Now, most people know they showed DA2 at Comic Con this year and I knew I had to check it out. So heres the info I got from it along with some personal opinions.
Facts:
-Hawke was around during Dragon Age Origins.
-It will be a different type of story, quoted from the developer, "A story within a story".
-There are two narrators and one who appears to be a dwarf claims to have known Hawke and likes to exagerate about him stating he was 14 feet tall and could kill a hurlock with a single blow. The other appears to be a female human warrior who is trying to get information about Hawke and is asking the dwarf about him and the dwarf states "How do you know I wont make it up as I go?"
-The beginning of the game catches people up to the events of Dragon Age Origins.
-The combat system has been redesigned, a quote from the developer, to allow you to "fight like a spartan" but also keep the strategic feel from DA:O
-Mages now have finishing moves for Giants
-The auto attack seems to have been removed with the A button (xbox 360) being a basic sword attack. (Warriors)
-New easy to understand dialouge wheel.
-Improved graphics for Consoles
-Longer timeline compared to DA:O, about a Decade.
-Companions offering their special services during situations with the dialouge wheel. I.E. a diplomatic Character resolving an arguement.
-Your character talks.
Thats all I can recall at the moment.
Now for what I experienced playing the demo.
They led us into a dark room with seats and tvs everywhere with the title screen for DA2 which had a slot for Downloadable Content BTW. The developer gave us a presentation of the demo and explained the changes.
After waiting a while we got our hands on the controllers (Xbox 360) and had our chance to play it. It starts with the intro catching you up on DA:O then to the combat, your on a mountain with your sister (Mage) and your attacked by Darkspawn which looked a bit different, more skeleton like IMO. The combat with the six mapped skills were the same except for a button mashable mele mapped on the A button. The warrior skills were: A Jumping Sword Slice, A rushing attack, Whirlwind attack and others which I cant remember. It was definitely more gory with the whirlwind attack severing surrounding darkspawn in half exploding with blood. (which I enjoyed
). The mage had a protective barrier spell, rain of fire skill, fireball, holy light type spell, and others. After the first wave a dialouge wheel comes up with the option of letting your sister destroy a group of darkspawn or letting yourself handle it automatically. Then more darkspawn, then a giant which you can kill with your warrior or use the mages new finisher for giants which filled the giant with light and made him explode sending blood flying everywhere. The scene ended with a dragon appearing and killing darkspawn then turning into a female with white hair bound into the shape of horns who then walks up to Hawke and his Sister. Then it cuts to the female narrator stating "Thats not how it happened!" to the dwarf. She then states she needs the Champion for something and wants the dwarf to tell her everything he knows.Now for the opinions:
The demo graphics were in very early stages (I hope) because the quality was terrible.
The gore was great!
Not excited at all for the new Story in a Story idea.
Im hoping the race, gender, appearance, ect of Hawke will be changable. Can anyone confirm?
Also the female that changes from a dragon appears to be Flemeth, but something someone brought up is that it may be an older Morrigan? Idk both are possible I guess.
Sorry I couldnt recall all of the details of the demo but thats what I got!
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