**The Dragon Age Origins Thread **

Just finshed DA:O, on to Awakening now :)

Shame Catacylsm world patch lands on Wednesday, can see me spending a fair bit of time in WoW tbh.
 
wordy said:
Just finshed DA:O, on to Awakening now :)

Shame Catacylsm world patch lands on Wednesday, can see me spending a fair bit of time in WoW tbh.
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Is it worth getting, mate? Reviews seem a bit hot and cold?

The final battle in DA:O made me realise that I really should upgrade my PC soon. Spellcasting and AI was getting a bit laggy. Methinks I have a CPU bottleneck.

Also... for DA:O - would it really have taken that much more time to get voiceovers for the ending? Also, they could have cutscened them all.... It all feels like an afterthought (clicking through text) :mad:
 
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Does anyone else here get random crashes to desktop at certain points in the game or when casting spells in certain areas.

I have completed the game but it started to get worse towards the last quarter of the game. I also have problems sometimes when after a while of play the frame rate gets ever worse until I reload a save or restart the game.

There seems to be a lot of this on the official forums and a lot of it was caused with patch 1.03-1.04 but EA/Bioware have not bothered to fix it.

Such a shame as the game is amazing, one thing I also hate is how the game always verifies your DLC each time you start the game so if your internet is down you can't load your saves that include DLC items.
 
Regarding DA2, this is looking more and more like an Xbox game as the news flows in.

*Dramaticly lower install size
*Could the textures be even lower than DA:O?
*Combat with even more blood but no hacking off heads/arms/leggs?
*Rogue gamplay thats from another game, hoping about like a cat of fire(Assassins creed anyone?)
*A menu system to enter your inventory ala Mass Effect 2 (Pause game-select inventory-cut to inventory out of game- select item you want to equip-exit inventory-cut to menu system- unpause game- hit stuff)
*A UI that seems be showing the least amount of information needed with the least amount of graphics or flash compared to DA:O
*Not sure what DX11 features they say will be included, but if DA:O is 20gig with no dx11 how is DA2 less than 8gig with dx11 features?
*What seems to be grossly simplified combat compared to the first game

I'm thinking il enjoy Witcher 2 compared to this tbh.
 
Larrs888 said:
Does anyone else here get random crashes to desktop at certain points in the game or when casting spells in certain areas.

I have completed the game but it started to get worse towards the last quarter of the game. I also have problems sometimes when after a while of play the frame rate gets ever worse until I reload a save or restart the game.

There seems to be a lot of this on the official forums and a lot of it was caused with patch 1.03-1.04 but EA/Bioware have not bothered to fix it.

Such a shame as the game is amazing, one thing I also hate is how the game always verifies your DLC each time you start the game so if your internet is down you can't load your saves that include DLC items.
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Yep, I got random "...has stopped working" CTDs which, you're right, seemed to become more frequent at later stages of the game. Thankfully they didn't happen TOO often and I just auto-saved the crap out of it.
 
What I don't get is that the game has a much smaller install size, yet requires a DX11 card at the most. One would have assumed that better textures etc are being used but the install size says otherwise.

I'm starting to veer on waiting for post release reviews on this game now. Bear in mind I've avoided every video/trailer etc on it as I want no spoilers.
 
DA2 will get top reviews, I have no doubt about that.

It'll just be a dissapointment for us PC players who prefer 'proper' RPGs. On the flipside, it'll be far better recieved on the consoles which is a far bigger market share.

I think its fair to say that DA:O didn't work too well on consoles, and the endless comments I saw on review articles from "kidz" who slated it for (and I'm paraphrasing here) being too hard and too complicated.

I just want a new BG2...and I very much doubt will ever see one done by a big developer, to those standards, again.
 
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