[RodeoRanch]

New expansion "The Awakening" out today. I'm downloading it right now from Steam. Yay, more DA!

[Aptorian]

And DA itself is 33% off. I considered buying it this time, but really I have so many unplayed Steam games that I can wait, and in a year it will be 50% off or cheaper.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 16 March 2010 - 08:44 PM

[Gothos]

Personally I'm not completely convinced. DA:O didn't bring me the level of excitement I expected (damn you marketing), and I'm reluctant to throw money at them for the expansion anytime soon... I'll wait for when it's cheaper I guess.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

I'm in the same boat as Apt, there's just too much unplayed on my Steam account.

[Stalker]

I downloaded the expansion first thing this morning. Not going to get to play it for a few days but knowing it is there is good.

[Cause]

I'm waiting for some kind of bundle which might even include some DLC. But not seen any yet. You guys heard anything?

Also I know its been talked about before but PS3 vs PC?

[Urb]

The graphics are probably better on PC. Also I imagine better controls.

[Gothos]

That, yeah, probably. Though I'll take this space to state my annoyance at controls in some modern games that are released on both consoles and PC - the interface is usually akin to a console one even on the PC, not tapping it's capabilities (extreme example: Oblivion).

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Haven't gotten the new DLC or the last one, which is odd since I played through the game 2.5 full times before putting it down. Isn't the newest one supposed to be bigger than the last?

[Jusentantaka]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 17 March 2010 - 09:53 AM, said:

Haven't gotten the new DLC or the last one, which is odd since I played through the game 2.5 full times before putting it down. Isn't the newest one supposed to be bigger than the last?

don't bother with the dlc, its a waste and only like 20 minutes long, the xpac is pretty decent length though, I put in 9hours so far and I'm half way through, supposing it follows the same 'go to all of these places and then go to an end place and then end the game' format.


and done... kinda uck. Lots of good parts, but final time was about 13 hours, not the 20 I was hoping for, and there were a god awful number of little bugs and ctds and such towards the end. If you (generally) didn't buy it yet, maybe best to wait until a patch comes along. Reloading to kill your way through a cave several times over (4 times...) so that an enemy with your gear will be lootable is not fun. No it is not.

This post has been edited by Jusentantaka: 18 March 2010 - 08:01 PM

[Urb]

I wish they would make it more challenging. After playing through the original, the dlc and the expansion, only once did I feel like I wasn't just cruising through the game. And that was when I killed Loghain's second who was just going to arrest me anyway, so they made it (I assume) seemingly impossible to kill her. I'm not saying the whole game should be like that, but there should be more of those challenges I guess. They're fun.

[Tarcanus]

I was so disappointed with Dragon Age. I played up through the first town and about halfway through the southern forest(forget its name already) and just got bored. The characters weren't interesting me (though they were amusing, if that makes sense - non-interesting but amusing) and after I spent more time in towns than actual plot progression and battling I got frustrated. I'm thinking I'm just not cut out for RPGs anymore. At the first hint of micro-management of items, team members, and quests, I get overwhelmed and consequently, bored.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

MAn, you need to give games more than an hour to get going if they are 60 hours long. Some movies take that long for the plot to get moving, and they're only 90 minutes long!

[Gothos]

Tarcanus, on 09 April 2010 - 03:13 PM, said:

At the first hint of micro-management of items, team members, and quests, I get overwhelmed and consequently, bored.

you wussed away you mean.

[Garak]

Oh, I remember the micromanagment in Baldur's Gate 2. I think I spent almost a month playing that game like it was crack. Best RPG ever in my book. DA:O isn't bad either, actually but then again I was always a Bioware fan. Sure, all their games have some recurring themes/elements and DA:O doesn't have a stellar plot idea but the execution was always well done and I always felt the team/s actually loved what they were doing.

Also, I play pen and paper D&D and I still need to micromanage my character. It's part of the RPG experience really. Truth be told my favorite part is the story and getting to affect the world around you but still.

[Gothos]

Torment > BG2.

[Garak]

Planescape Torment isn't a game. It's an interactive book of superb quality that blows your mind away. Seriously, in their place I'd have done it without the combat, it wasn't really that necessary.

[Gothos]

fits "role playing" a lot better than bg ever did through that. Baldur's Gate games are something of a compromise between Torment's extreme storylining and Icewind Dale's pure combat, and as such were a tremendous success. Not to mention that BG1 is largely, if not solely, responsible for bringing the RPG genre back to the top after years of disappointing stagnation. More modern games like Mass Effect, the MMO boom (ok, a bit different, but still), NWN, Dragon Age, even BG2, IWD and Torment were possible largely due to BG1's bold step forward. It was a massive project in a genre that has been slowly dying. All in all, I think it's the most important RPG of the last decade. A game of numbers, micromanagement, character development, large time investment in a world of reigning action games. And it rocked the world.
I guess it did what Stonekeep was supposed, but dramatically failed, to do.

[Garak]

Any idea if BG and PT will run on windows 7? I suddenly have an urge to play those games again.

[Gothos]

I haven't the slightest, but I don't think there's much reason for them not to. Can't recall if I've got my Torment with me in this town, might check when I'm home (if I don't get distracted by another ME2 playthrough that is!) BG1 worked perfectly on XP, in any case.
Also, if you'd like to replay BG1, there are re-editions on the net that implement the updated BG2 engine to BG1, so it supports, among other things, higher screen resolutions and graphic options; these also let you run BG1, TotSC, BG2 and ToB from a single launcher. And stuff. I think as long as you have an original copy lying around somewhere it's not really piracy, is it?

Going further off topic on BG1, I've done a replay sometime last year and I was amazed to see how much I missed when I played the first time all those years ago. Back then I didn't have the OCD-like drive to explore everything, beat every monster and do every quest in the game, and I think I missed more than half the content just following the main storyline...

Still have to say... Sarevok was effing hard. Irenicus doesn't have a thing on the guy, neither does Amelissana.