Fenris is possibly the most annoying character ever. Whenever I give a shot at making him my rival I get one of his quests and like +40 or something friendship. Then when I want him as a friend we get a quest regarding mages and he shits on my friendship points. Also his sister is a mage hurr durr.

I played the demo... it's so different from the first one... Bioware pulled another mass effect 1 to 2 switcheroo on us. i still want it really bad though!

Keep any kind of posts about the game progression between spoiler tags, as some players (including me D:) might still be playing their first playthrough. ~ Yours truly, Drakhir

everything takes forever to find in this game, especially when you're a n00b like me! :O

I finished the game in 21 hours, I love this game ._. .
Surprisingly fun.

The fighting system doesn't seem to have suffered at all from the abbreviated development time. However, the same can't really be said about the storyline and characters. What starts off as a grand adventure with characters speaking in hushed voices about the mythical "Champion" (read: the player) quickly devolves, growing boring in a hurry. Bioware used an experimental type of storytelling in Dragon Age 2. In all of their other games, you control the main character every step of their journey. In Dragon Age 2, the story skips around from focal point to focal point. Near the beginning of the game, there's a chance that you'll need to join up with some foul people in order to get inside of a city.

Their terms dictate that you must work for them for a full year once they get you inside. Rather than making you sludge through a year of busy work, the story skips forward to a scene with characters essentially saying "phew, that was a rough year." It sounds great in theory, however I'm not convinced that it's successful. Immersion is a fragile thing, and in this case I think that having control of the character yanked away from you (then subsequently having them live by themselves for a year) breaks your connection with the character.

Some problems from Origins have persisted in this game as well. Most notably, the level design is exceedingly poor. Nearly every level consists of narrow pathways that allow for positively zero exploration or player agency. The environments aren't very good looking to begin with, so there's not a whole lot of incentive to explore anyway. This problem becomes worse when the storytellers don't take the time to actually explain where things are. The next leg of a quest is rarely explained to you and now just appears as a blip on the mini-map. This leads to huge swaths of the game being essentially played not with high-res modern graphics, but by watching a few blips go across a 2D mini-map until the cutscene triggers. This, again, is consistent with a game that simply wasn't taken slowly and carefully.

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I played it for a day or two on xbox 360.
My god.
The story-line is decent.
The new features are incredible.
And the gameplay is even better.

Didn't play DAO. the only game that was close to this I've ever played was Final Fantasy.

Overall it's fun, but the camera is really retarded. Took me a while to adjust to it.
Tactics and RPG stuff are great, nice storyline etc.

I didn't get it, but from the media I saw it seems dumbed down from the Origins. Cheesier dialogue, cheesier weapons even. Right off the bat you start as this "champion"....Meh.
But I'd have to give it a go to see if my first impression is wrong.

I got my signature edition today. The user reviews had me second guessing my purchase but today after actually playing it I found it an awesome game in its own merits.