Dragon Age: Spoiler free

[Razgovory]

Alot of the gripes of the game I think could be because of it's releasing on consoles as well as PC.  Areas must be smaller to accommodate consoles.

[Valmy]

All those examples are from Lothering or before.  If that's how far you are, you're only a few hours in to an 80 hour game.

Yeah most of his complaints indicate he has not played the game much.  Small areas?  Really?

Eh oh well he clearly prefers Bethesda style games which I really don't like.  Fortunately for him he can play shit I hate like Oblivion and I can play shit he hates like Dragon Age.

[Valmy]

Alot of the gripes of the game I think could be because of it's releasing on consoles as well as PC.  Areas must be smaller to accommodate consoles.

Eh the exact same complaints could be made about every single Bioware game after Baldur's Gate one.  He just doesn't like Bioware games he prefers Bethesda.

[Queequeg]

Eh the exact same complaints could be made about every single Bioware game after Baldur's Gate one.  He just doesn't like Bioware games he prefers Bethesda.

Yeah but...how? 

[grumbler]

Well, I don't know if my complaints coincide with Grumbler's but
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My issues are similar, but mostly revolve around the fact that I don't find the PC very deep or interesting (and you cannot do anything to make him/her deep or interesting) and the story is mediocre.  The voice acting is great, as you note, and some of the NPC banter is good, but the game doesn't give me any reason to give a shit, so I don't.

I quite enjoyed Mass Effect, but have no desire to play Mass Effect 2.  It may just be that my tolerance for "straitjacket" games like this (or ME, or The Witcher, which I also enjoyed but never replayed) is just limited, and when the counter reaches zero I am done with the genre for a while.

Certainly, I am not saying that this is a bad game.  It is just a bad game for me.

[viper37]

I thought Dragon Age was a step back (not a big one, but noticeable) from Mass Effect, especially the character graphics.

Disagree, I thought ME's effect were poorer than this game.

[Razgovory]

The new DLC is out.

[katmai]

The new DLC is out.

Ah, i thought it came out weeks ago, didn't know it had been delayed.

[Razgovory]

The new DLC is out.

Ah, i thought it came out weeks ago, didn't know it had been delayed.

Apparently it came out and was withdrawn due to bugs.

[grumbler]

Got bored with all the snow days and so I picked this up again, playing as a mage.

Re-doing the battles I ad done before (Redcliff and Ostrogar) was a real chore, but I perservered and got into the new action, which was the mage's tower quest.  I quite enjoyed that one - there were still many boring battles, but there were some new/different decisions to make (the shape-changing thing was fun) and the boss battles were quite good. 

Mages aren't that great to play, but they are a whole lot less frustrating under player control than when running themselves on tactics, and the other players work well under tactics. Since one needs a mage or two in a party, it seems best to be the mage as the PC.

[Razgovory]

I played through as a Mage (he was mostly a healing mage).  For a while I had a party of Me, Morigan Alastair and Leliana.  Unfortunately I came to feel that Leliana wasn't really pulling her weight so I ended up using the Dwarf or the Golem more.

[DisturbedPervert]

Re-doing the battles I ad done before (Redcliff and Ostrogar) was a real chore, but I perservered and got into the new action, which was the mage's tower quest.

You didn't need to do Redcliff again before moving on to all the things you hadn't done yet.  After Lothering you can go where you want.

A PC mage is probably the easiest way to go through the game, without respecing Morrigan and Wynne for a more efficient build.

As for Leliana, I haven't really used her, but she's supposed to do really huge damage if you level her right and focus on archery.  I found her dull though.

[Razgovory]

Re-doing the battles I ad done before (Redcliff and Ostrogar) was a real chore, but I perservered and got into the new action, which was the mage's tower quest.

You didn't need to do Redcliff again before moving on to all the things you hadn't done yet.  After Lothering you can go where you want.

A PC mage is probably the easiest way to go through the game, without respecing Morrigan and Wynne for a more efficient build.

As for Leliana, I haven't really used her, but she's supposed to do really huge damage if you level her right and focus on archery.  I found her dull though.

I never could get much use out of her in combat.  She kept getting her ass handed to her.  I wish the game let you have 5 companions in a party at once instead of 3.

[Sophie Scholl]

You didn't need to do Redcliff again before moving on to all the things you hadn't done yet.  After Lothering you can go where you want.

A PC mage is probably the easiest way to go through the game, without respecing Morrigan and Wynne for a more efficient build.

As for Leliana, I haven't really used her, but she's supposed to do really huge damage if you level her right and focus on archery.  I found her dull though.

Generally I go to Redcliffe last actually.  In regards to the mage, I think they're probably the hardest character to use on the 360.  It's hard as hell to pick targets from a distance I think.  Leliana definitely does get insanely good at the end.  I pimped her out with Marjolaine's bow and a whole bunch of ranged damage boosting gear and she was pretty impressive.

[The Brain]

Finished it. I played a male human tank on Easy. I really liked the game.