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Poll: Are you playing Dragon Age: Origins?
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Topic: Dragon Age: Origins
Mortious
Gluttonous Overlard
posted 11-18-2009 07:02:29 PM
I noticed some rare bugs like that too, Nem. One of my journal entries said that the mom died to save her possessed kid (in Redcliff castle) but she never did because I went the route of getting the mages to help.

She's looking mighty well for a dead person.

Trent
Smurfberry Moneyshot
posted 11-19-2009 10:37:48 PM
just finished, as mostly a decent guy. everyone slips now and then.

now to replay. i need to see other endings....

rogue maybe.

btw, arcane warriors rock.

Addy
posted 11-20-2009 12:01:56 AM
I'm playing this time as an evil arcane warrior chick. Made Leliana leave already due to desecrating a sacred relic. I loved how many options you had to go through in order to kill the kid for Redcliffe, too.
Katrinity
Cookie Goddess!
posted 11-20-2009 08:31:25 PM
Took a break from WoW and DA right now to play some Assassin's Creed 2. Just came across the best line in the game...

Uncle: Don't you recognize me?! Its'a me, Mario!

Cookie Goddess Supreme
Furry Kitsune of Power!
Pouncer of the 12th degree!
"Cxularath ftombn gonoragh pv'iornw hqxoxon targh!"
Translated: "Sell your soul for a cookie?"
Mr. Parcelan
posted 11-20-2009 08:56:13 PM
quote:
And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Katrinity was all like:
Took a break from WoW and DA right now to play some Assassin's Creed 2. Just came across the best line in the game...

Uncle: Don't you recognize me?! Its'a me, Mario!


Wrong.

Best line:

Mother: I think you should find an outlet for your energy.

Ezio: I do!

Mother: Other than vaginas.

Kegwen
Sonyfag
posted 11-21-2009 12:57:49 AM
I want to buy AC2 and MW2 so bad ughhhhhhh
Katrinity
Cookie Goddess!
posted 11-21-2009 02:10:16 AM
quote:
Mr. Parcelan stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
Wrong.

Best line:

Mother: I think you should find an outlet for your energy.

Ezio: I do!

Mother: Other than vaginas.


That was a good line too.

Cookie Goddess Supreme
Furry Kitsune of Power!
Pouncer of the 12th degree!
"Cxularath ftombn gonoragh pv'iornw hqxoxon targh!"
Translated: "Sell your soul for a cookie?"
Willias
Pancake
posted 11-28-2009 04:19:26 AM
So I just beat this tonight.

Ended as a level 22 mage, arcane warrior and spirit healer(which I never really used).

Mid-game I wasn't sure that becoming an arcane warrior was all that great.
Then I got to around level 17, had the arcane warrior line maxed out, an awesome suit of massive armor (Effort I think), and a good sword and shield... and then found the challenge of the game was found in keeping everyone but the main character alive, since with the massive armor and Shimmering Shield running, and the high magic stat for potions, I basically became unkillable.

While Wynne and Lelianna managed to get obliterated by any AoE tossed in their general direction, and Alistair would quickly explode if anything hit sorta hard. Figuring out that the Force Field spell is overpowered helped a good deal as well. :D

I figure anyone here who wanted this has gotten it already, but to anyone still thinking about getting Dragon Age: Do it. Amazing game from beginning to end. One of the few games that I can think of that has an ending that actually doesn't suck.

Nina
posted 11-28-2009 04:21:39 PM
The one gripe I have about Dragon Age is I just don't get a feeling of urgency or epic scale from the story. You have these evil darkspawn supposed to be a huge menace but they knock one outpost down then sit around with their thumbs up their arses. Perhaps that'll change once I finish the little army gathering storyline, but something tells me the game'll end soon afterwards.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the story quests by themselves, but as a whole, they feel just so isolated.

nem-x
posted 11-28-2009 04:35:38 PM
The story died down after the joining only because you get tasked with the 'get three groups to join you', then nothing really major happens after that.
Willias
Pancake
posted 11-29-2009 12:18:20 AM
I don't know. I went to Redcliff first and OH SHIT ZOMBIES. Then cleared that up for the most part but oh no, the child is possessed by a demon! You need to go to the Mages to save him!

And then OH FUCK DEMONS IN THE MAGE TOWER.

And then OKAY GOTTA SAVE EAMON.

There's no urgency with the dwarves or elves though. Which is alright I suppose, I don't think you actually need to get the dwarves and elves on your side so long as you get Arl Eamon back on his feet to start the Landsmeet.

Kegwen
Sonyfag
posted 11-29-2009 12:21:39 AM
The dwarf section was pretty entertaining. The Landsmeet was one of the best parts of the game, urgency or no. You guys are silly.
Mortious
Gluttonous Overlard
posted 11-29-2009 07:13:26 AM
I know the Queen is a good administrator and all, but all she comes off as is a spoilt little bitch.

Throw her in the dungeon.

Mr. Parcelan
posted 12-09-2009 03:54:58 AM
Playing a Rogue this time. My party is, thus far, Leiliana, Morrigan and Alistair.

But is using Sten as a tank viable? A two-hander tank seems a bit less durable than a shieldy tank, but that may just be old MMO shit.

Mortious
Gluttonous Overlard
posted 12-09-2009 05:36:22 AM
2 Handers are amazing, but only if you really buff them up and put them (not yourself) in the best armour you have available.

I'm playing a Dwarf Commoner now who specialises in 2 handers (and is being an absolute bastard too ) and he rocks the socks off most enemies in the Blood Dragon armour.

Even if Dwarves do look hilariously bad in that armour.

Mortious
Gluttonous Overlard
posted 12-09-2009 05:38:29 AM
I was a bit pissed that if you send Morrigan into the Fade at that part in Redcliffe Castle she'll refuse to learn Blood Magic from the demon. I would've thought if anyone would want to learn that.. it would be Morrigan.

Screw you, swamp witch. I'm going to open the editor and make you learn it anyway. Haha! Take that!

Bajah
Thooooooor
posted 12-09-2009 11:00:13 AM
Blood Magic kinda sucks the balls, though. So does shapeshifting.
Timpofee
Mancake
posted 12-09-2009 03:00:26 PM
Blood magic + Spiritual Healer is awesome

Shapeshifter + Arcane Warrior is hilarious

I made it a point in my game to make a deal with each and every demon that I could. Man it makes the story fun

Mr. Parcelan
posted 12-10-2009 06:10:43 AM
holy crap Morrigan is annoying as all hell

The thing I always found weird about the stand-offish characters is that they never seem to realize the value of experience. If I try to play nice with an NPC and finagle an extra quest out of them, she goes: "UGH WHAT A KISS UP"

Then I act like a dick to someone and she chuckles, but I only get two approval points while Alistair shits a brick and Leliana is that much further away from sucking my dick.

WOMEN EH

Tarquinn
Personally responsible for the decline of the American Dollar
posted 12-10-2009 06:16:06 AM
quote:
Mr. Parcelan spewed forth this undeniable truth:

The thing I always found weird about the stand-offish characters is that they never seem to realize the value of experience.

Seriously, if they would do that, it would be fourth wall breakingly stupid.

I don't think breakingly is a real word, but you get my point.

~Never underestimate the power of a Dark Clown.
Mr. Parcelan
posted 12-10-2009 06:51:34 AM
quote:
Tarquinn had this to say about (_|_):
Seriously, if they would do that, it would be fourth wall breakingly stupid.

I don't think breakingly is a real word, but you get my point.


Yeah, I know

BUT THINGS WOULD BE EASIER, MISTER BLISTER

ps help my castle

Akiraiu Zenko
Is actually a giddy schoolgirl
posted 12-10-2009 10:18:19 AM
That is the one thing that I'm getting tired of in Bioware games. Juggling influence/approval. It seems like the characters I like strategically are never the characters whose personalities I feel like dealing with.
The artist formerly known as Zephyer Kyuukaze.
Timpofee
Mancake
posted 12-10-2009 10:51:24 AM
Lets see.. in my mage group (Bloodmage\Shifter) I have Alistair tanking (Templar/Champion) Sten as melee DPS second tank type(Zerker) and Morrigan (Shifter/Spiritual healer)

I basically stunlock/fear large masses of people and let the two melee peeps mow through them.
I made it through the Deep Roads like this with only one death.. and that was at the broodmother when i the guys in the back spawned but morrigan rezzed me and we kept going

With my Dwarf Rogue dude... Im gonna make him a Ranger/Bard i think.

Kegwen
Sonyfag
posted 12-10-2009 03:21:10 PM
I've never known anyone that tried a ranger out

Also: Morrigan is awesome you shut up

Tarquinn
Personally responsible for the decline of the American Dollar
posted 12-10-2009 03:44:14 PM
quote:
Kegwen was naked while typing this:

Also: Morrigan is awesome you shut up

~Never underestimate the power of a Dark Clown.
Bajah
Thooooooor
posted 12-10-2009 05:04:44 PM
quote:
This is what Kegwen is doing. This is what I want Kegwen to do:
I've never known anyone that tried a ranger out

wife did, she was less than impressed. She expected something akin to D&D/EQ/etc Ranger type, focusing on badassery with a bow. Instead she got to summon crappy animals that require a sustain. At that point, we decided to research all the abilities for the different specializations ahead of time.
Azakias
Never wore the pants, thus still wields the power of unused (_|_)
posted 12-10-2009 06:23:01 PM
I found it easier to have an 'evil' group and a 'good' group. Evil group was Shale, Morrigan, and Ogrim, and 'good' group was Alastair, Leliana, and Wynne.

Change out as deisred with other party members.

Makes maxing out personalities way easier.

"Age by age have men stood up and said to the world, 'From what has come before me, I was forged, but I am new and greater than my forebears.' And so each man walks the world in ruin, abandoned and untried. Less than the whole of his being"
Talonus
Loner
posted 12-10-2009 06:26:56 PM
quote:
From the book of Bajah, chapter 3, verse 16:
wife did, she was less than impressed. She expected something akin to D&D/EQ/etc Ranger type, focusing on badassery with a bow. Instead she got to summon crappy animals that require a sustain. At that point, we decided to research all the abilities for the different specializations ahead of time.

The summons suck until you finish off the line, at which point the spider becomes pretty awesome. Ranger makes for a good second specialization for Leliana.

Steven Steve
posted 12-14-2009 07:34:56 AM
I played Dragon Age for like 5-6 hours (someone else bought it, whew) and I can't believe this godforsaken game is still something that can be passable in 2009, but then again people ate up Left 4 Dead 2 and Modern Warfare 2 also. This game is even more insanely like a board game than Baldur's Gate, which is pretty board-game-like. When I heard the game being chalked up to being "tactical" I didn't think they meant "micromanage your team to the point you have to remind them to breathe in an MMORPG-like combat system". Plus the story is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a Bioware game yet. Most of the games have some kind of intro drudgery before you're inducted into whatever secret special forces society (Children of Bhaal, Jedi, whichever Fellowship of the Ring I'm guessing was in Jade Empire, SPECTREs, Grey Wardens, etc.) but then at least the enemy is vaguely interesting. I noticed in Mass Effect that they were starting to go the route of Final Fantasy in that every fucking iteration of the game is about some ancient evil coming back to take over the world. And this theme is continued in Fagon Gayge, the most cookie-cutter PC RPG I've played in the past 5 years or so, and that's including the Oblivion mod that was Fallout 3.

Cliffs:
- Combat is even worse than Baldur's Gate; feels like playing an MMORPG in linear zones by yourself
- Interface is obnoxious
- Story is the most juvenile shit Bioware has ever released, making their formula an even bigger joke
- I didn't believe that a game could actually be worse than Witcher until now
- Die EA
- Deadpan snarker side cast
- "This is the new shit" == banal board game and predictable story played by one's self with an unnecessarily clunky interface and shitty graphics

"Absolutely NOTHING [will stop me from buying Diablo III]. I will buy it regardless of what they do."
- Grawbad, Battle.net forums

"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums

Tarquinn
Personally responsible for the decline of the American Dollar
posted 12-14-2009 10:55:59 AM
Boardgame?
~Never underestimate the power of a Dark Clown.
Mortious
Gluttonous Overlard
posted 12-14-2009 12:25:28 PM
Dragon Age is pretty much a tech prototype for The Old Republic MMO.
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