Dragon age is entirely to difficult

Ive been playing on normal up until the castle of red cliffe or whatever and have only died a few times, and this castle is just ridiculous. I dropped it down to easy and im at the part with the revenant and its just unbelievable. Ive never had trouble with any other RPGs, but this is just retarded. The only way a person not having extreme difficulties with this game on normal must be some gigicantic hardcore RPG nerd. The game is awesome..but i have to take a break its too frustrating

Ive been playing on normal up until the castle of red cliffe or whatever and have only died a few times, and this castle is just ridiculous. I dropped it down to easy and im at the part with the revenant and its just unbelievable. Ive never had trouble with any other RPGs, but this is just retarded. The only way a person not having extreme difficulties with this game on normal must be some gigicantic hardcore RPG nerd. The game is awesome..but i have to take a break its too frustrating

PinkieWinkie

That's interesting. I've been thinking the game is too easy on the normal setting. Have you played party-based rpgs before?

you might consider easy setting. im glad they make it so i actually have to use skills during battle, not just autoattack. i'm playing on normal at about the same place you are, and there have only been a couple battles where i was running into trouble. try customizing your characters tactics and micromanaging them for better effect.

Ive been playing on normal up until the castle of red cliffe or whatever and have only died a few times, and this castle is just ridiculous. I dropped it down to easy and im at the part with the revenant and its just unbelievable. Ive never had trouble with any other RPGs, but this is just retarded. The only way a person not having extreme difficulties with this game on normal must be some gigicantic hardcore RPG nerd. The game is awesome..but i have to take a break its too frustrating

PinkieWinkie

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Ive been playing on normal up until the castle of red cliffe or whatever and have only died a few times, and this castle is just ridiculous. I dropped it down to easy and im at the part with the revenant and its just unbelievable. Ive never had trouble with any other RPGs, but this is just retarded. The only way a person not having extreme difficulties with this game on normal must be some gigicantic hardcore RPG nerd. The game is awesome..but i have to take a break its too frustrating

FelipeInside

Some reviews noted idiotic difficulty spikes. No game should have such spikes, regardless of its hardcore or casual status.

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="PinkieWinkie"]

Ive been playing on normal up until the castle of red cliffe or whatever and have only died a few times, and this castle is just ridiculous. I dropped it down to easy and im at the part with the revenant and its just unbelievable. Ive never had trouble with any other RPGs, but this is just retarded. The only way a person not having extreme difficulties with this game on normal must be some gigicantic hardcore RPG nerd. The game is awesome..but i have to take a break its too frustrating

Baranga

Some reviews noted idiotic difficulty spikes. No game should have such spikes, regardless of its hardcore or casual status.

I've always wanted to play a difficult RPG :) k0r3aN_pR1d3

[QUOTE="k0r3aN_pR1d3"]I've always wanted to play a difficult RPG :) tony2077ca

Good to hear. :P

[QUOTE="tony2077ca"][QUOTE="k0r3aN_pR1d3"]I've always wanted to play a difficult RPG :) k0r3aN_pR1d3

Hell yeah... I got sick of very easy games, now that's something real! I died a lot of times too, don't worry... But it won't be interesting if I annihilate everything, doncha think? ;)

Me fighting my first big dragon:

Me: HI!

Dragon: Roar

*Your journey ends...*

Also before someone say something...

I love that :D

The feeling that you are not god running around and that you can infact die if you aint careful.

Alot of the time it's positioning.. don't run head on into mobs.

be a close friend to pause and party tactical position/action maneuvering, you should be getting better.

I've been playing hard mode as a mage and its...manageable. Just make sure you pile on a ton of healing supplies along with making sure your mages actually have healing spells....half the time they're supposed to be supporting the melee, not trying to bring down the skies and rage of nature upon the dastardly rats from the ground.ACEHERO

This brings up one of my complaints.Because of ff my spells are fairly useless unless I want to kill the melee.

and the best part of this? You're only playing on Normal difficulty - there is still Hard and Nightmare settings above that :twisted:

Seriously though - normal does have some very challenging parts that will require you to replay them several times until you get them right. This game is about so much more than a "perfect build". Unless you know how to use your characters, their abilities, and combine that with good tactics, you will see the "your journey ends" screen a lot.

[QUOTE="ACEHERO"]I've been playing hard mode as a mage and its...manageable. Just make sure you pile on a ton of healing supplies along with making sure your mages actually have healing spells....half the time they're supposed to be supporting the melee, not trying to bring down the skies and rage of nature upon the dastardly rats from the ground.felixiration

This brings up one of my complaints.Because of ff my spells are fairly useless unless I want to kill the melee.

low level spells are basically assistants (both cases: spell itself is low level and your mage is low level): you use them to weaken the enemies and so melee characters can finish them before the whole party get killed. later on, higher mages will join the main strike force.

[QUOTE="ACEHERO"]I've been playing hard mode as a mage and its...manageable. Just make sure you pile on a ton of healing supplies along with making sure your mages actually have healing spells....half the time they're supposed to be supporting the melee, not trying to bring down the skies and rage of nature upon the dastardly rats from the ground.felixiration

This brings up one of my complaints.Because of ff my spells are fairly useless unless I want to kill the melee.

I wish the game was a bit more difficult. Im finding it challenging at times. But alot of the fights you can sleep-walk through. Playing on normal, probably play on Hard on second time through.

If you're talking about the Revenant summoned at the tombstone, you don't need to fight it. It's an optional enemy. In general you need to use a lot of strategy to win fights. You should make use of stuns and incapacitating or imobilizing moves to disable enemies if there's too many and you're bing overwhelmed.

It has a lot to do with the skills you choose to learn too. You want to get a healing spell since it helps a lot. Area of effect spells and abilities also help a lot too, including items. Then you have more strategy to think about by combining spells and abilities, such as freezing an enemy then moving your rogue behind it to shatter it. Cone of cold (or fire) is good for blasting enemies coming through a doorway. Just lure them in and run right past your mage then blast them.

Think about using the terrain and ambushing enemies. Have your party wait in one area out of sight while one member runs close to the enemy, pull it back to your other party members, and ambush the enemy. It's also a good way of getting ranged enemies (archers and mages) close enough to AOE them.

[QUOTE="tony2077ca"][QUOTE="k0r3aN_pR1d3"]I've always wanted to play a difficult RPG :) k0r3aN_pR1d3

Liar, it's hard too beat the secret bosses. Took me much longer

[QUOTE="k0r3aN_pR1d3"][QUOTE="tony2077ca"] console jrpg are the way to goBerserker1_5

Liar, it's hard too beat the secret bosses. Took me much longer

2 things. secret bosses are optional-->you don't have to fight them.

then, most important of all, secret bosses are meant to be fought after you find the perfect weapons for each member of the party. with those weapons, secret boss fights are no different from normal boss fights.

JRPG main game is ridiculous easy: just level up with infinite random encounters and level up some more.

What I find as hard might not be what other people find (even though I may be reloading/.dieing at the same rate as them)... not saying Im any better at the game than anyone else. I play BG/IWD, etc on hard (which is standard D&D rules) and am used to dieing a few times before I adjust tactics etc to get through an area.

Seems some people just want to breeze through all their games with no challenges at all (which I find as boring).

DA:O simpifies their traditional difficulty scheme and does it without dnd rules.

BG1 has easy, normal, dnd core and hard.

BG2 has easy, normal, dnd core, hard, and insane.

since DA:O only has three, I'm not sure whether the normal difficulty is comparable to dnd core or not. one thing for sure, if you can survive well the first playthrough at hard, it's not the insane in BG2.

if you're new to cIassical party CRPG, I'd recommend you to start with easy.

one thing is certain though, regardless of difficulty level, you're not going to be able to drink blood and mana potions your way through the game.

DA:O simpifies their traditional difficulty scheme and does it without dnd rules.

BG1 has easy, normal, dnd core and hard.

BG2 has easy, normal, dnd core, hard, and insane.

since DA:O only has three, I'm not sure whether the normal difficulty is comparable to dnd core or not. one thing for sure, if you can survive well the first playthrough at hard, it's not the insane in BG2.

if you're new to cIassical party CRPG, I'd recommend you to start with easy.

one thing is certain though, regardless of difficulty level, you're not going to be able to drink blood and mana potions your way through the game.

teardropmina

not that i've played much of the game ( around 20 min, busy week and getting busier :( ), but the game doesn't seem to provide the kind of challenge the dnd crpgs did. whether you're creating your character or fighting, there are fewer classes to choose and compare, fewer attributes to manage, and much fewer factors to consider. remember the time we spent to roll the perfect attributes in BG2? well, i spent 20 minutes to fix my face and 5 to create my class, so yea...

[QUOTE="teardropmina"]

DA:O simpifies their traditional difficulty scheme and does it without dnd rules.

BG1 has easy, normal, dnd core and hard.

BG2 has easy, normal, dnd core, hard, and insane.

since DA:O only has three, I'm not sure whether the normal difficulty is comparable to dnd core or not. one thing for sure, if you can survive well the first playthrough at hard, it's not the insane in BG2.

if you're new to cIassical party CRPG, I'd recommend you to start with easy.

one thing is certain though, regardless of difficulty level, you're not going to be able to drink blood and mana potions your way through the game.

Jinroh_basic

not that i've played much of the game ( around 20 min, busy week and getting busier :( ), but the game doesn't seem to provide the kind of challenge the dnd crpgs did. whether you're creating your character or fighting, there are fewer classes to choose and compare, fewer attributes to manage, and much fewer factors to consider. remember the time we spent to roll the perfect attributes in BG2? well, i spent 20 minutes to fix my face and 5 to create my class, so yea...

DA:O has 4 difficulties, not sure how well it matches up with BG though. Easy, Normal, Hard, Nightmare.Captain__Tripps

then my info is outdated (haven't gotten my copy yet).

if four, then it might be comparable to BG's easy, normal, core dnd and hard.

and I think it's quite suitable because dnd core level of difficulty is not for those are not familiar with cIassical CRPG at first playthrough.

not that i've played much of the game ( around 20 min, busy week and getting busier :( ), but the game doesn't seem to provide the kind of challenge the dnd crpgs did. whether you're creating your character or fighting, there are fewer classes to choose and compare, fewer attributes to manage, and much fewer factors to consider. remember the time we spent to roll the perfect attributes in BG2? well, i spent 20 minutes to fix my face and 5 to create my **** so yea...

Jinroh_basic

it's understandable though, the game is going to be more streamlined and simpilfied. also, it's too much to ask Bioware, a single developer team, to create a rule set that's as complex as Dnd.

but, ha, I do love rolling an uber character and I see a possibility of a dnd (2 edition more than 3+) total conversion mod in the future.

I simply love chalenges...That's the main ingredient in gaming world ^^

It is not hard to be a Pro Gamer....

nah, 3+ is the way to go. :D imo it's just much more robust and provides a more immersive rpg experience. one thing that stood out in my mind is how, in IWD2, a priest character of mine exorcised a spirit by using turn undead during a conversation. haven't played NWN2, but i expect to see alot of similar wow moments. :)

nah, 3+ is the way to go. :D imo it's just much more robust and provides a more immersive rpg experience. one thing that stood out in my mind is how, in IWD2, a priest character of mine exorcised a spirit by using turn undead during a conversation. haven't played NWN2, but i expect to see alot of similar wow moments. :)

Jinroh_basic

as long as it's dnd, that's good:D

anyway, 3+ is certainly richer and has many more skills and feats. however, it lacks in cIass restrictions for my taste; more rigid cIass limitations enhance the sense of role-playing for me. also, I just love the idea of minus AC :lol:

DA:O is surprisingly difficult and i was able to manage beholder caves in bg2 back when and went through IWD1+2 & NWN2+MotB and many others with no problems.

It is advised to set up morrigan as auto-level up for awhile, I accidentally went straight for her healing spells as opposed to some much needed AoE. Ive never used the environment layout to my advantage before, this is probably the first party-based RPG where Ive beenusing pinch points for tanking spots and setting up traps. Bosses are just potion intensive though and injuries seem quite detrimental so stock up on injury kits.

I think people who started off as a warrior or rogue are generally having a hard time.

I won't mock people who haven't played a hardcore RPG like the Baludr's Gate and Icewind Dale series.

I'll only say this: welcome to hardcore RPG's. You've been spoonfed RPG's as a "hero conquers all" difficulty. You've never experienced hardocore RPG's where a party member dies and you have to spend thousands of gold resurrecting him/her, never had to mourn the permanent loss of a party member, or reload within minutes because you found a dragon that wasn't supposed to be there.

Welcome to real RPG's, my friend. :twisted:

[QUOTE="k0r3aN_pR1d3"][QUOTE="tony2077ca"] console jrpg are the way to gozomglolcats

[QUOTE="zomglolcats"][QUOTE="k0r3aN_pR1d3"] Console JRPG's are getting pretty easy. When FF12 came out, I beat it in less than a week (with school thrown in). Pvt_r3d

Good to hear I've been yearning for a difficult RPG in a loooong time. And yes I'm an old school hardcore rpg nerd :P

Me fighting my first big dragon:

Me: HI!

Dragon: Roar

*Your journey ends...*

KalDurenik

The first real dragon you meet is optional. And when you do meet it you won't beat it. Not even on easy.

The first real dragon you meet is optional. And when you do meet it you won't beat it. Not even on easy.

-Unreal-

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The first real dragon you meet is optional. And when you do meet it you won't beat it. Not even on easy.

illmatic87