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Dragon Age: Origins

 

Dragon Age: Origins

KYA

5 Nov, 2009 - 11:07 AM
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Anyone else playing?

I'm a human noble warrior. So far, I'm really enjoying it!

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5 Nov, 2009 - 01:05 PM
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Been looking forward to it for a while, unfortunately it came out right at midterm/paper time so I am waiting to buy it til December. Is it living up to the hype? I've already made my char on the character creator though, human noble warrior as well wink2.gif
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6 Nov, 2009 - 02:11 AM
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Haven't got this yet, although it looks very cool.
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6 Nov, 2009 - 09:25 AM
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Rooster teeth found a way to cheat.

But In related news: It looks awesome, though I may not get until christmas, or until I can buy it myself.
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6 Nov, 2009 - 12:29 PM
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Damn it this game is hard. I need a healer!
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6 Nov, 2009 - 12:50 PM
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Will get this when its released in UK on 20th November, looks incredible!
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7 Nov, 2009 - 09:43 AM
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QUOTE(stayscrisp @ 6 Nov, 2009 - 09:50 PM) *

Will get this when its released in UK on 20th November, looks incredible!


It's released in the UK...
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7 Nov, 2009 - 12:22 PM
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I just rented it, will be playing it through the week. Will let you know how it goes. smile.gif
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8 Nov, 2009 - 01:31 PM
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Ok, so far I am liking the game but have three main gripes about it....

1) The whole "pick your adventure" monologue is kinda cool at first but after every two sentences from other characters, it can get annoying really fast. I think they could have done it with a little bit less.
2) The skills that they let you do is a bit limited. I am a warrior and unless I want to duel wield, half the skills will be useless to me. So now I am struggling just to find skills to put points in.
3) I have always liked the open world concept like in Oblivion, but at times this game is a bit more confined I find.

Nice game thought and I like being able to select different party members. The fight scenes are pretty cool and even though the PS3 graphics are a bit less than the computer version, it is not too bad. The gameplay is still pretty fun. If I was to choose this or Oblivion, I would still go Oblivion though. Only downside of Oblivion is the stupid glitch when you get at really high levels (PS3 bug that they seem to have not fixed yet that I am aware of).

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8 Nov, 2009 - 01:45 PM
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Anyone else annoyed at the stupid AI of your party members? Even with "tactics", I still have to micromanage.
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16 Nov, 2009 - 05:34 PM
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QUOTE(KYA @ 8 Nov, 2009 - 01:45 PM) *

Anyone else annoyed at the stupid AI of your party members? Even with "tactics", I still have to micromanage.


God yes. I micromanage everything. In one particular mission you have a fire barricade set up with enemies charging you. Well, my people who weren't doing long range attacks kept charging into the fire! I had to stand back and pay close attention to their locations, take control and manually run them away from the flames about every 10-15 seconds. My only other big gripe for the game is the difficulty is poorly balanced. You'll go from cruising along to a damn near impossible encounter instantly. I can't imagine how this game would be on the hard difficulty setting. Right now I'm on a solo mission with my warrior that goes on forever and no way to get more healing items. I'm doing allright on easy, but have been eating healing items like candy when I get confronted by mages (my character is a sword and shield tank... didn't bother to give him any ranged skill).
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17 Nov, 2009 - 07:03 AM
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I was looking into getting it on 360, but read some reviews that said it's 10 times better on a PC.

Probably won't get around to this game until later now that Modern Warfare 2 and Assassins Creed 2 are out.
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17 Nov, 2009 - 07:57 AM
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I can't imagine doing this on a console due to the micromanaging I've had to do (although I guess it's easier on consoles to make up for it). My roommate has it for 360. The game is pretty awesome. I don't regret the purchase except that it will likely cause me to fail all of my classes.
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18 Nov, 2009 - 02:33 PM
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I would suggest that if you have the option to buy it for PC, then do so. I've played both the console versions and the PC version and I think the PC version is much better.

Complaints:
I find it hard for me to play this game for extended periods of time. After about 2 hours, I'm done. I think they could have done a lot more with the class skills. It just doesn't seem like my human rogue has very much at his disposal. Granted I'm not that far into the game right now, but still. Also, I haven't found much use for the stealth skill.

Praises:
The story line is great, cutscenes are intense, character relationships are fun, a lot of micromanagement is requried at hard difficulty(I love RTS games) which makes battles intense, and choose your own path gives it a lot of replayability.

So overall... i think it is worth playing through atleast once.
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