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[Pathos]

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First thought: A sequel? ALREADY?!

Second: Eh, the features list is a bit sparse, but sounds interesting. I can imagine the "world shaping around you" is just a few good, neutral or evil decisions, though. Nothing really morally grey. I mean, one of the "moral" decisions in the first Dragon Age is whether to give a prisoner food or... Kill him. Wow, really?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Kill him! Kill him!

I had the first game. Moral choices? Like siding with the werewolves or elves? Or letting the racist alienage guy go free for the landsmeet? I wish my choices had more effect on the game though. Looking forward to the second one.

[Dr. Johbson]

Either way, whether you side with the elves or the werewolves, you don't get to *have* werewolves join your army. Thats all I bloody wanted. Unless I did something wrong, I only played the game once, and even then I could only stand half of it.

[Zangi]

Eh, I hope the combat is improved.  Was a bore-fest between stories for me.

[KaelGotDwarves]

The first game was chock full of generic fantasy tropes and only worth playing for the hilariously shitty writing. Also, huge portions of the "game" you needed to buy DLC for.

I hope bioware quits being a vortex of suck in their current direction of dumbing all of their games down into the interactive rpg equivilants of Twilight.

[Pathos]

Kill him! Kill him!

I had the first game. Moral choices? Like siding with the werewolves or elves? Or letting the racist alienage guy go free for the landsmeet? I wish my choices had more effect on the game though. Looking forward to the second one.

Moral choices? There were two "evil choices" and one "good choice". There was no ethical troubles with it. You could either rile up the werewolves to slaughter the elves (causing them to be stuck as werewolves and getting you werewolves in the final battle, this was an "evil choice"), slaughter the werewolves and the Lady in the Forest (which gets you the elves and is another "evil choice") or free the werewolves from the curse by convincing / killing the shaman that did it to them to go back on it (which is the "good choice" and gets you the elves).

Now, a good "grey morality" quest would be that a prostitute has murdered her abusive pimp in cold blood. You can let her go or put her into jail. (Or kill her or pimp her out or whatever.) On one end of the scale is chaotic good whilst the other is lawful neutral. If you let her go, though, others will be thinking you'll let them off the hook if they have a good enough excuse, and will naturally murder people after (basically) losing faith in the law.

Do you see the difference? In the werewolf versus elf quest, there's a fairly obvious "good character" path. In the Cold Blooded Hooker quest, it's law versus emotional judgement. Superman would let her go, Batman would put her in jail.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I know what you are saying, and I agree with you. Needed more grey areas. (They are grey wardens.) The alienage guy trapped in the dungeon was as grey as it got.

[jnecros]

Seems like all of bioware's games are like that: You are either a bloodthirsty yet very petty bastard who eats babies and shakes people down for a few coins or you are a self sacrificing saint

Well Fable is like this also I guess

So I agree, needs more grey

[Captain Hat]

Oh EA, you and your sequel churning out ways.

[Rakonas]

So yeah, main character probably Morrigan's demon baby.

[mnjiman]

Dragon Age was a good game all around.

Very nicely made.. bad camera angles for xbox 360 though.

I hope they fix that -_-

[Jreengus]

Either way, whether you side with the elves or the werewolves, you don't get to *have* werewolves join your army. Thats all I bloody wanted. Unless I did something wrong, I only played the game once, and even then I could only stand half of it.

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If you convince the werewolves to attack then they kill all the elves removing any chance of ever turning back and giving you werewolves in your army.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

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First thought: A sequel? ALREADY?!

Second: Eh, the features list is a bit sparse, but sounds interesting. I can imagine the "world shaping around you" is just a few good, neutral or evil decisions, though. Nothing really morally grey. I mean, one of the "moral" decisions in the first Dragon Age is whether to give a prisoner food or... Kill him. Wow, really?

Really?  You're surprised that EA is already churning out a sequel to a big name console title?

[fenrif]

RPS has a little mini article about it.

Apparently Bioware decided that dragon age wasn't enough like Mass effect, so they've decided to make the player character in DA2 more like Shepard. Which means you can ONLY be human in DA2.

[Hugehead]

And so you are thrust into the world, but things have changed now you have STEAMPUNK GUNS.