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  • jfsolo
    Live Action, please?
    • May 2003
    • 12965

    #31
    Re: Dragon Age 2

    Originally posted by Chizzypoof
    Thanks Flawless.

    That's kind of disappointing with the three choices of response. I hope that's just an overall view and you can still extract more information from the person you are talking too. But it is nice to hear the QT thing from Mass Effect 2 has made its way here.

    It's also nice to hear the combat hasn't changed too much and switching characters is still in.

    The IGN previewer has it wrong.

    We put up to 5 choice options and 5 investigate options per dialog node. There is also a difference between choices (where you are actually deciding something) and giving you the opportunity to express yourself in different ways (which I think is quite cool, but not something I believe we have released any details on yet).
    Quote from Bioware developer Craig Graff on the Bioware DA 2 boards.

    Edit: out quicked by Flawless, what a surprise...not.
    Last edited by jfsolo; 07-23-2010, 12:49 PM.
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    • Cyros
      ULTRAAAA!!!!
      • Jun 2003
      • 12628

      #32
      Re: Dragon Age 2

      Gotta come correct if you want to step into Flawless's world of gaming information.
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      • Flawless
        Bang-bang! Down-down!
        • Mar 2004
        • 16780

        #33
        Re: Dragon Age 2

        Gamespot Hands-on

        Dragon Age II will take on the style of a "framed narrative," or a story within a story. Laidlaw cited The Princess Bride and The Usual Suspects as examples, but the basic idea is this: You play as Hawke, a warrior whose feats have made him or her a legend of his or her time. The vast majority of the game focuses on you, but every so often, you'll see scenes in which a seeker of knowledge listens to a story from a teller of tales, who, like most folks fixated on heroic legends, has a tendency to exaggerate your exploits a bit.

        That theme of mild exaggeration ties in with Dragon Age II's visual style, which is a bit more stylized than its predecessor. It's a subtle change on the surface: Character models are a tad more angular, with some slightly caricaturized. And the landscape--or at least the single one we saw--wore the effects of the blight in a more grim, pronounced way. In combat, it's not uncommon to see a Darkspawn explode with blood and stray body parts when you finish him off. But most remarkable of all, the Xbox 360 version that we saw running actually looked quite good. If you played Origins on the console, you'll know what a feat that was.
        Console controls work the same as in Origins: You pull one trigger to open a radial wheel of talents, spells, items, and whatnot. This screen freezes time and lets you fine-tune your aim on a particular enemy. But playing as the warrior, we favored running around, using the talents mapped to the face buttons instead. Overall, the sense of movement is less clunky, the animation more fluid, and the blood more plentiful.

        Switching over to the mage resulted in a more tactical style of combat along the lines of the first game. With the mage, we preferred pulling up that radial menu and finding the best spell to cast in a given situation. Our favorite quickly became inferno, which lets you rain fire on a radius of enemies as though you'd just called a mortar strike from the heavens. According to Laidlaw, they've worked to make sure the mage has more "wow" moments in combat like the weapon-based classes. To demonstrate, he showed a mage finishing off an ogre by lifting him up into the air, surrounding him with a dark energy, and then exploding him into nothingness.

        Overall, the combat didn't feel remarkably different from the first Dragon Age. It flowed a little more smoothly and moved at a quicker pace, but that was mostly because our talents and spells recharged quickly after using them. That could very easily have just been something BioWare tuned for this public demo--likely a lowered difficulty to help ease players back into the experience. After this admittedly brief demo, we're confident that BioWare knows what it is doing. This isn't going to be a hack-and-slash game.

        While the demo was mostly combat, we did get to run through a few dialogue options. The most immediate change you'll notice is that your character now speaks those words you choose for him or her. As a reason for making this change, Laidlaw cited the first game's hero as being caught in an **** battle for the survival of mankind and being able to show no more emotion than raising an eyebrow. You're still given the same diverse list of dialogue options, ranging from perfect gentleman to salty jerk, with a smattering of options in between. It feels a little more like Mass Effect in this way, but we weren't given any options to poke and prod someone's innermost psyche like Commander Shepard. Our conversational options were a little more action oriented than that, like choosing whether to take on a small group of Darkspawn ourselves or letting our mage friend handle it for us.

        All told, this small glimpse at Dragon Age II revealed a game that looks a little bit more stylized, moves a bit more quickly, and showed a more unique identity than its predecessor. But, again, it was a small glimpse, and it would be a fool's errand to deduce too much from this tiny sliver of gameplay. Either way, we liked what we saw and we're looking forward to seeing more.
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        • Valdarez
          All Star
          • Feb 2008
          • 5075

          #34
          Re: Dragon Age 2

          They better give us some way to manage players in DA2. I hate to go to my memory and delete my characters to play the last DLC for DA:O because I had reached the 'cap'. Who puts a character limit in the game and then doesn't provide a way to delete characters???
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          • jmood88
            Sean Payton: Retribution
            • Jul 2003
            • 34639

            #35
            Re: Dragon Age 2

            Sounds like I'll have to play this one since the combat is better than the first one.
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            • Chizzypoof
              MVP
              • Dec 2004
              • 1651

              #36
              Re: Dragon Age 2

              Thanks for clarifying that everyone.


              Dev Video with some game play

              edit: not really game play, just some rough moving animations.
              Last edited by Chizzypoof; 07-27-2010, 12:38 PM.

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              • Chizzypoof
                MVP
                • Dec 2004
                • 1651

                #37
                Re: Dragon Age 2

                Hands on preview from IGN:



                I'm excited.

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                • DakkoN
                  All Star
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 5611

                  #38
                  Re: Dragon Age 2

                  First trailer:

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                  • goh
                    Banned
                    • Aug 2003
                    • 20755

                    #39
                    Re: Dragon Age 2

                    What the default female hero looks like: http://kotaku.com/5632187/dragon-age...male-real-nice

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                    • thaima1shu
                      Robot
                      • Feb 2004
                      • 5598

                      #40
                      Re: Dragon Age 2

                      I wonder how important finishing the first one is going to be. I just couldn't really get into it, no matter how hard I tried. But with DA2 seemingly shifting towards more of a Mass Effect type storytelling, hopefully I can get into this one.

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                      • goh
                        Banned
                        • Aug 2003
                        • 20755

                        #41
                        Re: Dragon Age 2

                        Hopefully not so much. I still haven't finished and am fully intent on getting this on PC (which reminds me I should be nuking this pile of rubbish right about now) but have the first and Awakening on 360. Could always get that Ultimate one later I guess.

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                        • trobinson97
                          Lie,cheat,steal,kill: Win
                          • Oct 2004
                          • 16366

                          #42
                          Re: Dragon Age 2

                          SIAP. Got a code today for a staff in DA2.





                          <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="538"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="159">
                          </td> <td valign="top" width="233"></td> <td valign="top" width="141"></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="538"><tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="538"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="538">Get a friend to sign up to receive Dragon Age e-mail communications during the month of October they will receive a code for the Staff of Parthalan. All they need to do is sign up here:
                          http://dragonage.bioware.com
                          </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="538"></td></tr></tbody></table>
                          PS: You guys are great.

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                          • Cyros
                            ULTRAAAA!!!!
                            • Jun 2003
                            • 12628

                            #43
                            Re: Dragon Age 2

                            Originally posted by trobinson97
                            SIAP. Got a code today for a staff in DA2.





                            <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="538"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="159">
                            </td> <td valign="top" width="233"></td> <td valign="top" width="141"></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="538"><tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="538"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="538">Get a friend to sign up to receive Dragon Age e-mail communications during the month of October they will receive a code for the Staff of Parthalan. All they need to do is sign up here:
                            http://dragonage.bioware.com
                            </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="538"></td></tr></tbody></table>
                            Good looking out, trob.
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                            • Altimus
                              Chelsea, Assemble!
                              • Nov 2004
                              • 27283

                              #44
                              Re: Dragon Age 2

                              Thanks trob. Is the code supposed to come in the email?

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                              • trobinson97
                                Lie,cheat,steal,kill: Win
                                • Oct 2004
                                • 16366

                                #45
                                Re: Dragon Age 2

                                Yep, sent to email.
                                PS: You guys are great.

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