Dragon Age: Origins - Anyone playing?
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Um...fun?
Sure, if you want to make the game harder by having everyone hate you and eventually leave your party along with cutting off many side quests.
Well, I suppose you could get buy with the asshole party. Morrigan seems to be up for anything that involves screwing someone over.
Well, I suppose you could get buy with the asshole party. Morrigan seems to be up for anything that involves screwing someone over.
Just got it (Disk version) so I'll give it a try later
Sure, if you want to make the game harder by having everyone hate you and eventually leave your party along with cutting off many side quests.
Well, I suppose you could get buy with the asshole party. Morrigan seems to be up for anything that involves screwing someone over.
I think it's probably impossible to have a party that will always agree with everything you do.
I don't have everyone, but you can make a "Jesus" party with Wynne, Leliana and Alistar.
Morrigan hates it when you do good things and Shale sees no value in humanity... I have to imagine that either Sten or one of the remaining dudes are as morally ambivalent.
You know, I almost wish that party influence was invisible - like in KoTOR2 - and the only way you can gauge how you are doing comes down to incidental dialog more than a <blank> Approves +6 box. I know I can ignore it and the "relationship bar" in the character screen, but it becomes yet another min/max game thing I worry about when I play.
Then again, I'd rather have the characters all be more ambivalent so that when you do something "good" you have no idea who would approve. I understand that not giving any feedback to the player would be frustrating, but it would make for a more interesting game.
Of course, if your entire party was effected by your choices - whether they were "active" or not - then you couldn't game the system. Either you stay middle of the road to keep everyone happy or you start taking sides and drive half your party away. Just like real life, I suppose.
It's strange though. I never thought that I would argue a better gameplay experience could come from less agency and less feedback, but there ya go.
Morrigan hates it when you do good things and Shale sees no value in humanity... I have to imagine that either Sten or one of the remaining dudes are as morally ambivalent.
You know, I almost wish that party influence was invisible - like in KoTOR2 - and the only way you can gauge how you are doing comes down to incidental dialog more than a <blank> Approves +6 box. I know I can ignore it and the "relationship bar" in the character screen, but it becomes yet another min/max game thing I worry about when I play.
Then again, I'd rather have the characters all be more ambivalent so that when you do something "good" you have no idea who would approve. I understand that not giving any feedback to the player would be frustrating, but it would make for a more interesting game.
Of course, if your entire party was effected by your choices - whether they were "active" or not - then you couldn't game the system. Either you stay middle of the road to keep everyone happy or you start taking sides and drive half your party away. Just like real life, I suppose.
It's strange though. I never thought that I would argue a better gameplay experience could come from less agency and less feedback, but there ya go.
And again, I have a hard time believing that they'll all agree on everything. Many of the decisions in the game can't be split up between "nice" and "evil" but instead between "crappy outcome #1" and "crappy outcome #2"
And again, I have a hard time believing that they'll all agree on everything. Many of the decisions in the game can't be split up between "nice" and "evil" but instead between "crappy outcome #1" and "crappy outcome #2"
Maybe I'm just not far enough, but at the moment all the quests have the typical BioWare morality to them... there's nothing on the scale of the Virmire choice in Mass Effect anyway, where there truly is no good solution.
I don't know. I'd like to bring Morrigan and Wynne together mostly because they'd probably hate each other... but I know if I do that, one choice will make one happy and piss the other off. I can just avoid that by bringing people who are mostly of the same "ilk".
I hope I'll be proven wrong as I play the game... we'll see I suppose.
Yep ... absolutely playing. I'm about level 15 and am still uniting the factions against the darkspawn. LOVE having Claudia Black in the game as Morrigan. I am not surprised DA is a great game given that BioWare is the best developer in PC history. But I was a little surprised to hear the 360 version sucked so much. I guess the PS3 version is at least tolerable, albeit with shitty framerates and limited camera options. Damn glad I went PC as always.
Playing a male casteless dwarf rogue right now...
It is a fun game, but there should've been more background choices, like humans can only be from noble background, no "farmers son/daughter"...
It is a fun game, but there should've been more background choices, like humans can only be from noble background, no "farmers son/daughter"...
I'm not much of a traditional RPG player, but I'm enjoying the game so far, though I'm really not far into it. (tower section without being too spoilery).
My main character is a city elf warrior though she looks tiny around almost everyone. Had a quick test of the first missions for a Human noble and Mage too. When I have a moment, I'll try the Dwarf.
My main character is a city elf warrior though she looks tiny around almost everyone
. Had a quick test of the first missions for a Human noble and Mage too. When I have a moment, I'll try the Dwarf.
I was underwhelmed by the human origin story and the graphics are largely ass, but things pick up pretty quick. And I've managed to play fairly middle of the road. Sure, you can go for the everything is light or asshole path, but you can also do some morally gray / everyone loses stuff. The black white stuff seems to be railroaded only in some of the side-quests. At least, that's what I'm seeing with my lesbian human rogue.
There are also gay romance options, if your up for that/want to achievement whore.
Closest to KOTOR playwise, with lots of Baldur's in the dialogue, items.
There are also gay romance options, if your up for that/want to achievement whore.
Closest to KOTOR playwise, with lots of Baldur's in the dialogue, items.
They did try a Human Commoner origin, but they didn't think it was all that great, so they cut it. I agree that they should have just come up with a better idea; it feels weird to be able to play two versions of elves and dwarves, but only one type of human.
My CE for the 360 arrived today. I only had a chance to dip my toe in for about an hour, but my initial impressions are very, very good. Not sure why some have criticized the 360 version - seems fine to me. I understand that the graphics aren't as good-looking as the PC version, but I don't play a Bioware RPG for the graphics. Earlier this year I played the original Xbox version of KOTOR for the first time and was so absorbed in the story that I never even noticed
the last-generation graphics.
the last-generation graphics.
I haven't used Shale or Sten, but that's probably because on my first playthrough I'm trying to adhere to the standard "hero with a heart of gold," so I've surrounded him with as many goody little two-shoes (i.e. Alistair and Leliana) as I could. The only odd one out had been Morrigan, but now that I've reached the Tower of Magi I'll probably swap her out for Wynne.
"No hero is pure," my posterior. You can take your "dark fantasy" and shove it, BioWare.
