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IGN: Dragon Age 2 Combat Classes Video Preview

Not sure if you want to play as a warrior, mage or rogue? IGN overviews all of the classes and who you can use in your party.

shovelface885557d ago

Pretty stoked. Unlike the majority of people on N4G, I actually like the demo, LOVED the first game, and am looking forward to endless hours in DA2.

Every single game BioWare has made, I've loved. They are like Valve for me, they just know how to make good games.

Was the new combo system a risky move? Sure. However, if it weren't for developers changing things up and trying new mechanics, we'd be playing the same games over and over.

Too many companies these days just release new iterations, or more of the same. (Call of Duty or Guitar Hero are great examples.)

Just my 2 cents.

Tex1175557d ago

Well, the PC community has a reason to be ticked off I think, but for the console players, most of these changes are for the better.

It does seem a little "dumbed down" from DAO but so was Me2 from Me. It worked out. Hopefully this will too.

Bioware's recent games have just been plain fun...good story...decent graphics....fun gameplay....Nothing truly amazing about them other than it comes together in an enjoyable experience.

Leave it to Dark Souls and some other games to kick your ass or do something wildly different. (And yes...Dark Souls is my most anticipated game of the year)

shovelface885557d ago

I played dragon age origins on PC and will play DA2 on PC as well. I loved all the changes. Removing the tactical camera (and I say removed, what I really mean is slightly altered) doesn't really bother me.

Most of the time I just switched between to assign actions, and just used the tactical camera for positioning. Positioning in Dragon Age 2, at least in the demo, is much less of an issue than it was in DAO.

Tex1175557d ago

Im going for the Rouge myself.

midgard2275557d ago

i wuda been a rogue but the animations are the worst of them all

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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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TheColbertinator70d 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 Made Dragon Age and Mass Effect DLC Free On PC By Retiring The BioWare Points System

Immersed Gamer writes: "In order to replace the oppressive BioWare Points system, EA is making a large portion of the Mass Effect and Dragon Age DLC catalogs free for PC users.

For those of you blissfully unaware, EA and BioWare employed a payment system called BioWare Points on PC to pay for DLCs for titles like Mass Effect and Dragon Age. While PC gamers have been struggling with BioWare point’s unfair conversion rates and extremely scarce and cost-detrimental sales.

Console players have been allowed to purchase content in pieces through the appropriate Sony and Microsoft shops. For real money, and not BioWare monopoly bucks. In turn, console players missed out on some DLC content, such as Mass Effect 2 pre-order bonuses that have been repackaged into a DLC pack."

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TinkerNation1404d ago

Great response to Ubisoft and their disgusting behavior. Ubisoft decide to take away DLC from people who paid for it, while EA give it for free to everyone when they realize their system sucks. Who would have thought that EA of all companies would be showing Ubisoft how it should be done (even if this is EA fixing their own mistakes as well).

Mobis-New-Nest1404d ago

What goes around comes around and I promise you, Ubisoft will see their actions blow back on them when their diminishing sales numbers and stock taking a hit downward. That's the only way a company learns when they decide to be reactive instead of proactive.

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All BioWare Games Ranked from Worst to Best

BLG writes: "There was a time that BioWare games were the biggest deal in gaming. The Canadian developer’s legacy of all-time classics is well known. Mass Effect, Knights of the Old Republic, and Baldur’s Gate are some of the biggest names in gaming.

While BioWare’s quality has fallen off lately, there’s no denying the quality of titles in their portfolio. That’s why we’re going to dive in and rank every BioWare game from worst to best. By every, I do mean every BioWare game, even the ones you completely forgot about!"

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Orbilator1563d ago

Ranked from worse to even more worse more like, they been on free fall for a fair few years now and I personally don't think any of there earlier games have aged well

autobotdan1563d ago

Wow to think at one point in their history they made a Sonic the Hedgehog game..crazy

chicken_in_the_corn1563d ago

Anthem is crazy underrated. I really enjoyed it. ME1 is Bioware's best imo

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Michiel19891563d ago

I actually put quite a bit of hours into Anthem but i dont think its underrated. It was a huge mess, server issues, gameplay issues, crashes, no endgame loop, too few different enemies, uninteresting gear. too few dungeons.

It for sure had potential and if they could have managed to keep the same gameplay of the classes but without the rest of the issues, this game could have been huge, but in the state in which it launched it was such a letdown. They partly fixed some of the issues, but it took too long. A grinding game like this needs to hook players from day 1.