From: Aecioo | #007
Anagram is pretty spot on.
DA2 was so incredibly rushed and I don't know how you can play it and not notice some of the glaring flaws like the stupid respawning enemies and the reused environments =/
I've already said I simply don't care about the reused environments. It has nothing to do with not noticing them. About 95% of the time you were literally going to the same place a couple years later, it's not like they were telling you that it was a new environment and then they just reused the same map. The only exception I can rally think of are a couple of the buildings being designed the same. The respawning enemies is something I never understood the complaint for either... Battles just took place in two or three waves. With the format of critters, normals, elites, and bosses they couldn't just throw everything on screen at once or you'd die in every battle. Nothing really came up out of the blue either. If you start a battle and there is an elite enemy, you know that once you kill the critters and normals, another wave is going to pop up, so you choose whichever enemy to prioritize and you just... do it. It's just a pattern really, and a pattern that is incredibly easy to adjust to. When a group spawns by your mages, you move them. Instead of just planting everyone in a spot and easily avoiding damage for the entire fight.
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