Dragon Age

[Stormwaltz]

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Remember how I said the installer for the DA character creator crashed when I tried to run it? The the program itself, but the installer?

Yeah. That again.  

[caladein]

So... I have all this crap listed as "Downloaded." in DLC and it's not doing anything.

Am I missing something or are their servers made of fail?

[Rasix]

Both of my DLC is in game after downloading. I believe it requires a restart of the game.

[Lantyssa]

Hot female dwarves in the spoiler (nws...?)

Ach!  Look at the kegs on tha' one!

[Prospero]

So... I have all this crap listed as "Downloaded." in DLC and it's not doing anything.

Am I missing something or are their servers made of fail?

Their content servers seem to be chugging hard. I've been watching Shale and the Grey Keep download for awhile now.

[Slyfeind]

I LOVE THIS GAME and all the endless dialog is awesome! 

I think the key is, it doesn't feel like I'm required to go through it all. Most games present a list of Questions and Answers that you have to slog through. This lets you take part in actual goddamn conversations.

And it runs great and looks great on my average machine. 

[MournelitheCalix]

Assuming the game doesn't have random boss loot though (oh god my life will disappear)[/spoiler]

The game does have random encounters.  I read that from a bioware guy on DA: Origins General forum.

[Draegan]

Gah!

I hate this game.

I started with the City Elf and it's fucking awesome.  I get through to the castle as a rogue.  I quit.  I want to sword and board.

Restart as a warrior.  Get a little farther.  I see so many shiny boxes I can't open.

I can't decide how to build my character.

God damnit.  I'm frozen in choices.

This game is fucking great.  I won't have to play this all week.  meh.

[MournelitheCalix]

Gah!

I hate this game.

I started with the City Elf and it's fucking awesome.  I get through to the castle as a rogue.  I quit.  I want to sword and board.

Restart as a warrior.  Get a little farther.  I see so many shiny boxes I can't open.

I can't decide how to build my character.

God damnit.  I'm frozen in choices.

This game is fucking great.  I won't have to play this all week.  meh.

Awesome.  I am stilll waiting for my copy from Amazon.  Hopefully I will get it tomorrow. I am jealous though.  In a way though I am really glad I decided to get it the traditional way.  The steam folks seem to be  having no shortage of problems.  

[Rasix]

Getting a few random CTDs here and there.   This is truly a great PC RPG. 

[Jerrith]

Minor spoiler:

Dwarf Noble:

Stripping your character of items as part of the story? Neat.

Stripping your character of pre-order/CE/DLC items and giving you no way to get them back?  Not so neat...

(It does turn out that you can disable the bonus content, force load a game, save, exit, reenable the content, and reload your game and you'll get most (but not all) of what you should back.  However, this also is highly exploitable. :(  (Yes, I know, it's a single player game, and exploits don't really matter...))

Shame they let this slip through in what's been an otherwise near perfect experience so far...

[caladein]

Guess it's a good thing that I haven't gotten my DLC to install yet .

[Ingmar]

Yeah that made me go  a bit re: preorder items on the dwarf noble.

On the other hand, holy shit the dwarves in this game are awesome. 

[Reg]

What if you have to reinstall the game? Can you get the items again?

[Amaron]

What if you have to reinstall the game? Can you get the items again?

Yea they are tied to your ea/bioware account.   Dunno how it works on consoles though.

[Nonentity]

The game got much less interesting after they were all


They should make a dwarven political court RPG. Fuck saving the world.

[Reg]

That's how I assumed it'd work. It's strange though that you can't just get them back again after losing them as a dwarf noble.

[Slyfeind]

Holy crap this is the most linear game I've played. Still surpassingly awesome, but also surpassingly on railroads. Does it open up more later?

[Lum]

I am guessing until you get  in your party that it is still effectively the tutorial. After that you're told "hey, here's 6 things you need to do, go have fun!"

I'm going to have to roll up a dwarf now, aren't I. I did a sword-and-shield human fighter that doesn't really do enough damage, and a elf rogue that falls over and dies a lot, so maybe a dwarf swinging a 2-hander is about my speed, anyway.

[jakonovski]

Sweet, the euro Steam version gets an earlier unlock at midnight tonight. It pays to whine!

[Slyfeind]

Nice. I'm almost there I think.

[Le0]

Sweet, the euro Steam version gets an earlier unlock at midnight tonight. It pays to whine!

How come, my steam says :

Available: 7 November 2009
This game will unlock in approximately 2 days and 14 hours

[jakonovski]

How come, my steam says :

Available: 7 November 2009
This game will unlock in approximately 2 days and 14 hours

I have no idea, mine said approximately 15 hours when I left for work today.

[Elerion]

Says 12 hours on steampowered.com now, browsing from Norway

[jakonovski]

I'm from Finland, so maybe it's a nordic thing. 

[Le0]

Swiss are screwed? wtf 

[jakonovski]

I have it on authority that a Swiss once kicked Gabe Newell's dog.

[Tannhauser]

Unlike you elitist pricks I got the 360 version because I was worried about performance on my laptop.  First impressions are
-Tons of dialogue, been covered.  Slightly annoyed my hero never talks, Shep did in ME.
-Yeah loot delay on mobs is another annoyance.
-Graphics are serviceable but I feel a step back from ME.  Can you tell which is my hero?  Hint, he's the one in brown!  
-Elf Mage storyline is good, help help I'm being repressed!  I've decided that I'm going to liberate the elves!
-Big relief; In the 360 you can play as every hero in your party and issue them separate commands.  Of course you can also
  give them default scripted actions.  Maybe not the same amount of tactical control in the PC version, but I'm very pleased.
-Combat is easy (so far!) in Normal mode.  But there's the option to increase it, will try that tonight.  

Overall I'm pleased with the game, especially the story.  

[Amaron]

-Big relief; In the 360 you can play as every hero in your party and issue them separate commands.  Of course you can also
  give them default scripted actions.  Maybe not the same amount of tactical control in the PC version, but I'm very pleased.

So how does it work on moving the hero's around?   Is there no click to move at all?  You have to move every hero manually and can't move two at the same time I'm guessing?

Holy crap this is the most linear game I've played. Still surpassingly awesome, but also surpassingly on railroads. Does it open up more later?

The first act is like that but then eventually it's lets you just go do whatever.

[Xilren's Twin]

I think im going to completely turn off the party AI and micromanage every fight to death. I'm old skool baby!

Not that the AI is bad but (minor)
So far, Frost, Electric bolt and cone AOE,Weakness, and Arcane bolt for combat, plus shield and heal spells (which is basically only for tough in combat fights; love the fact that there's really no downtime due to health mana regen out of combat).

The friendly fire part can be so worth it.  Hell, i've even won a fights where the enemy mage fireballed his own troops to death to get at my crew.  Silly spawn.

[JWIV]

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Remember how I said the installer for the DA character creator crashed when I tried to run it? The the program itself, but the installer?

Yeah. That again.  

Try this Storm:

 right click the disc in my computer then "explore" > right click setup.exe or install.exe > run as admin

[AutomaticZen]

I think im going to completely turn off the party AI and micromanage every fight to death. I'm old skool baby!

Not that the AI is bad but (minor)

I dropped the AI from the get go, except for completely easy encounters.  And even then, I tend to micromanage.

So far, Frost, Electric bolt and cone AOE,Weakness, and Arcane bolt for combat, plus shield and heal spells (which is basically only for tough in combat fights; love the fact that there's really no downtime due to health mana regen out of combat).

I have no mage.  Do they give you a mage after

[schild]

[Bandit]

I had no problems with Steam, but I did have problems with registering on the EA social network for a while.  It would give me an error, but not a clue to as what it was.  Secondly, I wasn't sure which retail keys to use and where (steam gave me 3 or 4 keys) - just had to trial and error it.  Finally got registered, and had no problems after that.  PC performance is smooth on the highest settings for me and it looks quite a bit better at higher resolutions.

Started the sword and board fighter and found the initial story-line to be excellent.  I have no problem with my character not talking and not being voiced like in Mass Effect - it seemed to speed-up the dialogue while not completely cutting out immersion.  I did find the AI to be a bit wonky, but would have to play more than I did to make any judgment.  I guess if you are going to micromanage the hell out of it, then tactic slots may be of little use?

[Draegan]

Maybe I'll make an archer class.  Hmmm.