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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #160 on: March 24, 2011, 09:22:03 AM »
omg, lol, didn't even know it was possible :D you need to get as many to like you as possible, you can skip fenris, he's a pussy, you can skip isabella, after you sleep with her you can forget about her, she will slip away anyway, better for her not to return if you ask me :)get Aveline to like you, get Anders to like you, get Varick to like you and get Merrill to like you, if your sibling survived the deep roads one way or the other, he/she will join you at the end, probably, then get Aveline in your team and Anders as healer, and then just rape everything that attacks you, the dialog choices are only important for you to build trust between your companions and you, nothing else likely.

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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #161 on: March 24, 2011, 01:53:37 PM »
Actually, Isabela does come back if your romanced her and said you'd like to go traveling with her on her ship when it's all over (you have to actually give her the ship during her quest for it to work, I think).

Also, I dunno how many of you play this on PC, but if you do you might want a script to play it in a full screen window mode... I made it for mine. It's better for alt tabbing, more stable, less screwy and whatnot, maybe you'll find it useful. You need a program called AutoHotkey - it's free.

Once you have it downloaded, I suggest putting a shortcut to it in your Startup folder so it runs every time your computer starts. That way you never have to mess with it at all, it just runs in your tray and doesn't bother you.

Now first of all, set your Dragon Age 2 to Windowed Mode by setting it to your screen's resolution and unchecking Full Screen in your Video Options.

Anyhow, you should have a tiny little icon like so: in your system tray once you have it running.

Right click it, go to Edit This Script. It should open up a Notepad with some AutoHotkey.ahk file. Paste this code in there:

Code: [Select]
#SingleInstance Force
#Persistent

SetTimer DragonAge2, 500
Return

DragonAge2:
   WinGet IDs, List, ahk_class DragonAge2
   Loop %IDs%
   {
      ID := IDs%A_Index%
      If ID not in %Old_IDs%
      {
         WinActivate ahk_id %ID%
          WinSet, Style, -0xC40000, A
WinMove, A, , 0, 0, 1920, 1080
;WinActivate, A
      }
      New_IDs .= ID ","
   }
   StringTrimRight Old_IDs, New_IDs, 1
   New_IDs =
Return

Then do File > Save. Now, right click the icon again and do Reload This Script.

And now, every time you run Dragon Age 2, it'll automatically set it to a frameless windowed (fake) full screen. It won't run constantly either, it's smart enough that it checks to see if the unique ID that window had when it was created is still running and if it is then it doesn't do anything. So, the next time you open it, it has a new one and it works like magic. ;)

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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #162 on: March 24, 2011, 02:09:43 PM »
I actually romance Isabella and did all of her quests, but she was on rival mode and didn't come back :)
You need her on friendship actually. Then even if you do not romance her, she will come back.

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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #163 on: March 24, 2011, 02:11:15 PM »
I think that goes pretty much for everyone. If you do something they don't like and they're you're rivals they'll ditch you.

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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #164 on: March 24, 2011, 02:12:18 PM »
but I don't care about Fenris, when he attacked me, I one hitted him, such a pansy, seriously, it's so sad :P

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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #165 on: March 24, 2011, 07:05:43 PM »
i only lost the dlc guy - otherwise the complete team (including fenris, bethany, anders were on my side for the endfight)

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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #166 on: March 24, 2011, 07:14:25 PM »
it's kind of annoying the DLC guy is the only real archer aside from varrick, though you can't give Varrick any bows, unless you go warior/rogue archer :P
seriously, that is so stupid :P

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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #167 on: March 25, 2011, 05:12:58 AM »
I just finished the game myself as a warrior. I was in the same boat as Blubart, everyone joined me except Sebastian, because I let Anders go instead of killing him. Its weird I thought Anders was going to disappear for good at the end because I didn't ask him to join me, but then he showed back up again. The funniest thing is I ran into a weird thing with the romancing portion of the game. I went and romanced Isabela first during the second part, but during the third part of the game, I went and romanced Merill. Now Isabela returned for the third part and the game considered her my lover, however I was still freely able to romance Merill. Merill ended up falling in love with me and Isabela got jealous and asked me if I still loved her which I said yes. The game couldn't tell, anymore, who was the girl I was romancing so it considered both of them to be my lover. Long story short, at the end of the game when Varric said only one stayed with the champion, the audio overlapped with two different names, both Merill and Isabela.

All that aside, my thoughts on the game are mixed. I had fun with the dialogue, especially Varric and Isabela; those two are my favorites. However, I felt the final boss and the ending to the story left something to be desired. I was expecting the boss to be on a more grander scale as far as importance go (I mean come on, you fight in a war in DA:O against the darkspawn, that was epic), however this was some petty little city squabbling. The grand scale of things wasn't there. I thought DA:O was more epic than this (especially if you coincide the kick ass "This is War" song from 30 Seconds to Mars into there, that was awesome).

With the way DA2 ended, if they don't make an expansion or full on sequel to this story, I will be greatly pissed, because DA2 needs a continuation to get over the massive cliffhangers they left it at. What would be cool is if DA3 comes out with a new hero, however at the end of DA3 all 3 heros get together for a major confrontation against the Darkspawn once and for all (using, of course, the file import system so you can import your character from DA1 and DA2). This would help achieve epic status for DA3. Think about it, 3 custom made characters (aside from Hawke who is only partially customized) that you made versus the leader(s) of all Darkspawn to finally rid the world of this great evil.
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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #168 on: March 25, 2011, 06:26:02 AM »
From the bits of the story it would appear that Hero of Feralden, Hawke, Morrigan and Flemmeth will meet up at the end of the entire story, very probable that we will be able to either import the characters from saves or customize their characteristics like class and skills. In the final Game there will also be a new character, probably Morrigan's brat that we will control, and yeah, we will probably leap into a final confrontation into the cause of the darkspawn. But that is just a wild guess.

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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #169 on: March 25, 2011, 11:49:57 PM »
End boss was kinda easy compared to some other ones... I mean, that High Dragon in the bone pit gave me a lot more trouble. Finished the game 2 times now (rogue and warrior; didn't pick mage since no Bethany), ending was... well... I want Dragon Age III before I can comment on it. Or will the anime movie that will be out this year continue it maybe?

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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #170 on: March 26, 2011, 03:54:18 AM »
High dragon was easy, just need to move a around more.
The stone wraiths earlier on was tougher, but dodging it requires you to move around more as well.
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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #171 on: March 26, 2011, 05:20:22 AM »
well the high dragon wasn't hard either, just harder than the end boss :D I actually died once while fighting the High Dragon on my 2nd play-through, maybe because of my stubbornness to complete the game with a full-female party only that time. (a rogue + Isabella + Aveline + Merril apparently couldn't take on a dragon which probably had immunity to criticals :/ )

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« Reply #172 on: March 26, 2011, 06:02:01 AM »
The problem I found using Isabela and the mages was the low amount of HP. However, I didn't utilize the tactics system at all. Everything was still default when I beat the game, just took more micromanaging to do it that way. Maybe if I customized the tactics a bit, Isabela wouldn't have died as often as she did (not very often, but still).

High Dragon was fun and like the Stone Wraith, the only one of two bosses that forced me to constantly move around instead of just running up to the boss and slash away at it.
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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #173 on: March 26, 2011, 09:14:39 AM »
lol, took a challenge and decided to play the entire game from scratch without letting anyone collapse, once one died, quick load, not an easy thing mind you, especially when Anders got looped and couldn't use his healer tactics, I so wanted to kill him, fucking asshole, even when I set his tactics to only use healing spells, when one of my chars was near death, he still attacked instead of healing,
Cautious >Healer and yet he still didn't heal :P
This game really needs a good patch.

BTW, Aveline in the end boss fight is immune to stun, and kept killing Meredith, I was so lolling :D

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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #174 on: March 26, 2011, 02:01:24 PM »
Aveline was stabbing away when Meredith was bull shitting to herself and we're all stunned.
Well the end fight was rather...... interesting.
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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #175 on: March 26, 2011, 05:01:16 PM »
BTW, Aveline in the end boss fight is immune to stun, and kept killing Meredith, I was so lolling :D

That makes me curious how that got missed in the testing phase. Did BioWare even test this game for stuff like that?
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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #176 on: March 26, 2011, 06:00:34 PM »
BTW, Aveline in the end boss fight is immune to stun, and kept killing Meredith, I was so lolling :D

That makes me curious how that got missed in the testing phase. Did BioWare even test this game for stuff like that?
BioWare executive:*rolls dice* odd, game is good, even, game goes live.

Edit:
Wait, i though Sebastian was to be a Warior not a rogue ?
in that case you can pwn all enemies with 4 Rogues in your party lol this is insane LOL
Another Warior would make sense, cuz even if you are a warior yourself you can have up to 2 more, same with mages, but if you have 3 rogues and you are a rogue, you have 4 rogues total, this is madness !

Edit2:
It just occurred to me, Flammeth knew about Mother !
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Re: Dragon Age II
« Reply #177 on: May 21, 2011, 10:11:01 AM »
http://www.gametrailers.com/news/dragon-age-3-revealed-via/3390

Or did people already know?

I bought Dragon Age Ultimate Edition on Steam, and I honestly can't see the hype around it. I think I got beyond that mirror and that was pretty much it. Dragon Age 2 supposedly being worse than its prequel isn't reassuring. DA3? Oh my. It should be interesting to see if EA wants to get this one out early as well.