Dragon Age II Demo Impressions
Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:55 pm
I will bitch about this.
Yes, while I was so excited about the game's announcement a few months ago, I figured BioWare was taken to the EA pressure chamber and get a game done so quickly that it can match up with other games on its genre that's bigger than their franchise (Witcher II, Elder Scrolls V).
While the demo has been released four days ago and has been said to be an early build of the game, the combat really felt dumb. In Origins, no combat can be straightforward. This time around, you watch your characters animate clumsily like they are characters in an MMO during the early 2000s.
In Origins you have the options of what your character's background story is, plus racial abilities and advantages over the other. This time around you're stuck in being a human character.
I was disappointed with how the game feels and looks at first. This isn't the same Dragon Age I knew from 2009. You already that your character in DA2 will become "the single most important person in the Dragon Age universe" -- as said by EA's promos -- then what the hell about my character in Origins? That guy did a lot in a less than a year than this guy in DA2 in 10 years.
But anyway this is still a BioWare game, and if I read somewhere (that's not IGN or Gamespot) that DA2 is a decent game it MAY change my opinion and get this game anyway. But with how the demo went out, fuck this. It crashes at random points and you can't even save your game.
They have also disabled graphic options in the demo that you can't use the "DirectX 11-specific graphical enhancements", they have also disabled the inventory, and character creation. The combat animations look flimsy, cheesy, and funny. They cut to the next animation like that of Telltale's Back to the Future.
The redesign of the entire Dragon Age set is between good and bad. Origins looked like an elegant war story, while this one feels like it has been designed by me when I was 10 years old.
Several screenshots from the often-crashing demo:
Yes, while I was so excited about the game's announcement a few months ago, I figured BioWare was taken to the EA pressure chamber and get a game done so quickly that it can match up with other games on its genre that's bigger than their franchise (Witcher II, Elder Scrolls V).
While the demo has been released four days ago and has been said to be an early build of the game, the combat really felt dumb. In Origins, no combat can be straightforward. This time around, you watch your characters animate clumsily like they are characters in an MMO during the early 2000s.
In Origins you have the options of what your character's background story is, plus racial abilities and advantages over the other. This time around you're stuck in being a human character.
I was disappointed with how the game feels and looks at first. This isn't the same Dragon Age I knew from 2009. You already that your character in DA2 will become "the single most important person in the Dragon Age universe" -- as said by EA's promos -- then what the hell about my character in Origins? That guy did a lot in a less than a year than this guy in DA2 in 10 years.
But anyway this is still a BioWare game, and if I read somewhere (that's not IGN or Gamespot) that DA2 is a decent game it MAY change my opinion and get this game anyway. But with how the demo went out, fuck this. It crashes at random points and you can't even save your game.
They have also disabled graphic options in the demo that you can't use the "DirectX 11-specific graphical enhancements", they have also disabled the inventory, and character creation. The combat animations look flimsy, cheesy, and funny. They cut to the next animation like that of Telltale's Back to the Future.
The redesign of the entire Dragon Age set is between good and bad. Origins looked like an elegant war story, while this one feels like it has been designed by me when I was 10 years old.
Several screenshots from the often-crashing demo: