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[J_chambers]

I was cutting down on my gaming time as I had other responsibilities since it's now just my sister and I at home after my parents left the country for the long term, and I was working towards my career. I was doing well for myself until I just found out DA was released, then I thought it wouldn't hurt to buy one game and play for a bit...I was terribly mistaken.

Modifié par J_chambers, 08 avril 2010 - 05:18 .

[mellifera]

I blame Valentia X up there. She started gushing about it so I picked it up out of curiosity. I barely even finish most games I buy, and I've replayed maybe 2-3 out of all the ones I own. I've never played a western RPG, as practically all I've played are JRPGs. I hate MMOs too, but it's not really a matter of the games themselves but the social aspect that I'm not a fan of. I was skeptical, but I was also bored and had been hearing about it left and right so I decided to give it a go.



I bought it about a week before my winter break ended, so I assumed that it would be a good way to pass the time before the new semester started and I'd just chuck it back on my shelf and be done with it then. Little did I know, right? I've played through about 4 times already, and am constantly planning out my next run.



I think it says a lot that after I finished it twice on the PS3 I bought it on the PC and finished it two more times I got addicted to mods that fix a lot of the broken/glitchy stuff and give me better hair options :x

[Cypher0020]

I remember seeing an ad for this game back when it was just called Dragon Age.... then I think it dropped off the map for me for a really long time, and I found some info about it after they put Origins in the title.



Been a Bio fan since Kotor and lapped up any info regarding Mass Effect at the time and was eager to try this out. At first I wasn't even sure of DAO could be played for the 360... and when I found that out that it was I was hooked.



Didn't get my hands on it until Feb, and I haven't beaten it yet... I enjoy making new characters and trying out different ways to play the classes. Happily made a male noble dwarf with shaggy hair, stubble, with a kind heart but weilds a massive axe..... Gonna enjoy playing him....



Did manage to get up part way through on my city elf and hooked up with Alistair....



So in short I'm addicted. Just whipped up a female dwarf commoner since I love the dwarf origins most, and will pair her with Zev.....



Hoping that Dragon Age 2 will be just as good.... and going crazy for Mass Effect 3

[CaveTown]

I played Dragon Age for hours upon hours until I felt like I was going to puke - then I finally realized that is was enough. I needed help!


http://social.bioware.com/brc/360838
http://social.bioware.com/brc/123964

[sylvanaerie]

I saw ads for the game last year but didn't think I could play it, it looked waaaaay too fancy for my old PC and I don't have a PS3 or Xbox so I didn't think much of it till a friend of mine got his copy (and a used xbox) for Christmas. In just that short amount of time visiting him, he insisted I made a PC to play (I never did I found his mage playthrough more absorbing to watch as the controller confounded me) but I swore I would get it if my PC could run it.



I went to Gamestop and asked the guy there if the specs I had written down would work and they did (Barely). Despite the glitching and occasional freezes I got sucked in almost immediately. The game was running on medium graphics so I had some color and the Fade graphic was stable and not all fuzzy. Still in all I managed at least 10 playthroughs in that short amount of time (Helps when you are stay at home mom and have one adult kid and a teenager living with you so no baby to tend).



Then my PC had a nervous breakdown. I got a new one (thank you IRS) and now the game is all fresh and new for me because I can see how the creators intended for it to be seen.



I've done all the Origins (though I haven't finished any dwarven playthroughs). I've made at least 20 or more PCs (not all of which finished). Sometimes I just played the Origin stories with them (In fact a large majority were just origin story PC's). I've done 5 mage playthroughs (two elf, two human and currently on another elf). 1 city elf playthrough (though the ending depressed me). 2 Dalish playthroughs. At least 6 HN playthroughs (male and female) as I find I identify most with the human PC. More often than not I will make a PC play to get to a certain point and then delete them. I have made 3 PCs to play out some of the romances (at least to get a feel for them) but always go back to Alistair (I just find his suits me best).



So...addicted much? Umm yea My name is Sylvanaerie and I am a Dragonageaholic. Maker watch over me...



*Facepalm*

[SurelyForth]

I think I started looking for a new game to play in October when Sims 3 proved to be too glitchy for my blood. I wanted something Oblivion-esque and stumbled upon a DA:O anticipation thread on another site. It looked like it might fit the bill so I pre-ordered it for PS3.

After one woeful attempt at playing a CEF (I was so stressed on that character's behalf that I missed about 90% of everything until I finally gave up at Redcliffe), I tried a HNF and fell in love with the Couslands.

Since then, I think I've played through about 20 times* (across two platforms, I ended up buying the PC version for myself when my boyfriend decided to get addicted and started hogging the PS3). I have two characters, a human mage and a HNF, who have been played at least four times apiece, and I've finished the game with all of the origins except Dalish Elf. I have also become a shameless Alistair fangirl (although my love for Leliana is steadily increasing) and, even though I want to flick him between the eyes sometimes, I think he might be one of my favorite fictional characters (visual-media only) of all times.

I don't know if this a credit to DAO or just a manifestation of my own obsessive nature but even with all the time spent playing the game, and talking about the game, and reading about the game, I still get excited when I hear the music in the opening and I can lose myself for hours. I think it's the characters (like, all of them) that have me so hooked, seeing how I recreationally peruse the toolset for VO comments and conversation trees that I might not have seen before. I've even started writing fanfic (or as I call it in my judgemental headspace, "supplemental companion literature of my own devising").

So, yeah. Completely addicted.

*And I have a full-time job! It's fun to stroll into the office on Mondays and get teased by my boss because she knows that the answer to "So, what did you do this weekend?" is going to be a sheepish "Uh...played on my computer, mostly." It's a good thing that I'm comfortable with my total lack of a social life.

Modifié par SurelyForth, 08 avril 2010 - 01:06 .

[sfchicken]

this is one of the best games i have ever played, it plays out so good i feel like its more real than my life

[frostajulie]

I don't play a lot of computer games. I do like to be a kick ass female, its a nice break from being a kindergarten teacher ninja wannabe. I played the sh*t out of Mass effect and was surprised at how satisfying it felt to "save the galaxy". My brother he always helps push me through getting used to game controls, gives me tactical advice etc. I love watching him play his games it usually tells me if I will like them. DA:O is the first game I have bought without previewing it through my brother and I have not regretted it since.



I have played and replayed every origin, beaten the game a few times and overall had a blast. Alistair destroyed my mage when he broke up with her and I cried like a baby and I was so angry and at the same time I was in awe over how AWESOME a game was to be able to make me feel ike it had just broken up with me. That was my one playthru where I did the Ultimate Sacrifice. It was EPIC!



So then I played through again and this time I romanced Zevrahn and I was again amazed at how deep the romance was. I was used to bioware romances being cute but shallow and well, not quite real. Zev was just amazing and I was blown away by his insecurities, his fears, his way of hiding his pain with humor and then I got the gates dialogue with him, mind you it was before Ejoslins dialogue fix so what I actually got was the friendship dialogue but it was one of the most powerful dialogues I have ever heard and totally cemented my pixel crush on Zev. His black city speech blew me away the voice intonations the facial expressions etc.



Now add to the awesome romance the fact that the party banter is something new and exciting and you have a game that for the first time made me care about all the characters. So the jedi might find me simple minded, so what, I like Oghren and Sten. I love Morrigan, Zev and Alistair and I love/like Leilani even if she can't take a hint and stop falling for my chaacters. This game got me with drama, with humor, with romance, it tapped into my feelings in a way no game ever has and that made it so much fun to play. I always feel sad when it is over because its like saying goodbye to a group of friends. Really with this kind of character driven game, even if the story was a bit standard and Orzammaar gives me migraines I would have paid triple the cost of the game just for the experience and entertainment value.



As it is I have bought the PC version and can't even play it on PC yet because I just have a very standard laptop. But by the summer I will be purchasing a gaming computer to play it on. I can't wait to try out the new hairstyles and armor mods and change some of the characters experience, respec characters and get the bash open chests mod It's going to make this game new again for me just in time for summer break.

[OrlesianWardenCommander]

I was always a RPG fan i played alota RPG's on my ps3 and Wow and Runescape on my PC but then i got into shooters but got tired of them after a year and heard about dragon age so i took a gamble and i liked it .
I've beat Origins 14times and awakening around 9. Ill be quitting till the next dlc or game soon i cant take not being able to continue my ownage charaters much longer .

[Nukenin]

According to Steam (which apparently logs the hours I spend playing DA), I've spent 581.2 hours playing Dragon Age (some of that perhaps invested in some forays into Awakening as an Orlesian).

That's a lot of hours.  Then when you consider I've yet to complete the game—I've yet to have a single character complete even three of the four "core quests"—one wonders just what the heck I'm doing.  (I periodically punish characters who haven't finished by purging their saves, for one thing.)

[MelRedux]

My husband as always played RPGs, and I was first introduced to them with KOTOR. I enjoyed it so much I started reading into more RPG VGs, and found the Bioware was really the only way to go! I tried others, but they weren't the same. I didn't hear about DA:O until about a month before it cam out. I searched online to see when ME2 was coming out, and then I saw info about DA and immediately got super excited!!



I bought it the day it came out, and haven't looked back since (except that 2 weeks I spent playing ME2). I'm a meeting planner by day, real estate agent by night and weekend, so I really don't have that much time to play. The amount of "sick" days and snow days spent on DA is a little embarassing to admit. I try to spend every free minute I have playing...My husband hates it. He doesn't hate that I ignore him, but that he doesn't get to play...hehe

[Addai]

My husband got me hooked, damn him! I had played Fallout 3 and Oblivion, but other than that mostly sniffed at his "primitive" toon games. I did play some text RPG. He got DA:O shortly after it came out, I think it was November? When I first tried it, the combat seemed so difficult and I wasn't used to 3rd person perspective or squad tactics. So I ditched it, but came back and I'm pretty sure it was interaction with Alistair that hooked me. By Christmas I was fighting him for the PC. Bet he regrets that now.



I've played through at least 10 times, probably more if I include re-starts. I noticed a lot more time for reading and housework when the PC was broken. Funny how that works!

[remylass]

This was my first Bioware game (that has now lead to me buying Mass Effect 1 and 2). I wasn't sure if I was going to like it, but I really wanted to try it. I have been playing it now since launch. I keep trying to have the best playthrough I can have.



My husband was listening to me tell him all about the game for a few weeks, so he went and bought a new PC and a copy of the game, and we sat in our home offices yelling back and forth down the hallway. He has since moved on, but I have not. Finishing my 4th playthrough. I was disappointed in Awakenings, so I have only played it once.



We have tons of conversations about it. I bought the soundtrack from itunes, and I listen to it at work at my desk sometimes. (Great music) I read the first book, and I am reading the second.

[Carmen_Willow]

I am very new to gaming. Started with a little dungeon crawler called FATE. Went on to TORCHLIGHT, and then went in search of something that had even more plot. Found DA:O, bought it for my cheap PC. When I killed my PC by playing the game for hours at a time, I bought a console because it was cheaper (along with a new copy of the game). Played the game so much, I cracked the disk, bought another copy and continued to play......



My first playthrough as a HNF, I was so depressed when Alistair dumped me, I did the Ultimate Sacrifice. The next time through, I tried to talk him into the Dark Gift and when he wouldn't, I was so angry, I let him die. How can a game suck you in like this?



Since then I've played many permutations, with many romances and outcomes. Have bought other games and the expansion but I still like the original best.



It's the story...it's the characters. They seem real. They seem like people I'd like to know or love to hate. It's like BEING in a movie instead of just watching one. How about the fear you felt the first time you face on Ogre? Wow!



When an MA in psychology, I am constantly asking myself about a character's motivation, and I am constantly seeking to understand how the writers of this epic managed to get such an emotional buy-in from their market.



I think about it at work. I dream about it at night. I've gotten up at 3:00 in the morning because I've figured out a way to kill that b**** Marjolaine with my current character....you name it, I've been there.



This game grabs people of all ages, genders, nationalities....they did something very right with this game. I just hope they can repeat the magic in the next full release. Hint to the developers: It's all about the writing! It's all about the characters! The conversations! The snide remarks! The surprisingly vulnerable moments! Please give us more of this.



My name is Carmen Willow and I am a Dragon Age addict!

[Patriciachr34]

I was a pretty avid MMORPG gamer for a few years, first with LII and then with WOW. I really enjoyed WOW until I hit level 80 and had to grind for gear and participate in raids. Ugghh! I also enjoy regular tabletop RPG's with my long-time friends. These friends are also avid computer gamers and have all the gaming mags at their homes. I was browsing through one of these and saw an ad or article for the upcoming Dragon Age (about a year out). So I bookmarked a couple of gaming sites and checked in on occasion for a release date. Last September I notice that we could pre-order the new Dragon Age on Amazon. Since I'm a nut for collector's editions stuff, I pre-ordered the game with the intention of this being a nice two week break from my gear grind through Ulduar. Uhmmm...it's been what 9 months with 7 play throughs and counting. I deleted a few because I wasn't happy with them and wanted to start over. Not only is WOW a thing of the past, so is TV. Yes, I left David Tenant and Dr. Who for DA:O. I've also managed to lose a size and a half in clothes. What is it with this game and getting fit?

[Cenwyn]

My story begins with the Legend of Zelda on the first nintendo, then nintendo 64 and so on and so forth. That game began my love and addiction of questing games of that nature. For a while I stopped playing due to a divorce and life taking control of things. Then I met my current husband with the PS2 and XBox. Once again I was able to indulge my love of games starting with The Lord of the Rings series when it came out. Then DragonAge is released for Xbox and my husband buys it. Well lets just say that one month of surgery leave (in January) I had to take from work is what really sodding did it in for me. I was hooked when I first started building my character. From there it only got better or worse if you think in addiction terms. I would find myself playing 12hours a day on it I would forget to eat, use the bathroom, feed the animals and all the other things that you need to do in life sometimes. Then because my eyeballs were popping out of my skull from looking at the HDTV for that long I would stop and come back down to real life.

.DragonAge is a fricking drug that I cannot not get enough of.  On surgery leave I was up till the wee wee hours of the morning playing cause I was dying to see what happens next. And it was just not one game I stopped at, oh no I immediately launched into another game right after that with a different origin story. I am currently on my 9th game and have calmed down a bit on playing time. Returning to work put a damper on those playing from sunup to sundown days. However I do find that if I go one day without playing I get that itch and that itch turns into obsessive thinking which turns into a burning desire to play that cannot be quenched till I get at least a couple hours play time in. As soon as I turned in on and heard the music I was instantly sated, my body and mind getting that "antipacted killing high adrenaline rush" flowing. I would think tactics in my sleep, how to do this or kill this person or who take with on the final battles and why, and how would I set up their tactics. And then the game further sucks you in by the awsome companions you team up with not to mention the friendship,romance and so on and so forth. Alistair and Zevran of course being my favorite lovers. I am now awaiting shipping confirmation for my new superpowered labtop so I play the PC version anytime I want.  At any rate I have to be going now to get my "fix" of DragonAge for the day I leave the world of Corporate America. So to quote Carmen_Willow above I leave standing up and saying:
My name is Cenwyn and I am proud DragonAge addict!  )

[TanithAeyrs]

I have to confess, I played the old adventure game on the original Atari, I played D&D before you had to specify which version you were playing. I have been a Bioware fan since the original Baldur's Gate. Dragon Age showed up on my radar with a couple of screenshots Bioware released about 5 years ago. I haunted the forums almost daily from fall of 2008 until the game released. I have finished 4 full playthroughs with different origins, written a FF that is 30,000 + words and counting and played Awakenings through once, all while raising children and working full time. I think I need help.

[Carmen_Willow]

Patriciachr34 wrote...

I was a pretty avid MMORPG gamer for a few years, first with LII and then with WOW. I really enjoyed WOW until I hit level 80 and had to grind for gear and participate in raids. Ugghh! I also enjoy regular tabletop RPG's with my long-time friends. These friends are also avid computer gamers and have all the gaming mags at their homes. I was browsing through one of these and saw an ad or article for the upcoming Dragon Age (about a year out). So I bookmarked a couple of gaming sites and checked in on occasion for a release date. Last September I notice that we could pre-order the new Dragon Age on Amazon. Since I'm a nut for collector's editions stuff, I pre-ordered the game with the intention of this being a nice two week break from my gear grind through Ulduar. Uhmmm...it's been what 9 months with 7 play throughs and counting. I deleted a few because I wasn't happy with them and wanted to start over. Not only is WOW a thing of the past, so is TV. Yes, I left David Tenant and Dr. Who for DA:O. I've also managed to lose a size and a half in clothes. What is it with this game and getting fit?

Who has time to eat when you are adventuring in Ferelden?

[Patriciachr34]

Lol!! So true!

[Cenwyn]

TanithAeyrs wrote...

I have to confess, I played the old adventure game on the original Atari, I played D&D before you had to specify which version you were playing. I have been a Bioware fan since the original Baldur's Gate. Dragon Age showed up on my radar with a couple of screenshots Bioware released about 5 years ago. I haunted the forums almost daily from fall of 2008 until the game released. I have finished 4 full playthroughs with different origins, written a FF that is 30,000 + words and counting and played Awakenings through once, all while raising children and working full time. I think I need help.

Dido sister! Ah the original Atari! Good lord I had that system and Wizard of War was my favorite game. You don't need help, you you fit right in with the rest of us junkies! This one addiction I don't mind having!

[CalJones]

I eat tuna out of a can while sitting at my desk. You're not alone.

[asaiasai]

I stumbled across the game trolling around the rpg review sites and thought DAO sounded good. I pre ordered the game and as i usually do when i have a game comming i take a week off work i get 6 weeks off a year when ever i want. I started the game and was immediatly drawn into it like a moth to a bug zapper. I have 13 completes now 5 mages, 4 human nobles, 3 city elves, 1 dwarf noble i am currently working a dalish up. I have purchased every DLC avaliable i still can not get enough of this game.



I was so impressed with DAO that when i heard about ME2 comming out i shopped ME (from Steam) for 5 bucks, liked it made a few characters to advance to ME2 and played ME2 4 times. Too short IMHO, no where near the depth of DAO, no where near the emotional attachment to the characters, (i am 43 y/o male and i cried like a baby when my CE took the final blow) i have been gaming since Atarii 2600 consoles were the rage, and i never had anything like this before. The closest i felt to this attachment was The Witcher which was my favorite game until DAO which bumped it to number 2.



Anyway i do feel for the developers sometimes, top this, and then i think man i hope so cause if they can wow what a ride we have comming. Bioware you guys do good work and as a new fan i have to say you makem ill playem.



Asai

[C9316]

I heard about dragon age thru one of my Xboxlive friends I think I told him "I'm not into RPGs that much anymore"(I have a history with KoTOR lol) then I was on youtube one day and decided to look at a guy's CE playthrough and it was FING!! awsome it was immeadiately place on my 2009 christmas wishlist.I wasn't able to play it as much as I wanted to on Christmas day though(family gatherings and such) but I was still thinking of possible builds for my first mage run,the next day I played it for so long my parents nearly had to poweroff my 360 even now as I'm typing this post with my teacher glaring at me I'm thinking of tactics for DA:O and DA:A. I'm currently on my DE rouge run and my CD warrior run with my four other runs on DA:O completed and two DA:A runs completed

Modifié par C9316, 16 avril 2010 - 03:28 .

[Thomas9321]

I heard about the game some time before release. I followed it pretty closely for some time, release day was like Christmas come early. My first playthrough took me a week and much ignored work from college. I recall sitting in my philosophy class planning how to defeat the Archdemon (who had totally annihilated me the night before). I have the Xbox 360 version and the PC version. I'm presently on my ninth playthrough of Origins (which is my second on the PC). Alas, I'm waiting for a patch before starting a second run of Awakening (the first was one the 360). At present I have about five characters sitting around the Korcari wilds waiting to be played and another whose Origin I need to do. This game is better than I could have ever imagined.

[Suron]

I played through DA:O numerous times....clocking in at (according to steam) over 520ish hours...



I even replayed the same origin more then once and re-used the same char name and look...



I haven't even played the Dwarf Commoner or Dalish Elf through yet.



funny that it took a FUBAR patch and an abortion of an expansion to FORCE me out of my addiction...



now I don't even have the desire...the patch and the expansion are an insult and an embarrassment.