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 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah I'm kind of buying this immediately
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Monday, 26 October 2009 17:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
it looks good but will it be DUMBED DOWN FOR CONSOLE
― coz (webinar), Monday, 26 October 2009 18:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
fuck console for this IMO
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Monday, 26 October 2009 18:28 (10 months ago) Permalink
fuck pc for anything imo
but yeah you're right I fear :*(
― coz (webinar), Monday, 26 October 2009 18:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
^_^ yay PC wins
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Monday, 26 October 2009 18:31 (10 months 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 (10 months 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 (10 months 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 (10 months ago) Permalink
last sentence is an affront to written communication but you get the gist
― aarrissi-a-roni, Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:57 (10 months 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 (10 months 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 (10 months 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 (10 months 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 (10 months 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 (10 months 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 (10 months 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 (10 months 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 (10 months ago) Permalink
metacritic chooses decimals themselves when they dont
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 17:50 (10 months 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 (10 months ago) Permalink
this is sitting in my mailbox right now and i have work + class until 9pm ;_;
― bnw, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:13 (10 months 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 (10 months ago) Permalink
stfu u ps3 pusher
― bnw, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:15 (10 months 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 (10 months ago) Permalink
what is this oh __paws crap
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:24 (10 months 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 (10 months ago) Permalink
dot dot dot
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh, nhexpaws
― coz (webinar), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
don't you have a password to look up, webinar
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:55 (10 months ago) Permalink
: (
― coz (webinar), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 20:00 (10 months 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 (10 months 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 (10 months ago) Permalink
hmm sounds like a must-buy
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 20:53 (10 months 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 (10 months 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 (10 months 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 (10 months ago) Permalink
isnt malarkey-drowning the point of playing games like this?
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 22:21 (10 months 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 (9 months 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 (9 months ago) Permalink
This armor you can get for mass effect 2 is mighty shitty looking
― mayor jingleberries, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 17:39 (9 months 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 (9 months 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 (9 months ago) Permalink
― coz (webinar), Thursday, 5 November 2009 06:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Dude, I got so drunk last night I created the UGLIEST character class..."
― antexit, Thursday, 5 November 2009 10:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
Still can't decide whether I want to play this on PC or 360.
― JimD, Thursday, 5 November 2009 15:46 (9 months 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 (9 months 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 (9 months 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 (9 months ago) Permalink
looool at title change
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:26 (9 months 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 (9 months ago) Permalink
I've only just gotten to the little outpost town just north of the Wilds because I've done nothing but play WoW for the past year.
― struck through in my prime (HI DERE), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
ok well, just between you and me, make sure you walk into redcliffe with alistair, let's just say it's ~interesting~
― goole, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
This is a semi spoiler but not really:
The first time I went into Redcliffe I realized I didnt want to be there just yet, so I bugged out and left the entire town to be overrun by the undead. Woops.
― mayor jingleberries, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:29 (7 months ago) Permalink
i am in my usual rpg turmoil where i have restarted abt six times because i can't stick to one character. At least i've got to do a lot of that origins stuff.
― toastmodernist, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:44 (7 months ago) Permalink
The last time I played this, well I've been on hold for a month, whenever I talked to Morrigan or the other girl, Lilianna? they get pissed off and say things like "do you like me or the other girl?"... I had been given them both presents but I thought it was clear that my character liked Lilianna (whatever her name is)... oh well
So basically, no matter who I talk to, one of the girls is gonna get pissed and drop about 26 points... I think it was 26. I don't care so much because I figure I can just do more things to Morrigan back up to 100% happy with me even if I have to make her cry for a while. Yeah, there is no way she will be my character's gf, what a bitch.
But if I don't talk to either girl I can have them both be happy with me. So I decided I just won't talk to these girls for a while.
I guess the only reason my relationships with them matters is because I am going to beat the game using only those girls and Allister. I already had too much invested in Allister to go with another guy.. anyways he isn't personally as annoying as some other characters.
― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:50 (7 months ago) Permalink
I quit playing the game because the bugs started to get to me. I just need to update my 360 version but I can't do it at my place because I can't connect to the internet here (it would be a hassle)
― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:53 (7 months ago) Permalink
Ugh, I gotta come back to this at some point. I kinda got exasperated at it because of the tedious combat. I should give it another try with a different group or something. Maybe make my main a tank? Who are the characters to use for an easy party makeup?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:55 (7 months ago) Permalink
It is kind of hilarious how playing WoW has made me better at these games. The ogre fight took me totally by surprise when he picked up my main character and basically disemboweled him so I ended up three-manning it with Allistair, the dog and the random mage with judicious usage of kiting.
― struck through in my prime (HI DERE), Thursday, 28 January 2010 14:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
I think Dragon Age is particularly good for transferrable MMORPG skills because i don't really remember many other RPG's having such good aggro management and mana/stamina management systems.
― toastmodernist, Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:24 (7 months ago) Permalink
I kinda got exasperated at it because of the tedious combat.
i did too until i realized this is not anything like old-skool D&D, which i was used to. it's a lot more like WoW i guess (never played it) or the recent edition of tabletop D&D. your characters have to be developed into a given combat role or it gets way harder. i had no idea how to manage aggro either.
― goole, Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
...anyway, i highly recommend reading thru a character build guide. my first game i got to a point where i kept getting my clock cleaned cos i'd wasted all my levelling on stuff that didn't really work. my second game is going much better. and you have to put on all the sustained buffs and make sure your characters' traits are playing off each other.
there's basically two 'games', the narrative and the combat. in the narrative part you have set-piece dialogs and you can work thru those however you like, but the other characters may or may not like it. in the combats you are just a collection of numbers soaking up numbers or dealing them out.
― goole, Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
so i finished this! not bad! i have my complaints, like it do with any game, but this was pretty impressive. the system is pretty good, the combat abilities are fun to dick around with, but you kind of HAVE to get them all set up right to survive, esp with a 4-character team. automating the non-mages seems like a much easier task than automating a mage, too. a lot of moments were only survivable by getting the mage's crowd-control stuff fired off just right. paralyze/cone of cold/force field/crushing prison, u r a traet.
i played as a goody two shoes female elf mage, with alistair as tank, sten as a hitter and leliana (my boo) as an archer. peeps bagging on leliana for being useless don't know wtf they're talking about -- by the later stages of the game with cranked cunning and all the abilities she was dumping damn near 350 dmg in a single shot.
i guess my biggest complaint is that i don't really want to play thru it again. i don't feel the burning need to check out the content for deciding things differently. maybe i'll just rip thru all the intro stories, just to see? you can tell in each major quest what the "evil" solution to the problem is, but (like in fallout3) none of them make as much sense, motivation-wise. i guess each major quest has some extra juice if ur from that spot (the tower if mage, eg) but eh, maybe later.
― greg dulli appointed feduhral mahshulls (goole), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:37 (6 months ago) Permalink
hi, me again. just thinkin baout this again
the clothes and armor all look fuckin dumb. esp mage gear. esp esp mage hats.
― greg dulli appointed feduhral mahshulls (goole), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 23:47 (6 months ago) Permalink
ya know, i just couldn't get into this. maybe i need to try harder. or revamp as a mage.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 18 February 2010 02:14 (6 months ago) Permalink
Goole I was going to suggest that you loan this to me, and then realized that I still have a bunch of yer wire DVDs so uh never mind.
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Thursday, 18 February 2010 02:22 (6 months ago) Permalink
ha sounds like an ok trade to me
― greg dulli appointed feduhral mahshulls (goole), Thursday, 18 February 2010 02:27 (6 months ago) Permalink
Awakening is out! i'm interested. $40 tho, damn
― goole, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:40 (5 months ago) Permalink
that price is pure bull. if you need the original game to play it, a $40 expansion should have as much content as the original game to justify its price, and i doubt there is 80 hours or whatever on awakening. i would buy this right now for $20, but that's my upper limit.
― aarrissi-a-roni, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:53 (5 months ago) Permalink
EA is testing to see the community's limits for high priced add-ons and it's annoying that no one in the gaming press is calling them out on it.
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:01 (5 months ago) Permalink
yeah, I think I'd rather have the evil corporation charge twice as much as they should for an add-on than have them obliterate the talent that made them truckloads of money in a hamfisted attempt to avoid paying bonuses, but that's just me
(re: Activision, I really never thought I'd encounter a publisher that would make me say positive things about EA as a corporation, but there you go)
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:11 (5 months ago) Permalink
I'm going to do another un-through of the main game before I buy a $40 expansion, even though I want it. Just costs too much - horse armor redux.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:17 (5 months ago) Permalink
Run-through, obv.
i don't buy "EA is just charging enough to pay their employees fairly" argument; sounds more like they're trying to establish "full-size expansion should totally cost roughly the same as a game" to mollify share holders.
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:45 (5 months ago) Permalink
i don't buy "EA is just charging enough to pay their employees fairly" argument
no one is making this argument...?
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:55 (5 months ago) Permalink
$40 < $60
it's a lot, but it's still less than the orig game. a little bit.
― goole, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:58 (5 months ago) Permalink
I'll just wait for the inevitable GOTY edition, when I'm ready to play it in about 2015 or so.
― Most important performer of our generation: (Euler), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:00 (5 months ago) Permalink
"I'd rather have the evil corporation charge twice as much as they should for an add-on than have them obliterate the talent that made them truckloads of money in a hamfisted attempt to avoid paying bonuses"
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:00 (5 months ago) Permalink
You are drawing exactly the wrong conclusion from that statement.
EA price-gouging consumers as a scheme to make more money is more understandable and defensible than Activision promising bonuses, doing way better than expected and sabotaging/canning the guys in charge of developing their runaway hit as a scheme to make more money. There's no "they need to pay their employees fairly" defense.
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:06 (5 months ago) Permalink
it was a confusing post
― aarrissi-a-roni, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:08 (5 months ago) Permalink
well it dropped sometime in the wee hours of the morning, every last spoiler should be up on the dragonage wikia by now, i'll see if it's worth it.
― goole, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:10 (5 months ago) Permalink
i guess what i was trying to say is, you pay $60 for a game for which price you get the whole engine of the game plus the story or whatever. surely the engine of the game is the bigger part? if you are getting an expansion of the storyline that uses the same engine etc, and in fact needs a copy of the original game to work, then you can't be charging 2/3 the cost of the full game, surely?
i am just getting worked up about this because i am totally cutting my nose to spite my face on some lame principle that for no obvious reason i have decided to soil my underwear about.
― aarrissi-a-roni, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:15 (5 months ago) Permalink
then you can't be charging 2/3 the cost of the full game
welp, we'll see won't we
― goole, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:16 (5 months ago) Permalink
I think that if you remind yourself that this is a total luxury purchase, the relatively exorbitant price becomes more palatable.
(this from the dude who will wait to buy this when the price drops and use built-up Amazon store credit to do it with, lol)
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:22 (5 months ago) Permalink
I spent wayyyyy too much time playing the main game, so I will probably hold off on this. $40? goddamn. And its dlc not a disc?
― mayor jingleberries, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:45 (5 months ago) Permalink
so, i bought this.
and my first impression is good! mostly because, in other rpgs, when you get to be super high level, i feel like the rest of the world should quit treating you like an adventurer and more like a leader, and your responsibilities should change too.
and that's exactly how this is working out, at least to start. you've got a land and people on it who are all asking you about what to do next and what they need. pretty interesting.
i don't know if it's worth forty bucks yet tho
― goole, Thursday, 18 March 2010 05:43 (5 months ago) Permalink
The 360 version of Dragon Age has a million bugs that probably will never get fixed. The rogue is the most broken character.Then there are things, that aren't necessarily bugs but are completely stupid: if you return to the chanter's board (or blackstone irregulars etc.) after completing 2 or more quests you will only be rewarded for 1, I can't set my rogue to auto-steal, there's no option for auto-revival spell casting if a player dies. etc. etc.
― CaptainLorax, Friday, 19 March 2010 20:26 (5 months ago) Permalink
fter completing 2 or more quests you will only be rewarded for 1
this isn't true!
― goole, Friday, 19 March 2010 20:30 (5 months ago) Permalink
Says it's true right here. Happened to me on my 360 for both Chanter's Board and Blackstone Irregulars. I had to use a money cheat to offset this
― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 20 March 2010 19:40 (5 months ago) Permalink
oh. that sucks.
anyway, Awakening is ok but probably not worth the 40 bucks. some good ideas, but not fleshed out very well, and a few glitches here and there that show a rushed product. probably those will be fixed, but who knows. if you're on the fence, wait.
― goole, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 23:47 (5 months ago) Permalink
this game needs cooldowns.
― for me to chilt on (bnw), Thursday, 25 March 2010 00:15 (5 months ago) Permalink
I lied about passing on this upthread.
Im liking it, but I find it to be pretty goddamn easy. I've had some harder battles now that Im probably 3/4ths of the way through it, but the first half was a total cakewalk with an imported character. And one side-effect of this cakewalkery is that Ive barely dabbled with any of the new skills like runemaking or new armor, weapons etc.
― mayor jingleberries, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:29 (5 months ago) Permalink
Just started playing this. I'd forgotten how much western RPGs suck me in.
― WTF cat with unfitting music (kingfish), Monday, 10 May 2010 03:24 (3 months ago) Permalink
And I'm having a very difficult time not immediately going to gamefaqs and reading up whatever will let me increase my companion relationships as much as possible. I'll wait for the 2nd play thru, shoudl i do that, for it.
― WTF cat with unfitting music (kingfish), Monday, 10 May 2010 03:25 (3 months ago) Permalink
eh just go to gamefaqs, life is short
― goole, Monday, 10 May 2010 03:32 (3 months ago) Permalink
the gift mechanic is not very well designed. the conversations are worth going through blind tho, they're pretty well written
i guess it depends: is part of the enjoyment of the game is actually figuring out the systems and ddoes the game gives you a fair chance to do so, or is it so complex that you'll waste hours and hours putting in stats into a failed character forcing you to restart?
― Nhex, Monday, 10 May 2010 04:21 (3 months ago) Permalink
I did the latter and never came back. Seems like a game that I need to play on PC not console.
― ₣õ®₭§©₤¤∵釰ƒü (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 May 2010 04:26 (3 months ago) Permalink
http://social.bioware.com/project/855/#details
― WTF cat with unfitting music (kingfish), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 07:03 (3 months ago) Permalink
So, are the licensed novels any good? I'd eagerly read any spin-off bits if the dialogue is as cracking as the game's.
― WTF cat with unfitting music (kingfish), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 03:25 (3 months ago) Permalink
so there's three dlcs for this since i last checked? anyone played any of them?
― goole, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 16:12 (2 weeks ago) Permalink