well this game came out of nowhere. I was catching up on some yahtzee and in his latest review:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1096-Dragon-Age-Origins

 

he admitted to actually enjoying the game, thus it must be exceptional . I was an oblivion fan and bioware are a pretty solid company so its looking good.

heres a random review i haven't read but the highlights look nice so whatever:

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/03/review-dragon-age-origins/

 

just thought i'd post this since this is the first i've heard of the game and i will be "trying" it asap.

Yes, i have aquired this game and it is good, there is only one down side and that is it is only singleplayer, also i just watched his review before this topic (10 min) amazing.......

Hmmm... what are the sys requirements like? I'm getting really tired of having to sacrifice visual quality for fps with my aging system :disgust:

 

Come onnnnn ATI, light a fire under that 5870 production!!!

:guitar:

I'm getting really tired of having to sacrifice visual quality for fps with my aging system :disgust:

i hear you there!

Recommended:

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz processor or equivalent, AMD Phenom II X3 Triple-Core 2.8 GHz or greater

2 GB (XP), 4 GB (Vista)

Hard Drive Space 20 GB

ATI 3850 512 MB or greater, NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater.

 

i need moar ram

I am playing this game ATM - that's the reason for my lack of PR time lately

 

It is an excellent single player fantasy RPG. Nothing like Oblivion really... think more a cross between Baldurs Gate 1/2 and The Witcher.

 

Is it better than BG2? I think it is bloody close. More grittier/bloody/adult setting than BG2. It is only the shaky AI that needs some work (patching should help).

 

It runs fine on my older system (c2d 2.6ghz, 8800GTS, 2gb RAM) without a hitch.

Edited November 19, 200915 yr by McCloud

Got this on Xbox 360 - by far the best RPG I've played EVER.

 

And goddamn, the morality system is such like a breath of life into the RPG genre. No-more of these polarized good or bad choices, there are no wrong decisions in DAO, there is no clearly defined good/evil system, you choose based on how you yourself as a player feel, and your decisions consequently affect and shape the world around you and how the game plays out.

 

Also, the sheer amount of content and replayability in this game is AWESOME. It befuddles my mind how much work would've gone into this game to record all the different triggers and events based on your characters decisions and what NPCs you have with you at the time etc etc.

Edited November 19, 200915 yr by hous_bin_farteen

Also, the sheer amount of content and replayability in this game is AWESOME. It befuddles my mind how much work would've gone into this game to record all the different triggers and events based on your characters decisions and what NPCs you have with you at the time etc etc.

 

you should watch yahtzee's review, he certainly had something to say on that matter, don't think it was a grounded argument, but still he's yahtzee so

Also what is annoying is that there is this effect of blurryness (well, not sure exactly) anyone know how to fix that or have a similar problem?

 

HD4890

1920x1080

everything maxed etc...etc.....vsync / that force effect or something doesn't help.....all options on/off etc..... Other people i read on forums have the same problem too but no answer atm.

you should watch yahtzee's review, he certainly had something to say on that matter, don't think it was a grounded argument, but still he's yahtzee so

 

Screw yahtzee, lol. That said, I do know yahtzee's style is to be hypercritical of everything and anything, but for once I do actually have to make a point of disagreeing with what he said. There are quite a few scenes that obviously will be the same, but there are a huge amount of variations depending on who you choose to help out, whos in your party at the current time, etc.

 

Friend of mine played the game for almost all of his waking hours for 3 days straight and that was only his first playthrough to give you all an idea. Now he's on his second or third playthrough and he says hes still intensely enjoying it.

well not impressed so far, im out in the wilds now as a mage and while i can see they've put alot of effort into it for some reason im bored. also its a shame its not first person, oblivions better in that regard. I think the combats too simple, aside from the point click spells everythings just auto attack, making it a stats game which i hate.

well not impressed so far, im out in the wilds now as a mage and while i can see they've put alot of effort into it for some reason im bored. also its a shame its not first person, oblivions better in that regard. I think the combats too simple, aside from the point click spells everythings just auto attack, making it a stats game which i hate.

 

What difficulty are you playing on? I've been playing since the game has been released (on hard) and the only battle I've played that was point and click was against some giant rats during the noble human intro (although I did find mages easier than warriors or rogues to play as). The first ogre took me over a dozen times to kill. The Xbox version apperently is more action orientated than the PC version too because of the control scheme.

 

I love this style of RPG (I never thought much of the Elder Scroll Series) but the story line is as cliched as Yahtzee makes it out to be. And it's nowhere near as good as BG2. I mean, it's REALLY, REALLY good but BG2 was so good I can still remember all the player characters names and their lines; not to mention that some dark lord and his dark army wasn't trying to conquer the whole world like some copy/paste plot straight out of LOTR.

I guess you either like the style of game or you don't. I'm also finding the combat to be quite challenging - setting the right tactics etc is critical for some of the big bosses. I'm playing as a goody-two-shoes rogue this time, will try a more mercenary mage next time.

im playing on hard, and i didnt say it wasn't challenging, its just the combat IS point and click. you have a spell, use it, it either auto targets and enemy or you click an enemy to target, as for regular combat, just right click on an enemy and thats it, auto fighting, theres nothing more to it. I just versed some fat ogre next to the beacon lighting place and the only way i could kill him was sitting in an unreachable place and spending 10 mins attacking him from range, and since mana regeneration is apparently nonexistant during combat and i'd used up my 5 total potions a few levels ago i literally had nothing to do and so went and made some soup while he gradually died.

oh and another thing this game fails at, all the loot is crap! i havent found one decent item to replace any of mine since i left the mage tower starting area, i mean half the fun of rpg games is finding awesome loot. i think the devs had their heads in the wrong places when it came to designing this game, i didnt want to play a crappy ripped off novel, i wanted a game with actual gameplay not a series of slightly more entertaining quicktime events and then some grindish stat battles...

Another annoying thing about combat, if an enemy makes an attack and its a slow one and you manage to sprint to the other side of the room it won't matter, the games already decided you've been hit and so you cark it 10m from the dude slowly swinging his masher towards your original position.

 

Also telling the ai which tactics to use is stupid when they should know what to use and when anyway, thats why games are supposed to have ai, so the humans don't have to tell every unit what the hell it should be doing! i shouldn't have to set a tactic for alistaires or whatever hes called to use a potion when hes about to keel over, he should do that anway!

So far i've only done the human noble, ( warrior ) start thing and the elf mage one,, damn my elf dude looks like a @)$!*, cant even get a proper beard or get out of the " hay guys im a girl " look. Looks funny when theres three dudes in suits of armor and i'm supposed to be an adult but barely reach 5ft anything and look like a child.

 

cant be bothered watching any dialogue , they are pretty in depth but just takes too damn long and un-exciting for me, kind of ruins the whole point of the game for me but anyways. Only bad thing about it was i missed some cool action scene, one second i was in the "bad" to the mages and the next after pressing escape 5 times everyone was on the ground LOL.

 

Seems to me every time i randomly choose a dialogue option, no matter how bad it seems i get run in or good i choose. Someone like Duncan steps in and saves my ass with his bro like attitude.

 

edit: - Pogo, luv it. I was in the cellar for the phylactery or whatever and that chick and guy got man handled to the ground instantly, of course i had no mana ( but mages are OP ) so i just started running and was trying to kite the dude when he mashed me from the other side of the hallway

Edited November 20, 200915 yr by ferris747

well not impressed so far, im out in the wilds now as a mage and while i can see they've put alot of effort into it for some reason im bored. also its a shame its not first person, oblivions better in that regard. I think the combats too simple, aside from the point click spells everythings just auto attack, making it a stats game which i hate.

 

Lolololol. I take it you haven't played many RPGs have you pogo? Oblivion/The elder scrolls series is about the only RPG you'll find that has an active combat system.

 

Well there's always Mass Effect. RPG/Squad shooter.

Lolololol. I take it you haven't played many RPGs have you pogo? Oblivion/The elder scrolls series is about the only RPG you'll find that has an active combat system.

 

Well there's always Mass Effect. RPG/Squad shooter.

 

I'd reinstall oblivion but the monsters leveling up when you do made it very terrible for me, even if it's keeping the game fair. Sometimes i just want to be all 'n' powerful. Fallout 3 countered this a lot better, played the hell out of that + with mods and the DLC's.

 

- too reinstall oblivion and download a mod that stops the mob leveling or not too...... Damn how come oblivion just keeps coming back lmao, the active combat system is just so much funner (there is even an mmorpg coming out sometime that has this system, but no elderscrolls story)

 

Back on Dragon Age, guys how hard is that room in the tower where there is some slowing ooze trap and the gremlin thing launches the fireball...omfg

get the mod obscuros oblivion overhaul, its rejigs the entire levelling system and gets rid of the enemies levelling up with you crap. yeah i guess these sorts of rpgs aren't for me, i played mass effect and loved that though.

 

the coolest thing that happened to me when i played this game was answering the riddles for that demon bear bloke, for some reason that made me happy

Lol pogo, I suspect DA:O might just not be suited to your gaming needs.

 

For me, it ticks many boxes that I prefer - party based RPG, character and dialogue heavy, decent difficulty (challange!), roleplaying potential through moral choices, etc.

 

No Loot? I disagree, there's heaps of cool items... maybe you just havent played it far enough. My friend just beat it and played for 75 hrs.

need multiplayer, i saw party and reminded me of Dungeon Siege 1 etc , would of been really cool

 

 

ed , about oblivion man i spent the last 3 hours downloading and surfing the nexus for mods, some are really great ( like the 4x res one)

Edited November 21, 200915 yr by ferris747

omfg that guy is freaking helarious, I remember hearing one of his review before, hahaha gold