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[Grieving Natashina]

Wow, I wasn't expecting the bumps! Thanks guys, I'm still loving reading the stories.

[Il Divo]

The Bioware label, being completely honest.

KotOR was my first Bioware game at the age of 13. Before that, I had no idea that anyone made games with such a heavy emphasis on dialogue. Then I got Jade Empire, which I loved even more if possible.

By that point, Bioware games just became day 1 buys for me. Even with the sour taste of ME3 and DA2, Bioware's past record and what I've seen of Inquisition so far are solid enough that I'm likely to buy it blind.

Modifié par Il Divo, 16 février 2014 - 08:57 .

[Iosev]

I started following Bioware games after Knights of the Old Republic, playing everything that has come afterwards, as well as eventually playing their older games prior to KOTOR, so I started following information on Dragon Age: Origins shortly after it was announced.

I'm probably somewhat rare on these forums in that DA:O didn't resonate well with me initially (I completed a playthrough when it was released, and didn't play through it again for a long time). It was actually Dragon Age 2 that made me become more of a fan of the franchise, which finally led me to replay DA:O and find more appreciation for it.

[Shady Koala]

Dad got DA:O for christmas back in 2009, when I saw the cover art I just had to play it and guess what I did, multiple times.  Been hooked ever since, also played the ME series because I heard it was made by Bioware and currently on my first true attempt at Kotor. Only videogame company that I have ever been personally interested in, been tracking DAI since last year.

Modifié par Shady Koala, 17 février 2014 - 12:01 .

[Marakov7]

Isabela's boobs. I'm not necessarily proud of it, but it is what it is. I started playing computer rpg games in the mid 80s on my Commodore 128...top of the line. lol Over the years, I played a lot of different titles and I think BG2 was my favorite. Around the time Icewind Dale 2 came out (2002) I started getting a little bored with them so I moved on to mostly MMOs (Everquest and DAOC) and an occasional game like the Civ series. After about 10 years, I started getting a little bored with them and that's when I stumbled upon a video with Isabela in it. She was...uh, mesmerizing...and the rest of the graphics looked good too so I bought DA2. That was about a year and a half ago.

I thought the game was okay, but not much more than that. I was impressed with the graphics, though...a lot better than I remembered in the Icewind Dale days. I heard about DAO and I saw the Ultimate Edition on sale for $19.99 so I bought it. I also found out that the DA series was made by the same company that made BG2 so that made me want it even more. I was hooked right away...have done dozens of playthroughs (mostly Human Noble). The many mods (especially gameplay tweaks, equipment, and additional companions) has always made me want to play the game yet again.

In my opinion...for ME...DAO is the best rpg game ever made. I know there will be those who disagree, but to ME it is. Great graphics, memorable characters, the kind of combat system I love, and on and on. Maybe if BG2 was redone on the same graphics engine I would put that game higher...loved Viconia, Jaheira, and Imoen...who knows?

After playing DAO numerous times, getting more into the DA world, I gave DA2 another try and I enjoyed it immensely...much better than my first attempt. Granted, not as enjoyable as DAO but still an enjoyable game. DAO...Morrigan, Leliana, Zevran, Sten...loved them all. The Couslands, departing my clan as a Dalish elf, Shianni and the others in the alienage...and on and on. I love it all and I hope that DAI can recapture just a bit of that magic in the bottle they had in the first game and take it to another level.

For now, I'm going to play some DAO with my Dwarf Noble GW and his dwarf companions (from a great mod that has recruitable dwarf companions). Just can't get enough...

[Lee T]

I liked KOTOR and ME1 and people I knew told me DAO it was awesome.

Played it, found it to be awesome and played the crap out it in three playthrough (a two weapon male rogue dwarf commoner, a male human mage who did the evil stuff and a female human noble warrior archer to try the paths I hadn't tried with the previous two).

Then came DA2 and it did kinda ruin the party (then ME3 kinda ruined my opinion on Bioware altogether).

I think I'll play DAO at least another time. I have yet to try a two handed weapon warrior and I wonder how being a dalish affects the story, but I don't feel like it right now.

[DooomCookie]

I was typing Dragon Fable into google search and clicked the result of my half-formed search google instant produced. This was Dragon Age.

I'm 100% serious.

[Foolsfolly]

Starsyn wrote...

This is based upon a PM question I got a couple of days ago.  Also, what keeps you coming back?

I'll add my thoughts later, but for now I figured I'd just toss the question out there. 

I was surfing Amazon. I had a small bit of cash and it was burning a hole in my pocket. I wanted a new game. I believe I typed in 'BioWare' as a search word but Dragon Age could have been suggested to me. I read a little of the description and it was on sale. I bought it for 30 bucks just a month or so after it came out.

The description that actually got me to buy it was -- of all things -- that you could combine spells together to create different spells. That sounded intriguing as hell. Plus it was made by BioWare, who at the time I'd never experienced a let down from them with the sole exception being how I wanted Jade Empire to go on for another 40 hours.

I got the game in the mail for the Xbox 360. Built a Human Noble. Was immediately disappointed by the graphics on the 360, the fact that I picked a voice and yet the Warden was a silent protagonist (seemed deliberately misleading, BioWare), and got to complete Ostagar and the Dalish Camp before I lost it.


None of the characters particularly gelled with me. In fact, it was sparing Zevran's life and having my whole group disagree with the choice that spurred me to abandon the game. They didn't like me and I didn't like them.

So that was the end of Dragon Age for a while. Until I decided, again out of boredom, to attack the game from a new angle. I chose a Dwarf Commoner and his stated outlook on life was "Stab it and take its stuff." He hated most people and couldn't give a damn about what they thought about him.

In the end he died heroically saving a world he slowly grew to appreciate. His family were raised to nobles, King Alistair spoke at the funeral, and his lover Morrigan escaped into Orlais... perhaps hurt more so from the experience than my dwarf was as he entered his final battle.

All in all, that first complete run through is why I'm still here. The world of Thedas is great. The characters are great. The art style is great. It's one of the few RPGs out there that cater to my tastes (I rank Origins up there with New Vegas as the best RPGs of the last decade).

And even with all its ugly and obvious faults DA2's core concept wasn't at fault. In fact, a 'more personal refugee story with light allegorical highlights towards public security/personal freedom' is literally right up my alley. That's the kind of game I dream about.

...so even when this universe fails to achieve its potential I'm still interested in the subject matter. And besides, the Arishok was too ****ing cool! 

[BallaZs]

One of my friends suggested that I should give DA:O a shot. I've never heard about the game up until that point and once I've tried it, I became obsessed with it. That was the case with ME too, although I was already familiar with it's existence but I thought that I wouldn't like it since it takes place in the future. Well, I was dead wrong, I just love DA & ME. Best games I've played so far.

I remember when DA2 came out, I sat for 2 days in front of the screen just to finish the game. The game was a disappointment at first, although I enjoyed it, but needless to say that DA:O was way better. Anyway, I'm currently having my second playthrough with DA2, the story is pretty cool, most of the characters are interesting but the combat system is ridicilous. I miss the times when I didn't have to watch my mage's back all the time because of the randomly appearing enemies.

Modifié par BallaZs, 19 février 2014 - 04:26 .

[mopotter]

I played their previous games, BG, Neverwinter Nights which I enjoyed and then KOTOR, Jade Empire and Mass Effect 1 which I loved. Dragon Age looked good and sounded interesting and I trusted them based on the previous games.

No game is perfect, but I enjoyed DA:O enough to pick up DA2 which I also enjoyed.

[Zombie_Alexis]

I got Dragon Age: Origins as a Christmas present from my boyfriend. "I think this is right up your alley" he said. Boy, was he right. I remember putting the game in and seeing the Bioware logo and saying "These are the people who made Jade Empire", so I was already expecting something good. That game is probably the one game I've played over and over again. I enjoyed DA2, but nowhere near as much as I love DAO.

[abearzi]

A room mate of mine was playing DAO on xbox four years ago or something, and I thought it looked terrible, so I mocked him relentlessly. He convinced me to give it a go and started me up a dwarf noble. Four damn years later and its still one of my favorite games ever.

Though my first playthrough I didn't recruit Leliana because I didn't think she was actually a companion. Seriously, between the Origin story and Ostagar, I was so desensitized to losing characters already that she didn't even strike me as a follower. Many...many...many unopened chests and triggered traps later I discovered I had missed the only rogue who can actually open things.

[SgtElias]

Starsyn wrote...

This is based upon a PM question I got a couple of days ago.  Also, what keeps you coming back?

Don't remember if I replied to this topic or not.

I read a scathingly angry review of the game directly after it came out (though I don't remember where I found it) complaining about how the country's "Christian values" were disappearing, and blaming games like Dragon Age. They were annoyed, I eventually discovered, about the same-sex romances.

So I pretty much had to try it out immediately.

What keeps me coming back is the writing. I love the stories (and the characters!) to death. I love being able to make different characters and play them differently over the course of several playthroughs. I really, really like the lore of Thedas itself. I appreciate more than I can say being able to play not just as a woman (something that's still pretty rare), but as a bisexual or lesbian woman, at that. I'm continually surprised and impressed at the developers' desire(s) to engage with their fans, even if (some of) their fans are acting like petulant, poo-flinging children.

All of these things keep me coming back.

[SonicMisfit]

I don't like FPS games much (except maybe GOW), and have always liked the RPGs. I played most of the old text based RPGs, like Colossal Cave , Zork, etc. After that, the love of the RPGs faded away due to real life butting in.

One day, I visited my youngest daughter and she had an Xbox. She went out on a date and told me that I could use her XBox. I tried it and was hooked. This was where RPGs ended up, Wow, had I been missing out. I became a real fan of Bioware and when DAO came out I had to have it. From then on, I try as many of the RPGs as I can afford, but my three favorites are DAO, Fallout 3, and ME. It has been a great ride.

If anyone is interested in the old text based adventure games and wants to see what it was like in the beginning, (I am talking the 70's), check out www.xyzzy.com

For those who know the significance of what "xyzzy" actually is, I think you will have an idea of what you are going to find there.

[Giant ambush beetle]

To be honest the simple lack of good ''oldschool'' fantasy RPG's is what drew me to the DA series, at that time there was no alternative.

And DA:2 is what made me get some distance between me and the DA series, DA:I will either safe or utterly destroy the series for me.

[BubbleDncr]

So it on a lightning deal on amazon and had never played an rpg before, but it sounded interesting.

Loved it for the story, romances, and the choices. Stick around for that, but also the I want to see where their ultimate storyline is going.

[Grieving Natashina]

SonicMisfit wrote...


For those who know the significance of what "xyzzy" actually is, I think you will have an idea of what you are going to find there.

I do and I suddenly feel rather old...

[CybAnt1]

I have fond memories of loading Zork I from floppies. I mean, Really Floppy floppy disks. It took about a minute and a half to load that bloody text adventure and run it each time. 

Have sword, have lantern, will travel.

Ahhh, those heady days of the Upper Paleolithic.

And to date myself (as if I haven't done so already), yes, I did play this.



At the time, I thought it was the shiznit. 

And I think all CRPGs ever since have been downhill!!!! (Of course, I kid.)

Modifié par CybAnt1, 20 février 2014 - 01:53 .

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

My brother's ex bought Origins for him, I bought him out when he went to pawn it because I'd gotten hooked by the time he got that notion in his head.

[Martyr1777]

I've always like Bioware work and enjoyed ME1, then saw some of the trailers and other footage and pre-ordered on Steam when it was available.

What keeps me in? They've made a very good IP, feel far more real then pretty much any other fantasy game setting (same for ME with sci-fi). Also still love the DAO soundtrack have it on my phone and listen to and from work with all the other stuff.

I'm Curious about expanding this though...

To those that were less happy (or unhappy) with DA2 or ME3, what keeps you interested in DAI enough to be hear reading this thread?

I was more disappointed with ME3, not overall just one of the end haters. But for me Bioware are still completely unbeaten when it comes to creating story and characters, to me that's the whole point of an RPG. All the other games I've played since the world and characters just seem so much more lifeless. So that's why I'm still here.

[CybAnt1]

To those that were less happy (or unhappy) with DA2 or ME3, what keeps you interested in DAI enough to be hear reading this thread?

Shall I be diplomatic or direct? Here I guess I will be direct.

Why I am here, and eager with anticipation, is statements from the developers that they realize they botched DA2, and are trying to rectify their mistakes in DAI. 

They admit they moved away from their core audience (which I think includes me) by moving too much in the action-RPG direction and have said they are trying to move DAI back.

[Giant ambush beetle]

Martyr1777 wrote...

To those that were less happy (or unhappy) with DA2 or ME3, what keeps you interested in DAI enough to be hear reading this thread?

To that end, he gives man hope. In truth, it is the most evil of evils because it prolongs man's torment.

[myahele]

I initially enjoyed the humorous party banter that I saw on youtube. Eventually I found myself watching as much of the cut scenes to the point that I knew the overall plot. The fact that there were so much choices each with thier consequences made me get it.

I never liked wrpgs, but the choose your own adventure aspect sold me on dragon age. I also like the writing! Each origin story helps paint the world differently. As an elf mage I believed in equality and diplomacy. As a city elf I ended up disliking humans, especially nobles.

[Quill74Pen]

 The Dark Ritual. :innocent: