Dragon Age II Demo This Month

[Feb 02, 2011, 12:10 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

This page on the Dragon Age Website is for GameStop employees, as EA expresses their appreciation for their support of the Dragon Age franchise. This gives GameStop employees exclusive early access to the playable demo Dragon Age II, and along the way reveals the demo for the RPG sequel will be released to the public on February 23: "This early demo access is being granted to GameStop employees only. Any form of distribution, recording, posting of any elements of the Dragon Age 2 demo and any of its files is strictly prohibited until February 23, 2011 when the demo is made available to all consumers." Thanks Gamer's Hell.

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Feb 2, 2011, 14:13

Verno

briktal wrote on Feb 2, 2011, 13:59:
I don't think changing the art direction and...making your characters attack a little faster is dumbing down. Oh maybe they took out that one camera angle, but that's just something annoying.

That's the least of what they did to the core game mechanics. Inventory has been "streamlined", particularly for companions who now have outfits instead. There is no more inter-party dialogue, its based on a system of letters and context sensitive locations in the game. No more friendly fire because apparently "players didnt know how to turn it off". The combat has been balanced around the God of War style attack spam, not tactical pause. Traditional dialogue has been replaced by the ME wheel and yes I know some of you view that as a positive but we have one ME already.

Anyway I'm sure theres more I am forgetting too or perhaps some stuff has changed a few times. Point being, there's a valid reason for concern, the sequel has had a rapid development cycle to save money on the budget and EA's involvement on the publisher end of things has produced some very odd results - 2 month preorder shenanigans for DLC, character DLC being cut up while the team admitted the game hadn't reached alpha yet and so on. It's been a rocky ride, if nothing else it will be interesting to see how it ends.




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