[The Seguleh 46th]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 03 June 2010 - 11:48 PM, said:

I love this game but haven't bought any of the dlc yet. Price will drop eventually.

I really need to stop playing this game. Its been like crack for me the last couple months. Would take about a weeklong break to play Fallout 3, Red Dead Redemption, yet always find my way back to this one! Sigh.....i need help!

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

The Seguleh 46th, on 04 June 2010 - 12:50 AM, said:

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 03 June 2010 - 11:48 PM, said:

I love this game but haven't bought any of the dlc yet. Price will drop eventually.

I really need to stop playing this game. Its been like crack for me the last couple months. Would take about a weeklong break to play Fallout 3, Red Dead Redemption, yet always find my way back to this one! Sigh.....i need help!

We have amazingly similar gaming patterns. I salute your taste sir.

[The Seguleh 46th]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 04 June 2010 - 01:41 AM, said:

The Seguleh 46th, on 04 June 2010 - 12:50 AM, said:

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 03 June 2010 - 11:48 PM, said:

I love this game but haven't bought any of the dlc yet. Price will drop eventually.

I really need to stop playing this game. Its been like crack for me the last couple months. Would take about a weeklong break to play Fallout 3, Red Dead Redemption, yet always find my way back to this one! Sigh.....i need help!

We have amazingly similar gaming patterns. I salute your taste sir.

Hehe. Thanks! I seen "self righteous ex-smoker" in your profile thingy. How long for you? I'm at one month exactly right now after 20 years and i'm still jonesing like a fiend right now, more so now than i was even a week ago! Maybe one of those "it gets worse before it gets better" scenarios? Sigh.........

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

It will be a year July 4th. I just realized that, actually. Good luck, you still have some rough times ahead of you, but it will get better. Dig around in the Inn for the "I'm quitting smoking" thread if you want some support and tips from all of the forum's ex smokers.

[Traveller]

The Seguleh 46th, on 04 June 2010 - 12:50 AM, said:

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 03 June 2010 - 11:48 PM, said:

I love this game but haven't bought any of the dlc yet. Price will drop eventually.

I really need to stop playing this game. Its been like crack for me the last couple months. Would take about a weeklong break to play Fallout 3, Red Dead Redemption, yet always find my way back to this one! Sigh.....i need help!

Weird, I couldn't wait to finish it. I liked it at 1st.. I think it was the characters and the predictability of it all that wore me down.
By the end I just wanted to walk them all off a cliff; the idea of DLC.. urg.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I geeked out and plowed through the game 2.5 times before finally getting bored with it, haven't touched it since. That's fine though, I think I got well over 100 hours of gameplay before that happened, which averages to less than a dollar per hour of entertainment. Sweet. It's been so long since I've played it, once I pick up the DLC at a reasonable price it will be fun to tear through one more time.

[Avatar]

For me, the gameplay was nice, but the greater storyline was a bit too simple. One thing I really liked in the end of the game was

Spoiler

Morrigan's proposal to make a child who would absorb the soul of the Elder God. That was some nice dark shit :-)

[Avatar]

Sorry, off topic: can't read my own spoiler, other people can??

[Gothos]

something's broken with it, it's not showing

[Jusentantaka]

Avatar, on 06 June 2010 - 11:29 AM, said:

For me, the gameplay was nice, but the greater storyline was a bit too simple. One thing I really liked in the end of the game was

Spoiler

Morrigan's proposal to make a child who would absorb the soul of the Elder God. That was some nice dark shit :-)

You changed the font in the spoiler. Somehow, that broke it. Or maybe it was changing the color. Or SOMETHING.

This post has been edited by Jusentantaka: 06 June 2010 - 04:07 PM

[Stalker]

spoiler worked fine for me.

It would be cool if Bioware does the same kind of thing they did for Mass Effect 2 allowing your decisions to transfer over to the next game (because I would be shocked if there wasn't one). I'd imagine the game set in the future, like next generation, so the all the faction decisions (dwarves, wolves v. elves, templars v. mages, the morrigain decision) would have a decided effect on gameplay experience.

[Gothos]

OK so Steam made me buy it. And Awakening.
I must say I'm happy with the expansion so far, though I do hear it's short, should have it finished by saturday.
There's a TONNE of new abilities available for levels 20+, two extra tiers of gear, new characters (ok, so one old companion comes back :>) and new locations and and and and stuff.
It's cool, though I'm starting to feel just how suboptimal my Arcane Warrior is. WTB aggro abilities! An indestructible class should have tools to draw enemy attention :>

[Gothos]

Dragon Age 2 announced! linky

Not much info at all, but it's a first step.
Looks like the Warden Commander won't carry over from DA1, it's a seperate story it seems. I wonder if they can pull off this kind of epicness.

[Urb]

From the concept art it looks like spears might be used as weapons in this one. I like it. And perhaps now that they have built up a sizeable fanbase, they can throw more money into the production and provide us with lots of combat animations.

[Satan]

The combat system will apparently be redone. But, more notably, the story line is a complete departure from the first one. You wont get to create your own character for this - you will be playing a more or less predefined Hawke character. He's said to be a refugee from the war in the first instalment, and you follow a story based around him for over ten years. Link to Norwegian article about it.

I like that there's less plasticity to the main character. That means they can throw more resources at making other, more important choices matter instead of putting up dialogue options and responses for three different races and three different occupations (at the most nine different dialogue options for any given event). It also means that the background story for the character will be that much better. I'm thinking Planescape Torment here.

[Cause]

Just found out yesterday and was coming to tell you all about DA2. Guess you already knew. What does this mean for expansions for the first one though? I seem to recall them promising ore than just one but DA2 would make it redundant.

[Gothos]

I like the new concept for the main character, though he seems a bit like Shepard in Fantasy. Well, ok, so he's a refugee forging a legend, not a specops guy saving the galaxy, but you get it... a more cinematic approach, perhaps an interface to make dialgoue flow without interruption?
I wonder about the battle system and if they implement some sort of tactics, or larger scale gameplay. Maybe introduce TotalWar-ian morale counters for flanking and winning/losing?
Also, WHERE THE HECK IS CAVALRY IN DA:O? Everyone in Ferelden is on foot. There's not a single horse in the entire kingdom. You've got to wonder how the hell they managed to beat Orlais out of their soil.

Also, I don't know if there will even be any new DLC seeing as DA2 is set for such a close release date. And good, I'd rather see the new game than 2 hour side stories.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Not reading any of this due to spoilers.

This game and the expansion were on for a pretty good deal at the game store in town yesterday.

having been a fan of all the baldur's gate games (and spinoffs), neverwinter nights, world of warcraft, and diablo

Is it worth picking them up?

Would anybody recommend nabbing the expansion right off the bat or does it play completely separately from the original campaign? Ie am I missing out on coolness by waiting to get the exp later?

[Tapper]

cerveza_fiesta, on 30 July 2010 - 04:20 PM, said:

Not reading any of this due to spoilers.

This game and the expansion were on for a pretty good deal at the game store in town yesterday.

having been a fan of all the baldur's gate games (and spinoffs), neverwinter nights, world of warcraft, and diablo

Is it worth picking them up?

Would anybody recommend nabbing the expansion right off the bat or does it play completely separately from the original campaign? Ie am I missing out on coolness by waiting to get the exp later?

I haven't played the expansion, and it is completely seperated apart from the opportunity to import your character from the main game. That being said, the main game was that cool that I wanted an extension, so buying the expansion now, especially if the price of it is reduced as well, can be worth it.

[Gothos]

The expansion is very nice, not that short, a lot of new levels and abilities, item sets, new specializations, a good storyline, difficult fights and a really grotesque end boss... Yes, I'd reccomend taking the expansion