oh right…i take that back. ive been filling many of my bored hours with dragon age 2. first…an aside. as blasphemous as it is for me to say, but ive grown bored of wow. many people bitch and complain about the direction the games gone, how hard the raids are, blah blah blah. but not me…ive been doing fine with all of the above. but after 6 years of a game, the repetitiveness has finally caught up with my attention span. this isnt to say ive quit, but i will readily admit i only log in two nights a week for my raids. other than that, im oot and aboot. or if im not and im stuck at home, i find myself firing up dragon age and not wow.

so…about the game itself. its fun. lots of fun. the fighting is so much better than the original. the mechanics are the same, but hopped up on speed. the story’s interesting, but i wish i couldve explored more areas instead of just one city and the adjoining mountains. ive also  read criticism that the aforementioned story was too unfocused.  but i personally didnt mind…its telling chapters of a persons history. its not going to be all encompassing. rather theyre a series of events that shaped each point of their life.

the areas were a bit repetitive, and lots of ‘dungeons’ recycled…so that sort of sucked. and the interactions between people seem a bit more limited too, though in reality, the interactions in the original were more varied, but ultimately repetitive. still, i miss shooting the shit with companions and hitting on the various females at camp. nobody comes to my house parties in da2…except the dorf and his “special needs” kid.

now having finished da2 as a warrior (things explode when i charge them!) and onto my second round as a mage, i have to say its a pretty interesting world biowares created. it definitely feels ‘lived in’ and alive…and makes you wonder if theyd ever morph it into an mmo.