My first playthrough was a paragon-of-virtue two-handed Warrior, but I just recently started a snarky archery Rogue. I like how the female VO delivers the sarcastic lines.
Dragon Age II
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For my first (and the only character who has done all the dlc) run through of DAO, I went the Human noble warrior route which is the one I imported. Both may be a little too helpful for their own good, but my noble may also have been a little on the naive side until closer to the end of the game.
I do feel as if DA2 continues the bioware tradition of the female main character having the superior voice
I'm not really inclined to agree, as I prefer Mark Meer over Jennifer Hale in Mass Effect. And I thought Nicholas Boulton did an excellent job as the male Hawke. But I can't really compare his performance to Jo Wyatt's, because I mostly went straight-up do-gooder with my male Hawke, while so far I've gone purely sarcastic with my female Hawke.
I prefer Hale as Shepard myself, but that's not to say Meer wasn't good, he was, but only when you played as a full on renegade. I felt his delivery of the paragon lines tended to be a little flat (possibly in an effort and maintaining some consistency) whereas Hale just went for it at both ends of the spectrum.
Can't say much about the two Hawke actors yet as I've only been playing as a female rogue so far. That may change soon as I've gotten to act 3 and run right into the stacked attack slowdown bug that comes with having a high approval from a certain rogue party member. It's making battles increasingly difficult, even on 'casual' so I'm going to start a new game as a male warrior or mage until they can patch it.
Can't say much about the two Hawke actors yet as I've only been playing as a female rogue so far. That may change soon as I've gotten to act 3 and run right into the stacked attack slowdown bug that comes with having a high approval from a certain rogue party member. It's making battles increasingly difficult, even on 'casual' so I'm going to start a new game as a male warrior or mage until they can patch it.
I just encountered it the other day and a quick look at the bioware forum shows there are quite a few others experiencing it too. Cross platform as well, so it's inherent somewhere in coding, not caused by hardware or software conflicts. Basically, when you max out the friendship of a certain pirate captain you get an attack speed bonus for having her in the party. Problem is there's a glitch that turns it into a negative value and stack it so after a while your character's attack animations get slower and slower until it starts looking like something out of the matrix. Just Hawke and just the attacks mind, everything else works fine but as you can imagine, a rogue that can't move fast is dead meat.
At first I though it was because I had the difficulty on 'hard' but even after I turned it down to normal and then eventually casual, my party kept getting wiped out before I twigged it was a glitch.
At first I though it was because I had the difficulty on 'hard' but even after I turned it down to normal and then eventually casual, my party kept getting wiped out before I twigged it was a glitch.
I think some are saying it's also something to do with having that DLC exiled prince bloke in your part at the same time as Isabella with the friendship bonus. Not sure if they've confirmed this though. There are fixes being thrown around like using a save editor, or having a mage use the haste spell, but I'd rather not mess about with that.
Well, looks like I'm not going to be able to play DA2 for a while. Ive run into this glitch :*(
http://www.gamefront.com/have-you-experienced-the-dragon-age-2-unable-to-read-disk-error/
http://www.gamefront.com/have-you-experienced-the-dragon-age-2-unable-to-read-disk-error/
I have yet to fight a dark spawn, post prologue. Killed a mature dragon though that took to reloads to get right. The game is certainly dragon age, but I don't like the interface "improvements" or the gear "improvements" either.
I did have one bug when I first installed. It was asking for a disk to be put in drive A: (There was a beta patch for that)
On the voice acting side, I've only used FemHawke so far so can't compare.
As for the rest of the voice actors (up to early act 2) there's only been one that I instantly recognized (Merrill) when compared to DAO and ME2. Some of the others are familiar, but I'd have to look those up.
On the voice acting side, I've only used FemHawke so far so can't compare.
As for the rest of the voice actors (up to early act 2) there's only been one that I instantly recognized (Merrill) when compared to DAO and ME2. Some of the others are familiar, but I'd have to look those up.
I'd heard rumours, but maybe I haven't spotted him yet because of his role at the end of my DAO import.
One of the spoilers I'd seen indicated that for another end, he appears as King and talks about not being afraid of "the old ball and chain" even though she'd killed an archdemon. Teagan seems to disagree with his amount of fear.
Fair warning for anyone getting just starting act III; it looks like Merrill's quest line is bugged. Without getting too spoilery, if you go to speak to her you'll be a bit in the dark about some of the things she and Hawke talk about as whole conversations that are in completely the wrong order. At one point you may walk in on her being upset that a certain person has died...even though that person is still alive.
The 1.01 patch is already out but nothing in it is correcting either this of the stats slow-down bug, so I'm going to leave the game alone for a while until it's been fixed. Anyone remember what it was like when games were finished before you bought them?
The 1.01 patch is already out but nothing in it is correcting either this of the stats slow-down bug, so I'm going to leave the game alone for a while until it's been fixed. Anyone remember what it was like when games were finished before you bought them?
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Yeah, it looks like they rushed this one to make the release date. It's especially conspicuous when most of the bugs crop up near the last third of the game. Indeed, from the little I saw of the third act before my FemHawke started doing Neo impersonations it looked as though there are a lot less secondary and side quests compared to the first two.
It doesn't help that the Special Edition versions of the game (which I purchased) have been defective.
All in all, in order to play the game I've had to purchase two copies and deal with several annoying (though not game breaking) bugs.
I'm going to have to agree with you that they rushed the game out the door. At least the content itself is still awesome though. I hope BioWare is more careful in the future though.
All in all, in order to play the game I've had to purchase two copies and deal with several annoying (though not game breaking) bugs.
I'm going to have to agree with you that they rushed the game out the door. At least the content itself is still awesome though. I hope BioWare is more careful in the future though.
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