Dragon Age 2

I played the demo earlier on the 360. I was... not impressed with the combat. At all.

I played it on PC... Still undecided tbh...

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
I played the demo earlier on the 360. I was... not impressed with the combat. At all.

Still better than the combat in Origins at least.

Originally posted by Nemesis X
Still better than the combat in Origins at least.

God no.

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
I played the demo earlier on the 360. I was... not impressed with the combat. At all.

Meh, I haven't tried the demo but the reason I usually like Bioware games is rarely the action. It's the story, character interaction and dialogue.

http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2011/02/angry-joe-plays-dragon-age-ii/

I don't know, the combat looks fun to me. The Rogue seems to be incredibly underpowered though. It took them about 10x longer to kill that Ogre than the other classes. That kinda sucks. Though as they pointed out, he does look veeeery badass.

Originally posted by -Pr-
God no.

It's worse... I better try out this demo. I may have to cancel my preorder.

Originally posted by ares834
It's worse... I better try out this demo. I may have to cancel my preorder.

What exactly is wrong with the combat in DA2? I think you're all overreacting.

Probably. I have a bias against shitty gameplay, it's true.

Originally posted by Nemesis X
What exactly is wrong with the combat in DA2? I think you're all overreacting.

There's nothing "wrong" with it, really; it's just different to an extent in that it's faster paced and you fight more enemies at a time (at least sometimes). some people preferred the old style. like me.

i'm still undecided.

Fiddling with the demo I liked the new combat. Felt more involved. It's a lot more exaggerated though, feels more like Diablo or something than Dragon Age.

New combat>Old combat.

Old combat was slow and clunky, at least, on console, because I don't have enough internet access to warrant buying PC games.

Other than being faster-paced and more action-oriented, the combat has not changed a great deal.

It might just be, then, that the combat on console sucks in general. I played the original on the PC, never played it on the 360.

Anyone else noticed that in the dwarf’s exaggerated telling of the opening story, Hawkes sisters had quite a pair on her, but in the real version they shrank several sizes. Lol, that was a nice touch.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Anyone else noticed that in the dwarf’s exaggerated telling of the opening story, Hawkes sisters had quite a pair on her, but in the real version they shrank several sizes. Lol, that was a nice touch.

Originally posted by -Pr-
God no.

Hehe! I've played the demo a few times now twice with a mage and once with a warrior and I have to say the biggest problem I had was getting over the new interface. Combat is a slight improvement especially for the warrior with its ability to close the distance in a flash.

But ironically, even though I played a warrior in DA😮 I find myself more inclined to play the mage this time, I blame the promo vids and the melee-like abilities of the mage, plus it looks to me like the mage will be overpowered this time without the auto combat of DA😮.

Mages were insane in the Origins too, that's really nothing new. They just had the most boring opening of any other class or race.

Originally posted by Allankles
Hehe! I've played the demo a few times now twice with a mage and once with a warrior and I have to say the biggest problem I had was getting over the new interface. Combat is a slight improvement especially for the warrior with its ability to close the distance in a flash.

But ironically, even though I played a warrior in DA😮 I find myself more inclined to play the mage this time, I blame the promo vids and the melee-like abilities of the mage, plus it looks to me like the mage will be overpowered this time without the auto combat of DA😮.

A mage with both Arcane Warrior and Bloodmage as specializations broke the game.

Hell, Arcane Warrior alone broke the game.