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Dragon Age: Origins |OT| Letting The Fade fade out of memory
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Shouta
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So I put a good chunk of time into the game last night and man, I'm impressed. I was expecting more along the lines of Neverwinter Nights in feel in many regards but the game feels a lot more dynamic than that. Storyline presentation is fantastic and the chatter is great as always. I love Morrigan and Alistair exchanges. :lol
Lostconfused
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38 Str 26 Dex and everything else goes into will and CON. You still need 38 str because eventually you want him to use the Juggernaut armor set.TheFallen said:
Masta_Killah
Member
TheFallen said:
Ah thnx for the tips. I'll start stacking con, since that is my lowest tank stat atm.
Also, anyone playing frame-buffer effects turned off? The game looks so much better with it off(playing in windowed).
Frame-buffer On
Frame-buffer Off
Maybe its my card, but with the buffer on, the images are overly bright (cities look really unnaturally lit). This occurs even when I play at full screen mode. Hopefully someone can make a mode to have more natural lighting like the Oblivion mods.
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Lostconfused said:
Ah ok, I'll need to start putting points into Dex then. That is really low atm.
The game is missing all the atmospheric lighting in the second pic. Not sure how anyone can find that better-looking.
I think Uncharted 2 and Dragon Age is also the only voice acting that the guy who does Alistair and Harry Flynn had done up until then, for any medium, not just video games. That guy is incredibly good at it. I would expect to see him and Claudia Black everywhere in big-budget games for the next 10 or so years.
Yoboman said:
I think Uncharted 2 and Dragon Age is also the only voice acting that the guy who does Alistair and Harry Flynn had done up until then, for any medium, not just video games. That guy is incredibly good at it. I would expect to see him and Claudia Black everywhere in big-budget games for the next 10 or so years.
Lostconfused
Member
Juggernaut set gives you 20% resistance to all types of damage pretty much and the helmet buffs the mental resistance. While blood dragon armor just gives you 50 more hit points. There is also a dragon bone plate armor that you can stack with a 2 handed sword that gives you a 55% resistance to fire, if you are going after dragons.Zeliard said:
Edit: Forgot to mention that juggernaut armor gives you slightly less armor value than the other massive armors.
Kosma said:
You can also switch team members at various points in certain places, by hitting the "change party members" button on the menu taskbar (PC version). It seems fairly aribtrary, though - I haven't figured out why certain places allow you to switch and others don't. It certainly seems to have nothing to do with the threat of enemies, or whether or not you've fully explored that place.
I've used that option quite a few times to switch out quickly for Leilana so she can open up some chest, and then I switch back right after. Fuck rogues. Cept Zevran.
Pyke Presco
Member
Alright, so, I'm a fucking sissy. I wiped like 10 times fighting trash mobs in the final city on normal, so fuck it, I'm finishing this shit on easy (also dropped to easy for fights in the Urn/Swamp, you bastards know what I'm talking about.)
Fuck all you people playing on hard...I just don't get it.
Fuck all you people playing on hard...I just don't get it.
Twilight Princess
Member
fuck, i feel so bad. i didn't want to go through the circle to get a plot item, so i let the poor woman die =(.....
man......................now her son doesn't have his mother
man......................now her son doesn't have his mother
Pyke Presco
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Cohsae said:
I have the ability to freeze people up close with Morrigan, and stun one person with my main character. Other than that I have no crowd control, so thats not going to work out so well.
(Party is Dual-wielding warrior, morrigan, leliana, and ohgren. The rest are either dead, kicked out of the party, or left of their own will, except Pyke, but I coudln't bring a poor little puppy to fight some big bad demon. That little guy should be busy chasing rabbits)
Pyke Presco
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Sebulon3k said:
If you read the rest of the post, I'm at end game, and these are the only remnants of the party,
with everyone else dead, or gone. I only had Wynne for the bit in the tower, never got her in the party b/c she was interfering with my diabolical playstyle.
And yeah, I fucked up on choosing spells, focused on getting Morrigan lightning spells and becoming an arcane warrior instead of going down her death tree.
I am in this place through nobodies fault but my own, but I'm dropping it down to easy to finish. i'll play better on a second run since I now have some idea of what I should be doing in combat.
Also, yeah, the dog kicks ass. He was in the party from start to finish, only got swapped out for Morrigans questline and now in the final city. The little guy is fucking badass.
EDIT: My bad on the spoilers guys, please edit your quotes.
Pyke Presco said:
Hard is extremely fun, and so far it seems well-balanced. It doesn't just simply make enemies tougher and stronger - it also gives them added resistances to a lot of stuff, which makes combat a lot more tactical. You can't just throw any spell or ability at them and expect it to be effective, particularly the tougher yellow/orange enemies, so you're forced to experiment more and to try different tactics and strategies.
bengraven
Member
Played until 3pm last night. Finished every intro and I decided to go the fairly unoriginal route and play my human warrior. I'm up to Morrigan, though I feel slightly guilty for playing such a stereotypical character.
That said, Morrigan is so fucking great. The videos did her no justice. Now, let's just get that concept art mod.
(also: the mage intro was not nearly as bad as people made it out to be...I think it's one of my favorites)
That said, Morrigan is so fucking great. The videos did her no justice. Now, let's just get that concept art mod.
(also: the mage intro was not nearly as bad as people made it out to be...I think it's one of my favorites)
Masta_Killah
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Try raising the AF level in My Doc/Bioware/Settings folder. Also change the value of UseTrilinearFiltering and UseTripleBuffering to 1. That made the game pretty smooth for me(ati x1950).
bengraven said:
The Mage intro is cool - I just don't enjoy the visual design of the Fade at all. I honestly think it's hideous, and consider the rest of the game to be pretty damn beautiful. I know they were purposefully trying to make it appear all foggy and dream-like, but I don't think it came out looking very good.
Twilight Princess
Member
cc is pretty important in this game. my mage pretty much solo'ed the entire redcliffe castle line. i wanted to get BM asap so i didn't do the wynne/magi line and now i have no competent healer in my party. (the only healing spell i have is heal. lol)Pyke Presco said:
i imagine things will get much much easier once i have wynne in the party, maybe i'll even turn it up to difficult.
ughhh, poor isolde =((((((((((
Masta_Killah
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I just got Arcane Warrior. What an awesome story to unlock it. The whole thing reminded me of Kotor for some reason. 
Sorta spoilers for the lead up to the end boss:
The mechanic for using your troops was really well done I think. Usually this sort of thing is very lame, you get a couple shitty npcs who die at the drop of a hat and you can't make any real choices about their use. I liked that you had a fixed number of troops and chose when to deploy them. For example, I kept my mages in reserve until I couldn't beat the guys out the front of the Fortress. I figured they had to be pretty good since you only got 12, but I was still pretty amazed by them all casting fireball/chain lighting all over the place and tearing shit up. They did way more damage than I did in that part.
Twilight Princess
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if you download warren's kepp dlc, you can unlock BM without making a deal w/ the demon.IJoel said:
Twilight Princess
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noYoboman said:
Pyke Presco said:
Yeah I guess I skimmed over that too fast, but yeah I figured I would need a healer of some sort so I made my main dude a healer, I'm kind of unhappy with the way I did my morrigan I went into the death tree and didn't give her much from Primal so now I kinda only have 1 pure DPS guy, but I just can't see all the friendly fire aoe as being efficient, once I get my healer some CC I'm ditching morrigan for a rogue or something. Either that or making her an Arcane Warrior, depends how good the dps on it is.
BTW wtf spoiler some of that shit
Twilight Princess said:
How, does it involve the Mage guy?
rainking187
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IJoel said:
I was also wondering about this, I heard
you basically sleep with the desire demon at that part, but I was considering a female mage for my second playthrough. Would the fact that I'm a girl prevent me from doing that? Or would the demon not care? And if you become a blood mage do any party members get really mad at you?
Twilight Princess
Member
i haven't started the dlc yet. but i've heard you get some cool spells out of it and a PC too.Sebulon3k said:
what's wrong w/ going too deep into the entropy tree? i think its better than heavily primal, cause of the friendly fire.
Twilight Princess said:
Entropy > Primal because of the friendly fire and the setup required for some of the higher level spells. The problem is that if you have no mage doing damage you end up having a lack of dps until your tank / physical dps warriors get that skill that makes them regenerate stamina when an enemy dies (I use Shael and Alistair as my melees, Alistair tanking) so this was the dilema I found myself in.
And the two spells you get just regen mana and give bonus spellpower at the expense of more mana cost. Both pretty good, but not the entire tree is unlocked