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Dragon Age 2: Fuckin' Bitches, Stabbin' Dragons
satsugaikaze:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 15 Mar 2011, 20:14 ---
My problem with this summary is that it neatly sidesteps the question of whether this other game is any good.
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It's fair game to point out flaws in comparison to similar mechanics, but I find it difficult to weight all its flaws and strengths to summate everything into an evaluation of whether the game is "any good" or "pretty bad" and so on. I suppose that's why half of the people I know really love Dragon Age II and the other half loath it (in comparison to Origins, at the very least), to put it in simplified terms.
I have to admit my personal preference for II's changes came out of the fact that I was disappointed by what I was playing in Origins, which might just be an indicator of the sort of gamer I am, but perhaps I've weighted the flaws and strengths differently to determine how good or bad the game was as a whole. It's one of the only reasons I can think of that people could be so divided about this game.
Also, out of curiosity, are you playing a console version or something (or a PC version with auto-attack off, idk I haven't foraged very much into my Options menu)? Because not once in this game have I approached anything resembling button-mashing.
--- Quote from: KvP on 15 Mar 2011, 23:56 ---Also I gotta say that Aveline is really growing on me. At first I thought she was neglected, writing-wise, but it's starting to look a lot like understatement. It's nice to have a strong female character who's both un-romanceable and not a blowhard hiding deep insecurities.
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I actually really love Aveline as a character, despite the complete ho-hum nature of the introductory 10 minutes of the game (ie. I couldn't give a two-shits about Wesley). At the very least, she's probably the most inoffensive character of the whole lot.
Especially when half the tits in this game are uncomfortably huge. No, seriously, designers. Corsets are not an excuse for endangering the women's centre of gravities.
KvP:
You can't turn off auto-attack in the PC version. For consoles, EA apparently mastered a non-final build of the game or fudged the option while mastering (somehow) and the auto-attack button is disabled. As far as I'm aware that's still the case. So yeah, you have to continually press A to attack on the console version of the game. At least for now.
satsugaikaze:
Okay that is pretty straight out stupid in that aspect. I do appreciate them trying to put a connection between an attack and the actual press of a button, but I can see how that can be pretty grating for someone used to an auto-attack.
EDIT: While I think the color palette and the overarching design of everything is probably a step up from what I saw in Origins, I'm really starting to get miffed with the amount of copypasta in this game, especially when it comes to environments. I'm not usually a stickler for detail in the broad sense of the term, but some of these dungeons I've gone through are direct facsimiles of ones I've gone through before, and that's nigh-unforgivable.
It's like having a racing game call a mirror track an entirely new one.
KvP:
I want to say it would've been better to have copy-pasted environs be actually the same space, but even factoring the span of years the game has, that would severely limit their scope. It's baffling. Was 2 years really not enough time to produce more environments, factoring in their non-interactive nature?
Then again, the city's #1 employers seem to be highwaymen gangs and apostate cabals, and you must kill something like a thousand people within city limits, so breaking realism's not really an issue.
KvP:
Sorta related - Bio is open to a Jade Empire sequel. IIRC, JE2 was in production at some point and is the only game that Bioware ever canceled in such a state (I'm sure there have been many aborted pre-production games).
Meanwhile, back at the Bioboards... They've split up the DA2 forums into registered and unregistered portions, and in order to post in the registered forum you need to have a copy of DA2 linked to your account. The problem with this is that any sort of criticism of the game results in an EA account ban which, quite controversially, locks you out of playing DA2 until you go through an appeals process of some sort.
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