PC Game What to Get Witcher EE or DA:O

Decided im gonna finally use my Best Buy Gift Card to purchase either The Witcher EE

or Dragon age Origins. Hadven't had any experience with either game, but have heard both are great. I pretty mcuh

want the game with better combat, and more replay value. If there are other games in this genre you

want to recoomend feel free but these 2 are the frontrunners. :D

Dragon Age has much better replay value, but I felt like the overall experiance with the Witcher was much better(+ it has much better combat.)

Witcher EE no question

better story

characters

I perfered the combo combat and enjoyed the spells etc. then the "tactical combat" in DA:O

In the end it's your choice but this gamer says Witcher!

I have both, and like both.:)

I would say use your gift card for DA:O, then look for a discount special on the Witcher from either Impulse or Steam.

I have both, and like both.:)

I would say use your gift card for DA:O, then look for a discount special on the Witcher from either Impulse or Steam.

topsemag55

I almost finished Dragon Age Origins , but decided I hadn't made the right choices . So I decided to play the game again with Warden's Keep , The Stone Prisoner . I chose the same character and story , and I found myself bored of trying to play it again .

Your friends are memorable characters , but the graphics and combat aren't really exciting .

How awful is the combat and gameplay/lootng system in DA?

How awful is the combat and gameplay/lootng system in DA?

How awful is the combat and gameplay/lootng system in DA?

hkhatir

The combat is pretty straightforward - similar to Baldurs Gate 2's only you have far less options and it isn't anywhere near as fun or interesting.

I guess my main complaint about it is that there isn't a wide variety of enemy types in the game (especially when compared to the old Infinity Engine games), and most of them can be killed using the same tactics/attacks. So since there are a huge number of enemies in the game, fighting ends up feeling more like a chore than a challenge.

I preferred The Witcher, but DA:O is a good choice as well

As said above - Use your card on DA:O and buy the witcher.

DA:O is 50 euro on steam and the witcher is 16. =)

Both are pretty good game , but if you have to go with only one : go with DAO (imo) .

Has much more replay value and for me DAO had much more interesting story too, but maybe its just my taste.

Anyways , if you have a chance - get both :P

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"][QUOTE="dakan45"]I am gonna get flamed but... "Yes, i do believe the witcher has the better combat.....freaking injury kits" Go for witcher.dakan45

Technicaly it is , but usually one player (not party based) rpg's are like that . I never had problems with its combat .

I haven't finished either, but I'd have to say The Witcher. More interesting characters, setting, and story. And who knows, you may be one of those afflicted with unexplainable DA:O problems that Bioware refuses to try to fix. I haven't been able to get that game running stable since patch 1.03 so I've just been playing other things.. like The Witcher :)

Also with The Witcher's great music, and its meditation system where you sit by someone's fire when you make potions or choose your skills.. I dunno. it really adds to the more complete RPG experience in my opinion. The game has a good ebb and flow to it.

Both are definatly good games with a nice story and great characters. If you like party-based RPG's, you should probably go for Dragon Age, but if you like solo Action-RPG's more, than you should definatly go for the Witcher. But like I said, they're both good games.

I have both. I preferred the witcher....

WITCHER

Wow, it doesn't seem very many of you enjoyed Dragon Age. Well I guess it's the witcher for me.

I couldn't get into the Witcher, it feels very broken to me. Dragon Age on the other hand I loved, so go for that.

Wow, it doesn't seem very many of you enjoyed Dragon Age. Well I guess it's the witcher for me.

hkhatir

DAO by far. Witcher was a bad game with terrible combat. All you do is wait for your sword to glow and clickety click away at the mouse. Rinse and repeat. DAO combat actually required strategy.

as you have a gift card i would put it towards whatever costs more but make sure you pick up the other or your missing out big timeAGMing

I recommend DA:O over the witcher. I could not for the life of me get into the witcher.

I couldn't get into the Witcher, it feels very broken to me. Dragon Age on the other hand I loved, so go for that.

Grodus5

I'd recommend The Witcher. I just started playing it yesterday and it's a pretty good game and far more entertaining and interesting than DA:O. I personally couldn't get into DA:O. The characters are the bland and completely uninteresting, the plot is bland, and the game suffers from ME1's flood of items where you get pounded with tons of useless loot that makes inventory management a nightmare.gameguy6700

You should get both of them, but DA:O first. Save The Witcher for last (it's better, in my opinion).

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[QUOTE="gameguy6700"]I'd recommend The Witcher. I just started playing it yesterday and it's a pretty good game and far more entertaining and interesting than DA:O. I personally couldn't get into DA:O. The characters are the bland and completely uninteresting, the plot is bland, and the game suffers from ME1's flood of items where you get pounded with tons of useless loot that makes inventory management a nightmare.biggest_loser

And then there's the matter of the characters. Granted I didn't get to see the whole party you get in the game, but the two party members I did get to experience as well as all the NPCs left with the impression that a not a single character in the game had a memorable personality. Alistar's character was so utterly bland and cookie cutter that even after running around with the guy for several hours I still couldn't come up with a character trait that made him distinguishable from any other warrior character I had encountered in any other movie, game, or book's fantasy setting. Morith is better in that regard, but beyond making a few sarcastic comments (all relating to how she's supposedly a big bad witch) there's nothing to remember her by. And then the NPC characters are pretty much all copies of each other, so they're not even worth mentioning. And as the final straw, everyone in that game talks with this annoying manner of speech that makes me feel like I'm at a LARP meeting.

Perhaps if the gameplay interested me I would have still played despite those flaws, but it's pretty much a clone of WoW's combat system and I already played that game for about 73 days total over the course of about two years.

I had a lot more fun with The Witcher than I did with Dragon Age. Dragon Age is a well made, but very generic rpg. The Witcher just felt more original and fresh to me. It had unique game mechanics/play and a more interesting story, imo.

[QUOTE="biggest_loser"][QUOTE="gameguy6700"]I'd recommend The Witcher. I just started playing it yesterday and it's a pretty good game and far more entertaining and interesting than DA:O. I personally couldn't get into DA:O. The characters are the bland and completely uninteresting, the plot is bland, and the game suffers from ME1's flood of items where you get pounded with tons of useless loot that makes inventory management a nightmare.gameguy6700

And then there's the matter of the characters. Granted I didn't get to see the whole party you get in the game, but the two party members I did get to experience as well as all the NPCs left with the impression that a not a single character in the game had a memorable personality. Alistar's character was so utterly bland and cookie cutter that even after running around with the guy for several hours I still couldn't come up with a character trait that made him distinguishable from any other warrior character I had encountered in any other movie, game, or book's fantasy setting. Morith is better in that regard, but beyond making a few sarcastic comments (all relating to how she's supposedly a big bad witch) there's nothing to remember her by. And then the NPC characters are pretty much all copies of each other, so they're not even worth mentioning. And as the final straw, everyone in that game talks with this annoying manner of speech that makes me feel like I'm at a LARP meeting.

Perhaps if the gameplay interested me I would have still played despite those flaws, but it's pretty much a clone of WoW's combat system and I already played that game for about 73 days total over the course of about two years.

I'd recommend The Witcher. I just started playing it yesterday and it's a pretty good game and far more entertaining and interesting than DA:O. I personally couldn't get into DA:O. The characters are the bland and completely uninteresting, the plot is bland, and the game suffers from ME1's flood of items where you get pounded with tons of useless loot that makes inventory management a nightmare.gameguy6700

You do have the option of not taking what is useless, or destroying what you don't want.

DAO For me,couldn't really get into The Witcher,gotta try it again though.therancors

The combat in DA:O doesn't require much strategy . Just click some spells and you're done . In addition to this the entire land feels completely lifeless ...

[QUOTE="biggest_loser"][QUOTE="gameguy6700"]I'd recommend The Witcher. I just started playing it yesterday and it's a pretty good game and far more entertaining and interesting than DA:O. I personally couldn't get into DA:O. The characters are the bland and completely uninteresting, the plot is bland, and the game suffers from ME1's flood of items where you get pounded with tons of useless loot that makes inventory management a nightmare.gameguy6700

Sadly enough, from where you stopped playing, virtually nothing interesting happens in the plot for the next 30 hours (and then it ends all-too-quickly), but at least the characters definitely grow on you. I hated most of them at the start too, but their charm eventually wears you down (even if the reaction system is totally broken, such as when you accidentally hit on multiple party members - I ended up having to dump one of them two or three conversations in a row).

But yes, I generally see Dragon Age as a wasted opportunity for doing something truly great. The lore is a perfect example of that - sure, there's (way too many) hours upon hours of exposition about the detailed history of Ferelden...but ultimately it's neither creative not interesting; we've already experienced Ferelden's history in a thousand other fantasy settings. It had nothing unique about it, neither in the setting, the story nor the gameplay.