Dragon Age II gets Hi-Res Texture pack for PC

[Mungri]

Try button mashing on nightmare and you'll die in 20 seconds.

The thing is though I dont like games that are insanely difficult due to having enemy hitpoints and damage raised by a factor of 10 or something like that.

In this kind of game, what I was expecting and looking forward to was the same kind of gameplay I had in DAO at normal difficulty - Challenging boss fights, normal difficulty enemies, friendly fire, and an isometric top down camera view. This game ommits two of those, and the only way to get friendly fire enabled is to play on an insane difficulty level, and you can forget all about the traditional iso view gameplay.

The hard and nightmare difficulties in this game seem to make it feel far worse to play, and thats coming from someone who played Deus Ex 1 on their first, second and third playthroughs on Realistic difficulty.

Right now, I'm perfectly enjoying playing this RPG:

http://www.avernum.com/avernum6/index.html

THe gameplay is spot on and perfect for what I like, but I do wish the graphics were a lot better

The graphics are certainly better than DAO, the high res textures are pretty good, and I'm not running DX11 either.

The graphics are certainly better than Baldurs Gate, and the RPG I posted above as well, but I didnt realise that comparing a game released in 2011 to games from many years ago is how graphics are compared.

Oblvion, Fallout 3 and ME2 still eat this game alive graphically, and when compared to other upcoming 2011 titles such as Witcher 2, Skyrim, Deux Ex 3, Crysis 2, even Return of Alice, I really dont understand how its possible to defend the graphics in what was meant to be a AAA bioware title released this year. As for the high res textures only being available for download, and the DX11 mode being so buggy and added on very late into the games development, this to me is proof that this game was made for consoles first and ported over to the PC, with better textures and DX11 added on as an afterthought.

Really, this game has nothing compared to other cRPGs. Just about every other PC game also being released this year is literally going to skin DA2 alive in terms of, well, pretty much everything.

tbh you are nothing but trolling

DA2 is also doing nothing but trolling the cRPG fans and PC gaming community. I'm not bothered if you or anyone else like the game, that doesnt mean that it isnt what it definitely is - a standard cookie cutter, dumbed down, console first hack n slash game with no feel of cRPG or Bioware to it at all. This game has absolutely nothing about it compared to the titles I listed above. I've already played just about every single cRPG and MMORPG over the last 15 years, DA2 is shockingly bad for a game of this genre by Bioware.

there is little button mashing

'Now when you press a button, something awesome has to happen! So button = awesome, connected now, in Dragon Age 2'.