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 Dragon age 2 review PC

Okay, I’m right now in the very middle of the game, probably
closer to the end so maybe this review will change when I finish it all, but
here’s my take.

First Dragon Age or Dragon Age:Origins was a very very
awesome game. It had a gorgeous huge world, epic battles, and a great story
with a lot of difficult choices that your character could make that influence
the whole world.

Now I have finished the Origins twice, last time just about
two weeks ago to set the story the way I wanted it to be and import it in DA2.
Now I’m playing the second game and seriously: I’m loving it.

Okay, well maybe it would be fair to go point by point,
starting with the things I liked.

I don’t understand why people complain about graphics. They’re
awesome, and colourful and vibrant. Sure they could be better [/i](I’m thinking like a PC player now) but honestly, if I want
to max out my graphic card, I’ll buy Crysis 2. The art design is very nice, and
while the initial darkspawn may seem a bit weird to some people, rest assured
that the rest of the game looks quite well, elves got thinner, Qunari (for
those who know) got larger, the city environments are detailed and unique for
each territory. In games like this art and scenery is more important than raw power
or shader effects.

Let’s say a few words about combat. Dragon Age: Origins
might have been a “return to roots” for someone, me, personally, I’ve never
played Baldur’s Gate, so I wouldn’t know. The combat was quite fun, although I
agree with the devs point of view that slow-mo kills and special decapitations
became a huge nuisance towards the latter half of the game.

  Another thing about DA:O is that it was easy.
No. seriously, it was hard until you reach level 4 (on Normal), 6 (on Hard) or
8ish (on Nightmare) and after that unless you have a huge case of stupid going
on or you try some interesting builds e.g. without a healer (or are just there
for the story, you’re not stupid, don’t get offended  J
) you could run in almost every combat victorious.

Now DA:2 seems to be on the easier side at first, I started
on Hard and was going smooth until the first boss DECIMATED me and made me it’s
(censored). Now, I passed through that after some tries but still, don’t trust
those who say that DA:2 is “easy”. Just crank it to Nightmare like I did after
a while just try it out and weep when you instantly die if fail to coordinate every
single battle. Personally, I love the challenge so I put it in the pros list.

The party you get is alright, there’s no Morrigan although I
don’t really think Alistair or Orghen were all that good (seriously a drunk
dwarf and a knight with a heart of gold? cliché?). But the new guys fare well,
they’re growing on me and they constantly chat behind my back, good job on
voice acting (although Bioware doesn’t get points for voice acting any more,
sorry).

Now to cons: story is fun, I’m a completionist kind of guy
and the side quests are very well implemented some even link you to the DA:O
story which is very nice. The problem is of course that the main story feels
disjointed. I don’t think it’s BAD, but it’s so not rewarding (!!!MILD STORY
SPOILER HERE!!!) to miss the whole first year of Hawke’s life in Kirkwall just
to get a small banter on how “he made his name throughout the city”. I could’ve
done that!! That would be so rewarding to slowly progress through the ranks of
the Kirkwall hierarchy. Instead guys in Bioware probably thought it would take
a lot of time for not very interesting questing and just cut the whole
progression out leaving us with movies that link the years together. Not a
disaster but a shame: surely.

I’m going to join the club of those people who want the
tactical camera. Could be a game changer on Nightmare, although I think someone
said they would have to redo the design of all the levels to allow that, so
well… whatever, I still manage, and the gory mess looks cool from the front
lines.

Other than that, in a nutshell: the game is good, you still
walk around questing, making important decisions and fighting tactical battles.
Personally I’m not going back to DA:O; probably ever. This game is better
although surely if you have doubts, you can always write to me J

Sorry for the huge amount of text, hope it helps. Have fun!