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1. Rogues seem considerably less badass than they were in Origins. I went with a dual-wielding rogue since that’s what I use most in Origins, and… I miss my double longswords. I miss crowd-control moves like Dual Weapon Sweep and Whirlwind. I think I’ll give a mage Hawke a go next time - I do like the new mage awesomeness. They get to hit things with their staves! How awesome is that?
2. Spiders. The size of trucks. Gnyah.
3. The new combat system is… well. I like the realism that’s been added, but I hate the fact that new enemies pop up out of nowhere. Seriously, you think you’ve cleared an area and more just drop out of the sky. Like goddamned bats.
4. I’d heard the community bitch about this, so I wasn’t unprepared, but all the areas look the same! Origins had heaps of unique dungeon environments. This? Well, the Deep Roads were exactly the same as that cave in the mountains Hadriana had in A Bitter Pill. A little originality isn’t that hard, surely.
5. Seriously. The spiders are scarier than the damned varterral was.
6. Okay, I know Bioware isn’t exactly the fluffy puppy of games manufacturers, but… All That Remains? What the actual fuck? That's messed up, even for Dragon Age. I know how the basic plot of II goes - it’s hard to hang around tumblr without knowing that Anders is a humongous idiot who explodes things, and that Meredith and Orsino are both off their rockers, but that one caught me off-guard. Bioware sure likes its Player Punches.
7. Not sure I like the new darkspawn. They look less creepy (They're darkspawn. Darkspawn are meant to look creepy, not all pasty-faced and weird.), and I don’t think every single one would be clever enough to wear a coif like that.
8. Living with my stupid decisions from Origins is awesome. And horrible. And awesome. And I had to kill Danyla’s kid because she jumped me, and save Harrowmont’s sister’s-cousin’s-nephew’s-stepson, or something like that, because I stuck Bhelen on the throne. I’m looking forward to seeing Alistair again, mind.
9. Have I mentioned the giant-giant spiders yet?
10. Varric is totally my bro. I love the little dude.
11. Isabela will never ever fail to make me laugh like a crazy woman. Oh, never change, bb. “I like big boats, I cannot lie.” LULZ.
12. I do miss Awakening Anders. He used to be so much fun, hitting on my extremely married Warden and stirring up Oghren and Nathaniel. Now he’s constantly mopey, when he’s not frying innocent people with the force of his Vengeance.
13. Merrill… yeah, I have no opinion on her as yet.
14. Fenris is hilariously dour. I crack up listening to his deadpan battle cries, for serious. I think I might try romancing him with a mage!Hawke just to screw with his mind.
15. I kicked myself when Bethany got nabbed by the Templars (OHAI CULLEN, YOU CRAZY SON OF A BITCH, GIVE ME BACK MY APOSTATE SISTER, I DO NOT CARE HOW TRAUMATISED YOU ARE, I SURVIVED ULDRED JUST FIIIIIIIIIINE), but then I found out she’d be either there, a Warden, or dead, and… I like her in the Circle. At least she gets to teach the little baby mages and such.
16. Aveline is hilarious in her uselessness. Seriously, the whole The Long Road quest had me going. Especially when she and Isabela started calling each other names.
17. I don’t have the Sebastian DLC, sadly. I am told his accent is rather amazing.
18. I love, love, love the dialogue wheel. My Hawke is a snarky pain in the ass to pretty much everybody. Inappropriate humour for the win.
That’s about all I have, for now. I don’t hate the game. I rather like it, on its own. As a sequel to Origins it’s kind of meh, but as an individual game it’s entertaining and stabby! And if you have played the game and not seen this, YOU NEED TO. (It's not TVTropes, it's safe.)
2. Spiders. The size of trucks. Gnyah.
3. The new combat system is… well. I like the realism that’s been added, but I hate the fact that new enemies pop up out of nowhere. Seriously, you think you’ve cleared an area and more just drop out of the sky. Like goddamned bats.
4. I’d heard the community bitch about this, so I wasn’t unprepared, but all the areas look the same! Origins had heaps of unique dungeon environments. This? Well, the Deep Roads were exactly the same as that cave in the mountains Hadriana had in A Bitter Pill. A little originality isn’t that hard, surely.
5. Seriously. The spiders are scarier than the damned varterral was.
6. Okay, I know Bioware isn’t exactly the fluffy puppy of games manufacturers, but… All That Remains? What the actual fuck? That's messed up, even for Dragon Age. I know how the basic plot of II goes - it’s hard to hang around tumblr without knowing that Anders is a humongous idiot who explodes things, and that Meredith and Orsino are both off their rockers, but that one caught me off-guard. Bioware sure likes its Player Punches.
7. Not sure I like the new darkspawn. They look less creepy (They're darkspawn. Darkspawn are meant to look creepy, not all pasty-faced and weird.), and I don’t think every single one would be clever enough to wear a coif like that.
8. Living with my stupid decisions from Origins is awesome. And horrible. And awesome. And I had to kill Danyla’s kid because she jumped me, and save Harrowmont’s sister’s-cousin’s-nephew’s-stepson, or something like that, because I stuck Bhelen on the throne. I’m looking forward to seeing Alistair again, mind.
9. Have I mentioned the giant-giant spiders yet?
10. Varric is totally my bro. I love the little dude.
11. Isabela will never ever fail to make me laugh like a crazy woman. Oh, never change, bb. “I like big boats, I cannot lie.” LULZ.
12. I do miss Awakening Anders. He used to be so much fun, hitting on my extremely married Warden and stirring up Oghren and Nathaniel. Now he’s constantly mopey, when he’s not frying innocent people with the force of his Vengeance.
13. Merrill… yeah, I have no opinion on her as yet.
14. Fenris is hilariously dour. I crack up listening to his deadpan battle cries, for serious. I think I might try romancing him with a mage!Hawke just to screw with his mind.
15. I kicked myself when Bethany got nabbed by the Templars (OHAI CULLEN, YOU CRAZY SON OF A BITCH, GIVE ME BACK MY APOSTATE SISTER, I DO NOT CARE HOW TRAUMATISED YOU ARE, I SURVIVED ULDRED JUST FIIIIIIIIIINE), but then I found out she’d be either there, a Warden, or dead, and… I like her in the Circle. At least she gets to teach the little baby mages and such.
16. Aveline is hilarious in her uselessness. Seriously, the whole The Long Road quest had me going. Especially when she and Isabela started calling each other names.
17. I don’t have the Sebastian DLC, sadly. I am told his accent is rather amazing.
18. I love, love, love the dialogue wheel. My Hawke is a snarky pain in the ass to pretty much everybody. Inappropriate humour for the win.
That’s about all I have, for now. I don’t hate the game. I rather like it, on its own. As a sequel to Origins it’s kind of meh, but as an individual game it’s entertaining and stabby! And if you have played the game and not seen this, YOU NEED TO. (It's not TVTropes, it's safe.)