Comments on: Dragon Age Origins Review

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:33:50 +0000

It’s not as self-mocking as bard’s tale, but I would definitely say they are similiar. Bard’s Tale breaks the 4th wall quite a bit, and DA remains in character always, but it’s hilarious…

By: Drotara

Drotara — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:17:14 +0000

I have thought the dialog is utterly fantastic. There have been more and more occasions where I switch party members and walk around just to hear their funny banter. I never played Bard’s Tale so I can’t do a direct comparison.

By: Lyraat

Lyraat — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:14:59 +0000

How does the dialogue compare to The Bard’s Tale? Crappy game, but the most hilarious dialogue I’ve ever heard.

By: Drotara

Drotara — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:40:57 +0000

Hey hey Lunch. Doing alright. No real complaints other than my second monitor just bust on me! Multi-tasking went RIGHT out the window. :(

By: Lunchmoney

Lunchmoney — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:22:26 +0000

All in all a great game. I was feeling brainless so I worked through the “normal” version on the Xbox(which is super easy btw) in about 35 hours, now I’m going to attempt it on Nightmare, though I wish I would have known about the difficulty disparity, as I would have chosen to get the PC version. Oh, btw Drot, how are you? Long time no hear.

By: Drotara

Drotara — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:47:48 +0000

Actually there are a number of evidences to support it according to other posters. For example, the normal mode on consoles has no friendly fire. If you want that luxury on the PC you have to go to easy. Even on hard mode on the consoles you only affect your team mates with 50% friendly fire.

The drop rate on potions and gold also supports the adjusted difficulty theory. In addition, there have been side-by-side comparisons on other sites and forums arguing about this showing the decreased number of spawn monsters during fights.

Your busted myth is unbusted. :)

By: eddie

eddie — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:10:19 +0000

ok i just read someone saying : the pcs Hard is the consoles Nightmare?

now ur just bsing everyone, i happen to have my bro playing on Hard right next to me, while im playing on Nightmare on my xbox so i can clearly see differences. both versions have their pro’s and cons (like pc u have to literally Search for codexes and other stuff while they just sparkle on the console version) but the pc version is easier to manage ur party and u can tell all ur guys what to do at the same time, anyeway about the difficulties: ??
i just beat the demon that possessed connor in the fade, as jowan.. wich was a really tough battle, the demon used all sorts of spells and resisted a shit load of spells, battle took like 20 minutes.
Now on hard on the PC, that battle lasted like 1 minute? didnt even take 1 full mana bar. plus he didnt cast arcane shield nor did he resist a shitload of spells that mine did.

So as far as ur little theory goes … i would call it Busted, and i am the MYTH BUSTER ! >_< XD

By: Drotara

Drotara — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:15:46 +0000

But some of those bad options you can choose can be really bad.

*** SPOILER***
During the Urn of Sacred Ashes quest you can straight up choose to defile the temple and Leliana will turn on you and you will have to kill her. Such are the consequences of defiling the most precious relic her religion knows.
*** END SPOILER ***

My choices always deviate from side to side. I have no problems killing highwaymen who attempt to rob me, showing no mercy to Lohgaine, etc. But in the grand scheme of things I usually end up being a pretty good guy. :)

By: Jonaleth

Jonaleth — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:37:34 +0000

I love this game! In the past week I played only Dragon Age, 55 hours playtime atm. Playing it on normal, its very challenging and I love the dialogs between the NPC-s. I didnt played Fallout 1-2, nor Planescape Torment, so for me this is the 2nd best RPG I ever played, right after Baldur’s Gate.
My only problem is, that I dont feel the “dark” part of dark fantasy in the game. I mean, all this stuff happens in other games. And you can always choose the “good” dialog. I have never been forced to choose the less bad option. For example: – SPOILER – In Redcliffe Castle you had 3 options to defeat the demon, kill Connor, sacrifice his mother or the good one, go to the circle to ask for help. – SPOILER END -

By: Drotara

Drotara — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:15:05 +0000

Early on I didn’t have a need for micro-managing. But as fights get progressively harder and introduce other elements, you will find yourself moving your party around and making sure certain buffs are maintained.

An interesting tidbit I read on the forums was the difficulty difference between the PC and the console. Apparently some are saying that the console’s “Normal” is the PC’s version of Easy, and that the console has no equivalent of the PC’s “Nightmare.” Part of this might be due to control restrictions and what not. I was constantly making my action bars bigger as all my party members learned new abilities.