Mr. Durden
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Dragon Age: Origins: Awakenings: Trailers
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Chairman Yang
if he talks about books, you better damn well listen
Yeah, as far as I can tell the 15 hour figure is based on a single post in an old thread with a GAFfer guessing at the length.TheExodu5 said:
Mr. Durden said:
I believe the phrase is: u mad?
In all seriousness though, while I do agree that 40 bucks is a fair price for this game, money doesn't go on trees. Even people that DO have a lot of money most likely have a priority list and as much as they like games, this expansion pack isn't on said list. Or maybe people just like saving in general and will wait for a price drop *shruggs*. No need to be so hostile, dude.
Odious Tea
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Do your rituals occur weekly or bi-weekly?Dance In My Blood said:
Mr. Durden
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Yes I have read the book and watched the film... so what? Guess you have as well... so what's changed now?Dance In My Blood said:
This side of GAF is the Gaming side. Here we talk about the games we bought or wanna buy.
Odious Tea already said what needed to be said though.
It's a bit weak that you can't import your DLC stuff. I mean people paid for them. Our characters are gonna be half naked when we will import? I mean everything that was from Shale's story, Warden's keep, Return to Ostagar, the blood dragon armor and all the promo items are gone.
The no romance thing was predictable. The expansion is supposed to be quite short anyway. I guess it was also complicated to make it fair to everybody too. They would need 4 romance options again to keep all the possibilities.
Oghren being the returning character is disappointing for me. I never used him and when I talked to him he would always insult my character. I called it from the first trailer he would be the returning one. At the same time, he is the only logical choice. He is the only character that cannot be easily killed in the game. The only way to kill him is to get his approval to -100 which require using the console on the PC version. Even if you killed him, he is still mentionned in the epilogue panels in the end.
Bringing back a dead warden is kinda wonky. It kinda makes your sacrifice easy if you did it. It seems the game will have a canon starting story. On Bioware forum people analysed the epilogue and confirmed that nothing happens with the variable for the coronation ceremony/epilogue. So it seems no matter what you did your warden is alive and chose to rebuild the grey wardens.
From the new faq it seems we know at least two choices that will be important.
6 new specialisations and many new spells and abilities is awesome. Too bad it seems you can't use all of these new abilities in origins. That was the fun thing with BG 2/ ToB, trying out the new kits.
It's probably gonna be a very strong expansion pack but I'm sure they will get many complains from the fans. I will be there day one but I must admit that 40$ is a bit steep when the full game was 60$.
The no romance thing was predictable. The expansion is supposed to be quite short anyway. I guess it was also complicated to make it fair to everybody too. They would need 4 romance options again to keep all the possibilities.
Oghren being the returning character is disappointing for me. I never used him and when I talked to him he would always insult my character. I called it from the first trailer he would be the returning one. At the same time, he is the only logical choice. He is the only character that cannot be easily killed in the game. The only way to kill him is to get his approval to -100 which require using the console on the PC version. Even if you killed him, he is still mentionned in the epilogue panels in the end.
Bringing back a dead warden is kinda wonky. It kinda makes your sacrifice easy if you did it. It seems the game will have a canon starting story. On Bioware forum people analysed the epilogue and confirmed that nothing happens with the variable for the coronation ceremony/epilogue. So it seems no matter what you did your warden is alive and chose to rebuild the grey wardens.
From the new faq it seems we know at least two choices that will be important.
Choosing Alistair or Anora for the throne. And Saving or not the circle of the Magi (if you don't side with the mage you kill Wynne, and she is supposed to appear in awakening according to the faq)
6 new specialisations and many new spells and abilities is awesome. Too bad it seems you can't use all of these new abilities in origins. That was the fun thing with BG 2/ ToB, trying out the new kits.
It's probably gonna be a very strong expansion pack but I'm sure they will get many complains from the fans. I will be there day one but I must admit that 40$ is a bit steep when the full game was 60$.
Basileus777
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Vamphuntr said:
Where did you get this impression from?
KittenMaster
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How do you pull off Oghren insulting your character? He's probably the easiest character to keep at positive approval. Yeah, he's not too kind to you at first, but he's a true bro, easy to become friends with.
I am personally glad Oghren is coming back. He doesn't see as much playtime as other characters, and is the one character that really needs a spotlight.
I am personally glad Oghren is coming back. He doesn't see as much playtime as other characters, and is the one character that really needs a spotlight.
Basileus777 said:
Well on the DA:A forum on Bioware's social site one of the mod (or dev?) hinted that every items and new abilities were meant to be in Awakening only. Same like the DLC loot were meant for Origins only. He also clearly stated that once you import you character in Awakening, you can no longer import it back in Origins to play the DLC for origins.
Maybe it was one of the mods that was confused. It happened a lot on the ME forums.
Basileus777
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Vamphuntr said:
Well, maybe it's another thing mods will have to fix.
Here is a comprehensive list of stuff you won't be able to import (DLC). It's quite massive to be honest. Hopefully mods will correct this.
From http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/127/index/1180276/4
From http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/127/index/1180276/4
Durante said:
I don't think it is a decision but much more a technical problem. I suppose maybe it's due to the console version. Maybe the game cannot scan DLC for another game because of some rules by MS or Sony. I don't see any reason why they would want you to lose your DLC loot aside from a technical difficulty or maybe they are planning to release DLC for Awakening and want you to buy them to get more exclusive items.
At least the website seems to imply that there will be many new areas and that is a very good thing.
HadesGigas
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Sigrun of the Legion of the Dead trailer
And Youtube version since G4 seems very slow, for me at least.
And Youtube version since G4 seems very slow, for me at least.
Sir Garbageman
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HadesGigas said:
Awesome. Very rarely do you see female dwarfs, let alone one kicking butt.
Wait, Oghren is the returning character? I thought they said it would be a returning favorite, that doesn't seem to add up. Morrigan or Alistar wouldn't make sense, but I was hoping for Shale, Sten or Snuggles the War Dog at least. Thankfully I don't have to keep him around so he'll just stay back at the camp site again. To be fair, I am prejudiced against the foul beasts called Dwarves, never liked them, so I am a little biased.
I'm still on board, though. I'm working on finishing playthrough 2 in time for Awakenings so I can import my badass Elf Mage, he's a total dick but in a charming way. Kind of sucks that there seems to be 2 new elf mages, but it could be cool to roll with 3 elf mages at the same time.
I'm still on board, though. I'm working on finishing playthrough 2 in time for Awakenings so I can import my badass Elf Mage, he's a total dick but in a charming way. Kind of sucks that there seems to be 2 new elf mages, but it could be cool to roll with 3 elf mages at the same time.
Snuggler said:
One of the dev responded to this.
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/127/index/1266679&lf=8
We said "an old favorite" - not "your favorite" or "the favorite". Some folks love him, some don't. That's the same of almost all of the companions in DA. He's really good in Awakening (but I'm an Oghren fan). If you don't like him, leave him by the curb and grab some of the other companions instead.
It would be nice if there was an option for players who
to import their save without importing their character, allowing them to play as a new Orlesian Grey Warden while the game world still reflected the choices the player made in Origins, perhaps including a chest in Vigil's Keep that contains the inventory the player acquired in Origins. I don't mind the option of importing a character and hand waving it away being present, but it's not an option I would use myself, and I would still like my choices in Origins to have consequences in Awakenings.
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meltingparappa
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I feel bad that Wynne and Oghren are the only two characters I didn't bother doing the sidequests for. I suppppppppppppose I can fix that before the Awakenings comes out though.
We also got confirmation from Chris Priestly that you cannot use any new skills, specializations and Items from Awakening in Origins.
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/127/index/1295371 check Chris Priestly post around 1/4 through
Preview by destructoid
http://www.destructoid.com/darkness-continues-to-terrorize-in-dragon-age-awakening--163985.phtml
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/127/index/1295371 check Chris Priestly post around 1/4 through
Preview by destructoid
http://www.destructoid.com/darkness-continues-to-terrorize-in-dragon-age-awakening--163985.phtml
As much as I love me some Bioware and Dragon Age, this is fucking terrible. For all of us who have character decked out in DLC gear and no alternatives other than shitty vendor trash gear, there needs to be something that happens at the beginning that gives you some armor/weapons.
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Azrael said:
I thought I read somewhere that you could start a new character that would be a Grey Warden from another land.
Tokubetsu said:
We have this new female Dwarve + Oghren. One elven mage and one Human mage. That means we will get one human rogue and on elven rogue?
It's weird that both dwarve seems to be warrior. If you don't like them and your Warden is a mage then too bad for you :lol .
Basileus777
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Vamphuntr said:
This really annoys me, but it shouldn't be too difficult to mod them back into the vanilla game with the toolset.
Vamphuntr said:
According to the Giant Bomb preview the new female dwarf is a rogue.
As for the items and such, if you are playing the PC version there will be day one mods to get the DLC items in the expansion and I am sure or at least an item pack with the high level Origins stuff for people that have their Warden decked out in stuff not transferring..
The fact that some of the decisions made no longer carries the same weight it did when you ahd to make them with this expansion is a major disappointment, and so is the DLC problem as well. But goddamit, I love DA so damn much that I'll still get it because I need more of it. Damn you Bioware! Damn you!
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Vamphuntr said:
Oh that is a bummer. I assumed when they said if you died, that you would be another Grey Warden, but it would be based off continuing your story/save.
It depends on how the mod is setup. Some of the hairstyles are set to override the defaults in the game, while other are additional hairstyles added on. The replacement hair meshes should be easy, just give them the proper name and put them in the right directory. The others will probably require the toolset. For instance, I did a reinstall of Origins and force loaded up a modded save without the mods and my character had a large transparent area where the hair should have been. All I had to do to get the hair back was pull the hair mesh file from the mod and add it back to my character's face morph with the toolset. I am guessing the same will apply to the expansion. Same would go for eyes, skin, ect.Acosta said:
Sir Garbageman
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Just a heads up the Destructoid preview is kinda spoilery so be careful if you're trying to avoid all story related details.
A new QA is up on Bioware forum. It's mostly them replying to people complains.
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/127/index/1321833/1#1322475
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/127/index/1321833/1#1322475