Dragon Age 2 Combat Walkthrough

[opiumsick]

Laidlaw forgets to mention that a new wave of enemies will spawn out of thin air after you take care of the first group, with seven archers appearing on each side of you and assassins that appear directly behind your mage.

[fxc2]

Nice fucking taunt, all the enemies were out of range.

[manettovks]

When you press a button...

[Davuthzor]

Waves of enemies spawning as if they climbed a wall to attack you is stupid, especially when you're in a room, which happens all the time.

[Pruneinei]

I don't really enjoy the party fighting in origin or in dragon age 2. I prefer fighting alone coming up with my own strategic way to deal with the monsters.

[mikinator527]

something smells random dungeon

[killikilli15]

after skyrim nothing seems to compare



[Dihyyy]

@killikilli15

IF they will repeat the mistakes they made in oblivion, skyrim won't be any big, so hope for revolution.

[Kingopersia]

the combat looks pretty cool compared to DA 1 but I heard 2 wasn't good. should I get it?

[560pizza]

Played The Second One It Dose Not Hold A Candle To Dragon Age Origins.

[camvibrance]

I don't understand the combat. When I pause, how do I pan? I can select the different characters, but the view goes right to their 3rd person ca. So how do I pan the camera around the whole battle?

[lapajko9]

dao 1 most better ...

[hydroshocksunwell]

This game is complete shit compared to Dragon age origins. Why they made this is beyond me. Even as a stand alone game its still complete shit. Bioware you are just like every other corporate empire. All you care about is money and sales. Well F you.

[yuzhuhiko]

i will hate the game if they made it pause only==

[TaskDragoon]

This game was such a disappointment...I remember defending this game on this very same video. I feel so duped...damn Bioware...in making this game...did you really think it was the best of ideas to implement a story based in one city with rehashed environments.

[lemonpartyhellyeah]

personally i prefer tactic fights.

[Darenbez]

who cares? I just use the console, it does the killing for me lol :D

just kiddin'

[mujuma]

I never 'paused' the game in Origins, seemed like a waste of time.

But, it would work for harder difficulties I assume... Going ass-first in will get you killed, if you suck at it like me..

Oh, also.. If you dislike 2, I dont understand the reason of you being here. Trolling a franchise you enjoy? I guess we should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

[MackerelAssasin]

for those who are bitching about the hack and slash combat shown here, there are 2 things to take note of:

1) you don't have to hack and slash. do it like you did in DAO.

2) just.. go play DAO.

[saldunlop]

guys calm down u dont have to do tactical fighting...i think its pretty cool actually tho

[1234567890NRM]

113 people couldn't defeat Arishok in single combat

[anuttara778]

@1234567890NRM Hell yeah! An ancient rock wraith too.I hate these DA2 haters.

[misanthrope1488]

I want to see the tactics to easily defeat the three waves of enemy airborne soldiers the game drops behind your mage.

[hadihadi222]

it could also be played on your ass

[acroamaticeeore]

I'm just happy they didn't incorporate any of the real DAO story into this nonsense.

[bullsandbear]

The PAUSING seems to FUCK THIS GAME UP BIG TIME.....What the FUCK kind of gameplay is that!!!!... It suppose to be FAST PACE FIGHTING!!!

[nash3timemvp]

@bullsandbear It is people like you eg morons that Bioware appealed to in this game.You want action upon action and do not care about anything else other people prefer story lines,character development and branching story lines something Dragon Age 2 did not do.This was meant to be a RPG felt more like power rangers to me

[dgolijan]

if you are talking about da 2 i believe you...da 1....bullshit that you did everything without pausing. The pause is there for a reason, to quie up atacks. Its stupid to look at it as a cheap thing, its not. Thats what da is,or rather, was all about. Its just stupid not to use it, and there is no way that you passed da on nightmare without pausing ONCE....thats bs and you know it

[kiba1520]

this game is soo easy

[CMScelero]

There is one thing they didn't show us... The giant wave of thugs that would appear from literally nowhere and kill Hawke...

[TheRevan1337]

The graphics remind me of The Old Republic in beta stage

[Flotsome]

don't like switching characters, prefer having one character being capable of doing all that

[999ciprian]

da game is soo cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ol

[Jaythompson29]

is this game not worth buying then?

[heheIvan]

@Jaythompson29

nope. save your money for skyrim.

[Jaythompson29]

@heheIvan ok thanks, wooop cant w8!!

[temptstress666]

@heheIvan Why is there so many poor people. Yes this game is the cream de la crem of games. Maby not the best, but its worth it. Don't listen to hahelvan who obliviously doesn't have a fucking job and asks his mom for money. Ooo 60 dollars.

[heheIvan]

@temptstress666

oh hai there bitch. Whacha doin' outside of kitchen?

Anyway, he politely asked is it worth buying, I gave him my opinion, politely.

now hush and go make me a sammich!

@Jaythompson29

Never take advice from someone with huge tits. Anyway, if you don't believe me, check the reviews and how DA2 was absolutely spit on even by one of it's developers. Check metacritic and other review sites if you wish.

The game is not utter trash, but it's definitely not worth buying either.

[temptstress666]

@heheIvan Oh hey there you stupid little nerd this is my ex girlfriends account, but even if I was a bitch I would laugh at that overused joke. I get that every day even though im a dude. Probly cause I look at these nerd videos and talk to nerd. IF you seen an actuall bitch you would probably lick her feet not tell her to get in the kichen :) kk fagot?

[heheIvan]

@temptstress666

"Oh hey there you stupid little nerd this is my ex girlfriends account"

Nuff. fucking. said.

Dude, dude...EX...GIRLFRIENDS account. You've just publicly embarrassed yourself. That is such a lame lie it's just sad. We both know this is not your ex's account(LOL) and that you probably never even had a girlfriend. That's okay though, but instead of playing with your female alter ego and enjoying all the attention I suggest actually finding a girlfriend.

Good day.

[temptstress666]

@heheIvanHAHAH oh my god you stupid fag, Go to my account and read the comments that she posted on her own channal trying to talk to me, since i blocked her on face book. She has the password to this to. You just publicly sucked my dick queer

[heheIvan]

@temptstress666

really? i haven't noticed, i thought i was publicly licking a vagina.

ZING!

[temptstress666]

@heheIvan So now you look like a dumb little bitch. Anyways when you try and insult someone you usually try to pick things you know of. talking to someone online.. well.. I could be ted bundy. Only someone who has never stuck their dick in some fish hole only says to people:haha you never had a girlfriend. Since im pretty sure no one has never not been laid besides a very small amount, even you probably fucked someone despite your stupid comments. Kk little kiddo?

[Chester1004]

@Jaythompson29

No, dont buy it.

Buy Witcher 2 instead.

[puremana22]

I think the combat is actually easier since you dont have to command each and everyone of your characters.

[W13jamie]

Yeh this really ruined it, the frist one just made the game epic now this second game just sucks with the way combat, it doesnt feel like u are powerful like u were in the frist DAO. I played and finished the game, it was good but it didnt have the same feeling like it was epic like the frist one was. Thats just my opinion.

[xxmrcoolmanxx]

im sorry this game ruined dragon age.

[Crazyrocksteady]

i still think that dragon age origins is better gameplay iam just saying

[thewilliam206]

Man, its weird where a company like Blizzard or Valve doesn't dumb down their games like this and they still sell millions, yet Bioware has dumbed down this game HEAVILY, story wise, combat wise, and graphics wise. They should have put at least another year into this...

[IslandBoiMikey]

do u have to be connected to the internet when u complete the demo to unlock everything hayder's razor ?

[TheDanielpescador]

el que esta hablando,tiene cabeza pa siete pescuezos.

[Pyrofreak321]

now that this game sucks, heres what you can do in dragon age /watch?v=GcLAWsvFPYk&feature=c­hannel_video_title

[Fayla911]

The whole pause and plan with multiple champions doesn't look like a real game to me. Or at least one I'd want to play.

[MagicGuy05]

how come is this game always lagging and all my first person shooter games dont? It did the same with two worlds 2 and I'm not even connected to psn or anything like that,so I dont know why this,two worlds 2 and assassin's creed are lagging and not my fps...

[SirMortum]

@MagicGuy05 thats ethier because your a console gamer if so get a computer or your computers not very good oh and rpgs are much bigger that fps games hence fps come out more and bog everyone down in shit :)

this is how it goes in terms of gamers well the crapy part anyway pretty much everything else is higher up

DS gamers

people in there 70s gamers

console gamer <oh wait this is abit high up?

dirt

[MagicGuy05]

@SirMortum you were right I didn't have enough space on my console to play thanks! ;)

[turusan02]

I just finished DA1 today and im pretty surprised what Im seeing here... the characters move like in a japanese Beat 'em up game, wtf?

[MrJeng2]

wow..thats how u played it..no wonder my teammates keep dying,

[WeWillNotGoQuietly]

If this was available to play with 4 of your friends, I think that the game would be amazing.

[ShaunMcCauleyLive]

@WeWillNotGoQuietly if you play online you can..

[mryan117]

At 2:40 you can see that Bethanys mana and Varrics stamina is not at it's full potential cause it's permanently taken some damage and you can see it has a "White Shadow Outline" where it is permanently lost. The only way I've found to fix that problem is by swapping companions out at the swap thing at their houses. Do you know how to fix that issue, or anyone? I know potions cant fix it.

[Maximusthefirst]

@mryan117 Their stamina and mana bars are not full because they have abilities activated - i.e. ones that provide background effects, look at the bottom right of the screen you will see small icons which are the activated abilities. If you wish to turn these off, you can do it manually using the quick menu (sorry don't know what button brings it up on the pc) or going into the characters tactics and putting a new tactic at the bottom such as: deactivate [ability] - Self: surrounded by no enemies

[mryan117]

@Maximusthefirst Yeah I figured out why I didn't get it later that night when I read the manual.

[Maximusthefirst]

@mryan117 Sweet

[marcusmalone]

@Hannibal457 haha. noted.

[izaakdbest]

can you for example always use your mage

[sidonus]

@izaakdbest yes you can :)

[kusykusykusy]

tactic fights sucks

[Chester1004]

@kusykusykusy

Correction.

The whole game sucks.

[tupacole]

@kusykusykusy i bet you are a console gamer who has NEVER experienced a true pc rpg before...am i right?

[kusykusykusy]

@tupacole no, i dont have console, consoles sucks. I'm playin RPG games all the time. I just think something like WoW, Witcher, Divinity, Diablo(!!!), Risen, Gothic etc. etc. are so fuckin better games, you know why? IT GOT ACTION! And u know what? U DONT SLEEP IN FRONT OF UR MONITOR :) Cheers

[tupacole]

@kusykusykusy i can tell u are a total noob when it comes to rpg's but whatever,i dont have the time for you....

[aciddeathadder]

@kusykusykusy So true! Tactics gameplay is soooo boring......

[dgolijan]

@kusykusykusy if you were to play on nightmare in dragon age 1 you had to pause, thats what the game wasw all about...in dragon age two, you never get to pause cuz its to fucking easy and a huge dissapointment limiting your choices in many ways

[retro9Anime]

@dgolijan only had to pause if you sucked.......

[dgolijan]

@retro9Anime you never passed the game on nightmare, did you?

[retro9Anime]

@dgolijan played the game 3 times including awakening all on nightmare..........its about gear and having the appropriate behaviors for your party members (as well as the appropriate party members..)

[holytranquil]

@kusykusykusy Yup. Using your brain and not seeing lots of action sucks, doesn't it? Idiot.

[Xzigy]

@kusykusykusy why? because u too retarded to pull it off ?

[deletion259]

lol hawke almost died in the end

[Razubanu]

LOL

[zzigrease]

I quite like this guys new let's plays of this game tbh :) /watch?v=BnezShfl5L8

[Godofgame1]

THIS GAME IS LIKE A SHIT OMG BIOWARE WHAT WRONG THIS TIME?????

[Sukuraidogai]

@Godofgame1 EA games is starting to control more of what Bioware does, trying to make their games more "mainstream" oriented. And we all know that all mainstream gamers want is Halo, Call of Duty etc. action oriented gameplay where story and other elements don't mean shit.

[Akugagi]

@Sukuraidogai So you are saying that Bungie did not put effort to Halo's story? Clearly you haven't played it, or then you have jumped right into its multiplayer (like the majority seems to do) and judge the story from the gameplay of the multiplayer.

[Sukuraidogai]

@Akugagi Not saying that at all. I'm saying mainstream gamers don't care about the story, so the focus IS on multiplayer, even if there is a great story in singleplayer.

[Akugagi]

@Sukuraidogai Ah okay, thanks for clearing what you meant :p. Yes, the mainstream gamers seem to skip the singleplayer just to go to the multiplayer to be "first" or to be better than the ones that first play singleplayer and multiplayer afterwards.

It's all way too competitive nowadays, playing games should be fun and enjoyable, but it has become something people stress on alot :/

Anyway yeah, it's sad to see how rare original games get gimped down to fit the majoritys taste just for cash...

[lolol12391]

Siiiiiiiiiiiick!!!

[newagepun]

For those saying bioware was being experimental with gameplay, they seemed to have never touched one of their more forgotten gem of a game called JADE EMPIRE. Seems to play just like it and refined it for an additional 3 controllable NPCs.

[FeuerFremder]

@JacquesJoset

Except that:

- Any sort of strategic or tactical thinking is invalidated by shitty "ANOTHER WAVE" mechanics.

- Anything below "hard" difficulty requires no tactics at all.

- Most tactics boil down to "kite, kite, use spells, kite, kite" in this game.

[Stefan435010]

lol.. tactics make the game so fcking boring.. its about playing a game not half the time figuring out how you want to plan your attack..

[slavenpetkovic]

watch?v=uIeUNffbvwU

[Freezerdude22]

if your tactics are that good then why at 2:44 hawke is dying and you cant use your heal ability which you quite clearly have - great player there mate keep it up >:O

[Toetoi]

I agree with sylvani too. x-x But I also think, that the changes they made were experimental. I like the combat. It feels a bit too automatic, and less tactical, but as he said. Different ways to play it. They're just going in new directions. People keep making comparisons to Origins, but I think DA2 on its own is quite respectable, or maybe I'm just easily impressed. But, I think it's nice when I can kite around and I don't die when I am ten feet away from my enemy. Stop complaining. >.>;

[TheCasino97]

watch?v=T0lQnFfBQxM

[DiabloKore]

Diablo 3 Kore - GOOGLE IT

[TheAlfonzoKazu]

the game is an epic file, shame on you mike

[TrailersProject]

Pretty nice listening to this guy rambling like Erwin Rommel or Sun Tzu, while in fact, all you need to play this game is keyboard-rolling. Tactics my ass.

[SinisterSpade]

Let's see... two of the tactics ended up not working... and Hawke died at the end.

I'm sorry, but wha?

[Wayfaerer8]

This guy belongs in my english class.

[mozl83]

It turned out a little bit to "consolish". I liked the pace of battles in DA:O more, allthough the fluid style of DA2 is also very nicely done and is fun to play. Since I am a PC and mage player, I'd like to have it a bit more on the tactical side, than simply running in, which - sadly - is almost always as effective, and therefor you almost always only need to set your tactics once for each character in the tacticsscreen, and that is good enough for 99% f the fights and pausing isn't necessary.

[redninja302]

@mozl83

idk i couldn't get into da:o i just didnt like the combat system.. if i wanted to play a combat system like dragon age origins i would of played final fantasy 12. BUT i am preparing to try dragon age origins 1 again tonight lol.

[mozl83]

It turned out a little bit to "consolish". I liked the pace of battles in DA:O more, allthough the fluid style of DA2 is also very nicely done and is fun to play. Since I am a PC and mage player, I'd like to have it a bit more on the tactical side, than simply running in, which - sadly - is almost always as effective, and therefor you almost always only need to set your tactics once for each character in the tacticsscreen, and that is good enough for 99% f the fights and pausing isn't necessary.

[BakaRice]

You know the game very well more than any of us, yet you are a noob.

[dstar1994]

Good job making the game worse you lazy useless twat.

[007demitri007]

Can u pause and play on xbox if so how?

[daxter34]

@007demitri007 '

Hold the left trigger

[wisprworld]

The guy is funny. He belongs in a math class. LOL

[Bratcipheo]

looks lame

[SnuggeryBuggery]

another dumbed down franchise. GJ Mike.

[izeckx]

@SnuggeryBuggery Although I agree that they took it a tad too far in simplifying the game. I came out satisfied with the outcome after about 40 hours of gameplay on my 360. I just wish the game had less backtracking.

[Hobbsy1023]

DA maker guys y u fuck up game? y u remove playable races? Y only heal spell char get have like 2 hour cooldown? y u suck at life? u killed my face game... sucks =[

[i7fan]

Loved DA1 from start. Having a bit of difficulty loving DA2 but i hope it comes later. Feels a bit too consoly on PC. Im sure it will be a great adventure though.

[krunchiekrusader]

I'm very unhappy with the GUI. Far too console oriented.

[StOrmZIsoNItZWaY]

The game looks awesome... the GUI doesn't

[GoreFienD]

1:23 he used stealth! :O

[Toetoi]

"Firestorm, raining down from the heavens to eliminate the last of our foes." Including Hawke, eh?

[crestaudioman]

EPIC fail

[huyked]

Wow, I was about to dismiss this game as another hack and slash. But the switching of gameplay is really neat.

[Box0rz]

Do you guys have any performance problems while playing this game on PC?Because I surely do, my fps is kinda bad when outside and it lags, even freezes sometimes.

[GrizzPaul]

is this game multiplayer ?

[Kserijaro]

The game is so easy i had to ditch 2 guys from party to have some difficulty at dispatching group of idiot npcs. DLC items made it even easier.

DA:O forever!

[TheXshadowzz]

@Kserijaro

Here's a bright idea! Boost up the difficulty level, you silly head.

[AlphaNearBakura13]

in the Coordinating part, Hawke lost a LOT of health, if it were just hack n slash it would be much simpler

[yangistan]

Wow they totally fucked this game. Thats really sad.

[MaddLagger]

pausing is freaking sweet though, usually some epic screen shot chance, and in 3d it is pretty amazing

[WoWCaille]

just to let you know your taunt in the begginging didnt effect them they went straight for hawk but the rest was very........ predictable.

[UnderDog1412]

Ok the melee rogue is awesome, finally some more animations rather than just the stand-move around the enemy-backstab thing :D

[Lam2ez]

Wa, this game can get headache

[Nersify]

Well, at least, skills, and graphic animations are better, however the pointer in the game ,the area-of-effect pointer, is too basic for the game I guess , remind me fifa player's marking tags :)

[PsiloCybinDreamX]

is this game like a diablo2 type game as in the sense you get random weapons and armor from boss's and enemies?

[Railium]

@PsiloCybinDreamX as far as i know, no. I'm pretty sure all the weapons have designated names.

[PsiloCybinDreamX]

@Railium well i downloaded the demo and tried it and i didnt like it at all

[yourleftnut1]

still cant beat Guild Wars's tactical plays..

[Bajungadustin]

@x0adam0x yeah i know about that.. but it sucks if you dont want to "pause" combat in order to activate the spell. i think that getting more abilities into the mix would be an awesome addition but they didnt do that so maybe DA3

[Limca223347]

is it me or does leidlaw look like the guy from csi vegas :P

[HardTekBen]

It's just not Sonic 2 is it?

[freelancer3018]

Read a honest review of DA2 not bought and paid for by Bioware. They raped Dragon Age people.

w ww.videogamessuck. com/review437.ht ml === just get rid of the spaces.

[Natsopaan1]

How the fuck can you call this Dragon Age 2? It's completely different from the original.

[TheFrostyVision]

@Natsopaan1

its the same world and its happening around the same time as the other one just in a different place.

also spoiler alert but from the ending of DA2 you will see that DA1 and DA2 stories are both going to lead to DA3

[Natsopaan1]

@TheFrostyVision

Still, this seems more like hack 'n' slash. It's like they changed the gameplay so that 6-year-olds could play it.

[TheFrostyVision]

@Natsopaan1 actually personally I enjoyed the combat more than DAO

dao was basically attack attack talent attack attack talent attack fancy kill

in DA2 you actually have to move around switch targets and use tactics and combos to finish off strong opponents.

[Natsopaan1]

@TheFrostyVision

To each his own. DA:O does require more tactics than this. If you can't see it, try another difficulty...

[C4Blizzard]

@Natsopaan1 Hack n slash actually requires skill (DMC series/Darksiders) while here all you do is click click click 1/2/3/4/etc. click.

[dynamicalanimal]

how dated does this look

[PsyPstorm]

this game sucks the big one.

[Exteel391]

how many hours of gameplay have?

[msmith0415]

you have to do all that just to stun some people? looks so dumb to me.

[3217491]

erm is this played on low graphx or is it just ugly

[RudeyCapone]

I thought about getting this game, but meh when I see this I get my doubts.

Looks more like a hack and slash to me, the surrounds also look a bit dull if you ask me.

Idk if this vid is faking me but it looks meh :/

[tbonesparton5]

i have already beaten this game with a rouge and mage

[Atarien6]

wow he aoe's his own toon to death. noob

[TheFirstAmendmentRox]

@Mike Laidlaw

I Like His moobs...

[Bajungadustin]

i hope they incorporated more spell assignments on the 360 so im not stuck with 15 different abilities and only able to assign 6 of them.

[iamnuff1992]

meh dragon age 2 isnt even out yet in england. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

i cant play the first one, i played as a mage, but all the strong spells are AOE and take like 6 seconds to cast, in that time all the people your attacking are all crowded round your fighters, meaning if you cast something like firestorm your killing your own guys.

well unless you play easymode.

[Exteel391]

wow what a tactics;) u can just hack and slash ur way out man..and that is big problem with DAII...no need for 'tactics' ...

[AltairKamahl]

wow games really are getting WAY to easy -_-

[Th3Driv3r]

I'm just going to wait for Demon Soul's 2 if it ever comes out :/

[qrotiek]

rly low game compared 2 first DA

[agdaJesper]

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[PanosConroe]

@MIKE LAIDLAW

You fucked the game..

[HeroicGreyWarden]

@PanosConroe

He is good,and he made both games good,but he shited up everithing good about origins and made toaly diffrent game,WE DIDNT WANT A COMBAT RPG LAIDLAW!!!!!!!!WE DINT WANT A COMBAR RPG LAIDLAW!

We wanted Dragon age Origins 2,You said:''we have took origins and kept the goods things and shaved the eges''.You shawed grey wardens,tactical gamplay,soundtack,visual art,no voice(cool),races,leliana,morr­igan,alistar and oghren,Dragon age 2 is a good game but not as Great as origins