>I'm gonna show the chantry that mages aren't all blood mages by using blood magic to commit terrorist acts
at least that's what I remember from it. and terrible butchery of anders as I recall
I may be willing to concede an argument that it had some good ideas or aspirations (eg. the story being more personal, which of course it actually wasn't because Hawke's rise to power was handled in a time skip).
But it's not "flawed" anything unless by "flaw" you mean the game is a giant pile of shit that has not a single good or even decent component part, many others are mind-bogglingly awful, and whatever advancements it had over Origins still gesture towards glaring problems when you put them into their proper context (eg. faces and facial animations are better, out then, despite being a more recent game literally every other part of the game is graphically worse both in terms of technology and aesthetic, or that the combat is faster paced, but it does this by shedding any pretense of being a tactical RPG and trying to copy WoW, but despite being a single player game that doesn't have lag and MP balance to worry about, it's janky shit in comparison and the abilities are completely impotent with absolutely no complexity beyond first come first serve - which also in effect makes cross-class combos kinda pointless tactically).
>A flawed masterpiece
People need to stop using this. It's an oxymoron.
If something is flawed, then it's not a masterpiece. It might be very good. It might be excellent. But it's not a masterpiece.
It absolutely doesn't apply to DA2 by any stretch of the imagination, but I think it makes perfect sense: some individual components are outstanding and befit of a masterpiece, but they are dragged down by others of (possibly much) lesser quality so the overall package doesn't reach that status. It's a perfectly sensible way to describe a very uneven game (or other work) that is outstanding in some ways but not in others.
You must be autistic. The term "flawed masterpiece" refers to something that is a masterpiece despite not being technically perfect; greater than the sum of its parts. That is without getting into the concept, which I am sure your 'tism would be incapable of comprehending, that some things can even be elevated by their flaws, and it is precisely the flaws that make something a masterpiece.
They made everyone in this game hot as hell for some reason, even FemHawke has huge breasts and a big round ass. Isabella and even the player's sister has huge breasts that are constantly on display. This was undoubtedly when BioWare were at their absolute sexiest.
But despite that the game sucks shit. It would've been passable as a spinoff and at one point it was before EA decided that "DA2" would sell more than "DA: Exodus" or whatever they were going to call it.
I liked them all but cant replay inquisition and 2 was clearly unfinished. Anyone who says they are bad is wrong and I will just disregard your opinion
I wonder if these morons now see the success of bg3 and realize the path to success is making a good game instead of dumbing everything down to sell moronic rpgs to people who don't like rpgs
they already rebooted da4 twice in the desperate attempt to follow whatever genre was more successful, in the end it's all in the hands of ea executives, aka a bunch of morons who think they know it all about the industry
I think in terms of main plot and companions, DA2 was near/adjacent to Origins-quality. But despite all the bugs and flawed gameplay of Origins, DA2 felt much less polished: less interesting sidequests, resources loading mid-combat, fewer meaningful story decisions, no Origins-style backstory despite playing a brand new non-Warden character, etc.
I liked it. I liked it better than I thought I would considering the panning it got, and it's miles ahead of Inquisition. And while not a masterpiece, if you consider the turnaround time and resource/management issues with the project, it wasn't an incredibly awful result. It's just a worse product than Origins. In the same way that Inquisition was a worse product than DA2, and in the same way that Dreadwolf will be a worse product than Inquisition.
if you know what you're doing it you can script your companions to slaughter everything on the screen on auto-pilot without you doing anything at all on nightmare difficulty. it's satisfying as frick.
pro tip: although it's not stated anywhere, half the tactics concerning enemies follow the logic "does the currently active target meet the criteria" and for the other half "find a target that meets this criteria"
you can figure out which is which through trial and error.
for example
enemy:health>50% : use current condition for next tactic
enemy:rank=normal : attack
will check to see if the currently selected target has health over 50% and if it does then it will search for another target that is normal and attack that instead
I can see an outline for a good game but DA2 is unfinished piece of garbage which is liked only by women and trannies because you can romance the characters
it was a disappointing game back when disappointing games didn't happen every year, so the backlash was worse.
imo it gets way more hate than it deserves, i think it's a very good game
I'm glad so many people are using this term for bullshit discussions. It makes filtering trash like this en masse a breeze.
Nah, it's just garbage.
Could tell this was gonna be crap from miles away. Origins was the only good one.
>you remember that PC Gamer awarded this turd 94%
Felt good to get redpilled on "games journalism" at such a young age
No, more like absolute garbo
Playing rogue was fun and the jester dialogue options are great.
It was better than Shitquisition.
No, just flawed.
That's Cisquisition.
Oh well, I never played anything other than Origins.
>I'm gonna show the chantry that mages aren't all blood mages by using blood magic to commit terrorist acts
at least that's what I remember from it. and terrible butchery of anders as I recall
Game play was dogshit but story and characters were top tier
>I'm gonna show people that Black folk aren't all bad by chimping out and burning cars
Many similar examples, the game is realistic
I actually liked it more than DAO even if the latter is objectively better game.
I liked it more than Origins. It took itself less seriously and the psycho tomboy elf waifu was cute.
I may be willing to concede an argument that it had some good ideas or aspirations (eg. the story being more personal, which of course it actually wasn't because Hawke's rise to power was handled in a time skip).
But it's not "flawed" anything unless by "flaw" you mean the game is a giant pile of shit that has not a single good or even decent component part, many others are mind-bogglingly awful, and whatever advancements it had over Origins still gesture towards glaring problems when you put them into their proper context (eg. faces and facial animations are better, out then, despite being a more recent game literally every other part of the game is graphically worse both in terms of technology and aesthetic, or that the combat is faster paced, but it does this by shedding any pretense of being a tactical RPG and trying to copy WoW, but despite being a single player game that doesn't have lag and MP balance to worry about, it's janky shit in comparison and the abilities are completely impotent with absolutely no complexity beyond first come first serve - which also in effect makes cross-class combos kinda pointless tactically).
>A flawed masterpiece
People need to stop using this. It's an oxymoron.
If something is flawed, then it's not a masterpiece. It might be very good. It might be excellent. But it's not a masterpiece.
It absolutely doesn't apply to DA2 by any stretch of the imagination, but I think it makes perfect sense: some individual components are outstanding and befit of a masterpiece, but they are dragged down by others of (possibly much) lesser quality so the overall package doesn't reach that status. It's a perfectly sensible way to describe a very uneven game (or other work) that is outstanding in some ways but not in others.
You must be autistic. The term "flawed masterpiece" refers to something that is a masterpiece despite not being technically perfect; greater than the sum of its parts. That is without getting into the concept, which I am sure your 'tism would be incapable of comprehending, that some things can even be elevated by their flaws, and it is precisely the flaws that make something a masterpiece.
It’s dogshit. What the frick are you thinking?
They made everyone in this game hot as hell for some reason, even FemHawke has huge breasts and a big round ass. Isabella and even the player's sister has huge breasts that are constantly on display. This was undoubtedly when BioWare were at their absolute sexiest.
But despite that the game sucks shit. It would've been passable as a spinoff and at one point it was before EA decided that "DA2" would sell more than "DA: Exodus" or whatever they were going to call it.
WHEN YOU PRESS A BUTTON
SOMETHING AWESOME HAPPENS!
its atleast 10 times better than shit that come out today
and it was made in 18 months
Origins > 2 > 3
Great > good > average
I liked them all but cant replay inquisition and 2 was clearly unfinished. Anyone who says they are bad is wrong and I will just disregard your opinion
A hard to swallow redpill
Then how come all of the mages that end up not being c**ts or morons are in favor of the circles?
I wonder if these morons now see the success of bg3 and realize the path to success is making a good game instead of dumbing everything down to sell moronic rpgs to people who don't like rpgs
I'm curious what effects the existence of BG3 / rape of starfield will have on the development of TES VI
we will find out 20 years from now
they already rebooted da4 twice in the desperate attempt to follow whatever genre was more successful, in the end it's all in the hands of ea executives, aka a bunch of morons who think they know it all about the industry
Even if they did I don't think they could.
I think in terms of main plot and companions, DA2 was near/adjacent to Origins-quality. But despite all the bugs and flawed gameplay of Origins, DA2 felt much less polished: less interesting sidequests, resources loading mid-combat, fewer meaningful story decisions, no Origins-style backstory despite playing a brand new non-Warden character, etc.
I liked it. I liked it better than I thought I would considering the panning it got, and it's miles ahead of Inquisition. And while not a masterpiece, if you consider the turnaround time and resource/management issues with the project, it wasn't an incredibly awful result. It's just a worse product than Origins. In the same way that Inquisition was a worse product than DA2, and in the same way that Dreadwolf will be a worse product than Inquisition.
>flaw
>masterpiece
It's kino and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
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>flawed masterpiece
As a DA2 apologist, I can firmly say you're pushing it.
People focus on ME3, but my disappointment in DA2 on release was much worse
if you know what you're doing it you can script your companions to slaughter everything on the screen on auto-pilot without you doing anything at all on nightmare difficulty. it's satisfying as frick.
pro tip: although it's not stated anywhere, half the tactics concerning enemies follow the logic "does the currently active target meet the criteria" and for the other half "find a target that meets this criteria"
you can figure out which is which through trial and error.
for example
enemy:health>50% : use current condition for next tactic
enemy:rank=normal : attack
will check to see if the currently selected target has health over 50% and if it does then it will search for another target that is normal and attack that instead
I can see an outline for a good game but DA2 is unfinished piece of garbage which is liked only by women and trannies because you can romance the characters
it was a disappointing game back when disappointing games didn't happen every year, so the backlash was worse.
imo it gets way more hate than it deserves, i think it's a very good game
And boye does it have flaws
>da2 now has apologists
Grim times
you just don't get it, man