Dragon Age

[Malakili]

I'm going to just toss this heresy out: the console version of DA is more fun for me than the PC version.

Explain yourself!

Seriously though, what makes you say that, I haven't even played the console version so its not like i have much to say about it.  It seems like the PC version is just the console version + the ability to pull out to that tactical mode though,  so why wouldn't you want that/just ignore it if you don't want it?   Are there other differences I don't now about?

[Ingmar]

Combat is supposedly balanced to be easier in the console version as well.

[Sjofn]

But if you play on the PC you can mod the shit out of it! This is handy since the playerbase is a lot faster about fixing dialogue bugs than Bioware. 

[caladein]

I'm going to just toss this heresy out: the console version of DA is more fun for me than the PC version.

Death to Radial Menus!

[Lum]

A few points:

= Combat supposedly easier in the console version - this is a wash, since you can always jack up the difficulty. The console is limited in how many bodies it can throw at you at once supposedly. Eh. Hard to tell a difference yet.
- No modding.
+ Most mods for Dragon Age suck royal ass. I miss Advanced Tactics and very, very little else. The entire reason I threw up my hands and picked up a console version is because my game got screwed up (couldn't recruit Wynne, couldn't pass that point) and had no clue why or how that happened. Even after nuking all my mods.
+ Unlike the PC version, anything that's selectable is highlighted. This makes the Mage Tower and similar areas FAR less of a pixelhunting pain in the arse.
- Radial menus are sometimes a pain
+ If you change the default to remain stuck open with the game paused it becomes far less of a twiddlefest.
- Screen resolution isn't as good on the console obvously
+ On the other hand I can play it in my recliner on a big screen TV.


All I'm saying is that it wasn't as OMG HORROR as it had been made out.

[Xuri]

This might not be a real memory, but I'm pretty sure I used a button in the PC version to highlight items I could interact with.

[Engels]

This might not be a real memory, but I'm pretty sure I used a button in the PC version to highlight items I could interact with.

Ya, this is in the PC version too.

[tmp]

This might not be a real memory, but I'm pretty sure I used a button in the PC version to highlight items I could interact with.

Yes, Tab key highlights the interactive stuff with names and all.

From what i recall, the one real drawback of console version could be limitation in ability to coordinate actions -- you can't tell other members to do something while you do something else, their own tiny AI brains take over as soon as you switch to another body. So stuff like positioning, moving out of aoe damage as a team or combining spell effects becomes quite a hassle at best.

[eldaec]

There is an option on the pc to permanently label clikable objects.

Rest of that list seems to boil down to 'I don't use the features that made the pc better and, you know, MY SOFA'. Given Bioware's penchant for butt achingly long dialog sequences, this makes some kind of sense.

[Tebonas]

That right here is the reason there will never be the perfect game for everyone. Those long dialog sequences are one of the things I like about Bioware games.

[Lum]

There is an option on the pc to permanently label clikable objects.

Rest of that list seems to boil down to 'I don't use the features that made the pc better and, you know, MY SOFA'. Given Bioware's penchant for butt achingly long dialog sequences, this makes some kind of sense.

Pretty sure there isn't, since someone wrote a mod to half-assedly do the same thing (only it doesn't work that well).

And yeah, MY SOFA.

[eldaec]

That right here is the reason there will never be the perfect game for everyone. Those long dialog sequences are one of the things I like about Bioware games.

Assuming no Bao-Durs are involved, I too approve of these sequences.

But I can understand the attraction of soft furnishings for the duration.   

[taolurker]

There was a mod that kept the item glow always on, and yes as previous people said you needed to press a key to show it...

You also needed to have it enabled in options (no mod necessary).

[Sjofn]

I have that option enabled and I still have to ride my tab key to find some shit.

[tmp]

Yeah that switch is separate from the Tab key. Tab highlights everything that's interactive while that switch only adds sparkles to containers/corpses with loot inside, so it ignores other interactive bits like doors or codex entry clickables etc.

[Mosesandstick]

Holding down the tab key with your 4th finger for 40 hours in DA is awesome.

[Sjofn]

What's sad is I find myself hitting tab when I'm playing WoW now. I also sometimes attempt to pause combat when a fight is going to shit, so of course I just jump and down like an idiot instead of doing something useful.    Luckily I've never done this has a healer, that would just be tragic.

[Lum]

Holding down the tab key with your 4th finger for 40 hours in DA is awesome.

Hence why I like the console version. It's dumbed down for dummies like me so I can just click on the damn shiny thing. While on MY SOFA.

[Sjofn]

You people need better computer chairs. Or better posture. Or something.

[Mosesandstick]

I sympathise Lum. DA combat was probably seemed like a slightly different game on the console than on the PC. I imagine on the console it was more of a 3rd person RPG where you had awesome skills, whereas on the PC it was a tactical RPG where you were constantly fighting with your companions' AI. (Could totally be wrong here though).

[Bunk]

While on MY SOFA.

There is some remarkable self restraint being shown by Sky in not jumping in here on that point.

For me, the AI is a big thing - I like to control my tactics. Also, I'm an admitted graphics whore, and I like my modded, prettier party members.

[Xuri]

...and I like my modded, prettier party members.

Aha! Admit it, you've installed nude mods!

[Fordel]

Out of the six DA mods I have installed, 3 of them are devoted to making Leliana look like the way she does in the CGI Trailer.

[Sjofn]

I sometimes think about modding some of the partymembers (Leliana is probably top of my list) but I've played it so many times now they'd look wrong and annoy me in a different way.

[Lum]

True facts: 97% of Dragon Age mods involve changes to sex scenes, adding more sex scenes, or ensuring you can have gay sex with Alistair.

[Engels]

I salute the bravery shown in discovering these facts, Lum. FROM YOUR SOFA.

(btw)

[tmp]

True facts: 97% of Dragon Age mods involve changes to sex scenes, adding more sex scenes, or ensuring you can have gay sex with Alistair.

In line with general content of the intrawebs, then.

[Lantyssa]

I'll admit to getting the mod that lets me woo Morrigan.  Of course I made it out of Lothering and lost interest.

[Sjofn]

Given the single same sex option for the ladies, anyone who faults you for downloading that mod is crazy. 

[Lantyssa]

I must have made it past Orzimmar now that I think about it, since that was my Dwarf play through.  I'm amused I had to turn to Morrigan though, because I actually wanted to get back together with my second.  He had to go and get married though.

[Sjofn]

Oh my God, I was so pissed at him for that in my dwarf noble play through. "I always knew in my heart you survived! By the way, I got married and she's going to have my dwarf baby in the spring." Fuck yoooooooou. My rebound was Zevran though. 

[tmp]

Oh my God, I was so pissed at him for that in my dwarf noble play through. "I always knew in my heart you survived! By the way, I got married and she's going to have my dwarf baby in the spring." Fuck yoooooooou.

Dwarf newborns are rare, i bet he was expecting you to celebrate it with him

[Sjofn]

I know they're rare, that's what made it an extra special, "Oh, fuck YOU!" 

[Lantyssa]

He wouldn't even let us meet the wife to threaten her with death if she so much as thought about treating him wrong.

Everyone one of my stories has done nothing but left my characters pissed off and despondent.

[Merusk]

I'm playing an alienage elf whose entire goal is to fuck as much of the human world over as possible while making it seem like she's helping.   "Oh, so sorry we couldn't save your son, Arl Easmon."   "What's that? The mages need to die.. ah well, gues so!"  "Oh, the dwarves might become stronger and more outwardly-focused under that fratricidal ass than the decent dwarf.. excellent."

She's neither pissed nor despondent.  Alistair doesn't like me very much, though, and I haven't done the alienage or Daelish part yet so I'm not sure where I'm going there. I think leaving the curse around might just be the cure for the human infestation of the forest, though.