1. Save File Corruption
I have NEVER had any problems with corrupted save game files in any of the games I've played on my Xbox 360. The sole exception was two years ago when the power in my hole block went out right when I was saving (can't remember what game). Aside from that, no problems whatsoever before or after that. Yet I'm having save game files corrupted A LOT in DA2.
Sometimes I get a warning about a "miscellaneous error" when trying to save, or the saving-game-icon just won't disappear along with the load/save options in the menu being greyed out. Other times everything appears to have worked fine until I try to load the latest saved game - "The save file appears to be damaged and cannot be loaded." So I try the one before that and get that message again. Then I try the third-oldest save, and I also get that message. What the hell?!? And FYI, I've disabled auto saves in the options menu before I even started playing DA2.
2. Hold Position ... Or Not
Why is the AI unable to follow a simple command that basically just means "stay here and don't run around" even when there are no monsters around? Without any hostiles, there are no tactics that could possibly override "don't move". And it's not like I'm leaving my party far behind - WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME ROOM! And I do mean "room" and not "map" or "part of map". I mean "room" - four walls, a floor and a ceiling, one door we all just came through in this wall, the other door in the opposite wall. And Hawke is barely five meters away before some party members decide to follow him again. Yet when I run back to where I parked my party, those who followed me now stay where they are.
3. Sustained Abilities Being Deactivated
This is probably the most frustrating thing because it happens ALL THE TIME. I'm playing a blood mage, so Blood Magic is enabled all the time. Or it would be if the game didn't decide to turn it off without even only the slightest hint of an apparent cause. Now I know that Dispel Magic does disable sustained spells/talents, but that would mean that all the monsters I'm fighting use it, including Shades, Corpses, Giant/Poisonous Spiders, Deepstalkers, etc.
Since Hawke has very low Willpower/Mana (Willpower 14 but Constitution 29; he's a blood mage, after all), and enabling Blood Magic already consumes 70% of the available mana, there is simply no mana left to cast spells when Blood Magic gets miraculously disabled in the middle of combat. Or right at the start of combat, for that matter. And with a 20s cooldown before I can re-engage Blood Magic, all Hawke can do is to rely on his staff, or chuck down a lyrium potion to cast at least one or two spells. And it's not like Blood Magic is the only sustained spell that gets disabled. ALL of them are being turned off at the same time, yet only on Hawke (Summon Dog, Rock Armor). So I have to reload a previous save quite often, unless that save game file is corrupted - see above.
So without wanting to sound like an a-hole, DA2 is by far the most frustrating gaming experience I've encountered in many, many years. If these issues didn't exist, DA2 would be a great game. But between having to reload a lot because my party's getting wiped out due to the most powerful character being reduced to a third-rate archer, but being unable to do that because saved games becoming corrupted, thus having to replay considerable parts very frequently, I really doubt that I'm ever going to play that game through to the end. And it also makes me really doubt whether or not I should purchase DA3, sadly.
Modifié par Gangster No.1, 29 janvier 2013 - 05:45 .
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