DA2 is garbage indeed. It's even winning this very poll by a wide margin.
Yes, but it shouldn't be winning this very poll... All of you are implying that the original Dragon Age was great incline and somehow DA2 screw the pooch... This is incorrect, both games are garbage. That was the point i was making. Anyone who claims he liked the combat or the story in DAO is a fucking hypocrite, or he was 12 when it was released...
some characters were good,
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TemplarGR mainly, it's not that DA:O was great incline, it was that it was
something. This is very important. Even playing it back then you knew it was a bit shit, but it wasn't quite shit enough to be ridiculed mercilessly, it did just enough to get a pass. If you imagine a five star system of rating and then converted those words into realism you'd get the following:
Utter shite
Utter shite but it's heart was in the right place
Average
There's some elements of genuine incline here
Incline
And DA:O shuffled around the 2-4 mark, with most of it just being plainly average but with some serious dips and curves into shite and incline. & before you ask "what incline? There wasn't any", the incline was the technical feat of making an isometric party-based game using up to the minute graphics & still managing to maintain some semblance of tactical play, something that seems to baffle everyone who makes 'modern big budget RPGs', even the much loved popamole Witcher 3 & the memetastic ELEX & all etc. But boy, were its dips into utter shite really shite tho, like when the semblance of tactics doesn't provide much relation to the encounter design, the consolisation of Baldur's Gate & all that implies & the overly-generic world that felt both small and claustrophobic while at the same time feeling overly large and too empty.
DA:O represented the minimum acceptable, so, obviously, when DA2 landed, it crashed and burned. DA2 marks the tipping point of acceptability. Also, DA2 is when it stopped being Bioware anyway & became EA, so the title of the thread's a joke anyway as over half those games aren't even Bioware, they're EAware. What game made you give up on Bioware? The megacorporation monopoly game did, just like it does with most companies.