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Topic: Sooooo....Dragon Age (Read 25123 times)
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Riggswolfe
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Is anyone else getting this? And are you getting it on PC or console? I want it for PC but am scared of the DRM which I am becoming convinced is a way to force people into giving up PC gaming.
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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MournelitheCalix
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I will purchase it for PC so long as its EA DRM free on STEAM. I know I am very excited about the title and have been following it for a few years now since it appears to be the very first credible effort to recreate the gaming experience of Baldur's Gate II: SoA & ToB.
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Riggswolfe
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I will purchase it for PC so long as its EA DRM free on STEAM. I know I am very excited about the title and have been following it for a few years now since it appears to be the very first credible effort to recreate the gaming experience of Baldur's Gate II: SoA & ToB.
This pretty much sums up my feelings. I've kicked around Steam but I like having the physical disk and manuals and all that stuff. |
"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Merusk
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As with all games, I will let those of you with more money than children purchase it and render judgment before I contemplate it. It does, however, look like a game that might scratch that itch that NWN only barely managed to do.
I'm with Riggs on liking to have the manuals and what-not for RPGs.
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Tmon
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Do they even package manuals any more? Seems like lately you get a "quickstart" guide and are told the name of the manual.pdf and that's it.
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Merusk
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Ya got me. Because of the requirement above, I don't buy PC games all that often anymore. I bought ONE new PC games in '08, for example, the Orange Box for TF2 and who needs a manual for a FPS? Anything else was just expansions like Beyond the Sword, which - IIRC - did come with a manual. Either I'm increasingly irrelevant to the market and it's moved past me, or the market is increasingly getting shittier. I haven't decided which.
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murdoc
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Dumb question: Is this close enough to being released to warrant this thread? I only ask because I have no idea if a release date has been set.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Tarami
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Dumb question: Is this close enough to being released to warrant this thread? I only ask because I have no idea if a release date has been set.
There's no release date yet AFAIK, only speculation. "Soon (we'll delay releasing a release date)."  |
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Riggswolfe
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Dumb question: Is this close enough to being released to warrant this thread? I only ask because I have no idea if a release date has been set.
All the online outlets are claiming March for PCs and Q4 2009 for consoles. It might be BS. |
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Yoru
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I'm going to be all over Dragon Age, most likely. I just played Eschalon Book I over the holidays and I'd really love a AAA-quality, graphically-lush RPG with content and systems akin to BG2.
Although preferably not with the awful D&D 2.5 game systems. Preferably. The exploding arrows from BG1 are totally welcome though.
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Threash
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I need something to scratch my character building itch, if this has anything like the nwn (or i guess dnds) multiclassing system and baldurs gate style storyline/gameplay ill be all over it.
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HaemishM
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Based on how underwhelming NWN 1 was at launch (the editor mostly, but still), I'm going to wait for you richer fuckers to hash it out before I even consider it.
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FatuousTwat
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Ditto.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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Slyfeind
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I'm totally looking forward to this. I can't stop playing with the NWN1 editor, even though it's rather dated, so I want something new to channel my creativity through. (And NWN2 made me sad.)
Plus it's a new fantasy world, and it's been a while since I explored one of them.
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Triforcer
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Dragon Age is a bit uninspired as a name. They should call it Imperial Empire: Empire of Imperialism.
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Trippy
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Is anyone else getting this? And are you getting it on PC or console? I want it for PC but am scared of the DRM which I am becoming convinced is a way to force people into giving up PC gaming.
I'm more interested in what game your avatar is from than the original topic. |
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Rasix
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Persona 4.
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Trippy
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Thx.
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Riggswolfe
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Yeah, it's Chie from Persona 4. The NPCs can do followup attacks and hers was by far my favorite. It was called Galactic Punt and she would literally kick an enemy out of the battle and get an instant kill.
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Strazos
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I almost coughed up my drink when she did it to a "mini boss," after I had knocked down its summoned minion.
And on Dragon Age....I'll be getting it for 360, ONLY because my PC is so dated. I'm really wondering how it will work out, though I'm somewhat comforted by how Mass Effect played, which I had very few problems with.
Also, last I heard, they're using a new internally-created IP, so there should not be any DnD rules present.
Not that I would mind necessarily, as I'm liking 4th edition now...not sure how well it'd play in a CRPG though.
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fatboy
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Is anyone else getting this? And are you getting it on PC or console? I want it for PC but am scared of the DRM which I am becoming convinced is a way to force people into giving up PC gaming.
I'm hoping to get it for the PC (provided my PoS PC will play it....) -- if not, I will definitely get it for the 360. Totally looking forward to the game. |
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Stormwaltz
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I've been hearing about DA from the inside for five years now. I'd stopped caring about it. You could say I had even become a bit skeptical.
At the company meeting this morning, they showed a video that was a "cliff's notes" version of the demo they gave journalists a few weeks back (the elves-and-werewolves plot).
I am excited about DA again.
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trias_e
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That's some seriously jedi shit right there. I was thinking "Holy shit, he can't badmouth DA!", and then after you have my full attention (through shock) you turn around with the killer plug.
Note: I'm not saying you're being a shill or anything. That's just really damn effective.
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schild
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Yea, but you can't spitshine anything that involves elves, not even with werewolves. It will never stop bothering me that elves, dwarfs, and such keep making it into games, even fantasy ones. Please, god, someone reinvent this genre. ANYONE. I don't even care if the game is bad.
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Strazos
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If a fantasy game doesn't have elves, it will have a race very similar to elves. People will go to great lengths and put up all sort of caveats to compare a "non-standard fantasy race" to elves or dwarfs and such.
I can deal with elves being in the game; I don't normally use them anyway.
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schild
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If a fantasy game doesn't have elves, it will have a race very similar to elves. This isn't Voltaire. If elves don't exist we don't need to create them. At what point does a developer just throw up his arms and say "Humans are humans, quit it with the fucking almost human bipeds!" Humans. Monsters. Supernatural shit. Etc. All OK. Elves and Dwarves, Halflings, hobbits, etc need not apply. |
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Strazos
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If you play Evil in DA, you can kill all the elves and make them not exist.  |
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schild
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If you play Evil in DA, you can kill all the elves and make them not exist. I'm not one of those people that takes glee in eradicating unoriginality. That's not to say I'm not excited about Dragon Age. I am, very much so, but balls to stuff like elves. Just lame. |
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rk47
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Haha reinvent the genre. It wouldn't sell to the mass market, despite the Witcher trying hard to give a rougher setting in terms of really ugly dwarves, savage elf rebels versus evil human supremacists with some sex cards thrown in, people still don't think it was 'different' enough. Those who noticed it either liked it or hated the 'childishness' of the F word used in dialogues. Your mama suck dorf cock is one of those  random lines. |
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AngryGumball
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I dunno the animations closeup just like hinky to close to original NWN for this day and age.
Excited yes hopeful it is great yes Day one purchase no partly because strapped for cash. PC version for sure.
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Haha reinvent the genre. It wouldn't sell to the mass market, despite the Witcher trying hard to give a rougher setting in terms of really ugly dwarves, savage elf rebels versus evil human supremacists with some sex cards thrown in, people still don't think it was 'different' enough. Those who noticed it either liked it or hated the 'childishness' of the F word used in dialogues. Your mama suck dorf cock is one of those random lines. I got a kick out of one of the answers to "Why do humans hate elves?" being "Why do cocks go into cunts? It just is" (paraphrase). That was  |
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Merusk
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Without elves there are no elf tits. And that's just sad.
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WindupAtheist
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This isn't Voltaire. If elves don't exist we don't need to create them. At what point does a developer just throw up his arms and say "Humans are humans, quit it with the fucking almost human bipeds!" About a quarter-century ago with Ultima 4, when Garriot decided that he was a big enough boy to quit plagiarizing Tolkien quite so much. By Ultima 6 there weren't even orcs anymore. Half the reason I spat blood when UO added elves was because... well... elves are ghey. But the other half was because they just didn't fucking belong in Ultima. |
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rk47
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Yes, elves are gay, ninjas and samurais are cooler. |
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Without elves there are no elf tits. And that's just sad.
Still bitter they took down Elf Porn, are we? |
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