most of the time feels like a pale imitation. And that's probably because I have not gotten as interested in what happens to these characters, including my own.

And the combat... :facepalm: it's like someone - probably an idiot in upper management - was all "make it extreeeeeeme! Make it like they are drinking redbull - mountain dew cocktails and make it noisy and ramp it up to eleven!!1!!" It's so over-powered and splashy that it's actually kind of boring. It lacks finesse, and basically although I manage my characters when I can, simply because I want to, but... really, I can just have my mage spam the massive shock aoe, flre aoe and ice cone and even on normal mode, I've wrapped things up between sips of water. It's like the fighting is all these awesome finishing moves - but used constantly, all strung together, on hyperspeed. On normal mode, which is what I prefer to play, I think I had only Hawke die 1 time so far, and I got Isabela killed. And the battles... feh, waves of the same enemy from the same locations is boring after the 10th time.

I know this all sounds negative and obviously I am disappointed in the game - but I am disappointed because it lacks warmth or emotion or whatever it was in the first game that grabbed me. But I'm also okay with it enough to keep playing - I'd like to see how they finish the story they are setting up. But I kind of wish I had waited until this game dropped in price - something I never would have thought I would say about a sequel to one of my favorite games.

Wow that's quick. I've done all the side quests I could and I'm already at 36 hrs, just started act III I believe. I even thought I was going through fast. That re-spec potion is an immersion killer but really fun to play around with, maybe that's why my game is taking so long.

Uh huh, I done belive them, devs lie all the time.


Well a dev did leave. He was the lead designer of DAO Brent Knowles, he didnt like how DA was going so he quit. (atleast thats why people say he quit).

So yeah its so different becase he left becuase he didnt like what was happening.

It's about 14 hours on Easy, 12-13 on Casual. Haven't tried Hard or Nightmare yet, but I imagine they'd make it a lot longer.

the game is not long
it took about 20hrs act 1 and i took my time and did everything and every quest
act 2 is half the length of act 1

and act 3 is really short
so 40 hours tops for this game

it is ok... i prefered the first game over this one
this game is nowhere as long as the first
it seems like a completely different game

not liking the ending/anders business
nor the issue in act 2... if u did act 2 u will know what i mean
this game has gone very dark/macabre

Second reason of why I like it

Damn, I gotta return it before I can complete it. Oh well, Ill pick it up with a price drop/all inclusive disc. Anyone know if there is a DA:O dis with all the DLC/expansions on it?

Any DLC relelased?

Yes, there is the Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate Edition.

They also have plans for more Mass Effect games outside of the main trilogy they gave a noncommittal comment on multiplayer when asked if there would be a Mass Effect shooter. Though you can feel free to believe whatever the hell you want.

DA2 is a fantastic game that got trashed by codix and the chan (seriously senshored?) raiders in metacritic , i am very happy that undercover bioware employees gave it a <10> and i praise electronic arts true awesomeness for failing to mention the existance of securom also i love how haters got banned from playing their legit game for spiting hate in the foroms .

Finished Dragon Age Origins and Awakening two weeks ago. It took me 40 hours to beat Origins and 22 hours to beat Awakening. I did not do all the side quests but I did do most of them. In Awakening I encountered problems with quests, I was unable to do Sigrun's joining because I recruited her last and I couldn't get Oghren to open up more about his personal quest. Just started Dragon Age 2 last friday, I am playing on casual right now because I am still getting used to PC controls and hotkeys. I am in Act 2 currently and I am currently finishing off the side quests before I continue with the main story. So far, I like this game its better than Origins in some categories but it still isn't as good. I miss my Origins companions a lot, I really hated on Alistar while playing Origins because he did rarely ever agreed with my choices. Now that he isn't a follower I find myself missing him. These epic games have inspired me to write a fan fiction, check out a rough draft of chapter 1 here: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1173814-writing-a-dragon-age-fan-fictionmay-contain-spoilers/

Alistair isnt that bad. Morrigan, God if I wasnt drowning puppies she was disapproving.
Except for releasing Sten, but she probablly liked that because Stens the kinda gu ywho drowns puppies.

I hated Alistar because he disagreed with nearly everything I was doing and he scolded me for letting Connor's mother die right after I gave him his mother's amulet. Mainly I hated him because he was a goody two shoes. I like Morrigan more because she always approved of my actions and she makes Alistar look like a fool. Anyway I do not hate him anymore, that was just my first impression of him. I like his personality now, and he and Morrigan are always in my party.

I like the banter between them.
Shame becuase it stops me using other mixes, I want some shale/sten dialouge but dont want to loose the other characters, also I dont like 2H warriors and shale is kinda weak imo.

I like getting the best ending, so I save isolde, which is a shame, becuase if there were a punishment say going to the circle makes the undead kill more people, I would use isolde easily, I hate her, she blames everyone, she started the trouble.

I used to hate Sten but he kinda grew on me, I still hate the Qunari but I like Sten, maybe the Arishock will change my views, but most likely result will be me killing him.

I really wish you could take every single character with you at all times, just so as to not miss out on any conversation.

I played a moral person with Morrigan constantly on my side and I had her approval about as high as my LI.

That would be great, Its a sahem I wont hear alot of it becuase of how my character plays, I could never have 2 warriors at once becuase I play rogue, and need atleast 1 mage and one other rogue to pick locks.
*sigh* well I got the urn of ashes quest next, I dont remember needing to pick locks, so may swap leliana for shale, maybe alistair for sten.


I did too, but only becuase of the gift system, that and her sidequest.

Zevran is hardest to boost for me, I had to use the feastday stuff (I still regret buying it though) to get him to like me fully.