Quote from: Seanchai;345172I like Dragon Age. This is a thread about Dragon Age. Clearly, it's not the second coming. But why you think it's worth torturing yourself over, I have no clue. Oh, wait, yes, I do: 'cause, if I recall correctly, this is your modus operandi.

Seanchai

then, your MO must be reading threads that upset you.

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;345137I got to the point where you meet Zavran. The resultant ambush was just ridiculous.

Maybe there are players who revel in this kind of thing, but for me the micromanagement is just awkward amd cumbersome while trying to guess which tactics to program amongst 4 people to fight at least 3 times that many is not enjoyable and difficult. KotoR wasn't like this, neither was ME.

No, KotOR wasn't like this, but then again, KotOR was a veritable cakewalk.  I never had a fight in that where I felt I was at risk of dying.  Evidently, you don't enjoy difficult games.  That's fine - but I have no idea why you're still playing it if it's not your cup of tea.  I love a challenge, and DA:O is just about perfect for me.

Try something else, for goodness sake.  Dragon Age is not for you.  I just grabbed a copy of Torchlight - it's another awesome game, and may be more your style.  You can also snag it for free, try it for 2 hours, and pay $20 if you like it.

-O

Quote from: obryn;345194No, KotOR wasn't like this, but then again, KotOR was a veritable cakewalk.  I never had a fight in that where I felt I was at risk of dying.  Evidently, you don't enjoy difficult games.  That's fine - but I have no idea why you're still playing it if it's not your cup of tea.  I love a challenge, and DA:O is just about perfect for me.

Try something else, for goodness sake.  Dragon Age is not for you.  I just grabbed a copy of Torchlight - it's another awesome game, and may be more your style.  You can also snag it for free, try it for 2 hours, and pay $20 if you like it.

-O

the difficulty in DA isn't difficulty born of a proper challenge. it's difficulty caused by the mechanics. that's the wrong kind of difficulty.

it isn't a question of 'try something else'. you can't send a game back to the shop just because it's not well made or because you don't like it.

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;345254the difficulty in DA isn't difficulty born of a proper challenge. it's difficulty caused by the mechanics. that's the wrong kind of difficulty.

it isn't a question of 'try something else'. you can't send a game back to the shop just because it's not well made or because you don't like it.

I agree.

That's why i took it back and got an exchange at the store.

Surprised the believed me actually. Most times the shop won't want to know about such problems. Perhaps I'm not the only one.

Anyway, no more DA for me. A shame, as I was really looking forward to a big rpg to get into. I loved Fallout 3 but it's very short compared to Oblivion which, if it weren't for the horrible Oblivion realm missions, would be awesome. I was expecting that level of depth from DA, but it's really just a multiplayer WoW experience with much less depth for one player. Coop would have massively transformed the game. I wonder why they couldn't include it.

Wow.  

You seriously just responded, and agreed, with yourself.

Bravo.  You've successfully transcended the need for actual other people on a message board.

given this discovery, I'd like to request that you bugger off to your own blog now.

Quote from: J Arcane;345307Wow.  

You seriously just responded, and agreed, with yourself.

Bravo.  You've successfully transcended the need for actual other people on a message board.

you are all figments of my imagination in the fade.

besides how else do i get any sense if i don't agree with myself

Quote from: J Arcane;345307Wow.  

You seriously just responded, and agreed, with yourself.

Cocaine's a helluva drug.

Hey all, just signed up so I could put a response up myself.
I have to say that although, as with all games, I see things I wish were different, overall I like the game.

I am on the PC as I prefer the PC by far over console gaming. And after 2 play through's, I am now on Nightmare mode.
The game will not make it past maybe one more play through for me (experience each class once for sure). In that regard, I don't give high marks though, as re-playability is a big thing on my scorecard.

And with all the pretty good voice acting, I was very disappointed that our "main" characters never spoke throughout the game. I would have liked to see them more involved in the story / cutscenes by speaking or having some kind of emotional response to the situation around them.

The way I see the gameplay is that it is all about tactics, simple as that.

Example, I saw a few pages back several people complaining about that camp in the forest where you fall asleep and all that is alive to battle is the mage.
It killed me as well the first two times. Then I thought like some of you, what the heck is going on here.... why is this so hard ?
My son, in his 11 yr old way of looking at things, said to me, "dad, use your healing mage to "revive" the warrior".
LOL, I fell off the chair... it was so simply.... to my kid anyway.
Sure enough, I reloaded (as I save often ), went through the sequence, revived the warrior and he nailed the demon in seconds, while my mage threw a heal on him

Anyway, personally, I enjoy any game that can involve the player in the story, and this one worked for me.

Quote from: Peregrin;345571Cocaine's a helluva drug.

i prefer a sense of humour

Quote from: GameLover;345620Hey all, just signed up so I could put a response up myself.
I have to say that although, as with all games, I see things I wish were different, overall I like the game.

I am on the PC as I prefer the PC by far over console gaming. And after 2 play through's, I am now on Nightmare mode.
The game will not make it past maybe one more play through for me (experience each class once for sure). In that regard, I don't give high marks though, as re-playability is a big thing on my scorecard.

And with all the pretty good voice acting, I was very disappointed that our "main" characters never spoke throughout the game. I would have liked to see them more involved in the story / cutscenes by speaking or having some kind of emotional response to the situation around them.

The way I see the gameplay is that it is all about tactics, simple as that.

Example, I saw a few pages back several people complaining about that camp in the forest where you fall asleep and all that is alive to battle is the mage.
It killed me as well the first two times. Then I thought like some of you, what the heck is going on here.... why is this so hard ?
My son, in his 11 yr old way of looking at things, said to me, "dad, use your healing mage to "revive" the warrior".
LOL, I fell off the chair... it was so simply.... to my kid anyway.
Sure enough, I reloaded (as I save often ), went through the sequence, revived the warrior and he nailed the demon in seconds, while my mage threw a heal on him

Anyway, personally, I enjoy any game that can involve the player in the story, and this one worked for me.

That only works if a) your healing mage is alive and b) can revive people.

It's clear there is a way the game should be played: an order through the missions you should take that works best. Anything else is a dull struggle.

In fact that Torchlight game that was mentioned is ten times the game this is, for half the price.

They should just not have bothered porting to console. Perhaps it's revenge for how crap the pc version of MW2 is

Yes, I can agree with that. The game seems to be made in a way that it is "better" to take one path than to take another.
I guess I was lucky in that I made a healer early on prior to the forest questing. I can thank my WOW experience for that

Still, overall, I enjoyed the game even though it will become a book end soon enough, which is too bad.
Unless they start releasing all kinds of mission / quest / new story content to be downloaded, this game will not last long term IMHO.
It will be interesting to see what mods, if any, the community comes up with to make the story go on.

Anyway, I enjoyed reading all the comments on the game here and wish you all happy gaming.

Quote from: GameLover;345620Sure enough, I reloaded (as I save often ), went through the sequence, revived the warrior and he nailed the demon in seconds, while my mage threw a heal on him .

It's why my main character, who was a mage, became a Spiritual Healer as soon as I realized they could Revive. A neat trick, if a bit frustrating waiting for it to refresh.

I'm going to try a non-mage character next time, so I'm curious to see how that'll affect the game.

Seanchai

If you keep Wynne in the party she is a Spiritual Healer.

I played a tank (Champion/Beserker in the end) and had her and Morrigan as my two mages with me for pretty much the entire game. I had little troubles with many of the encounters (with some notable exceptions).

I certainly never hit the point where the entire party wiped during the night at camp. Maybe I chose or just play differently.

I found the game thoroughly enjoyable. I would like to play through again as a mage though.

I finished Assassin's Creed, so I'm back to Dragon Age. I'm going through all the possible origin stories and playing on Nightmare difficulty.

Seanchai

I figured out how to start the game - well, beyond your origin story - with about 27 gold. Made me a happy man.

Seanchai