Comments | oftendistracted: Further Dragon Age 2 thoughts.

oftendistracted

Further Dragon Age 2 thoughts.

Mar 16, 2011 14:15

Still on Act I as I comb it for final stuff before moving on.

This game doesn't really feel like it has a soul. It's more like it's Bioware-by-the-numbers, distilled down into the purest form; you walk around, button mash through fights, harvest every bit of pickup loot, move onto the next quadrant. If you find a quest item the game will happily ( Read more... )

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dragonkiri March 16 2011, 15:02:25 UTC

Ricky played the demo of DA2 and was quite thoroughly unimpressed.

oftendistracted March 16 2011, 15:16:45 UTC

I'm certainly playing through it - after all, it really doesn't take any effort to on my part - but I'm currently far from impressed. I guess I am hoping for a moment when the plot comes together and suddenly makes me sit up.

zidane March 16 2011, 16:11:24 UTC

Yeah ... that doesn't happen.

I enjoyed DA2 in a purely shallow fashion, but I'd have to say that this is the worst thing BioWare has ever released. It needed another year of production time. Badly.

oftendistracted March 16 2011, 16:18:34 UTC

I have no doubt that they were at least to some extent rushed by EA, but ... even allowing for a sudden cut in production time, it does just feel like coasting.

Oh well. I can hold out until Friday, whereupon manly man among men Kazuma Kiryu will be along to clean up the streets of Tokyo by punching absolutely everyone in the face, then finishing it off with a little photoblogging and kareoke.

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renaissanced March 16 2011, 18:36:05 UTC

Thanks for the link to SA, definitely one of the best I've seen and I left with some bookmarks and much more knowledge.

ningen_demonai March 16 2011, 19:32:34 UTC

Thanks for the link!

lilorchid1023 March 16 2011, 19:55:28 UTC

Which hotel did you end up booking at Sakuracon, out of curiousity?

oftendistracted March 17 2011, 05:23:36 UTC

Sheraton!

carrythelight March 16 2011, 21:39:02 UTC

It is perhaps not quite appropriate when handing someone A CORPSE.

Are you sure?

oftendistracted March 17 2011, 05:28:45 UTC

It happened more than once!

"I think you misplaced this."
"My, I thought I'd never see that again. Let me reward you."

carrythelight March 17 2011, 05:32:24 UTC

I think that's the right tone of voice to take when someone digs up your hard work and brings it back to you like a slow dog expecting praise.