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Dragon Age 2 at least attempted to do something different. They obviously lacked the time for proper environment and encounter design, but I liked the idea of starting as a refugee with your family and become somebody in a foreign land. Dragon Age 1 was a very very conservative game. In many senses DAI is its continuation, but with complete lack of focus and a sheet of blandness on top the amazing graphics.
DA2 was the last risk Bioware took. Personally I consider Mass Effect 1 their last good game.
It wasn't that much of a risk, more like a desperate attempt at making a new game in a very short time. They were going to release DA2 as a DLC for Origins, but EA pressured them to make it a new game instead. That's why everything's recycled, encounters are shit, and the game is just a rushed mess in general. It had relatively interesting themes, but tumblrisms infect almost everything in this game.
Yeah, everyone needs to stop sucking Btongue's cock on this one. I'm personally tired of people acting like they took a risk and failed, and that was noble. Like, nobody remembers the guy who made it halfway up everest, got lost and started smearing himself with his own shit to keep warm before freezing to death horribly.
Heh. The rush had advantages. They didn't have time to make as many core changes to the system as they did with DA:I, so it played more like DA:O.