Oh my! If every two years a game which kills all my other activities comes out, i must be very careful! 
I play Dragon Age three days now, and i 'm impressed. The feeling is the same as back then, in 2007, with The witcher, although this one is a much different game. From what i 've seen so far, you can't relax, not one minute, there are battles everywhere and you 're always on the run. I admit, it has some negatives, but i don't really care. I find the story so strong, with great imagination, that everything else doesn't bothering me. Also, i like the fact that in such a dark plot, characters don't lose their humor.I am certain that i 'm gonna play this game many times, but i have the feeling that the choices i 'll make in the next times won't really matter. And this would be my only disappointment. But, we 'll see.
I play Dragon Age three days now, and i 'm impressed. The feeling is the same as back then, in 2007, with The witcher, although this one is a much different game. From what i 've seen so far, you can't relax, not one minute, there are battles everywhere and you 're always on the run. I admit, it has some negatives, but i don't really care. I find the story so strong, with great imagination, that everything else doesn't bothering me. Also, i like the fact that in such a dark plot, characters don't lose their humor.I am certain that i 'm gonna play this game many times, but i have the feeling that the choices i 'll make in the next times won't really matter. And this would be my only disappointment. But, we 'll see.I'm playing for the third time now. First time I was a male rogue and ended up channeling Robin Hood. I tried to be as noble as I could, with enough cunning to persuade others to do what I wanted. I wound up getting the sad ending. I cried. I was wooing Morrigan and then she gives her ultimatum, but I didn't think it would be fair to anyone, so I declined and she left me. That kind of hurt. I never could manage to get Alistair to be anything more than warm with my guy, but he really is what sold the game for me. (He's not the first pixelated man I've had a crush on, and he won't be the last, I'm sure.) I had all of the other companions, except for Shale, and they all wound up getting on with their lives. Well, Zevran stayed as my Antivan lover. (I had to have a little something on the side; it's that accent that got me. Guh.) I actually missed Sten and Oghren when they went their own ways. The others I didn't particularly care for. So my second round I chose to be a female mage and had Alistair as my lover. Had to be even more noble this time, because Alistair has too good a heart to let me do naughty things. It sucked not being able to influence anyone, but I managed. Didn't let anyone else tag along except Morrigan and the dog. I was determined to speed my way through so I could get down to the major decisions. This time I accepted Morrigan's offer and went along with Alistair's choice to stay out of politics. I was very pleased with my fairy-tale ending. Now I'm playing as a casteless female dwarf. I was tired of making pretty people, so this character looks sort of like Mimi,off of the Drew Carry Show.
I die a little every time the camera zooms onto her! A sick part of me wants her to play the field and watch in horror as she makes out with them all. :evil:I'm going to be as cruel and psycho as I can, for the sake of variety. I'm only on Ostegar right now, but I'm having a blast! Some of the dialogue had me laughing until it hurt - namely your friend's dare against Duncan. Bwuhaha! (This may have more to do with my gal being ugly as sin, and resembling a gremlin more than a woman.) I feel bad making the companions hate me, but I'm driven to unlock all of the dialogue. Will also play as an Elf later, assuming I don't get bored of it by then. Still seems your choices aren't important, considering most options lead to one or two different consequences. I'm a sucker for good dialogue, and if DAO has anything, it's excellent scripts and voice acting!
If that doesn't scare away the Darkspawn, I don't know what will!pudi0072000 said:Now I'm playing as a casteless female dwarf. I was tired of making pretty people, so this character looks sort of like Mimi,off of the Drew Carry Show.
I bet Dragon Age will blow over shortly once everyone has experimented with all available options for characters, or enough to bore them.For me, I don't think the end of the game was as memorable as finishing TW, so I really don't like how it ended. But, there was no other path :-\
Well, it didn´t have such a cool cinematic ending like TW, true, but when thinking about the possible Demon-child, it´s quite memorable. :teeth:The different starts of the game are really fun, but after this it´s possibly more or less the same till the END. For some reason I always was looking for more Companions, til I found out, that´s all they offer.
I too don't really like him, he's very... blonde ;D and arrogant for my liking. But i think he wants a relationship with my elf male mage...
What, am i to bringing him gifts now?
What were you playing before? Tetris? (Joking. Tetris is good, is better than this big mouth which swallows balls ;D)In my first game ever, i had to kill whole nations. You see, it was a strategy.
So, RPGs were a rather peaceful change to that.Cassandra: LOL Tetris too, but I am more adventure maniac (Syberia, Myst Series, MYST series is my favourite game series ever) and stuff like that, I never played online game and I never played a game where you can work with more characters, so Dragon Age is a completely new experience to me and I love it so far ;D
Heh, you need some educating on games and genres in general thenMcAvelin said:
Still, the same goes for me, TW stands apart from the rest of the games I played so far (and I played and saw a lot). Unique in its design, wonderful in art concept (no other out there to be to my taste like TW!), skillfully executed plot/script and dialogues (polish that is ). If RED designer were outsorced to do DAO imagine how much more beautiful and engrosing the surroundings, armours, weapons etc would be? Wishful thinking My word.... then we'll have a situation of DA < TW < DA-O < TW2 ... it'll be fantastic. ;DI'm playing Dragon Age right now. It's not bad, the second time 'round. But, every time I come to a moral choice or try to use poisons or potions, I have the thought: "Pffff, The Witcher did this way better." ;Dwisielec said:If RED designer were outsorced to do DAO imagine how much more beautiful and engrosing the surroundings, armours, weapons etc would be? Wishful thinking
I'm now about eight hours of play into Bioware's latest, about where I was in The Witcher when I wrote my first rave review. So what have I to say? What do I think of the show so far? The truth is I'm deeply disappointed. This is very much 'Bioware's latest'. It is Neverwinter Nights with a new skin. The plot is hocum sub-Tolkien, with all the standard sub-Tolkien elements (the wood-elves here doubling up as both elves and hobbits). There's some witty banter between your companions - like Neverwinter Nights (and unlike The Witcher) the multiple-henchman mechanics are very good. The cutscene engine is extremely good - possibly the best yet in a fantasy RPG. Landscape, too, is much better than in Neverwinter Nights - but it needed to be; and now we have seen the landscapes The Witcher's team can produce with Bioware's engine, 'much better' is just not good enough. The architecture and overall design is poor, too - it's very much on a par with Bethesda's Oblivion, no better, no worse. But unlike Oblivion, this is a Bioware world. You can't swim across lakes. You can't even wade through puddles. The playing space, instead of being continuous like Oblivion's, is broken up into disjointed patches, crudely stitched together with cutscenes and with seemingly longer-than-ever delays for the next bit of game world to load. And, while a lot of the visuals pay clear homage to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, the weapons follow and even exaggerate the old RPG trope of gigantism. High-level fighters wear shoulder armour so exaggerated that they are totally blind to attacks from the side, and carry swords so long that, in reality, they could neither draw nor wield them. As in Neverwinter Nights there's a vast array of 'stuff' to acquire, most of it apparently fairly random - kill a wolf, for example, and you're quite likely to find it is carrying a healing kit or a potion. Again, contrast the bustling streets of Vizima in The Witcher, non-player characters in Dragon Age seem to have no lives of their own. They stand statically, waiting for the player to interact with them. Once the player has spoken to them and moved on, the vast majority simply remain in place, waiting for the player to return. In the inn, you'll meet people who claim to be listening to the bard, singing; talk to the bard, and she'll say she can't talk to you because she has to sing to the people. But there's no singing on the soundtrack. In short, there's a lot getting in the way of willing suspension of disbelief, of immersion. There are a couple of other really wanton immersion breakers, too - when you put your avatar into stealth mode, he announces the fact in a loud voice. Duh? And, although your avatar chatters noisily enough when going into stealth mode or opening boxes, when it comes to dialogue he isn't voice acted at all. None of this says that Dragon Age isn't a good, an enjoyable experience. I've been playing it for eight hours, and I expect to play it for at least another twenty, perhaps much more. On the plus side, I've had no crashes at all in that time. If Bioware had never licensed their engine to a bunch of upstarts in Poland I would certainly consider this a very good game, and be praising it. But compared to The Witcher's near-photo-realistic landscapes, it's carefully crafted architecture, it's original, vital and (to a western audience, anyway) novel world and characters, it's wonderful soundscapes, it's adult themes and it's gritty cynicism, this just doesn't cut it. It's good. It isn't good enough. This is, of course, a preliminary opinion. In another twenty hours my opinion may have changed. But I don't think it will change much. I'm even missing Deakin. In short, if you've played The Witcher, buy this, it'll pass the time until CDPR bring out their next. But if you haven't played The Witcher, play The Witcher.
Now here's a point to remember. People really should take this advice... only add:If you've played the Witcher multiple times, play this to pass the time.If you've played the Witcher couple times, re-plae it.If you've never played the Witcher, now's a good time to start.Altough, this is more Witcher vs. Dragon AgeSimonBrooke said:
eace:I doubt your opinion'll change in the near future... at least that's what other members have reported so far.
Simon! It's so good to see you again! (OK, read you... )I 'm a little sad to agree with you at some point. I still play Dragon Age, but it has became a little boring after the first 25-30 hours. ( I don't know how long it takes others to play this game, but i have already 39 hours and i 'm not in the half yet. )
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