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I heard it was pretty good. I'll take a look.

Yeah. If I used my PC more often, I'd definitely get all my games for it. Ah well.
Will it be on PS3, do you know?

I know, I actually pointed all these things to someone who was telling me to go get the witcher 2 asap...
But seriously, I'm not sure we see dark the same way.
About the choices too.
Hard to explain, I connect with the characters in the witcher 2 more than those in DA 2, but still, not as much as those from DA:O
Being mature do not mean not to be happy and to know when to party and have fun and just raise hell, it's more about knowing when to.
Anyway, I'm really sucked into The witcher 2.
And how to say about the descision and choice?
They carry more weight,
They have more of a follow trough, as in, I feel often DA 2 give you so few choices that really change something, and that hawke seems to have forgotten right after since it was a sidequest or something, where sidequests descisions in the witcher 2 just always seems to remain with you.
I'm not sure why, I just feel like DA2 was incredibly outdone.

They both are pc RPGs style.
They oth are sequels.
The first witcher was not the best game ever, was very flawed.
The first dragon age was a real gem
the characters did make DA:O in a big way too, they felt really bigger than life, so real.

Then came DA2. Expected a real wonder. Got a good game, but that I hd so overhyped and that with the third announced and the ending already feels like it was just there to fills a gap for the third.
Characters are alright, but somehow far from as deep as in origins.
The sytem is simplified to a ridiculous point.
Hawke DOES react, but the people around do not really react differently...so...I see no one in the street pretending they are the champions or running away...
To me the expectations were mighty high for DA 2. And i really mean high.

Then The witcher 2 came with most people (me included) not expecting much and it literally knock me flat on my a**.
Every details is important. While the fighting system is different, outside of it is very alike.
You ever read what is considered by most one of the best depiction of medieval time The pillar of the earth by Ken Follet?
I have more a feeling to be in that age, I'm more immersed.
Characters surprises me at time.
The way the story unfold is simply splendid.
I find the characters to make me react more than the ones from DA2.
I think that darker to me is more the ambiance, the setting, and also how they portrayed the middle age. It is not pretty...The butcher is opening his pig outside. They hanged elves just for being elves, they are still in the town square, a reminder of what is going on.
(I mean, lowtown look good for a place to live for a so called midle age place in DA2)

MANY more npcs around, normal villagers living a life and reacting to what you do. By dark I mean literally dark as in:It is why middle age is called the dark age.
The plot is kind of dark as are some of the character, but I think that I misused dark in that aspect.
the "more mature" feel to it, I am not sure. Maybe it is the obvious lack of censorship (I don't just mean nudity or violence, I mean more:That is our idea, we do that) where you feel that DA2 they were censoring themselves or at least very closely monitoring what they were doing
It's not just about language, violence or nudity, anew. It is a general feeling.
The feelings hits me the most when Isabela and Chin lady (hehehe) are in your party. One call the other a slut all the time, the other call her stuck up, they throw a lot of (I'll admit funny) sophomoric jokes that are supposed to be insults. (If you know wrestling, it reminded me of Degeneration X...seruiously. lol)
Yet with all that taking of being a slut, whore, of isabela asking how Aveline feel since she is wed to have her knees slammed against her breasts as she get nailed like an old plank (I think that is word for word) you feel they had to censor themselves with a romance scene, with some more serious topics too. I have a feeling they threw in some swearing, violence and extra blood to cover up. I would have wanted to see more of undertown, to have an option to go do something about or at least interact more.
That what will happens to the people who came from ferelden depends more than about the donation of 2,3 or 4 gold (yes, the choice actually change the situatin of every ferelden, more than th emine. lol)
Why not explore a bit more hawke with the death of his mother? It barely seems like it happened and that anyone noticed.
No kids really.
Kids are always good to pass a message and touch me.
In The Witcher 2 there is kids singing litle songs about killing all the elves, all innocently as if it was normal to them, which really makes you go:Woah! Things are really ******** up.

Lothering looked middle age in DA:O
Kirckwall doesn't.

It might simply be since english is a second language that it came out wrong

Hell, I've written this post in about 10 different times, (talking to peep inbetween typing) so I hope it makes some sense