dancodan

// Update, 30 hours in. The dialogue gets worse; it’s so poorly written that I feel the urge to turn the game off every time the companions say something utterly dumb. Even my 15-year-old daughter thinks it’s cringey. It makes me wonder, who is the target audience? Five-year-olds?I'll keep bashing myself though, will play this crap to the end to see the finale of the series, then I will never touch it again.

// Update, 30 hours in. The dialogue gets worse; it’s so poorly written that I feel the urge to turn the game off every time the companions say something utterly dumb. Even my 15-year-old daughter thinks it’s cringey. It makes me wonder, who is the target audience? Five-year-olds? I'll keep bashing myself though, will play this crap to the end to see the finale of the series, then I will never touch it again.

In all honesty, haven't played a better game since God of war 1. Great story, great graphics and the gameplay is just a sick as in GOW1. I might add that I'm a fan of the series, but I never rate games. Made an exception for this one.

The gameplay is great. They have really evolved since the first installment. To bad they force feed you woke-cookies throughout the run. It’s so extreme that it ruins the game completely. I want a good story, I don’t need to be lectured by a game. Can’t recommend to anyone I’m afraid.

A great work of art. Typicall Kojima game with twists and turns. It’s not a game built on action, it’s built on exploration and managing during hard circumstances.

Do yourself a favor, go to YouTube and search for Atlas. The videos shown will present the current state of the game. It’s hilarious

Very good. You wont find a game better than this when it comes to sandbox play and open world scenario. It's really really good. Sure, it's raw and hard. But it has also been slapped with the "mature" rating. Keep your kids away from it. Everything is working like a charm, I have never seen sucha well polished game

Poorly executed. A very costly expansion with roughly 1 week of playable content. How they can manage to take the price of a full size game and deliver this is beyond me. The world is sparkly and nice, just as the kids love it. But it ends there. The quests are dull and to simple, the instances are boring, simple and short. Everything is made to be playable by a 8 year old, there is no challenge within the "game". It's a low rez pretty paining.

It's easy to see Blizzards game plan. Make money, for as long as it's possible, and spend as little effort as possible during the time. Mist of Pandaria brings nothing good to the table. They have dumbed down exactly everything. The talents are no longer any talent tree. There are just a few abilites where you can chose some of them. Sure it makes the game easier to balance, cause you can't do anything. But it's boring and bland. A grey nothingness of choices. The instances where easy before, but now they can be done with two people of low item level (poor gear). The heroics which should be the "The instance is now in hard mode" are so easy that they can be done with three people with average item level. This results in a party just running through an instance as fast as possible, just to try to get some loot (That will be disposed of within 3 playing hours, so it doesnt really matter anyway) The raids are plain stupid. Learn where the ground AE hits or just stand in it. It does not matter. The raid will win anyway. After you've done the braindead and boring raids, you will have to wait a week to be able to do anything at all. Of cource, this is at max level. But it takes roughly 20 hours to become high level. So it's basicly the whole game. There is no longer any reason to play this. It's a scramble of button mashing and shiny colors, nothing more. It lacks all weight and all sort of challenge to anyone over eight years of age. (My daughter is currently playing it on my account, and she is performing excellent, and she is eight years old. That is saying a lot of the game) This is no longer an mmo, this is a kids color splash with low ambitions. I believe that Blizzard will have to change their company policy or die slowly, cause after World of warcrafts latests fails and Diablo 3 it's clear that they no longer want to create good games. They want the games to be as easy as possible to reach out to as many kids as possible, to get more cash in the bank. It's sad for a hardcore warcraft/starcraft/diablo2 fan to see the company turn to this. I guess it's money that control their actions, and the vision to become a good game developer is long gone.

A poor contribution to the series. The "quests" are illogical and often dumb (go and look for wooden planks for 20 minutes by bashing everything you can find). It's not pedagogical towards children at younger ages, and it's far to dumb to attract anyone of older age. There are a million ways to do a game like like The hobbit, and this is not one of them. For instance, when my daughter need to get up a cliff she needs to select a specific character (out of 10+ different one), equip the right weapon (even if it's sometimes just plain stupid) and stand in the correct spot, and press the correct button. I know that even adults would fail at this from time to time, so why do a game for kids with this sort of puzzle solving? Save your cash to buy the next one in the series instead. This one was a failure.

I agree that Dragon Age 2 has been dumb down a notch. It has taken the mainstream path to lure in more young players. This is the road that all games take now days when money talks and unique gameplay walks. None the less. You will not find a better game in this genre for a few years. It is money well spent. Not only for the quality of the gameplay, graphics and voice acting but also for the extensive campaign. The game should be considered as a action-rpg from now on. If you are the one who love the old pen n paper play style and prefer baldurs gate 1 & 2 in front of Dragon age 1, then maybe you should take a second thought, but I would suggest you to pick this up anyway. It's not money wasted, no matter what your preferences are. /dancodan

I agree that Dragon Age 2 has been dumb down a notch. It has taken the mainstream path to lure in more young players. This is the road that all games take now days when money talks and unique gameplay walks. None the less. You will not find a better game in this genre for a few years. It is money well spent. Not only for the quality of the gameplay, graphics and voice acting but also for the extensive campaign. The game should be considered as a action-rpg from now on. If you are the one who love the old pen n paper play style and prefer baldurs gate 1 & 2 in front of Dragon age 1, then maybe you should take a second thought, but I would suggest you to pick this up anyway. It's not money wasted, no matter what your preferences are. /dancodan