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One absinthe-filled night.
the smaller scale was really cool as well. I wasn't fighting to save the world, I was fighting to re-establish my family in Kirkwall, gain power and influence, and use them for my own ends.
Is this sarcasm? I'm not saying you're wrong, it is an opinion after all, but I have never met anyone who liked DA2 more than Origins.
Not sarcastic at all! DA2 was better in almost every way than Origins. The story-line, characters, world design, lay-out, game-play and anything else you care to bring up were all superior in my opinion.
Ah, that's what that booze was for? I think I bought it eventually but never did anything with it. Guess that's why nothing happened.
To be honest I found some of his conversations kind of awkward anyway so I'm not too upset that he didn't try anything. He was such a debbie downer in this game.
everything but the heavy environment recycling and the last 10 minutes was miles better than DA:O
that was pretty bad
Hmm. I wont say you're wrong but that's certainly a rare opinion. Did you play any of the expansions? Some of the Origins DLC was quite robust but I found the DA2 stuff pretty lacklustre, with respect to their parent titles, of course.
because DA2 is way better
DA2 was a heck of a lot more fun.
"Ugh... dude, what the fuck did we do last night? All I remember is the bottle coming out and somebody dryhumping all the computers. And where'd this game come from? I don't remember making it... oh wait... oh shit."
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The only expansion stuff I played for DA2 was the Sebastian one
the DA: Origins expansion stuff seemed to all be about the same quality as Origins i.e. pretty good but not as good as DA2
Yeah I thought that too
people really like Origins more?
But it's all opinions. Like I said, I'm not going to argue subjectives. But certainly I think the common opinion is that Origins is the better of the two.
that is really weird to me but fair enough
4:10 in this video. How do you get this dialogue?
I just dont understand how that can be the case unless having to clear the same cave was way more important to other people than it was to me
Because mechanically I felt that everything in DA2 was just better, like what they did from me1 to me2
Yeah pretty much, it was the same kind of jump in quality and the decision to use a Shepard-style fixed protagonist with options within that was a good one
I wonder if you get if you didn't romance ash or liara?
Maybe you need to have no romances at all before ME3?
I'll just have to chalk this up to me having more bad opinions. But man, the fact that you could shoot under cover was cool, having to scope in with an assault rifle to make accurate shots made sense to me, and you could minimize the annoyance of the minigames by speccing into electronics or whatever. Honestly, like in ME2, the minigames weren't bad the first few times. But after the dozenth time you're staring at the hack screen...yeah, it got old. Stealth and pistols was hilariously broken (invisible murder machine that can stop time and shoot 5 people in the head in an instant!)
I still had fun with it though. Seems like a lot of people didn't!
It's the same problem you have in Mass Effect if you're constantly switching between paragon, renegade, and neutral options, honestly. But with more variety.
I put that one on the player to keep consistent. Certainly I was generally selecting one branch, same as Mass Effect.
The 2012 issue of Fornax. | Steam and Origin: Espressosaurus
Seems kind of a leap that the game would assume you having no romance means
I wondered if it was using a modded save import, but that wouldn't explain Shepard having the appropriate dialogue.
I am intrigued.
I guess but
or something like that
DA:O was just a chore to play.
remember how in ME1 they had Meer read every bit of dialogue, even stuff that male sheps normally wouldn't get ("you're attracted to me even though we're both women?" etc.). That's probably the case in ME3 too.
Notice that Kaidan says "the person that I loved", not "the man" or the "woman"
at least I've got almost all the shredder mods by now
DA2 > DA:O
The 2012 issue of Fornax. | Steam and Origin: Espressosaurus
DA:O gets a lot of love because it's a really good spiritual successor to BG2. The amount of people that love that game is astounding, so DA:O get's proxy love because of it.
DA2 is ME2 with swords.
I personally prefer Origins, but I completely understand why a lot of people prefer DA2. I've just always thought that the silent majority preferred Origins because of the Baldur's Gate influence.
the combat was probably more fun if you were some sort of baldur's gate fetishist
I love Baldur's Gate and the combat in DA: Origins was barely anything like it beyond "dude with swords"
ME2 was well written with very enjoyable gameplay, you bet I'd like a version of that with swords
The 2012 issue of Fornax. | Steam and Origin: Espressosaurus
Smacking stuff with weapons was better.
Magic sucked in comparison between the two.
I didn't know they did that for ME1. That's a bit crazy. Wonder why they did that.
now I have all the classes just in time for new shit to be put out
Turns out the only Mage I liked was Bethany, who was sensible!
Yeah, pretty much.
The 2012 issue of Fornax. | Steam and Origin: Espressosaurus
It isn't, that's why I didn't go into it more than that. But it's a vastly different game than DA:O with a much more panned story than both Origins and ME2. The story was good, but not as well received as either of the other two.
DA2 got a lot of love with it's expansions, though, to quell a little of the "This is not as it once was, a child of the game we loved" hate that it got.