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New Dragon Age: Origins Screenshots And Trailer
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It's strange I usually like rpgs and this is the big fall/winter one for this year and yet I don't seem to want it at all and I don't know why.
I will say that all the blood seems a bit gratuitous. The trailers with the heavy (and sucky) rock music seem to screem "look at me, I'm violant for the sake of being violant not becuse it adds anything to the game"
I'd love the dragon armour for Mass effect 2, but since I'm on the fence about the game itself it seems a little steap to buy it just for that.
I will say that all the blood seems a bit gratuitous. The trailers with the heavy (and sucky) rock music seem to screem "look at me, I'm violant for the sake of being violant not becuse it adds anything to the game"
I'd love the dragon armour for Mass effect 2, but since I'm on the fence about the game itself it seems a little steap to buy it just for that.
Son of a gun watching the giant bomb quick look definitely makes it look like the pc version is the way to go if you have access to it. But I will be getting ME2 on 360 since this is where my ME save file is and I want the bonus armor for the game. :lol
Are there any console gameplay videos floating around? Everything looks so natural on the pc, want to see if the console interface is as good.
Are there any console gameplay videos floating around? Everything looks so natural on the pc, want to see if the console interface is as good.
antiquegamer
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Mrbob said:
I think the code you get is just unlock code via EA store and it will be platform agnostic according to them. ie you can buy any versions of Dragon Age and the code will let you unlock any version of ME2 you buy later.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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antiquegamer said:
Correct. That's why there's even a download code with the PS3 version of Dragon Age.
manofmandango
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Stage On said:
I had the opposite reaction. If anything it made me MORE excited for this game. Only thing is now I'm even more uncertain between console and PC versions.. I really want the PS3 version to be decent, but I just don't know how it can be when the PC version controls are so fluid.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Looking good. I imagine the console versions will play very similar to kotor. Just a few more weeks and we'll all be able to grab a whore and have a good time!
Muahahahaha!
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Deleted member 17706
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The game looks awesome in that quick look. It looks like it runs really well on decent PC hardware (aren't they running a GT260 at Giantbomb?), and the interface looks really smooth and streamlined as well. I can't wait to get my hands on this game.
Lostconfused
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Warden's Keep is day 1 DLC. I don't think it comes packed in any edition. I mean how else would they get to charge you for it.K.Jack said:
antiquegamer
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The PC version looks good, I really like the iso view really remind me of Buldur's Gate. My PC however just slightly above min. requirement and I am not looking to upgrade anytime soon so hoping 360 version is at least decent.
Nah, I found it. In online some stores, it's included with the PC version.Lostconfused said:
I guess D2D gets my money.
You. You understand.garath said:
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Enduin said:
Are you sure? Was this confirmed somewhere or is this some inside info you have? Either way I would prefer to get it on Steam so I will wait until a few days before release before going to another DL service.
Zefah said:
It was confirmed by Chris Priestly, their community coordinator, yesterday on the DAO forums, here in the third post from the bottom.
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Enduin said:
Awesome! I will preorder it as soon as it comes up on Steam!
Teknopathetic
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Even Giant Bomb's awful play and commentary managed to make the game look SIGNIFICANTLY more interesting than all the trailers Bioware has put out the past what...5-6 months?
Danne-Danger
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It's also sporting a pretty significant visual downgrade if you trust Chris Remo. A min-spec PC might not be so bad in comparison, maybe.NewLib said:
A Black Falcon
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Teknopathetic said:
Agreed. It says a lot about how bad Bioware's advertising and marketing for this game has been, for sure. It's a hardcore PC RPG... being advertised in a way that will completely turn off the core market for those games. Yet it'll probably not have mass-market console success because, well, once people actually play or see more of it they'll realize what it is... so yeah, definitely some weird choices there on Bioware's part, to say the least.
As for that video, um, if you actually control all of the characters yourself instead of relying on the AI for the other three I'm sure it would go a bit better than it did for him there... it'd require a bit more pausing and would take longer, but it would go better, and, in my opinion at least, be more fun as well. But of course, I always turn off the automation features in these games when I can... so yeah, can't exactly agree at all with the guy in the video saying 'you pause a lot'. No, he didn't pause enough.
(and darnit, mages are awesome!)The only real things I saw that I dislike relate to the inventory. It's a list style one again, really? They did that for the first time in KotOR, and it was AWFUL, one of the more serious interface and design flaws in that game. It wasn't the biggest one, the lacking control in battle was the most serious (particularly that you can't give movement orders while paused, making strategic control of battle (and real control of more than one character) impossible, meaning that you just had to rely on the auto-battle skill of your allies... while I don't like that at all and really wanted to play it like Baldur's Gate. Argh... but anyway, the horrible, horrible list-based, single long list inventory in that game was really annoying, and it's very sad to see it return here. And all six party members share it again, too, like in that game, making the problem even worse... seriously, you'd think they'd learn from how poorly it worked before. Oh well...
I don't particularly care for Giant Bomb's commentary, but it sure seems far better than the salesman pitch talk Bioware did when they played this exact section of the game in an earlier trailer:Teknopathetic said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lub5e_9NDW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8I5q2Hax5M
Honestly I'm actually pretty excited for the game after the quick look and some talk on Idle Thumbs, whereas before I found my interest increasingly waning with every new Bioware trailer.
Teknopathetic
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Nurrrr, I actually forgot about those vids. That's right folks, Bioware's cinematic trailers for DA are so bad that they had completely erased all memory of interesting gameplay footage.
whatevermort
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This looks awesome. The battle system seems cool, I like the inventory stuff, and, as everyone says, the Giant Bomb video is significantly better than any of the Bioware promos- even with the tit that thinks he's Patton Oswalt blathering away unfunnily constantly in the background.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsefCmNAQR4charsace said:
Danne-Danger said:
Really? It looks pretty much the same from the videos, and seeing as the pc version doesn't look all that fantastic to begin with I find a significant graphical downgrade a bit hard to believe. But I guess we can't really know until the final builds of the game is out.
I actually like that there's a need for tactics.Darklord said:
It makes the battles much more interesting, and more similar to a faster paced SRPG than timed hack and slash (which we see in things like The Witcher). So often RPGs feel overly automated and boring, but this one actually seems to rely on the person controlling the characters to actually preform their part.
We could use more RPGs that are genuinely fun to play.
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Darklord said:
It looks like you can set up elaborate AI routines to automate a lot of the process. It also looked like Dave either kind of sucked or he was just really distracted by all of the banter.
But yeah, it looks like pausing often at the start of a battle to assess the situation will be to your advantage. I doubt the need to pause frequently will be anywhere as severe as the D&D games, though.
MrPing1000
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dlc at launch?
I really fucking hate where games have gone.
I really fucking hate where games have gone.
paranoidfortean
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Even if this game sucks it will be good.
TheFightingFish
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Darklord said:
Well they do keep comparing it to Baldur's Gate. I swear the three most important buttons for combat in that series were pause, quicksave and quickload. My hope is that Dragon Age's AI gambits willl go some ways to making combat more managable without pausing continually, but I'm a little doubtful on that.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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Shins said:
As far as I know there are none. Bioware has shown little actual gameplay, PC or console. They've mostly just shown story stuff.
I think if you employ a more cautious and methodical playstyle you'd be able to get through much easier than Snider did. Dave is a hardcore old-hand PC RPG player but I get the feeling he was rushing to show as much as possible in a small amount of time. I think the mage has way more potential to be a powerhouse despite the impression given in the QL. For just a quick peak at basic combat though it was a great video.TheFightingFish said:
Can't believe people are hating on trademark GB commentary in this thread :-(
Reluctant-Hero
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Ricker said:
I'm the same boat as you, even worse though since I've got a Macbook Pro
! But I had the chance to play the '360 demo for 20 minutes, after and hour and a half wait, at PAX last month. I made it through the demo, which took place in the "Korcari Wilds", just fine with the console control scheme. I remember the setup being extremely similar to Mass Effect. So if you were comfortable with it then, you'll be okay for DA:O. I will say that GiantBomb's quick look has me wishing that I owned a gaming PC...
On the console, you have two banks of skills and items corresponding to the face buttons that you can flip through, and a Mass Effect style wheel for the abilities of your entire party. You can of course switch to any character on the fly and pause it whenever you want. It's playable, but it feels pretty clunky. Managing the menus is similarly awkward. It's not terrible or anything, but it's nowhere as smooth as Mass Effect.
360 version is also a minor visual downgrade. Not a huge deal, but I can tell just about all the vids they've shown are from the PC version because of it.
360 version is also a minor visual downgrade. Not a huge deal, but I can tell just about all the vids they've shown are from the PC version because of it.
Have you played the console version or why do you say that?Aaron said:
I haven't, but I have played Sacred 2 and they have the same face button layout as Dragon Age.
And when I played Sacred 2 for the first time I told everyone that this is how you do do "skillbars" on a console.
Sacred 2 didn't have any wheel-based menu though for other actions. So if you had potions you had to put them on one of the 6 configurable slots before you could use it. So the wheel is an upgrade from that.
Just from watching the controller layout, this is the part I'm least concerned about, personally.