I finished Dragon Age 2 after only 3 days and I got to say I loved it. It is after Mass Effect 2 and 3 my favourite RPG. I liked Origins no doubt but I prefer the 2nd. The combat was much more fun because it is faster and full of action. I admit it is not as challenging as in Origins but wahts the matter just cahnge the difficulty. I think the characters of the 2nd part where much better (Fenris, Merrill, Verric, Merril) where awesome. The only thing I liked better in Origins was the freedom of exploration. And They have to change the voice of the Hero, he sounds like a cocky britt. So why do people hate this game?

Please no trolling

"Hardcore" gamers don't like it when the sequels to games the love become simplified.

Accessibility=Betrayal

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.

What about the characters? Which do you prefer Origins or 2?

I personally loved Origins and it might be my favourite RPG of this generation. I played all the expansions to it and I was hoping for a follow up of its story and setting.
Instead, we got a simplified game which was very repetitive and uneventful. I liked some characters, as Merryl, by instance, but others were totally shallow to me, as the big breasted pirate or the unfunny unbearded dwarf. The quality of the relations among them was not as great as in the original game neither. I didn't enjoy it's pace and I never got to finish it. I did loved it's graphics but the scope of the original game was lost.

Origins is a better game (complex, less repetitive, better character, etc)... that's the problem.

Really you tink the Origins Characters where better? Sten, Alistair and Loghain where very bad imo. and Oghren was funny but just another clishee Dwarf.

The fact an "RPG" now days can be finished within 3 days makes me sad.

Actually it where 4 days. And it me almost 23hours to finish it. I don´t see the problem. How long should it take 200hours? I finished Xenoblade in 60hours and it got really exhausting at the end.

But I finished Oblivion in less then 40hours and Origins in 31 hours. Altough never finished Skyrim because it took so long