Bioware announces Dragon Age 2

[Lady Jaye]

Release is slated for next March, on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. The August issue of Game Informer will have a 10-page article on the game. Hopefully EA will have removed the infamous DLC sidequests hidden as in-game requests.

[BetaWolf47]

The DLC in this franchise is ridiculous anyways. It's coming out more often than newer iPod models. Now they've already announced a sequel when the game's only been out half a year. Count me out.

[Zthun]

The first Dragon Age game wasn't exactly a grand staple of Bioware awesomeness. I'm with Beta, I'm out.

[StoneAgeGamer]

I enjoyed the first one enough to buy some DLC and the expansion. However I was disappointed with those.

[portnoyd]

The first Dragon Age game wasn't exactly a grand staple of Bioware awesomeness. I'm with Beta, I'm out.

Yeah, the first one was gigantic turd. Boring as hell. Pass on #2.

[Lady Jaye]

The DLC in this franchise is ridiculous anyways. It's coming out more often than newer iPod models. Now they've already announced a sequel when the game's only been out half a year. Count me out.

By the time DA2 comes out, it will have been a year and a half. And maybe it'll be more akin to what happened with Mass Effect, where the second one improved the first one. Wait and see.

[Overbite]

Dragon Age Origins was awesome, best RPG in a long time. I hear they're taking a more action oriented approach to the second and making it have a set main character like Shepard in Mass Effect so that sucks.

Hopefully they won't screw around with the combat system too much.

[jonebone]

Dragon Age is one of the best RPGs I've ever played, I'm 26 and started playing games around 5. It is really that good, the only knock I have is that there's a bit too much emphasis on text / story / character interaction when compared to the actual quests / adventure. It is especially noticeable at the beginning of the game, but if you can whether the storm then the game becomes epic.

I always pass on Expansions / DLC but I'll surely pick up the stand-alone sequel.

[Lady Jaye]

Strong emphasis on story and character exchanges has always been characteristic of Bioware. Look at Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights, or even Mass Effect...

[jonebone]

Strong emphasis on story and character exchanges has always been characteristic of Bioware. Look at Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights, or even Mass Effect...

Yeah I've never played any of those but I'm familiar with their styles.

Obviously it wasn't "too much" to cause me to hit eject and never give it a chance, but it was damn slow at the beginning. I recently tried to play Super Paper Mario on Wii as I hear it was great, but it was even worse. The entire beginning of the game was clicking through a stupid storyline with a bad guy named "Count Bleck" and I turned it off and will never play it again.

RPGs have a fine line to walk between too much dialogue / story and just right. Too much can deter some one from giving the game a chance.

[Drifter 2000]

I think you'd want to count out Neverwinter Nights. Those campaigns were all paper thin. Really NWN was a toolset more than anything else.

I'm not very impressed with what little information I've heard about DA2 so far. Sounds more like Dragon Effect and less like Dragon Age. Not that I dislike Mass Effect, but I liked Dragon Age because it was truer to the genre's roots. A genre that's becoming more and more diluted as it becomes more action centric.

[Trebuken]

The DLC in this franchise is ridiculous anyways. It's coming out more often than newer iPod models. Now they've already announced a sequel when the game's only been out half a year. Count me out.

That was the point. Ultimately Dragon Age is working with a Dungeons and Dragons model, or modules. The mistake was the DLC, exdcept Awakening, was too shoort and looked more like micro-transaction money-mooching, and then Awakening failed to match the quality of the original game. I like the module idea, but I grew up with AD&D.

Loved Dragon Age, and will play through Awakeneing before DA2, but I have concerns about DA2. DA was graphically behind the times; I think it was delayed too much, and I fear DA2 will be built from the same model - given the shortish developement time.

I am sad to hear that not everyone enjoyed the game; it was the best fantasy RPG since Oblivion (am I forgetting something? Counting Fallout 3 as Sci-Fi).