Dragon Age

[Tawmis]

Dragon Age: Origins is in every way superior to the crap that was Dragon Age II.
I played DA:O probably about six times.

[Flightpath07]

Dragon Age: Origins is in every way superior to the crap that was Dragon Age II.
I played DA:O probably about six times.

I'm going to both agree, and disagree, with you.

I understand your sentiments. On first play, I was p!ssed off at DA2. The game seemed less-expansive and more restrictive than DAO was. And, even worse, going through everything you did with your character in DAO, and then not being able to continue with your character in the next game...a horrible decision.

Since the end of that first play-through of DA2, I have come to appreciate it a lot more. No, it isn't the original; but, in many ways, it tried to distance itself from the first one, while still showing you an enjoyable time of game-playing in another area of Thedas. And I would expect Inquisition to both tie the first two games together a little more, as well as be as different as possible from both of them. That is both the charm of these games, and their curse as well.

On it's own, as a stand-alone game (which, it some sense, it sort of is), it is a nice accomplishment, and a good game. Unfortunately, the two things going against it, are that DAO was such a high standard to set, and that DA2 did not give people what they were hoping for (which was more of the exact same).

As stated before, I am a HUGE Baldur's Gate fan. The 2nd one sucked, compared to the first, for many of the reasons I have just listed here, but both are still very good games. Just one is a lot better than the other one (which is still very good).