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    No thread about i yett? Really?

    I'm downloading it off of Impulse after Gamestop fucked up my pre-order... again.

    Reviews have said that every combat situation feels tactical and unique, and I hope that's the case. Gigantic worlds mean little if gameplay is so repetitive and rewards so small that there is little reason to explore them (as in the case of, say, Oblivion).
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    Yeah, this game is definitely on my list once I buy a PS3.

    It looked great in commercials which is more than I can say for any other game that's advertised during a football game in a while.

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    I should add that a great deal of content has been released alongside the game as DLC. Most of this (except for the Warden's Keep) is included with the deluxe editions for every platform, and all of it is included with the Digital Deluxe Download edition, available now on Impulse, Steam, and D2D. It's $15 dollars more than the regular edition, which is cheaper than buying each piece of DLC individually.

    Yeah, it's another money making scheme for EA, and the regular edition still has a ton of content. Nonetheless I drank the Kool Aid and purchased the DDD, and if you're interested you may want to do the same as I don't know how long it will be available.

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    Yeah, this game is definitely on my list once I buy a PS3.

    It looked great in commercials which is more than I can say for any other game that's advertised during a football game in a while.
    Not interested in the PC version? Just as with Bethesda Softwork's blockbuster releases, Dragon Age has a full set of modding tools available, so for the PC version there will be a good deal of player generated content.

    EDIT: Actually, surprisingly there are already quite a few user made mods already up on the Bioware site...
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    PC games are for faggots

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    I made a thread about Dragon age, but then again, it was MY thread so its probably in the trash heap.
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    Someone who has played it, could they give me a rundown of the combat system? I'm thinking about picking it up this weekend, but Modern Warfare 2 drops on Tuesday, so I might pick up something more causal instead.

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    Saw this thread last night and downloaded it. I will be playing it in a few hours as long as I don't get bored or distracted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MalReynolds View Post
    Someone who has played it, could they give me a rundown of the combat system? I'm thinking about picking it up this weekend, but Modern Warfare 2 drops on Tuesday, so I might pick up something more causal instead.
    The combat system is rather reminiscent of Baldur's Gate 2. It is NOT a D&D-based game, as the skills and stats systems are totally different, but it is a tactical combat system where you will often be in charge of a party of up to 4 characters.


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    If you don't like needing to form strategic battles in order to not die every once and a while, then I suggest another game. Dragon Age can be very hard at times(unless you are a healing/dmg mage).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick2.1 View Post
    If you don't like needing to form strategic battles in order to not die every once and a while, then I suggest another game. Dragon Age can be very hard at times(unless you are a healing/dmg mage).
    Well, I am having a good deal of fun with it. It is reasonably challenging, and each battle seems to call for different strategies though some of these strategies seem to involve exploiting quirks with the AI. For example, a group of enemies felt like beating up on my invulnerable Force Fielded mage while the other 3 melee members of the party were able to kill them off one by one. Still, I'm playing at Hard, and it is difficult enough that I do not want to try Very Hard... at least not yet. Also, so far it seems like the skills system is pretty well designed.

    And I am so glad that the interface is actually made for the PC, rather than the crappy console-oriented one for Mass Effect.

    EDIT: I was able to use that Force Field tanking trick again. I'm guessing that if a party member has very low health, the AI tends to focus the enemies on that target regardless of whether or not that target is invulnerable.
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    Oooh, I'll be playing this on the console. From everything I read, they tweaked the combat just a tiny bit for simplicities sake and nerfed the difficulty because of the issues that would be had with giving everyone orders all the time. I'll be picking it up. It looks really good.

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    Yeah, this is on my list for first round PS3 games around Christmas/Graduation time. This, NCAA 10, and Modern Warfare 2, probably.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MalReynolds View Post
    Oooh, I'll be playing this on the console. From everything I read, they tweaked the combat just a tiny bit for simplicities sake and nerfed the difficulty because of the issues that would be had with giving everyone orders all the time. I'll be picking it up. It looks really good.
    Hmm, that's kind of disappointing that they had to dumb down the game for consoles. Well as I said I'm happy to play it on the PC due to future modability as well as for the sake of getting the full experience.


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    I'll probably never own a PC capable enough of playing it, but I think I'll miss some of the difficulty. I did beat Demon's Souls. But I hear the story is incredible, so I'm thankful for that.

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    Yeah, the story is pretty damn good so far. There are actually 5 different opening stories depending on the race and background you choose plus another 1 for mages. They are actually pretty long themselves, about 2 hours. Beyond that, your choices throughout the game have implications later on, and no moral choices are really obvious. The transition from the introduction story to the main story was disjointed, and the beginning of main story seemed a bit rushed, but it was still pretty interesting.

    As for the universe itself, I would think of it as being atmospherically more along the lines of the Witcher with quite a bit of Warhammer mixed in.


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    Quote Originally Posted by sycld View Post
    And I am so glad that the interface is actually made for the PC, rather than the crappy console-oriented one for Mass Effect.
    Bioware is mainly a PC oriented developer. Unlike 95% of the other developers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick2.1 View Post
    Bioware is mainly a PC oriented developer. Unlike 95% of the other developers.
    Oh, I know. But Mass Effect was their last blockbuster release, and one could have been worried that its less elegant but more console-interface could have set the trend for its future RPG releases.

    Interestingly enough, Bioware actually was only the main developer of the XBox 360 version of Mass Effect. Demiurge Studios primarily made the Windows version of the game.

    Also, I forgot to add that from the trailers I had feared that there might be an over-driven electric guitar "rock me like a hurricane" soundtrack. Thankfully, there is not.
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    I'm enjoying it, but I'm finding the dungeon crawling a little tedious. There's no tangible reward so it's basically just grinding until you hit the inevitable boss, most of which are, admittedly, much more enjoyable fights.
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    I'm up to The Joining right now. I'm a human male warrior, and I just finished the hour-long conversation tree with Alistair, who is a fucking awesome character so far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MalReynolds View Post
    I just finished the hour-long conversation tree with Alistair, who is a fucking awesome character so far.
    I almost want to roll a female character just so that I can lay him >_>;

    He is by far the most delicious male in the game to this point. As de facto leader of our little band, I stipulate that he must always be stripped to his little cloths until such time as he is forced to wear his armor for protection. Otherwise, his supple flesh must be bear and vulnerable at all times.


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    Sometimes you just creep me out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MalReynolds View Post
    Sometimes you just creep me out.
    that's what i do.



    (in reality though i'm tame and need cuddling ;_; )


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    hour long conversations? color me disinterested

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    Quote Originally Posted by Atmosfear View Post
    hour long conversations? color me disinterested
    The one he's referring to is purely optional. It's a dialog where you initiate a conversation with one of your party members which can be done at any time out of combat, and he had to have gone through all the options for it to have been that long. You don't have to do it at all.


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    Oh, yeah. I could have skipped it, but I was pretty interested in what was going on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MalReynolds View Post
    Oh, yeah. I could have skipped it, but I was pretty interested in what was going on.
    you just wanted to melt to the dulcet sounds of alistair's voice

    i wonder what the who did his voice acting looks like


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    hey sycld apparently there is a male-male romance in this game (finally)

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    Holy. Shit. This story is goddamn great so far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nermy2k View Post
    hey sycld apparently there is a male-male romance in this game (finally)
    seriously?!

    well, i know who my elf mage is going to lay then...

















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    Lol, there is also apparently implied sex with transsexuals and animals as well (the latter I'm taking to be a joke, since both of these occur when you ask a brothel owner to "surprise you")
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    Okay, Redcliff is driving me up a fucking wall.

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    That didn't really give me a whole lot of trouble, but then again, lol consoles.

    I went through the next dungeon (you know what I'm talking about) and decided to do the least evil thing in regard to the shitstorm in Redcliff, but en route to the Circle, I was mowed down by a random battle and have not saved in an hour.

    ...

    fuck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MalReynolds View Post
    That didn't really give me a whole lot of trouble, but then again, lol consoles.

    I went through the next dungeon (you know what I'm talking about) and decided to do the least evil thing in regard to the shitstorm in Redcliff, but en route to the Circle, I was mowed down by a random battle and have not saved in an hour.

    ...

    fuck.
    Damn, that sucks. Thankfully we've got F5 on the PC version for quicksave, and I press it often.

    Well, at least you got through it the first time. It took me a couple hours to get through the zombie hordes. If I had a the healing spell it would have been so much easier.

    Anyway,

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    Was anyone else super excited when
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    Since I like the story over the actual gameplay, I nerfed the difficulty so I could just get on and see where everything was going.

    Battles that were taking me 5 minutes now take around 1-2.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MalReynolds View Post
    Since I like the story over the actual gameplay, I nerfed the difficulty so I could just get on and see where everything was going.

    Battles that were taking me 5 minutes now take around 1-2.
    dude, I had to play on Normal cause I'm ALWAYS lighting my teammates on fire with Flaming Hands, and my Fireballs are indiscriminate in their fiery pain.




    Has anyone else done a magi? the entropy school of magic has some really abusable magic. What class/race/origin are you Mal?
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