Dragon Age 3 to deliver 'marriage' of DAO and DA2

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  Interesting... : shirif
  • yeah very. mixing the higher action and better animated combat of the 2nd game and mixing it with a bigg... : dantastic
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  I think DA3 will hit it out of the ball park, while sort of hating by a lot to DA2 was quiet the accompli... : valcan_s
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    i enjoyed it for what it was. it was lacking in a few areas but i had an enjoyable time from start to fi... : dantastic
    • I agree. :) : BlockheadBrown
  • I thought it was fun until Ch3. I've had three characters never make it past that ch. : breadsticks
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  uh huh, I'll believe it when I see it. Bioware should look at The Witcher 2 to see how a good modern RPG... : 0mar
  • Agreed. I've been playing through DA:O after hearing all the hype and am underwhelmed. For example, imp... : loc nar
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  Unless it includes the strategic overhead camera, that quote is a lie. : Captain Loco
  • Yeah, the overhead camera NEEDs to come back. Thats what made combat in DA:O enjoyable for me. DA2 wa... : rottdcorpse
  • They will say it's coming back in modified form, then it will come out as a third person shooter. : Rooster Cockburn
  • But it won't, because bioware will not center developments on PC. end of story. : master_disaster_17
• So you'll basically be fighting in the same room for 40 hours while Alistair whines? : Beady
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  Misalignment of expectation. What a wonderful phrase to make it the fan's fault they didn't like the game... : Bamtan
  • Lol, indeed. Bioware dropped the ball with DA2, big time. I just it by number of playthroughs :- DA... : rottdcorpse
  • My thoughts exactly : megarust32
• if they put anything from DA2 in there, consider this a divorce! : hirez
• So basically a divorce with DA2, right? : Moonbase Commander
• I've always ran with the assumption that DA2 was just a filler while more time went into the true sequel. : Earl Greigh
• Maybe they should just admit the game they made sucked dick. : Ellissd
• fool me once.... : malloc
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  Funnily enough Dr. Ray doesn't even mention Dragon Age 2's biggest failing. A massive lack of art assets ... : serenj
  • I'm of the firm opinion Bioware couldn't make a good game if their lives depended on it any more. Mass E... : doozer667
• If you take a quart of shit and mix it with a quart of ice cream, what you will get will taste more like ... : TheMongbat
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  So what was better about DA2 over DA:O? : phate81
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    The talent trees for one, as it made certain each character had unique abilities. Also, fully voicing the... : Vincent Grayson
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      You were ok with literally every mage being crazy evil blood mage? I mean, that kind of undermined the e... : bipolar
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        I generally play as evil as humanly possible, so no that didn't really bother me. It was all in one city ... : Vincent Grayson
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          That's the thing though -- it wasn't set up as a choice between being an angel or a devil, it was present... : bipolar
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            Yeah every time Anders was like WHAT ABOUT THE MAGES and then every single mage turned out to be fucking ... : ashkie
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              I guess I looked at it as though they largely felt they had no choice but to embrace blood magic to defen... : Vincent Grayson
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                I didn't get that at all. They didn't build any sympathy really and even the ones I helped ended up turni... : ashkie
                • http://www.deviantart.com/download/201747093/da2__orsino_spoilers_by_fishmas-d3c451x.jpg Sums up DA2 n... : rottdcorpse
            • Yeah it seemed like Merril was the only mage in the entire world that can do Blood Magic properly. : TrptJim
      • I never thought of this but I would agree. Every goddamn mage turned evil at the drop of a damn hat. : buzzbat
    • oh ya the player character being voiced was a great improvement. : dantastic
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    Sense of place! Non-faked physical bits! Best use of CGI! Oh wait, wrong forum. : Alastayr
    • The next Blade Runner movie isn't out yet. : ManiacalMoose
  • Well for one there was... welll.. ummmm... : baron calamity
  • Some of the voice acting and banter was actually improved. : johnlocks
  • The combat in general felt more responsive and satisfying (except when enemies died in 2 hits and explode... : ashkie
  • DAO suffered MMO combat syndrome. hit a button and watch your character strike the air. DA2 was similar... : dantastic
  • The combat animations were a lot better. When I first played it I thought the combat was a vast improveme... : dpgagnon
  • I liked the focus of one area. Even though DA:O was a larger world it still felt like you weren't traveli... : Sailor of Fortune
• So I see it as the first one being a stud and the 2nd one was a ugly fat chick...how will the child turn ... : whistletits
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  Christ almighty. What a load of crap Mr Bioware CEO spouts. If he'd just said, "The game missed the mar... : bladderfish
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    yeah he just cant bring himself to admit it : bolneze
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      Well he has a financial obligation to the company not to trash talk its products, and an obligation to hi... : Rooster Cockburn
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        but the truth is product and work sucked THEY CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH'D : bolneze
        • I agree it sucked, and that's why I didn't buy it. But he's not required to say "Man, DA2 sucked dick, th : Rooster Cockburn
  • They already admitted that DA:O hat better sales longevity than DA2. : Lukiopimp
  • I agree with you, but I have trouble seeing what makes Mass Effect still such a holy grail for everyone. ... : burntchomsky
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  How is anyone shocked they aren't openly criticizing the second game? It sold very well, and some folks l... : brickmatt
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    It didn't sell very well, it sold medium or so. I'm sure it was profitable because it was obviously a bru... : SpaecKow
    • Dragon Age 2 sold well, so you are wrong. See what I did there? I responded to your troll. Damnit...... : friedram
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  Bioware has already made it clear that they believe games created in the vein of Baldur's Gate cannot be successful. They struck that cruel blow against us lovers of that genre when they made DA2. I find it extremely unlikely that the 3rd one will give us the evolution we all hoped to find in DA2. Our genre, like the space sim, is dead. I'm sure many people who never played BG or its ilk probably found DA2 more entertaining than DA1. Unfortunately for me, Bioware thinks you guys are the majority or will be in the future.

  Aug 19, 2011 10:57pm PDT
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  Bioware has already made it clear that they believe games created in the vein of Baldur's Gate cannot be ... : frenziedbadger
  • Well surely they know something went wrong with DA2 since it only sold half as much as DA:O. : dpgagnon
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  Why can't they just marry DA:O to a good game? : SpaecKow
  • Because Bioware is married to EA. : Lukiopimp
• I hope they keep the cinematic presentation and the huge amount of party member dialog from DA2. : varsindarkin
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  But there was only one good thing in DA2: Varric Tethras. : Arletan
  • Yeah, he made the game worth it. : Sailor of Fortune
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  Uh huh. Dragon Age was a fun game, but I'll be doing the same thing to DA3 that I did with DA2: not play... : kill9
  • I'll defo be waiting for the reviews and such before commiting to buy. Fuck pre-ordering it, Bioware lost... : rottdcorpse
• So we'll be allowed to make elves and dwarves then? : rivalbo
• I better be able to cheat on my wife. Also when you get married, all the other women in the game shoul... : Zero Hoki