).Also felt the game was far too easy. I completed it on Nightmare difficulty... only time I finally actually had to stop and be a bit careful was in Mother's Lair. Rest of the time I had Oghren tanking as DPS with 2-handed Axe and no tanking talents at all ( save Taunt ) ( only respecced him to proper tank before Amaranthine's battle ) and pretty much AoEd everything down with whatever AoE abilities I had ( usually having Oghren grab aggro and swing his axe around like an idiot, then running Anders in the middle of it all and go One with Nature + Nature's Vengeance was pretty much enough ). Granted at Mother's Lair I was out of mana potions and injury kits so Anders was pretty much a shambling figure of broken bones and gore by the time I got Mommy down ( Hooray for Kitten, lolz at the Cleansing Aura that doesn't affect the caster himself ).
Not that I mind terribly, I'm usually more interested in the story then gameplay but I do like some challenge on the first playthrough. Just being able to AoE storm everything ( On hardest possible setting ) is a bit... meh. Ok, I do understand that the normal Darkspawn SHOULD be considerably weaker, seeing all my character has gone through but still. Even the bossfights weren't that hard. The weird dragon ghost was a bit of a pain, sure but I still got it down the first attempts. The Mother was basicly the same as Broodmother in Origins, just involved more damage and more adds ( and the pesky Glyph of whatever which basicly nullifies your mage ). The others were pretty much tank and spank - which just boils down to endurance.
I hear that some people found Origins too hard. I don't see how but if so, it's ok to nerf the game for Easy and Normal levels maybe, but keep Hard and Nightmare truely difficult for those that do want the challenge.
And lastly, woulda liked some more consistency and results. Last time I checked ( aka, at the end of Origins ), Wynne was supposed to go to Tevinter with Shale. Zevran was supposed to stick with me to rebuild the order ( although the ending results kinda gave me the impression he took off to Antiva from where I had to go fetch him, damn it ) - I woulda liked at least some insight on where the heck he is at the BEGINNING of the game ( ie. a Note or something from him at least implying that he chickened out or something... *grumble* or at least a mention in his Codex entry that he buggered off ). I didn't even have his earring anymore >:B I imagine the people with relationship with... Leiliana or something woulda liked the same?
As for results, I seriously would have expected completing the 'Orphan' questline to have some impact - or 'another way' of completing them. I hate the though of simply not doing the quests at all, being an EXP 'ho ( must-find-all-traps-and-locks-for-that-50-exp... ). Same thing with Black Wolf, if you choose to kill him *cough* ( he was far too suspicious and besides, he attacked first! ).
But anyway, other then those things, I still did like the game, but maybe it was still a tad too expensive considering. However, I'm certainly not turned off from Dragon Age franchice. I am even more interested now. I just hope that the story evolves to much more epic proportions yet. And that Bioware, despite our whining, does wait to properly test the expansions and whatnot rather then pushing out something that has more bugs then some Beta state games.
Also moar Romance, kthx.
Modifié par noretus, 21 mars 2010 - 07:55 .
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) must translate to a commensurate amount of increased sales. I'm sure EA realized it already had a somewhat "captive market" already with the success of DAO (e.g., at least 70% of DAO purchasers would also purchase Awakening as a matter of course, with at least 35% doing the pre-order and the majority of the rest buying within 1st week of release ). I would expect that the number of DAO purchasers who are "on the fence" on Awakening were too few for EA to justify added resources/effort, etc. IOW, most DAO purchasers who were going to purchase Awakening would do so regardless of "who returned as a companion", QA problems/bugs, whatever.
