No matter what happens, it's still fun to fight darkspawn, converse with fun characters, try to seduce your party members, and do all of the other great things that Bioware games have brought us. Even a huge list of complaints can't drag it down too far. However, the game is still based on one of the best fantasy RPG structures ever built. Dragon Age 2 has a lot of problems, and many of them are new to the series which makes them worth talking about in a review. Thus far, this review has been pretty much a laundry list of complaints, and perhaps that's misleading.
#HOW TO PLAY DRAGON AGE 2 ON PC WITH CONTROLLER PRO#
If this isnt promptly fixed Ill consider my Pro subscription and games. Apparently this issue has gone on for many players since the game came out in the early 2000s and EA has done nothing to their bug. Using Mouse and Keyboard for any DA game is aweful, virtually unplayable and no fun. This, again, is consistent with a game that simply wasn't taken slowly and carefully. In DAI the option to use a controller is greyed out. This leads to huge swaths of the game being essentially played not with high-res modern graphics, but by watching a few blips go across a 2D mini-map until the cutscene triggers. The next leg of a quest is rarely explained to you and now just appears as a blip on the mini-map. This problem becomes worse when the storytellers don't take the time to actually explain where things are. The environments aren't very good looking to begin with, so there's not a whole lot of incentive to explore anyway. Nearly every level consists of narrow pathways that allow for positively zero exploration or player agency. Most notably, the level design is exceedingly poor. Some problems from Origins have persisted in this game as well.
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I think they just took a risk on something that sounded good on paper, but didn't quite pan out in reality. I was excited about the new style of storytelling, but it falls flat. It's that just about everything (besides combat) that has changed from the original has changed for the worse. The problem with Dragon Age 2 isn't that it's a bad game.