BioWare teases Dragon Age artwork, says improvements must be made in future installments

@Dalrint

The significance of your choices were great...up until you get to the last half of Act 3.

@adeese

Indeed. Right about the point where your significance became insignificant.

@Dalrint
You mean the significance of choice that represented a different npc giving a speech about how mages are oppressed and then killing you instead of another npc?
DAII had about as much significance of choice as subway giving me a choice between "spicy" and "Dijon" mustard.

I hate to plug a game when talking about another game, but if you want to see actual significance of choice at play, go try the Witcher 2. Significance of choice isn't swapping npc models and dialogue trees, it's actually having the game change when you do something.
(it's even witchier than the last ;0)

@Dalrint

You're telling me that every character in your team becoming some wounded soul emo was "brilliant writing"? There is absolutely no joy in Hawke's party. The one source of joy that there MAY be, Isabella, is written as so much of a pouncy harlot that there is absolutely no subtlety or charm to her, unlike Zevran.

I didn't mind the wave combat. To me, they finally got combat right in this one by making cooldowns shorter, and battle more active. I hated combat in DA:O. Then again, I didn't spend all day spamming poisons and alchemy, my character ended up as a Two-Hand Warrior with a Super Sword. Still wasn't all that great. Should have used a Hammer...

Ahem. Anyway, they said they'd be improving Dragon Age with "DA:2". Expect the entire game to absolutely frelling suck in every area except combat, just like every other game that gets a console-focused release. Whilst I love good combat, if the rest of the game suffers for it, it's just not worth it.

Besides, they just released, and yet they're talking "the next game". It'll be just as rushed, just as shitty, it'll have Day 1 DLC because EA sidetracks a few members to get DLC out on release day (just like with BF3). I'm staying away from EA games until they stop destroying every IP that their studios birth. Woe to all the ones who bought DA2, they won't be supporting your game.

@ShivanSwordsman Man, I guess you didn't ever talk to Varric or keep him in your party. That guy was a veritable ball of sunshine.

@Undying One can only hope!

@SpacePenguinBot

I disliked the demo so much I didn't even complete it.

All I had to do was look at screenshots and hear about the character creation removal.

I enjoyed getting all the achievements for Origins (3 play-throughs!) but botching the sequel was probably the worst thing they could do, since now I don't want anything to do with the franchise at all (similar to how I'll never watch Star Wars II & III).

RPGs are time-consuming, and there's too many better choices from far more innovative developers.

@jsx

Character creation removal? I think you are mixing your facts my good sir. They only removed the ability to play as an elf or a dwarf. Still bad, but they did NOT remove character creation.

You just had to play as the default hawke for the first few minutes of the game. While I thought it was an interesting concept (You were playing as the *legend of hawke, not the actual one) I thought it failed for the very fact of forcing you to do it.

@jsx Removed character creation? Lulwut?

@Dance Mofo

Stop CHOOSING to make your protagonist a man-whore.

@Dance Mofo The Grey Warden wasn't a manwhore unless you made them one. :(

@Dance Mofo you don't have to be man-whore if you choose so. you don't play RPG much i presume?

@Dance Mofo I think you confused this game with The Witcher.

@Dance Mofo "Oh noes Dragon Age is making me teh gheyz!!!!111"

This is a sign that you have your own issues to work out.

@Boring K

Technically her never said anything about the protagonist being a gay man-whore.

He could still be a man-whore while only sleeping with all the woman.

@copa you only see one man-smurf with one female-naveri (I guess if that's her race). You don't see one man-smurf with a legion wanting to get with him or both.

@Mister Darcy a show of hands, how many here pimped out their main man to see how the interaction would go?

@Boring K

oh look. overly defensive gay rights poster. the poster didn't even mention homosexuality, genius.

@Balthier
Take it from a real man-whore, guys.

@Dance Mofo Naveri? You mean Na'vi? Or Neytiri? Come on man, even the theater viewings of Avatar had subtitles.

@Mazrael

And that's one of the reasons I'm excited for Skyrim.

@(Unverified)

What's Diablo 3 got to do with this?

@xLoneWolfx How can you still speak with all that crap coming out of your mouth

@Bubbameister33

Sounds good!
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Let your self entitlemest know no bounds!

@DokiDokiBawanga

Cooking Mama's famous Shepard's Pie. Mmmmm mmmmm! Das' Good.

@Misfit Toy

DA2 wasn't about the blight.

@This Little Man Says His Name Is

True, but it still had dark spawn and they could have utilized them more regardless. Also, saying Grey Wardens should only show up during a Blight makes them too one-dimensional.

@Misfit Toy

umm, Anders is a Grey Warden.

@BrianH

That is true. But he's kind of a run-away Grey Warden. Not really operating as part of the army of Grey Wardens. He more or less exists to serve himself anymore and by the end of the game you want to punch his face in because he takes matters into his own hands.

@gatotsu911

That's what I got out of it.

@gatotsu911

True, true.

@gatotsu911
Please, take your time. In fact, TAKE YOUR TIME.
THAT IS AN ORDER. I want quality, dammit. Not this EA exploit of DA1.