In what way will DA2 connect to DA? Continuity??

[SpellAndShield]

Has this been revealed at all? Will there be a save game thing like for the ME series?

[brokenergy]

I don't know, they haven't talked about it but DA is a different beast than ME, so I think DG and his writing team wouldn't give us Emails but Origins in a different perceptive. Plus there is Flemeth and we all know how she really feels about Origins. Also you can see some familiar faces like Wynne, Alistair and Nathaniel just to name a few.

[Dagothurn]

From what I've read, DA2 begins while the events of DA1 are happening. Hawke (the protagonist) escapes from Lothering with his family or something like that. The game takes place over a ten year time period.

 

If Awakenings is anything to go by, I'd expect very little continuity or else none. Of course, there's bound to be some token appearances of familiar faces from DA1.

[brokenergy]

The devs had stated that there is going to be continuity in DA2. Not all things could be fleshed out in the space of six months (aka Awakening).

 

Here is a what we know thread to help you people

 

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/3064634/1

[Thandal]

Here is a what we know thread to help you people

 

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/3064634/1

Must. Cover. [bKE's] Eyes. :tongue:

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Too late! I just found this: BKE's 'What we know' Thread" on Nexus.

 

Now I don't have to hop back-and-forth to the BSN just to stay current. Not that I won't be doing it anyway to check other threads! ;D

 

Hope there'll still be some

cookies

 

left for everybody to enjoy on release day!

 

Thanks, Brokenergy

Edited September 6, 2010 by Thandal

[brokenergy]

No probs, someone had to do it

[LancelotLoire]

For continuation. You can certainly without a doubt expect to experience some of the beginnings of the blight before you finally escape to Kirkwall. Now once you are in the Free Marches the continuity starts to slacken. Of course you're sure to hear about the hero of Ferelden's exploits of stopping the blight and/or said hero surviving and such and the outcomes of awakening whether it uses the "hero of Ferelden" or an Orlesian warden. Now once you get past this you shouldn't really expect too much changes. For once thing it takes place in a completely different country. People will probably be talking about the blight but it's going to be about as important as the Iraq war is to your every day American (Nobody cares unless you were there). You're in a new country with brand new person. It isn't like Mass Effect>Mass Effect 2 where you stay in control of Commander Shepard. This is more like Kotor 1 to Kotor 2. I mean sure Revan was either a great Jedi or a dangerous Sith but who really cares, he aint you and you weren't there for the majority of the events (Kotor 2s main character was said to have served with Revan during the Mandalorian Wars as a general).

[seweryn]

I really don't like the idea of playing human . I liked in DA that you could choose your race . My favorited race are the elves so I play them . The whole idea of not able of choosing elves it is bad for me . I think they gone wrong with that .

[LancelotLoire]

You're a human aren't ya?

 

And honestly it allows for an even more wrapping story. Your character will be fully voiced and will actually speak in conversations instead of say standing their like a lemon.

[seweryn]

You're a human aren't ya?

 

And honestly it allows for an even more wrapping story. Your character will be fully voiced and will actually speak in conversations instead of say standing their like a lemon.

 

It's not the point . What real life have to do with this game anything .Last time I played human it was in Kotor 2 .

 

DA: O was game from same type of games like Baldur's Gate , Icewind Dale or Neverwinter Nights . You could choose your character . You could forge your own character .

 

Now this change in DA 2 it make it that DA is taking a turn it will be part of game likes Kotor , Kotor 2 or Mass Effect .

 

It is the same if I would play Soul Reaver for example or Blood Omen . Don't get me wrong I loved that games , still yet I expected that DA will follow the old style of D&D games .

 

They made possible to create your own character and then in second game of the series they are throwing that character away .

 

I simply thought this game would be successor to epic series of Baldur's Gate . In DA: O they let us create are own characters and now in DA 2 they are forcing us to play character of they own creation .

 

Mass Effect was that kind of game and I loved it but that was Mass Effect . They are turning Dragon Age to Dragon Effect .

 

In Baldur's Gate 2 they let us to follow the adventures of our charater from part 1 but here they are forcing us to use their character in DA 2 . I don't get it . They first created the freedom of creation and now they are taking it away . I really don't see the point . I don't know if I will buy it then , I probably won't because of that change .

 

It is like if Bethesda would make Elders Scroll V and added full voiced PC. And forced us to play a specific race . That would be unheard of because since the begining of Elders Scroll you could create your own character whatever the race . So the same was in DA: O but no they had to change it for bigger money . I don't mind voice acting in can be in or not .

 

The same thing happened when they released Oblivion , many people including me believe that morrowind was better because haven't got that voice acting .

 

I hope you can see my point of view .