I have played the game and i know what part its supposed to represent its just not as nearly epic of a showdown as its portrayed here hence the comment varrics storytelling is really over the top. Thats at least what i thought citronnelle was pointing out. I thought the game was decent a let down yes but decent.
If this cinematic were more like how it played out in the game, Hawke would be running around in circles, hooting like Curly from the Three Stooges as he periodically tosses fireballs at the Arishok when he has a chance. This trailer would also be ten minutes long.
I remember seeing this and thinking, Cool he's an Arcane warrior and a blood mage, then the game just made you run around the room escaping while firing spells at the arishok if were a mage.
Trailer!Hawke: Embraces destiny, does not show fear, engages the Arishok in melee Game!Hawke: Screams hysterically for their mabari to come back while chugging health potions and hiding behind pillars.
+Alice Legacy haha, yeah it could be a bit dodgy if you were a support mage. I remember beating him pretty easily with a couple builds; one was a Force specialist fire mage, basically a nuke fight, and I remember the Spirit being good, the static cage or w/e it was could lock him up and you could punish him pretty good.
+darkpitofdoom2 DA2 was a shite fest compared to the original. DA3 AKA DA;I is just an open world version of DA2..Bioware has lost their edge and will never recover. CD Projekt RED destroyed Bioware wth TW3 and they have a smaller team
+darkpitofdoom2 same here even though DA2 lacked a bit, its a fun experience lol once i beat it as a rogue, im gonna use the mage for the REAL story lol
I love Dragon Age 2. Including how the Mages fight with their Staves, it's almost like a combination of Staff play combined with spell casting in a continuous movement sequence. I think other video games should try that method of game play with Mages, definitely stands out in my opinion.
The Arishok is the embodiment of what it truly means to be Qunari. The Qunari now are so weird looking and weak. They must answer to the Qun. Hands down my favorite character in DA2.
I just teared up rewatching this. After playing veilguard for 1 hr I really needed some old dragon age content to calm my self down for being so upset and disappointed
Everyone in the commets is discussing whether Hawke was a blood mage in this trailer or not and I'm just sitting here wondering if I was the only person who played as a reaver.
+Isaiah Stephens but in the trailer he clearly summoned a demon (well, his hands). also, trailer hawke is a mage and thus can't be a reaver. even though reavers are so cool *.*
Seriously, everyone had problems with this fight. My tank hawke just went one on one with the arishok... in a really long battle because he did like 0 damage.
DAO was a VERY GOOD game, while DA2 just good. I think that's the problem, the second game was inferior to its ancestor in some ways. But DAI is definitely VERY FUCKING GOOD, and I've played ALL the games without regrets. ;D
+Suicide Malkavian I've always loved Dragon Age: Origins. Dragon Age 2 I thought was quite restricted (maybe not so many locations?) I don't know about DA:I... but I've heard it's good.
Ulfric Ruthgardsson Yep, I agree about Dragon Age 2. While you have many locations in Origins, the maps of DA2 always look the same, and you're just allowed to visit other places than Kirkwall to do quests/sidequests. It could have been an extremely good game, but it wasn't so because of EA and BioWare laziness and eagerness to get money. That was very disappointing =/ About DA: I, you should REALLY play it if you have the chance. Last week I played it again, and there's always something I didn't before, or that I haven't seen in the others gameplays. It's an amazing experience and have everything we love about this game franchise: incredible characters with incredible stories, tons of quests and sidequests, very cool looking skills, romance, and the best fights against dragons and giants EVER. (Sorry for the very long comment, I'm just such a dumb Dragon Age enthusiat, rly)
+Suicide Malkavian Nothing wrong about admiring games, especially if it's Dragon Age. Also, I don't think it's purely out of EA and Bioware laziness that DA:2 wasn't as good as the others. Knowing EA, they probably pressured Bioware to release the game early, making things half-assed.
Well...much time has passed since DA2 was released as well as Inquisition. So many people were down on DA2. I, however, really really really liked it. The story was very compelling and enjoyable and the fighting action was much more polished and fun than origins. True there were a few weak points, but this does not ruin what in my opinion is otherwise a stellar gaming experience! I thoroughly enjoyed inquisition as well, but the story is not as good as DA2. Loved Origins, of course!
Yes. It's a good game, with a good plot. The problem I had with it was the esthetics and certain quest that was scipted strange. Look at this trailer and the concept art for the geme, they are so interesting.
***** OK so you had actual points. good for you. I personally thought it was a great game but you are entitled to your opinion. to be honest i liked the characters, voice acting, and combat styles. i loved the plot. and while a lot of your choices didn't have a huge impact it made more sense. you werent building an army to save the world like in DA:O and DA:I. you were just man trying to take care of his family and make a name for himself. i didnt think any character looked cartoonish except fenris. i thought it was a huge improvement in graphics. the only flaw i found in the game was the lack of maps and detail to the maps. but thats what you get when your publisher is EA and the rush the deadline
***** DA:I was one of the best games i have ever played. And the mage templar war was something i wanted to see since origins. To me only act 1 of DA2 was boring and thats because there was no plot to it except get money. Anders was one of my favorite characters and i loved merril and varrics voice was far from boring.
***** whatever man. The games are fun. DA:I was fantastically done. It had a great plot and great characters and one hell of a plot twist during the epilogue
***** your issue is that you focus too much on the books. the books are based on the games. so that means they don't matter. if the game says something different then that makes the books wrong. and the games dont give a clear picture of who to side with. most of the templars you meet are good people who fear mages a little to much. you also meet a lot of bad mages in DA2 and DA:I. the games present both sides on equal moral footing. bioware made a game that appeals to masses. they dont care what every individual fan wants, they make games that will make the most people happy. and as for the herald of andraste part, the inquisition is a religious order. what did you expect. and your character can either embrace the title or tell everyone he/she isnt holy. it adds a aspect that defines how your character feels about the power and title he/she was given. The entire story was great. it was dramatic, it had its wtf moments, and great cinematics. i almost cried when i had to choose whether to sacrifice hawke or stroud and when i thought flemath was going to steal marrigons son. the story was emotional. And as for the characters. Blackwall was awesome. iron bull was awesome. cassandra was awesome. Dorian and Varric were hilarious. Cole was weird sure, but he was an entertaining character who you were never quite sure what he was. Sera was the only character i didnt like but ive met many people who did. get over yourself and except it was a good game and was well done, but it just wasn't a game for you. if it was a shitty game then it wouldnt have won GOTY
If Mage Hawke had warrior skills in this vid (Pommel Strike and Might Blow) he would do Stagger and Brittle combos all day by himself for massive damage. Just like how magi in Origins can combine spells on their own. Great.
I still dont get why people say this is a bad game. Its not, I mean it pales in comparison to origins but most games do. Dragon age 2 is a good game to me and definitely more entertaining then most games these days. I think its a solid 8/10: it has a good story/characters, better paced combat then origins but less strategic, and has a better leveling up system, but has less replay value because of the choices that are less about morals but personal belief.
It's a very average *game* and its underdeveloped - however, I personally couldnt care less about its gameplay, I only play Bioware games for the story and characters (also romances obviously). So while its a very average game, its an awesome story regardless.
I love dragon age 2 wasn’t what I ever expected but I still liked it and words cannot describe how hyped I was when I watched this trailer. I always main as a mage and this trailer just pumped me up! !! Mind blast, blood magic bladed staff . Still so cool one of my most fav dragon age trailers
Showing friends the trailers for the first few games, how they had the consistent blood-spray-on-white motif, a metal soundtrack and consistent themes of heroism.... And the swift decline into absurdity thereafter.
+DrekkiHawke I know right? He looked totally hot here and in the game he is...slightly less hot though not terrible looking. I wonder why they made Marian so gorgeous compared to him.
after playing through all three games multiple times I think 2 has the best story and companions. Gameplay elements are lacking but the story just kills it for me.
trailer hawke: badass fight sequence with using only his staff as a spear and summoning a fade creature with blood from his wounds actual hawke: betting that the arishok will become too dizzy to fight as he runs around a pillar while chugging lyrium potions
The strategy works though, and Hawke has pretty powerful lungs from all the running around Kirkwall. He can play "catch me if you can" with Arishok all day long :)
Just finished replaying DAO and DA2 in preparation for DA3... Is it just me or did Hawke go from a warrior to a mage, then a BLOOD MAGE in this trailer? Wut?! Is that the default Hawke in DA3? A blood mage who romanced Isabela? It's a wonder he didn't die from all the STD he got...
From the trailers, there is a Lady Hawke who is a mage, with a male human Warden. I just finished DA2 yesterday in preparation, I don't know about others, but DA2 is one of my favourite games, of all time.
Less than two years of development and this looks much better than The Failguard, this game is not perfect but at least it mantains the dark tone of Origins and the Qunari were at their peak in this game look and lore wise, also the Arishok was a fucking menace, what a great villain he was. This game only needed one or two years more and could have been perfect, definitely deserves a proper remake by a studio who really knows how to make videogames for gamers, give this unpolished gem to Larian Studios.
6 years later and this trailer is STILL badass. It's such a damn shame that DA II suffered from rushed development, otherwise it would've been that much better.
In this trailer Hawke is shown using BLood Magic yet in Inquisition he keeps talking about it like it's the child of Satan. Bioware forgot its own lore?
Seppe Sorbello I think he used blood magic indeed. First of all, he put blood on his nose, as some kind of ritual, there would be no other explanation for this. And near the end, he seems to run out of mana, so he put his hand on a bruise and took some energy from there (blood) to perform the last spell. Crushing prision or not, he used blood to cast it.
Cássio Martins Actually, when he touches the symbol on his arm, it puts him in a trance-like state, gaining power from his mind, hence the flashback of events, secondly, he only puts blood on his face to prove to the Arishok he is an equal warrior. Also, the spell he casts is called 'Crushing Prison', a spell in the Arcane Tree.
I finally got around to beating the Origins DLCs and started playing this. I'm actually enjoying it a lot as mage Hawke! I guess the reviews scared me away, but I didn't really mind the game's flaws now that the hype has died down six years later
Hawke had peak armor design! I always loved dragon ages armor, and I'll give credit to the new one on that front, most of the armor still looks good. Just gotta turn your brain off to enjoy it first.
@@riches3581 um no. Dragon Age 2 is amazing period. Loved it back then, still love it too bits now. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean nobody does at all or that there aren't those that do enjoy it for what it is.
Man, Varric's storytelling is really over the top.
Best comment I've read on this video.
+Citronnelle yet we never see a dwarf in one of the cinematic trailers of a dragon age game. Nor an elf for that matter
Or the fact that this trailer really didnt represent the game in anyway.
I have played the game and i know what part its supposed to represent
its just not as nearly epic of a showdown as its portrayed here hence
the comment varrics storytelling is really over the top. Thats at least
what i thought citronnelle was pointing out. I thought the game was
decent a let down yes but decent.
yawn thats not what i said and its not exactly like the trailer.
Trailer: Badass fighting with lots of cool moves
Reality: Running around the two pillars and chugging potions
Thank the lord for those 2 pillars. The real unsung heroes
Even as a warrior I get screwed over by that damn Qunari.
@@Owliare for me it was ALOT easier to defeat him as a mage..aas a warrier I got stunned so easily
omg that's so true xD
@@alexstoll2557 mage =best it's the one in the trailer
Varric made me look good in this cutscene.. It's a shame there was a lot more running around chugging potions than he bothered to write down
Fawkes Pryde whhhhyyyyyy ....!! Toooo funny !!!
I love how impressed Cassandra is when she hears about it and I’m just sitting there thinking about all the running and screaming I did
You know you're not supposed to DRINK poultices right?
Y'all just need to make a better build ;/
In ur opinion what is the best build @MEUAR
If this cinematic were more like how it played out in the game, Hawke would be running around in circles, hooting like Curly from the Three Stooges as he periodically tosses fireballs at the Arishok when he has a chance. This trailer would also be ten minutes long.
+Phlebas yep thats like how it happen for me as well
+Phlebas while failing to solve or stop any problem for the city.
Ha! Your Comment made my day!
Varric must have made this cinematic then. It's just like one of his stories
Those pillars were a godsend. Lol.
No no no, I think this trailers accurate. Hawke is a mage, got hit once and everything was nearly over. Sounds about right to me.
Oh you
But then he resorted to blood magic. That’s why we have the Circles.
Owliare Crushing Prison isn’t blood magic, it’s one of the arcane warrior abilities
funny i thought Rogues were the 1H.K.O
Jacob Reynolds the chantry might just consider it blood magic either way.
I remember seeing this and thinking, Cool he's an Arcane warrior and a blood mage, then the game just made you run around the room escaping while firing spells at the arishok if were a mage.
As a warrior you just kinda poke at each other until he dies,lol
Milan Brkic and as a rouge you just run till you can go invisible, then backstab, then repeat
Or you mark for death assasinate vendeta and,if you are like me(overleveled),twin fangs and he just kinda dies.
I actually created a defensively strong mage specifically so I could play him like the trailer.
No, his mother was killed by a necromancer.
This doesn't look anything like my fight in the game, It had more running away,taking pot shots and desperately trying not to die.
Trailer!Hawke: Embraces destiny, does not show fear, engages the Arishok in melee
Game!Hawke: Screams hysterically for their mabari to come back while chugging health potions and hiding behind pillars.
LOL
Creepy Ostrich i feel like im the only mage Hawke that ran up to the Arishok and beat him to death with my staff. It wasnt easy But i atill did it xD
Me too lmao
Not all of us play on lowest difficulty.Cause thats the only way to do it without cheats or mods.
We didn't know how good we had it.
Now this is what a true Battlemage looks like in combat! Outstanding character design, combat ability and magical prowess...
Whose idea was it to show a mage Hawke killing the Arishok this way ? I think every mages won this fight by outrunning the thing
Haha, yeah pretty much. I just remember having to run about an cast spells before he charged me. Kinda tedious, especially in hard mode .-.
+Alice Legacy haha, yeah it could be a bit dodgy if you were a support mage. I remember beating him pretty easily with a couple builds; one was a Force specialist fire mage, basically a nuke fight, and I remember the Spirit being good, the static cage or w/e it was could lock him up and you could punish him pretty good.
i fight him head-on and im a mage. He's hard but not too hard
+Konata Carter I tried to play da2 as rogue and didn't go well...I choose mage and everything went to easy....same thing happened on da inquisition
Daniel Evangelista Being a mage was always the best in all Dragon Age games. Im a huge mage fan so i dont mind. Though, i rather be a Battlemage.
A lot of people hated DA 2... however, I LOVED it. I love all the DA games.
+darkpitofdoom2 DA2 was a shite fest compared to the original. DA3 AKA DA;I is just an open world version of DA2..Bioware has lost their edge and will never recover. CD Projekt RED destroyed Bioware wth TW3 and they have a smaller team
Awesome. I dont care.
Logan Venegas Have you [played it?
+darkpitofdoom2 I disliked Inquisition. But DA 2 is a good game.
+darkpitofdoom2 same here even though DA2 lacked a bit, its a fun experience lol once i beat it as a rogue, im gonna use the mage for the REAL story lol
I love Dragon Age 2. Including how the Mages fight with their Staves, it's almost like a combination of Staff play combined with spell casting in a continuous movement sequence. I think other video games should try that method of game play with Mages, definitely stands out in my opinion.
Staff play 😂
Still the most stylish magic combat I've seen
Imagine how epic this game could have been if it had been given more time in development.
come to think of it...this trailer spoiled the whole act 2 for DA2 lol
Mark Imon true sadly you can't get the armor until act 3
@@rexruther3096 ikr.
come on you REALLY didn't see the Arishok going on a killing spree on the city he CLEARLY hated?
Seeing Veilguard Reviews
Comes back to this: Perhaps I treated you too harshly.
When the quarantine has you replaying the ENTIRE series
A fellow jimin stan who also plays dragon age?! Where have you been all my life?! Lol
Like we needed an excuse.
lol i just did that....with the same old choices again..
I'm gonna do this when I get the new Xbox
Let's be real, you were prolly gonna do it anyway.
If only we knew 14 years ago what would happen to this series of games...
It is insane how modern dragon age makes dragon age 2 look like a masterpiece
Who's here to see how a real Qunari looks like?
As should have been
and yet this fight in game is more of a benny hill sketch
You sir, are sadly right.
kojbo Yakkity sax play in your head too?
kojbo This fight was the moment i changed game from normal to easy mode.. xD
+kojbo not if you go shield and sword warr
+Kole Tijanic I had to keep running around in circles xD
2024 We gather again to mourn what was lost
Fr. Came back to watch this amazing trailer after seeing the new one 😭
We know why you are here lol
💀
We somehow went from this, to a fricking mobile game trailer in 2024
Needed a pallet cleanser....
Why? Just, why?
I'm glad I'm not the only one
came here after watching the veilguard trailer. Garrett hawke you will be missed
Its almost unbelievable that they are the same series huh.
@@jthoppins4990 Not to me it isn't!
It’s 2023 and this trailer still holds up.
Maybe I treated you too harshly DA2
Perhaps we judged you too harshly.....
DA4: no blood magic
DA2: main character uses blood magic in the trailer
The Arishok is the embodiment of what it truly means to be Qunari. The Qunari now are so weird looking and weak. They must answer to the Qun.
Hands down my favorite character in DA2.
came here to refresh my eyes after veil guard trailer
same here
We know why you’re here Champion, there’s nothing to be ashamed of. We all dream of the long-passed good time.
I just teared up rewatching this. After playing veilguard for 1 hr I really needed some old dragon age content to calm my self down for being so upset and disappointed
Everyone in the commets is discussing whether Hawke was a blood mage in this trailer or not and I'm just sitting here wondering if I was the only person who played as a reaver.
+Isaiah Stephens nope :D I played it too as Reaver :D
+Isaiah Stephens Holy crap, THE MORE I KNOW!!!!!!!
+Isaiah Stephens Reaver-female))
+Isaiah Stephens but in the trailer he clearly summoned a demon (well, his hands). also, trailer hawke is a mage and thus can't be a reaver. even though reavers are so cool *.*
King Calenhad was the first reaver so it was fitting that my warden-queen follow his tradition.
We were too harsh on you...
Aha
This trailer is the best one yet but the game itself had a lot of problems.
@@poakcastle
Still didn't deserve all the hate
@@poakcastle compared to what we got now, this game looks beautiful
@@istiaqmasudniloy837 was gonna say the same. Wtf is veilguard even bring back the ogs
This trailer is misleading. It should've had Hawke running around taking shots at the Arishok and making sharp turns.
And using health potions every 5 seconds
Seriously, everyone had problems with this fight. My tank hawke just went one on one with the arishok... in a really long battle because he did like 0 damage.
Haha, mage Hawke can't duel the Arishok directly.
Who is here after Dragon Age: Veilguard trailer?
Came straight to it 😂
Watched the dragon age origins trailer first and then this one right after 😅
😬
14 years later: Fricking Disney trailer
i think all the dragon age games were good in my opinion
DAO was a VERY GOOD game, while DA2 just good. I think that's the problem, the second game was inferior to its ancestor in some ways. But DAI is definitely VERY FUCKING GOOD, and I've played ALL the games without regrets. ;D
+Suicide Malkavian I've always loved Dragon Age: Origins. Dragon Age 2 I thought was quite restricted (maybe not so many locations?) I don't know about DA:I... but I've heard it's good.
Ulfric Ruthgardsson Yep, I agree about Dragon Age 2. While you have many locations in Origins, the maps of DA2 always look the same, and you're just allowed to visit other places than Kirkwall to do quests/sidequests. It could have been an extremely good game, but it wasn't so because of EA and BioWare laziness and eagerness to get money. That was very disappointing =/ About DA: I, you should REALLY play it if you have the chance. Last week I played it again, and there's always something I didn't before, or that I haven't seen in the others gameplays. It's an amazing experience and have everything we love about this game franchise: incredible characters with incredible stories, tons of quests and sidequests, very cool looking skills, romance, and the best fights against dragons and giants EVER. (Sorry for the very long comment, I'm just such a dumb Dragon Age enthusiat, rly)
+Suicide Malkavian Nothing wrong about admiring games, especially if it's Dragon Age.
Also, I don't think it's purely out of EA and Bioware laziness that DA:2 wasn't as good as the others. Knowing EA, they probably pressured Bioware to release the game early, making things half-assed.
The games are all good but DA 2 is deffo at the bottom of the pile for alot of people including me.
I came here to detox my conscience from the atrocity called Veilguard...
Welcome brother here have a drink, Isabela can give you a massage in the meantime, welcome back to the hanged man
Don't mind me, I'm just here to sanitize my eyes after watching the Veilguard trailer.
sanitization complete praise the maker
let me join you
Came here for the same reason.
lol me too. this trailer is how you hype a game.
Same here from France 😂😂
I guess we treated you too harshly
Man. They were able to pull this game off in 1 year….
Well...much time has passed since DA2 was released as well as Inquisition. So many people were down on DA2. I, however, really really really liked it. The story was very compelling and enjoyable and the fighting action was much more polished and fun than origins. True there were a few weak points, but this does not ruin what in my opinion is otherwise a stellar gaming experience! I thoroughly enjoyed inquisition as well, but the story is not as good as DA2. Loved Origins, of course!
Fighting was dumbed down, it just looked cooler. Lots of improvements from awakening missing but true the story is much, much more intriguing.
@@Poroner it became more hack and slash which isnt a bad thing in my opinion
Yea plus the whole using the same location like twenty times for quests.
I'm here to cleanse my soul after watching the latest trailer
Who else came here after the Veilguard trailer, to remind themself of a time when Dragon Age trailers were awesome?
I came here today...to see what we lost....good bye Dragon Age.
Am I the only one who replayed this 100 times?
Maybe 100 time yes but I've replayed it 99 times
Yes. It's a good game, with a good plot. The problem I had with it was the esthetics and certain quest that was scipted strange. Look at this trailer and the concept art for the geme, they are so interesting.
I've replayed it 101 times and counting
Seby RO OVER 9000
This game was dogshit no
I loved this trailer, and loved this game! I don't care what other people thought of it haha
your good people. im sick of Origins fans trashing this game cause it wasnt origins
***** OK so you had actual points. good for you. I personally thought it was a great game but you are entitled to your opinion. to be honest i liked the characters, voice acting, and combat styles. i loved the plot. and while a lot of your choices didn't have a huge impact it made more sense. you werent building an army to save the world like in DA:O and DA:I. you were just man trying to take care of his family and make a name for himself. i didnt think any character looked cartoonish except fenris. i thought it was a huge improvement in graphics. the only flaw i found in the game was the lack of maps and detail to the maps. but thats what you get when your publisher is EA and the rush the deadline
***** DA:I was one of the best games i have ever played. And the mage templar war was something i wanted to see since origins. To me only act 1 of DA2 was boring and thats because there was no plot to it except get money. Anders was one of my favorite characters and i loved merril and varrics voice was far from boring.
***** whatever man. The games are fun. DA:I was fantastically done. It had a great plot and great characters and one hell of a plot twist during the epilogue
***** your issue is that you focus too much on the books. the books are based on the games. so that means they don't matter. if the game says something different then that makes the books wrong. and the games dont give a clear picture of who to side with. most of the templars you meet are good people who fear mages a little to much. you also meet a lot of bad mages in DA2 and DA:I. the games present both sides on equal moral footing. bioware made a game that appeals to masses. they dont care what every individual fan wants, they make games that will make the most people happy. and as for the herald of andraste part, the inquisition is a religious order. what did you expect. and your character can either embrace the title or tell everyone he/she isnt holy. it adds a aspect that defines how your character feels about the power and title he/she was given. The entire story was great. it was dramatic, it had its wtf moments, and great cinematics. i almost cried when i had to choose whether to sacrifice hawke or stroud and when i thought flemath was going to steal marrigons son. the story was emotional. And as for the characters. Blackwall was awesome. iron bull was awesome. cassandra was awesome. Dorian and Varric were hilarious. Cole was weird sure, but he was an entertaining character who you were never quite sure what he was. Sera was the only character i didnt like but ive met many people who did. get over yourself and except it was a good game and was well done, but it just wasn't a game for you. if it was a shitty game then it wouldnt have won GOTY
Hawk is really cool storytelling character. In my heart forever ❤😭
If Mage Hawke had warrior skills in this vid (Pommel Strike and Might Blow) he would do Stagger and Brittle combos all day by himself for massive damage.
Just like how magi in Origins can combine spells on their own. Great.
+Hermit Crab mage --> mages
magus --> magi
+Hermit Crab i wish they couldve done that class combo, at least for the default Hawke
I still dont get why people say this is a bad game. Its not, I mean it pales in comparison to origins but most games do. Dragon age 2 is a good game to me and definitely more entertaining then most games these days. I think its a solid 8/10: it has a good story/characters, better paced combat then origins but less strategic, and has a better leveling up system, but has less replay value because of the choices that are less about morals but personal belief.
i give it 5/10 at most
average game
People also seem to forget it was made in 16 months, which game wise is a very very short time period.
@@song1of1fire1 And for a 16 month game, it isn't that bad.
It's a very average *game* and its underdeveloped - however, I personally couldnt care less about its gameplay, I only play Bioware games for the story and characters (also romances obviously). So while its a very average game, its an awesome story regardless.
@@song1of1fire1 A year in a half made if I'm not mistaken.
Going back and watching all the old trailers, remembering what once was.
Everyone's here after the Veilguard, I have a slow PC so I'm here after replaying DA2
This is literally still the greatest game trailer
after all these years, Hawke's still my favorite DA main character💪👌👊
Look at the friggin bad ass Qunari, how brutal, how ruthless.
Now look at them in Veilguard..... SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
@nemnymeria7873 yeah the army he slaughter to get too the top.
I love dragon age 2 wasn’t what I ever expected but I still liked it and words cannot describe how hyped I was when I watched this trailer. I always main as a mage and this trailer just pumped me up! !! Mind blast, blood magic bladed staff . Still so cool one of my most fav dragon age trailers
Who's here after the disgraceful Veilguard release?
Showing friends the trailers for the first few games, how they had the consistent blood-spray-on-white motif, a metal soundtrack and consistent themes of heroism.... And the swift decline into absurdity thereafter.
They had it right with the quanari design in this game.
When this trailer came out, they were still releasing DLCs for Dragon Age 1! :P
one of the best trailers ever made, but for a game that could and should have been better
I honestly wish game Hawke looked like the one in the trailer. Ah well.
He does for the most part.
+DrekkiHawke I think he looks very much the same in the trailer as he does the actual game, I'm just salty that fem!Hawke isn't as cool.
+DrekkiHawke I know right? He looked totally hot here and in the game he is...slightly less hot though not terrible looking. I wonder why they made Marian so gorgeous compared to him.
SammyLovesPudding I honestly find Marian less appealing than Garrett so xD
+DrekkiHawke To each their own I suppose :)
Even Dragon age 2 trailer was 1000 times better that you know what
God they just dont make them like this anymore. The good old days
Fact: You were not recommended this. You actively searched it out to palate cleanse after watching the Veilguard trailer.
literally this
Minute of silence after the Dragon Fortnite trailer
Came here after seeing the latest trailer and damn, DA 1 and DA 2 trailer had this amazing gritty rock chanting riff towards the end.
Its even better compared to new dragon age 4 trailer
after playing through all three games multiple times I think 2 has the best story and companions. Gameplay elements are lacking but the story just kills it for me.
Perhaps I have treated it you too harshly 😢
(THIS is a Qunari. Not that Veilguard doll...)
2024 and this 13 year old trailer looks better than the new one 😂
trailer hawke: badass fight sequence with using only his staff as a spear and summoning a fade creature with blood from his wounds
actual hawke: betting that the arishok will become too dizzy to fight as he runs around a pillar while chugging lyrium potions
The strategy works though, and Hawke has pretty powerful lungs from all the running around Kirkwall. He can play "catch me if you can" with Arishok all day long :)
Just finished replaying DAO and DA2 in preparation for DA3...
Is it just me or did Hawke go from a warrior to a mage, then a BLOOD MAGE in this trailer? Wut?!
Is that the default Hawke in DA3? A blood mage who romanced Isabela? It's a wonder he didn't die from all the STD he got...
From the trailers, there is a Lady Hawke who is a mage, with a male human Warden.
I just finished DA2 yesterday in preparation, I don't know about others, but DA2 is one of my favourite games, of all time.
Reavers are capable of blood magic too dude.
Oh. That makes more sense I guess aahaa.
Hahaha I cracked up at STD. But seriously tho why does Isabela look like THAT in trailers!? WHERE IS MY FEISTY TEMPTRESS/DUSTY QUEEN!?
This trailer was released before they finalized her appearance.
Never played Dragon Age, but this looks way cooler what we got today . How are we going backwards ?!
2024: Look how they massacred our boi
I so wish they made a f!Hawke version of this.
Yeah, that'd be awesome.
I was with this face:
:c
When i saw male Hawke and not Female one, she's so op
@@barbara457890 well she does have the same voice actor as Ciri from The Witcher 3 who is known as The Lady Of Space And Time
THE META knew Female Hawke's voice actress was familiar
Jo Wyatt is the BEST
This is the trailer that made me fall in love with this game
yeaaa :3 It's quite nice that, even these days.. This trailer is still quite badass :'D And could probably easily compete with some new trailers :'D
Coming here to cleanse my eyes after Veilguard
Oberyn vs The Mountain
Nowhere close.
Shit, Hawke isn't wearing a helmet. o.o
Mort Onmaz Must be disabled in the options. :D
The mage still has his teeth... For that matter.... His head
@@Dazen101 yeah the Arishok could actually fight and would have won if Hawke didn't use magic
hawke is the most badass character in the dragon age universe.
Less than two years of development and this looks much better than The Failguard, this game is not perfect but at least it mantains the dark tone of Origins and the Qunari were at their peak in this game look and lore wise, also the Arishok was a fucking menace, what a great villain he was.
This game only needed one or two years more and could have been perfect, definitely deserves a proper remake by a studio who really knows how to make videogames for gamers, give this unpolished gem to Larian Studios.
just here to see from how high we have fallen... so sad
Coming back to this after watching the Veilguard trailer...I didn't become Champion of Kirkwall for....whatever Veilguard is
Just popping in to remember how good Qunari had it before blue genie forehead Mcgee came on scene
idc about the sloppy gameplay, this is still one my favorite games ever
now that's dragon age
This is a Qunari
6 years later and this trailer is STILL badass. It's such a damn shame that DA II suffered from rushed development, otherwise it would've been that much better.
The best thing about DA2 is this trailer.
From this to fucking Veilguard?
WTF?
In this trailer Hawke is shown using BLood Magic yet in Inquisition he keeps talking about it like it's the child of Satan. Bioware forgot its own lore?
pateuvasiliu I just imagine him winking at Varric every time he says something like that.
pateuvasiliu He doesn't use Blood Magic though, when he rips the Arishok apart, he is using the ability 'Crushing Prison'
Seppe Sorbello I think he used blood magic indeed. First of all, he put blood on his nose, as some kind of ritual, there would be no other explanation for this. And near the end, he seems to run out of mana, so he put his hand on a bruise and took some energy from there (blood) to perform the last spell. Crushing prision or not, he used blood to cast it.
Geary Lmao.
Cássio Martins Actually, when he touches the symbol on his arm, it puts him in a trance-like state, gaining power from his mind, hence the flashback of events, secondly, he only puts blood on his face to prove to the Arishok he is an equal warrior. Also, the spell he casts is called 'Crushing Prison', a spell in the Arcane Tree.
This game needs a remake
How did we get from this... to veilguard that looks like a a paw patrol video game...
I miss the old days!
I finally got around to beating the Origins DLCs and started playing this. I'm actually enjoying it a lot as mage Hawke! I guess the reviews scared me away, but I didn't really mind the game's flaws now that the hype has died down six years later
Hawke had peak armor design! I always loved dragon ages armor, and I'll give credit to the new one on that front, most of the armor still looks good. Just gotta turn your brain off to enjoy it first.
Who came back here after the Dragon Age 2024 trailer that looked like a corperate disney comercial for a mobile game?
Now THIS is a dragon age trailer, this right here
Perhaps I've been to hard on you.
We weren't, our standards just fell.
@@riches3581 um no. Dragon Age 2 is amazing period. Loved it back then, still love it too bits now. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean nobody does at all or that there aren't those that do enjoy it for what it is.
Arishok duel in the trailer-
Epic fight to the death!
Arishok duel in game-
Arishok: "Why are you running? WHY ARE YOU RUNNING!?"
I love this game. Don't care what other people think.
same, comleted it with every class