Dragon Age: Origins

[1000possibleclaws]

This new Bioware (dev for Mass Effect, KoToR, Neverwinter Nights) game deserves a topic. 9.5 Editors Choice on Gamespot



Discuss:

[valetnin2007]

awesome game, i've played it on xbox.
it's a great game

[kaffeine]

This looks great. Could anyone playing it give some feedback?

[mr. nails]

i've never played the game, but have seen it played. the interface looks horrid and the constant dialog with the absence of any other gameplay is a turnoff (and i play a lot of rpg's). when the gameplay does commence it seems the npc's do most of the work for u. to me, this isn't much of a favorite past time.

[kaffeine]

That's a shame, being the "spiritual successor" to BG and all that.

[7th]

That's a shame, being the "spiritual successor" to BG and all that.

kaffeine, if you are a BG fan, you should play this and, if you can, with a PC. Don't go for the console version, and the Xbox360 version is the worst one. And the console version you don't have what makes BG a great game (the strategic view).

I'm playing it in my PC and the game is awesome. Yes, expect a lot of dialogs but common!, this is not a Final Fantasy game And you have to take some difficult decisions during the game =P

Wish I could have more options to start the game, more races and classes like in BG. It's going to take some time for me to finish it for the first time so I can't say much...

[kaffeine]

I'm a huge fan of the BG series, so I have great expectations about it. I am planning on playing it on the PC too. It seems it was designed to be played that way. We will see, I hope it doesn't disappoint.

[Snee]

This looks great. Could anyone playing it give some feedback?

The aa is weird for me, makes edges look like someone's gone over them with a smudging tool in photoshop, and then pixelated it. And it's got some other graphical quirks going that makes it look less than stellar at times. (That could just be to do with the drivers for my cards not having matured enough yet, though.)

A lot of the environments are kind of drab and boring.

You can zoom pretty far out and play it kind of like Baldur's gate, or you can zoom in and and even control your character directly wasd-style. That kind of variety's nice, though you'll probably spend most of the time zoomed out because that just works out better.

And if you've played baldur's gate or nwn, there really won't be many surprises in the interface or the game mechanics, imo.

The part of the character generation tool that let's you decide the shape of your character's face is kind of like Oblivion's - a gazillion possible choices but the end result won't look that good.

Other than that it's a bit clichéd, but deep.

Oh, and you can "romance" other party members, and how you do at that depends on what choices you make.

Morrigan seems to like it when you play more towards the evil, for instance.

That's what I've got thus far. I doubt I'll play it all the way through any time soon, and I tend to put it down in favour of something else, like Torchlight. But it's an ok game, though not as good as I thought it would be.

Oh, and being good at picking locks might be good at the beginning of the game. Bunch of doors I had to go around and chests I could never get into.

[kaffeine]

Thanks Snee. It seems it's like a modernised BG/NWN/Icewind Dale that didn't quite make it.

That option to change the play style must feel like a wasted feature. Kind of like the third person view in Oblivion or Fallout 3.

I hope the story delivers. Maybe it's just slow, but if it doesn't keep you coming back for more, something's wrong.

I haven't played Torchlight, but it looks fun. I like Diablo and I will give it a try too.

[Snee]

Thanks Snee. It seems it's like a modernised BG/NWN/Icewind Dale that didn't quite make it.

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I hope the story delivers. Maybe it's just slow, but if it doesn't keep you coming back for more, something's wrong.

To be fair, maybe my expectations were a bit off. A lot of critics seem to like it. More than one of them has called it a masterpiece.