Dragon Age 2 really took a few steps backward. The characters are not as compelling, the world much less detailed, and the combat not as crisp. Somewhat lacking.

A disappointing sequel to an amazing game, taking place entirely in one city with minimal changes overall, with a combat system that threw tactical team-based combat out the window in favour for your character being able to carry fights by themselves.

The writing and the atmosphere in this game are top tier, but the rest of of the game is less than polished. For a story and dialogue-oriented person like myself, a great experience, for people into graphics and mechanics, not the greatest one.

What a disappointment, especially compared to the first game. Immersion-killing combat (endless hordes of thugs and slavers just throwing their lives away by rushing you), no meaningful impact from your choices, endless backtracking and re-use of maps, (mostly) paper-thin characters, poor writing, and meandering story. What a disappointment. Maybe I would've rated this a bit higher if I had played it ten years ago, but now...? Trash.

Not as good as Dragon Age: Origins and the recycled maps start to get repetitive, but overall still pretty interesting.

Less enjoyable than DA Origins

It’s best things were probably 9s. Combat, lack of good/diverse environments and diverse enemies were the bigger drags. I think the way you can do quests in any order made the story worse too. Didnt like having to keep googling etc especially for the confusing romance mechanics. Merrill coulda been a great romance. And isabela coulda been amazing. But they were okay and pretty good. I’m gonna pretend i really did go on her ship etc. might lower this rating

A very odd game, stuffed with bad design elements. Still, I can honestly see some potential here, especially in the way companions were handled. Setting nearly all of the action in one city over a period of several years was also a good, and potentially very fruitful choice. And the "negative space" art design was subject to much mockery, but it did grow on me. I suspect that Bioware just ran out of time/money/talent/patience about 18 months before the game would really have been finished.

A lot of ranting for no reason. The gameplay was basically the same of the Origins, with a closer camera and some minor changes. Not that i liked the console-friendly changes, but it was totally playable. In the first playtrough i disliked too been trapped inside one city, but in the end makes sense because they wanted to tell a story about one city. The character are weaker yes, but there are still 2-3 great companions. The mage vs templar theme is great. Origins it's better, but this is good.

Up there with the most disappointing sequels ever made. Took everything great from the first and made the inbred equivalent of it.

Had a load of problems, but I didn't dislike it.

I could rant about all of the problems with the game but there's not nearly enough space in a mini-review. It's so bad, it's insulting.

DA2 offers an interesting premise that was poorly executed which can definitely be blamed on corporate meddling. Still, I don't think this makes the end result any good; what good is the concept of time skips if little is done to accentuate the passing of time? Not to mention that the writing is often laughably bad to the point of being utterly cringeworthy at times and it has many incredibly moronic plot beats. It has silvers of a great narrative, but I'd say the bad outweigh the good.