Dragon Age: Origins - It's out, bitches!
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I was sold at Ravenpoe's post.
So many people here playing female chars. I expect that usually in MMOs, wasn't aware people did it in single player too.
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Should I throw the $100 at the Collector's Edition Game + Collector's Edition Guide or is it just the basic game I will play through once/twice?
So many people here playing female chars. I expect that usually in MMOs, wasn't aware people did it in single player too.
Next question:
Should I throw the $100 at the Collector's Edition Game + Collector's Edition Guide or is it just the basic game I will play through once/twice?
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Chibibar
I like Female avatars cause it is cuter than male counterpart.
I just bought the PC version (pre-order) and finish installing it last night. Haven't started it yet. (went to bed while it was installing/patching with download stuff)
While female avatars are cute to look at (the allistar avatar is gorgeous btw), in Bioware games, I strictly play male avatars due to the various intimate relationships you have with party members and love "connections". Having... say Kaedan trying to pick me up leaves like... 
I haven't had the time to play yet, I was busy last night to play Lips on the Xbox and then some L4D2 Demo.... TONIGHT is totally the night.
I haven't had the time to play yet, I was busy last night to play Lips on the Xbox and then some L4D2 Demo.... TONIGHT is totally the night.
That's pretty much what I meant SeriousJay, with single player RPGs I tend to really put myself into the "role" of the main character and try and feel/sympathize with their story. As with MMOs its more of an "extension" of myself and a portrayal of myself in the "virtual".
In either case I'd feel strange as hell playing a male avatar.
In either case I'd feel strange as hell playing a male avatar.
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Chibibar
The character's personality reflects myself (IRL) sometimes, but the avatar is a shell. I love roleplaying but I make no secret that I'm a guy playing female characters (I do play male characters also)
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Singularity.EXE
I also took the folly of rolling a female character in my first play through. I had used the character creator a while ago to make a female when I was starting up my screen play of Modest, and pretty much made the main character (a female) in Dragon Age. A bald, Israeli woman, though in Dragon Age she is a dwarf.
I’m enjoying it to be sure, but I’m being hit on too many times by the male characters in the game, and feel kind of compelled to join in on the banter.
“Hey, you watch my back and I’ll watch yours.”
“Oh I’ll be watching your back alright..”
(Choice 3) “Well don’t get too distracted back there.”
Me: Augh, why must my character be a slut!?
I’m enjoying it to be sure, but I’m being hit on too many times by the male characters in the game, and feel kind of compelled to join in on the banter.
“Hey, you watch my back and I’ll watch yours.”
“Oh I’ll be watching your back alright..”
(Choice 3) “Well don’t get too distracted back there.”
Me: Augh, why must my character be a slut!?
I normally make my first character the "extension of myself", but none of the male avatars really interested me in Dragon Age, I think the male model itself just is not very fun to look at, and the fact you can't change the underside of the face if you add facial hair made face crafting annoying.
I normally make my first character the "extension of myself", but none of the male avatars really interested me in Dragon Age, I think the male model itself just is not very fun to look at, and the fact you can't change the underside of the face if you add facial hair made face crafting annoying.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I totally agree. Having to have giant fishlips with a beard is hardly awesome.
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RealBigNuke
I'm playing the first time through as a male that looks vaguely like me - except no facial hair, on account of being a fire mage, and being snarky. Going through and doing all of the quests the way I think I'd do them and picking spells a I think I'd learn them. This is fun and character building - I though I'd be drawn to Morrigan because I love the crazy mage type, but wind up leaving her back at camp frequently, because I think she's an idiot and refuses to understand that benevolent side quests lead to loot and an easier campaign in general.
However, after my first playthrough of games like this, I like to make interesting characters and run them through. I'll be making a plucky female dwarf for a different playstyle and to group with all the characters I missed. Also I'd absolutely hit Alistare if Alistare fell under the category of things I am biologically inclined to hit. Then I'll probably play a douchey male elf, then try hard or nightmare with a human noble warrior for a challenge.
I find that playing people who aren't myself is a more potent form of escapism - not to mention a great exorcise in thinking from other perspectives and discerning complex motivations.
I did, although I got the CE of the game dirt cheap, since it was misprinted on amazon way back when I pre-ordered.
The CE game guide I ordered in a moment of weakness while waiting for delivery. I'm not ashamed of it now that I have it. It's huge, and high quality, and full of lore and art and tables DEAR GOD THE TABLES it has property lists of everything.
Also, there's a game guide in it somewhere.
i played all night and i'm at the point after Ostagar. I love it.
I'm probably gonna reroll because of how godlike my mage already is. I may keep the mage char for a evil nightmare run.
Also i WANT Morrigan in the party, she and Alistair crack me up... but i built my mage almost exactly liker her spells wise. (frost, same line in entropy)
I think i'm gonna try and see if i can make dual wield warrior viable. (Apparentely, sword and board owns this game)
I'm probably gonna reroll because of how godlike my mage already is. I may keep the mage char for a evil nightmare run.
Also i WANT Morrigan in the party, she and Alistair crack me up... but i built my mage almost exactly liker her spells wise. (frost, same line in entropy)
I think i'm gonna try and see if i can make dual wield warrior viable. (Apparentely, sword and board owns this game)
Dave
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I made a Dwarf Thief named Edrondol because I have no imagination. Good lord this is a good game! And the beginning parts are kinda tough as a Dwarf.
The first really big battle I was the only one who lived because my compadres kept rushing into battle like idiots. I was gonna reload but then they all got back up!
And here I thought they were dead.
The first really big battle I was the only one who lived because my compadres kept rushing into battle like idiots. I was gonna reload but then they all got back up!
And here I thought they were dead.
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Chibibar
hehe... I thought the same thing with my group being a mage I hang back. the game is pretty awesome and very engaging. I actually take the time to listen and read all the stories so far (the beauty of single player IMO) I may reroll to try a warrior class.
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Iaculus
Nope. Looking forward to getting my sticky little mitts on the 360 version when I get back home.
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Singularity.EXE
This game is awesome.
At the beginning of the game you think you're all that (if you're a dwarf noble) but then once you get into the *real* fights, you suddenly have to start thinking very strategically.
The Tower Of Ishal was roughly the moment that I ditched the third-person perspective for top-down, as I had to move my dudes in complicated maneuvers.
Running melee fighters through narrow doorways, at which point they are set upon by traps and a raging Mabari hound is awesome.
And double-wielding weapon spec for the win.
At the beginning of the game you think you're all that (if you're a dwarf noble) but then once you get into the *real* fights, you suddenly have to start thinking very strategically.
The Tower Of Ishal was roughly the moment that I ditched the third-person perspective for top-down, as I had to move my dudes in complicated maneuvers.
Running melee fighters through narrow doorways, at which point they are set upon by traps and a raging Mabari hound is awesome.
And double-wielding weapon spec for the win.
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Captain Phil
Combat in Dragon Age?
My brother has been playing Dragon Age for the past week or so. I've sat down and watched him play. But One thing that gets me about this game is the utter lack of combat.
Every time I walk in, It's always at a dialog option or walking around covered in blood. But I have yet to see anything resulting in said blood spraying.
At one point I thought i would see some combat but instead I'm greeted by a longer cut scene explaining how some guy is overpowered now!
How could such a game be fun? why wear cool looking armor if you never get to fight with it?!
My brother has been playing Dragon Age for the past week or so. I've sat down and watched him play. But One thing that gets me about this game is the utter lack of combat.
Every time I walk in, It's always at a dialog option or walking around covered in blood. But I have yet to see anything resulting in said blood spraying.
At one point I thought i would see some combat but instead I'm greeted by a longer cut scene explaining how some guy is overpowered now!
How could such a game be fun? why wear cool looking armor if you never get to fight with it?!
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Chibibar
Combat in Dragon Age?
(note: I am not being sarcastic. As I have post on Bioware forums: not all games are made equal to players)
then this game might not be for you mate. This is more of story telling than being knee deep in monsters and dishing out damage (there are combat in there)
(note: I am not being sarcastic. As I have post on Bioware forums: not all games are made equal to players)
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Singularity.EXE
Combat in Dragon Age?
But these parts aren't simply a static "You reply like this, they reply like this." Its almost like its own little mini-game of how you interact with people.
Dragon Age is admittedly more of a story driven game then its combat, so if you walk in randomly and watch someone playing then odds are they will be having a conversation.
But these parts aren't simply a static "You reply like this, they reply like this." Its almost like its own little mini-game of how you interact with people.
As a dwarf noble I cunningly (or so I thought) set-up another dwarf lord to take a fall and play the part of a fool. He later was involved in an even bigger set-up to accuse my of treason and get kicked out of the dwarven city. It was quite the "OH SHIT" moment.
Combat in Dragon Age?
But these parts aren't simply a static "You reply like this, they reply like this." Its almost like its own little mini-game of how you interact with people.
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Pretty much this. I thought I was good at talking my way through shit in previous games, or steering a conversation the way I want it to go for an outcome I think seems obvious.
Dragon Age has kicked me in the teeth for this.
Dragon Age is admittedly more of a story driven game then its combat, so if you walk in randomly and watch someone playing then odds are they will be having a conversation.
But these parts aren't simply a static "You reply like this, they reply like this." Its almost like its own little mini-game of how you interact with people.
As a dwarf noble I cunningly (or so I thought) set-up another dwarf lord to take a fall and play the part of a fool. He later was involved in an even bigger set-up to accuse my of treason and get kicked out of the dwarven city. It was quite the "OH SHIT" moment.
Pretty much this. I thought I was good at talking my way through shit in previous games, or steering a conversation the way I want it to go for an outcome I think seems obvious.
Dragon Age has kicked me in the teeth for this.
Noooo!
Okay so the game has been going well. Got a few more people in my team, saved a few places, but as I was getting ready to head to the next location I saw something that made me sad.
I am such a sap.
Back to the gameplay for now. I realized something, and it is something I have hated about Bioware games. The characters. No, I don't mean that in the "they are horrible characters" type of way, it's the fact they give you like 10 options for companions and you can only take out and experience the dialogue of 3 while out adventuring! All of them are so cool you just want to have this massive army of them all bickering and giving opinions and yet the majority of them sit in camp and do nothing!
Also, and this I understand is just how it is. I wish certain character had better customization. I love Morrigian, but because my team of Alister (tank), Leyina (bow and buffs), and Wynne (spells and healing) work so well together, it's actually way, way more difficult to bring her out for a fight. I wish I could change her training to a healer so I can keep her in place of Wynne, but that would make her rather gimped all around since she is specialized a shapechanger.
Okay so the game has been going well. Got a few more people in my team, saved a few places, but as I was getting ready to head to the next location I saw something that made me sad.
When you escape the forest after the fall of the king, you head to this little town called Lothring that is filled with refugees, people scared and hungry, the nearby church doing everything it can to hold on. Later on after completing two mission zones I ended up looking at the map so see if I could go back to Lothring and maybe find a quest or two, but it's a massive skull! The darkspawn actually destroyed it!
I ended up talking with this dwarf trader at my camp about rumors, and he said reports say very few of those people made it out of Lothring. I wish I could have saved them!
I ended up talking with this dwarf trader at my camp about rumors, and he said reports say very few of those people made it out of Lothring. I wish I could have saved them!
I am such a sap.Back to the gameplay for now. I realized something, and it is something I have hated about Bioware games. The characters. No, I don't mean that in the "they are horrible characters" type of way, it's the fact they give you like 10 options for companions and you can only take out and experience the dialogue of 3 while out adventuring! All of them are so cool you just want to have this massive army of them all bickering and giving opinions and yet the majority of them sit in camp and do nothing!
Also, and this I understand is just how it is. I wish certain character had better customization. I love Morrigian, but because my team of Alister (tank), Leyina (bow and buffs), and Wynne (spells and healing) work so well together, it's actually way, way more difficult to bring her out for a fight. I wish I could change her training to a healer so I can keep her in place of Wynne, but that would make her rather gimped all around since she is specialized a shapechanger.
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Singularity.EXE
Regarding Wynne (from before your spoiler I presume, I'm only 10 hours in or so):Noooo!
Okay so the game has been going well. Got a few more people in my team, saved a few places, but as I was getting ready to head to the next location I saw something that made me sad.
When you escape the forest after the fall of the king, you head to this little town called Lothring that is filled with refugees, people scared and hungry, the nearby church doing everything it can to hold on. Later on after completing two mission zones I ended up looking at the map so see if I could go back to Lothring and maybe find a quest or two, but it's a massive skull! The darkspawn actually destroyed it!
I ended up talking with this dwarf trader at my camp about rumors, and he said reports say very few of those people made it out of Lothring. I wish I could have saved them!
Back to the gameplay for now. I realized something, and it is something I have hated about Bioware games. The characters. No, I don't mean that in the "they are horrible characters" type of way, it's the fact they give you like 10 options for companions and you can only take out and experience the dialogue of 3 while out adventuring! All of them are so cool you just want to have this massive army of them all bickering and giving opinions and yet the majority of them sit in camp and do nothing!
Also, and this I understand is just how it is. I wish certain character had better customization. I love Morrigian, but because my team of Alister (tank), Leyina (bow and buffs), and Wynne (spells and healing) work so well together, it's actually way, way more difficult to bring her out for a fight. I wish I could change her training to a healer so I can keep her in place of Wynne, but that would make her rather gimped all around since she is specialized a shapechanger.
I killed her in the Mage Tower. I'm not trying to enact the Right Annulment, but Morrigan to too damn corrupting. I feel compelled to do what she says. It must be a spell! Nothing to do with boobs!
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