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| Dragon Age 2 | | Posted on Wednesday, March 09 @ 19:57:22 EST by Suislide |  Dragon Age: Origins was one of the best games ever created with full-scale castles, awesome tactical combat, excellent dialog and some of the best writing seen in any video games. Beyond that it had memorable characters and was pretty much the best RPG ever created since Baldurs Gate II ( and was the actual spiritual successor). Bioware, instead of continuing this tradition decided to take A BIG FUCKING SHIT on everyone who enjoyed the original and instead created the game based upon the retard-infested Call of Duty market and alienated everyone who liked the original. In turn, you get a watered down, poorly written, uninteresting stinking shit fest which tests not only your patience but your ability not stomp on small animals until they are dead. Dragon Age 2 is not just a let-down because of its predecessor but it is an all around terrible fucking game even on it's own right.
So everyone enjoyed the first game and it had incredible reviews with a metacritic score of 91 and incredibly high user score. The exact fucking opposite in this case with a score of 84 and a 3.0/10 for user reviews. You know some reviewer bullshit going on in the sense of PC Gamer being a fucking paid-off review site which will suck any game developers dick when they get enough money.
Dragon Age 2 had a lot to live up to when it came to the first game, however, if it kept most of the formula the same, improved some of the problems and graphics, and wrote a great continuation, there would have been no problem with the game being at minimum equal to the first. However, the real story is "STREAMLINED" it which basically means they took out everything EVERYONE liked and left the game as a hollow shell of what its predecessor and basically took a shit on all of its fans who supported them by purchasing. Here is a straight forward list of why this game is a piece of shit
Shit Graphics: The graphics in this game are a fucking step back considering that they are incredibly bland and uninteresting. The art design took a style to become more cartoony and JRPG looking and is a mash between western and and JRPG styles which comes off looking like shit on the overall scale. Different armors in this game simply look like a blend of stupid generic pieces of sharp metal rather the VASTLY unique different looking armors we were offered in Dragon Age Origins. Beyond this, the textures (even with the High-Res Texture pack which you have to download separately) are absolute ass and when tessellation is enabled the game runs like shit and yet still manages to look worse than the first game. It is like they outsourced the development of the assets to some shit Chinese company who is better suited at putting poison in shitty toys to kill small children.
Woefully Retarded OTT Animations: Dragon Age Origins had excellent combat animations with the standard fighting moves being fancy enough to look actually real and vicious while still keeping a gritty tone to them. THIS GAME FUCKS THAT IN THE ASS. Now you get mages shooting fireballs from between their legs while doing blackflips and Hawke is doing whirlwinds left and right and hitting thousands of enemies at once in ridiculous flashy and stupid looking animations. Yeah, way to keep the serious fucking tone of the game when my rogue is jumping around the game like a fucking monkey stabbing people all around the map. Way to go dipshits
"Streamlined" Combat: Basically, all that Streamlined combat means is they made it fucking easy for dipshits who don't actually know how to play a game, i.e. Console players with stupid controllers. I was playing on Nightmare and the game requires absolutely no tactical thought or pausing at all. The spiritual successor combat of Baldurs Gate had a big shit rammed down its throat and we basically got a fucking BUTTON MASHER. You just press your stupid moves to kill darkspawn and/or various humans and the flashy graphics just play and somehow everything ends up dead. The stupidest part of the combat is you attack groups at a time, so enemies with fucking RESPAWN in front of you while in the middle of battle. That's right, to attempt to add some sort of stupid challenge, Bioware decided to make it so random enemies willl just POP OUT OF THE AIR and attack you in another group. If you play with the combat for more than 30 minutes you will become absolutely bored because even the flashly graphics don't help the game when it is a fucking BUTTON MASHER.
Terrible User Interface: Gone is the beautiful wood looking interface that you got in DA:O that was functional and extremely usable and was instead replaced with WHITE ON BLACK. The inventory which used to be a detailed Tome that you would open is not replaced by WHITE TEXT ON BLACK BACKGROUND. It looks like a fucking iPad reject interface that Steve Jobs would have pissed out if he was a retarded down syndrome infested child. They clearly did NO user testing and instead with their 12 month development cycle, just farted out the first thing that came to mind and everyone suffers for it.
Boring Characters and Dialog: The first five minutes of the game you are stuck playing as a Human considering that ALL the origin stories are now gone which added replay and differences to the game and you are stuck with shitty human companions. One of them is your sister who DIES thankfully because her writing was terrible. You get a stupid dwarf who looks like some fat mobster from the 80s wearing a sweat suit with his chest hair flaring out. Yeah, that is great character design. These characters have absolutely NOTHING interesting to offer the game, nothing they say is even remotely interesting, their backgrounds are bland, and beyond that the love story in this game is LAUGHABLE. Beyond that, they replaced the standard text with a dialog wheel FOR RETARDS. Seriously the whole fucking game the only replies you can make are HAPPY, FUNNY, BAD. Oh wow, how INTERESTED, yeah it really sucks me into the game when my stupid replies are the same stupid set of three options everytime. Whoever did the writing for this game needs to have his fucking eyes swatted by a cat because no matter which characters speaks it is just so uninteresting that it makes my testicles hurt.
Kirkwall is fucking dead: The whole game takes place instead the city of Kirkwall which is about as interactive as a dead gold fish. The city is just a repeatable sea of brown that you run through THE WHOLE FUCKING GAME. There is literally NO ONE in the city that you can talk to and interact with. You just run around a CORRIDOR city. Seriously the game feels like you are running down a fucking corridor the whole time instead of actually exploring big city areas. You end up going to the same fucking areas multiple times just to do the same boring 50 quests over and over. That is pretty much all the game consists of is you going, I NEED MONEY, and doing 50 shitty side quests that appear in the same pre-fabricated area. Yeah, that is about as interesting as counting blades of grass. There is NO interactivity in this game whatsoever.
The Story is Atrocious : Seriously, this game has absolutely nothing to fucking do with the previous two games which were released (Origins/Awakening). It is just you running around as Hawke going I NEED MONEY TO DO STUFF until some bullshit happens that you don't care about. The narrative isn't interesting, it isn't gripping. Hell, I've taken a dump that was my gripping in this game as I thought I might die, in this game, you are expecting a story to be like a million dollar fireworks show but instead you get fucking snakes and sparklers.
That pretty much covers everything as they fucking gutted the original game to release a turd in disguise to swindle people out of their fucking money. This is MORE than obvious when there is a shit ton of fucking DLC which comes out on DAY ONE instead of being included with the game. This was just a bullshit money grubbing scheme to help fund their stupid MMO. Bioware FUCKED DRAGON AGE and ruined the whole fucking series. They literally have one option which is to pretend this sequel never fucking existed and release a NEW and BETTER Dragon Age 2 instead of this shit. 0/10
Now as a quick side note, it is obvious by looking at Metacritic that the reviews were paid off. With sites like PC GAMER AGAIN stating that this is better than the original in every single way. FUCK YOU PC GAMER, you cock sucking low fucking assholes. You are the bane of real reviews and help to fuck people out of money by causing them to buy shit instead of providing real reviews to people. You are the lowest, greedy, cum swapping dick sucking assholes and you deserve to have your fucking shitty headquarters burned down where you print your bullshit greedy lies on paper.
Seriously, look at Metacritic, the game is scoring 7 and 8s with only shitty review sites like XBOX Magazine giving it 9s and 10s. The Escapist is another shitbag as well who praised the game with LIES. You can smell the fucking money just changing hands. Bioware must have spent all their fucking money paying off reviewers instead of actually putting it into the game. If you look at the users reviews they are almost UNANIMOUSLY negative against the game on PC, PS3 and 360 because real users are NOT PAID OFF like those fuckers writing this shit. All review websites should be on your fucking shit list. Fuck you guys. Dragon Age 2 was fucked by Bioware and we the consumers got a big fucking dick up the ass. This game is a fucking abomination.
Update 3/11/2011: We know have OFFICIAL confirmation from the composer for the music score that the game was a turd. He says, ""Unlike other titles from Bioware, this was kind of a rush job", he tells IGN. "EA really wanted to capitalize on the success of Origins, so the game was really being pushed hard to be released now." There you fucking have it...they caved into shitty EA pressure and the game is now a rush job turd fest which basically means they stole our money. Beyond that, they also banned a guy for insulting EA for being a piece of shit and he can no longer use his game. Bioware has OFFICIALLY gone the way of Westwood.
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by craterface on Thursday, March 10 @ 10:35:23 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | They fucked the dialogues so that now it doesn't really matter what you actually say. When you're presented with a question, you have that 3 choice, good bad or neutral, you don't even have to read it just choose one of the 3 symbols. That renders the dialogue a borefest, just a nuisance overall. You develop a loathe towards dialogue in this game like "ooh not another boring talking part.. oookay.. good, good, neutral.. finally it's over, i don't really know what it was about, i just clicked randomly to make it end eventually". In DA-O there was a skill of deceiving others by words, now that is gone with a lot of others like making traps or potions.
I think BioWare sold itself out to EA just like a lot of companies before it. As soon some company makes a great game, EA corrupts it by buying it all, getting to be the producers and telling the developers to make the next game according to their shitty ideas.
BioWare fucked it up. They got the respect and money back with the Infinity games, but it wasn't enough for them so they sold themselfs out to the big fish. They got what they deserve. Hope that will be a lesson for other developers to stay true. |
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Re: Dragon Age 2 (Score: 1)
by berzerker on Thursday, March 10 @ 12:04:03 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | More than a thousand views in just one day? Did someone link to this review on some popular forum? |
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Re: Dragon Age 2 (Score: 1)
by Decree on Thursday, March 10 @ 21:30:36 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | This is by far the most objective and detailed review of Dragon Age 2 that can be found on the internet. I'm not being a smartass, I'm not trying to be funny, I'm being honest. I played the game for more than 6 hours and I feel like I need to weep. I don't think I will be ever be able to trust any review site, besides this one, ever again. |
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Re: Dragon Age 2 (Score: 1)
by deadstatue on Sunday, March 13 @ 19:47:33 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Just bought it on a recommendation from.one of the jackasses at gamestop..its horrible. I've been pressing the square button for.hours now so I don't have to sit throught the cinematic that I just payed for. This game is not really an rpg,unless you want to consider god of war an rpg. I can't talk to any of the townspeople unless they're storyline characters,and you can't deviate from the.story line in the least. And screw gamestop for.not taking this.pile.of shit back... I recommend anything but this game...im 2 hours into it and im done with it already. All I can do is hope to get half my wasted money back from it. No used copies so im stuck with garbage I wont play...anyone want to trade a game? Haha |
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Re: Dragon Age 2 (Score: 1)
by LordOcampo on Thursday, March 17 @ 14:11:37 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | I agree with most of the review. I was shocked to see the game dumbed down to appeal to any type of people but the ones who truly enjoy a real RPG. The gameplay is SHALLOW and c'mon, not even the chance to manage party inventory? We have higher IQ's than Forrest Gump and the average Wii player, people!
My faith in BioWare has been SHAKEN. Now I am having serious doubts about getting Mass Effect 3 and The Old Republic, seeing as Dragon Age feels like a console piece of crap.
If console players cannot handle real games, OK, give them the shit they can. But give us real gamers some real games. |
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Re: Dragon Age 2 (Score: 1)
by DevlinXIII on Thursday, March 17 @ 16:16:28 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Couldn't agree more with the review...
I think I'll install DA:O again just to be reminded of how good a game could be |
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Re: Dragon Age 2 (Score: 1)
by BaronBoomstick on Monday, April 11 @ 18:11:51 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Fucking A
From the the first minute I started playing this game I felt like I was being cheated like when you drink non alcoholic beer, it's called beer except it's just not the fucking same
Seriously I felt like I was paying someone to shit in my mouth, this game was made for joy fondling console monkeys.
The game is too cartoony and the combat system sucks kraken balls, it totally raped what was given to us in DA:O
Hell DA:O was so good it gave me a fucking bonner |
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Re: Dragon Age 2 (Score: 1)
by ZG on Saturday, April 23 @ 16:45:25 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | "Woefully Retarded OTT Animations"
This is spot on. I simply can't play DA2 because the animations are so incredibly stupid. I have been playing video games since the beginning and have purchased well over a hundred games. This is the second most angry and robbed I have felt.
Bioware just ripped me off $60.
DA2 DLC? LOL, NO! ME3? LOL, NO! SWTOR? LOL, NO!
I'm through with Bioware. They are owned by EA and DAO was the last good CRPG title we will see from them. Thankfully, it looks like Bethesda hasn't sold out and whatever sops they offer the console kiddies will be fixable with the construction set. |
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| | | Re: Dragon Age 2 (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Sunday, May 12 @ 00:43:14 EDT | Try not to sound like a fucking fanboy the next time you post your fucking retarded review you cocksucker shitbag. All you did in your review was complain like a 10 year old kid who didnt get his iphone 5 for his next birthday.
If you truly believe that DA:O' s story had more depth, and was the "spiritual successor" to Baldur's Gate II, i am safe to assume that you never understood the trilogy in the first place. For me, Origins was as repetitive, dull and generic as DA2, with the exception of very few places. It is LINEER as shit, the story is CLICHE as hell and the mechanics are frustrating. When you face a decision about which potato goes on to which shelf, you automatically assume that the plot has depth, while your ultimate goal is to slaying the archdemon, stopping the darkspawn from 10 minutes into the game. The armor styles are dumb as shit, when i equipped my first cowl as a mage i almost threw up in that game. All armors look the same. All menus are made to make your life harder just by trying to navigate them. And if you claim Origins has better graphics than DA2, you clearly are a retard.
There are some aspects that are the same in both games though, the cities are equally dull and make you want to get through as quickly as possible, dungeons are designed in such a way that your only purpose is to go forward and find the miraculous second exit that takes you to the same entrance faster.
And there are some aspects that Origins is better than DA2. Such as combat depth, variety of skills and the depth of some individual quests, although that too is limited. I hate it in DA2 that every time you engage combat, enemies appear out of thin air as waves.
All in all, i believe that DA2 had really good potential in development, however it has been rushed so much that we end users are experiencing the fraction of what was intended for the game. Thus, the feeling of dumbing down to appease 10 year old button-mashers.
To summarize my point: You cannot hope to get good games out of a company who only knows how to build GAME ENGINES, it was BLACK ISLE who gave Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Fallout franchises the depth they had, being the awesome script, story and dialogue writers they are, and the Infinity engine was only the means to an end, nothing more. Bioware makes decent games, but to be honest, they will never achieve something so grand as the titles i just mentioned again. ESPECIALLY not while working with some deuchebag capitalist company like EA. |
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Re: Dragon Age 2 (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Saturday, February 01 @ 17:53:00 EST | Fully agreed. I've just installed the game, after recently finishing DA:O and DA:A, and I was... WTF?!
This is bad. It's even worse than that, it's just retarded.
It seems like I'm playing some stupid console game where the gamemaker takes me by the hand and tells me exactly what to do every step of the way and the combat and overall action is so simple I just feel they have me dumbed down.
The game is ugle, who gives a crap about the story, and the combat system is pathetic.
They could have just made an add on with the DA:O system, instead of making this useless piece of nothing.
Just deleted the junk. Off to play Skyrim or any other good game. There are quite a few out there. :P |
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