Dragon Age II

Dragon Age II

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Thinking of buying it
I have Dragon Ages Origin and the only problem I've heard of this game was the controller and how EA is being a business and trying to take over a market, is the orgins better objectively of subjectively compared to this game?
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Tyler Durden 8 Jun, 2020 @ 10:21am 
In both ways personally, but I still really enjoyed this game a lot. Definitely give it a chance.
Dixon Sider 8 Jun, 2020 @ 10:39am 
Originally posted by ƤŁȺᎢiƝՄM ȺƝGԐᏞุ:
some may say it's even objectively better.
Thats just because some don't understand english. Your opinion can't be objective by it's own definition. Anyone that says something like that can safely have their opinion ignored.

To the OP, this game is pretty great but it lacks in other departments that origins excelled in. However if you like combat depth and replayability then this game is the best of the series.
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shitheaddickhead 8 Jun, 2020 @ 1:48pm 
Ok ill give this one a go and if its good I'll try the second, thanks for the respones
Dixon Sider 8 Jun, 2020 @ 2:46pm 
Originally posted by ƤŁȺᎢiƝՄM ȺƝGԐᏞุ:
Originally posted by Dixon Sider:
Thats just because some don't understand english. Your opinion can't be objective by it's own definition. Anyone that says something like that can safely have their opinion ignored.

I agree, but the original post included the word "objectively" so I was just covering all the bases so to speak. I don't try to pass off opinions as objective facts, hope it didn't come across that way.
No, it wasn't addressed to you. I see people literally call their opinion a fact quite often on the forums though and I wonder to myself if they truly understand what they just said when they stated their opinion as "objectively". Pretty sure the OP also is cunfused with the semantics because it doesn't necessarily make sense. I'm guessing the OP just read some of the "objective" opinions and carried around the buzzword because its a pretty effective (even if so often misused) buzzword.
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Crog 8 Jun, 2020 @ 2:52pm 
dont buy this game.
origin is not good. they will make you wait days for a verification email, just so you are able to make an account and load up Dragon Age 2.
i cant play a game i just purchased because the EA servers are always lagging and they really don't give a rats ass about thier customers.
requested a refund after 2 hours of trying to make an Origin account.
RICK 100 8 Jun, 2020 @ 3:34pm 
Originally posted by Crog:
dont buy this game.
origin is not good. they will make you wait days for a verification email, just so you are able to make an account and load up Dragon Age 2.
i cant play a game i just purchased because the EA servers are always lagging and they really don't give a rats ass about thier customers.
requested a refund after 2 hours of trying to make an Origin account.
I buyed yesteday I downloaded and the verification took minutes or seconds to do,maybe it's your internet connection
Grey 8 Jun, 2020 @ 10:49pm 
DA2 is actually my favorite in the franchise for a multitude of reasons, but gameplay isn't specifically one of them. The RPG elements are really dumbed down, the heavily reused assets make side quests feel same-y, etc. Like, I get the complaints people have about it.

But I honestly believe this is the best character story Bioware has made to date. It's a gem that more people need to give a chance. One of my favorites all time. I have it on Origin but contemplating getting it again while it's on sale. Since they don't let you just transfer rights.
Sgt_Artyom 9 Jun, 2020 @ 2:31pm 
Originally posted by Grey:
DA2 is actually my favorite in the franchise for a multitude of reasons, but gameplay isn't specifically one of them. The RPG elements are really dumbed down, the heavily reused assets make side quests feel same-y, etc. Like, I get the complaints people have about it.

But I honestly believe this is the best character story Bioware has made to date. It's a gem that more people need to give a chance. One of my favorites all time. I have it on Origin but contemplating getting it again while it's on sale. Since they don't let you just transfer rights.

I wouldn't bother buying it again because it just uses origin anyways. I DL'd it on Steam where it then made me DL it on origin anyways and origin has to be open to play it, even launch it from origin as it doesn't really work too well doing it from steam.

Either way, in response to OP, it's pretty subjective, this game gets a lot of hate from people and I think that while a lot of their criticism is fair, much of it is just hating the game because it's not exactly like Origins.

Combat is much faster paced and more action oriented that in Origins but you've still got a large skill base and are able to select stats to level up and unlike Inquisition, aren't limited to a small number of skills, being able to have the full hot bar at the bottom.

Lots of location assets are re-used which can get pretty annoying and is one of the mine gripes people have with the game. Some side quests are kinda boring too but most at least tie into the story in ways that make sense and are pretty decent.

Best thing about the DA:II though is the story, I honestly think it's my personal favourite from the trilogy so far. Hawke is a likeable character in their own right (Would really recommend doing a female Hawke because her VA is very, very good). Almost all the companions are good and have decent growth as characters. My favourites being Merill and Varic. Varic really does feel like the MC's best friend and you really do feel with the passage of time that characters grow.

Story is a little more nuanced than the straight good vs evil of the first game as well which makes it more interesting imo.
Originally posted by Crog:
dont buy this game.
origin is not good. they will make you wait days for a verification email, just so you are able to make an account and load up Dragon Age 2.
i cant play a game i just purchased because the EA servers are always lagging and they really don't give a rats ass about thier customers.
requested a refund after 2 hours of trying to make an Origin account.
bunch of lies, this game is super fun and works very well
Steve 22 Feb @ 10:25am 
This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.
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