Is this a thread against ME2 or about Dragon Age 2?I am a bit confused...

Both, ME2 has made many of sceptical of Bioware's future releases. If Dragon Age 2 is anything like ME2 compared to their respective sequels, it won't be good for RPG fans at all. If I want to play action games and shooters I'll go play some Ninja Gaiden and CoD.

so far it's pc only. Lets pray it stays that way.

They had interviews with boss of CDP and he said W2 is coming to pc first, then the x360 version will be released some months later and after that they will release PS3 version (imho ps3 is not gonna happen but Divinity 2/Risen class port to x360 will be made ;) )

I don't think you have to worry about it. The evolution of Mass Effect 2 was a culling of unnecessary elements and a tightening of core mechanics, since it already played like a shooter - just a very clunky one.

Dragon Age to the best of my knowledge doesn't play like an action game. If they do anything they'll probably just streamline the command input system so it's faster-paced.

That is actually false. ME1 played like an RPG with clunky shooter elements and ME2 completely ruined it. Good thing ME2 had the saving grace of sequel interoperability. As I say, too few armors to be a good RPG, too few guns to be a good shooter.

I'm not here to argue the merits or failings of Mass Effect 2. I'm pointing out that there was mechanical continuity whn it comes to the direction they took the series; there is no such continuity in turning Dragon Age into an action game. It's not likely to happen.

Except for the whole "better action, more action" approach they seem to be taking with it.

That description is about content. I am not talking about content, I am talking about mechanics and mechanical continuity.

"Better action, more action" means that the combat is more fun and probably more intuitive, as well as being more frequent. This is a qualitative sift, but does not imply a mechanical one.

What I'm talking about is a shift in mechanics - i.e. playing like something like Demon's Souls instead of what there is now.

The content thing I'm sure will be true.

The mechanical shift is almost definitely not going to happen, because it has not been hinted at by developers and there is no mechanical continuity to suggest that it's possible. Mass Effect at least had combat centered around semi-realtime shooting. Dragon Age has nothing of the kind for action game combat.

No but they could easily remove some of the intricacies, like long cooldowns, spell combinations, fewer skills to choose from, etc. etc. and completely ruin the game.