Anyone else looking forward to Dragon Age? (Spoilers and plot discussion here)

[DisturbedPervert]

The gambit system from FF12 did a good job of taking care of combat for the player.  You could program in up to a dozen conditional commands that the characters would follow all on their own if you were not manually issuing them one. 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

hm, it's awfully tempting

[Lettow77]

 Bit confused about this tactics stuff. Are they just bragging that they have selectable scripts for characters, just as baldur's gate did?

The idea that I will be able to pretend I am playing an isometric 2D game is very exciting.

[DisturbedPervert]

Bit confused about this tactics stuff. Are they just bragging that they have selectable scripts for characters, just as baldur's gate did?

If it is really like the FF12 gambit system then it is not like BG script selection.  In FF12 you could program each character with a set of ordered instructions that they would carry out in absence of player commands.  For example

If ally dead cast revive
If ally is less then 50%hp(or 70%, or 30%) cast heal
Cast haste/protect/other buff on ally
Cast slow or other debuff on enemy
If Enemy is weak against fire, cast fire spell
Attack Enemy

The program would start at the top, reviving, healing, and buffing party members, debuffing enemies, casting spells they were weak against, and if none of those applies doing a standard attack.  All of this could be programed in any order or combination you wanted.

[grumbler]

Here's a bit about the combat from here:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/dragon-age-origins-hands-on_6?page=1

When it does eventually reveal itself in full, Dragon Age proves to be a flexible RPG that accommodates a wide range of playing styles. Baldur's Gate veterans will be happy pulling the camera back to a top-down view, pausing the action with the space bar and micro-managing the party's actions and placement in a quasi-turn-based mode. World of Warcraft players might prefer to zoom in close, let AI take care of party behaviour and punch out skills in real time, flicking between characters for variety. It's perfectly possible to smash through the game in this way on easy mode (the difficulty can be adjusted at any time) without ever hitting pause or needing to think, but even the normal setting is a significant step up that will require the occasional moment of reflection.

Or you could choose to do this reflection in advance - if that's not an oxymoron - by using Tactics. Tactics are a smart lift from, of all things, Final Fantasy XII. They are a version of that game's Gambits, a brilliant system of programmable rules for party behaviour that had the potential to revolutionise the single-player party RPG, but that we'd given up hope of ever seeing again after Square Enix dropped it. Happily, BioWare has had the good sense to revive it.

Excellent-sounding stuff.  If this works in practice, that pretty much retires my main concern.  Team-based combat where the player successively plays each player pretty much reached its acme with Jagged Alliance 2.  I have very little interest in playing this type of game again (and if I did I still have JA2).

[crazy canuck]

I agree.  I am much more excited about this game now.

[viper37]

Alright, I just pre-ordered it on Steam, the Deluxe edition.  It comes with the DLC already included, so if they seel it for 10$ like ME1, I only paid about 5$ more the game itself with the little gizmos.

If it's bad, I'll blame Neil.

[Scipio]

I am actually jonesin' for this.

[DisturbedPervert]

http://www.dragonagejourneys.com/

Turn based flash rpg where you can earn items for the actual game. 

[Scipio]

http://www.dragonagejourneys.com/

Turn based flash rpg where you can earn items for the actual game.

Excellent.

[viper37]

where you can earn items for the actual game. 

how does this work exactly?

[Razgovory]

Is this game out yet?

[katmai]

Is this game out yet?

:p

no not out for another 10 days or so.

[Jaron]

Is this game out yet?

:p

no not out for another 10 days or so.

Bluto

[Razgovory]

I can pre-order on Steam but I don't exactly see the point of that.