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Dragon Age II Retrospective

Just weeks ahead of the release of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Trent from Zero1gaming.com takes a look at the previous entry in the DA series.

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annoyedgamer4221d ago

Between you and the other kids below the comments are disturbing, Either the majority of are illiterate or are all lovers of a universal hated game all in one place? Coincidence? Doubt it.

Tom874222d ago

Can't wait to get my hand on this game :)

DoctorJones4221d ago

It's in the shops and on digital stores as we speak. You can probably get it really cheap as it wasn't received well.

If you're talking about Dragon Age 3, well that's not what this article is about and you could do with going to Specsavers.

Sketchy_Galore4222d ago

I should probably be ashamed to say this but I just bought this game recently since it was cheap and I wanted to catch up on the story before Inquisition and... I'm really liking it. I've almost finished it and have thoroughly enjoyed the journey. It's no Origins of course and is not for anyone who plays to test their battle strategy or manage loot and stats but for a guy like me who's more interested in experiencing and personalising my own story I've really enjoyed it.

The only major downside is I've played as an elemental Mage which seems far better than playing as any other class I've played as in a Dragon Age game. Which sort of means for Inquisition I can go back to playing as a less enjoyable class or build another Mage and risk getting burned out on doing the same thing I did in the last game.

Sly-Lupin4222d ago

I liked it too, though it had some problems. The lack of playable space was a huge problem, and the ending was a mess--your choices don't matter because they force a false equivalency into the narrative so that, no matter what side you choose, you get to fight the same bosses as you would on the other side.

It was that last bit that really killed the game for me. Some people also dislike the more action oriented combat, but I enjoyed it. I much prefer competent action gameplay over shoddy tactical play.

Anon19744221d ago

Never understood the hate this game received. At the core, DAII was a serviceable RPG with a lot of fun to be had. I think it's biggest problem is that it wasn't Origins. Origins was a superior title and while I was playing DAII I couldn't help but pick apart the ways it wasn't the first game. Had I played DAII without having played Origins I probably would have had a much better time with it.

R6ex4221d ago

I enjoyed it almost as much as Origins.

Roccetarius4221d ago (Edited 4221d ago )

Dragon Age: Kirkwall had plenty of issues going for it, pushing itself even further away from Bioware's legacy with tactical play. I would say the only character likeable in the game, is Varric.

Especially Anders was messed up, considering they had to push him as a certain orientation compared to Origins. It's almost like completely different writers were in charge.

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Dragon Age Lead Says Including World State Reactivity Felt Like It Was "Irrelevant Or Not Enough"

Dragon Age 2 set the precedent that the series would always carry our choices over, but was it worth it?

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TheColbertinator68d ago

If the choices won't matter, why bother? Bioware works so hard at giving meaningful choices but rarely if ever carrying out the impact of such choices to the end.

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EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch

EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.

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peppeaccardo69d ago

When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!

badz14969d ago

cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla

HyperMoused69d ago

TTK for BF employees needs adjusting

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EA makes layoffs at Skate developer Full Circle

The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.

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Profchaos81d ago

The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result

isarai_lee80d ago

It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way

badboyz0981d ago (Edited 81d ago )

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