Goodness, this being the top comment made me think we accidentally let OWA back in...

My feelings begin and end with Justice.

Too old and grumpy to change.

I remember the sex-scenes in DA:O....Morrigan put on a bra before sex.

Liking DA2 is perfectly fine. Not all the games I like are brilliant either. What really irks me about it is if you think about what that game could have been, if they had made more effort. Less railroading, choices that actually matter, more cave maps. Maybe even various routes to power? Enemies just raining on top of your from the ceiling.....that was just bad.

Stuff like that adds up, and it taints the full picture.

DA2 did, of course, have some very good bits too. Varic and Isabela really stood out. Isabela is arguably the character in all of the DA games that had the most development too.

While I do very much appreciate certain points about DA2 (I'm a sucker for personal stories), I'll never deny the flaws it does have.

It's a shame really, cause the potential for being very good is there (act 2 was amazing), only to have it crumble in how bleh the final act turned out to be...

It is more that your choices didn't really matter. If you spared a mage or whatever, you just had to kill the same mage in the next chapter. And if you help Anders or not, he still blows up the chantry. Which makes you have to fight Meredith and Orsino in the end. Your only choice is who you kill first.

But yes. The reason for much of the mess is no doubt because the game got rushed out the door too early. Which is a typical EA thing to do. They did the same thing with Ultima 8 and 9 after they bought Origins.

That's exactly it for me too, Dee. Hell, that's how you sold me on stopping being lazy and getting to HK after I do Dragonfall again. :') All you had to do was say it was like DA2 done right and I just went !!!.

It does and it's kind of a mixed bag for me. Like yeah I can say that FO4 is a huge step up from 3 but that set motivation for the PC isn't one I particularly care about so it's really hard for me to get in character when working on the main quest, you know?