Dragon Age 2: Gameplay and Discussion

**Mailman653** · 03-15-2011, 20:33

Reddit Poster Tracks Perfect Metacritic Dragon Age II Review Score to BioWare Employee

**Monk** · 03-15-2011, 20:40

Originally Posted by Mailman653

Reddit Poster Tracks Perfect Metacritic Dragon Age II Review Score to BioWare Employee

As if Metacritic's user reviews are a hotbed of intellectual discussion and unbiased opinion without his contribution. Have you strode through the muck of those public sections before? My god. As a whole i'd advocate not approaching toward metacritic with a ten ft. pole. There's far too much generalized, unfocused fanboy hate combined with

PR that it makes it impossible to get a read on the product.

As important as game reviewers love to make themselves out to be these days I really don't see much substitute for simply trying it yourself and making up your own mind.

**Scienter** · 03-15-2011, 21:02

Originally Posted by Monk

As if Metacritic's user reviews are a hotbed of intellectual discussion and unbiased opinion without his contribution. Have you strode through the muck of those public sections before? My god.

I made the mistake of looking at the comments on Metacritic. I think my brain may have melted a little. I'm enjoying DA2 despite its flaws. I think in the future I'll just ignore Metacritic since it seems like a place where people go to rage instead of posting something useful.

**rajpoot** · 03-17-2011, 05:07

I don't how many of you've seen this, but a certain dwarf says something really unexpected if clicked on enough times. Quite creepy.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**Techno Viking** · 03-17-2011, 06:22

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

tl;dr: Bioware caught posting metacritic user reviews..

**Kekvit Irae** · 03-17-2011, 21:32

Originally Posted by india

I don't how many of you've seen this, but a certain dwarf says something really unexpected if clicked on enough times. Quite creepy.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Not enchantment!

And regarding amusing things, there's one guy I totally, completely agree with about the game:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

(ignore the quickbar, that was before I discovered the joy of Assassinate)

**Greyblades** · 03-18-2011, 02:22

Uh is that some sort of jab at old asciii games?

**Monk** · 03-18-2011, 05:29

Originally Posted by Greyblades

Uh is that some sort of jab at old asciii games?

That NPC is there to break the fourth wall. He also talks about how sometimes he feels as if he's trapped in a grand story, and nothing he does means anything.

**Kekvit Irae** · 03-18-2011, 07:08

Originally Posted by Greyblades

Uh is that some sort of jab at old asciii games?

He's a joke on an old running debate over complexity in games over time. Mass Effect 2 is more "streamlined" than Mass Effect. Dragon Age 2 is more "streamlined" than Dragon Age: Origins. Etc, etc.
If anything, he's a jab at the fans.