So I’ve been getting some press content in my email lately about Dragon Age Origins. I feel all important and stuff. And I keep no secret that I am a Bioware fan. I loved KOTOR. I’ve played through Mass Effect 5 times now, finishing my 6th to unclock a couple more achievements. I love their games. I think they do a phenomenal job.
And from what I have seen, Dragon Age is really shaping up to be amazing. I love fantasy games over science-fiction games in general just because I enjoy that type of content more. But as I stated, I did play Mass Effect almost 6 times now.
Sten Rage- Dragon Age Origins
Now as a fantasy RPG goes, Dragon Age has some pretty big shoes to fill. I loved Elder Scrolls Oblivion. I played through that game twice as well. I enjoyed its leveling system, how gorgeous the game was, and a lot of the finer details that were included. Walking through cities and hearing NPCs talk about your latest endeavors as you walked past, having NPCs go through daily routines which included them *not* standing in the same spot for 24 hours a day.
But I know what I also liked about Mass Effect and KOTOR. I enjoyed the combat systems that they implemented and the squad controls, which I hear are being improved in Mass Effect 2.
And I know what I don’t like about Oblivion, ME, KOTOR, Fallout, and other games. Their terrible terrible inventory systems and certain UI elements. I realize some of them had to design something that would also work on a console controller. Having the ability to only keybind 2 abilities at a time was painful in Oblivion. Scrolling through a list of gear in Mass Effect was tedious.
But none of that stopped the games from being great. Dragon Age Origins comes out in a month or so and I am pretty excited. Who knows, maybe one day I will be special enough to actually get to preview games!
Mass Effect 2, those videos look sweet. I always like tactical RPGs like the Baldur’s Gate series, and Neverwinter Nights. Good times.
I preordered Dragon Age, so we’ll see how it is for the 360 once I get it. I love Mass Effect on the 360, and am eagerly anticipating ME2 coming out in January. I will probably pre-order that one from either EA or (the most hated shop in the land) Gamestop, to guarentee that I get all the preorder goodness that should come with ME2.
I’ve been playing the game since the first day it was available for download. Very enjoyable! I’m finding myself in WOW thinking ugggh, daily quests and logging out to play Dragon Age!
I completely agree. My Death Knight did NO raid instances last week. I keep thinking, hmmm, I should go finish this story line or something to that extent. I recently finished putting my army together, which I held off doing because I was afraid that would push the story to the point-of-no-return like in ME where you can’t explore anymore.
So far it seems that is not the case though.