Dragon Age 2 expansion canceled for 'other opportunities'

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• And nothing of value was lost. : Rehevkor
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  Screw Hawk, give me back my hero of Fereldon. : XwingVmanX
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    My hero is dead :( : breadsticks
    • Just play awakening so he can come magically back to life lol : XwingVmanX
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    Honestly I think giving the main character a voiced personality like Shepard was the better way to go. Th... : Zek
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      I actually dug the story and the characters of DA2 a lot more then the original. It was just going into ... : SinisterInfant
      • Yeah I felt the same. The game was wasn't broad enough. : Koral06
      • Ya, I didn't mind the gameplay and such of DA2, I just groaned entering the same cave or running around t... : illwill18
      • Yeah, there's nothing inherently wrong with building an RPG story about the politics in and around a sing... : Zek
      • Yeah, likewise. A part of me is sad to hear this. DA2 was a nightmarish disappointment in a lot of ways b... : Arceihn
      • I bought the one DLC but didn't the expansion(that's with the elf rogue lady?). Cool to hear it was dece... : breadsticks
    • Maybe it was the other ways the game feel short that ruined the experience for me. It might also be becau... : XwingVmanX
• Maybe it's me, but I don't be playing any DA if BGEE comes out well. : Navy Spitfire
• what. I thought they had abandoned DA2 stuff to focus on DA3. such a disjointed dev house : Downforce
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  Bioware is a developer that should take a break. EA should stop asking them to produce so much. They clea... : rtricoche
  • no kidding. scope creep is running rampant in the games industry. the total opposite of focus and vision. : Downforce
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    How does a massive company take a brake? That doesn't seem like something a huge mega million dollars co... : SinisterInfant
    • By giving themselves more time to make their games, I guess? I dunno. Their last couple especially could'... : Arceihn
    • Blizzard has always done that even before WoW. I think Bioware could easily be in a similar position if u... : Zek
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    EA jumped on Bioware when they were riding a high, pounded out some really good games, a few bad ones, bu... : DewFuel
    • I'm in complete agreement with you. : MOOMANiBE
    • This ... unfortunately. : Lukiopimp
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    DA2 wasn't great, but I've enjoyed everything else Bioware has published, and I've enjoyed it a LOT. By f... : ramshot
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      How about the fact that the stories in their last two games have been abominations when they are touted a... : Wisp!
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        Pretty sure that's an opinion and not a fact. : CyCo_PL
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          The stories in Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3 are objectively terrible. : Wisp!
          • Compared to what? They're not even the worst among BioWare's own works. For all its faults DA2's story wa... : Arceihn
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            On ME3 I simply don't agree. I've enjoyed the story plenty. As have many other people I know. As for the ... : ramshot
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              Did you like the part where Shepard is forced to murder billions of people? Did you like the part where B : Wisp!
              • I don't think the ending(s) are great, but they're ok, and nowhere near as poor as the worst of the whine : ramshot
          • I don't think you know what words mean. : CyCo_PL
  • Man that guy knows WTF. INF! : uebersoldat
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    Don't they have like five or six Bioware-branded studios at this point, all producing different games? Or... : Hemtroll
    • You're right. EA renamed a bunch of their dev studios "BioWare" to capitalize on their good name. : K1Bond007
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  Its called --> Dragon Age III "Dragon Age development team at BioWare is done working on Dragon Age II an... : valcan_s
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    Dragon Age 2 should never be referenced again for anything. One of the biggest disappointments in gaming ... : wretchedradio
    • real talk ! : Dark Drakonis
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      You know what grinds my gears? : sogelegos
      • No, what? (This *better* be good? ;-) : =]Milo[=
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        War.... : BlockheadBrown
        • War never changes, u breadloaf. : Ride-My-Rocket
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        Sand? : Marrbe
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          Limes? : =]Milo[=
          • Lamps? : Malku
      • You, America. FUCK YOU. : Entity
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      Serious question: Could someone outline a well reasoned explanation of why Dragon Age 2 was disappointing... : OverloadUT
      • Copy/paste level design (literally) Significantly less tactical combat than DA:O (enemies attack in wave... : Rehevkor
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        Sure, here goes. Dragon Age 2 was touted as many things, but being a DIRECT sequel, fans had a lot of ... : rottdcorpse
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          The combat was good though. Lol. : rottdcorpse
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            The combat was fast-paced, but I wouldn't call it good in a tactical sense. There's little to no resou... : Rice-Rocketeer
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              As a massive Baldur's Gate fan I was obviously overjoyed at the combat system in Dragon Age : Origins. DA2's combat was different sure, but not in a bad way, in fact it was one of the strongest points of the game.
              
              I liked that it was fast paced and visceral, but the extremely limited "tactical" camera was a joke, Half the time I couldn't even put my mouse where I wanted my fireball's to go, couldn't get them to hit approaching enemies etc, etc.
              
              I agree with you that tactically it was terrible, but it was a lot of fun. Not a patch on BG2 or DA:O though.

              Mar 20, 2012 2:39pm PDT
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              As a massive Baldur's Gate fan I was obviously overjoyed at the combat system in Dragon Age : Origins. DA... : rottdcorpse
              • The wave spawns meant that tactical positioning meant nothing, and actually worked against you. The "act... : genom
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          Thanks for this! : OverloadUT
          • Anytime dude, I try to stay honest and give a game it's props where it's due. I played it all the way thr... : rottdcorpse
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          I'd agree with this, and I didn't hate DA2. I thought it was a decent enough little game. I think the mai... : Rauol Duke
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            Can't fault you man, touting it as the direct sequel made the mediocrity much harder to bear. Given that ... : rottdcorpse
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              It was originally an expansion for DA:O that they decided to change the name on. And they also made so... : Crimsonbeak
              • For real, giving Qunari horns?? WTF, sure, they looked a whole lot cooler but ret-conning the lore to say... : rottdcorpse
          • I dunno, the biggest offense the game commits is the sheer laziness in the level design/repeating areas, ... : Vincent Grayson
        • I liked the combat and thought the plot was decent. Enjoyed the characters more than DA1. But the repetit... : Pettytheft
        • The worst part is that the combat is NOT fun. This game came out within six months of Witcher 2 and got i : SpaecKow
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    2 was solid WTF are you talking about the game a mediocre mess. And it just exuded lazy/rushed developm... : Crimsonbeak
    • Dude it's valcan_s, he rarely hates games : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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      Really its odd so many think DA2 is shit, the only issues I had where : - the levels where mappy and y... : valcan_s
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        The story was a mess. And the ending was another wtf this makes no sense thing. Anders blows up the Cha : Crimsonbeak
        • Yeah I didn't get the whole idea of having junk in the inventory. And the ending only proved that despite : Koral06
      • there was a story? you just hung out at the fucking docks for 50hrs basically : multisync
      • Combat was fine, but they pushed it way too much and quickly got tedious. Once enemies attack, you know ... : mobab
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      I enjoyed Dragon Age II more than Origins. It was rushed, and it really shows, but it's a rushed, wonk... : Alice O'Connor
      • Interesting, I'm wondering how rose tinted my view of DAO is. Both had problems but also great strengths... : =]Milo[=
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        Another Fantasy RPG sells it short for what I wanted out of it: party-based tactical combat/interaction w... : drhazard
        • Yeah Doc, neither were what I would have tweaked the designer's vision to prioritise. Somehow for all the... : =]Milo[=
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  Dragon Age the F2P MMO : cptstern
  • lol... you're probably right : yAak
• It's a Facebook game with Freemium bonuses available for 1,000,000 gold earned in game or $2 real cash. : Rauol Duke
• Wonder what action game they have in store? : baron calamity
• You mean EA's yearly Dragon Age of Duty franchise? : funnynamehere
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  i would like to see bioware gone : ETPC1
  • Then you're a silly, silly man. : rottdcorpse
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    It is not really bioware as much as it is the poisoned culture that exists in all the big publishers. Bi... : JuffoWup
    • It's so sad :( : one random winner
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      Blizzard seems to be chugging along as Blizzard quite all right. They still take God awful long to releas... : StealthHawk
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        People like their conspiracy theories. : walker270
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          Lizard men totally own the illuminati. : shirif
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            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK8Y2nO_8TM : Rauol Duke
            • I paid for this microphone mister, I want an answer. : shirif
• Double Anal : Magus
• I heard a rumour that DA2 was originally supposed to be an expansion for DA1. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  I see bioware's hardcore reputation is plummeting down with Square Enix's these days. Let's hope we do... : BillPaxtonator
  • Wrex Wracer : ArB
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  sooo, am I the only one who actually really liked DA2, almost more than DAO? (i still have to beat DAO, b... : soundcreepy
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    Yeah, you're the only one. DA2 was a terrible game. : rottdcorpse
    • :(... : soundcreepy
  • I too am slightly saddened by the lack of more DLC or an expansion. As flawed as it was I had grown fond ... : GrandHarrier