Forum Overview :: Dragon Age 2 :: I gave up on it

[quote name="E. L. Koba"]Major complaints: Way too MMO'y. All the non-mission areas feel like WoW regions. You just wander around and there are random mobs sitting around waiting for you to agro them. Repetitive combat. Do you like fighting the exact same battle against 4-5 opponents over and over again? Then this is the game for you. No real tactical positioning, just the just bland MMO "tactics" of using your tank to pull agro. I seem to remember much more varied combat in Origins UI blows goats. Everything takes 2-3 more clicks than it should. Crafting and equipping gear and upgrade is so badly designed I almost think it is done on purpose just to pad the play time. Speaking of padding playtime - Your home base is spread out between 4 different loading screens. Meaning whenever you want to head home and re-equip, check the war board, or chat up the ladies, be prepared to spend at least 30 minutes running around to all the different areas. Speaking of chatting up the ladies - if you are a hetero male you only have 2 options: The Indian chick, who, as soon as you hint that you are into her, immediately asks you to go intervene some trade dispute or some nonsense in order to save her family fortune. I'm trying to save the world here, and this bitch thinks that because I think she's cute she can use me to run off and help her family trade empire? The other option is the butch chick with scars on her face. All the other girls are lesbian, or don't respond. Speaking of the Indian girl - there are just random people of other races all obviously stuck there to please the tumblr croud. If you are trying to create a believable medieval era world, it's very distracting that for no apparent reason one of the noblewoman has brown skin and "Indian" facial features, when pretty much everyone else from that region looks "European". I get that you are trying to be inclusive, but it pulls me out from believing this is a coherent world, and making me think of how annoying the designers are - which is always a bad thing. I should have known this was not the game for me when I saw that one of the 5 options for customizing you castle was choosing the curtains. Also I should have known this was not the game for me when one of the major missions is a fancy ball where you have to "gain favor" - which means basically just answering every question with a question. Also you wander around and listen for gossip. I did kind of like the crafting system though.[/quote]