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Longtime readers of the site will know that no game and I hate each other more than Dragon Age: Origins. It’s one of the only games I’ve ever bought and traded back almost immediately, due to it’s insane difficulty curve, muddy graphics, backwards character interaction system and unplayable control scheme. My perception of my beloved Bioware was tarnished forever, and so of COURSE I have no interest in the sequel.
Well, in their best effort to win me back, they’ve enlisted geek ginger hottie Felicia Day to play an elven assassin in a new web series based around the game. Damn you Bioware! You know that no male nerd is immune to Felicia Day! I’m involuntarily dialing Gamestop to preorder this right now.
Just kidding, I’ll never buy this game even if Felicia Day came to my house and whispered in my ear that it was forged by the gods to be the single greatest video game title that’s ever existed. Trust is a hard thing to win back.
I don’t really see how you think those things about DA:O. It’s a great game and DA2 is just going to be that much greater. I have followed Bioware for a long time(ever since SW: KotOR) and they have yet to disappoint me in any way. I think you should give DA:O another chance but go into it with an open mind.
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I know what you mean about the original DA:O I got it for my ps3 and returned it 2 days later, hated it. But when the ultimate edition for PC came out, and a few friends told me that PC and console were entirely different experiences, I picked it up.
Trust me PC>console for DA:O, it is soo much better. Now looking forward to DA2. Missed the preorder for sweet stuff though 🙁
The controls for DA:O took a while for me to get used to, but I love its story, atmosphere, and voice acting. I found the dwarven mission especially impressive.
Da:O was better on PS3 then PC, but its still an overhyped sack of crap. It was glitchy, the story was stupid, had like 25 hours of gameplay, the downloadable content items were 11000 times better then pretty much everything else in the game. Also you level a rogue up high enough and you can 2 shot most things and the rest of your party becomes completely useless.
Also, stop pretending that having conversations that effect the game is a new idea. They made Balders gate like 12 years ago and it had it. And if you are going to have that feature have it actually effect the game in a meaningful way.
Oh and charge like 20 bucks for the game, its about worth that.
I’ll hold you too that, man. Not liking something is one thing, but continuing to pay money for every film/boo/game in a series you hate and then bitching about it is just sad. So you aren’t good at real-deal medieval RPG’s. Big deal. CoD is right there for you. Have at it.
i really like this website’s posts and thoughts, Paul, but this dragon age hater thing going on is really annoying me. Seems rather unfair not having played the game and simply hate the sequel, apparently just because. I expected more of you. t’was not cool, srly.
Ohhhhhhhhk.
Dragon Age is distinct type of RPG. It has a D&D structure and is a bit nerded-out for typical gamers. I love the Bioware games such as Baulder’s Gate, but I can definitely see how Dragon Age is very hateable. If Paul didn’t like the first Dragon Age, there is a pretty good chance he will not like the second.
I hated Justin Bieber’s first cd. Therefore I’m not lining up to get his second one.
First off, Dragon Age was designed for PC gaming. I don’t understand even trying to convert the controls to a console. That being said, I think they did a good job with the transition (though I don’t think I could play the whole game on console). Also, the difficulty is really frustrating unless you have a specific build in mind for your character to be a killing machine, or unless you pause constantly and play very tactically (this was actually how BioWare intended the game to be played). It may not be for everyone, but the story is amazing, and I found specializing my character to be a lot of fun once I unlocked the right specializations (I did an arcane warrior, a mage that can wear heavy armor and wield giant weapons mixed with a blood mage spec which allows you to manipulate your own blood to cast spells and manipulate and control enemies through their blood). I’d say it’s worth giving another chance. Play it on PC, and play a good class (archers and frost mages are probably the best ways to start.
First time I’ve seen a video game chick and said, dammnnnnn…especially considering she doesn’t even look human