The Dragon Age thread

[DemolitionSquid]

Anyone else tried the level glitch yet? It takes forever but I can confirm it works. Level 25 Rogue while still in Ostagar lol.

[newcomplex]

Anyone else tried the level glitch yet? It takes forever but I can confirm it works. Level 25 Rogue while still in Ostagar lol.

If your playing it on the PC, which I suspect you are, you might as well just cheat with the console. Much easier.

I beat the game yesterday on hard, which should have been named "easy", with nightmare as normal. Nice to see bioware making a good RPG after the fail that was mass effect. A lot of stuff needs polishing, but it was good enough to warrant an actual purchase halfway through.

Eagerly awaiting sequel.

http://social.bioware.com/158433/#bw_games

my profile, for those of you doubting that pirates actually buy games they say they will buy if they turn out to be good.

[Freespace]

I'm at the very end in Dragon Age, about to go up to fort Drakon to battle the archdemon, and it has been a great great game ( reminiscient of Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights ), but I still give Mass Effect the great gameplay value over this by just 1%.

Not having a voice was also very annoying at first, and just plain weird.

the fail that was mass effect.

I'm sorry, does my monitor malfunction?

[newcomplex]

I'm at the very end in Dragon Age, about to go up to fort Drakon to battle the archdemon, and it has been a great great game ( reminiscient of Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights ), but I still give Mass Effect the great gameplay value over this by just 1%.

Not having a voice was also very annoying at first, and just plain weird.



I'm sorry, does my monitor malfunction?

I absolutely hated mass effect. From the completely dysfunctional dialogue (your character talks like the fallout three protagonist), crap like "omni gel", the massive delay on the PC, completely failtastic outdoor enviroments (the vast majority looks like they took the wc3 editor, set a texture, then spammed the "uneven terrain" button), completely lack of strategy in combat. The game feels more like fallout 3 with squadmates then a bioware sci-fi rpg to rival kotor. The sidequests were literally the worst I've seen in any bioware RPG. Its story was somewhat strong I guess, like all bioware games, but everything else was just complete and utter fail.

I am hoping that the sequel to mass effect fails less though. I've seen a lot of interesting things about it, combined with biowares significantly better performance on dragon age, combined with a simultaneous console/pc release. It won't be a first day purchase by far, but I'm putting faith in bioware for a purchase to occur at some point in time.

And it could be worse, despite the delayed port of the original, at least it didn't ship with the piss poor UI layout the xbox version had.

Then, their were the tech problems on the pc -_-

Honestly, the game itself wasn't that bad, in a pure objective sense. But I didn't pay to play fallout 3, I was expecting a bioware rpg. Too be fair, it wasn't that they produced a utter tripe game, it was that I bought it first day (something that for me means I have PHENOMENAL amount of faith in the developer, despite being pissed at the delayed port), and was sorely, sorely disappointed.


A game I would like to recommend to y'all would be

http://www.thewitcher.com/community/

I'm pretty sure the comparisons been done to death, but seriously, I'd highly recommend you try it out if the slightly awkward real time combat doesn't piss you off. The entire game is fantastic, because of some attribute I can't quite name. It just feels...right.

And the developers are definitely worth supporting. It is rare that developers these days will make such comprehensive patches like they did for the witcher, even introducing free modules (in the current publishing system, these are done out of the devs own wallet, instead of the publishers. Then, they re release the game with completely revamped graphics and coding...but give it FOR FREE to all the original owners of the game. That...is...downright...amazing.

<3 CDprojekt

[sandwich_bird]

I tried the witcher. It's decent. I don't like the protagonist so this pretty much kills the game for me but everything else about the game is great.

[DemolitionSquid]

I can't anyone who thought ME was bad seriously.

[Freespace]

The Witcher was pretty cool game, but I got stuck in that damn bug queen level. You know, where the bug queen chases you ( if she hits you, it's instadeath ) through the underground, and you need to somehow collapse the cave in on her. I tried a whole afternoon to get by that and just couldn't.

[Islandsnake]

Wow you played on hard? I don't know if it's just me but that game is freaking hard even on normal. I had to play on easy (which felt like the actual normal setting) and I'm a pretty hardcore gamer. I guess that's mostly because I didn't bother pausing the game on every fight to give orders.

Yeah the game isn't easy at all, sometimes you really have to micro all your units for the entire fight ( or just your mages ). For the middle part of the game it was a struggle to not die on fights that had 2 enemy mages in them lol.

Its crazy how fast you can die, I've been caught in traps and killed before I could even swap to my healer.


After playing some on nightmare I can safely say chest are pretty much useless, since I didn't bring a rogue with me most of the time for the first playthrew I was always pissed cause there would be a chest I couldn't open every 10 feet...luckily it seems like its just random crap in chest and I've never once got anything good.
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For some reason I really couldn't get into the witcher =/