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[LTD]

Just sayin



Returning to DA:O after few years and again in awe of work and detail poured on world building.Love tghe mythology, the religion(s) the political intrique the everything!!  I wish they'd make an entire DA game from POV of Dalish Elves some time.

[Angrywolves]

Agree. The thing that bothers me is the fact the people at Bioware now seem to refuse to acknowledge how beloved DA Origins is. I find it perplexing.

[Warden Commander David]

Yeah...I returned to DA:O a couple weeks ago as well.

This is by far...my favorite game, period.

I definitely thank bioware for it...but I also have to give thanks to the many modders who posted their mods on Dragon Age Nexus.

I played the playstation version back when I first played the game. I just got the PC version a couple weeks back when I started playing DA:O again...and the mods just add so much more customization to the game...it's incredible. They are definitely a huge part of why this is my favorite game.

I honestly can't believe I used to play it without any mods.

PS: Yeah, Angrywolves...I really wish they would have just expanded the Awakening storyline and just made it an actual sequel to DA:O in terms of length and depth.

Modifié par Warden Commander David, 23 mars 2013 - 06:15 .

[ruudg]

started playing again to 8)

i think dao is very much the child of the baldurs gate series.
I love that game, and i love dao to.
great story and great gameplay ftw

[Canned Bullets]

Yeah I got it yesterday and I'm enjoying it. The combat just gets repetitive though. I'd be playing it right now pulling an all-nighter if I didn't need to take a break from the combat every few hours. The storyline is great so far. The character interaction is good but not as good as the character interaction you get in the Mass Effect trilogy.

[Warden Commander David]

Canned Bullets wrote...

Yeah I got it yesterday and I'm enjoying it. The combat just gets repetitive though. I'd be playing it right now pulling an all-nighter if I didn't need to take a break from the combat every few hours. The storyline is great so far. The character interaction is good but not as good as the character interaction you get in the Mass Effect trilogy.

Can't this be said for nearly every single game?

Unless you have an infinite number of abilities...combat will become repetitive.

...or am I missing something...

I will agree that the character interactions in ME3 are better...but I think DA:O is better than ME1 and 2 in that regard.

Modifié par Warden Commander David, 26 mars 2013 - 04:50 .

[Albistein]

Especially with DW rogues I really like the combat.

[Swordfishtrombone]

ruudg wrote...
i think dao is very much the child of the baldurs gate series.

I agree! I rememeber when I started my first playthrough, and almost immediately, starting as a commoner dwarf, I got that feeling that this was going to be something special - the same feeling I got when, in BG2, originally emerging from Irenicus' dungeon into Athkatla.

No other game has drawn me in quite as quickly as DA:O, and I have to say that it's probably down to the fact that I happened to pick, for my first playthrough, the origin that I still like the best out of the origin stories.

Modifié par Swordfishtrombone, 26 mars 2013 - 09:18 .

[LTD]

^
Despite much loving DA:O, I didn't get a very strong Baldur's Gate - vibe off the main campaign. 
Feeling like every bit the small lvl 4 ****** ant mage you are and being  completely lost and forgotten in depths of larger than life eternal forests of Sword Coast is one of the most defining sensations of Baldur's Gate.
Generally speaking most maps in DA:O offered little too many way too narrow cosy L- shaped pipes to ' explore'.   DA:O is satisfyingly large game but it makes a tall and thin lad, not a fat lad. I like my lads fat:o Most all DA:O interiors don't really suffer from this and are actually pretty excellent. Most all exteriors are different case though. No room or opportunities to properly search and explore.

However, there was one forest map in Awakening that totally and finally took me back to the Sword Coast. It felt pretty huge and absolutely delivered an impression of me actually searching my way through a forest. Pipes there  were wide enough for immersion and illusion to fit through.

I wish Awakening had been morphed as a part of main campaign in same way Tales of Sword Coast is morphed to BGI. It would much increase it's value as expansion during replays.

I keep hoping for a DA:O II that mostly takes place in wilderness. I just really like big forests ok?

Modifié par LTD, 27 mars 2013 - 11:39 .

[Canned Bullets]

Warden Commander David wrote...

Canned Bullets wrote...

Yeah I got it yesterday and I'm enjoying it. The combat just gets repetitive though. I'd be playing it right now pulling an all-nighter if I didn't need to take a break from the combat every few hours. The storyline is great so far. The character interaction is good but not as good as the character interaction you get in the Mass Effect trilogy.

Can't this be said for nearly every single game?

Unless you have an infinite number of abilities...combat will become repetitive.

...or am I missing something...

I will agree that the character interactions in ME3 are better...but I think DA:O is better than ME1 and 2 in that regard.

The gameplay is just too slow, I just have the game set to easy just so I can get through the combat more quickly.

[Warden Commander David]

Canned Bullets wrote...

Warden Commander David wrote...

Canned Bullets wrote...

Yeah I got it yesterday and I'm enjoying it. The combat just gets repetitive though. I'd be playing it right now pulling an all-nighter if I didn't need to take a break from the combat every few hours. The storyline is great so far. The character interaction is good but not as good as the character interaction you get in the Mass Effect trilogy.

Can't this be said for nearly every single game?

Unless you have an infinite number of abilities...combat will become repetitive.

...or am I missing something...

I will agree that the character interactions in ME3 are better...but I think DA:O is better than ME1 and 2 in that regard.

The gameplay is just too slow, I just have the game set to easy just so I can get through the combat more quickly.

I see...I like how the game combat is actually realistic and not arcade-like.

I also always play on easy to further the realistic feel of combat.

However, there are mods you can get for faster combat if you wanted. 

Modifié par Warden Commander David, 28 mars 2013 - 02:22 .

[zyntifox]

Warden Commander David wrote...

Canned Bullets wrote...

Warden Commander David wrote...

Canned Bullets wrote...

Yeah I got it yesterday and I'm enjoying it. The combat just gets repetitive though. I'd be playing it right now pulling an all-nighter if I didn't need to take a break from the combat every few hours. The storyline is great so far. The character interaction is good but not as good as the character interaction you get in the Mass Effect trilogy.

Can't this be said for nearly every single game?

Unless you have an infinite number of abilities...combat will become repetitive.

...or am I missing something...

I will agree that the character interactions in ME3 are better...but I think DA:O is better than ME1 and 2 in that regard.

The gameplay is just too slow, I just have the game set to easy just so I can get through the combat more quickly.

I see...I like how the game combat is actually realistic and not arcade-like.

I also always play on easy to further the realistic feel of combat.

However, there are mods you can get for faster combat if you wanted. 

Same here. I even stay away from using haste since it makes the combat too fast and hectic for me.

Just started another playthrough tonight. It's been a couple of months since i last played DA:O. Was going to play dwarven commoner, since it is the only origin i've yet to play, but i just couldn't stay clear of the dwarven noble origin. It is so damn good!

[Son of Imoen]

As a Baldur's Gate addict I was disappointed at first by Dragon Age, mostly because of the speed in which you get powerful (even in the Origin stories, at level 1, you're capable of dealing with though enemies, I wouldn't try that in Baldur's Gate). Mage combat is no AD&D, it's more about damage-dealing and crowd control than intricate buffing-debuffing fights between mages.

Yet the last few months I've been playing DA:O even more than playing Baldur's Gate and what I came to like, especially after having reached Redcliffe and getting a small insight in the political intrigue with the cutscenes depicting Loghain and all the history depicted in the codex entries, I got to like it a lot more: there really is a whole lot to the world of Thedas and the country of Ferelden. What's especially nice is how history keeps on influencing day-to-day life in present-day Ferelden: the personal history of Leliane and of the Dryden's, both of whom's family history got shaped by earlier wars. And like in Faerun, there's a lot of history to a lot of the items, that are interlinked with the history of it's game world.

As to the combat, what's likeable about it is rogues and warriors have much more tactical options than in 2nd Edition AD&D (in the Baldur's Gate and IWD games). I don't feel it's repetitive, many of the more difficult battles force you to reload because as strokes of luck influence how fights work out, just as in AD&D a bad Saving Throw in the beginning might throw your plans for the battle off balance. Or they force you to reload to think out a different strategy. And though I always pick optimum parties (Warrior, Rogue, Mage all present, usually added by Shale, who has a nice mix of tank+damage+crowd control facilities), if you want more varied fights you can always go for the challenge of 3 warriors or 3 mages in a party. And fast and furious it is sometimes, even too much. I like my battles to be drawn out thoughtful affaires, pausing and thinking ahead.

Overall: good game indeed, not the best RPG (that's an unassailable position for BG), but it wins silver for me.

[LTD]

Son of Imoen wrote...

Mage combat is no AD&D, it's more about damage-dealing and crowd control than intricate buffing-debuffing fights between mages.

I've been hoping for this game since Baldur's Gate 2. Mages dueling, busy building and tearing defenses apart and then landing some terrifying blows at exposed enemies was pretty awesome in BG2.

Having said that, I mostly much liked Dragon Age spells and trying to figure various combos out. Just plain satisfying to cast nightmare on sleeping enemies. I never got tired of it. MWAHAHAH. All of it was a touch too low effort though. They lifted an extremely good spell system from most popular MMOs at the time. ...But spells of MMOs come with their restrictions. I had tons of fun with mage in DA:O but I always felt there wasn't that much imagination  used in designing the spells.

Modifié par LTD, 01 avril 2013 - 04:02 .

[Cerberus_tm]

If you think combat is boring, switch to the Nightmare difficulty! Then you really need to think and reconsider your strategies. Battles actually become exciting, instead of just waiting until your party has killed another x Genlocks.

Oh, and three mages is actually not hard at all; I would be inclined to say that it is easier, because they are so incredibly flexible, even with the mod Combat Tweaks.

[Shaleist]

Well I've played it a couple weeks now.
My 2 pennies. Combat DOES get tiring and sort of redundant after a while, and I'm highly annoyed at the 'cutscene' type battles that render a rogues Stealth abilities into a waste of points at times.

But it's still a great game. Near the end *I think* on first character and just kinda hit a wall, rerolled a spirit/Lightning spell mage and I"m digging him.

[drmoose00]

i played it numerous times a few years back, and was playing around with some mods a year or so ago, but then got into skyrim, and did the whole ME series.

But I keep wanting to start another game in DAO. Still one of my all time favs. It is a great game.

DA2, not so much. Never did even get 1/2 way through.

[Derengard]

I was a huge fan in the years before its release. I even liked the beginning, and overall tried to convince me that I liked it, but restrospectively I never particularly enjoyed it even then. Whenever I return I am struck by its low quality. The gameplay is an uninteresting mishmash of "traditional" (complex) and "modern" that you can't say anything good or extremely bad about. The overarching story is mostly put on hold after the first battle and every region feels isolated from anything else in the world. There aren't any good quests. The characters are serviceable and provide the necessary protection from feeling utterly desolated in this ugly, static world, but ultimately are nothing special. Dialogue in this game is barely tolerable in general, with 95% of it humourous in some indefinable way, most of that failing, and everyone talks so f-ing hoity-toity and puffed up.
I know you won't agree, I have seen this all the years. I'd say: go read a few books, not all of them fantasy, and play a few good games with focused dialogue and storytelling and gameplay...

Modifié par Derengard, 12 avril 2013 - 07:55 .

[LTD]

Derengard wrote...

 I'd say: go read a few books, not all of them fantasy, and play a few good games with focused dialogue and storytelling and gameplay...

Ah yes, surely reason people like  games you don't has everything to do with dirty rabble just suffering from  uncultivated tastes and lacking intimacy with finer aspects of popular culture. Thank you for trying to shine your eternal light to unwashed masses. Perhaps you could provide a small listing of books and...games I should explore in order to evolve to your level?

Modifié par LTD, 12 avril 2013 - 08:45 .