Sure, a few things off the top of my head.
1. No way to make a bad build unless done on purpose, IE pouring into strength as a Mage or magic as a warior. No real way to make a multi purpose character nor in their a practical reason to. Identical to KoToR.Specializations are for the most part the exact same as picking what type of Jedi you want to be, it's not actually specialization as it is getting a couple of stats and an extra line of skills.
2.. Combat is generally the same, click click click click click, once in a good while you need a pause or two when fighting off the larger groups. Certain moves and spells are better suited for certain situations but that was no different with force powers in KoToR.
3. It's more revolved around an individualist play rather then the party, certain party combos work better in certain situations but with a couple of exceptions you can go in with any party combo and win. There is no need to worry and think that this area will be impossible or tedious unless I take this and that, rather this will go faster if I use him and her. Again it was the same as in KoToR.
4. Combat itself is no more challenging them it was in KoToR, it's just instead of 3 or 4 or 5 enemies you'll have a dozen or two. It's sort of a cheap way to increase difficulty, but it fits well for the game.
Like I said, great game but in terms of what typical features you find in more hardcore and traditional RPG's it's a bit shallow. Not a knock on the game, all Bioware games since NWN have reflected this a bit.
MadCat46
Sorry for the delay in reply, I had a full reply typed out and then instead of closing the other tabs I closed the current tab in my browser :cry: re-writting everything again:cry:
1While specialization may besimilar, the character customization options are not so. if you see in kotor you main character is a jedi and finally all he gets are 3 choices. even with the 3 choices -- he still becomes a damage dealing, force power using warrior. In DA : O this is not so --- your mage is frail (unless you do arcane specialization) , you melee rogue will rely on dexterity to avoid damage etc.Also, there are much more choices available. for example a rogue who becomes are bard will behave much differently than a rogue who becomes a assasin. Also, there is some thought while building a character -- for example a gouge who becomes a assasin (or was it a bard ? ) requires both dexterity and cunning -- have a improper balance and your rogue will die much more often. then, there were much more options as a whole in the game --- for example my mage coudl have been either a damage dealing or revitalizing or disabling enemies or buffing your party or debuffing enemies etc (granted more that 2-3 combos were possible)
2. I would say combat is much more different and in dragon age you have to take care of the positioning of your troops and things like that. for example for a rogue to be effective you need to have him in a flanking postion. Before casting a AoE spell you need to ensure that your troops are no where near that region. As soon as you see a mage, disable him by petrify or forcefield. In kotor all you need was rush head along and that's all
3. Party while not required was important if you wanted to win the game easily. For example I always had a mage who disabled half the enemy forces, a tank who used taunt to protect my mage, a rogue for opening locked chests, a two handed warrior of shattering frozen foes etc. This made a game breeze for me even on hard difficulty
4. Most of the battle were not cheap, with proper tactics they became pretty simple. a mage could make the 12 enemies into 6 by disabling half of them etc This was precisely why I didn't found the game difficult at all at hard difficulty.
I don't think DA : O character system is as well though out and complex as a DnD one or it is as challenging as a wizardary or M&M games.
Still compared to Kotor I don't see people who don't like RPGs getting much into it (assuming they have tried simpler rpgs before and their dislike is not based solely on their experience with really complex ones). One such reason is that rpgs are too slow -- kotor while pseudo tb was fluid and really didn't needed to be thought out that much. compared to this DA : O you need proper pauses (assuming you play at difficulty level that is challenging for you --- else at easy levels even games like Civ 4 lack any sort of depth ) -- and this makes the combat appear slow. Now compare this to oblivion. Secondly, people who don't like rpgs that much, want their characters to be all powerfull doing well in all areas. in kotor you character could ecome pretty power in all areas and is pretty self reliant where as in DA: O it is not so (except maybe Arcane Warrior) . Compare this to oblivion where it is easy to do the same.
I could point more differences, but getting tried (it's second time I am typing this after all)
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