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[CaptainPatch]

I'm wondering if you noted how differently DA:O played compared to DA2 compared to DAI.  I think the contrast will be that DA2 is MUCH more Action/Arcade-y compared to DA:O.  But then is DAI more, less, or about the same Action/Arcade-y?  Having played several hours of DAI, I'm tempted to just go all the way back to the beginning and then play through into DAI.  I'd also like to get a firm grasp on just how much of the RPG element was supposedly reinforced with the release of DAI.  (My suspicion is, "not much".)

[Jaulen]

I did go back and replay DAO and DA2 prior to DAI releasing (in fact, just have the Meredit confrontation at the end of DA2 to finish that play through)

 

DAO is agonizing game play. Slow, shuffling....I found myself going down to easy just to get combat over with.

[Jnaathra]

I did go back and replay DAO and DA2 prior to DAI releasing (in fact, just have the Meredit confrontation at the end of DA2 to finish that play through)

 

DAO is agonizing game play. Slow, shuffling....I found myself going down to easy just to get combat over with.

 

I'm starting to feel the same way about DA:I. It isn't very tactical at all. Then features like the tactical view are clumsy and badly designed. Turning up the diff doesn't mean more challenging AI, it just means they have more HPs in general.

[Lee T]

Reading about DAI made me finish my last abandonned playthrough as a Dalish. I used the opportunity to have the poor lad die and play the Orlesian Commander.

However I have yet to go further as Bioware thought it was a good idea to limit (360) your character slots to 10 and use up a slot for each DLC. Something they didn't care to patch as the disk space evolved.

I did not find the strength in me to go through DA2 again.

[Quaddis]

I did two playthroughs of DA:O in last two months.
 

I did not find the strength in me to go through DA2 again.

This.

[Dabrikishaw]

Yes. 

[bmwcrazy]

I replayed both about a year ago.

It's bad that we don't get to use our game saves.

[Dahae]

Yes I have been replaying the **** out of DA2. I tried replaying DA:O but it's very unstable on my laptop and crashes too often. Not sure why but oh well~

[iheartbob]

I did two new play throughs of DA: Origins in the last two months and then just finished a new play through of DA: II yesterday.

 

The combat is very different, but it was also different from Origins to DA: II. I'm still trying to get used to the sensitivity of moving the camera. I think that's part of the issue with the supposed weirdness of tac cam. I'm just not used to it, but I can see how it is very useful when reading the battlefield and issuing orders to companions. 

 

I'm not nearly as put off by the fact that the camera immediately returns to whatever companion is selected in tac cam, but it is a little annoying. Not game breaking or anything ... just another thing to get used to.

 

My only real gripe with combat at the moment is the fact that tactical behaviors are pretty much non-existent. That was the thing that tied Origins and DA: II together and I very much miss it. I definitely feel like we have to micromanage more while in combat but I still have to feel out how smart the companion AI is. 

[dantares83]

yeah, me. i miss awakening though.

[Sriep]

Did anyone go back and replay DA:O and DA2 before playing DAI

 

I'm wondering if you noted how differently DA:O played compared to DA2 compared to DAI.  I think the contrast will be that DA2 is MUCH more Action/Arcade-y compared to DA:O.  But then is DAI more, less, or about the same Action/Arcade-y?  Having played several hours of DAI, I'm tempted to just go all the way back to the beginning and then play through into DAI.  I'd also like to get a firm grasp on just how much of the RPG element was supposedly reinforced with the release of DAI.  (My suspicion is, "not much".)

 

No idea, but currently playing DAO while waiting for DAI to unlock

[CaptainPatch]

I did two new play throughs of DA: Origins in the last two months and then just finished a new play through of DA: II yesterday.

 

The combat is very different, but it was also different from Origins to DA: II. I'm still trying to get used to the sensitivity of moving the camera. I think that's part of the issue with the supposed weirdness of tac cam. I'm just not used to it, but I can see how it is very useful when reading the battlefield and issuing orders to companions. 

How different is DAI combat from DA2 in your opinion?  Do you have any sense of the volume of combat in DA:O compared to DA2 compared to DAI?

[llandwynwyn]

Yes, but I couldn't complete DA2 due to time. I was too busy studying to play games.

[Semipro]

Guilty as charged.

 

Considering going back to play DA:O for awhile til Inquisition sees a patch. My recent play through is like 2 years after the last time I actively played the game, I almost forgot how much I liked Alistair.

[Enesia]

DAO, yes.

 

DA2, I don't talk about DA2. It's that bad of a game. It's one of those games that needs to be burned in a fire.

[KCMeredith]

Origins twice, DA2 once.

[SykoWolfPup]

Of course!

I replayed them both about a month ago, though to be fair I didnt complete Dragon Age 2 DLCs :T
I coul go back and try to finish the game and the DLCs now, but Im just going to use the Keep to make the choices I would have made.

[Mugino]

Replayed DA:O and went through DA2 for the first time ever. It was quite enjoyable, despite my fear to even touch it due to negative feedback coming from fans. I liked it.
Anyway, after that I went back to DA:O and I couldn't stand how slow the combat was compared to the second game.
DA:I feels diferent to DA2. Mainly because you have to manualy run up to an enemy or an item. I find myself clicking and waiting for character to do something. Tactical point of the game feels clunky, but I haven't played enough to judge it.

[Semipro]

Replayed DA:O and went through DA2 for the first time ever. It was quite enjoyable, despite my fear to even touch it due to negative feedback coming from fans. I liked it.
Anyway, after that I went back to DA:O and I couldn't stand how slow the combat was compared to the second game.
DA:I feels diferent to DA2. Mainly because you have to manualy run up to an enemy or an item. I find myself clicking and waiting for character to do something. Tactical point of the game feels clunky, but I haven't played enough to judge it.

 

DA2 got panned a lot harder than it deserved. I felt the advances in game play were very good. I just feel like the entire point of living 10 years in Kirkwall was basically just a plot device to allow you to deliver a mage bomb (Anders) to the chantry and set off this war we're walking into now. Everything else just felt like episodic content that was just part of daily life in Thedas, but the destruction of the Kirkwall chantry was the entire point of the game, at least in a narrative sense.

[Grieving Natashina]

I did a full run of both games back in March.  Glad I did, since it helped keep a lot of things fresh in mind for, well, my choices in the Keep.

[CaptainPatch]

Upon reflection I find that what gives me the perception of DA2's diminished roleplaying is the fewer times that the player has dialogs with his party companions.  For example in DA:O, pretty much every time the player camped out, he had an opportunity to have conversations with a half-dozen or more NPCs.  Heck, you even had chats with the dog!  I recognize that roleplaying in video games simply can't be as free form as chatting with a GameMaster in a paper-and-pencil RPG.  But it seems that in video games, the player does most of roleplaying, it's when he is having dialogues with NPCs.  Fewer dialogues = less roleplaying.  And if what is compared between DA:O and DA2 is the number of dialogue opportunities, then DA2 is clearly less roleplaying than DA:O.  Even if the volume of combat is the same in both games, then DA2 comes out as being as more combat-oriented.  (Though I am still fairly certain that there was a significantly greater amount of combat in DA2.)

[Xiltas]

Finished a few playthroughs I started a while back. Balder Aeducan and Connor Hawke.

[Thandal N'Lyman]

Yes.  Both.  With all the DLC.  More than once.

 

And I think most of the heat DA2 received could have been avoided if they had simply called it something other  than "DA2".  Like maybe "DA: Champion of Kirkwall".  But calling it "DA2" set up an expectation that the game would be a direct continuation of the first one, which we all know wasn't the case. 

 

Looks like they learned their lesson, since basically no one from BioWare refers to "Inquisition" as "DA3" in public! 

[DemGeth]

Yes but a couple moths ago.  I've done so many playthrus of DAO I honestly couldn't remember which one to import lol.