[quote name='icebeast']Man DA2 is crazy, it feels so weird coming directly from the first game where the game loaded basically everything in the most awkward way possible. For instance, auto-saving where you couldn't move for 5 seconds, or just looting... why did it take 1-2 seconds to open the looting menu? Not to mention opening either the options menu or in-game menu took 2-3 seconds.
Now everything basically happens when you press the button, like looting now seems almost instant, the menus now opens in less than 1 second, and auto-saving no longer forces the game to lock up for the first 5 seconds.
I'm enjoying the story so far as well, although I'm not all that far into it yet. I think having it told as a story is an interesting approach and allows them to cover much more time than the first game. I'm enjoying combat just as much as the original, but we'll see how I feel about the gameplay after I've experienced the heavily reused environments (although to be honest I like Oblivion, and there really wasn't that much variety in that game either; there were a lot of very similar caves in that game).[/QUOTE]
Yeah, on a technical level, the game felt like a huge improvement. And as far as the story goes, I think you'll continue to like it since it's pretty character-focused. The reused environments didn't bother me, but I know that's a pretty common complaint for a lot of other people.