Experience the stunning directorial cut version of the new Dragon Age 2 "Destiny" trailer, featuring extended footage more blood, more story, more action.
I have played the game and i know what part its supposed to represent its just not as nearly epic of a showdown as its portrayed here hence the comment varrics storytelling is really over the top. Thats at least what i thought citronnelle was pointing out. I thought the game was decent a let down yes but decent.
If this cinematic were more like how it played out in the game, Hawke would be running around in circles, hooting like Curly from the Three Stooges as he periodically tosses fireballs at the Arishok when he has a chance. This trailer would also be ten minutes long.
I remember seeing this and thinking, Cool he's an Arcane warrior and a blood mage, then the game just made you run around the room escaping while firing spells at the arishok if were a mage.
+darkpitofdoom2 DA2 was a shite fest compared to the original. DA3 AKA DA;I is just an open world version of DA2..Bioware has lost their edge and will never recover. CD Projekt RED destroyed Bioware wth TW3 and they have a smaller team
Trailer!Hawke: Embraces destiny, does not show fear, engages the Arishok in melee Game!Hawke: Screams hysterically for their mabari to come back while chugging health potions and hiding behind pillars.
+Alice Legacy haha, yeah it could be a bit dodgy if you were a support mage. I remember beating him pretty easily with a couple builds; one was a Force specialist fire mage, basically a nuke fight, and I remember the Spirit being good, the static cage or w/e it was could lock him up and you could punish him pretty good.
I love Dragon Age 2. Including how the Mages fight with their Staves, it's almost like a combination of Staff play combined with spell casting in a continuous movement sequence. I think other video games should try that method of game play with Mages, definitely stands out in my opinion.
Yes. It's a good game, with a good plot. The problem I had with it was the esthetics and certain quest that was scipted strange. Look at this trailer and the concept art for the geme, they are so interesting.
DAO was a VERY GOOD game, while DA2 just good. I think that's the problem, the second game was inferior to its ancestor in some ways. But DAI is definitely VERY FUCKING GOOD, and I've played ALL the games without regrets. ;D
+Suicide Malkavian I've always loved Dragon Age: Origins. Dragon Age 2 I thought was quite restricted (maybe not so many locations?) I don't know about DA:I... but I've heard it's good.
Ulfric Ruthgardsson Yep, I agree about Dragon Age 2. While you have many locations in Origins, the maps of DA2 always look the same, and you're just allowed to visit other places than Kirkwall to do quests/sidequests. It could have been an extremely good game, but it wasn't so because of EA and BioWare laziness and eagerness to get money. That was very disappointing =/ About DA: I, you should REALLY play it if you have the chance. Last week I played it again, and there's always something I didn't before, or that I haven't seen in the others gameplays. It's an amazing experience and have everything we love about this game franchise: incredible characters with incredible stories, tons of quests and sidequests, very cool looking skills, romance, and the best fights against dragons and giants EVER. (Sorry for the very long comment, I'm just such a dumb Dragon Age enthusiat, rly)
+Suicide Malkavian Nothing wrong about admiring games, especially if it's Dragon Age. Also, I don't think it's purely out of EA and Bioware laziness that DA:2 wasn't as good as the others. Knowing EA, they probably pressured Bioware to release the game early, making things half-assed.
***** OK so you had actual points. good for you. I personally thought it was a great game but you are entitled to your opinion. to be honest i liked the characters, voice acting, and combat styles. i loved the plot. and while a lot of your choices didn't have a huge impact it made more sense. you werent building an army to save the world like in DA:O and DA:I. you were just man trying to take care of his family and make a name for himself. i didnt think any character looked cartoonish except fenris. i thought it was a huge improvement in graphics. the only flaw i found in the game was the lack of maps and detail to the maps. but thats what you get when your publisher is EA and the rush the deadline
***** DA:I was one of the best games i have ever played. And the mage templar war was something i wanted to see since origins. To me only act 1 of DA2 was boring and thats because there was no plot to it except get money. Anders was one of my favorite characters and i loved merril and varrics voice was far from boring.
***** whatever man. The games are fun. DA:I was fantastically done. It had a great plot and great characters and one hell of a plot twist during the epilogue
***** your issue is that you focus too much on the books. the books are based on the games. so that means they don't matter. if the game says something different then that makes the books wrong. and the games dont give a clear picture of who to side with. most of the templars you meet are good people who fear mages a little to much. you also meet a lot of bad mages in DA2 and DA:I. the games present both sides on equal moral footing. bioware made a game that appeals to masses. they dont care what every individual fan wants, they make games that will make the most people happy. and as for the herald of andraste part, the inquisition is a religious order. what did you expect. and your character can either embrace the title or tell everyone he/she isnt holy. it adds a aspect that defines how your character feels about the power and title he/she was given. The entire story was great. it was dramatic, it had its wtf moments, and great cinematics. i almost cried when i had to choose whether to sacrifice hawke or stroud and when i thought flemath was going to steal marrigons son. the story was emotional. And as for the characters. Blackwall was awesome. iron bull was awesome. cassandra was awesome. Dorian and Varric were hilarious. Cole was weird sure, but he was an entertaining character who you were never quite sure what he was. Sera was the only character i didnt like but ive met many people who did. get over yourself and except it was a good game and was well done, but it just wasn't a game for you. if it was a shitty game then it wouldnt have won GOTY
Well...much time has passed since DA2 was released as well as Inquisition. So many people were down on DA2. I, however, really really really liked it. The story was very compelling and enjoyable and the fighting action was much more polished and fun than origins. True there were a few weak points, but this does not ruin what in my opinion is otherwise a stellar gaming experience! I thoroughly enjoyed inquisition as well, but the story is not as good as DA2. Loved Origins, of course!
Everyone in the commets is discussing whether Hawke was a blood mage in this trailer or not and I'm just sitting here wondering if I was the only person who played as a reaver.
+Isaiah Stephens but in the trailer he clearly summoned a demon (well, his hands). also, trailer hawke is a mage and thus can't be a reaver. even though reavers are so cool *.*
Seriously, everyone had problems with this fight. My tank hawke just went one on one with the arishok... in a really long battle because he did like 0 damage.
If Mage Hawke had warrior skills in this vid (Pommel Strike and Might Blow) he would do Stagger and Brittle combos all day by himself for massive damage. Just like how magi in Origins can combine spells on their own. Great.
I still dont get why people say this is a bad game. Its not, I mean it pales in comparison to origins but most games do. Dragon age 2 is a good game to me and definitely more entertaining then most games these days. I think its a solid 8/10: it has a good story/characters, better paced combat then origins but less strategic, and has a better leveling up system, but has less replay value because of the choices that are less about morals but personal belief.
It's a very average *game* and its underdeveloped - however, I personally couldnt care less about its gameplay, I only play Bioware games for the story and characters (also romances obviously). So while its a very average game, its an awesome story regardless.
I love dragon age 2 wasn’t what I ever expected but I still liked it and words cannot describe how hyped I was when I watched this trailer. I always main as a mage and this trailer just pumped me up! !! Mind blast, blood magic bladed staff . Still so cool one of my most fav dragon age trailers
trailer hawke: badass fight sequence with using only his staff as a spear and summoning a fade creature with blood from his wounds actual hawke: betting that the arishok will become too dizzy to fight as he runs around a pillar while chugging lyrium potions
The strategy works though, and Hawke has pretty powerful lungs from all the running around Kirkwall. He can play "catch me if you can" with Arishok all day long :)
6 years later and this trailer is STILL badass. It's such a damn shame that DA II suffered from rushed development, otherwise it would've been that much better.
Just finished replaying DAO and DA2 in preparation for DA3... Is it just me or did Hawke go from a warrior to a mage, then a BLOOD MAGE in this trailer? Wut?! Is that the default Hawke in DA3? A blood mage who romanced Isabela? It's a wonder he didn't die from all the STD he got...
From the trailers, there is a Lady Hawke who is a mage, with a male human Warden. I just finished DA2 yesterday in preparation, I don't know about others, but DA2 is one of my favourite games, of all time.
+DrekkiHawke I know right? He looked totally hot here and in the game he is...slightly less hot though not terrible looking. I wonder why they made Marian so gorgeous compared to him.
after playing through all three games multiple times I think 2 has the best story and companions. Gameplay elements are lacking but the story just kills it for me.
Came back to this trailer after watching Dragon Age: The Veilguard preview. This is one legitimately gives me goosebumps. Veilguard looks like it was made by Disney.
In this trailer Hawke is shown using BLood Magic yet in Inquisition he keeps talking about it like it's the child of Satan. Bioware forgot its own lore?
Seppe Sorbello I think he used blood magic indeed. First of all, he put blood on his nose, as some kind of ritual, there would be no other explanation for this. And near the end, he seems to run out of mana, so he put his hand on a bruise and took some energy from there (blood) to perform the last spell. Crushing prision or not, he used blood to cast it.
Cássio Martins Actually, when he touches the symbol on his arm, it puts him in a trance-like state, gaining power from his mind, hence the flashback of events, secondly, he only puts blood on his face to prove to the Arishok he is an equal warrior. Also, the spell he casts is called 'Crushing Prison', a spell in the Arcane Tree.
3 things about this trailer: 1) if Bioware had put half the effort into the game as they did into this trailer, I probably wouldn't have been so disappointed in DA2 (story was decent, characters were broad and somewhat interesting like most Bioware games, romances seemed bland and didn't feel like any of them added to the story, and the repetitive level design just made me really dislike Bioware) 2) if you could have half the power Mage Hawke had in this trailer, I might've actually considered being a Mage (I've never been that good with magic based characters, I've always been more of a front lines sort of guy, not support) 3) (though, this barely has anything to do with the trailer, but I thought of this while writing, and I wanted to put it here) if I were to be a Mage, I would probably fight like Hawke did in the beginning of this trailer, with his magic staff doubling as a long-sword and fighting with the sword and using my magic powers at cheeky moments to try and gain the advantage in a fight (which goes along with me being a front lines sort of guy) or use them when I realize I am losing a fight.
sounds like you want a mage/warrior hybrid, i think they tried to achieve that with the specialisations, i personally chose knight-enchanter, though i'd like to see some kind of true hybrid or no-class system (maybe like an elaborate triangular menu, with skill tiles, where you'd choose a major mage/warrior/rogue skill and purchase skill tiles in the direction you want to go, like further to the triangle corner turns you into some kind of pure class, closer to the center gets you more generalised abilities, and closer to the edge gets you abilities kinda in-between classes), i used to always use the cheat console to swap out skill trees with other classes, always liked using a bow/stealth with magic :p
Aaron Fyfe in DA:O i was playing a mage equipped with a 2handed sword, i never changed the skill trees so i went frontline with slow sword fighting and spells and guess what, it was working well xd
Do you remember the time when people used to say that Dragon Age 2 was a little bit of dissapointing compare to Origins? If we only knew back then... Now this this game will be a true classic and masterpice compare to that shitty Veilguard.
hahaha nice comment.. well let just say you the one that choose him to be gay.. so partially you have a desire to be gay... you choose the storyline so blame yourself for what happen derpina..
Mohammad Azmil what are you talking about? I don't get the meaning of what you are saying -.- I didn't make him gay if you really meant that but when I'm talking about Bioware I'm talking about DAO's story and choices, DA2 wasn't better than origins but I enjoyed it either way, ME trilogy's amazing story and gameplay. Bioware creates characters that I can sympathize with and don't want to let go with amazing and interesting companions. That's Bioware in a nutshell :P And I like the option to be gay even though I never was one in the games nor in reality it's good to be able to satisfy everyone's wishes.
Carbon Bonds Nope. It was inferior yes but It certainly wasn't garbage, for me at least. I had fun playing it and I played it a lot of times so I won't admit something like that. That's my opinion and you guys have your opinion on it. Let's leave it at that :)
***** Believe me if I had the Stroud option, I'd take it. But Loghain..that's another story. As much as I love -and I mean- LOVE Hawke, I have the utmost respect for Loghain.
ElwoodCityDestroyer Axitros The Inquisitor opens a rift to the Fade and goes through it to save Hawke or at least find his remains. Inquisitor: I am sure he was around here last time I saw him. *suddenly rocks tumble down the mountain and the gigantic Fear-spider comes crawling down.* The Iron Bull: "Ah, not this shit again! *storms towards the spider and swings his axe into it´s legs* ???: "Hey don´t just attack my pet! At least ask for permission first!" *Hawke sits on the top of the giant spider, while lust-demons are laying next to his feet* Hawke: "Well, it doesn´t beat my Mabari, but it´s certainly handy when you have to go from one part of the Fade to the other"
Watching this made me realize the worst part of the new trailer. No enemy is intimidating. Even a dragon is attacked by a single person with no reasonable means. Nothing is a threat. One intimidating opponent is better than any marvel-esque things you can shove into a trailer.
Man... if only you could actually fight the Arishok like this as a Mage. And also, I don't really think of this comment as a spoiler, considering, the champion is FIGHTING THE ARISHOK IN THE TRAILER, so... it's kinda obvious it's going to happen.
Indeed, it would be really cool if a melee mage was more like this (: It's rare to see both arcane warrior and blood mage combined in the game, since it's not that great :D and no it's not a spoiler ^.^
Yep, at least it would be much more realistic than running around drinking potions constantly while dodging Arishok's bullrushes and occasionally slowing him down and feeding with fire and ice... What was it again? "A fair traditional duel with a worthy rival"? ;)
Artem Shinkevich If Mage Hawke had more up and close power than he has in the actual game, the balance would have been completely broken. Warrior and Mage would be kind of pointless when Mage Hawke can cast spells and destroy everyone in melee, too. As a blood mage though, it is kind of possible to engage him in close quarters, not too much however.
This trailer is epic! I created a mage Hawke just because of it. haha I see so many people talking about how bad this game is... I sincerely enjoyed playing it. The character having a voice added much to the game, the story is awesome, good characters (not much depth in relationships like DAO, but it's still fine), improved gameplay. Of course there are some flaws, like repeated maps for different quests, not much news in abilities for classes, but I consider it a great game. I need to buy a Xbox One as soon as possible, I crave to play DAI.
+djumkue Yep, the thing is that I was going to buy a Xbox One, so I would play DA there. But my PC got some upgrade so I bought it on Origin. Already played it, veeery nice.
I finally got around to beating the Origins DLCs and started playing this. I'm actually enjoying it a lot as mage Hawke! I guess the reviews scared me away, but I didn't really mind the game's flaws now that the hype has died down six years later
i still liked the game even though the games' much hating factor, it wasn't as good as origins/awakening but it did have flaws as EA were trying to experiment on these mechanics and layouts of DA 2, now knowing all the community suggested errors hopefully dragon age III will be perfect
The story/gameplay were excellent and on Nightmare difficulty the game is an absolute joy, it was just rushed. With all the background detail of a game given appropriate development time, DA3 should be incredibly fun.
Actually 1 - Both are Great 2 - The 2nd game is more like the introduction to Inquisition,with all that interrogatory thingy, so don't expect it to be awesome. Plus the combat is really stylish, but the combat it-self? Face it, it got worse. Friendly-fire removed, Fatigue removed, Less Specializations, the three classes are just too OP, No skills like Coercion or Herbalism. However I did like the fact that you had positive effects from being a Rival.
Diogo Gouveia Oh sure, now that Inquisition is out you can say DA2 was a introduction but when it was released, it never gave that impression. It just sucked.
***** Fun Fact: You know the talkative man in the Hanging Man? He has a quote "Do you like everything from eating to _fighting_ just got easier?" Self-awareness at it's best.
I loved this game. I've played it many times. I have been a fan of bioware games since jade empire. But I have to admit that playing dragon age 2 was like reading an outline for a great book. The game could have beens are glaringly apparent through out the game. The fact that there was to be another dlc that was cut short and never made is also apparent in inquisition when we meet up with our hawk. I wish that sometime in the future with tech improving the way it is that they remake this game the team had envisioned from the start missing dlc included. I loved hawke I loved how we could developed his personality and the choses we had. It was a good game that was overly critized and sometimes not fairly. Recently I heard that Gaider had plans to have hawk become possessed by a demon in the game if he was a Mage. It was meant to scare the pants off of us but it was cut.
come on yall lets me real, anyone with their ear to the ground knew this was coming. how bad the studio was doing during the dev of the game. the crap game play that leaked like 4 years ago. none of us had any hope for the game much less high hopes.
The way i see it, Dragon Age 2 only has one Major drawback - It has to be compared to the Dragon Age series. The thing is, it is a great game, i really enjoyed it, HOWEVER, it has the severe misfortune to need to be compared to one of BioWare's greats. For a game, it is pretty good. But for a BIOWARE game, it is sub-standard. There are far worse games out there that got far better receptions than this.
+Whoami691 I just got into dragon age last year. I love Origins, the fighting was a bit stiff (even more so with mages) but good. Now DA2 made fighting fun! I loved it as a mage, so so much. Sure the story wasn;t what it could've been (Bioware was rushed to make it they only has a year and a half) but its my favorite. I'm glad they took the tactical playstyle of origins with the action based play style of DA2 with DA: I
+jamierawr88 The idiots who complained about da1 most likely didnt play da2. Their's nothing entitled about being upset set about an inferior product. At best you could say the reaction was disproportionate, like punching a chief for a bad steak. But a bad meal is a bad meal and his displeasure for inferior service is valid.
