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[Hey Guy]

I am mostly worried about character development and story elements. The culture and people of DAO are what really hooked me, and in DA2 I a hope the characters are a even more realistic and show more evidence that they are products of their world: I somewhat disliked that some characters, companions especially, could not be aware of the intentions behind my choices, and that most of DAO's history, though amazing and worth reading about, could be learned only through codex instead of conversation or experience.

Modifié par Hey Guy, 16 août 2010 - 04:54 .

[Pawlem]

The fan girls and their new love interest.



I'm not joking.

[Tantum Dic Verbo]

Biggest fear? That Bioware will listen to the teeming dozens complaining loudly and implement their creative vision in half-measures. Cohesive design rules.

[Merced256]

Brockololly wrote...

Tinxa wrote...

I'm worried that it will be too short. It probably won't be as long as DAO but I hope it will still be longer than ME2.
First time through it took me about 50 hours for ME2 and about 100 for DAO. I'd like DA2 to take me at leats 80 hours to play through the first time.

I can't recall what magazine it was ( a European one, if I recall) but Mark Darrah commented that DA2 will not be as long as Origins but that it would be longer than Awakening...make of that what you will....

Awakening was like... 15 hours.

[Tinxa]

Brockololly wrote...

Tinxa wrote...

I'm worried that it will be too short. It probably won't be as long as DAO but I hope it will still be longer than ME2.
First time through it took me about 50 hours for ME2 and about 100 for DAO. I'd like DA2 to take me at least 80 hours to play through the first time.

I can't recall what magazine it was ( a European one, if I recall) but Mark Darrah commented that DA2 will not be as long as Origins but that it would be longer than Awakening...make of that what you will....

Yes, I saw that(thank you anyway), but it really doesn't tell me anything .
Awakening was an expansion and those are usually short, most games are longer than that. He might as well have said DA2 will be shorter than DAO but longer than an individual DLC  I'd like to know just how much shorter than DAO is DA2 going to be: just a little bit shorter, a quarter shorter or shorter by half (all of which would be longer than awakening).

[Bryy_Miller]

Pawlem wrote...

The fan girls and their new love interest.

I'm not joking.

This man/woman/Earthling/person speaks truth.

[Saibh]

Pawlem wrote...

The fan girls and their new love interest.

I'm not joking.

We are not half as bad as fanboys and their love interests (Morrigan and Tali, especially), and that's saying something. They can go on rampages.

[Minipulator]

My biggest fear apparently is the same as everyone else's. That they're remaking DA2 into ME2. It WORKED for ME2 for the most part (hated the inventory reduction however). But ME2 WAS a shooter/rpg to begin with. DA:O was an RPG. Turning it into an action-RPG will be the death of the franchise.



You had something special, Bioware. The FIRST actual hardcore RPG in like a decade and a half.



Please don't go and mess that up.

[Xayasha]

I'm afraid that the 10 years span means that most of our companions will come and go. I want some long lasting relationships and deep bondings...

(Yeah, I have weird fears)

[Minipulator]

@Xayasha



This is another good point. Both ME2 and DA2 seem to be heading away from the cast defined in their predecessors. ME2 had a little fanservice to this end, and I suspect DA2 may do the same. But you guys did SUCH a wonderful job with voice actors and character development that, frankly, I don't WANT to meet anybody else.



I know I'm about to sound pathetic but you did so well that you actually, wittingly or not, made the NPCs feel like friends.



I don't want to go back to Ferelden without my friends. In the words of Douglas Adams "I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it."

[Anarya]

Xayasha wrote...

I'm afraid that the 10 years span means that most of our companions will come and go. I want some long lasting relationships and deep bondings...
(Yeah, I have weird fears)

This is a valid fear, but I don't think the writers would let an opportunity like that pass by completely. There's never been such a great setup for really deep relationships, so I expect at least some of your companions to take advantage of it.

[Xayasha]

@Minipulator:



I know what you mean...

But I also think we should give those new characters we will meet in DA2 a chance. Maybe the writers will do a great job at writing them, and we'll grow as attached to them as we did in DA.



In that sense, I think the 10 years span is a double-edged sword. It can either make for some amazing and deep relationships, or uncomplete and scattered ones.



(Pardon my english)

[Lintanis]

Saibh wrote...

Pawlem wrote...

The fan girls and their new love interest.

I'm not joking.

We are not half as bad as fanboys and their love interests (Morrigan and Tali, especially), and that's saying something. They can go on rampages.

HEY! dont tag us with those Tali weirdos 

[Anarya]

Lintanis wrote...

Saibh wrote...

Pawlem wrote...

The fan girls and their new love interest.

I'm not joking.

We are not half as bad as fanboys and their love interests (Morrigan and Tali, especially), and that's saying something. They can go on rampages.

HEY! dont tag us with those Tali weirdos 

Yeah the thing that separates us from them is we're about half as serious about it. All in good fun.

[Minipulator]

@Xayasha



I'm sure the new characters will be excellent. I adore the idea of the story being told as if passed into legend.



I'd like to say I'm on the side of cautious optimism, but I honestly didn't feel any real connection with any of the NPCs in ME2 the way I did with the same NPCs as ME1. They felt very... throwaway. I've since read that this was on purpose - an effort to keep the NPCs alive for ME3 - and I hope that is so. I have a hard time believing that BioWare - basically the only company left who remembers how to tell a story - would design subpar characters without knowing that they'd done so.



One thing about the hero in DA:O not being voiced was I felt no real connection to him/her. Thus I can see a whole new character in the same world delivering all the familiarity I want - only the Warden being absent.



And while we're on the subject, BioWare, of voice actors can we PLEASE get Jennifer Hale to voice the female Hawke? She MADE ME1/2 for me, and she has defined many other roles through gaming history (Bastila, anyone?)

[Anarya]

Minipulator wrote...

And while we're on the subject, BioWare, of voice actors can we PLEASE get Jennifer Hale to voice the female Hawke? She MADE ME1/2 for me, and she has defined many other roles through gaming history (Bastila, anyone?)

Sorry to be the bubble-burster here but Hale has been confirmed as NOT voicing Hawke. It was in a post by David Gaider last night (I think it was last night).

Edit: Found it

Modifié par Anarya, 16 août 2010 - 07:44 .

[Minipulator]

@Anarya



I hope that's because she's working on ME3.

[mousestalker]

I'm mostly afraid that it is being rushed and so won't have the depth of story and character development that other Bioware games have had. I'm also afraid it's being rushed and so won't have the QA that's needed for a good game.



Being proved wrong on those two points would be absolutely delightful.

[Sable Rhapsody]

Anarya wrote...

Minipulator wrote...

And while we're on the subject, BioWare, of voice actors can we PLEASE get Jennifer Hale to voice the female Hawke? She MADE ME1/2 for me, and she has defined many other roles through gaming history (Bastila, anyone?)

Sorry to be the bubble-burster here but Hale has been confirmed as NOT voicing Hawke. It was in a post by David Gaider last night (I think it was last night).

Edit: Found it

This is a good thing, for me at least.  I love Jen Hale, but I've heard her in so many games/shows that I can almost immediately pick out her voice if I'm paying any modicum of attention.  Her voice is Shep for me.  

Now if only they could get Grey Delisle for DA2...

[Divine Justinia V]

 To be completely honest... my greatest fear is if DA2 will have giant spiders like DA:O. Or maybe even bigger ones D:

[steven20011]

No pointless achievemnts to get.

no dept in the game.

little replay value.

But what the hack, it is bioware they can't mess games up

[TheLuc]

biggest fear for DA2, the list is long and some already made me want to skip it, many critics told DA:O graphics were crappy, but it's worth sacrificing graphics for more lore and depth in the world of DA. my first was playing the past, i do prefer going forward already a big turn off ( even in the first DA there is a mention it's a passed event in the history of Ferelden ) plus playing a character that is not my own. no thanks. it's too soon to bash it to the ground but so far i'll stick with the first one. From what i've heard of the sequel nothing makes me want to buy it.