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

[crazy canuck]

God, I hate the annoying mage bitch. I replaced her on the party first chance I got.

Though it should be fun to play an "evil" character with her in the party.

Should have kept her a bit longer, its fun to hear the banter between her and the ex templar.

[DisturbedPervert]

God, I hate the annoying mage bitch. I replaced her on the party first chance I got.

Though it should be fun to play an "evil" character with her in the party.

Should have kept her a bit longer, its fun to hear the banter between her and the ex templar.

Yeah, her and Alistair are really amusing 

[DisturbedPervert]

my only complaint is my warrior is lvl 11 and hasn't taken a specialty because I've only found the templar training which vendor is selling for 15gold.

Ugh.  My rogue just reached level 7 and I was looking forward to becoming an assassin.  Didn't realize until it was greyed out at lvl up you had to find it somewhere.

[Jaron]

The blood does get a bit silly.

I'm currently playing a human mage, mostly to get away from the blood stains.

[Caliga]

I bought it, surprisingly I found a PC copy at Walmart.

I made a commoner dwarf. The game needs an autorun key.

I got a copy at Walmart today myself, where it was 3 cents cheaper than at EB Games. 

Started with a Human Mage.

[Barrister]

hmm... maybe I should try Walmart then...

[Razgovory]

Hey if you pre-ordered off Steam does it automatically download the DLC stuff for you?

[katmai]

Hey if you pre-ordered off Steam does it automatically download the DLC stuff for you?

Nah you have to dl'd it in game.
It will ask for your codes to redeem, which steam should have sent in email or be somewhere in receipt for purchase

[DisturbedPervert]

Looking at it now, those three dlc items you get in the CE seem ridiculously powerful.  The item it gave me was some belt with +5% resist to all elements.

[ulmont]

Re: blood stains and DLC: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11/9/

[DisturbedPervert]

Re: blood stains and DLC: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11/9/

I was pretty annoyed when I got to that guy and waded through his very long conversation tree just to find out the whole thing was an advertisement for paid dlc.

[Syt]

God, I hate the annoying mage bitch. I replaced her on the party first chance I got.

Though it should be fun to play an "evil" character with her in the party.

Should have kept her a bit longer, its fun to hear the banter between her and the ex templar.

Yes, but I doubt I could keep her happy for long, being already at -25 or so with her (and I don't have many gifts yet). Though I figure Sten will be a bit similar. But I like his Frankenstein's monster look and taking things literally.

[Syt]

Re: blood stains and DLC: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11/9/

I was pretty annoyed when I got to that guy and waded through his very long conversation tree just to find out the whole thing was an advertisement for paid dlc.

The comic does have a point, though. Plenty people will complain, but a lot of those people will buy it, anyways.

Re: blood. I turned the permanent effects off, because
- all characters have the same blood splatter overlay which looks a bit lame to see them all with the same spots in the face during conversations
- it would be much cooler if it would start with a few splatters and become more and more
- I'd prefer it fades with time instead of staying on all the time until you change clothes

[Syt]

Some of those fights in Redcliffe are pretty damn tough. I play on easy (as usually in such games - I'm more interested in progressing the story than in repeating a fight ten times), but some of the fights are still tough nailbiters.

I'm especially annoyed that Sten keeps getting knocked out. He has the best armor, and I set him to a somewhat defensive stance, and even though I use my PC and Alistair to get some mobs off of Sten he still manages to burn through health potions and get killed in a disturbing fashion.

[syk]

So a 26 pages thread means I should buy it if I enjoyed Baldur's Gate?