I'll be honest with you folks, I have a strange relationship with RPGs. Considering I've been playing them for over a quarter century I think I know my way around the genre a bit but lately I've noticing a trend - in particular with Bioware and Bethesda. Each company does somethings I like and others that I don't (I want to see them merge into an uber-RPG company but that will never happen) and frankly I've figured out how to break each system. With each successive game the bloom fades from the rose faster and faster. I love the blending of gaming genres with RPG and I believe that full incorporation of multiple game play modes would truly move the genre to the next level. All that being said I played the demo for Dragon Age II last night.
I wasn't excited about Dragon Age II - especially considering the price debacle that ended up costing me an arm and a leg with Dragon Age and attendant expansions - so when the demo froze on me last night I had to laugh at it. I gave it a second chance though and I wasn't thrilled. Granted it looks pretty and the combat is fancy and faster and the skill trees have an interesting set up but I'm not impressed. I ended up button mashing A with ranged attacks and ended up fast switching to another character to heal her. I set up the tactics from the get-go and had no problems whomping the hordes.
I will end up buying Dragon Age II but not until the GOTY edition comes out with all expansions included - thus avoiding getting hosed on pricing thanks to DLC.
I wasn't excited about Dragon Age II - especially considering the price debacle that ended up costing me an arm and a leg with Dragon Age and attendant expansions - so when the demo froze on me last night I had to laugh at it. I gave it a second chance though and I wasn't thrilled. Granted it looks pretty and the combat is fancy and faster and the skill trees have an interesting set up but I'm not impressed. I ended up button mashing A with ranged attacks and ended up fast switching to another character to heal her. I set up the tactics from the get-go and had no problems whomping the hordes.
I will end up buying Dragon Age II but not until the GOTY edition comes out with all expansions included - thus avoiding getting hosed on pricing thanks to DLC.
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