**The Dragon Age Origins Thread **
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I think that how its suppose to be, you are not meant to be able to do everything all the time. Im guessing the limitation you are experiencing is lock picking? If there were no limitations the game would be even easier than it already is. Ive upped the intensity level to nightmare now, but thats a bit too hard and 'hard' is proving to be too easy 95% of the time.
I played BG1 and IWD1 and 2 over the last few years, found having 6 in a party a bit easy.
I dont like to be lead or hand fed through a game, I like harsh penalties that make the game feel more like a roller coaster! I.E. Online nwn servers!
At Lv12 and I'm running Morrigan, Wynne and the newly acquired Shale in preference over Alistair. So far Morrigan's higher end cold/fire attacks are devestating and OTT half the time reducing enemies to dust before I've even had a chance to **** them with my shield!
Shale is my newest addition and his outro movie where he kills that bird had me in stitches
Shale is my newest addition and his outro movie where he kills that bird had me in stitches
Its just the flexibility and the range, both in combat and in interaction, that 6 people provide.
I'm not sure it'd dent replayability either, as I've replayed BG2 about 5-6 times, but can't see me doing that with DA:O due to the restrictive classes.
In terms of balance/difficulty, sure, if they kept it as it is and added 2 more people it would be easy, but the game would have been designed from the off with 6 in mind, so the challenge would have been the same.
As another aside (and I seem to be knocking this game a lot, I know) but the party interactions - they all got "rushed" through. Morrigan and Alastair had little quibbles at the start, but they had about 6-7 conversations in then first zone, then nothing since.
And surely Morrigan and Wynne would be at each others throats?
BG2's interactions were great, and they were "spread" so over the course of the game, chats would pop up here and there as you were moving around. Seems be very little of that - again, its something 4party members gives restrictions on...
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I'm trying not to to be honest.
BG2 was a beacon of excellence that will be hard to beat, so I'm not holding against DA:O for being great, but not as good.It'd be like someone saying a FPS game was almost as good as HL2 but failed because of it.
I'm quite late into the game, and I seem to find loads of named weapons when I'm ploughing through dungeons, very little of it is better than what I already have though.
All the really good stuff seems to come from quests as you'd expect.
Good mage gear is pretty sparse though.
Sounds like all that stuff comes from the DLC. Are you sure it's loaded?
I think your trying to hard to find faults in the game, comparing it to older titles. Just sit down and enjoy it!
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Say that once you've been to the place you get Shale from
I've done shale twice without a helmet, i didnt find anything different.
I never wore that helm. It's a slight against fashion!
That's probably the issue. It normally crops up with a warning if I'm not logged in though, didn't get that. That's a pain, what with the issues I'm having with BT at the moment. Thanks.
I find it's a bit stupid to have the DLC but not be able to use it when offline.
I mean you already downloaded it. Why can't you use it other wise.
When ever I'm offline I can't even load my characters because of it.
It's quite annoying.
I mean you already downloaded it. Why can't you use it other wise.
When ever I'm offline I can't even load my characters because of it.
It's quite annoying.
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Otherwise you'd end up with one giant pirate account sharing all of the DLC.
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Can you not? I just started DA withough the network plugged in and it started with me logged out... and I have access to all my DLC.
I'm showing as logged out in the main menu but my email address is still listed in the bottom left corner.
I'm showing as logged out in the main menu but my email address is still listed in the bottom left corner.
How do you give people gifts? Do you have to wait for an appropriate conversation option or something? I'm swimming with useless tat I want to dump on my team
Click on them and ipen their inventory, then right-click.hold and select the little present box.
That gives it to the person who you have open.
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The people who pirated it had every single bit of DLC available to them on release day, all this nonsense of having to be logged in does, as usual, is hurt those that bought the game.