Dragon Age 2

[Slott]

I beat it, any questions in particular about it? The last DLC (boss) was harder (on hard at least), few item bonuses, get to play around with felicia day. They added this "sneaking around" feature, where mobs won't notice you in the dark and you need to try to get passed them. Was fun, I enjoyed it.

[Byrd]

Was fun, I enjoyed it.

That's pretty much what I was looking for, thanks.

[Manf]

I finally got around to playing Mark of the Assassin recently. If you play it on ps3 be careful: there is a major glitch where your save data will corrupt. Always make a new save file when playing this DLC. Played it once with no issue, and then played it through again with a different party and every save file was corrupted. This includes auto-save files. Besides that it was pretty good. Only major gripe is your choices on major plot issues still don't seem to matter, specifically the end with Tallis.

[Byrd]

More of a Dragon Age 3 update, from an interview on Wired.com. Looks like they're acknowledging at least some of the flaws with DA2 while making DA3.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/dragon-age-3/

Important Quotes:

“[The next Dragon Age] is gonna have the best of features from the prior Dragon Age games, but it’s also gonna have a lot of things I think players are gonna find compelling from some of the games that are out now that are doing really well with more of an open world feel,” Muzyka said. “We’re checking [Skyrim] out aggressively. We like it. We’re big admirers of [Bethesda] and the product,” he said. “We think we can do some wonderful things.”

“How do we combine the new innovations we brought in Dragon Age II with the experience people were looking for in Dragon Age: Origins?"

Muzyka also addressed the common criticism that players could not equip their party members in Dragon Age II, saying BioWare took that feedback to heart. “We realize that’s important to the players,” he said.

I like the sound of all of these things. Part of me is glad they haven't announced a release date yet; the last one seemed so rushed; I'm hoping they spend a little more time with DA3 to fix some of the problems from DA2.

[TacoTaru]

They also mentioned co-op and playable dragons; the former of which I'm most interested in.

[Thiefami]

Sounds very disappointing. Great co-op dungeon crawlers seem to be few, far and inbetween. Bioware has a chance to do something great and it sounds like they are concocting a mess. I personally thought DA2 was fine, but I could definitely see how someone who played origins would be disappointed. Just from the sounds of things from this 'insider' it sounds like they are going off on another path all together. I am all about innovation but... damn. Maybe it's just that I desperately want to relive Baldur's Gate II SoA all over again. This game could be something great, multiplayer or not, even with minimum change from the original. I hope they don't fuck it all up.

[TacoTaru]

That was from about as much of an insider as you can be; it was from the CEO/co-founder.