Can this conceivably live up to the hype? It's a day one purchase for me (which has kept me away from Borderlands and Brutal Legend) and a serious commitment, so here's hoping.
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 October 2009 17:22 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
yeah I'm kind of buying this immediately
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Monday, 26 October 2009 17:24 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
it looks good but will it be DUMBED DOWN FOR CONSOLE
― coz (webinar), Monday, 26 October 2009 18:25 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
fuck console for this IMO
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Monday, 26 October 2009 18:28 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
fuck pc for anything imo
but yeah you're right I fear :*(
― coz (webinar), Monday, 26 October 2009 18:30 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
^_^ yay PC wins
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Monday, 26 October 2009 18:31 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
i'll be playing my (preordered) copy on 360 and while I'm generally of the opinion this'll play better on PC; it'll DEFINITELY look better on my HDTV.We can contrast and compare. The suggestion that this is a more epic less otaku FFXII has me a bit excited.
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 October 2009 18:46 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I'm excited enough for this that I spent an afternoon playing Dragon Age Journeys; and really, if you're willing to waste time on a shitty flash old-school tactical point & click rpg just for some cheesy special items, then you're as big a loser as me.
Will get on PS3 because my Mac is too crappy to make into a dual-boot gaming platform.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 26 October 2009 20:13 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
finished demon's souls just in time for this as planned but couldn't fight the compulsion to start a new game of demon's souls with a different type of character. i am genuinely at a loss for what to do now. i will probably buy DAO next week and then sit at home just staring at the two boxes, paralyzed with indecision. why could one of these assholes released their game in the summer?
― aarrissi-a-roni, Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:55 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
last sentence is an affront to written communication but you get the gist
― aarrissi-a-roni, Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:57 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
i'm a bit aghast that I have this en route on Tuesday and have not yet even started demon souls.Being an active video game hobbyist requires lots of money time and devotion these days.
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 October 2009 16:10 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
holy shit @ everyone's worlds being pushed to pure black all day halloween. pure genius and pure evil.
― aarrissi-a-roni, Friday, 30 October 2009 15:29 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
don't know anything about this. my brother is responsible for modeling the dragon in the ads though. also did the big spider that one of the characters turns into in the longer promotional cinematic.
― circa1916, Friday, 30 October 2009 15:38 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
this game is just gonna be 100 hours of "tis it St Swithin's day already?", right
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 09:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Weird Eurogamer review, where they say it's fatally flawed, then talk about all the things that make it great, then reiterate that it's flawed, then give it 8 our of 10:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/dragon-age-origins-review
― JimD, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 12:07 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
game critic thought process: 80 hours? Okay, B+, 8/10, whatever, I gotta play COD:Terrorist Sim II.
― GM, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:52 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
im kinda more prone to believe bad reviews these days cuz so few people actually give them haha
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 15:03 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I bet videogame developers (who from what I understand generally have metacritic bonuses tied in to their deals) must fucking hate any review site that doesnt use decimals in their reviews.
This game makes me wish I had a decent PC. I really dont think I'd be able to run this game through bootcamp on my one year old imac. =\
― mayor jingleberries, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 17:43 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
metacritic chooses decimals themselves when they dont
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 17:50 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Not with sites that use numbers instead of letters or nothing. It just translates to 80. Its probably just a drop in the bucket of averages, but still.
But yeah Im with u s1ocki. It makes more sense to read the bad reviews these days since most reviewers are lazy or too beholden to the publishers/developers for precious access and give any aaa title a 80+ no matter what.
― mayor jingleberries, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 18:20 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
this is sitting in my mailbox right now and i have work + class until 9pm ;_;
― bnw, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:13 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
just came in the mail; can't imagine I will crack the wrap for at least another month. oh, demonsoulspaws
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:14 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
stfu u ps3 pusher
― bnw, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:15 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
i'm still just a hopper; not entirely sold on the system yet. just that one game.
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
what is this oh __paws crap
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:24 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I'm old here, so what is... 'Oh, Wrinklepaws'?
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:37 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
dot dot dot
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:41 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
oh, nhexpaws
― coz (webinar), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:50 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
don't you have a password to look up, webinar
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:55 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
: (
― coz (webinar), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 20:00 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
i admit i did get a good laugh when i was rifling through my junk mail and finally realized when your username was referring to
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 20:02 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I bought this today. Even got the "Collector's Edition" because I'm a sucker for cloth maps for game worlds. Have not played, but the packaging is very nice. I'd give the packaging a 9.4 out of 10.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 20:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
hmm sounds like a must-buy
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 20:53 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
early part of your review made it sound like an 8.3; i smell a sellout
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 20:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
played an hour last night. immediate thought: my 12-year-old Dungeon Master circa 1990 wrote better dialogue.
― GM, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:09 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Demon's Souls certainly ain't free of groanworthy sub-Tolkien/AD&D malarkey, but at least it doesn't immediately drown you in it.
― GM, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:18 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
isnt malarkey-drowning the point of playing games like this?
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 22:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
The dialogue is cringe-worthy yet apropos; absolute Tolkien-esque schlock. I haven't played Baldur's Gate 1 or 2 in a decade, but I don't remember them as particularly noteworthy in the dialogue realm either. However, this has much better dialogue than Sacred 2.
By the way, if you've seen the intro to the Fellowship of the Ring you've seen the intro to this game.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 02:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
dialog is fine, i don't know what people are expecting. the voice acting is decent so far too. it's a nicely presented game. bashed thru the dwarf commoner origin last night and am enjoying.
― aarrissi-a-roni, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 13:26 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
This armor you can get for mass effect 2 is mighty shitty looking
― mayor jingleberries, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 17:39 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― aarrissi-a-roni, Wednesday, November 4, 2009 7:26 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
^^same on all that. as I always do on rpg's, made a stabby/sneaky thief (female dwarf lol). Only thing that really bugs is her arms are too long so she looks like e.t. :(
― bnw, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 17:58 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Did we all play as dwarves last night?
I played for an hour whilst being drunk so I might have to revisit some of my decisions at some point today.
― mayor jingleberries, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 18:07 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― coz (webinar), Thursday, 5 November 2009 06:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
"Dude, I got so drunk last night I created the UGLIEST character class..."
― antexit, Thursday, 5 November 2009 10:33 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Still can't decide whether I want to play this on PC or 360.
― JimD, Thursday, 5 November 2009 15:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
that girl on the right looks like this face-tattooed homeless lady i see by the train stop some mornings.
― A polar bear you can see in a snowstorm (rockapads), Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:43 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I finally got a chance to play this for multiple hours and got really hooked. I'm an Elf Warrior (city version) because I'm boring like that.
I'm as far as The Joining, which was pretty sweet. Lord of the Rings vibes left and right, not that I'm complaining.
Also, I love how important the taint is in this story. I only managed to grab one screenshot
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
There was one part where Duncan was like "You will learn much more about this in the months ahead..." that kind of snapped me back into the reality of the time I'm going to end up sinking into this.
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:56 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
looool at title change
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:26 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Sorry to post over and over, but how's everyone else doing? I'm guessing that everyone's been sucked in, so that's a sign of good things to come for me..
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:31 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Troof. I kinda dig shale. He is my lead guy to absorb all the damage. Also simple to use and has more character than that dog.
― mayor jingleberries, Monday, 9 November 2009 18:39 (1 week ago) Permalink
i got shale code too but haven't seen him. I executed the assassin who wanted to join my party which was nice.
main party:me/gnat roguemorriganalistair - tank who dies every fightfatty dog - better tank w/ lots of stuns
the harder fights that I have won usually end with fatty tanking and morrigan kiting and the other two dead
― bnw, Monday, 9 November 2009 19:46 (1 week ago) Permalink
alistair is such a useless asshole. i want to jettison him for the oversized murdering immigrant guy from lothering, but i feel like i should keep him in for story purposes.
― aarrissi-a-roni, Monday, 9 November 2009 20:09 (1 week ago) Permalink
that murderer is a dick. nothing I do makes him happy. he just lurks behind me, silently disapproving my every move.
― GM, Monday, 9 November 2009 20:16 (1 week ago) Permalink
i told that guy I don't give a shit about him in camp and gained his approval. I plan on using him my next time through.
― bnw, Monday, 9 November 2009 20:16 (1 week ago) Permalink
I gave the bard/rogue a flower as a gift and got this cool unlock of some abilities because it was her moms fav flower or something like that. Pretty cool. I feel bad after giving away a bunch of shit arbitrarily when I was trying to reduce inventory slots that could have been useful.
― mayor jingleberries, Monday, 9 November 2009 20:19 (1 week ago) Permalink
i dunno if that bard woman even does anything, but i keep her around to open chests. i used her to fool around with poisons for a while but they actually seem kinda crappy, and are somehow not available in the tactics menus.
i got morrigan the bear shape-change spell which was not as awesome as i had hoped.
― aarrissi-a-roni, Monday, 9 November 2009 20:26 (1 week ago) Permalink
i dunno if that bard woman even does anything, but i keep her around to open chests.
so misread this
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 9 November 2009 20:28 (1 week ago) Permalink
So which treaty quest did you guys do first? I went for the elf quest, got stuck in the tombs and headed out someplace new
uh oh. I chose the elf quest, but I haven't started it. Hopefully I won't get my ass handed to me.
I like Alistair, especially for his shield bash skillz, but he always ends up getting beat up on every battle. I equipped some sort of item on him to make enemies stay away from him, and use an item on my main warrior dude character to attract enemies, but still he ends up mad bloody all the time.
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Monday, 9 November 2009 23:51 (1 week ago) Permalink
Im about to go back to the elf mission after gaining a level or two and getting some better gear. Its also possible I got slayed because Im still learning tactics and might have used a bad strategy going on. The learning curve is pretty steep I find.
― mayor jingleberries, Monday, 9 November 2009 23:58 (1 week ago) Permalink
I'm not sure leveling will help, because don't the enemies level along with you? I guess it's more like how badass your equipment is compared to your level. Co
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:04 (1 week ago) Permalink
*slayed by ogre in the middle of sentence*
also helps ability wise
― bnw, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:08 (1 week ago) Permalink
do enemies gain abilities as they level up? Probably not, I guess.
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:10 (1 week ago) Permalink
This game gets 10x easier once you add a healer to your party..
― mayor jingleberries, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:12 (1 week ago) Permalink
Shit, I'm deep into the Elf Quest, cruising along pretty easily, and then a dragon comes out of nowhere. I must be a tactical idiot, because I tried it three times, got him down to 1/4 health once, but otherwise just getting slaughtered.
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 23:55 (1 week ago) Permalink
AARGH!!
Somehow my saves on the PS3 got hosed - I can't load ANY of the 6 saves for my character I put 15 hours into honing into a not quite completely useless rogue.
Dangnabit, tried ditching my settings to see if that would help but no go. All trashed.
Decided to build a dwarf tank. The dwarf commoner origin is pretty fun - liked it better than the human nobleman.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:11 (1 week ago) Permalink
I hit a total brick wall fite last night in 'the gauntlet' :( have to cross like 3 maps in shame to get out now.
― bnw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:35 (1 week ago) Permalink
o shit thats where Im at. theres a shortcut on the mountaintop that will let you shamefully exit faster.
― mayor jingleberries, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:14 (1 week ago) Permalink
I hilariously tried to fight the dragon on the mountaintop and got summarily pimp slapped. I will be back for u, dragon.
― mayor jingleberries, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:21 (1 week ago) Permalink
wait is "the gauntlet" the dwarf treaty quest? Or are you guys past all that nonsense? I'm not sure how to defeat the dragon other than have the mage freeze it repeatedly and have everyone quaff potions over and over again.
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Friday, 13 November 2009 01:18 (1 week ago) Permalink
Man, I'm not even managing to see off the Redcliffe zombies. But I can't quite bring myself to switch the difficulty down to easy.
― JimD, Friday, 13 November 2009 09:47 (1 week ago) Permalink
so like the wildly varying reports of the 360 version piqued my curiousity and I bought it and then I read the manual and Jared Leto's band has a song in it
― MPx4A, Friday, 13 November 2009 14:49 (1 week ago) Permalink
and made you wonder why you waited so long to pick it up?
― aarrissi-a-roni, Friday, 13 November 2009 14:54 (1 week ago) Permalink
i've now come up against 2 fights that i had to retreat from totally and it is killing my gamer ego. i've been doing the side quest with the blood mages in the abandoned house. it took me ages to patiently work through the numerous fights in the house, which felt maybe a level above what my party should've been facing. and then i finally got through to the last room and there's 5 dudes, including an orange boss mage and two yellow guys. the longest i have managed to hang in that fight is maybe a minute. i can take down the two regular dudes and that's as far as i get. i did it over and over for an hour before doing the walk of shame back outta there. morale is low.
― aarrissi-a-roni, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:02 (1 week ago) Permalink
It helps to make tactical changes. I had Wynne use a lyrium potion every time her mana got low and proceeded to steamroll anyone and anything for awhile before I realize I had left it on and used 95% of my potions. But it definitely helps.
― mayor jingleberries, Friday, 13 November 2009 17:40 (1 week ago) Permalink
i have been playing on hard since the start ^_^ but wtf at this gauntlet fight:
***********spolier************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************you fight your own party but they are clearly levels above you and bust out all these abilities that give you no chance. I have tried it like 10 times micromanaging the hell out of it and can only get 1 of the four down before I am dead.
― bnw, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:06 (1 week ago) Permalink
Sometimes normal is a little bit easy for me, but if I had to play this game with friendly fire I would pull my hair out
― mayor jingleberries, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:21 (1 week ago) Permalink
This game is also taking over my life. I have discovered 45% of the map and put in 30 hrs and am already thinking about which character and class I will use when I replay. =\
― mayor jingleberries, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:22 (1 week ago) Permalink
same, i am avoiding the golem dude until run 2. I may give up on hard b/c apparently golem is the best dps and I have no healer :/
― bnw, Friday, 13 November 2009 20:47 (1 week ago) Permalink
I pretty much control the golem 85% of the time
― mayor jingleberries, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:40 (1 week ago) Permalink
Finally got past the Dragon and to the door of the Werewolf Den (99% sure this would be the end of the elf treaty quest), only to get totally asskicked by the Arcane Horror. As in, I can't even touch him. Anyone else done this yet? I've 18 hours in and only 19% of the way through the game. Good lord.
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Sunday, 15 November 2009 20:53 (6 days ago) Permalink
ok no this is actually good, even on threesiddy
― MPx4A, Monday, 16 November 2009 11:01 (5 days ago) Permalink
after the lame sad little american elves origin story the voice acting got pretty good, although everyone talks exactly like Radiohead's guest spot on South Park
whoever made the trailers and came up with all those "Prithee I suggest thou give me a wide berth lest I disembowel thee" character quotes did a pretty good job of making their game seem stupider than it is
― MPx4A, Monday, 16 November 2009 11:04 (5 days ago) Permalink
after playing a bit more i am pretty sure that the difficulty of the enemies doesn't necessarily scale with your level. random encounters definitely scale, but any set main or side quest encounters don't seem to. i ignored the main quest to start with and found myself in a couple of scrapes that were too much for me, then as i got back towards the main quest i found the game got easier, then went back to where i had been stuck before and those parts were surprisingly straightforward all of a sudden. now that i am progressing more on the main quest i have caught up with myself again and notice the difficulty going up again.
i am really enjoying this a lot. some very entertaining set pieces so far. i had all of my core party approving me to the point where they were developing special skills, and then that goddamn douchebag alistair got all pissy at me cos i got that lady to kill her kid and he dropped 32 points back down to neutral. i hate that guy but the story seems to be more about him than my guy so i feel compelled to leave him in, whereas i should actually bring along someone who doesn't die 30 seconds into every fight.
― aarrissi-a-roni, Monday, 16 November 2009 13:42 (5 days ago) Permalink
I think I persuaded him into only hating me -10 points after that, but I got the lady to die to save the kid; also his mother's amulet is in a desk in the refurbished castle straight after you do that bit so you can kind of pre-emptively cancel out his hissy fit by giving him that for +10. Not sure if the third option suggested at that bit (go off to get mages or some shit) is like an actual option you can pursue, it seemed impractical
Also funny that if you leave Redcliff thinking you can come back and do the siege whenever you like it just gets eaten
― MPx4A, Monday, 16 November 2009 13:56 (5 days ago) Permalink
it just docked me the number of points necessary to take him back down to neutral, so because i had given him the amulet before then it was totally wasted.
― aarrissi-a-roni, Monday, 16 November 2009 14:11 (5 days ago) Permalink
Oh, I get it
Some of the Alistair / Morrigan whining shit does just make you want to have the option to shout I HAVE TO DO THIS TO GET FURTHER IN THE FUCKING GAME
― MPx4A, Monday, 16 November 2009 14:19 (5 days ago) Permalink
I just played through the prologue/tutorial piece of this. It's fucking awesome. Can't wait to be an elf or a dwarf.
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 14:21 (5 days ago) Permalink
btw, if anyone is not sure about the dlc, the warden's keep quest is pretty awesome and you get access to some cool stuff. i think everyone gets the free code for the shale dlc in box, but i would've felt stung if i had paid $15 for that.
― aarrissi-a-roni, Monday, 16 November 2009 14:28 (5 days ago) Permalink
I think Im at the end of this just in time for new game Tuesday
― mayor jingleberries, Monday, 16 November 2009 17:26 (5 days ago) Permalink
enemies scale to a certain degree depending on what type. if you really want to rpgeek out ---> http://dragonage.gulbsoft.org/doku.php/
also urgent and key was learning that daggers are currently gimped for rogues so ditch them for dual swords.
― bnw, Monday, 16 November 2009 18:07 (5 days ago) Permalink
Really? That would explain a lot.
― JimD, Monday, 16 November 2009 18:12 (5 days ago) Permalink
yeah they are supposed to be 50/50 b/n your dex and str except the dex part is screwed and gives nothing.
― bnw, Monday, 16 November 2009 18:17 (5 days ago) Permalink
that site is v interesting indeed, thx
― aarrissi-a-roni, Monday, 16 November 2009 19:50 (5 days ago) Permalink
This is gonna be absolutely next on the docket once I can put down Demon's Souls. How do they compare?
― because she looks awesome, like in the face (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:33 (5 days ago) Permalink
This is WAY more inviting than Demon's Souls IMO, although part of that is just because I'm biased towards PC games.
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:50 (5 days ago) Permalink
I'm kind of annoyed because I realized I was supposed to get the dog from that first town. Is it worth throwing a few hours down the drain? I keep getting overwhelmed by huge packs of enemies and my dudes just got slaughtered. I am still in the first little village you go to after meeting what's-her-face.
― Buck Utah (rockapads), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:22 (4 days ago) Permalink
apparently the impractical third option in the Redcliff mother/son choice actually really works, even though it takes ages and the game makes it seem as if you don't have time to leave and go and do loads of other shit
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 12:02 (4 days ago) Permalink
Ok, why the fuck doesn't the AI think that running into a fire trap is a bad idea? Do I have to use a tactic slot for that? IF fire visible, DON'T run into it.
― JimD, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:17 (4 days ago) Permalink