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[bzombo]

I left for a bit to play some other games, but I find myself coming back. Origins has such staying power. 2 is nice and all, but Origins is just such a superior product.

[Jerrybnsn]

What race are you this time? Ah, the good ol'days when you could play other races...

[Arthur Cousland]

I've started up another playthrough, as well. This time, I'm playing on pc as opposed to Xbox 360, and I get to unlock the achievements all over again. Ah, how I've missed Ferelden...

I thought I was done with Dragon Age until DA3 came out, but while I'm taking a break from Skyrim, I decided to try Origins on my new laptop, and it's different playing this compared to Xbox 360. I'm used to having a controller in my hands, but now I'm having to move with the w,a,s,d setup.

[Swordfishtrombone]

DA:O indeed is one of those games that really has staying power. The only RPG I've played through more times is BG2.

Though I have to say that I find myself replaying DA2 every now and then - though curiously, or perhaps tellingly, I usually quit by act 3. Running around the same alleys, nooks and crannies over and over tends to get tedious. It's not a BAD game as such, and a few mods improve it a bit.

(Like the one that allows you to switch the party on the fly, the one that allows you to change the armor of your companions, just like in DA:O, and the one that raises the value of "junk", so now it's actually worth it to collect some of it - and offset the cost of equipping your companions.)

But no doubt DA:O is vastly better.

[Jerrybnsn]

Faerunner wrote...

Jerrybnsn wrote...

What race are you this time? Ah, the good ol'days when you could play other races...

I hear you. Immediately after trying DA2, I flew back to DAO and started immersing myself in several elven and dwarven characters just because I could.....

That's exactly what I did when I first started playing DA2.  I played it for twenty minutes and longed for the mechanics of Origins.  Although I started playing a female mage from the tower this time.  So that's what Jowan's story is all about.  I just can't see what the girls see in Cullen though. It took me another three months before I could pick up the controller and try DA2 again.

Modifié par Jerrybnsn, 19 juin 2012 - 02:49 .

[Arthur Cousland]

In DA2, Cullen also has the "mages aren't people like you and me" line, which he also says to a mage Hawke.

[ZLJ420fun]

Yes, without a doubt origins is the best of the two games in my opinion.

[bzombo]

Jerrybnsn wrote...

What race are you this time? Ah, the good ol'days when you could play other races...

I'm a human noble. I love that origin. Sorry to disappoint the elf and dwarf lovers!

I have played every single origin and completed the game using every single origin, so I'm not adverse to the other races, I just love how they handled the human noble origin.

Modifié par bzombo, 20 juin 2012 - 10:57 .

[Jerrybnsn]

bzombo wrote...

Jerrybnsn wrote...

What race are you this time? Ah, the good ol'days when you could play other races...

I'm a human noble. I love that origin. Sorry to disappoint the elf and dwarf lovers!

I have played every single origin and completed the game using every single origin, so I'm not adverse to the other races, I just love how they handled the human noble origin.

What's great is that you actually have a choice.  Origins is probably the best rpg ever.

[TonberryFeye]

I'm on my eighth playthrough myself... not counting the ones I aborted because I just wanted to do the origin story of all races.

For some reason the majority of my playthroughs are done using females...

First time was a male City Elf Rogue.
Then a female Human Mage.
Male Human Warrior.
Female Human Mage again (remade my original one).
Female Dalish Rogue.
Female Human Mage again (seriously fond of her it seems...).
Male Human Rogue - my 'canon' playthrough that I carried over to DA2.
Now doing a Female Dwarf Noble Warrior playthrough. Notable in that I managed to accidentally sleep with Alistair.... oh boy is that going to take some explaining.

[bzombo]

I played as a female once to see how different it was. Some stuff here and there, but mostly the same, so I went back to being a dude. :-)

[VeeVito]

Played the game and finished it at release. Put it down for a couple of years.

Something was recently pinging at the back of my brain to play DAO again. So, I dug out my disc, reinstalled, patched and went off to create a new character.

Everything fell into place and I quickly realized why I had a sub conscious desire nagging at me. The production is phenomenal. Duncan is great.

Take all your current games and stuff 'em. I only regret that it took so long to succumb to my thoughts and dust off my disc.

Frankly, I have no hope for DA3. It will be bastardized for the "click, BOOM!" crowd that devs seem to think are what matters.


Anyway, yeah....

[Orc Town Grot]

I restarted a DAO campaign yesterday too. I can't comment about DA2 here without getting banned for life. Origins is a superbly built game, but it has a number of flaws. They don't kill the game, but they are areas that could have been improved in DA2 (But tragically were componded). Biggest problem is the world map, or rather the absence of a good one. A greater sense of travelling and exploring. A sense of a larger world, many more wandering monsters were needed. Too much emphasis on the script-centered locales and no sense of a larger world. Crafting is terribly underdone in Origins. Also a major lack in non-combat skills. The story-telling is great. But all the ways to give the player more control of role playing, and building out OWN story within the tale were reduced. Thus it is a lesser game not only than Baldur's Gate, but also the old Fallouts. As much as we love Origins, we need to understand where and why it is underwhelming: because DA2 was a disaster that folowed a trend of simplified 'role-playing' that already existed in Origins. It's about my 12th playthrough of Origins, and it is pretty stale because every single encounter is the same every time. Still a great game, because of the passion that went into it, but pretty far from perfect. EA has the budget to make DA3 perfect, but they will only succeed if they can TRULY accept and embrace what made Baldur's Gate and the old Fallout's so good: The systems and tools to let the players write the story, not letting us be the idiot with the mouse who clicks through the setpieces of a pre-scripted yawnfest.....

[Orc Town Grot]

But with complaints, why am I playing Origins AGAIN? Well simply: there is nothing else worth playing, until the promised rebuild of Baldur's Gate this summer. Skyrim was a soulless, humourless, joyless bleakness after a single long wander.....

[TonberryFeye]

One of the things I always enjoyed about Origins is how all six Origin stories take place together. The one that is 'canon' is whichever one Duncan turns up at.

Without Duncan, Teyrn Cousland's son/daughter fails to escape the castle.
Without Duncan, the son/daughter of Lord Aeducan dies in the Deep Roads.
Without Duncan, the Dwarf Commoner rots in a cell (I think... I don't actually remember how you wind up with Duncan in that one. )
Without Duncan, the Dalish Elf dies of the Taint.
Without Duncan, the City Elf is left to the mercies of the Arl of Denerim.
Without Duncan, the Circle Mage is either convicted of aiding a Blood Mage, or if Irving spares him/her (s)he likely dies during the Blood Mage uprising.

The fact that there is evidence, if you know where to look, that these things happen even though you don't pick that character is awesome. It's a curious moment to be stood in the Carta base, staring at a corpse in a cell and thinking "there, but for the grace of God, go I."

In a way, it's also our fault. Duncan goes to whatever character we, the player, choose. In effect, we are the Warden-Commander ordering Duncan to check on the Circle, or look for recruits in Highever, or take part in a Deep Roads Expedition. We send him to find a recruit, and he does... and the other five are left to suffer their fates.

Maybe that's why we all seem to care for the Warden so much more than Hawke; we killed five 'Wardens' in the prologue alone.

[Arthur Cousland]

bzombo wrote...

I played as a female once to see how different it was. Some stuff here and there, but mostly the same, so I went back to being a dude. :-)

The main difference is the ability to flirt with, romance, and possibly rule Ferelden with Alistair.  That's one thing that a male warden will never see.  The achievement is the only reason that I tried a female warden playthrough once.

[TheReignmaker]

I never thought I'd be uninstalling Diablo 3 to make room for another Origins playthrough. Yet, here I am.

[bzombo]

I enjoyed Diablo 3, but it is short and repetitive. They spent all that time developing a game that lasts 25 hours?

[K_Tabris]

Yup. I just started my first Lady Aeducan run, and I must say, the dwarves are the most underrated aspects of DA:O. Casteless dwarf is probably my new favorite origin (right after city elf).

[Callidus Thorn]

And I'm starting up another game too, either human noble rogue or elf mage. On the one hand I've never completed the game as a human noble, on the other, I love the arcane warrior/blood mage combo.

[NIGHT WID0W]

Count me in. I just recently picked up DAO for the PC since Bioware had a sale on the mid level addition and I had only ever played on the 360. Not only do I never really tire of the story, I also get to explore all the custom content now.

As for DA2, let's just say I sold it after my initial play through and leave it at that. ;-)

[maxdorval]

Just refinished Awakening today! Following my re-replaying of origins of course. Truly an awesome game. Its too bad awakening has such bad balancing problems played it on nightmare has a all points in magic mage it was a joke.. just throwing spells everywhere killing all my teamates and still having enough CC spells to keep control of the field and win..

Origins is a much more balanced game ahah though both are great. Didn't remembered how awesome it was...

Dragonage II still make me cry at night (well it was alright but sooo underwhelming.. and felt rushed..). Glad I never bought it and actually played on a friend copy.

[bzombo]

I'm going to play right through everything: DA:O, Awakening, Golems, and then the Morrigan DLC. Fun times.