Dragon Age 3

[Sjofn]

It annoys me that such things even bother me, but I still can't get used to the mage 'do 360 degree spins and wave staff around like it is a dual-lightsaber in the Star Wars prequels' caster animations.

I vastly prefer that to the utterly embarrassing sputsputsputsputsput of DA:O. Yeah I'd rather something a little less goofy, but apparently I prefer goofy over ... whatever the DA:O animation was.

The animations I save my "jesus christ really?!" for are the dual daggers. So dumb. So dumb!

[eldaec]

Video looked bad, but more because they had picked awful camera and control settings to " show off" the engine than because it necessarily means anything for the game.

I assume the camera can be zoomed right out and everyone controlled with a mouse, pause button, and enormous hotbars. Just as God intended.

[tmp]

That same shield is in DA2.

And in Vindictus, apparently. Which amuses me, given all the pooh-poohing the Good Doctors did about these inferior Eastern RPGs, not long before DA2 happened.

[Ingmar]

Well, let's not pretend putting a lion on a shield is some kind of super original thing.

[Samprimary]

It annoys me that such things even bother me, but I still can't get used to the mage 'do 360 degree spins and wave staff around like it is a dual-lightsaber in the Star Wars prequels' caster animations.

I vastly prefer that to the utterly embarrassing sputsputsputsputsput of DA:O. Yeah I'd rather something a little less goofy, but apparently I prefer goofy over ... whatever the DA:O animation was.

The animations I save my "jesus christ really?!" for are the dual daggers. So dumb. So dumb!

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[Sjofn]

Seriously, I have a billion hours in DA:O and not one finished playthrough is a mage, and I am pretty sure it was entirely because of their bullshit animations.

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[Samprimary]

My only finished playthrough is a mage, and I have no regrets, because mages were insanely overpowered. Especially with that magical warrior background. You puke out a whole wad of spells, then throw on something like nine sustained effects, and mainline lyrium till the fight's over

[tmp]

Seriously, I have a billion hours in DA:O and not one finished playthrough is a mage, and I am pretty sure it was entirely because of their bullshit animations.

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I'm reading this, but I don't understand it at all. My DA:O mages were always busy round the clock throwing down crazy aoes, cc and setting/following on the effect chains; they never had any time to do any of that sput thing.

[rk47]

plays mage, wants to twirl staff.

[Sjofn]

I banished mages from my party sometime around playthrough #3. My PC mages never got to be high enough level where I always had a spell to cast (or felt it was worth casting, more specifically) and/or I tried arcane warrior and God, that was boring too.

I don't care if they were supposedly overpowered, they were boring as fuck with shitty animations and fuck DA:O mages.

exception: casting fireball with friendly fire on, something about exploding EVERYONE on the screen made me laugh, even though it was not, perhaps, the best course of action

[Pagz]

Reminds me of an unidentified potion I drunk in baldurs gate, turns out it was a potion of firey breath, everyone died. Good times!

[Sjofn]

My first attempt to play Baldur's Gate, I found a wand of lightning bolt. I had no idea it bounced. That was the end of that party.

[Raguel]

The only thing I remember about DA:O mages is that I resented having to micromanage them when I really just wanted to stab people in the face.

[Rasix]

Unrelated, but what of the DA2 DLC is worth playing?  I'm through Act 1 on a new play through and have yet to die from area-reuse.

Anders is a giant wanker from the start.  I can't decide who's a bigger waste of flesh, him or Carver.  I've had Varric in my party more and he's just fucking hilarious.  I've yet to play any amount of time with Fenris in my group.  Does he say anything interesting?

[Ingmar]

Re: DLC, they're both good and don't suffer from the two main complaints people had about the base game (the way enemies spawned in and reused areas.) They can be played in any act, you can take your sibling with you, and the conversations differ depending on which act you do them in so there's a fair amount of replayability.

If you want Anders to get yelled at a lot, bring him and Fenris places together.

[Rasix]

Is the DLC character worth getting?

[Phildo]

Yes.  He should have been included in the main game.

Fenris is great, and extremely useful in combat as well.

[Ingmar]

I forgot that Sebastian even counted as DLC.

[Ingmar]

Back on topic, some details about the co-op multiplayer side mode:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/26/dragon-age-inquisitions-co-op-multiplayer-is-all-about-loot?watch=

Sounds like much like the multiplayer in ME3, it's a separate thing, but a more Diablo-like style this time rather than horde mode with waves.

FAQ: http://www.dragonage.com/#!/en_US/news/multiplayer-faq

[Sjofn]

Unrelated, but what of the DA2 DLC is worth playing?  I'm through Act 1 on a new play through and have yet to die from area-reuse.

Anders is a giant wanker from the start.  I can't decide who's a bigger waste of flesh, him or Carver.  I've had Varric in my party more and he's just fucking hilarious.  I've yet to play any amount of time with Fenris in my group.  Does he say anything interesting?

I love Carver, you take that back. He is the most actual-sibling-feeling of any video game sibling I have experienced! My Hawke's relationship with Carver is pretty close to my relationship with one of my sisters during our teens (the MIDDLE girl, who had (has) a massive chip on her shoulder about it), complete with "but deep down we fucking love each other, dammit."

Anyway, DA2's content DLCs are all good. If I was going to pick just one, even including Sebastian's, I'd pick Legacy. But that's partly because it has a bigger emphasis on your family. If you hate Carver, it might not be quite so fun. Mark of the Assassin is my least favorite (because it takes up one of my precious party slots with What's Her Face's mary sue character), but it's still quite good. I'm pretty sure if DA2 was as good as its DLCs, it would've been received much better.

[Sjofn]

ON Topic: I don't really get why the multiplayer exists for DA:I, but if it's as fun as ME3's, I'll wind up being glad it exists.

[Ingmar]

They probably made a shitton of money off of people in ME 3 that were too impatient to earn their points to get their boxes full of weapon and class upgrades.

[Sjofn]

Speaker isn't the most engaging, but the Keep looks pretty nifty:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rNDZ0Ih3v0


tl, dw: You can pick all sorts of shit to recreate your saves (although it'll look for those as a base if you still have them), and Varric will tell you all about yourself. 

[Rasix]

Man, I barely remember what happened in DA1.  I suppose that can be my next replay.  Game is hella long.

Enjoying my DA2 replay, but I'm still being cheap and haven't gotten any of the DLC.   

[Sjofn]

Well, Varric will help you out if you never get around to playing DA:O again!  Seriously I am way too pleased about that stupid feature.

[Sophismata]

It was supposed to be in ME3 too, but never made release.

[Ingmar]

It actually does exist. It's called Mass Effect Genesis 2. It isn't free, though (except for the Wii U people since they didn't have the previous games) and I think the number of choices you can specify is way less.

[Ingmar]

Dragon Age: Origins is free on Origin right now.

[schild]

The price is the installation of Origin.

NEVER.

[Ingmar]

If you put that in your sig it would save you the trouble of posting the same thing every time Origin is mentioned.

[Paelos]

Origin, not even once.

[schild]

If you put that in your sig it would save you the trouble of posting the same thing every time Origin is mentioned.

Origin is mentioned constantly and I don't respond. In this case you said DA:O was free. Which is not the case.

[Rasix]

Quit being such a baby.  

Lost my DA:O disks, so this helps.  Yay.  Stupid Social Page even had my DLC. (I don't think I'll have time to play this now)

[Velorath]

I've had Origin on my computer for quite a while now. Oddly my life doesn't seem to have been negatively impacted by it in any way:

[Fabricated]

I'm stuck with it for BF4 and Titanfall. May as well save myself the trouble of re-installing Dragon Age by hand. One of the very last PC games I ever bought in box form.