Dragon Age 2: PC Combat Walkthrough

http://dragonage.bioware.com/da2/gallery/

Finally we have got an official combat walkthrough for DA2. I hope this video will finally put to rest all those "OMG! A BUTTONMASHER!" cries I've heard lately.

looking good.

I believe witcher 2 will outclass this game in every way imaginable. Visuals look downgraded from DAo1:?

that looks much better

I believe witcher 2 will outclass this game in every way imaginable. Visuals look downgraded from DAo1:?

MFDOOM1983

Alright, alright, as possibly the biggest hater of DA2, the tactical combat looks like it has the right idea going. I'm not fully convinced until I can try it for myself, since sometimes they can show the only tactic in a video, and it looks impressive, but you end up being limited. 110million

Bioware just owned the haters.

[QUOTE="110million"]Alright, alright, as possibly the biggest hater of DA2, the tactical combat looks like it has the right idea going. I'm not fully convinced until I can try it for myself, since sometimes they can show the only tactic in a video, and it looks impressive, but you end up being limited. GeneralShowzer

Alright, alright, as possibly the biggest hater of DA2, the tactical combat looks like it has the right idea going. I'm not fully convinced until I can try it for myself, since sometimes they can show the only tactic in a video, and it looks impressive, but you end up being limited. 110million

Like I have tried to say several times before. We should wait and see how it'll turn out. I trust BioWare because they have never let me down before. Of course, there is always a chance for it to fail, but I like to hope for the best rather than the worst.

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"][QUOTE="110million"]Alright, alright, as possibly the biggest hater of DA2, the tactical combat looks like it has the right idea going. I'm not fully convinced until I can try it for myself, since sometimes they can show the only tactic in a video, and it looks impressive, but you end up being limited. lawlessx

[QUOTE="110million"]Alright, alright, as possibly the biggest hater of DA2, the tactical combat looks like it has the right idea going. I'm not fully convinced until I can try it for myself, since sometimes they can show the only tactic in a video, and it looks impressive, but you end up being limited. Icarian

Like I have tried to say several times before. We should wait and see how it'll turn out. I trust BioWare because they have never let me down before. Of course, there is always a chance for it to fail, but I like to hope for the best rather than the worst.

[QUOTE="Icarian"]

[QUOTE="110million"]Alright, alright, as possibly the biggest hater of DA2, the tactical combat looks like it has the right idea going. I'm not fully convinced until I can try it for myself, since sometimes they can show the only tactic in a video, and it looks impressive, but you end up being limited. 110million

Like I have tried to say several times before. We should wait and see how it'll turn out. I trust BioWare because they have never let me down before. Of course, there is always a chance for it to fail, but I like to hope for the best rather than the worst.

[QUOTE="110million"][QUOTE="Icarian"]

Like I have tried to say several times before. We should wait and see how it'll turn out. I trust BioWare because they have never let me down before. Of course, there is always a chance for it to fail, but I like to hope for the best rather than the worst.

Parasomniac

Alright, alright. Looks like I'll enjoy this.

Also hoping the Ultimate Edition of DA goes on sale this christmas on steam.

Alright, alright. Looks like I'll enjoy this.

Also hoping the Ultimate Edition of DA goes on sale this christmas on steam.

Ross_the_Boss6

Ugly guy presenting it to. :/Blixxed

This has revamped everything and comes out in a year. It better be delayed or something.GeneralShowzer

That looked better honestly, and as a hater my hope has been restored, however.... one thing that kinda bothered me and it bothers me with all bioware games.... dem animations!! FIX THEM BIOWARE!!!!

That looked better honestly, and as a hater my hope has been restored, however.... one thing that kinda bothered me and it bothers me with all bioware games.... dem animations!! FIX THEM BIOWARE!!!!

Espada12

That looked much better than I expected, and I'm glad they've improved the non-mage combat so dramatically. I'm still concerned the story will have more in common with Ambien than quality dark fantasy, but I have to admit I'm now cautiously optimistic about DA2 (whereas before I really couldn't care less).

I hope that finially siliences the haters, saying that it was dumbed down.

[QUOTE="Icarian"]

[QUOTE="110million"]Alright, alright, as possibly the biggest hater of DA2, the tactical combat looks like it has the right idea going. I'm not fully convinced until I can try it for myself, since sometimes they can show the only tactic in a video, and it looks impressive, but you end up being limited. 110million

Like I have tried to say several times before. We should wait and see how it'll turn out. I trust BioWare because they have never let me down before. Of course, there is always a chance for it to fail, but I like to hope for the best rather than the worst.

... i told you guys that this game will be epic.. it is not dumped down. it is like the first! EPIC!!

oh boy when this comes out i am gonna miss the sun!!!

Looks like the first Dragon Age, which is a good thing.

I think the video looks terrible, i don't think it will stop all the hate.

. I'm still not convinced, not enough to pre-order. Gonna wait for reviews. Espada12

[QUOTE="Espada12"]. I'm still not convinced, not enough to pre-order. Gonna wait for reviews. 110million

Looks better, I guess. The tactical combat looks much more fun... and fluid.

But damn, the game itself looks ugly. I mean, really. This is three months away? Shouldn't the game basically be content complete and in the polishing stages by now? The graphics/artstyle look terrible. If anything, it's gotten more generic.

[QUOTE="110million"][QUOTE="Espada12"]. I'm still not convinced, not enough to pre-order. Gonna wait for reviews. GeneralShowzer

Funny. Now we can choose between a button masher and something similar to Dragon Age Origins for consoles. What's the point in adding a strategic combat with huge area effects, no friendly fire and no isometric view on top of a game that was meant to be a hack & slasher?

Funny. Now we can choose between a button masher and something similar to Dragon Age Origins for consoles. What's the point in adding a strategic combat with huge area effects, no friendly fire and no isometric view on top of a game that was meant to be a hack & slasher?

RyuRanVII

That looks bad.

I don't care about the combat system, that's not the problem. The problem, rather, is that Dragon Age was an enormous dungeon slog with basically next to nothing in the way of quality quest content. You were killing things basically all of the time.

The combat could be excellent (it isn't, but I digress), it could quite fun, but when that's literally all the game consists of, the absolute breadth of its content, my stomach turns over.

It was temple after temple, ruin after ruin, corridor after corridor, generic dungeons and giant spiders and orc things, and samey looking root caves and pathways, again and again, until drool began to trickle from the corner of my mouth and my mind collapsed in utter disengagement.

Besides the fact that the vast majority of its content was fundamentally boring, it was also an extraordinarily stupid game, with a weak, generic story and a tiny, poorly imagined, and disinteresting gameworld. Everything about it was laughably bad, especially in comparison to Mass Effect. DA2 looks to be the same, yet somehow worse.

Still, good luck to all you day-one champions out there; your minds may bloody well need it.

That video definitely restored some of my hope in the game. I'm still unsure of the mass effect features they seem to have added into the game.

so it plays like Kotor, what were all you PC shut ins crying about, LOL.AiurProtoss

I wonder if the AI abiility configuration will be there. Thats what made dragon arge 1 so fun for me.. Not so much on specific battle gameplay but thinking out a secenario and having my AI partners setup accordingly.. I severely dislike Pause and play as it takes out a fundamental strategic value of a game. Only thing weird here is the camera view which just looks a bit odd. Reminds me more of a MMO in that aspect but it was like that in DA 1 though PC players got to enjoy a more strategic element with the top down perspective.

Now what really will make this game a success or a flop will be the story, if its non linear, and if the game has a more open feel to it.. DA1 definitely did not have that. Way to many small areas, and tight corridors which kinda elimates that feeling of having a group of fighters on your side.. If they can give a more open feel and definitely bigger atmosphere then the game should be ok. Hopefully they will get rid of the LOL oldschool move here.. time delay Final fantasy 1-10 like movement sequences. Nothing better then moving from one area to another on some load screen like dot matrix then ching noise and have to fight enemies. Then after clicking a Tent icon on the map to rest...

Fanboys are a funny sort of people. The SECOND they see any change of any sort (regardless of how tiny it may seem), they do into a rage about how it's horrible. People seriously need to be more optamistic about things, and not start a petition to not buy a game when very little has been presented to them.

Ummm...why does it look so cartoonish compared to DAO?

Fanboys are a funny sort of people. The SECOND they see any change of any sort (regardless of how tiny it may seem), they do into a rage about how it's horrible. People seriously need to be more optamistic about things, and not start a petition to not buy a game when very little has been presented to them.

xYamatox

I've seen plenty, i.e., the first game.

It surprising that Bioware made Dragon Age 2 look worse than Dragon Age Origins.

If I never heard of Dragon Age and I was shown pics of the first and second games I would think the second game was the first and the first was the second.

Ugly guy presenting it to. :/Blixxed

Combat still has that semi-90s rpg look and feel so that's a plus but damn that area looks bland artistically. Greys and browns are fine but that environment was just flat out ugly and boring.