Posted May 10, 2016
Well, go the chance to play Dragon Age 2 over the weekend. Its left me feeling like someone has had a few choice swings of a spike club at my face. What a dreadful sequel. The original was pretty good, been through a couple of times once party, 3 times solo. So was quite looking forward to it, though steam tie was already a let down. So anyways, I started it up and got to the, what they term, character builder screen, male/female of each mage, fighter, thief. Yep, absolutely zero difference between playing female or male, nor in fact any real difference between fighter or thief. So pointless in terms of RPG. Then we get into the game, story line - zero. Dumped into a continuous stream of weak enemies and one troll, yawn. Camera all over the place, right click weird to say the least, doesn't seem to lock on half the time. Some more pointless story interlude, then down a path fighting some small beasties until you find, dun dun dah, Alaistair with different color hair and a new name, so the characters - you meet or in party are basically the same ones from the first game with no personality or inventiveness. Cue another torridly boring battle, exactly the same as the first one. At this point I stopped. Truly another total turd for the pile, I though at first it was just one or two, but apparently not using steam I have managed to miss most of them. Graphics poor, RPG non existant, story - none, combat ridiculous. The funny thing is that Metacritic scored it 82/100 from critics and 4.4/10 from users. Just goes to show how corrupt or totally blind games sites are nowadays. Ruined my whole weekend that did.
