Agree with you both about DA:O. Love that game, and do not at all agree it was shallow in any way. Very interesting story, very interesting characters. I am very strongly in favor of classes and hate classless systems, so the game being weak on classes was my only complaint. However, I disagree on combat. I found DA:O combat to be the perfect iteration of RTwP combat, and thoroughly enjoyed how it worked in that game. Very engaging, dynamic, and easy to handle. Also, I did enjoy DA2 as well, but also DA:I, so the DA franchise now is my favorite overall franchise for modern, party-based cRPGs.
I think DAO combat was just a little too slow for my tastes, DA2 of course went the other way and made everyone a squirrel on caffeine, DAI was a happy medium between the first two games, but for me they cut out so many skills and spells that already after the 1/3 of the game I felt like I stopped progressing, I've never finished the game. But overall I agree that their RTwP implementation was good, and I do generally like it more as long is it doesn't fall into press X and stuff go boom category.
Originally Posted by kanisatha
Originally Posted by Sozz
I love DA:O too, but I actually liked the characters and character stories in Dragon Age II a little more.
Yeah I have always been very puzzled with many people's reaction to DA2. I found it to be a really good game. I completely agree about how irritating it was to have the level designs being constantly reused. But we also know why that happened, because EA forced Bioware to rush the game out the door. But other than that issue, the game was very good.
Same actually. I loved DA2 cast. I also loved the fact that it stepped away from the typical Bioware power fantasy and gave us a protagonist that basically failed at everything, and yet they still managed to keep the story engaging. The conversations might have been sillier and shorter than Planescape Torment, but it got a lot of undeserved hate in my opinion.
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