Dragon Age: Origins

[JayDizzle]

80+ hours and I'm finished with my City Elf Warrior storyline.

For the longest time I sat on finishing the Blackstone Irregulars sidequests until I learned that I had to wait until the end of the game to even do so. :headbang:

Other than that, I found the ending to be as dragging and lackluster as the Fade/Circle Tower quest if only for the need to wade through thousands of bodies to get to the end.

Not going to say that the work I put in to get the Juggernaut and Legion of the Dead Armor wasn't worth it, but I just threw it on either Sten or Alistair afterward.

Damn Wade and his Superior Dragonbone Plate Armor.

Now that I'm "done" and having played both "The Stone Prisoner" and "Warden's Keep" DLCs, I either gotta DL more stuff or play the game again if I want more gameplay.

...can't wait to put work in on my Evil Dwarf Noble Warrior playthrough.

 

[killgod]

 

[JayDizzle]

I learned it's better to loot temporary party members than let them run off with resellable/useful gear any day of the week.

Easiest set of Grey Iron chainmail I ever got.

 

[wingsfan77]

started an Elf mage....I already know what I'm spending most of my time on between now and heading back to school haha

 

[wingsfan77]

I'm having trouble keeping my Mage alive during fights because I cause so much more damage than my other party members....oh well gotta make adjustments

 

[killgod]

Bad news...

http://kotaku.com/5440229/dragon-age-origins-wont-return-to-ostagar-on-time

No DLC today and no date given so it'll probably be a couple weeks at least.


However there is good news too...

http://kotaku.com/5440337/dragon-age-awakening-expansion-out-in-march

 

[JayDizzle]

From what I heard, the Ostagar thing had to do with them finding something wrong with the final coding...

Dunno if the gaming community would overreact more from a shitty product or the delay (like some are doing now).

As for the "Awakening" expansion, I'm calling 15 bucks total for the thing.

 

[killgod]

Awakening is set to be $40 and offer 15 hours of content....I think...

 

[Maynard]

what did riley mean when he said the attacks are based on a roll of the dice? does that mean this is a turn based game?

 

[killgod]

what did riley mean when he said the attacks are based on a roll of the dice? does that mean this is a turn based game?

Bioware is linked with Dungeons and Dragons.

It's turn based in a way but it displays in a real time view. (which you can pause to assign commands to your party members)

All the "dice rolls" happen in the background and you don't see them, but that's how things are calculated (amount of damage dealt, etc)

 

[Maynard]

never played D&D and other then knowing the name idk anything about it. I dont think i will ever understand the concept of a turn based game. how these game work just doesnt make sense to me. I tried Civ 4 and couldnt get past the tutorial. It was almost like playing a board game and making my moves

 

[JayDizzle]

Awakening is set to be $40 and offer 15 hours of content....I think...

$40?!

I already paid full price for the game (before friggin' Wal-Mart dropped it down $20 for the Holidays ) and then dropped $7 for Warden's Keep for the Warden Commander Armor.

So thats like $69... I hope they'll get their shit together as far as the coding and testing goes for the thing because at $40, they can't afford to bring it in late or anything.

 

[killgod]

$40?!

I already paid full price for the game (before friggin' Wal-Mart dropped it down $20 for the Holidays ) and then dropped $7 for Warden's Keep for the Warden Commander Armor.

So thats like $69... I hope they'll get their shit together as far as the coding and testing goes for the thing because at $40, they can't afford to bring it in late or anything.

15 hours of content is a lot. There's plenty of retail games for $60 that don't offer 15 hours of play time.

 

[JayDizzle]

15 hours of content is a lot. There's plenty of retail games for $60 that don't offer 15 hours of play time.

As long as there's new voice actors, text scripts for your party (dunno if you'd be able to get everyone back for this one... Claudia Black has hot things to do I suppose...), weapons, armor...

I just have a bad feeling that I'll be let down (as selfish as that sounds).

 

[JayDizzle]

Oh... and allegedly this new expansion is on another planet?

link

 

[killgod]

umm that's Mass Effect bruh


there's no way space travel is coming into the mix, they are just sharing names between games i guess


i fiended off Mass Effect but there's no way I'd snipe the name of a random planet like that......damn

 

[JayDizzle]

umm that's Mass Effect bruh


there's no way space travel is coming into the mix, they are just sharing names between games i guess


i fiended off Mass Effect but there's no way I'd snipe the name of a random planet like that......damn

I know.

I find it funny how closely knit Mass Effect and Dragon Age is if you look into the games hard enough... Blood Dragon Armor sharing nonwithstanding.

 

[wingsfan77]

I've taken a few days off because last time I played the Sloth demon rolled right through me haha, any tips? I'll give it another try soon

 

[JayDizzle]

I've taken a few days off because last time I played the Sloth demon rolled right through me haha, any tips? I'll give it another try soon

If you had the party I had throughout the game (Me as a Sword and Shield Warrior, Alistair as the party Tank, Morrigan as the Mage, and Leilianna as my Archer), all you gotta do is this:

-Feed Alistair health poultices like crazy as he gets the Demon's attention
-Have Morrigan cast Cone of Cold inbetween feeding her lyrium potions and health poultices

After a while, it's just a matter of when you put the Demon down...

Added bonus: You still get to use the forms you picked up by going through all that "The Fade" bullshit so you could just either switch to Stone Golem form or the Magic form that lets you cast Crushing Prison all day and kick that dude's ass all day.

 

[Bomberooski]

am i supposed to be reading all the codex stuff I get?