That's right, you better watch out come fantasy baseball season. You get in my way, I'll cutchoo.

Its hard to describe.

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/5800272/1

Keep in mind though, that this may not be the final design that appears in the game. Considering they've only shown ogres, hurlocks, and emissaries, genlocks might not even be in DA2. At this point, I'm not following anything about the game that closely, except for femHawke's voice actor. Once I find out that name, I don't think I'll bother with information about the game again until the ultimate/goty/steam holiday sale version. Or not; I'll still be playing Skyrim I think.

For anyone interested, Chris Priestly posted about the drm for DA2.

http://social.bioware.com/forum/Dragon-Age-II/Dragon-Age-II-General-Discussion/Dragon-Age-2-DRM-5887403-1.html

Why not wait till the version with all dlc in one on a steam sale ?
I am waiting to get the full version, pre owned and dirt cheap.


One of the main issues of the new character system is the dialouge wheel for me. Not so much stuck as one character. I only really liked playing human noble anyway in DAO. (dont like the look of other races).
But the wheel just ruins things. if they want a voice why not have it with the normal dialouge system ? I hate the wheel because I pcik an option and say something I didnt want to say, it totally breaks your character.

0.o Its an ape...
Emmisary changes look quite good imo, ogres face is ugly and looks worse but.
Its an ape... What ? Why ? No sense. It dosent even look like a dwarf, just an ape. I now they wanted to be different, but some of these ideas are terrible. Apespawn is one of those ideas.

Well, looks like the little "1.2.2011" poster I got with Awakening turned out to be a http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/260/index/5897928/1 after all. Or so do majority of people think. :biggrin:

Actually I saw that this awesome game called DA O was coming out a year before it did and I thought it would awesome but then I saw gameplay vids and i thought I wouldn't like it but I had already told my friends about it and one of them bought the game before I did so he lended it to me (I lended him OB sicne he had never played) and completed the MQ (plus a few other quests obviously) in two days cause I immediatly got hooked. The next week ordered it from Amazon and already finished the game another 2 times and have already bought Awakening and more recently the Ultiamate Edition (since I can't download the DLCs) as well as DA 2 (pre order). Currently it's my 3rd favourite game series (TES is 1st and Mass Effect is 2nd )

The only thing bothering me. I mean really, where is the big outcry this got when Mass Effect was supposed to have it? Did the UbiStarter really make this fade out and look good?
If I wouldn't trust in the inevitability of purely digital distribution, this would bother me more, but it still remains a little unsettling.

I dont see why these games need to have some online conenction, when its purely single player. What someone else dose is seperate to my game, therefore its entirely pointless. Makes no sense.

I'm actually kind of glad most of the news for Dragon Age 2 has been disappointing, because with this new bit of information, not buying it isn't going to be anywhere near as painful as it could have been.

That would be the smart thing to do, but unfortunately I'm too eager to try it and don't want to wait.

It looks like a great game IMO, so I went ahead and pre-ordered. Maybe I will regret it later.

Man I can't wait for Dragon Age 2 to come out. It should be a good game, I have concerns about the main character being voiced but it could be a good thing in the long run.

That sounds like the most annoying peice of [censored] drm outside of securom and Ubisoft's thingy. Zune does the same thing with the music files you can buy at the zune store, and it's [censored] annoying. I really hope they reconsider, because such drm is intolerable. I'd rather deal with GFWL.

I can't remember whether its Melo or Priestly [or another dev] posting about it, but the "EA phone home" thing isn't set in granite yet. Of course, my sarcastic side has its suspicions that they won't settle on the length of time or whether it will be needed or not until its too late to cancel orders. Sort of how they wouldn't say anything at all about the availability on Steam until the day after the Signature edition offer expired. It would have been much less of a "EA hates Steam and wants you to use their crappy downloader and clueless tech support" conspiracy thing if they had said "We're working on Steam but having issues. More information as soon as we know.". Saying nothing then making the "Good news for the people who want the game on Steam. Its now available." on Jan. 12th was either really clueless marketing, or they really did want people to order from somewhere other than Steam. Considering all the "fight like a SPARTAN, play like a GENERAL", "push a button and something AWESOME happens" stuff from Marketing, the clueless marketing theory does have support......

I never thought I'd be saying I'm glad I'm not getting a Bioware game, but I am, at this point. If there is a holiday sale on Steam for the ultimate super duper compilation edition at some point, maybe.

Its funny I notice a few people (on other forums) are getting so tired of them trying to get all they can, dlc, dlc for buying it new, signature edition, etc. They are saying they will likely get it pre owned so BW dont get anything, dont blame them becuase its damn greedy, and a fitting punishment for wanting more is getting nothing.

Oh and it seems they have started planning more dlc already, saying in an announcement they learned from DAO that it needs to be focused on the main character. Ok the game still has a month before release, and talking about more dlc, it just seems really cheap imo.

I don't think I'll be getting DA2. Part of the reason I buy single-player games is to avoid the hassle of logging on to play the game. Any gaming company that wants to add that hassle had better make the game multi-player capable.

That's not the only concern I have. We've learned from bitter experience with Blizzard that requiring an online account to play any game raises the ugly spectre of account security and identity theft - and gaming companies are SERIOUSLY behind the curveball in dealing with the problem. I don't believe EA is doing anything at all.

making a BW account is bad imo.. Because if your forum accout gets banned. Its linked to your games. I hear people get banned and find thier saves cant be used, and they have to restartt, everything. That imo is just wrong.

That sir, is a very good question.



:tongue: lol. I'm still on the fence. I've gotten a few lemons lately so I'm a little apprehensive about buying something I'm not sure I'm going to like.

Honestly, DA2 looks like it may have feature I don't really like, but on a whole I think it will be a good game.

I'm beginning to wonder about the actual quality of the game with all the bonus items Bioware has been pushing lately. I find it rather suspicious Bioware feels the need to offer bonus items to entice players to play the demo.

Wait boonus items just for playing the demo ?
Personally I never like devs who give tons of content, pre order dlc is fine, aslong as its minor e.g armour. But all of BWs dlc just to me looks like they arent confident, and want people to pre order before reviews/word of mouth say how the game is. I meann a confident dev wouldnt need to many incentives. And they know people are concerned about the game, some have vowed not to bu it, so yeah this dosent look good imo.

It's just an EA marketing thing. They sold a small puzzle game relating to Dead Space 2 on PSN too that would unlock an extra costume in DS2, and in my humble opinion, that game is a huge improvement over the first one.

Either they're not confident about the game, or they're selling an incomplete game. Take your pick.

Incomplete game. Aren't we talking about the same people who put an NPC into the game who basically said "I've got this problem, please help." followed by "oops, you gotta buy the DLC first before I can send you on this quest."

Yep. That's them.

This isn't anything new, and it's not exclusive to Bioware or EA. They did similar things for DAO (you could get bonus items for playing a flash game called Dragon Age: Journeys, or just for using the standalone character creator), as well as get different things for preordering from various retailers. Hell, the latter was done for New Vegas.

Just curious did it actually make you buy the dlc ?
I did I felt I had too, and itpissed me off, I dont like/use shale.

Hpe I never see a tactic like it in games again.