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Dragon Age 2 anti-hype thread [PLEASE POST IN NEW THREAD]
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I dont know. I dont know.
Thats part of the mystery. Though i never said i hated it, there was just a series of small things that bothered me, but not to the extent that it ruined the game.
Anyway, what's the actual differences between the three different Warrior Shield+Sword tree passives? They all seem the damn same, except one gives a tiny more boost to arrow avoidence that's not worth bothering with.
Yeah, I beat it and can't be bothered doing it again because I know how it plays out. I did have fun the first time, though.
That's not to say it doesn't have a lot of problems. I could forgive a lot of them if character development had more depth. Some abilities are stupid broken, either too good or too bad, and therefore must haves or avoid at all costs. And auto-attacking simply should not be the best option.
I'm not going to throw the whole game out with the bathwater. I enjoyed a lot of it. I thought the Character Origins were particularly great. Really, I can't think of a bad one except for the Wood Elf's. All the others had great setup for characters that extended pretty well to the later game. And I was pretty absorbed throughout the whole thing. I logged a 100 hours throughout the whole thing, and 60 in just one play through. I would not have done so if it weren't worthwhile.
I think DA2 is going to be good, if a fundamentally different experience. What's really going to make or break this game for me is whether Bioware steps up their game. They've proven many times they spin a good yarn. I have no problem with that. Gameplay and design decisions have to step up now.
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Zevran: Take a peek at that Circle mage. Must we speak of the allure of an older woman? She has lessons to teach us all, my friend.
Wynne: You have no idea, little elf. Keep your imaginary hands to yourself.
Yes, it is definitely illegal.
I would say it's not immoral, but it's definitely illegal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKvkzMfomoI
Although Wynne bluffing her way past the one female guard is pretty great, too. She's all "I would be furious, if I were you. Here you are, in the prime of your life, reduced to guarding a door.
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It's not even a very important door, either."
Apparently these trophies got bugged and/or changed in one of the patches. My understanding is that the original version allowed you to complete these across all play-throughs. But now it is tied to a single play-through and it only counts if your main character gets the killing blow.
On one of the XBox achievement sites, they recommend that you take a mage into the Elven Alienage of Denerim during the final battle and that you can use your mega AOE spells to farm a lot of kills. This site suggests that the game keeps a running tally on your main character outside of the game and that every time you reload the area, the count continues to go up.
I've reloaded a bunch on my PS3 version and nothing seems to be happening. By now I should be well past my 500 kills for Master Warden. Anyone know if this trick is supposed to work on PS3 also?
And is it possible to get the trophies while playing Awakening? If I can get it while playing Awakening I might just try that.
An all mage team seems like they would get destroyed fast from a lot of archers like you find in Ostragar. Right now I think Alistair as a tank does more damage than my PC mage.
I've your tank is out damaging a mage in DAO you've made a horrific misstep somewhere along the way.
Archery sucking is kinda normal, but I played a dual wielding hasted arcane warrior and it was insane. Pretty much put shale in spell power buff mode, had wynne and morrigan fling AOEs, while the arcane warrior waded in and tore everyone left up. When I'd put any tank through that and they'd just immidiately die.
For spell combinations, try Glyph of Paralysis + Glyph of Repulsion. :winky:
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Right, it's specifically cone of cold that allows for shattering, it's also a broken spell in its own right
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But he has some awesome banters, so you need to take that back.
Stealing this for sig.
Extra party member and everything!
I will never forget you, Pooky. You tore out the throats of so many elves.
Didn't someone post a few screenshots of a playthrough with every recruitable party member battling the sloth demon at once via a mod? Which was that?
I really wish there was a video of Zevran and Wynne for that entire sequence.
Youtube has missed it
"Weren't you two supposed to get married?"
"But he killed Duncaaaann..." /cry
I swear, at that moment I truly wished that there was an option to drag him in to the adjacent room by the collar of his armor and slap some sense into him.
But whhaaaa he killed Duncan.
I could understand him leaving the group if he was mature about it, maybe telling you to go to hell and going off to help Denerim's forces seperate from you or something, but pissing off from the blight entirely and becoming a drunk? What?
The whole thing reeks of letting the player have only one tanking character in the party at once.
That's kind of what I like about it though. In real life people are definitely whiny babies that sometimes don't want you to get your way, refuse to see things from any other perspective, and will flip their shit and leave for completely illogical reasons sometimes.
To be fair to Alistair, at that point in the story neither he nor the Warden has any idea what the "rules" are for killing an archdemon.
But at that point in the story, you're basically agreeing to let bygones be bygones and bring on the guy whose actions led to the deaths of Alistair's father figure along with hundreds if not thousands of soldiers and a king. Over the course of the story Loghain reveals himself to be a treacherous, power-hungry bastard who isn't above backstabbing the people he's supposed to serve, suppressing and/or murdering dissidents (possibly including his own daughter), allying with sycophantic weasels and slavers, and making idiotic tactical decisions based on bare-faced xenophobia and arrogance in his own ability. This is a man who'd sooner see his country raped and killed by the darkspawn than enter into a defensive alliance with the Orlesians. Would you trust a guy like that to cover your six?
In my first run through the story I absolutely wasn't willing to let Loghain off so easily, and it makes perfect sense that Alistair would object so strongly given his established moral sensibilities. (Alistair, for instance, feels horrible for leaving the people of Lothering to the darkspawn even though he knew it was more important to attend to the Gray Warden treaties -- he and Loghain pretty much lie on completely opposite ends of the utilitarian spectrum.)
I agree that it's a whiny bitch move for Alistair to abandon the fight completely and piss away his life in a bar, though.
Who wouldn't? I mean he was magnificent in that film where he became a werewolf.
Also I think people here are really not giving credit for the whole fact Alistair lost everything to the blight due to Loghains actions. He was almost forced into a position he never wanted or cared for - until he thought that Loghain might survive the justice he arguably deserved. I mean we have a sort of "Divine" position, but from Alistairs point of view he just got screwed by the only family/people that he trusts and lost everyone else. It's not hard to see why someone could be bitter and twisted, not accepting the way events played out and end up like he did.
Say you had a man who basically killed all your family and friends to serve his own purposes. You're by yourself with this new guy and have basically been tasked with saving the world since you believe everyone else who could do it is probably dead. So, that being important and all, you decide to put away your thoughts of revenge for the sake of people not dying.
Everything is going along fine until you meet up with the ass who killed all the people you ever cared about and all those emotions you'd put aside so far come bubbling back up. Then to make it worse, the new guy you're traveling with has decided to bring him along in your merry band.
I know you're probably thinking "Well, saving the world is more important." and that's true, but again people aren't completely logic-based in their responses and one might not be ready to forgive and cooperate that easily.
Heck, the whole reason Loghain fucked things up with the Darkspawn in the first place is because he didn't want to forgive and cooperate with the Orlesians.