Dragon Age: Origins [BioWare]

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3 hours in and i'm a bit underwhelmed so far tbh. Pretty standart RPG, have some trouble to get immersed. Looks and feels a bit like Oblivion with not much freedom. GFX are quite bad considering the small size of the locations. It would be acceptable for an open world rpg but it isnt one of them.Biggest disappointment is the dialogue system. I expected something as immersive and advanced as in Mass Effect but its a big step backwards to a standart dialogue system.

I will keep playing and hope that it gets better.

Same here. Played for a few hours and all I can think is "eeeehhhh". It's decent, but it's not mind-blowingly awesome like Mass Effect was. I'll give it a fair shot, but as of right now, I'm unimpressed.

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I'm surprised you guys are struggling to get into this. This to me is like the fantasy version of mass effect. And I'm enjoying this more than mass effect.

The difference is Mass Effect felt very fresh from the start and insanely polished when it comes to story and dialogues. I would say that was the main thing that made it stand out and so enjoyable. Dragon Age on the other hand is a very oldschool RPG that doesnt seem to bring anything new to the table. Story and dialogues are rough around the edges, heck i dont even care about my character. He looks like a douchebag and doesn't speak in dialogues. The game in generel feels not very polished. I assume they spent a lot more of their ressources on ME 2.

Holy shit the amount of polish and attention to making everything as easy and smart as possible is what really tips this game in to greatness imo. And the dialog is on par with Chris Avallone games, I especially like the exchanges between your buddies. If it had unlimited respec from the get go, it would have been ze perfect rpg.

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Story and dialogues are rough around the edges, heck i dont even care about my character. He looks like a douchebag and doesn't speak in dialogues. The game in generel feels not very polished.

This, plus the voice acting is very sub-par and the dialog just doesn't seem to be there. Also, the animations just seem thrown together. Graphically, the exteriors look great, but the interiors are very bland. The game plays/feels like a medieval KOTR, which isn't a bad thing, but the problem is that it doesn't seem to have updated anything from it. Because of all these reasons and Stepp's reasons, I'm finding it very hard to become immersed in Dragon Age. Dunno, maybe Mass Effect just set the bar too high for me

I think it finaly "clicked" for me. Started all over again as a mage. The combat frustrated me at my first try but now i get the hang of it and that makes it much more fun. I pause very often and adjust tactics, do a lot of micromanagement. Imo thats the best part of the game.

Also start to see more similarities to Mass Effect now that i'm further in the game.

Have to say tho if this game wasn't by the same guys who made Mass Effect i would have given up already. Actualy had to give this game 6-7 hours to grow on me. Don't think i ever was so patient with a game that i didnt liked initialy.

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I think it finaly "clicked" for me. Started all over again as a mage. The combat frustrated me at my first try but now i get the hang of it and that makes it much more fun. I pause very often and adjust tactics, do a lot of micromanagement. Imo thats the best part of the game.Also start to see more similarities to Mass Effect now that i'm further in the game.

Have to say tho if this game wasn't by the same guys who made Mass Effect i would have given up already. Actualy had to give this game 6-7 hours to grow on me. Don't think i ever was so patient with a game that i didnt liked initialy.

what made you keep playing?

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what made you keep playing?

The fact that its made by the same people who made Mass Effect (which i love). Also the pretty good reviews. So even tho i didnt liked it first there was still a lot of reason to hope that it gets better.

It's awesome but I'm kind of pissed of with the amount of crashes I'm getting, the piss poor save system ... only will save when you enter combat not when traveling between zones etc and the typical bioware boss fights that I hated in Kotor, if you don't have the ideal setup sometimes they are WAY to hard if possible at all. Noticed plenty of bugs that are quite unacceptable ;p and I hate invisible walls blocking your path and im not talking about the ones stopping you falling off edges. I tried stealthing through the tutorial area because it was almost impossible even on easy, only to find out after getting to the level exit i was killed instantly because I didnt kill a certain NPC 2 rooms back ...

The art quality drops off sharply in some areas but thats to be expected in such a big game, music is pretty meh - Mass Effect was awesome because the futuristic theme, Dragon Age needs a real orchestra to pull off the proper LOTR feel, East West digital orchestras make me cry More money needs to be invested into soundtracks because it's the only thing really lacking now.

Neverthe less it's really great, and will be MUCH more fun the second time through. Give me another 10 levels and I'll no doubt love it and call it GOTY

lol quicksave in an rpg?

Quicksave doesn't mean you can save during a fight.

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lmao mino!

best bug i had ...

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when I decided to not assist the dalvish elven leader dude, who created the curse on the humans and turned them into werewolves i killed him after a long fight, only to have the original encounter reset, all the dialog played but the keeper of the forest was turned into a white wolf then after it finished i did 1 hp damage to the elveish leader and then the proper event played

I've been playing the game pretty solid now for about 20 hours, it's incredible but they really should make "easy" what it suggests at the start. You need at least 10 hours and allot of patience for this game.

I'm 26 hours in now and i have solved 12% of the game and have seen 30% of the locations. Think about setting the difficulty to hard now. Magic seems a bit overpowered on normal once you got some decent spells and enough experience with the combat system.

The game is really fun now, still nothing revolutunary but it reminds me a lot of oldschool rpg's that i loved. Ultima 7, Ambermoon, Albion etc. Would probably remind me of the Baldurs Gates too but i never played them enough. Also Bethesda and Bioware should join forces. A game with the open worldness and side quests of a Bethesda game combined with the main quest of a bioware rpg + the combat system of Dragon Age would be the perfect singleplayer RPG.

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LOL.. reminds me of Eileen's head from Silent Hill 4...