Jul 25 2010

Dragon Age 2 - to take an action approach

CATEGORY: News/Announcement | GAME: - other By Karar

Dragon Age 2 is about to take a modern action approach as compared to its point and click past. While the original game controls were more liked by people who enjoy Diablo, World of Warcraft and Star Wars Knights of Old Republic type of point and click interface; the new game is set to take game and cater for more modern gamers who like Mass Effect like action RPGs more.

The new control scheme will let you play the game like a third person action game. different attacks can be mapped to different keys and instead of selecting the attack on interface / GUI. you have to press the button to perform the attack. These can be from simple slash, thrash, magic speel etc. Although each action will have a cool off period.. so it wont let u just mash buttons and play the game like a hack and slash. Party character switching will still be there. and you can still pause the gameplay to queue precise magic or attacks in correct direction.

so its basically a merger of two standard control schemes. Giving player much direct feel of control of action all the while keeping the integrity of an RPG game (which I think was lost in Mass Effect series.. cuz ur action / hiding etc. affected the outcome rather than your RPG skills).

The dialogie system is dumbified though. With now option to select only "good reply", "nasty reply" or "badass reply". There are no further choices and you can easily guess the outcome of coversation as the intent is already known from ur selection.

How all this makes the depth of choices easier or more intimate will be known once we get to play the anticipated game next year. Cann't wait for plethora of videos Bioware is famous for releasing before their games are released. I just hope they start it soon.