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Offline starbug

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Dragon Age 2 announced!
Well the sequel to one of the best i have ever played has been announced with with some artwork and a wee bit of info.

Website http://dragonage.bioware.com/da2

EDIT Release date has been announced for March 2011

Experience the epic sequel to the 2009 Game of the Year from the critically acclaimed makers of Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2. You are one of the few who escaped the destruction of your home. Now, forced to fight for survival in an ever-changing world, you must gather the deadliest of allies, amass fame and fortune, and seal your place in history. This is the story of how the world changed forever. The legend of your Rise to Power begins now.

Key Features:

    * Embark upon an all-new adventure that takes place across an entire decade and shapes itself around every decision you make.
    * Determine your rise to power from a destitute refugee to the revered champion of the land.
    * Think like a general and fight like a Spartan with dynamic new combat mechanics that put you right in the heart of battle whether you are a mage, rogue, or warrior.
    * Go deeper into the world of Dragon Age with an entirely new cinematic experience that grabs hold of you from the beginning and never lets go.
    * Discover a whole realm rendered in stunning detail with updated graphics and a new visual style.

Seems that you play as a new hero in a different part of the world. I was hoping that you could play as the same character.

It is already available to preorder and seems the box art has been done so i am guessing they are pretty far along with making it. I like how it is supposed to span 10 years, i am hoping for a long game!

According to Chris prestly from Bioware you will only be able to play as a human. Which i think is a bit of a bugger, could be the main character is morrigans child
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* Think like a general and fight like a Spartan with dynamic new combat mechanics that put you right in the heart of battle whether you are a mage, rogue, or warrior.

:doubt:

Will have to play to believe.
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Indeed.

Definitely looking forward to this one, though.
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I'm sure it will be excellent, that said I wouldn't mind an RPG where you start with the fame and the fortune and have that steadily torn down around you.  Seems like all the time you start as some nobody and build yourself up to be some uber hero.  I't be interesting if you started as Lord of a kingdom and have to rule as your realm is ruined by internal corruption and foreign invaders.
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Like DAA?
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Good to see they're carrying on the tradition of the PR making the game look terrible.
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I'm sure it will be excellent, that said I wouldn't mind an RPG where you start with the fame and the fortune and have that steadily torn down around you.  Seems like all the time you start as some nobody and build yourself up to be some uber hero.  I't be interesting if you started as Lord of a kingdom and have to rule as your realm is ruined by internal corruption and foreign invaders.

If you give somebody the tools to fight high-level enemies in the beginning, someone's going to do it successfully. Or you're busting up the point of gaming by making them unbeatable or not mattering if you beat them.

No-win situations don't do it for the majority of the gaming public. Building up allows narrative tension without blatant copouts.
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I'm sure it will be excellent, that said I wouldn't mind an RPG where you start with the fame and the fortune and have that steadily torn down around you.  Seems like all the time you start as some nobody and build yourself up to be some uber hero.  I't be interesting if you started as Lord of a kingdom and have to rule as your realm is ruined by internal corruption and foreign invaders.

If you give somebody the tools to fight high-level enemies in the beginning, someone's going to do it successfully. Or you're busting up the point of gaming by making them unbeatable or not mattering if you beat them.

No-win situations don't do it for the majority of the gaming public. Building up allows narrative tension without blatant copouts.

Actually the Dwarf Noble origin for Dragon Age did almost exactly what StarSlayer's requesting, just in a very brief way.

 

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Mass Effect 2 did more or less the same thing as well. Just, y'know...oddly. And rapidly.
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* Embark upon an all-new adventure that takes place across an entire decade and shapes itself around every decision you make.
Wut.

An entire decade? A Blight spanning ten years?
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An entire decade? A Blight spanning ten years?

Most blights have been major wars requiring the participation of the armed forces of multiple nations, remember?
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... True. I guess most Blights need more than 2 Wardens and a bunch of spunky companions + 4 races to turn it around.

I wonder if Awakening's story will affect DA 2.
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Who said anything about a blight?

And Storm, given that Awakening didn't create a final save, it's unlikely.
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"Dynamic new combat mechanics"...

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You will NOT be Morrigans child. Confirmed by the devs.

I don't know. I'll hold my judgement, but I'm not sure I like this development that much. It seems to be moving away from the Baldurs Gate feeling and more towards Mass Effect.

While I like Mass Effect, Bioware already is making ME3, so this is just...strange.
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Some Game Informer readers are claiming the cover story reveals that the consoles are getting that fight like a spartan nonsense while the PC version's combat remains unchanged.

Which works for me.
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Looking like Dragon Effect/Mass Fantasy 2 so far, not impressed.
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I don't actually mind that you play as a different character, they did it in KOTOR and Neverwinter sequels, alrite they were made by different companys. Would be nice if they put mentions and cameos in. I just hope they aren't going to make it a ME clone but in fantasy.
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-Narrators are telling the story which apparently jumps around in time not necessarily chronologically to key events. This means BioWare's patented 4 Waterdhavian Creatures formula for the games narrative structure is not being used
-The games total time span is a decade
-Events start with Hawke escaping Lothering the town destroyed by the blight in the first game. Events like this from the first game being seen from a different angle mentioned.
-Choice Quote: "This is, I think, the most reactive game we've ever done" -Mike Laidlaw
-Darkspawn are less of a threat
-No Ancient Evil Foozle (maybe)
-Mass Effect/Alpha Protocol-like paraphrases in dialog
-Goodie Two-Shoe Party Members won't ever ditch you even if you're an evil ******** spawned from the bowels of Satan's anus
-Non-magical synergy combat combos added - EX: Warrior sunders a dudes armor and then a thief goes in for a backstab to create a sum greater than the two attacks done separately
-Less total number of spells (Crushing Prison returns), but now there's some new spell augmentation feature.
-Team is pulling the PC and Console versions of Dragon Age II further apart. PC retains the strategic view while consoles get a action game?

From a post on qt3 by a guy with the game informer issue. Thank Christ for the no more Waterdhavian Creatures thing. May we never see their like again.
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-Non-magical synergy combat combos added - EX: Warrior sunders a dudes armor and then a thief goes in for a backstab to create a sum greater than the two attacks done separately
This. I like the sound of this. A lot.

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This one, though, I don't really like it. The threat of having some of party members leaving me made it seem more ... realistic?
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