I really like Dragon Age. It's a role playing game where you do gain experience and go up levels and choose where to put your skill points kind of like Oblivion, but there are many differences also. You start alone but quickly gain party members to travel and fight with you. You've got freedom to tackle quests in any order you want but feels more structured than Oblivion.You will have control over how they develop as well. I'm about 40-50 hours into the game (over a 5 month period) and still enjoying it. It's not a perfect game but neither is any other game I know of. If you get it I hope you enjoy it!
Well i've only played the PC version but i'm sure the PS3 version is almost as good. if so everything the above poster said about the game is all you need to know really. and that the game is great. much better then Oblivion imo. but i also didnt like oblivion, terrible combat, terrible magic, terrible level up system.
I've got my plat. The game builds a great foundation for future titles. I just thought the game was too short, there wasn't enough exploration, and it was too easy. They should've made the game with a Tileset, so they could've easily made it 4-5x the size.
Have you ever played Baldur's Gate from back in the day? I heard it's the true sucessor to that series. It's a great RPG though. I haven't played it in over a month or so..been busy with school.
Pure awesomeness, wrapped with awesomeness, in an epic dip. With a side of spectularness, served on plates made of joy.
Melpoe
or how about a warm hot soup of milky delight served with a zesty plate of spiffyness.... That sounds very spiffy. Yes me and you spreading the use of spiffy instead of epic.
Pure awesomeness, wrapped with awesomeness, in an epic dip. With a side of spectularness, served on plates made of joy.
Wolfetan
or how about a warm hot soup of milky delight served with a zesty plate of spiffyness.... That sounds very spiffy. Yes me and you spreading the use of spiffy instead of epic. Together nothing can stop us :P.
[QUOTE="Melpoe"][QUOTE="Wolfetan"][QUOTE="Melpoe"] or how about a warm hot soup of milky delight served with a zesty plate of spiffyness.... That sounds very spiffy. Yes me and you spreading the use of spiffy instead of epic. Together nothing can stop us :P. Yes are very spiffy combined. You know what game is spiffy, 3D Dot Game Heroes.
The game crashes indeed . Happened 4 times on me in 1 hour play . Gonna wait now until the patch is ready .
Phoenix534
Do we have any info on the patch? I want to finish the game before Alan Wake comes out but I don't want to play if it's going to crash constantly.
I've been playing Awakenings for quite a while (probably around 6 hours) and I think it froze around 3 or 4 times. I haven't been playing the main game so I don't know how bad it is there. I haven't heard anything about a patch, but I'd have to assume they're working on it. I know they know about it so at least that's a start.
[QUOTE="dkjestrup"]I've got my plat. The game builds a great foundation for future titles. I just thought the game was too short, there wasn't enough exploration, and it was too easy. They should've made the game with a Tileset, so they could've easily made it 4-5x the size. Short?? It's like a 60 hour game dude, there's no way that's short.
It's an RPG so the gaining XP, gold, levelling up, buying/selling armor,/ weapons, etc. is the same as Oblivion but there the similarities end.
It's not sandbox like Oblivion.
The variety of sidequests isn't the same as oblivion (e.g. using stealth to complete thief guild tasks etc.). Most quests seem to be go to your marker and kill or speak to A, B or C then return to the quest giver for your prize
The combat is more like Guild Wars than Oblivion. You select you enemy and choose attack. Your character will then auto run to that enemy and repeatedly attack until it's dead. While this is happening you can use skills/magic/potions/etc.
You have team mates in Dragon Age, unlike Oblivion, and you can set them to auto perform certain attacks/skills/etc. Sort of like in FF12 if you've played that. This is called tactics and you can expand it's use when you level up. Really nice addition.
Personally I much prefer Oblivion but that might just be me. I found the story bland, the voice acting terrible, the characters predictable and awesful and the reliability of the game abysmal. When I first played the sound would keep dropping out and the cut scenes were jerky. A couple of weekends ago I was tying to play further but the game froze on me every 2-15 minutes.
All that has probably led to an over negative opinion on the game from mebut hopefully my dot points above are free from bias and help you out.
The game crashes indeed . Happened 4 times on me in 1 hour play . Gonna wait now until the patch is ready .
Ospov
Do we have any info on the patch? I want to finish the game before Alan Wake comes out but I don't want to play if it's going to crash constantly.
I've been playing Awakenings for quite a while (probably around 6 hours) and I think it froze around 3 or 4 times. I haven't been playing the main game so I don't know how bad it is there. I haven't heard anything about a patch, but I'd have to assume they're working on it. I know they know about it so at least that's a start.
There's a very big topic (80 pages) on the official bioware forums regarding crashes since update 3.3 . The last official comment was that bioware has the problem fixed and have sent their patch for playtesting to EA . Once they give green lights, we are back on fire . The freezing problem is very random . Sometimes you can play for hours, otherwise the game crashes after 9 minutes .
[QUOTE="Wolfetan"][QUOTE="Melpoe"][QUOTE="Wolfetan"] That sounds very spiffy. Yes me and you spreading the use of spiffy instead of epic. Together nothing can stop us :P. Yes are very spiffy combined. You know what game is spiffy, 3D Dot Game Heroes. I want 3D Dot Heroes so bad!!
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