378 réponses à ce sujet

[Lord Chaos]

The fact that Lelianna isn't even in any shape or form part of this makes it epic fail just on its own.

[l.flynn]

I imagine some ****** in a suit, sucking on the teat of the main investors of this game rushed it through because of dollars and cents....which is the way the world works. Although i wouldn't call it an expansion of any sorts...expansion eludes to expanding upon the story already laid down. But they culled the story, the characters and the interaction that made DAO so personal and identifiable. Their threads they used to tether the stories together are weak, the only things that carry on were the outcomes that were finite and either or. So your choice of ruler shows up for 30 seconds of dialog, and Oghren whose outcome is basically always the same...he stays because good beer and women. This shows the lack of time, not necessarily put into by the creators, but the time allotted to pump out another cash cow. I feel sorry for the people who have to put their names on this game, the creators are artists, and to see their works so beat up has to suck. Its one thing to put out a glitchy incomplete game, but the lack of intent to fix their batched game is really a slap in the face to fans raced to spend the money on DLC they can't use and a weak expansion. I for one do not expect that they will attempt to or even acknowledge the problem, to do so would cost them lost of unnecessary cost. Why spend the money when people are still hoping for more expansions, DLC and DA2. They know that people will still buy, hoping for resolution and the satisfaction and intrigue that came from DAO. Basically all the complaining in the world isn't going to make some douche canoe with his own jet, or 15 sports cars give a crap if video game nerds aren't happy; they care if they can sell a product with the least cost and most gain. And sadly if there is more from dragon age, i imagine i will buy it but i won't rush out for it that's for sure, i'm not being the guinea pig again.

[Faz432]

Pretty much killed the whole game for me.

Before DAO I was on my 3rd playthrough and enjoyed the game, after DAO not played it again, refuse to until they fix the bugs no point otherwise.

actually if you jumble the letters DOA is a pretty accurate discription. <_<

Modifié par Faz432, 01 mai 2010 - 10:40 .

[Karma Crimzin]

i know its really a small thing but the main thing that bugged me about the expansion other then the size of the game was the fact that when i made vigilance at the end it was taken by the crows i mean really now! my warden wouldnt let some punk thieves take his sword from him!! I WANT MY SWORD BACK!!!!

[Kangaxx628]

Just add more of the same, enjoyed playing the game though the many crashes really killed it fortunately none of the crashes occurred during the boss fights. Heraldry was good, though the constant overwhelm w/ enemies not being able to hurt me became tiresome. The ogres still love chaining Ram attacks, seriously Bioware, no cool down for that attack?

[Captn Nemo]

In my opinion it was a good game, for the most part.  There are certain things that I didn't like about the expansion though.  For one, the game play seemed way too short, I kept feeling like I was missing something, but I wasn't.  Another thing was the interaction with the other characters was very limited; I liked being able to talk to my party in Dragon Age Origins to see what they knew about the area, and just delve into their lives (so to speak), it helped put the RP into RPG, and in a sense brought the characters to life.  One other thing that disapointed me was not getting to see more of the party members from the original. 

The gameplay itsself was okay, though; it was just over wtih too quickly.  Overall I wanted a little more action and a little more interaction with the party members.  After beating the game I felt a little deprived, my exact remark was "that's it?" 

I hope for a better expansion next time.

[falon-din]

awakening sux

[RavageUK]

falon-din wrote...

awakening sux

Normally id completely disagree, but due to being unable to finish even the 1st 1/4 portion of Awakening because of constant crashing at the same damn point every time (fighting the 2 dragon thrall in i think silverlight mine?) i have to agree.

Does anyone know of any ways to fix the constant crashing? (360 version).

[RavageUK]

Captn Nemo wrote...

In my opinion it was a good game, for the most part.  There are certain things that I didn't like about the expansion though.  For one, the game play seemed way too short, I kept feeling like I was missing something, but I wasn't.  Another thing was the interaction with the other characters was very limited; I liked being able to talk to my party in Dragon Age Origins to see what they knew about the area, and just delve into their lives (so to speak), it helped put the RP into RPG, and in a sense brought the characters to life.  One other thing that disapointed me was not getting to see more of the party members from the original. 

The gameplay itsself was okay, though; it was just over wtih too quickly.  Overall I wanted a little more action and a little more interaction with the party members.  After beating the game I felt a little deprived, my exact remark was "that's it?" 

I hope for a better expansion next time.

Hey atleast you got to finish it LOL, i cant even get past the 2 dragon thrall without it crashing, iv been past them once, and i got killed straight after it by an ogre (chained gay attacks), ever since then its crashed no more than hmm, 30 secs into the thrall fight..... it then corrupt my save and my content, so i redownloaded it (after cleaning 360 system cache) and BOOM! crash again lol.

[Tirigon]

Awakenings is quite good if you see it on his own.



However, it is a step backwards from DAO and fails hard compared to the original game.

[Ygolnac]

I am not satisfied with awakening, not at all:



1: way too many bugs - crashes - glitches to be enjoyable



2: plot is not convincing, events are badly explained and you don't understand why you have to go to amaranthine and rule it. The new dark spawn makes no sense. Also if you import a character it really makes no sense that an hero/possible king of all ferelden should bother with amaranthine events. If you play an orlesian grey warden it makes much more sense, but still the sense of involvement in the events you get from DA:O is not present AT ALL in awakening.



3: the game is so easy even in nightmare mode that all the fights just become boring pushovers.



Too make a long story short, Awakening is the worst expansion for a succesfull game in ages, they just wanted to suck us all the money they can with poor game content riding the DA:O success.



Next time i'll wait a lot more to buy DA universe content and will read carefully the forums.

ME related stuff, i'll buy blindly.

DA related stuff: i'll wait community information.

[Tor_pedo]

I had no problems with awakening except a few minor bugs that was hardly noteworthy. I feel for those who get the major ones though, it must suck ass, and I really hope they release a patch for it soon. I share the expansion with a friend so I only paid half the price, but I'd say Awakening is well worth the money - provided you actually get to play it with a minimal ammount of bugs, that is.

The conversation system is different, and I liked asking my companions inane questions too, but on the positive side you dont have to keep running back to them to talk whenever something new happens, which is quite liberating.

I like the new talents, spells and skills, especially for warriors Though they are totally overpowered x)

I agree that the bossfights should have been more challenging, (or maybe it's just us nerds that are too good, i dont know), and with your beast of a grey warden pc either having an insane ammount of evasion as a rogue, cc as a mage, or a DW or 2-hand warrior that just oneshots everything, the need for a "real" tank (Sword and board, basically) is practically none-existent. Hence I found Justice pretty useless and rather brought a pure dps party

Anyhow, it could have been better, sure, but instead of whining about how stupid talking darkspawn is, how lame it is that you, as king/queen, have to go ALL THE WAY to Amaranthine to investigate the darkspawn (which is your job as a grey warden), why not focus on the good things about it instead? You know, think positive and all that.

If you already bought it, why not enjoy it? Your money is only wasted if you insist on hating what you buy.

[TJSolo]

Tor_pedo wrote...

I had no problems with awakening except a few minor bugs that was hardly noteworthy. I feel for those who get the major ones though, it must suck ass, and I really hope they release a patch for it soon. I share the expansion with a friend so I only paid half the price, but I'd say Awakening is well worth the money - provided you actually get to play it with a minimal ammount of bugs, that is.

If you already bought it, why not enjoy it? Your money is only wasted if you insist on hating what you buy.

Your first paragraph answers why some are not able to enjoy what they bought. The bugs that "suck ass".

[Tor_pedo]

TJSolo wrote...

Your first paragraph answers why some are not able to enjoy what they bought. The bugs that "suck ass".

Yes, well obviously I'm refering to people who are actually able to play it without the game crashing in the first cutscene. I would be breathing fire too if all i got was a blank screen and the distant sound of EA employees' evil laughter

[Glottisthedriver]

Personally I thought the expansion was ok at best. There were some things I liked a lot, some good ideas I thought were poorly executed, and some things I really strongly disliked, meaning it was sort of a wash overall.



However that is a matter of personal taste. What is not a matter of taste is the fact that the game is badly bugged, in some cases to the point of being all but broken. I would not recommend that anyone buy the expansion until it is patched. When it is working as intended it is worth buying for fans of the franchise.

[Cry4dawn69]

It stunk. I am at the last boss and could care less to finish the game

[Tirigon]

I wonder about all the bug complaints. I mean, there are some, but not more than in DAO from my experience.

[Zy-El]

I think the majority of the bugs are on the consoles rather than PC's. I play Origins and Awakenings on a 4-year-old PC running Windows XP and have not had the continuous major crashes that have been reported here. Yes, I do get a crash every odd day, maybe after playing 6-8 hours continuously; crashes to desktop but I just go back in, Resume game and everything's fine.

[Tirigon]

Zy-El wrote...

Yes, I do get a crash every odd day, maybe after playing 6-8 hours continuously; crashes to desktop but I just go back in, Resume game and everything's fine.

Yeah have that too, and the slowdown.


But by now I learned to save often and hardly care anymore.

[Jeffonl1]

you should ensure the your microsoft .net framework is updated to 3.5 or 4.0. This may reduce CTD...

[Big_Chief]

I dunno, I just haven't had nearly as many bugs as other people seem to, and I've been playing on the PS3. I really enjoyed it, and while it had some issues compared to Origins, Origins was a full game, and Awakening is just an expansion. These forums just seem weird sometimes.

Modifié par Big_Chief, 03 mai 2010 - 09:40 .

[Ganondorf2002]

I've played Awakenings on the PC. I've had very few bugs or crashes. And I really enjoyed the game. I felt it did not try in any way to out do Origins but continue on a bit. It may not fit snug like a puzzle piece in the continuity but that's ok for me.

[Torrential]

I'd give the original a good 9.0-9.5 out of 10, the expansion so far a rounded 7.5. I'm about 25 hours in so far, but from what I have heard that is close to finishing.



Reasons - Many gameplay bugs, lack of dialogue with my companions, 99% of the battles being a total walkover, major lack of quest choices (mostly resulting in only one 'good' option).



I liked the environments; I like the concept as I did in the similar section of NWN2, liked the characters even if they didn't get enough game time, liked the history and backstory, the gameplay in regards to dialogue/quests/characters however was sadly lacking.



I can't comment on the ending yet as I won't finish up till tomorrow, perhaps that will swing a point either way. My personal preference would be to have some of the established characters showing up again in DLC, but if not, fleshing out the dialogue on these ones a bit more is a must to get this up to biowares usual standards.

[zchen]

my loading times are getting longer and longer after Awakening was installed....

[Rhys Cordelle]

In New Zealand I paid 79.95 for Origins and 69.95 for awakenings. For a difference of $10, Awakenings is an enormous rip off. If it were priced around 39.95 I would've felt it was worthwhile.