ESRB rating details Dragon Age II’s scenes of violent and sexual nature

”Sailing is like sex. Do it wrong, and it’ll make you sick… Unless your into Roman showers, where making you sick is doing it right o_O

Im still completly on the fence with this one… My nephew adored the first one on the 360 and keeps telling me to get involved, this one looks more to my tastes (combat and mass effect story tree’s etc…) but the graphics look incredibly bland to me, or maybe it’s just the footage they have been using doesn’t really show the game to it’s true potential… Mind you, gameplay wins over graphics, anyone care to enlighten me on why this game is so popular (don’t mention the PC version, i know that one is better )

Well I’ve just ordered Origins ultimate edition for 18 quid off play.com, seemed a bit of a bargain bargain, considering it has all the dlc.

@3 its a great game.

@2: Don’t know. Story and is a cheap LotR rip off. Gameplay was slow and dragging. Characters were interesting, not your character though. Always just standing there and smiling like a retard. I’m expecting something more from this one. Story sounds way more interesting than the previous “Stop the bad guys” storyline. Character looks more interesting.

The art-direction doesn’t work imo. If you look at the art they did for the game, it’s all colourful and looks like a flashbased game. Kind of like Cel-Shading. I think they tried it in the game, but kind of failed, and instead of fixing it just moved on. An indication for that are the bland textures. I’m still getting this game. For the pc, in hope of some mods that fix this and other stuff. PC Mods for the first one were fantastic. Especially the Kinky Sex Mod.

From what i heard the voiceacting sounds horrible too. The voice of the main character doesn’t fit and that Templar Chick sounds awful. Like and american trying to sound british.

@5

Thanks, i may indeed give it a whirl! I think you may be right about the graphics, they do look they tried something, got it roughly right then moved on… A bit of a fail from what i have seen so far. Im sure it’ll look better on the PC but the bits from the 360 version i saw looked very very bland. Compared to games like Assassins Creed Brotherhood, Mass Effect 2 etc, it really doesn’t cut the mustard. I know they are different games but it shows you what can be possible with a bit of work. I was dissapointed by Fable 3 in that respect… I was playing it alongside Assassins Cred Brotherhood, and it really looked bad in comparison… There was no excuse as Lionhead have alot of support from MS and the games were similar styles (glorified fetch quests)…

@6

You are missing the point of Dragon Age, its a tribute to the Baldur’s Gate series and which imo holds it well. I played and beaten it 8 time 5 times on the console and I bought the ultimate edition for the PC and beat it 3 times. Reason why it looks bland is because the same team that did Jade Empire was working on it for 7 years while most of the funds were going to Mass Effect thats until they were bought by EA. So yeah its going to look a bit date but graphics have never been Bioware’s strongest point.

@5
Yes it is a LOTR rip off. *rolls eyes* Where is exactly is the part that a a group of people are taking a ring to a volcano? I doubt you actually even attempted to play or beaten the game.

@7

Sure, i see what your saying, it just looks like a game where your going to put 50 hours plus into. With that much time spent walking around the environment, graphics really help add to the experience.

@8

Not really at least not for me. I am currently playing Planescape, you think DAO looks dated play that game or Baldur’s gate.

@7: It was marketed as a Baldur’s Gate tribute, but was actually a tribute to whatever Bioware’s last game was.

Most importantly, the tactical controls were awful, even on the PC, compared to the perfect interface of Baldur’s Gate. In addition, the party was small and universally annoying, the plot and nemesis were largely identical to that bastion of great storytelling, Ninja Gaiden (/sarc), the class abilities were just pulled out of WoW, and the story was told through the Bioware standby of awful looking heads staring vapidly past the camera, the thematic elements were born in the marketing department.

That people consider it a BG homage is a testament to (in addition to that efforts of that same marketing department) just how long it’s been since Icewind Dale 2, and how shamefully little imitation the Infinity Engine games have gotten.

I should add that the game isn’t garbage — in its own right. I particularly liked the origin stories – so much so that that I played through them to put off slogging through the actual plot on one character. It’s just the comparison to BG that gets me foaming at the mouth

In particular, if you liked Mass Effect 2, this new one is likely to enthrall you- that seems to be where they’re going with it.

@10

Really the class abilities were like WOW? You sure you’re playing the right game because the class abilities were pretty linear compared to WOW system especially after Cataclysm.

And the Mass Effect comment classic and original.The only similarities between DA2 and Mass Effect system is the dialog wheel and thats where it ends. They even added something different to the wheel they put tones so you can actually have a sarcastic prick as your PC.

@7: Finished it twice. I was really bored by the story. “There is a bad guy, we need to destroy it.” Great story. What was the reason for the betrayal? I remember it wasn’t a good one. Why are do the elves live in forests and use bows? Why do the dwarfs live underground and are usually all about brute strength? It’s directly taken from Tolkien. At least Witcher tries something different by telling a story ’bout race wars ‘n shit.

The only interesting thing was how magic was treated. Which reminded me of X-Men. I actually liked that.

Bioware made no effort to tell an interesting story. As hitnrun already said, most of the story was told through boring dialog.

@13

” Finished it twice. I was really bored by the story. “There is a bad guy, we need to destroy it.” Great story. ”

The game was not about the overall goal of the game it was about the characters. Same goes for LOTR all the story was about was a group of people going to a volcano to drop a ring in and defend the land of the upcoming doom. There is no originality in that either. The story was about the interaction between all the characters.

“Why are do the elves live in forests and use bows? Why do the dwarfs live underground and are usually all about brute strength?”

Yeah in LOTR Elevs were condemned by man, made into slaves, and their immoratality was stripped from them. Oh no it wasn’t.

Yes Tolkien may have created the general foundations of the races where dwarves live in mountains and elves are going to be in the forrest because they are adept to nature. But thats where the similarities end. Was there a ring that the group had to take to destroy the big bad? Was there a sorcerer in the tower creating orcs? No.

Every book, film, game is inspired by other forms of media. If you say DAo is a rip off of LOTR then so is Witcher. Elves in the forrest and dwarves in the mountain.