Dragon Age

[tmp]

As for not installing that mod, I didn't feel like getting archer raped even worse. There's some areas, especially later on, where you're in unavoidable situations where there are just swarms of archers all ready to hit you with that stun shot; all at the same time.  It gets a bit ridiculous.

The archery tweak makes things pretty interesting on normal difficulty at least, these guys become something to watch out for. It seems also quite balanced out by the extra punch it can give even your melee guys without any bow training -- often it allows to whittle down what's intended to be massive zerg waves as they come, and can make a difference in some of the boss fights, too.

[Montague]

Jesus this game brought out my OCD. First playthrough finally complete.

77 hours 12 minutes.

[stray]

I still can't get over the shitty character creation. When is some rpg developer ever going to get that right? What kind of humans are they modeling after?

Sorry, I'm very OCD with this kind of shit. :\

edit: Whoa two OCD people.  

[edit] lol

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/6066/screenshot2009110601131.jpg

[rk47]

as bad as it looks, Morrigan is leagues better than Liana. The voice. The expression. The background stories.

I REALLI LURVE SHOES  !

 

[tmp]

I <3 the town criers.

"lord X attempts coup, gets slain! Epic fail!"

[Fabricated]

Well I made it out of the starter area...the fucking tower guard that joined me was the only guy alive when the ogre went down. Fuck me that was an annoying fight. Set everything to use poultices at 50% health and mash those fucking buttons until you run out since every attack is a magical tracking attack you can't really avoid (or the ogre uses the force).

Cool game so far though; it definitely gives that Baldur's Gate vibe where there's big obvious quests and tons of sidequests hidden all over the place, as well as a ton of people you can talk to. I have no idea of the significance of most of my interactions though. I talk a little boy into going somewhere safe rather than escorting him around and I wonder what I missed, and then I talk a crazy guy into walking off and nothing really comes of it. Do these things eventually get a callback or conclusion or are they flavor/free fights?

[schild]

as bad as it looks, Morrigan is leagues better than Liana. The voice. The expression. The background stories.

I REALLI LURVE SHOES  !

 

[Slyfeind]

Deep Roads kinda letdown...

[rk47]

as bad as it looks, Morrigan is leagues better than Liana. The voice. The expression. The background stories.

I REALLI LURVE SHOES  !

 

The delivery is lacking imo. Sten is another forgettable dude. That's why I kept the party as it is now : Alistair, Morrigan, Whynne. 
Most compelling is stretching it a bit for Liana - Imoen, in a drugged state.

[schild]

Sten is another forgettable dude.

The conversations he forces you into are best in class. I have no clue what you're talking about.

[caladein]

Leliana... but yeah, she's probably my favorite character save Shale.  Schild's probably a little harsh on her in that spoiler though.

A lot of what I like about my first playthrough's party (Leliana/Alistair/Wynne) is they provide all this backstory on the world and themselves through their incidental conversations.

My current game though, Morrigan and Shale are just sniping at each other few minutes which is equally awesome.

[schild]

Schild's probably a little harsh on her in that spoiler though.

All I did was shorten her backstory.

[caladein]

Schild's probably a little harsh on her in that spoiler though.

All I did was shorten her backstory.

True, which you certainly need to when compared to Morrigan who's pretty much all "less talk more rock".

[Stormwaltz]

I still can't install DA.

The last response I had from EA tech support was at 11/13/2009 06:21 AM from "EARep Parker," who helpfully told me to update my drivers. I responded that they had been updated, and this had no effect on the crash.

I thought you'd be amused to see how inept EA Tech Support is. I'm also keeping my friends at BioWare up to date on their performance.

[Rasix]

Have you checked your RAM lately?  That was my issue the last time I had problems installing something (NWN).

[rattran]

I stopped my first playthrough before the end to give a finger wiggler toon a try. OMG Wynne is annoying, killing her in my first playthrough is so much better in retrospect.

[Furiously]

Really? I thought Wynne was insightful and pretty much acted like an overprotective teacher.

[Brogarn]

Wynne's like the grandmother I wish I had. Are you playing evil or something?

[tmp]

unrelated, one for the Evil Overlord book: if i build a trap that consists of room filled with mild poison gas and 4 powerful sentries, i will make sure the sentries fight all together rather than one after another. Also, i will make sure to actually trap people inside the room rather than leave the door wide open letting them sit in corridor and out of range of said poison gas...

[Sky]

I'm kinda bummed Wynne isn't a romance option. She's the most palatable of the women I've come across as companions thus far. Morrigan is just too bitchy and Leliana is a backstabbing whore. So...yeah.

[Yegolev]

Jeez, you're old.

[trias_e]

What character should I play to maximize awesomeness first time around around without overlap?  I like characters like HK47 in KOTOR, Dakkon in Planescape.  Depth is good, sappiness less so.  I don't like goody-two-shoes characters or annoying voice actors.  I don't mind being a bit of a jerk, or at least amoral, but over-the-top kitten killing is not my style.

I will be any race, any class, I just don't want overlap and I want the most enjoyable party possible.   I will be male though, and wouldn't mind having one of the two female romance options in the party, but it's not a total necessity if it's not that interesting/their characters aren't as interesting.  I definitely don't want Wynne in my party, so that leads me to believe I should probably be a mage, but perhaps not.

[tmp]

What character should I play to maximize awesomeness first time around around without overlap?  I like characters like HK47 in KOTOR, Dakkon in Planescape.  Depth is good, sappiness less so.  I don't like goody-two-shoes characters or annoying voice actors.  I don't mind being a bit of a jerk, or at least amoral, but over-the-top kitten killing is not my style.

Morrigan, Shale and Sten would be probably decent choices then. Could perhaps mean playing a rogue or second mage since 3 warriors + 1 mage might get tough on the mage... though could be actually interesting, dunno.

[AutomaticZen]

What character should I play to maximize awesomeness first time around around without overlap?  I like characters like HK47 in KOTOR, Dakkon in Planescape.  Depth is good, sappiness less so.  I don't like goody-two-shoes characters or annoying voice actors.  I don't mind being a bit of a jerk, or at least amoral, but over-the-top kitten killing is not my style.

Morrigan, Shale and Sten would be probably decent choices then. Could perhaps mean playing a rogue or second mage since 3 warriors + 1 mage might get tough on the mage... though could be actually interesting, dunno.

Play a mage, go Arcane Warrior/Blood Mage.  Your team, as listed above will be Shale, Morrigan, and Sten.  When you need to lockpick something, use Zevran.  You're done.

[Lucas]

Return to Ostagar (next DA:O addon, available this holiday season, $5)

[Reg]

I'm still not sure how I feel about all this DLC stuff. I'd really rather have a traditional expansion.

[Sheepherder]

Just FYI, garbage collection isn't what you think it is. It's a managed memory (de)allocation mechanism, not an object destruction mechanism. It doesn't work on the level you suggest. Memory leaks (which is what you're assuming; a garbage collector that isn't marking for deallocation properly) wouldn't affect save filesizes, because the extraneous objects wouldn't be referenced by game logic, just still be allocated in memory. They don't save a virtual memory address range to disk, they serialize an object graph.

I'm currently not passing judgment on the post day one DLC, aside from the fact that I don't really want to give them payment info.

[Montague]

Return to Ostagar (next DA:O addon, available this holiday season, $5)

Interesting they lowered the price after Warden's Keep. EA actually listening to their customers? Nah cant be.

[Yegolev]

If the customers are talking with their wallets, yes.

[Rasix]

Return to Ostagar (next DA:O addon, available this holiday season, $5)

Worth the money if I can buy the bags I forgot to get. 

[Yegolev]

Worth the money if I can buy the bags I forgot to get. 

 

[Segoris]

As for the DLC, I'm looking at it like this: The game has been worth more to me then the money I spent on it (almost done with playthrough #2 and planning a third already). I have very little to complain about with this game, and overall have been very happy with it, so I'll spend the $5 for the next DLC. As long as that DLC doesn't suck, I'll give the one after that a go. If this one coming up sucks, then I walk away from it and play vanilla DA:O and Soldier's Peak until I'm bored of it and return to it a few years from now.

I think I'd prefer a full expansion since the game has been that well done, but I can understand them doing DLC.

[Ingmar]

As long as the DLC doesn't give me something crappy like the 2nd ME DLC (seriously it is terrible) I will almost certainly keep on buying it.

[AutomaticZen]

Return to Ostagar (next DA:O addon, available this holiday season, $5)

$5 for more gear with which I can murder people.  Excellent.

[Draegan]

Edit: Or do you mean the Orzammar treaty stuff?  If you mean that, yeah... although it's not any worse the second time around as the two sides seem to have different errands they send you on.

This.  There is a lot of reading and shit as you try to learn a race's political ways and history in an hour. 

I can see why a lot of people though there was too much of this stuff if they did this leg of the game first.  I got through the part to where I have to root out the criminal underground.  Then I exited for the night.