The Dragon Age Origins Thread

Teki187 · 25 Oct 2009 at 11:03

Just pre ordered through EADM.

Lets hope everything goes smoothly.

Treebiter · 25 Oct 2009 at 11:45

mart981 said:
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.

Just looked into this and I was actually thinking about the Pool of Radiance remake! I completely missed ToEE. Might actually be something to play until Dragon Age comes out.

My bad

On another note, I'm very impressed with DA: Journeys. Most polished flash game I've played since The Last Stand.

Deadbeat · 26 Oct 2009 at 21:50

Agreed, but it took so long. Why couldn't they make a single run-through enough for the third unlock? All the other 4 achievements I got in a single playthrough, but I just don't know if it'll be worth another 2. Especially since I hate rogues.

Treebiter · 26 Oct 2009 at 22:17

Agreed. Can't be arsed to play it again for the helm. Got two items for my trouble though so not too shabby!

SiD the Turtle · 26 Oct 2009 at 23:15

Whack it on easy to complete the rogue, means you can fly through it.

Did any of you guys get emails to confirm the character creator or journeys unlocks? I haven't so there seems to be no record of the unlocks.

MidnightLamp · 26 Oct 2009 at 23:18

got all the unlocks
once you play through the game once the second and third times round on easy cant have taken more than 20-30 mins

Deadbeat · 27 Oct 2009 at 07:31

I got an email about one character, but nothing else so far.

Hody · 27 Oct 2009 at 08:30

Does anybody have a clue if I can get the Collector´s Edition somewhere off the shelf in the Republic of Ireland?!

Thanks

Sleepery · 27 Oct 2009 at 10:31

Well not until it's released at any rate

Hody · 27 Oct 2009 at 10:37

Sleepery said:
Well not until it's released at any rate

Just spoke to GAME in Dublin, they are going to have it, will do a GAME card today in order to be able to pre-order it.

Deadbeat · 27 Oct 2009 at 10:38

Ask in your local game shop, they'll be the best ones to tell you. If it's a bit of a walk, phone them. That works quite well for me when I'm over in Ireland.

Sleepery · 27 Oct 2009 at 10:38

What are they charging for it?

platypus · 27 Oct 2009 at 10:45

Bleh that flash game stuck for me after the introduction of the characters dad.

Hody · 27 Oct 2009 at 10:46

Deadbeat said:
Ask in your local game shop, they'll be the best ones to tell you. If it's a bit of a walk, phone them. That works quite well for me when I'm over in Ireland.

I just phoned them, they´ll have the UK GAMES Collector Edition which is exactly what I wanted. Many thanks

Born_2_Kill_83 · 28 Oct 2009 at 13:57

So which charactor/race are you people going to start off with?

Does this effect the ingame cutscenes Ive seen clips of, looks like there romantic hanky panky to be had!

Hody · 28 Oct 2009 at 14:06

Loowi_ashley said:
So which charactor/race are you people going to start off with?

Does this effect the ingame cutscenes Ive seen clips of, looks like there romantic hanky panky to be had!

I believe gender choices will have an impact like they did in mass effect to some extend. If you play the browser game www.dragonagejourneys.com you can figure out quite a bit about the rogue, warrior and mage classes in the game as the have implemented some of the spells and abilities to it. You can also unlock items for the real game by playing it.

I usually would play a Bard as my first RPG ever was the Bard´s Tale and I keep playing bard since them - but the mages and the spells in DA:O just seem to be too fine.

By the way there is page called "Tomb Of Knowledge" within the Bioware Pages where you can read lots of details and see videos of the spells and so on.

Adsta · 28 Oct 2009 at 14:09

I am thinking of a city elf mage as a first go through.

Then I think I will go for the Dalish elf rogue.

Hody · 28 Oct 2009 at 14:25

Adsta said:
I am thinking of a city elf mage as a first go through.

Then I think I will go for the Dalish elf rogue.

Well they said you are looking at like 120 hours of game play if you do all the quests, dont think there´ll be a second time for me though. Usually I keep a easy rule when playing RPGs, if you can figure out before what the NPCs will be, then go for a class or abilities that no one else has in the party, like this you get to experience the upmost of the game. On the other side, if you dont want to spoil the fun and suprises...

Adsta · 28 Oct 2009 at 14:29

The amount of hours I have spent playing BG is mental though 120 hours is nothing !

Mind due I did have a lot more time on my hands back then than I do now

If the game is up to BG par then I will plough a lot of hours into it. But generally RPG's I do like to play casters. So the mage will be my first most likely.

Having said that most MMO's I will play a melee.... wierd that.

SiD the Turtle · 28 Oct 2009 at 15:01

Adsta said:
I am thinking of a city elf mage as a first go through.

Then I think I will go for the Dalish elf rogue.

If you want to be a mage you can only choose the mage origin story, you're locked out of the city elf origin. Shame as that's exactly what I wanted to roll as my first character

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