pokoko on 10 January 2015
| pokoko said: I loved Dragon Age: Origins. I also loved Dragon Age 2. Both are flawed, both are a lot of fun. DA2 had some problems, it did a few things worse than DA:O, but it also featured TONS of improvements. The combat in DA2 is vastly improved over the "pull-kill-repeat" dungeon crawling of DA:O. I had no problem with DA2 being mostly set within a city. That really didn't matter at all to me. It's just a setting. It's like hating Crysis 2 because it's set in a city rather than on an island. The annoying part was the maps being reused, but personally, that wasn't all that big of a deal for me as long as the encounters were different. It's just something they need to address in the next game. Itemization was better in DA2, in my opinion, as DA:O quickly became a mess with all the sorting and equipping. I spent more time going through my inventory than I did playing, it seemed like. However, it still wasn't great. They definitely could have done a better job. Also, some people seem to LIKE all the sorting and filling eight slots for a ton of characters, so perhaps an option there would have been good. I think it was a situation where people expected DA2 to be exactly like DA:O and were not willing to give it a chance because it wasn't. It's funny, because if DA2 had come first, people would have hated DA:O. I played through each at least three times. Once I stopped comparing DA2 to DA:O, it really enjoyed it, and learned to overlook the flaws, just as I had with DA:O. Still, they have a lot they need to improve on with DA3. I just hope they don't throw out the improvements to combat. |
Woo. I want to tell past-pokoko that DA3 turned out well.
