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Dragon Age 2 - Rise To Power Trailer
Nerfington
Brisbane, Queensland
1150 posts
Apologies that it has subtitles, will fix it if another pops up.
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Crakaveli
USA
4500 posts
Looked like some parts were in game..
04:40am 27/10/10 Permalink
Nerfington
Brisbane, Queensland
1151 posts
Yeah those fire effects were way too dodgy to be a cinematic. :P
07:33am 27/10/10 Permalink
Tim Tibbetts
Brisbane, Queensland
2457 posts
I've just finished playing the DLC, which actually was pretty good towards the end too.

I plan on playing a new character again over xmas in time for DAO:2.
09:31am 27/10/10 Permalink
Khel
Melbourne, Victoria
15530 posts
So its basically Dragon Age done like Mass Effect? Thats probably a good direction to go in, after playing Mass Effect 2 I can't go back to Dragon Age, it feels so clunky and archaic in comparison.
11:24am 27/10/10 Permalink
ravn0s
Brisbane, Queensland
11413 posts
i still havent started the awakenings expansion :(

11:34am 27/10/10 Permalink
Crakaveli
USA
4502 posts
its awesome
11:41am 27/10/10 Permalink
Midda
Brisbane, Queensland
5723 posts
So its basically Dragon Age done like Mass Effect? Thats probably a good direction to go in, after playing Mass Effect 2 I can't go back to Dragon Age, it feels so clunky and archaic in comparison.

What in the trailer gave you that impression? I didn't see any Gameplay at all.

I could never finish Dragon Age. In fact, I think I only got like 3 or 4 hours in. It, as you say, felt way too clunky to hold my attention.
01:40pm 27/10/10 Permalink
Sc00bs
Brisbane, Queensland
5744 posts
agree ^^

MA2 was awesome and made DA look and play like ass
01:43pm 27/10/10 Permalink
Khel
Melbourne, Victoria
15531 posts
What in the trailer gave you that impression? I didn't see any Gameplay at all.


Not so much the gameplay, I guess more the fact that its about an actual character now, not a nameless, faceless player avatar, and it had that big epic "Hes our last best hope and the only one that can save us" vibe that Mass Effect has. And the epic music seemed to remind me of Mass Effect too :P

Engine looks like its the MA2 engine as well, looks far too good to be the old Dragon Age engine, so I guess I was just assuming (hoping?) with that will come some of the other trimmings of Mass Effect.
03:08pm 27/10/10 Permalink
Midda
Brisbane, Queensland
5728 posts
I imagine that would be too much of a departure from what most people liked about Dragon Age. Mass Effect has a very different play style.

Not that I'd complain, I'd love them to just dress up Mass Effect like Dragon Age.
03:18pm 27/10/10 Permalink
ravn0s
Brisbane, Queensland
11417 posts
bioware has already said this game will be similar in style to mass effect.
03:36pm 27/10/10 Permalink
Midda
Brisbane, Queensland
5729 posts
Play style or story-progression style?
03:39pm 27/10/10 Permalink
ravn0s
Brisbane, Queensland
11420 posts
think they said gameplay will be a mix of mass effect and dragon age, story progression will be like mass effect.
03:41pm 27/10/10 Permalink
Nerfington
Brisbane, Queensland
1152 posts
It's the same as Mass Effect, can choose gender and appearance but must play as human. Fully voiced main character too.
05:19pm 27/10/10 Permalink
kettels
Melbourne, Victoria
110 posts
Looks good. Never found the time to finish the first one, i had to games and got halfway through in each but always uni or something would take my time then i forgot what i happened so never went back.
05:47pm 27/10/10 Permalink
Nerfington
Brisbane, Queensland
1153 posts
It's worth finishing imo, pretty good ending(s), and the awakening expansion was great too. The dwarf and to a lesser extent elf parts were a bit of a slog, but it's worth it.
06:44pm 27/10/10 Permalink
Crakaveli
USA
4504 posts
MA2 was awesome and made DA look and play like ass
Just fyi they are two different games.

Sometimes i think i'm the only one who preferred Dragons age to mass effect (1 & 2).
08:22pm 27/10/10 Permalink
Eorl
Gold Coast, Queensland
433 posts
Bit off topic here, but why are people calling it MA2? It's Mass Effect, not Mass Affect.

back on topic, as long as it's more accessible and more fun then boring, I'm all for it. DA:O was great, but did have some boring turn offs at some points. But everything else was top notch, and I hope the same for this title.
10:48pm 27/10/10 Permalink
Tollaz0r!
Brisbane, Queensland
10764 posts
I totally enjoyed DA over Mass effect, to me DA was an RPG and Mass Affect was an adventure game with some RPG elements.


It makes me sad to hear that DA2 is more like MA. Old Skool type D&D like roleplaying games are rare enough already.
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