Free ME2 PC download with DA2Follow

Until April 30th, BioWare is giving away the PC version of ME2 to anyone with a Black Emporium key (and there is some kind of key retrieval for if you lost it). Log into the BioWare site and enter your online pass included in your DA2 box. That will give you a redeem code for ME2 that you can use in their Download Manager (available of their site).

I believe so--it was in mine and I didn't pre-order.

Having never played Dragon Age I cannot compare, however I will say that ME and ME2 have been 2 of my favorite recent games that have been released. Allegory will tell you that he hates it, so different opinions I guess.

Hmm, a free copy of a game I already own. Not seeing an upside for me here. Consider this a plus one.

Edited, Apr 6th 2011 6:43pm by Turin

I'd have to describe it as an RPG Shooter, if anything. And I have to agree with:

Because it is, IMO.

And that's not even seeing how exactly they're going to affect the third game(which comes out later this year).

ME3 is going to be released for the PS3, 360 and PC simultaneously. As such, I doubt ME's decisions are going to have much of an effect, because PS3 users don't have access to a save file--they only got to choose from a few options at the start of the game, which had a prologue of sorts (or something like this).

I'm guessing that whatever the PS3 users chose will affect ME3, and everything else is purely ME2.

Though I'm actually curious about the same thing for DA3. We have a setup so that your actions from 1 and 2 should both be a big impact on 3--it'll be interesting to see what they do with that.

I don't think that there's been an official announcement, but the fanbase on the net is treating it as a foregone conclusion.

Not wishing to spoil it for anyone who hasn't played, but Spoilerthe ending of DA2 where both the Hero and Champion have gone missing, and Leliana gets involved (if you didn't kill her in DA1) implies that there's going to be a 3rd... and there's some major grief happening in the process. Which is making me wonder... what happens if you kill Leliana in the first game? She's a pretty major part of the plot at the end... I might have to bump her off in my new playthrough of DA1...

Also, I completed Awakening last night. What a disappointing ending THAT was.

It doesn't specify a platform restriction, so I assume it would be any one, yes. The ME2 download may be PC only, though. Not sure.

I can't wait until the Black City bit.

Actually, I was SUPER surprised they barely mentioned it at all in DA2. A few references from the darkspawn origin tales, and a few more when talking about Tevinter and the blights, but that was all. Hell, I don't think you could even see it when in the fade...

True, but I'm sure they'll end up adding more lore about the city in time--it can't all be about the Darkspawn. I'm just surprised they didn't even really try in DA2.

Actually, Justice would have been great there. AFAIK, we have yet to see anything to suggest that demons/spirits can reproduce, so there's a good chance they've all been around since the Maker created them (or, perhaps, they form from souls that enter the fade or something, or maybe as those emotions become compressed, etc.) So they could have made justice make some allusion to the Golden/Black city. It would have been interesting, for instance, if he had alluded to the possibility that it was not corrupted by Mages at all.

Because the chantry's version isn't fully solid. Quick chronology via chantry:

1. Maker creates the world and lives in the golden city.
2. Maker abandons the world, because they worship the old gods.
3. Mages find their way into city and corrupt it, and are cast back to the world as darkspawn.
4. The first blight occurs and ravages Tevinter.
5. After/during it, the Maker hears Andraste's song and, at her behest, looks back upon the world.
6. Andraste leads a march against Tevinter and is able to defeat the war-ravaged Imperium.
7. Andraste is burned, and the maker turns away from the world.

That's all well and good, but it is suggested that the maker's return would purify the black city. That possibly creates a big hole in the center of the story, as the city HAD to have been corrupted before he found Andraste. But he didn't find her until after the Blight started. So, assuming that he wasn't residing elsewhere, either Mages are being blamed for something they didn't do or Andraste wasn't the bride of the maker.

Though we have seen that even her ashes are holy, and so it seems fair to assume that she was his chosen (and also possibly a powerful Mage, which would explain how he so easily heard her song).

Thus, either the Maker was in the Black city, or the Mages are innocent. That's assuming he wasn't residing elsewhere, of course. I'm imagining that, since he's said to have turned away from the world and left the city, that he is no longer in the fade (and that he must be there, or in the waking world, to monitor it).

It would be great if Andraste was a Mage--it would really add fuel to the chantry/mage war--both sides would feel like they are the justified ones for the same reasons. :P

Damn, I like the way you think. Someone rate this guy up for me, plz.

Or maybe the Dalish are right and there's a whole mess of 'em.



Why do I get the feeling this is heading for =4?