Wow. Please don’t be offensive. The Paul acting as if his opinion as truth thing like you felt was probably just for the benefit of reader’s entertainment (throwing in a few curse words or so).

Speaking of depth, this may be true with the characters but the story is very 1980s oldschool cliche, which is not to bash it but I couldn’t find much of a bio for the main antagonist anywhere other than a mention of an archdemon possessing the body of a powerful dragon. This in fact sounds like the story of a PS1 game called Dark Stone, but it wasn’t overly interesting there either.

I agree that combat should be hardcore for anyone willing to be hardcore, but all of the complaints Ive read have been about the game’s interface and graphical and AI errors that really deter people who don’t go OCD on saving, thus the five hour restarts.

So reread the review and comments because personality may be there for entertainment but the actual complaints are about serious problems with difficulty pacing, interface, controls, and the party (on Xbox 360 version anyway) AI.

…..On this article’s topic, I think I would actually get a little better game experience if the sex was only alluded to. What I mean is instead of giving me a hours of meaningless dialogue to get virtually laid just let it fall into a natural part of the story as “yeah they probably did it” and nothing more because honestly bachelors and sometimes even married couples need to worry about getting laid in the real world without a game taking time away from these efforts.

Plus the only benefit these scenes have to the game is only apparent if you take time away from the game for a good jerk.

You sound like a fanboy of Paul Tassi.

@Paul Tassi

I can see why game developers aren’t sending you games to review. Your opinions seem personally biased rather than neutral and you neglect to take into account the whole picture rather than your own omg it is hard for me stance.

To prove my comment isn’t just to bash you personally but to show your complete inability to understand the depth of Dragon Age: Origins allow me to elaborate:

Your complaints here seem rather based on your own personal difficulty at understanding the characters of the game and how you couldn’t get the storybook ending you wanted on one play through. Dragon Age: Origins was not meant to be fully experienced on one play through, nor were the characters meant to be simple targets for you to sleep with. Just because you wanted to sleep with Morrigan doesn’t mean it should be easy. They made the prostitutes in the pearl for people looking for an easy polygonal sex scene. Morrigan is a deep character and comes to life in that she has a very specific view of things. One of the main themes in Dragon Age: Origins is sacrifice. To relate it to something you might be able to understand better allow me to quote Full Metal Alchemist: “To gain something of equal value must be lost.” This game shows that being the hero isn’t about a fairy tale ending or perfect person. Each choice you make to do good or do what you want causes you to sacrifice something else. You want to have a romantic relationship with Morrigan? You have to appeal to who Morrigan is. She is out for herself and to accomplish her own personal goals. That is who she is. Of course characters who are fighting the blight to save those they care for and are generally out to do the right thing will disagree with her views. As for a difficulty understanding the ‘right’ dialogue to pick perhaps you’re just socially retarded or incapable of cheating like other people have been doing in RPG’s since the beginning of time. Save before you talk go through the dialogue if it doesn’t end how you want, reload and try again. It isn’t that diffuclt and people have been doing it forever with RPG’s.

Or here is a thought, experience the RPG and play a character. Develope their own personality and make choices based on that. Watch how people react to you and your actions.

While it is true I do enjoy Dragon Age: Origins, I’m far from a fanboy. I’m not going to dress up like my character and go LARP. However I do recognize the fact it is a very well made game. The characters have depth and exist as more than just targets for your virtual sexual conquests. As for your comments about the intimate scenes that just exemplifies your lack of knowledge about how games are made. As has been pointed out, the reason they have to limit what they show in intimate scenes is based on our every day society that has no problem with blood and gore but the instant pixels combine to show nudity they are up at arms with their cries of Jesus loves you and we must protect our children from this sin!

In closing, if this post is any indication of what your other reviews are I can see why you’re not being sent games to review. You lack the scope and ability to see a well made game when it is right in front of your face. Don’t get me wrong, everyone is entitled to their opinion and you disliking the game isn’t what discredits you. It is the way you post as if you know what you’re talking about and as if your opinion is fact when it isn’t.

The thing is, it’s not that most people are wanting to be turned on by naked video game characters, but it’s about immersion. It makes no sense in Dragon Age for a bra to suddenly show up on a character that was only wearing a cloth draped barely over her breasts. In-story, it actually means that in order to have sex, she took off the little clothing she had on, and then put on a bra and panties to get it on.

An M rating can have sexual content, but graphic sexual content/nudity gets a game bumped up to AO.

Here’s a link to the ESRB guide if you’re curious: http://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.jsp