i tried the demo last night on normal, it convinced me that I'm going to play the game on hard.
thoughts: game was more fun to look at than part 1, but the combat.... im not sure how I feel, its either going to end up a total disaster, or it will be not any worse than DAO, its definitely not going to end up better (though, "yay!" if im wrong)
more thoughts: femhawke has a weird nose, i will need to fix this in the real game.
more thoughts: i hate demos
more thoughts: I started up Awakening last night before trying the demo, i lasted precisely 3 minutes before turning it off, the first enemies in the game are MORE GODDAMN GENLOCKS AND HURLOCKS. I'm so sick of those two enemies it makes me crazy. At least the ones in DA2 look different than the ones in DA1, so im not sick of looking at them, even though they look stupid.
Anyway, the other problem I had with awakening? these exact same genlocks and hurlocks that i've been fighting since level 1 or whatever in DAO, well now they have like 100hp each. It doesn't make any goddamn sense, in dungeons and dragons/baldurs gate/ every other goddamn rpg, you don't keep fighting goblins once you hit level 5, and you ABSOLUTELY don't see any more goblins when you're at level 20, by then the regular enemies you fight are like vrocks and giants and ****, not goblins.
Imagine if in baldurs gate you just fought tasloi and bandits the ENTIRE GODDAMN GAME. no one would have liked it, and yet bioware doesnt seem to notice that they forgot to make some enemy variety in DA so you don't want to stab yourself in the face every time the same little turd piles run up to you.