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Couldn't finish DA2. Should I play DA3?


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After enjoying another playthrough (my third) of Origins and a first-time playthrough of Awakening and all the other DLC's (Ultimate Edition), I was excited to sink my teeth into DA2 and prepare a save to import into DA3. But only a few hours in, I was already incredibly bored. From then on out, I was only be able to play for fifteen minutes at a time before turning it off. Boring, repetitive, and uneventful. These words describe how I felt while playing DA2.

In the middle of running errands for everyone in town during Act 2, I finally just gave up on the game entirely. This isn't something I do often. When I start a game, I almost always complete it. I had completed DA2 once before, and was somehow able to overlook all the bad design choices and lackluster gameplay mechanics. Maybe I was just really excited for the game or maybe it was hype, I don't know.

So, I have a few questions for BioWare and the community.

1. WIll I be able to import an Awakening save file into Dragon Age 3? (BioWare)

2. How many of you simply want to skip DA2 and import straight into DA3?

3. How many of you will not bother importing a save file into Dragon Age 3?

Modifié par EpicBoot2daFace, 11 octobre 2012 - 07:11 .


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It's been hinted that there may be a method of inputting decisions from previous games without importing. You might be able to use that to effectively import without playing DA2.

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Personally, I have never really been into importing saves from previous games. I prefer to make a brand new character each time. I tried to import a save for Witcher 2 and the result was kind of ridiculous.

I assume there will be some sort of save import feature, but I don't think anyone knows yet whether you will be able to import a DA:O savegame.

Modifié par naughty99, 11 octobre 2012 - 07:12 .


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I am from the future and I will tell you to skip DA2 and just use the save game generator instead.

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EpicBoot2daFace wrote...

After enjoying another playthrough (my third) of Origins and a first-time playthrough of Awakening and all the other DLC's (Ultimate Edition), I was excited to sink my teeth into DA2 and prepare a save to import into DA3. But only a few hours in, I was already incredibly bored. From then on out, I was only be able to play for fifteen minutes at a time before turning it off. Boring, repetitive, and uneventful. These words describe how I felt while playing DA2.

In the middle of running errands for everyone in town during Act 2, I finally just gave up on the game entirely. This isn't something I do often. When I start a game, I almost always complete it. I had completed DA2 once before, and was somehow able to overlook all the bad design choices and lackluster gameplay mechanics. Maybe I was just really excited for the game or maybe it was hype, I don't know.

So, I have a few questions for BioWare and the community.

1. WIll I be able to import an Awakening save file into Dragon Age 3? (BioWare)

2. How many of you simply want to skip DA2 and import straight into DA3?

3. How many of you will not bother importing a save file into Dragon Age 3?


Can't really blame you.

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marshalleck wrote...

I am from the future and I will tell you to skip DA2 and just use the save game generator instead.


And you used the time-machine for THIS!? You bastard!


;)

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Unless it's like ME where the import feature is basically an F-U if you didn't play the previous games, I don't plan on bothering to use the import feature, but it has nothing to do with any distaste for the previous games in the DA series. The old protagonists and characters shouldn't be particularly relevant (at least in a way that I would care for the game to remember). If they are important (Morrigan, Leliana etc) I'm fine seeing them in the "default" way that BioWare has planned for them.

Modifié par Filament, 11 octobre 2012 - 07:24 .


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EpicBoot2daFace wrote...
So, I have a few questions for BioWare and the community.

1. WIll I be able to import an Awakening save file into Dragon Age 3? (BioWare)

2. How many of you simply want to skip DA2 and import straight into DA3?

3. How many of you will not bother importing a save file into Dragon Age 3?

The answer to those questions are:
1. That information hasn't been released
2. Since I have a canon DA2 save, why wouldn't I import if the option is available?
3. See #2.

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I can't tell you if you'll want to play DA3 or not, but if you do you could probably power through the main story of DA2 pretty quickly while ignoring the side quests.

http://dragonage.wik..._(Dragon_Age_II)

Personally, I am for having the option to set different plot flags without importing a save. I feel that replayability shouldn't be so dependent on the choices made in past games.

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Well, if Dragon Age Inquistion turns out to be both decent enough and allows you to skip DA2 by importing directly from Origins/Awakening/Witch Hunt, you might as well go for it (cautiously, of course).

If Bioware on the other hand doesn't bother with meeting both of those requirements, you shouldn't bother with getting the game either.

Modifié par Kaiser Shepard, 11 octobre 2012 - 07:43 .


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Basically if you have the PC Version, its no problem. If you have the console version, you're ****ed.

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I haven't ever seen any case where a save import feature works well in a sequel. 

Perhaps if it were a direct continuation of the previous story, where you are really playing the same exact character continuing at a higher level, for example, an expansion like Awakenings. 

For a sequel, however, you need to start at a low level, and either it's a completely different character, or there's no logical way to explain why you are suddenly weak again. (Amnesia :?)

For any RPG with a complex game world and lots of choices, interesting NPCs and some degree of player agency, there are just too many details of your previous playthrough, this kind of save import thing simply never works and it seems like a waste to dedicate resources toward this stuff. 

Modifié par naughty99, 11 octobre 2012 - 08:29 .


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Based on all the current knowledge we have of DA3............ how should we know?

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Wait 'til it comes out and watch what people say. If it sounds good to you, get it. If not, don't. Fair?

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Should I play DA3?

Why ask that question if we barely know anything about the game at all? ( I can relate to your feelings of DA2 btw )

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Auintus wrote...

Wait 'til it comes out and watch what people say. If it sounds good to you, get it. If not, don't. Fair?


After DA2 and ME3 I fear that what most people will do.

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Preeeeeeeetty sure nothing relevant to import from DA2, everything would happen had hawke been there or not been there, only diffrance would be varrik would probarly be dead in the deep roads

Merridith would've still bought the deus ex machina device from bartran(who would've stuburnly made his way into the deep roads anyway), then she would've handled the act 2 final boss & would've gone the same route she did in act 3, Anders makes the only important choice in the game and you have no say in it at all, everything else hawke did would've amounted to cameo/reffrance fodder in DA3

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EpicBoot2daFace wrote...

After enjoying another playthrough (my third) of Origins and a first-time playthrough of Awakening and all the other DLC's (Ultimate Edition), I was excited to sink my teeth into DA2 and prepare a save to import into DA3. But only a few hours in, I was already incredibly bored. From then on out, I was only be able to play for fifteen minutes at a time before turning it off. Boring, repetitive, and uneventful. These words describe how I felt while playing DA2.

In the middle of running errands for everyone in town during Act 2, I finally just gave up on the game entirely. This isn't something I do often. When I start a game, I almost always complete it. I had completed DA2 once before, and was somehow able to overlook all the bad design choices and lackluster gameplay mechanics. Maybe I was just really excited for the game or maybe it was hype, I don't know.

So, I have a few questions for BioWare and the community.

1. WIll I be able to import an Awakening save file into Dragon Age 3? (BioWare)

2. How many of you simply want to skip DA2 and import straight into DA3?

3. How many of you will not bother importing a save file into Dragon Age 3?

  • Nobody but Bioware can answer this question
  • I have DA2 saves that were imported from DAO...I will definitely be importing my DA2 saves
  • Like I said above, I will be importing. Imports create a more personalized world for me.
I can't answer your question asking if you should get DA3. Only you can answer that question...

Modifié par deuce985, 11 octobre 2012 - 08:38 .


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After I found out the teeny tiny window of time devs were given to create DA2, I have to say they did the best they could. I think higher-ups realized DAO was a sleeper hit and made tons of sales, and rushed the devs to put out DA2. It's a shame, really. So, after knowing that, they did pretty well with what little time they were given. DA2 could have been better - you can't rush that sort of stuff. Honestly, it's not the devs' faults. They are at the mercy of people above them.

Anyway - that out of the way - I'm on a console and I believe if I want my Warden and Hawke to carry over, I'd have to play through the first two games. 

If you are excited for DA3, why not just finish DA2 anyway? You own it, right? Might as well get your money's worth. Regardless of the lackluster design mechanics, you are going to learn more about the story and where it's headed. I mean, unless you don't care and you just want to read up on it via the Internet - you could do that too.

I dunno. That's me, though. I always have to finish things, even if they are books/movies/games I hate. (Which is rare, honestly. I tend to enjoy most things. Open-mindedness is key, perhaps - who knows...)

I guess I don't understand the point of this thread, in a way. Should you bother with DA3? Who knows? It hasn't been released yet... :/

Modifié par Trista Faux Hawke, 11 octobre 2012 - 08:49 .


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And here I thought these should I play Me Da3 threads were restricted to the Me3 section :mellow:

Do what you want, I'll be playing Da3 and that's enough.

Modifié par Emzamination, 11 octobre 2012 - 08:55 .


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EpicBoot2daFace wrote...
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1. WIll I be able to import an Awakening save file into Dragon Age 3? (BioWare)

2. How many of you simply want to skip DA2 and import straight into DA3?

3. How many of you will not bother importing a save file into Dragon Age 3?


My first playthrough may not have anything imported at all. My hope is that, just like DA2, some kind soul will create an import synthesizer that allows the players to set what happened in DAO and DA2. The DA2 one really helped avoid a lot of bugs that were present with the imports.

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EpicBoot2daFace wrote...

After enjoying another playthrough (my third) of Origins and a first-time playthrough of Awakening and all the other DLC's (Ultimate Edition), I was excited to sink my teeth into DA2 and prepare a save to import into DA3. But only a few hours in, I was already incredibly bored. From then on out, I was only be able to play for fifteen minutes at a time before turning it off. Boring, repetitive, and uneventful. These words describe how I felt while playing DA2.

In the middle of running errands for everyone in town during Act 2, I finally just gave up on the game entirely. This isn't something I do often. When I start a game, I almost always complete it. I had completed DA2 once before, and was somehow able to overlook all the bad design choices and lackluster gameplay mechanics. Maybe I was just really excited for the game or maybe it was hype, I don't know.

So, I have a few questions for BioWare and the community.

1. WIll I be able to import an Awakening save file into Dragon Age 3? (BioWare)

2. How many of you simply want to skip DA2 and import straight into DA3?

3. How many of you will not bother importing a save file into Dragon Age 3?


I haven't played DA2 yet but I have played the demo and I also beat Origins 4 times.I will probably skip DA2 and just buy Awakening. Right now I am playing Jade Empire and I am a couple hours in and it feels like a better version of DA2 combat-wise.

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I don't plan on importing anything. Will Choose one of presets origins or hopefully be able to choose from a questionaire type of thing.

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I never got why people ask others what they should buy....nobody has played DA3 and you know yourself more than anyone else do - you are the most qualified to make this decision.

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DA2 had one ending. The mages rebel, Hawke dissappears [somehow becoming even MORE ineffectual to the plot], and War begins.

So no, you can go right ahead and play DA3.