It’s like being back in Baldur’s Gate except with today’s tech.
If you liked Baldur’s Gate and don’t have Dragon Age I’m not saying you’re a bad person…but I’m not saying you’re not.
I mean seriously, if you’re into RPGs then this is a no brainer.
lolz
"I'm the cock of the walk." Another Sean Connery joke.
So....Who's going to remake DA with the elemental engine?
Wow. I have been enjoying the game (albeit slowly) with a few exceptions....
...but I just finished the Sloth Demon part and I must say that I am impressed. What I thought was going to be a little side quest ended up being an involved and fleshed out time sink. I was enthralled and, I must say, a little disappointed when it ended.
Very much looking forward to the next corner...
Ah, yes, the Sloth Demon ... hmmm ...
SPOILER ALERT
First of all it takes place in The Fade, which is the dream world that happens when you eat dill pickles and ice cream late at night; or consume strange mushrooms. The Fade happens to look very much like the third from last mission in Guild Wars Nightfall outside the Gate of Pain. Looks like they were heavily inspired by that art even if it was not a direct copy.
I really hated that GW mission, so already I got a bad attitude. So, I runs around killing little mobs until I comes to the Sloth dude, who I figure is the bad guy, but it turns out he ain't. Now no real spoiler from me, just advice: You really got to get what this Sloth dude has to give you. There is a hard way and an easy way. The easy way you can find with Google, and then the rest is just a simple boss takedown.
AND ONWARD
Quite a ways onward. Yes, this is a brilliant game. Even though I got a bad first impression, it is growing on me slowly, sort of like mildew on damp underwear in a hamper. Graphics, really good for a cross platform game; otherwise the graphics are sort of not what they could have been. Sound and Music, excellent, very very good. Voice acting, very very good. RPG technology, very very good. Gameplay ... I ought to finish the game to comment. My main problem with gameplay is that so far my character just doesn't "feel" good in combat. Very subjective, I know.
How DaO handles parties, rez for dead party members, party combat ... well, IMHO WoW and Guild Wars are vastly superior. My gut level feeling is that this is a RPG with the emphasis on interpersonal role playing. Combat and party mechanics seem to be cumbersome and have sort of a "tacked on" feeling.
Well, I will press onward; but for now the question I am always asking as I play DaO is "how is this game better than Guild Wars Nightfall," which it so greatly resembles in its storyline.
too much fun... been playing the crap out of this and I still have a long way to go.
I only get to play a few hours a week so I'm now just over 50 hours in game. I've only completed the first of the 4 main quest branches and halfway on the 2nd. Have done a ton of sidequests and missions though. I'm about to go to level 14. I'm pretty sure I'll have well over 75 hours into this game. I need to finish up by Christmas as I'm getting Fallout 3 GOTY and that will suck up another 150 hours of my life. LOL
I have really enjoyed this game so far. Graphics are very nice for this style of RPG, dialogue is done well which is impressive in any game... the story is... okay, as games goes it is good enough. The combat is getting more interesting as my characters level up and I have more options for strategy.
One minor... sometimes major quibble I have is that I can't skip through lines of spoken dialogue and read the subtitles of it without having to hear every word spoken... this is annoying. The voices are done well enough that I have no problem listening to the important conversations but not every single person I come across is worth sitting there and listening them speak... why not let me quickly skip the voice and read the subtitles like most RPGs have always done...? WHY?!!
Well, if you don't want to actually listen to the entire conversation and only want to get to the last bit of information they share before your dialog option shows up you can just keep hitting ESC to bypass each scene of their talk. After a moment their last line of dialogue will display t the top of the screen.
Useful if you reload and need to talk to an NPC again.. you can just ESC through and pick the dialogue options you want. Also good for talking to merchants. As soon as dialogue starts you can ESC to the "Show me your wares" option without listening to their canned greeting for the nth time.
That it is. I typically take both Morrigan and Wynn along (I play a rogue) and I've had Morrigan specialize in lightning and cold spells while Wynn does healing and nature/earth type spells. Here is a good crowd control combination. Note I have the game autopause when combat starts so I can access the situation.
Put a hold on the party so they don't move anywhere. Move Alister and myself to more flanking positions for the guys coming in.
Have Wynn cast Earthquake on the crowd. It's almost instant and stuns anyone that doesn't pass their check and keeps stunning them.
Have Morrigan cast Tempest in the same area. This is a lightning storm that lasts about as long as earthquake does. It takes a few seconds to get it cast though so if there are archers or mages that can hit her pull out the bows and hit them first or have Wynn hit them the mage with the Rock Fist to knock them down .
Now you have Earthquake causing most to be stunned and then a Tempest on top of them causing continuous damage. Those that do make it out Alister and myself and square up against and they usually are down to half health. Meanwhile have Morrigan stun anything coming out and have Wynn pick off guys still in the spell area, in particular any archers.
Once the spells wear off a lot of the crowd that was caught will already be dead and those that didn't will be hurt pretty badly.
I really love all the options and tactics in this game.
this game was so boring, I couldnt get past the tutorial, hence why you like it Anny
i'd be playing it now myself if EA didn't have to eff up the activation system with regards to the digital download versions.
BLASPHEMER!
It seems rather boring tbh. Generic.
Convince me.
*stabs Lifekatana with a shield*
The story is good, the voice actors are downright amazing, but combat is so-so at most. Still very much worht buying IMO.
See, now I though the combat was a step up from previous cRPGs while the story and character interactions were a step back. Aside from Alister, Sten and Shale, none of the characters really stood out as being very interesting to me. Morrigan and Lileana got ejected from the party in record time (Morrigan disapproves -10). Wynne was uninteresting, but more or less required to survive difficult fights. Didn't use the Elf, and didn't get the Dorf until the game was almost over. I'll probably play through it again sometime, doing the main quests in the opposite order to try out the other characters.
Also, while it's nice they got rid of the sliding scale morality they forgot to provide any sort of consequences for most actions; beyond losing influence with certain party members if they were present during the choice. That whole sequence of events with the election in Orgrimar? Makes no difference whatsoever beyond a minor blurb in the ending. The Elves and Werewolves? Same thing.
The story seems the weak point.
As a player of the Baldurs Gate series since release I have to say Dragon Age is a fun adventure, but that's it. The story is very weak, and dull. The cut scenes are way to often and annoying...even to just interact with a shop I have to be greated with a quick one...sheesh!
Also the character skills and classes are VERY VERY boring and simular. They give very little diveristy compared to BGII.
The best thing Dragon Age has done, was tempted me to reinstall BGII
I'll get it when price goes down; not all of use can get up and get every new game when it comes out.
I really don't understand why they thought the minor benefits from specializations were as good as having full classes in the game. 4 skill points are barely a footnote on how your character plays overall. That and mages in DA are Mage/Druid/Cleric multiclasses with no drawbacks.
And why did you even uninistall BG2, heathen? I've played through that game a dozen time, and each time is still more satisfying than any modern RPG.
Finally finished my first playthru, I don't have all that much time to play. Took me around 100 hours, did most sidequests but not all of them. Got up to level 23 (cap is 25) so the final battle was a bit disappointing as it seemed a bit easy. I was on normal level though.
Overall though this is one of the best games I've ever played, ever. And I'm talking about nearly 30 yrs of gaming including the Baulder's Gate classics.
I've already been thinking about my next playthru and what different character I'll play and different party combinations but I think I'll hold off since I'm getting Fallout 3 GOTY for Xmas and my wife it trying to get me into DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online...it's FREE). So I may wait until Summer for my next playthru.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:
Sign in or Create Account
