dragon age 2 has bad gameplay mechanics (no friendly fire unless on nightmare and nightmare was too hard to do, camera) and serious repetitivness in dungeons (seriously why go back to ME1?), that much is true, but as far as the story, characters, world, graphics and sounds go, I think it was comparable to Origins, overall not a bad game if you don't compare it only to the top of the top like DA1 or BG2, but compare to other newer RPGs as well...also, they could have spend more time creating it, it got released way too early, and I second the "all EA's fault" which bloodmoney92 wrote...