Dragon Age: Origins gameplay and discussion thread.

**rajpoot** · 07-08-2010, 17:33

No importing? I'm disappointed. Very. Guess it's time to say goodbye to our Wardens now.

**TinCow** · 07-08-2010, 18:16

More news: the player character in DA2 will be limited in the same way as ME2. The character will be a Human named Hawke and the player will only be able to choose gender and class (Fighter, Mage, Theif). No more choices of race or name.

**Vladimir** · 07-08-2010, 18:18

Originally Posted by TinCow

More news: the player character in DA2 will be limited in the same way as ME2. The character will be a Human named Hawke and the player will only be able to choose gender and class (Fighter, Mage, Theif). No more choices of race or name.

:yawn:

**Krusader** · 07-08-2010, 20:41

Adds Dragon Age 2 to Wait and See List.

**Meneldil** · 07-08-2010, 23:35

Well, I honestly don't know what to think about all this. DAO was a completely unoriginal game, so in a way it's a good thing they're trying to do something with the franchise. But well, I'm not sure I find most of these changes interesting.

**Monk** · 07-08-2010, 23:38

Originally Posted by Tincow

Yes, and apparently it's a completely new storyline and will involve a new character, so no importing your old one. That pretty much puts to rest any ideas that DA was going to go the epic route of Baldur's Gate.

Originally Posted by india

No importing? I'm disappointed. Very. Guess it's time to say goodbye to our Wardens now.

Very disappointing news, i had hoped the Dragon Age series would shape up similiar to Mass Effect and be a story arc expanded over multiple games. Happy to see a sequel, but very underwhelmed by the direction.

**Vladimir** · 07-08-2010, 23:54

Were people really that interested in the story? The ending was known from the beginning. There was no mystery, just a lot of running around to get to the end.

**seireikhaan** · 07-09-2010, 00:35

I'm rather glad they aren't dragging out the last game's player character. It was already stale by Awakenings, never mind a whole 'nother game. Not sure how to feel about the new direction- I'll just take a wait and see approach to see how it unfolds.

**Monk** · 07-09-2010, 01:00

Originally Posted by Vladimir

Were people really that interested in the story? The ending was known from the beginning. There was no mystery, just a lot of running around to get to the end.

It was about the journey, not the destination.

**Beskar** · 07-09-2010, 02:38

Dragon Age had an excellent story, especially all the different possible beginnings. As "know the destination", you know at the very end you was going to win, but nothing said about the whole Old God story and Morrigan running off. All these other twists and plots, etc. Dargon Age was truely a game which has been missing from the market for years.

I am unimpressed by them removing race and character choices. Though, I could have saw the sequel as being a daughter/son of Morrigan.

**rajpoot** · 07-09-2010, 04:11

I read somewhere on the Bioware forums that Hawke is not the son/daughter of Morrigan after all, and is just a blight survivor and a champion of Kirkwell (or Kirkwall)...the latter title I believe will be earned in game itself, and we'll start as a nobody. BTW Kirkwall is a small little place near the sea, south of the Free Marches on your Thedas world map. :P
The only reason they're fixing the name and race, most likely, is because they're giving the character voice over this time......so maybe the game is going the Mass Effect in a sense.
The white haired woman on the cover of the mag, is either Morrigan or Morrigan's daughter.....though personally she looked more like Flemeth to me with all the wrinkles and white hair.

**TinCow** · 07-09-2010, 13:31

I'm also conflicted about it. Being unable to pick your race and name seems to greatly limit the RP aspect of the game and remove any chance of the series being the successor to BG that Bioware kept harping on about. At the same time, that identical system worked pretty well in ME1/2. I have mixed feeling about ME1, but ME2 was a great ride while it lasted. That gives me hope that the choice can still result in an entertaining game. That said, the change essentially makes the DA series into the ME series, but set in the fantasy world instead of space. Do we need an identical game with swords instead of lasers? I remain unconvinced on that point.