Dragon Age

[Lum]

He's a homage.

[Triforcer]

Gaxkang?  Heh- nice reference to Kangaxx.  Any other BG2 references anyone has came across? 

[Montague]

Gaxkang?  Heh- nice reference to Kangaxx.  Any other BG2 references anyone has came across?  

There's a dwarven NPC in Orzammar named Neomi/Noemi.

Eh I'm wrong. Thought for sure I thought I saw it somewhere in game though.

[rk47]

I think among the locations so far, I hate Orzammar the most. Cleaning out rooms and rooms of thugs is so dull, and then they had to throw me to an endless tunnels full of orcs and small raptors. I'm definitely leaving a lot of tunnels unexplored to avoid getting bored quickly.

[Reg]

If you don't explore them all you'll miss some fairly awesome treasure though.  There are a few of those annoying "find the 10 pieces of X" type quests that you won't complete.

[rk47]

I think the issue is that i killed the fag elf assassin on first encounter and I never bring Liana for big boss fights. So most of the treasure chests that are locked are automatically ignored until I come back for a second sweep of the zone with Ms. Zee French Lockpicker in tow. And the memory leaks make detours a bitch.

[tmp]

*blink* Really? He was real easy. Not much harder than the standard Revenant that comes out of the glass vials randomly placed around the world. It was more of a long fight due to his health, but none of my group got anywhere near death. He stayed on Alistair the whole fight.

He can be annoying if you don't cheese it with the force field trick and don't have the curse of mortality to stop his self-heals. And without cone of cold, his attacks can hit people hard after he drops debuff on them. And if he drops the hex on your tank that only causes to crits to actually hit, thus making it easier for him to switch to squishy people. Or when he switches to revenant form, pulls everyone in and does the aoe.

On second thought he can be annoying, period.

That said, apparently some munchkin just one-shot him with the Mana Clash

[Jade Falcon]

Gaxkang?  Heh- nice reference to Kangaxx.  Any other BG2 references anyone has came across? 

Not a BG2 reference but in the deep roads in a rubble pile I came across a note mentioning something about a odd named dwarf  sheppard that was sure they were going to die of old age in a dwarf lift.

[lesion]

Gather your party before venturing forth?

[Segoris]

*blink* Really? He was real easy. Not much harder than the standard Revenant that comes out of the glass vials randomly placed around the world. It was more of a long fight due to his health, but none of my group got anywhere near death. He stayed on Alistair the whole fight.

He can be annoying if you don't cheese it with the force field trick and don't have the curse of mortality to stop his self-heals. And without cone of cold, his attacks can hit people hard after he drops debuff on them. And if he drops the hex on your tank that only causes to crits to actually hit, thus making it easier for him to switch to squishy people. Or when he switches to revenant form, pulls everyone in and does the aoe.

I'm with Xurtan on this one, it was a little bit longer fight but overall it was easy. I had no cone of cold, curse of morality, or force field and besides the length of the fight it wasn't memorable. When he pulled away from my 2h tank I'd just hit taunt and he was right back on the tank..simple.

That said, apparently some munchkin just one-shot him with the Mana Clash

Hah! I was thinking about picking up that spell for the blood mage/emmisary battles, but now this opens up many more fights that spell would be entertaining withi 

[Threash]

I don't know whats wrong with you guys, the dwarf area is the best so far.

[lac]

Legion of the dead
I love their heavy armor.

[tmp]

Blah i enjoyed this game so much and then they had to fuck it up with the Landsmeet

[Slyfeind]

I started playing with traps, which is kinda fun. It's way too much preparation for the payoff, because you can definitely do without them, but it's a neat little thing.

Loading screens though, holy crap.

[Threash]

The freaking dwarf just went off to masturbate thinking about his dead wife and her lesbian lover.   

[tmp]

Dwarf gets it up even for Wynne due to her knowledge of fine drinks.

On the other hand my elf, going by off-hand remark he finds her ugly...

[Ingmar]

There was a Lord Foreshadow reference too.

[jakonovski]

Oh my, Leliana just critted 550 with an Arrow of Slaying. 

[Thrawn]

I am ready to burn Denerim to the ground, so damn frustrating.

[tmp]

Hey, it's capital city. Pinnacle of the dog eats dog evolution, even the rats here are the size of badgers.

That said the AoE sleep, cone of cold and blizzard work as well here as anywhere.

[eldaec]

Some of the voice accent choices in this are... odd.

Giving the Dwarfs of Orzammar US accents when player dwarfs all sound like Brian Blessed, is a bit weird.

[tmp]

So, my elf has spent most of the game being nothing but casually friendly with Leliana; never really complimenting her or anything remotely flirty.

Then one day Alistair whose opinion on the elf wasn't even 30 starts to ask Wynne --out of all people-- for "purely theoretical" dating tips in the middle of a stroll. Leliana is there too but doesn't chime in. But as soon as we're in the camp out of the blue she blurts out she loves my elf, and sure enough she goes from ~80 (friendly) to ~80 (adore)

I guess she just figured it's better to try and secure the base before another party does. This relationship stuff can be crazy almost like the rl

It only missed "Oghren approves: +10" from the nearby tent...

[Threash]

"You are surrounded by darkspawn corpses, what happened here? ENCHANTMENT!"  My god im still laughing.

[amiable]

Having completed my rogue run on nightmare all i can say is that this game is in desperate need of more knockback/stun effects.  There were a few moments here or there where I could actually move.

[nurtsi]

"You are surrounded by darkspawn corpses, what happened here? ENCHANTMENT!"  My god im still laughing.

Just finished the game. That was awesome :)

[Azazel]

Heh. They're just small, that's all. Warhammer elves seem at least normal height. Warcraft are like 7 footers.

I hate short people, basically. Seems like the entirety of fantasy races is short people... except monsters and humans.

Warhammer elves are a little taller than most humans.

So is there a definate on which platform gves this game the superior experience out of 360/PC?

[gryeyes]

You really have to ask that question?

[Sky]

Still trying to avoid using cheese mage tactics, though I'm weakening and took the frost line for Wynne. The battles are a LOT tougher without Morrigan, the game seems balanced for a control mage. Even with Wynne specializing as a healer, and my tanks both wearing DLC armor and named weapons, she can't keep up with the healing and I'm always out of healing goops. I like it though, it's pushing tactics and stretching all the party members to be creative and it adds to the feeling of being a desperate band of adventurers constantly up against (almost) overwhelming odds.

Just wish there were a few more elfroots around, ffs. And good thing there was the DLC armors, I haven't been able to afford much of anything on any vendor ever (except elfroots and healing goops). Game is a bit stingy with good loot.

[Rasix]

So is there a definate on which platform gves this game the superior experience out of 360/PC?

It runs great on recommended specs and was by all appearances built primarily for PCs and ported to consoles.   It's a real no brainer unless you have a very dated PC. 

[JWIV]

It's D&D type christmas elves that get my hate.

The hell version of D&D have you been playing?

I still have no idea how Talislanta didn't make a billion dollars for all the hate that people have for elves.

[Rasix]

Still trying to avoid using cheese mage tactics, though I'm weakening and took the frost line for Wynne. The battles are a LOT tougher without Morrigan, the game seems balanced for a control mage. Even with Wynne specializing as a healer, and my tanks both wearing DLC armor and named weapons, she can't keep up with the healing and I'm always out of healing goops. I like it though, it's pushing tactics and stretching all the party members to be creative and it adds to the feeling of being a desperate band of adventurers constantly up against (almost) overwhelming odds.

Just wish there were a few more elfroots around, ffs. And good thing there was the DLC armors, I haven't been able to afford much of anything on any vendor ever (except elfroots and healing goops). Game is a bit stingy with good loot.

I'm taking Wynne during my second playthrough and purposely avoiding all control lines/frost.  Helps that her default load out has none of that.    I'm playing what should be a low DPS group (sword/shield arcane warrior, shale, Leilana as an archer and Wynne) but I'm not having a whole lot of problems taking things out before the healing gets too taxing. 

Feeling like I should use a respec mod.  I'd like to bring in Zev just for a change of pace from Leilana, but I'm compulsive in my need for a lock popper (and I've got enough melee). The default spell choices you're stuck with are often a bit odd.

If you want a lot of elfroot, just viist the elven vendors.  I think they have a permanent 99 stack.

[Threash]

If you don't want to use mage cheese tactics try not to bring 3 melee, they take a shit ton of damage even if your tank holds aggro the whole time.  One mage just can't keep up healing for 3 melee, bring at least one archer.

[Jade Falcon]

Heh. They're just small, that's all. Warhammer elves seem at least normal height. Warcraft are like 7 footers.

I hate short people, basically. Seems like the entirety of fantasy races is short people... except monsters and humans.

Warhammer elves are a little taller than most humans.

So is there a definate on which platform gves this game the superior experience out of 360/PC?

I was really hesitant too get this for 360 since most of my rpg experiences on it weren't very good,but it handled really well I found.The only real gripe I had during it was not having better control over positioning in some fights.The final fight was extremely frustrating trying to position people where I wanted them.

[Sky]

If you want a lot of elfroot, just viist the elven vendors.  I think they have a permanent 99 stack.

I should be there soon, I'm in Denerim but they've closed the elf area off thus far. (Have I mentioned how slow I play games?) And yeah, respec would be nice. I'm torn whether to take Cone because I know it's so powerful, but not yet regretful because Frost Weapons is nice and Grasp is good for light CC/situational stuff.

I've got two tanks, my 2h warrior and Alistair. I do ok (LOVE the two-handed sweep for goop-applying time), but Al has a lot of trouble, he's the one applying most of the party's goop, even in shield wall mode with threaten off. I'm also running Wynne and Leliana, Lel is pretty handy for support, with her stun in case someone aggros on her. Damage isn't great, but every bit helps, I guess.

[Rasix]

If you want a lot of elfroot, just viist the elven vendors.  I think they have a permanent 99 stack.

I should be there soon, I'm in Denerim but they've closed the elf area off thus far.

I mean Brecalian forest, not the Alienage.  That's pretty close to Denerim as well. 

Get Shale.  Takes a beating pretty well.