Sup Dragon Age 2.

[SmootsDaddy89]

http://dragonage.bioware.com/da2/

[Purity-Control]

Awakings was sh*t I could of did without that expansion

And would have prefered that DA2 continued the story of your origins character to some degree.

[SmootsDaddy89]

I get the feeling you'll meet your old character. Unless it's like 40 years in the future or something.

Some speculation that the hero in the next game is Morrigan's kid. That would be sweet.

[Kurb]

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/3053709/2#3054770

Nope this Hawk cat is someone completely different.

DA1 was just OK to me. Then again I only played it once. I thought it would have a deeper item table than it did, and more customization of characters. That said, I will have this day1 most likely.

[SmootsDaddy89]

Interesting.

He's too important to not be part of DA2 at all though.

[Mesmer]

Having a game that's not a technical pile of poo will be a much needed improvement. Enjoyed the first, but it played/looked like 2005.

[SmootsDaddy89]

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/07/09/five-facts-about-hawke-in-dragon-age-ii.aspx

More info on Hawke.

[Miaoww]

Maybe this time playing as an archer won't be so damn impossible.

[The Saltman]

Hands on Impressions:

At last month’s San Diego Comic-Con, there was a hands-on demo of Dragon Age II available to anyone willing to wait in line under the San Diego sun. With a dual appreciation for delightful weather and slaying evil Darkspawn, we wasted little time queuing up for a turn--the result being this first-look preview of one of our more highly anticipated role-playing games. If you haven’t read that story, the short and sweet of it is that the demo was a brief, bloody look at Dragon Age II’s combat that seemed to suggest a more fast-paced, visceral style than the first game. However, BioWare recently showed us an extended version of that same demo that cast the entire experience in a much different light.

One of the biggest changes moving from Dragon Age: Origins to Dragon Age II is the method of storytelling. You play as a hero of legend named Hawke, and your exploits are relayed by a dwarven storyteller named Varick--a fellow with a penchant for exaggerating your feats. It’s a story-within-a-story scenario in which the bulk of the game--navigating the world and engaging in combat--is the tale being told. But once in a while, you’re taken back to Varick as he tells your story to a lady named Cassandra, who seeks to learn of your adventures.

In short, what we saw at Comic-Con was an example of Varick exaggerating your heroic adventures. That combat-focused demo showed a fast-paced battle with Hawke going up against waves of Darkspawn and essentially making mincemeat of them. Playing as the human warrior class, we had numerous spells and abilities at our disposal and managed to tear through those enemies very quickly. We could practically hear the Darkspawn saying “Thank you sir, may I have another?” after a sword slash.

But fast-forward to the end of the demo, and you see Cassandra confront Varick, asking him if that’s how things really went. Varick flashes a coy smile and then offers to tell her the version of the story that--one would hope--more closely resembles the truth. You’re then sent back in time and forced to do that same battle over again, and the result is something that feels more akin to the combat in Dragon Age: Origins--albeit with a few noticeable differences.

The revised version of the story flashes you back a bit earlier into the scene and showcases the ragtag group of Darkspawn survivors that you have to team up with in order to get by. Far from the one-man army you seem like in Varick’s initial telling, you need to fight as a team in order to make it here. In the first fight, we were able to carve through enemies almost instantly, and the spells and abilities we cast (and we had a lot to choose form) recharged very quickly. In the second telling, it was a much more challenging experience. And while we don’t want to spoil any story elements, let’s just say that a few of your teammates have a pretty rough go of it as well.

http://gamescom.gamespot.com/story/6273910/dragon-age-ii-updated-hands-on/?tag=newsfeatures%3Btitle%3B1

[Wither]

DAO was great, but it has little to no replay value for me... Oblivion was much better in that department.