[Fury]

This game deserves its own topic now that its been released. I've been playing it since Monday and it is awesome. Finally a game that is worth every cent, I mean I'm still not done even a quarter of the game even though I've been playing it all week. Take that stupid shooters with 2 hours of playtime. There's lots of cool stuff I could mention about this game, but since the game is full of awesomeness I'd rather not waste my time.

Instead if there's something that I should complain about, it would be once again, yes you guessed it, inventory system. It's miles better than what we saw in Mass Effect, but I still would have preferred something like what was in good 'ol Baldur's Gate, only with some sort of advanced sorting options. My inventory is a horrid mess right now and I have no friggin' clue which items actually take up space in there and which do not, yes some items besides of quest items are weightless. Good luck guessing which because inspection doesn't say. Also, inventory doesn't really optimally make use of the screen estate available at higher resolutions.

Another complaint would be crafting. It took me a long while to realize that you actually need to buy recipes from merchants or loot them. Which is strange because I have yet to loot a single recipe or seen a merchant selling recipes. So I'm getting by with lesser health pots, having expended all my lesser mana pots already with no materials to craft new ones not to mention higher level pots. This really could have been designed to be more intuitive and obvious. Today I'll have to go and make a round to look for the usual suspects to see if any merchants are actually selling those goddamn recipes.

Oh and thirdly. For some reason the game, or its launcher doesn't seem to notify you in any way if there's a patch available. Which is certainly a step down from Neverwinter Nights. I only realized there was a patch out when I was googling wtf is with crafting system recipes. I took such a feature for granted really.

So, Bioware didn't quite get these two aspects right as both of them can be classified as design failures. While these are certainly important parts of the overall gaming experience, rest of the game makes up for it by being so awesome.

[Ransom]

My biggest complaint with DA:O ended up being the story.

Spoiler:

The characters are generally very enjoyable, but the main plot is awfully trite. The darkspawn threat is abstract, Loghain is more of an obstacle than a force of opposition, and as a whole it feels very impersonal. Maybe the worst offender is the archdemon, who just doesn't really work as the main antagonist. I mean, it's a dragon. You kill it: the end.

Not that I would count the game as a disappointment. It's a very good effort in practically every other respect. I was just hoping for a story with a little more to it.

[Fury]

Spoiler tags added, don't forget to use them.

[Ransom]

There's nothing in there you don't find out in the first hour or two, but fair enough.

[Demitri]

I was going to start a thread about this last night but didn't so you beat me to it . Was considering purchasing this but wasn't sure if it was worth 25 of my hard earned pounds or not. On the other hand EVERY article, review or even general comment about this game has been extremely positive. I think the biggest problem i have is that I'm not a huge RPG fan, tho do have both kotor's and mass effect, but the closest I've played to this would probably be the witcher . How does it compare to that?

Also, I've never played any of the Baldurs Gate games. Is that going to be a problem if i get this?

[Turambar]

Spoiler:

it needed to have a twist.  i was disappointed at the lack of twist

otherwise, tons of fun.  Much harder than KotOR.  And Fury, it sounds like you need to get Wynne in your party ASAP.

[Blue Lion]

Odd, I've never heard of this game. RPG I'm gonna assume?

[starbug]

I am loving the game! pure genius, got the collectors edition and watched the making. I didn't realise captain janeway from star trek was in it. Also the soundtrack is beautiful. Bioware have never made a bad game.

Odd, I've never heard of this game. RPG I'm gonna assume?

Yip its the spiritual successor to baldurs gate.

[Ace]

Spoiler:

it needed to have a twist.  i was disappointed at the lack of twist

otherwise, tons of fun.  Much harder than KotOR.  And Fury, it sounds like you need to get Wynne in your party ASAP.

Honestly, just because Baldur's Gate and KotoR had (seen a mile away for most people) massive plot twists doesn't mean that it was needed in Dragon Age. For that matter, even Mass Effect had a pretty major and nasty one. Something more on par with that, turning the mythology of what the darkspawn are on its head, might have been good however.

[Blue Lion]

Wouldn't not having a twist be a twist?

[freespacegundam]

I imagine the 'twist' is coming in a sequel, if in fact

Spoiler:

The whole Morrigan child thing turns out to be more devious than it appears.  If you let that option happen, I can see some very dire consequences for the next game.  I also imagine that will turn out to be the 'official' ending.  They also do reveal several smaller twists during the game.  Flemeth's immorality, the long term effects of the taint in the grey wardens, and the archdemon killing solution

I thoroughly enjoyed the game myself, and thought the story and the characters were both excellent.  I didn't need for there to be some big twist to enjoy it.  I'm happier without it, actually.

[Turambar]

Spoiler:

can you still get Morrigan preggers if you have a girl character?

[NGTM-1R]

Wouldn't not having a twist be a twist?

Man has a point. If they set you up for the last several games to expect one and it doesn't come, they still fooled you.

[iamzack]

yeah but in this case, the twist would mean having a final battle that wasnt a final battle at all.  that would be really neat, if they built it up the way they did, with everyone being all 'so this is how it is, at the end'  and then it WASNT THE END and it totally caught you off guard and you still had another 20 hours of gameplay and you are really Darth Revan or something. :-P

oh yeah btw this is Tura im just posting on iamzacks tiny little netbook

[Thaeris]

It seems you've enabled the enabler of llamas one more post recognized by the HLP...

[Turambar]

Enchantment?

[Ransom]

Enchantment!

[Herra Tohtori]

...Something more on par with that, turning the mythology of what the darkspawn are on its head, might have been good however.

You mean the space ship depicted in the intro cinematic is not enough of a twist in the origin story of the darkspawn?



"The Mages had sought to usurp Heaven; but instead, they destroyed it..."


Of course, I might be reading too much between the lines, but if I'm correct in my assumption, then Thedas might be one case of this... or more likely this.

[Scotty]

You just had to go there didn't you.  Now I won't get to bed tonight.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

...Something more on par with that, turning the mythology of what the darkspawn are on its head, might have been good however.

You mean the space ship depicted in the intro cinematic is not enough of a twist in the origin story of the darkspawn?



"The Mages had sought to usurp Heaven; but instead, they destroyed it..."


Of course, I might be reading too much between the lines, but if I'm correct in my assumption, then Thedas might be one case of this... or more likely this.

funky, is that the Mass effect spaceship?