Dragon Age: Origins Save File Imports 'The World' into Dragon Age 2

October 6, 2010 10:05 AM

Although Dragon Age 2 tells the story of a new character named "Hawke," players will still be able to import save files from the Dragon Age: Origins, impacting the world around the new hero.

In an interview with NowGamer, Dragon Age 2 lead designer Mike Laidlaw revealed that save file importing in the upcoming sequel will change "the world" to reflect how you left it in Origins. "Who's in charge of Ferelden, what happened with the Dwarves, who's running Orzammar?" Laidlaw said. "All of these things are reflected and accounted for in Dragon Age 2."

Importing saves from the original Mass Effect into its critically acclaimed sequel not only helped shape the character of Commander Shepard; decisions made by players in the original crafted a unique experience in Mass Effect 2. Because Dragon Age 2 is taking a different approach in terms of its characters and story--namely not continuing the journey started by customizable Dragon Age: Origins characters--how the game would utilize data from the original title was unknown.

Dragon Age 2 launches on March 8 in North America and March 11 in Europe for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

Xav de Matos

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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Walterbennet

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October 6, 2010 10:25 AM

Cool, and an expected feature. But BioWare still has an uphill battle ahead of them in getting me excited for this game.
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  October 6, 2010 11:32 AM
  
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- NickDelios
  
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  October 6, 2010 11:34 AM
  
  That makes two of us.
  
  When the trailers for Dragon Age came out, with Marilyn Manson playing at the end, I lost all fucking interest for it. Since then, it's entirely fallen off my radar.
  - Wikidd
    
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    October 6, 2010 1:59 PM
    
    You do realise that there was no such music in the game, right? In fact I remember the actual music being pretty good. The story was OK too, they really set the whole world up nicely.
    - Epsilon Sector
      
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      October 6, 2010 3:54 PM
      
      I bought the soundtrack xD I also bought the game, but felt that Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2 were FAR better games. I couldn't push myself to complete Dragon Age, I just got too bored of a bunch of things.
    - NickDelios
      
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      October 6, 2010 5:45 PM
      
      I - I know it wasn't in the game. But if marketing is meant to hype-up a product, it failed miserably for me on that one. Even as a fan of BioWare's games, the only impression left in my mind was 'great - it's probably scaled back on story, heavy on combat and has some sick, sick *finishing moves* or some crap - you know, to get the kids these days into it'.
      
      I'm an old school Bioware / Black Isle kind of guy. When I think of the two, I like to associate epic, story-laden games - but the marketing for Dragon Age left me anticipating anything but.
      
      So I skipped it. I might pick it up when the EVERY DLC IN HERE version comes out soon, but eh.