**The Dragon Age Origins Thread **

crazymofo16321 said:
I don't know why but does anyone else feel that the people worrying about not liking it end up quoting reasons why BG was so great?

i.e psuedo turn based system which was perfect for tactical party based combat, found it much better than say fallout 2. Or the 'complicated' D&D style rulesets which actually have a bit of depth to them.
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Agreed. I was watching a Giant Bomb 20 minute walkthrough and although I respect them as reviewers I kept feeling they were playing it as an arcade game not as a RPG, which lead them to complain that the game is too hard.

BG2 for me was a perfect game, really hoping that Dragon Age is it's modern brother.
 
SiD the Turtle said:
Agreed. I was watching a Giant Bomb 20 minute walkthrough and although I respect them as reviewers I kept feeling they were playing it as an arcade game not as a RPG, which lead them to complain that the game is too hard.

BG2 for me was a perfect game, really hoping that Dragon Age is it's modern brother.
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Much prefered Temple of elemental Evil game play over BG, but that doesnt mean to say BG wasnt the greatest game ever!

You really should all play the flash Dragon Age game, its quite fun with the added bonus of getting in game loot!
 
Theres a helmet, a ring and another item I cant quite remeber right now that you can get in DA:O by playing the flash game.
 
Embri's Many Pockets

Embri of Gwaren, an elven mage of limited talent who volunteered to become one of the Tranquil, proved herself a talented enchanter--if absent-minded. She kept an array of magical ingredients on her belt at all times, and eventually the belt itself became magical. Embri died of lyrium poisoning many years later, but the enchanted belt remains.
Effects

* +5% Fire Resistance
* +5% Cold Resistance
* +5% Electricity Resistance
* +5% Nature Resistance
* +5% Spirit Resistance

Requirements

To earn Embri's Many Pockets in Dragon Age: Origins, save the Grey Warden Martine by completing The Missing Warden quest.

Helm of the Deep

There is a legend amongst the dwarves of the Legion of the Dead that, three centuries ago, a commander of the Legion came across the body of a legionnaire wearing a helmet inscribed with lyrium. He took it, and died nobly... and then his body was found years later by another commander--and so forth, for generations. The helmet is said to be a sign of an honorable death for the lucky dwarf who stumbles across it.
Effects

* +2 Constitution
* +10 Mental Resistance
* +10 Physical Resistance

Requirements

To earn the Helm of the Deep in Dragon Age: Origins, you must earn all five achievements in Dragon Age Journies: The Deep Roads.

Amulet Of the War Wage

This amulet was forged during the height of the ancient Tevinter Imperium's power, a time when entire armies would flee upon seeing a Tevinter magister stride into battle. While the name Cavellus remains engraved on its back, any memory of the magister who created it has been lost to the mists of time.
Effects

* +5% to Fire Damage
* +5 % to Cold Damage
* +5% to Electrical Damage
* +5% to Nature Damage
* +5% to Spirit Damage

Requirements

To earn the Amulet of the War Mage in Dragon Age: Origins, you must complete all three parts of the Dragon Age Journeys feedback survey. You can access the survey by completing quests.
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bushmins said:
Much prefered Temple of elemental Evil game play over BG, but that doesnt mean to say BG wasnt the greatest game ever!

You really should all play the flash Dragon Age game, its quite fun with the added bonus of getting in game loot!
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Seriously? ToEE sticks in my mind as one of the worst games I've ever bought. Think I actually gave it away it was so bad.
 
You can just switch it to easy mid game, I couldn't manage one of the last fights with the ogre and 2 of the halberd swinging mobs on hard with my mage, rogue and warrior. Easy to lock one ogre down with stuns but those halberd mobs are a bit too tough to handle as well.

It's only part one so more to come, although in the last survey there were a lot of worrying microtransaction related questions :(

Tree: I loved ToEE at the time, proper turn based beardy D&D gameplay and strategy, nice big fat game manual :) Plenty of bugs to start with, including gamebreakers nearer the end, but some of the fights were very hard and you had to know your D&D monster's immunities and weaknesses. Very challenging game, great dungeon crawl.

Been meaning to reinstall with the Circle of Eight fan fixes and mods.
 
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Completed Journeys with a warrior. It's a good game but the lack of depth means it's mainly about hitting the hardest, which seemed fairly easy (save for the Ogres) with my warrior. Just got to run through it with a mage and rogue for the last achievement.
 
Treebiter said:
Seriously? ToEE sticks in my mind as one of the worst games I've ever bought. Think I actually gave it away it was so bad.
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I had so much fun with TOEE, maybe you need to try it again with the community patches. I played it right through with no problems. Such great music as well.

I played the Dragon Age flash game, but i dont think i can go through it twice more to get the helmet. Ill have to stick with the two other items.
 
i've just starting playing that flash game, surprisingly good for a flash effort. the alpha darkspawn guys are the ones that are getting me atm in the diamond mines. i've recruited the bard though (he seems a bit pony), but it's not bad.
 
I don't know if I can drag my way through this two more times. It was fun the first time, but running through it again so soon - why make the 5th achievement such a grind?
 
Treebiter said:
Seriously? ToEE sticks in my mind as one of the worst games I've ever bought. Think I actually gave it away it was so bad.
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ToEE was amazing, but only with the circle of eight community patch. A very different game to BG though, much more like a single prolonged pen and paper D&D session (it was actually based on a D&D module of the same name).

Had some very memorable individual battles in ToEE, it was extremely tactical, and a well placed spell could turn a battle.
 
PC Gamer, it say 95%

"A truly astonishing game. Vast, vivid and microscopically detailed. Dragon Age is the RPG of the decade"

Only downside are that its "Too Difficult"

A good RPG *should* be difficult, just like BG2 was (when you had the proper difficulty level selected). This makes me happy, and I'm off to send the boss an email asking for the 6th of November off :D
 
Matmulder said:
PC Gamer, it say 95%

"A truly astonishing game. Vast, vivid and microscopically detailed. Dragon Age is the RPG of the decade"

Only downside are that its "Too Difficult"

A good RPG *should* be difficult, just like BG2 was (when you had the proper difficulty level selected). This makes me happy, and I'm off to send the boss an email asking for the 6th of November off :D
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No, they said that it was too difficult even on easy. I agree there should be the option for it to be very difficult. But there should also be the option for it to be easy. To expand on that, they said that there were certain classes that were almost impossible to even start with unless you played absoltely perfectly. Just sounds like a small patch is needed. I like a challenege anyway, so i dont mind :). Great score though and they really did praise it.
 
SiD the Turtle said:
What classes were they?

For example playing a Mage was incredibly hard in BG1. Cast magic missile! Uh I've run out of spells, time for a nap...
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dwarf rogue is the example they site. they talk about the general difficulty and the need to have loads of healing potions if you're not a mage with healing, but also say that any class can hold it's own towards the end of the game.
 
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