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"Hot chicks in Japanese schoolgirl outfits with... katanas? CHECK Counter-factual r/w history with a twist...? CHECK Hi-tech firearms...? Giant fighting robots...? CHECK Impossibly large swords...? CHECK A smidgeon of American gothic...? CHECK DRAGEONSSSSSS? CHECK" SOLD. You just made me interested in said move. You are a better pimp than the advertisers. R0f0les!

It's nothing like JE (which was awesome in its own way). the combat plays just like DA1. *shrug*

"At some point, the pupil must surpass the master." Touche.

nah. Anything and everything that is important anc clickable lights up with sparkles. You don't need to pixle hunt.

Hoepfully, will make DA3 and it will be the squel to DA and DA2. It will be about equal in quality of the first two but no doubt some will claim it's avstly superior and others will feel it's vastly inferior. The cycle of life continue.

, "but I really wish they could have used equioment. " They do. just not armour (and Varric's crossbow only coolness). "The most powerful ability in the DA universe is Taunt" No. But, I'm sure you ar ejust making a funny. "It felt thrilling going up against an enemy that had they same moves you did, because you knew how they could be put to devastating use. I wished there had been more combat like that. He also didn't seem to have the HP inflation a lot of the boss-level characters had, so it was thrilling and didn't drag out. " I 100% agree with this. The high dragon was my least favorite boss not ebcause of dififculty level (easy or ahrd) but simply because it took forever. So much so I put that I was first fought it on ahrd and was gonna win but it was tkaing forever so i reloaded to fight it on easy just to get it done quicker. L0L That was dissapointing. Other fights were much more awesome.

Nah, I don't spend this much time on stuff I hate. i got tired of bashing AP, for exmaple, in the AP forum a long time ago. It's rather impressive you ain't bored yet trolling and spamming BIO threads. R00fles!

The deevloper who wants a ';fast forward button' is stupid. plain, and simple. besdies, that's what casual mode is for. L0LZ As for VD's review.. I agree with some things,a nd disagree with others. SHOCKING, I know! So.. BOO, having fun trolling and spamming ANOTHER DA2 thread? That is some stubborn spamming and torlling there, my friend.

Yup, sure it does. Since I have experienced the best and the worst of RPG cities. But, hey, Mr. I Will Spam & Troll DA2 Threads At All Costs Even Though I Will Never Play the Game R00fles! How's your trolling experiement going? Very well, I imagine.

Yeah, best they make up gibberish fantasy names for them like Kakaka (Athkatla, lol). Sometimes, simplicty is best. not that i mind Kakaka. I like that name. "The Warhound is awesome. " he's only good in taking heat off you as his offense sucks (like 10 damegr per hit, lol). He can't even overwhelm anymore. I really am dissaapointed they took away two of the coolest enemy abilities from DA1 though they got some new ones.

"I would love to see what would happen if some country did that to the U.S. Lets say the American Indians have had enough of this mistreatment and decided to rebel. The government smacks them down but at the 11th hour China decides to set up a no fly zone over the Southwest United States to protect the poor downtrodden American Indians. There would be absolutely nothing we could say about it. " Actually, ther eis. the US has the pwoer to actually strike back unlike Lybia. Russia tries to set up a no fly zone? Can't do it through the Un since the US would just veto that **** down. Russia shoots down Amerikan planes and shoots at other US targets/ US returns the favor by attacking Russia. That's why your scenario would never work - espicially since Russia is too busy murdering and putting down their own citizens. R00fles! Plus, 'Amerikan' Indians are treated pretty damn fairly. Same with 'Kanandian' Inddians. In fact, it could be argued at least in Kanada that are Indians are treated better than non Indians. R00fles!

"Carver is your brother, so if he tried to hit on you in his short time, that would be breaking new ground, at least. " Are you really tempting fate? Let's not forget those lovely Imoen 'romance mods'. L0L "We'll set DA3 in a broom cupboard for your convenience." Okay. We may pick on each other, BOO, but this was literally a laugh out loud moment for me. R00fles! "Their excuse is mealy-mouthed and hubristic." Actually, their accuse makes sense. They had to make a choice - add in more content like quests or throw in more 'non reused' areas. They choose to save time reusing areas and concentrate adding in quests and ****. All deisgners make design decisions like this. This is why both BIO, and Obsidian had to cut out entire planets in KOTOR series. And, why BIO chose to have majority of planets in ME1 be just reskinned mountains while in ME2 you end up with less explorable planets and **** but more different ones. Personally, I'm not a fan of the reused areas, and is one of my biggest complaints. But, all the good stuff in the game more than makes up for it. As for Kirkwall, it's one of my favorite RPG cities ever. Up there with the BGs, Athkatlas, Sigils, New Renos, and Tarants.

"1. These guys escaped Fereldan by deserting against the darkspawn invasion, are they really going to take on a fortress of enemies? 2. There wasn't any real sign that they were being mistreated, they weren't supposedly starving or anything like that. They were even promised passage on a boat, granted it was back to Fereldan. But is the city of Kirkwall the only place in the entire world? 3. I had to kill these guys, and it was literally treated like I just cleaned out rats from a cellar. We couldn't get them to surrender or something? It just sets an odd tone, like it's no big deal to go around killing folks. I guess I'm spoiled by games that make this stuff somewhat meaningful." While I agree that i wish there was more to this scenario and handled smoother but to make it seem ml;ike DA2 is off on this comapred to other games is a little off as well sicne the way DA2 handles it is basically the norm. Afterall, in BG2, you can mass kill the city mage police force and eventually (after 3 or so attacks) stop caring that you are brekaing their laws. (though in BG2's defense at leats unlike majority of games, it tries to handle it). The templar-mage thing in act 3, I cna't say much since I'm early in act, but the first two acts aren't too bad. That said, there are more than a few scenarios where you cna avoid combat. P.S. Sex in DA2 is a very minor part of it.If youa rgued romance you mgiht have a point - then again, in the grand scheme of things - romance is still a small % of the game. But, the sex part is like 10 sec per romance option max so not exactly tkaing up a lot of time. Plus, another couple of 'sex scenes' as well. Consideirng the game is about as long as DA1 9for me) - I'm at 50+ hours already - it is minisucal. P.S.S. There are plenty of things to criticze DA2 for, and I gotz a whole list of them but sex being a 'vocal point' is not one of them. Sorry. "Every other male hits on you however..." fenris never hit on me. Anders hit on me once and I told him no thanks and that was the end of that. Carver never hit on me either. Varric didn't nor did Sebastien. So.. out of 5 joinable characters, I got 1 guy who hit on me once and there's the potential for a 2nd. Why the exaggeration everybody?

Yeah, but why fire back at the show instead of the tool who insulted. Rememebr, when these guys refuse the show they also feel the ened to jab at it with some superiority complex with the hint that anyone who lets Glee have their music is 'selling out'. That's pretty toolish. As for Glee itself, it's a fun show but outside of the singing it's definitely just your typical highschool drama but with solid focus on the adults too. In fact, the main protaginist and main antagonist could be argued to be both adult characters.

"And I do hope that after the war all Libyans will be able to experience the joys of McDonald's! Hip hip hurray for democracy!!!" The awesome thing about your sarcasm here is that they'll also be able to choose not to eat at McDonalds. Imagine THAT!

He's a whiny crybaby who thinks he's better than he actually is.

"One friend even jokingly referred to it as a "homosexual date sim" because every possible male character hit on him." Your friend is lying. "Btw apparently a Bioware employee wrote an overwhelmingly positive review for Dragon Age 2 at some game site or other, while posing as a journalist" Is this the BIo employee who gave the game a 10 on metacritics as a user review? If so, that's not 'posing as a journalist'. L0LZ

"You find out he's a murderer by playing the Dwarf Noble origin, since you're his brother and he frames you for the death of the other brother. After first convincing you that the other brother is going to murder you." The neat thing is you hear hints/rumours about this even as a non dwarf when in the dwarf city .

Yeah, how was that bashing? Sounded tongue-n-cheek to me. R00fles!

JE's main villainw as one of their better ones. HOTU's Meph was realla wesome. SOU medusa sucked really bad. I'd rather BIO bosses: Sarevok (BG): 8 Irenicus (BG2): 9 Morhaig (NWN OC): 6.5 Malek (KOTOR): 6 Medusa (SOU): 3 TOB Bitch (TOB): 5 Saren (ME): 8 ASSuming CONtrol (ME2): 5.5 Archdemon (DA1): 6.5 I'd give Kreia...... an 8.

"Are you going to break in their house and beat up the husband? You may choose to do just that, but it's also perfectly legit for others to think it's none of their business." Only if their scumbags.

"They talk a lot about Meredith pretty early in the game, they just don't show her properly or make her presence felt." I love that Meredith was disucssed a lot in act 1 including you being able to ask about her. I think she should have been more active in act 2 trying to deal with obvious tainted mages while Orsino could have been introcuded easily in ch2 maybe through Bethany if she gets sent to the Circle (or Ferynheil if you sent hi there). The fact your first direct intro to them is the end game of act (where, of course, they both miss the actual main encounter) is a little late. Heh. A sneaky thing for BIo to have done was have them both potnetially join your party in the delaing with the arishok part. That would have fbalbbergasted players when later they have to find out they may have to deal with them. I also have some idea on how to deal with these two later on to make it more cooler. The end game (even though I haven't experienced it myself yet but spoilers are evil and ruin everything) seems to be Perfectly Acceptable End Bosses Type of Ending but could have been truly epic if BIo didn't take the easy cookie cutter way.

"Really though, both orsino and that templar queen overlord lady should have been introduced much earlier in the story." 100% agree with this.

"Besides which, a civil war in another country is none of our damn business. " Disagree. helping innocents against evil scumbags is always good people' s business. but, hey, next time (not that this occurs a lot lol) I see a woman getting raped in the alley as I walk downt eh street and she cries for help, I'll just tell her.. it's none of my business, and just keep walkin' and living my life. Hey, some gal getting raped is none of my business right? RIGHT? Oh, i forgot, the magicalm borders makes it okay not to care and ignore other people's plight since only I'm allowed to have freedom since I got lucky to be born in a free country? No, I don't think so. K.

"Yeah but it doesn't count, if your Shepard dies in ME2 you just play as the default Shepard in ME3." It does count. It means Shepard lost - story and game over. Period.