Should i buy dragon age 2

I know I'm late but I just wanted to express my opinion on this topic. I played it because it had a lot of mixed reviews so I decided to see for myself whether or not I liked the game and I am glad I did, even though it was flawed and there was some stuff that I felt could have been added to the game, I enjoyed it a lot and I would recommend playing for yourself.

Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Dragon Age Wiki Explore. Dragon Age Series. I mean DA2 is not necessary to play whatsoever.

Your companions aren't just waiting around for you to call on them, and they're not subservient. In Inquisition, on the other hand, even the toughest, most opinionated characters, like Cassandra, feel like your employees.

Dragon Age 2 also boasts a much stronger sense of place than the other games. Despite its broad time frame, it's actually a bit more focussed, mostly interested in what happens to Kirkwall.

I wish more RPGs were set in cities, and Kirkwall ends up feeling a lot more like home than Skyhold or your depressing camp in Origins. That said, it's not an attractive city, and while a lot of changes happen to it over the years, it physically remains largely the same. I was, I confess, a bit sick of it by the end, but I would have been more than happy to spend additional time there if there was a bit more diversity. That's really where Dragon Age 2 trips up.

There just aren't enough distinct locations for a game of this size. Dungeons, for instance, are frequently recycled, so you'll be fighting your way through the same caves a lot, with differences amounting to what end you start at—it just isn't enough, and speaks to the game's rocky development.

The flashy but not especially tactical combat only exacerbated the issue, making the adventuring portion of the game a bit of a disappointment. All the crappy dungeons and simple fights aren't what I remember when I think of Dragon Age 2, though, and time has only improved it in my estimation.

We gave it a whopping 94 in our Dragon Age 2 review , which proved to be pretty contentious, but I've definitely come over to Rich's side here. For all its flaws, it's a singular BioWare RPG, and the stuff it nails is far more important to me than flinging spells and hitting things with swords.

It would have been much better served getting rid of half of the encounters and using the additional resources to polish up the rest. If Hawke's violent adventures weren't so integral to the story, I'd even be fine with getting rid of the lot of them, to be honest.

Epic, sweeping quests still hold some appeal, but that's rarely what folk want to talk about when they finish an RPG. It's the people we meet on these quests that end up getting lodged in our minds, and the character we've fashioned by the end of it. If you want to play through so you're caught up with the story, go for it.

Just lower your expectations before you start. User Info: MRLoki3. Don't skip dragon age II, chances are you are going to miss a few points of main history and quite a lot of references on the new game. I could bet that we are going to see quite a lot of leliana and varric action on the new game, based on what we saw from the DA2 interrogation parts. But still, dragon age 2 was not a very good game it was basically a beautiful but shallow wannabe RPG but actually a weak action game The big problem here is that, by what I watched, they are NOT improving inquisition based on DA:O, but actually based on DA What devs said about the game being "open world", I don't buy that either, expect it to be a fake open world actually large-ish maps.

People need to get this before it gets out of hand: "don't overhype dragon age III, the last game sucked, this one can totally suck too".

User Info: Arn Graphics are very nice at least, EA's official HD texture pack on max settings is incredible. For a game. User Info: Metsfan It really depends on what you enjoyed about DA:O For many people, the scale of the story, characters and wide variety of settings that are introduced to you are what made it great In DA2, you are more or less in the same city the whole entire game, with reusable areas and less engaging characters.

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