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[Maiden Crowe]

Always have been a fan of RPGs and Bioware's games and considering their claim that Origins was to be the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate I thought it was worth a shot. However now the Bioware name doesn't mean all that much to me and I mostly keep an eye on the Dragon Age series out of morbid curiosity.

[TK514]

Back then, I still trusted BioWare to make quality games, and, for the most part, my trust was rewarded.

Why do I stick around? I'm holding on to the faint embers of hope that, in a post-ME3/TOR BioWare there might still be someone capable of making a decent game.

To be fair to the DA team, I really did enjoy O and 2, so that's something. On the other hand, BW's not having much luck with third games.

[Jilinthar]

A couple of years ago, 8 o' clock monday morning in biology class - a friend looked awfully tired and she said it was because she can't stop playing this new game she just got. That she spent her sunday getting up in the morning, playing, and suddenly watching the sun go down.. this game that featured some awesome bisexual elf dude. Ears perked, "what?! tell me more!"

So there you go, friend recommendations ftw!
Sadly I never picked up the game until years later, but that dialogue soooo stuck in mind. And better late than never! Thanks, Alex

Modifié par Jilinthar, 01 février 2014 - 11:51 .

[Naesaki]

I've always been a big RPG fan, and when I saw this game on the shelf it immediately jumped out at me, and 10+ playthroughs of Origins 5+ of DA II later xD here I am dieing of waiting for Inquisition.

and i've played pretty much every bioware title

Modifié par Naesaki, 01 février 2014 - 12:18 .

[Barrendall]

I've been playing Bioware games since 99 starting with Baldur's Gate. So I guess it's been loyalty for me.

[fchopin]

What made me purchase DAO was a big disappointment in ME2.
I don’t usually play games with dragons as I think they are silly but after being disappointed with ME2 I started looking at DAO and thought I would give it a chance.

What keeps me coming back is DAO was a good game and hope DAI is as good

[Aaleel]

Why Did I get DA:O?  I had played almost every other Bioware game up to that point and I was mostly an RPG gamer so I pre-ordered DA:O and loved it.  

Why do I keep coming back? Well, no secret I've been disappointed with some of the recent Bioware games so I keep coming back to get info on DA:I to see if I even want to buy it.  I also hope I'll start enjoying their games like I used to again.

Modifié par Aaleel, 01 février 2014 - 12:22 .

[ames4u]

I handn't yet played a Bioware game at this point, but I needed a new RPG game that wasn't watered down swill like SE's releases to date and the funny thing is, a few days after I bought it, a family member bought it for me. Which brought a whole lot of lolwut? reactions from us both. The reason I returned was because I loved the world that was crafted for me to play in. The fact that my choices actually impacted the game (well, before DA2 came out that is) and I adored exploring the other characters backgrounds and belief's without them shouting it at the wall while I stand ten feet behind them. DAO and Awakening really sucked me in.

DA2 on the other hand, I did not like so much because it ripped out the elements that made Origins and Awakening so much fun to play.

Just to clarify;

I have DAO on all three platforms.
I have Dragon Age Awakening on two. (couldnt get it on PS3)
I have all the DLC to date.
I have DA2 on one platform.
I only have the two DLC's and one armor pack.

So it is pretty easy to tell which one I liked best.

Why am I hanging in there? Well, I've abandoned the Mass Effect franchise due to ME3 and Dragon Age has Inquisition to win me over after the disappointment I suffered at DA2's wrinkly old hands. I hope they pull it off, I really do. Because I don't think I could take another massive hit after DA2 and ME3.

Modifié par ames4u, 01 février 2014 - 12:55 .

[ames4u]

TK514 wrote...

Back then, I still trusted BioWare to make quality games, and, for the most part, my trust was rewarded.

Why do I stick around? I'm holding on to the faint embers of hope that, in a post-ME3/TOR BioWare there might still be someone capable of making a decent game.

To be fair to the DA team, I really did enjoy O and 2, so that's something. On the other hand, BW's not having much luck with third games.

[themikefest]

What drew me to Dragon Age.

A guy at the game store knew I was playing ME2 a lot and recommended Origins. I bought a used copy played it and after a few hours I liked it enough to go buy the Awakening dlc which later I purchased an Ultimate Edition Dragon Age 2 I enjoyed as well.

Why do I keep coming back

Being retired I have a lot of extra time to check out the forums and to keep an eye out for any new information.

[terdferguson123]

"The spiritual successor to baldur's gate". Turns out it wasn't as much like BG as I might have hoped but I enjoyed all the same for different reasons.

[Demonplague87]

I bought DA:O when it first came out because I needed another new game to play in case Modern Warfare 2 sucked (it did) and at the time Bioware had a reputation for making great games (this was before the decline in quality that started with ME2 and continued onto DA2 and ME3) and I had loved every Bioware game I played up to that point (KoToR, Jade Empire, ME1). I bought DA2 and while I love that game there is a noticeable drop in quality compared to the first one.

I keep coming back here because the Dragon Age series hasn't been obliterated yet (unlike Mass Effect) but I'm still very skeptical.

[Maiden Crowe]

Demonplague87 wrote...

(this was before the decline in quality that started with ME2 and continued onto DA2 and ME3).

Started with ME2? I still consider ME2 to be a better game than both DAO and ME1 and it would have to feature one of Bioware's most interesting cast of characters to date.

[BadgerladDK]

Mass Effect, KOTOR and Jade Empire, really. I don't actually like Fantasy settings but eventually gave it a spin because of Bioware's track record of story telling and it's sort of grown on me. I'm still completely and utterly disinterested in fantasy games except this and The Witcher, something just clicks for me with those two settings.

[hotdogbsg]

I think I'd played Mass Effect 2 before hand and was telling one of my friends how good it was. He handed me his copy of DA:O and said it was made by the same people but he couldn't get into it. I took it home that night and fell in love with it and never gave it back.

[Ieldra]

@OP:
I had known since the early 200xs Bioware had a game in development named Dragon Age Origins. I heard about it first way back in 2004 I think and forgot about it for a few years, but recalled that the concept had sounded interesting when it was finally announced while I was playing ME1, and after some research into what was to be in it I bought it.

Almost immediately, the DA world became my favorite fantasy setting in video games. It still is, and that's why I keep coming back. DAO also had such an amazing flexibility in many of its plots that it appealed to me for roleplaying. Take "Captured" and the many ways you can go about it, the many ending variations, and even in the origins the game often adapted to what I wanted to do rather than limiting me in what I wanted to do for the sake of the story. For that reason, DAO is still the exemplary Bioware rpg for me. Nothing that came before and after adapted so well to the characters I imagined.

DA2 was a disappointment with its comparable inflexibility and its dreadful combat, but I still liked the world, the story was refreshingly different and even the roleplaying wasn't so bad within the limitations. Which is why I am still here, hoping for another game that captures something of DAO's spirit.

Modifié par Ieldra2, 01 février 2014 - 01:42 .

[CybAnt1]

Always have been a fan of RPGs and Bioware's games and considering their claim that Origins was to be the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate I thought it was worth a shot.

Seconded. 

After hearing rumors on various gaming forums about there being a BG3 ... to which there was CONSTANT rumor-mongering, about all kinds of secret project names for it, and all that jazz ... then I heard about this game Dragon Age. 

If I could nitpick, I have never loved their new mechanics system - notably the leveling adds to attributes, and that every being in the world is one of three classes with three possible specializations ... but at least it was different from D & D. And they weren't stuck with somebody else's licensed IP, they could do what they wanted. 

I did think they did some new things that broke the mold and despite what it may seem, I do like that ... like making REAL racism (not just "dwarves dislike elves") part of the gameworld, making religion a mysterium rather than a mundane matter where everyone knows the hit points of every god, mixing in some dark into the high fantasy, and even taking on the topic of classism. The dwarven casteless, the human lowborn, the city elves ... show that the Middle Ages were not a fun time to be a serf. I like that. 

Now, to be honest, as I said, I felt "the spiritual succession" waning in DA2. DA2 tried too much to replicate their other series (ME). And let me just be frank - I don't think DA was meant to be the kind of action-RPG/passive-cinemascope that ME was, from the beginning. See, to me, a "true" RPG is exactly the opposite; combat should be 'somewhat automated' in that the character is doing the aiming based on the character's skill (which you develop of course), not the player; and dialogue and interaction should be as flexible as possible (within the obvious limits any computer game has), not "auto-dialogue". 

Yet here they were melting them together. I won't begrudge some loved that - I just didn't. Now, as I'm watching DA:I get made, I certainly see hints that nothing will go back 180 degrees to the "DA:O way" but they're going to mix the best of both games. That could work. Like I said, I'm cautiously optimistic. 

Modifié par CybAnt1, 01 février 2014 - 01:55 .

[St. Victorious]

I picked it up on the shelf of an AAFES in Iraq back in 2009 to give me something to do between missions. Never put the strings together that it was the same company that made ME until I got home in 2010.

[Sidney]

The Bioware name stuck on the side of it was huge but aside from that I was excited to see a new IP instead of another D&D or TES game.

[Fortlowe]

I'd gotten into Mass Effect well after its release and was, of course, blown away ("Dude! You can control the cutscenes! And I'm goddamn Captain Kirk!"). Thusly, I thought at that point Bioware was in fact the second coming and I wanted more. Picked up DA:O. Cranked it up and was immediately confused ("Why are these numbers jumping around when I smack someone and what's with this combat shuffle?") I gave up on it thinking it was in the D&D vein and that wasn't my thing. Didn't play it again for months.

News of a sequel for ME drew me to BSN where I lurked the forums for a while. All the enthusiasm I read about DA:O got me curious so I gave it another shot. Toughed out the initial bewilderment until I reached an epiphany ("Ah, auto attack."). Have been bonkers about the game ever since.

Modifié par Fortlowe, 01 février 2014 - 02:49 .

[Knight of Dane]

There was an offer at a gamespot in the city where my mom works when Assassin's Creed 2 was a new thing, where you could get game that plus another one of your choice, within a certain selection, and I picked Dragon Age for the cover.

I ended up playing Dragon Age more than Assassins Creed 2.

Modifié par Knight of Dane, 01 février 2014 - 02:50 .

[happy_daiz]

I had just finished Mass Effect, and just HAD to get my hands on another BioWare game. I had stars in my eyes, and love in my heart.

After playing nearly every possible origin in DAO, I played Jade Empire.

As for what keeps me coming back...well, I keep hoping to experience the same feelings that made me fall in love with BW in the first place. With the last two games, it reminded me of gambling - you keep throwing money at it, chasing a win. Sometimes it works out, sometimes...yeah.

Modifié par happy_daiz, 01 février 2014 - 03:05 .

[Exaltation]

Boredom found me and i found DA.

[Blackrising]

Heard rumours about being able to create your character, make decisions and have a (homosexual) romance. Bought Dragon Age 2, loved it, and have been a fan ever since.

[Jaison1986]

It started with Mass effect 2 way back at 2010, I liked the game and wondered what kind of other games bioware did. I heard of Dragon age and how people talked about it in high regards. I looked at an gameplay videos on youtube, but I remember really disliking the gameplay style and never looking back again. But for some reason, about 2 years ago, I decided to give it a go, and now here I am, with over 200 hours worth of gameplay.