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[Typical Charlie]

I read a review that was meant to be a bad review. It criticised the game, saying that although it starts off as a good "role-playing game" (the review went into more details about the spells, the fighting, the characters, etc etc), throughout the game there is just "more of the same"!

That's what made me think it's a great game for me, and made me buy it, because I knew I wanted "more of the same" throughout the game! The review was right, but I like it because of that, not in spite of it.

Can you remember what made you buy the game in the first place?

TC

P.S. (Mind you, I don't like the fact that EA Games takes more of your money for downloads than you authorise them to take. If they are taken to court for fraud, and stopped, we would probably all be happier with their games.)

Modifié par Typical Charlie, 23 juillet 2010 - 11:50 .

[Rzepik2]

They told me it's a new Baldur's Gate.

They lied.

[Typical Charlie]

Rzepik2 wrote...

They told me it's a new Baldur's Gate.
They lied.

Yes, it's got far more in it than Baldur's Gate ever dreamed of!

TC

Modifié par Typical Charlie, 23 juillet 2010 - 11:52 .

[Rzepik2]

Typical Charlie wrote...

Rzepik2 wrote...

They told me it's a new Baldur's Gate.
They lied.

Yes, it's got far more in it than Baldur's Gate ever dreamed of!

TC

Lol, you made me laugh man.

No.
It's just a new Neverwinter Nights with rather bad level scaling, poor combat and really decent party interaction.

Modifié par Rzepik2, 23 juillet 2010 - 12:02 .

[Yrkoon]

Rzepik2 wrote...

They told me it's a new Baldur's Gate.
They lied.

 Yep.  That WAS  one of the major selling points: they said it was the "spiritual successor" to Baldur's Gate.  Whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.

It was that, the Bioware Name, and the sheer number of positive reviews that made me decide to buy it. 

At least the Reviews told the truth.   they described it as a massive, immersive role playing game, a total time-sink with a rich story and even richer companions.  Spot on.

[Fricke]

Well, I wouldn't call it more of a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate than what Neverwinter Nights was, and that game was pretty damn good. But I guess both could be spiritual successors, because the term isn't really meant concretely, or else they'd just say "successor" ^.^

Ok, enough of my ramblings. The reason why I bought the game was the most typical one - I heard about it through rumors, magazines and whatnot, and then I went on Youtube and watched the first part of a "Let's play..." session. I then browsed further and saw some clips of a dragon fight and whatnot, the combat was just insane and I sort of liked the skill system. Plus, people said there were different stories for each character. So in short, I bought the game because of it's reputation, mostly. The same reason why I did NOT buy Perimeter, C&C 4 or several other games.

Rep is key!

Modifié par Fricke, 23 juillet 2010 - 12:16 .

[wildannie]

I was totally addicted to ME2, bought DAO to 'break the habit' - IT TOTALLY WORKED!!!  I'm not addicted to ME2 anymore .

[ruudg]

i loved the baldurs gate series.

i hoped dao was a sort of modern version of it, and i was not dissapointed.

i Like doa very much.

[RedSonia]

My husband wanted it. I don't know his reasons but I supposed he read about it somewhere.



My son bought it for him as a gift for father's day.



I was the one who got hooked....

[Gaxhung]

I was regretting a few steam purchases, so I decided to look up only highly rated metacritic games, DAO is way up there, read a whole bunch of reviews, grew to like it eventually, tried waiting for steam sale, but bought the game when the deluxe edition went down from $64 to $50.

For some reason I hated everything DAO/ME from blog coverage and videos initially, even the sacred ashes trailer seemed too staged. Only when I saw Shepard did I change my opinion of ME2, all those aliens and romance features on both games looked like hardcore dork city to me, but guess whos a bioware fanboy now.

Modifié par Gaxhung, 23 juillet 2010 - 03:15 .

[Goldrock]

mainly because im into the epic rp games love them love them more ive been playing bioware games since the original baldurs gate and no not the cheesy crap ones on ps2 the actualy pc ones. i love the way bioware has made them now storydriven and immersive.

[December Man]

Two of my friends with whom I almost always disagree with on opinions on games said it's one of the best RPGs they played. I gave them a benefit of a doubt and wasn't disappointed.

[kartupelis]

game-spot gave it top marks and it is made by bioware. and when i tried it at my friends place, i simply knew i had to buy it.

[Bratt1204]

Outstanding reviews.

[nuclearpengu1nn]

Griffons

[DanaScu]

Yrkoon wrote...


 Yep.  That WAS  one of the major selling points: they said it was the "spiritual successor" to Baldur's Gate.  Whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.

It was that, the Bioware Name, and the sheer number of positive reviews that made me decide to buy it. 

At least the Reviews told the truth.   they described it as a massive, immersive role playing game, a total time-sink with a rich story and even richer companions.  Spot on.

The above. Along with following it when it was still the un-named original Bioware pc only game in the original forums. It looked like it was going to be a great traditional role-playing game. And it was/is. The new one, I have my doubts about. But I'm still playing DA:O.

[Jez_fr]

Originally (and still) I bought DOA just to support and follow Bioware's creation of their new "medieval" fantasy universe (franchise/setting). I like D&D, but I can use another big, detailed, compelling universe.

That was what I expected from DA, and DAO is/was just the introduction to it.



At this moment I'm mixed about it. I thing they should have go farther in creativity. It's still way too "common" particularly with non human races (I was really disapointed by dwarves and elves, even if their story is cool, its still the old same races ad nauseam...) and global scope or world size is way too small.

In the other hand there's several things I like, like what they did with magic, or the horde etc...



Still in regard to compete with D&D worlds they are still very far from it. Still I like it but that's mostly because of stories, and character interactions. The universe itself is really short and will get boring soon. The ME universe did a much better job at providing a new Sci-Fi universe. We'll see where it goes!

[svenus97]

I went to the store, saw the BioWare logo and bought it

[Arassi]

I went to the store and saw the dragon on the cover. Ooo, shiney...

[CID-78]

The toolset, like NWN and NWN2 before it.

[Hayllee]

An ad on tesnexus, actually. I remember I got on the website and heard someone yelling, and it turned out to be one of those annoying video ads that automatically play and scare the crap out of you. It was a bit of the Sacred Ashes trailer with Leliana. I watched the whole thing and a couple weeks later after it came out, bought it. It just looked like a cool game. The funny thing is, I expected it to be a button-mashing game that I'd play and forget about. It turned out to be freagin' awesome.

[GardenSnake]

Personally for me it was the promise of in depth character creation and a conversation system similar to BG and KOTOR.

[Tirigon]

I´ve read quite a lot about it and found it interesting.



Also, I was bored and needed a new game.

[phaonica]

I demo-ed the game at a friend's house before buying it and I found the origin stories to be so compelling, and the dialog so well written and well acted that the story was almost immediately engaging. I also liked the tactics combat, but I decided to buy the game because I thought the world was interesting, and I really liked the decision making mechanics, not only the story ones, but also the conversation ones that allowed me to get to know my party members.