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  I liked it, the demo was well put together. I played a female character and wasn't a great fan of her voi... : yobock
  • but her character model is sick >.< : Gapyro
• I feel roughly the same about the demo and I'm glad I pre-ordered the Signature Edition back in December. : Alastayr
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  Negatives: -no isometric view (over the shoulder camera view only) : Rooster Cockburn
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    You seriously are hanging on to that for dear life, huh? Could you explain why it makes such a huge diffe... : eeeealmo
    • Because it made the game for him. Fuck. Is that so difficult to understand? :P : disposition
    • Because it's a significant departure in play-style for those who like to play the combat as a tactical st... : Vantage
    • WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE THINGS THAT I DO NOT LIKE???? : bipolar
    • I don't know how you could ask this if you'd actually played isometric vs over the shoulder : derelict515
  • Instead of posting this in every thread, be constructive and email BioWare explaining your concerns thoug... : Wisp!
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    To clarify: there is a ghetto isometric view you can kind of create by zooming out as far as possible (no... : disposition
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      I'm sure that will be one of the first pc mods : Mondo
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        No mods this time around :\ : disposition
        • what? oh ffs : Nitrium
        • Meh. Another one on the disklike list. : Lukiopimp
  • It's not an over the shoulder camera. Over the shoulder is when the camera is in a fixed position that y... : TheVietSpecial
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  how long is the demo? the youtube video made it seem like 20 minutes : DrFlammable
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    Way longer. : Wisp!
    • ok i thought it was going to be a waste of time if it was that long, ill give it a try i guess : DrFlammable
  • That's about right. : catman1027
  • Yea, about 20 mins. Shorter if you'll keep hitting Esc key to skip cutscenes. No savegames. You can loot ... : alexvj
  • It took me about an hour to beat without skipping any cutscenes, but also flying through the dialog. : TheVietSpecial
  • It's 20 minutes maybe if you don't play BioWare RPGs to actually experience a BioWare RPG. Like if you h... : acheron
• It was great. can't wait for the game's release. also, jeez do a lot of the female companions have enormo... : varsindarkin
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  The combat and movement does feel a lot more fluid, I was very impressed. BioWare managed to make it more... : Wisp!
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    actually i dunnoe... combat for me feel kinda of clunky ( The orge battle make me sad.... it lack of the ... : Gapyro
    • The Ogre was a little weaker, but I think that was inevitable. The Ogre at Ostagar is the first one you e... : Wisp!
  • Agreed. I tried really hard to get into Dragon Age but the combat killed it for me. Looks a lot more fun ... : Ooghijmiqtxxa
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    DX11 actually works, but teh demo will crash more often with it. : alexvj
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      It was totally broken for me. The game ran at 5FPS and textures disappeared. : Wisp!
      • No such issues with Radeon 5850 and latest Catalyst... The demo does crash more often, though, which is a... : alexvj
• Will definitely buy : eeeealmo
• I thought the demo was pretty enjoyable, it swung DA2 from a "Gamefly later" kinda game to a pre-order an... : Atma Weapon
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  BTW has anyone saw a execution move yet? I think i finished the whole demo w/o a single execution scene : Gapyro
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    Yeah, I force ripped apart that Ogre. : Frozen Pixel
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      Yeah the assassin type does his best to slice the ogre in half. : yemeth
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        cutscene? or actual ingame combat like in DA:O : Gapyro
        • At least what I've meant is indeed a cutscene, just wanted to point out that it really depends on the cla... : yemeth
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  I wonder if they will just ignore the fact that I killed Flemeth when I import my DA:O save, and how that... : Frozen Pixel
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    That part of DA2 takes place before you did that, the start of DA2 is contemporaneous w/ the start of DA: : veras
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      She shows up more later on in the game, apparently. : Frozen Pixel
      • well she is a witch >..> I just hope they have a proper story for her appearance later in the game ... : Gapyro
  • Well in the demo you see her basically right after you leave the wilds in DA1 But I am guessing she is fa : Crimsonbeak
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    I thought DA2 was supposed to take place thousands of years later or something. : ghost in my shell
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      The start of the demo coincides with the first game, but they have mentioned that the story spans some de... : yemeth
      • I think they said it spans "10 years" while DA:O only did 1 year. : Johnnsen
    • Are you thinking of Guild Wars 2? : Wisp!
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    SPOILER ALERT: In the final DC called Witch Hunt, it is implied that Flemeth is FAR more powerful than we : greenbergMD
    • Ah, I never played that DLC. So I guess it all makes a lot more sense. :) : Frozen Pixel
• The begging part was ugly as shit. : justwr!ght
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  Is there a big difference with the DX11 graphics? I'm holding off upgrading until later in the year. No... : TheMongbat
  • Teh demo is a poor indicator how DX11 will look like - you can enable it but some features will still be ... : alexvj
  • Was dao dx9,10, or 11? : disposition
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  Should I play this if I haven't beaten DRAGON AGE 1 yet? : brickmatt
  • There are no spoilers if you are around 5-10 hours into Dragon Age 1. Everything before that is spoiled. : Wisp!
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  Good: Combat still feels like DA Not quite as ugly as the last game Rogue and Warrior are more fun to ... : locater16
  • Stupid anime art style ? I didn't see any ^_^ faces floating around.. though Hawke is definitely inspired... : Mondo
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  Did you see the investigate option in the dialogue tree? if you click that it opens up quite a few additi... : doctorbfunk
  • Yea, I've seen those "optional" dialogue choices (similar to ME2, on the left side of the "wheel"), thoug... : alexvj
• Demo was better than expected. Still planning on waiting for the All-inclusive DLC version before buying... : bipolar
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  Yeah, the combat is definitely Dragon Age... but it's over-the-top and ridiculous. The first game had suc... : disposition
  • What the fuck did I just type? I think I stroked out there for a minute. I'm going to sleep. : disposition
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    Cool off. The first sequence where you destroy stuff is to illustrate the point that Verrick is telling a... : Wisp!
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      Wuhh? Really? This just made the game moar intaresting. : disposition
      • :) : Wisp!
      • yeah he is telling her a tall tale. you get the real version next. : grendel
    • Jobos didn't get that far :( : Mondo
  • I actually loled when I saw a across the screen shield bash : Mondo
• I didn't like enemies exploding into gibs so often. Otherwise the combat and slicing felt meaty, which is... : Johnnsen
• The UI stuff is worrisome. I haven't played it yet, but so i'll reserve judgement. : Ellissd
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  Game froze on my after talking about going to kirkwall, don't feel like playing it anymore today. The ga... : jayares
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    also I have a 580 and direct x11 ran at about 2fps. : jayares
    • Bioware is aware of this problem, they said DX11 will work properly in final version of game. : alexvj
• Yeah, gonna skip it initially. Went back to see this "extra" quests and etc. Trying to replay DAO made... : locater16
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  Fucking amazing. Bioware have ME2'd Dragon Age. : Cliffzorz
  • I read this as a very positive comment. so I agree with it! :D : varsindarkin
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    As much as I wanted DA to be an awesome BG2 throwback ultimately ME2 did a lot more right than DA when it... : derelict515
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      As much as I love Half-Life, my opinion is that I would like a voiced protagonist over a silent one. : shirif
      • In HL I don't mind but it's weird listening to these long speeches from NPCs punctuated by silence as you... : derelict515
    • The fact that enemies in DA1 scaled was almost a non-issue. The player's party grew in power much more qu... : Magitek
  • Couldn't agree more. I couldn't get into Dragon Age but this time around it has it's hook in me pretty de... : Ooghijmiqtxxa
  • That sounds like complete garbage. DAO had a fantastic dialog tree (that was more than clicking the quar... : valael
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  I really liked ME and all, especially the second one, but one thing that bothered me with the dialog system (which, as far as I understand, is what they have now on DA2)... sometimes I just felt that the caption for my choice didn't end up being close to what I really wanted to say. I don't recall any specific examples, and it might be because English is not my first language or something, but when it happened, it bothered me that I didn't have more choices.
  
  Wonder if that'll happen on DA2 :/

  Feb 22, 2011 7:03pm PST
  I really liked ME and all, especially the second one, but one thing that bothered me with the dialog syst... : hunhauu
• hmm, still haven't tried out awakenings yet, better get to it I guess. : sergeon
• Just played through. Pre-ordering now. : Clay
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  was DA:O more "open" than that? or its like mass effect : HisKillSkill
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    DA:O's level design was very linear. : Wisp!
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      oh so it was basically a medieval mass effect : HisKillSkill
      • There was many corridors and walkways, but ultimately one entrance and one exit : ElChuy
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    The beginning of DA:O features essentially the same style of levels more or less, with maybe a few doors ... : yemeth
    • that sucks, i want to walk everywhere and learn the hard way what level was that zone : HisKillSkill
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  ...also, forgot to mention, but Isabella's lower lip piercing (at least I think it is) really bothered me... : alexvj
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    Playing male Hawke I'm hoping to discover that I'm actually adopted, if you catch my drift. : yemeth
    • Necrophilia is hot : bipolar
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    Isabella has a face? : veras
    • hahahaha this : DewFuel
    • Sad but true...lol : TheVietSpecial
    • haha :D nom nom nom : dpgagnon
    • So true... hahahaha, fantastic knockers. : illwill18
    • haha those tits are ridiculous... : Mondo
  • I couldn't stop staring at her freaking chest. Also, what's up with that manly looking woman? I hope ... : DewFuel
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  The default demo camera settings are a nightmare when using abilities (backstab and evade in particular).... : DewFuel
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    Direct2Drive's 20% discount still works (using code "hailtothechief") : alexvj
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      Nice! Hope its still active tomorrow. Left my card at work :( : DewFuel
      • It ends today :/ : etherboy
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      thanks for this, just ordered my first game from D2D. hope I can install it into steam or something... : grendel
      • Depends on the game, but most likely you cannot. The best you can do is add it as a non-Steam game, which... : dpgagnon
  • Wait... how was Backstab a nightmare with the camera? It's automatically warps you behind the target... : Moonbase Commander
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  Re: Demo linearity, does not represent final product. From the Bioware forums: "The linearity is a functi... : veras
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    what does very open means? i never played origins, can you just fuck around outside the cities and go whe... : HisKillSkill
    • Yep, pretty much that (although the corridor areas can be a bit more branching and are much bigger than a... : bipolar
    • More open than ME, but not as open as an old school RPG You'll have several story quests and sidequest... : veras
• I really liked it, looks like it will be great storywise. I'm looking forward to playing 40+ whatever ho... : megarust32
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  I can't decide if it will bother me too much if I buy it on D2D instead of Steam :/ : etherboy
  • Well $12 is like a whole discounted Steam game... I hope I won't regret buying it from D2D! : etherboy
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  Did anyone else have a problem with the Demo crashing after the selecting your character appearance scree... : menar003
  • It does tend to crash especially when you see that "Loading..." stuff. Try using it in DX9 mode only and ... : alexvj
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  Their camera work has massively improved over DA:O and ME1. As an example, the final scene with Flemeth w... : LoioshDwaggie
  • Yeah, they got the ME2 guys onto the cinematics, it looks better. Shame the actual art is ass. : SpaecKow
• the combat is insanely fun! They really made it more visceral, from the sound effects to the animation a... : grendel
• I'm definitely getting it. : chungathebunga
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  I played 15 minutes of it and all I could think was, "What the fuck is this shit?" It felt like a cheap ... : Jobos
  • Guess what happens after 15 minutes? They start over where the storyteller wasn't exaggerating Hawke's as : Mondo
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  Negative. I just generally felt bored with it. I'm not interested in pressing hotkeys on one character wh... : frenziedbadger
  • i was switching through characters quite a bit and pausing combat regularly to just check on everyone and... : grendel
• I won't even bother with the demo, it's simply a purchase for me. Bioware has not delivered a game I have... : ramshot
• I liked it overall, but I do have some gripes: -I understand that I shouldn't expect a strictly overhe... : Magitek
• crashed after 15 minutes on a loading screen. lol pc gaming : razorblade79
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  Okay here's mine: DRAGON AGE 2 DEMO REVIEW [paging PC gaming master race] [konsolspieler raus] Master : SpaecKow
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    This is very long. You write long posts. Did you know that? : aaarrrgh
    • Feels good man. : SpaecKow
  • It is as I feared. : master_disaster_17
  • This post in my mind was spoken like the guy on those "Savings de money" commercials. : HL3dsx
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    Wow what a write up. As is quite often, sequels aren't the best choice. Yes I know ME2 actually was done ... : Lukiopimp
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      It is long, I hope you enjoyed it. My aim with these sorts of posts is not to antagonise people who might... : SpaecKow
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        liar, you enjoy ravelling in our collective pain in the same way i'm going to once deus ex 3 comes out. ... : Hoax
        • Into skeins of yarn with which to knit our garments of misery! : PyroRegia
  • COUNTER POINT REVIEW I thought it was fun. : skinlab133
  • Whoa, so much truth in this post that it hurts, Mr. Kow. : Gylis
  • haha i was waiting for your wall of text. i played through the demo a few days ago and i couldn't even mu... : Hoax
• I played about half of it when I had time last night and was really just bored. DA1 was not my favorite g... : Toth21
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  Just played the demo. It's strange they even released a demo. It's hard to do it without the real sense... : kingdepork
  • The first DA made plenty money, there are more than enough 'tactics nerds' for Bioware to not have to mak... : SpaecKow