LoganKnight4949
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:lol I love how all the people talking crap a few months ago are now getting the game and are hyped.
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Dragon Age: Origins |OT| Letting The Fade fade out of memory
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Teknopathetic
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Console hard = PC Normal, isn't it?
"I love how all the people talking crap a few months ago are now getting the game and are hyped."
Not sure this is :lol worthy. Bioware released a steady stream of garbage marketing, once sites started releasing gameplay footage everyone remembered that there was, in fact, a potentially not shitty game behind the bombardment of awful THIS IS THE NEW SHIT promotional material.
"I love how all the people talking crap a few months ago are now getting the game and are hyped."
Not sure this is :lol worthy. Bioware released a steady stream of garbage marketing, once sites started releasing gameplay footage everyone remembered that there was, in fact, a potentially not shitty game behind the bombardment of awful THIS IS THE NEW SHIT promotional material.
Acidote
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Teknopathetic said:
It looks more like Console hard = something between PC easy and normal. And I'm not exagerating, though I find it ridiculous. It just doesn't demands you to set any special strategy at all during encounters. Not to pause the game for a moment either to set the actions.
Teknopathetic
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"now thats just trolling my friend!"
No, IIRC, console normal difficulty has 0 friendly fire, where as PC normal difficulty is 50%. I'm assuming Console hard difficulty has 50% friendly fire compared to PC's 100%. (Obviously setting aside other factors that make up difficulty.)
No, IIRC, console normal difficulty has 0 friendly fire, where as PC normal difficulty is 50%. I'm assuming Console hard difficulty has 50% friendly fire compared to PC's 100%. (Obviously setting aside other factors that make up difficulty.)
-tetsuo-
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It seems the console version is much easier. Not only is dude rushing into fights Kojack style, but he has a friendly mage setting him on fire like every fight. In the Giantbomb quick look on PC, he played though that same area on normal and it looked MUCH more difficult.
Acidote
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syllogism said:
Never finished BG1, but finished BG2 and NWN1 if that counts, and played a bit of Icewind.
On the "new games", I finished KOTOR, Jade Empire and Mass Effect.
And from what I've seen in the stream, It looks like this game is something in between in terms of gameplay. Although I've also seen some vids of the PC version with the classic isometrical view and who knows, there might be differents ways on how you might want to play the game.
Teknopathetic said:
It does seem that they have effected two major changes, though only one will probably have a significant difficulty reduction factor: the friendly fire is present earlier / set higher on the PC at comparable difficulty settings.
The other change is easier to manage, and they have stated, more or less, their formula. This one is the change in badguy makeup. Fewer large swarms, stronger individual monsters. It's basically like a DM tailoring an encounter for his players - you can have a 500 xp encounter with 10 monsters or with 2.
If this plays out as explained, this won't be a reduction in difficulty as much as it is a reduction in variety.
I do wonder how that material played outside the market of... well, us.
LoganKnight4949
Member
Durante said:
Man, those people were SO adamant that there is no way in hell that this game was going to be worth a crap. They had zero hope for it...zero faith.
I am too glad they have seen the light. This game is going to be fantastic.
LoganKnight4949
Member
Man the framerate looks so smooth and consistent on the 360 stream.
Gives me super high hope for the PC version.
Gives me super high hope for the PC version.
lastscapegoat
Neo Member
That really sucks that the 360 version leaked. However, I've been looking forward to this game since E3 last year, and that stream has done nothing but add to my excitement. Can't wait! 
Ploid 3.0
Member
I hope the difficulty ramp up. If not I'll try max difficulty when I get it. Maybe for the console they started off very forgiving to ease people into the game. Master Race probably go in tough as nails. After Demon's Souls I'm into getting the crap beat out of me. RPG brutality addiction.
Rustymonke
Member
Watched for a min and looks amazing, but just had some huge spoilers and quickly turned it off. I guess he's a good chunk into the game now... :lolsyllogism said:
LoganKnight4949
Member
Maybe he has good gear or something?
Is this near the start of the game?
Is this near the start of the game?
LoganKnight4949
Member
Minsc said:
The reasons I was optimistic:
#1) Bioware
#2) Never believe media hype, good, bad, or otherwise.
#3) Deemed "Baulder's Gate Successor" by Bioware.
#4) IT'S FREAKING BIOWARE MAKING A PC CENTRIC GAME!
But yeah, you have a point. The marketing was crap crap crap.
Rustymonke
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Level 6?! Ok, that's a bit better then.Jayge said:
I guess you have to go through the typical
mentor figure (and people of importance) die moment
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Christ, the framerate is actually beginning to get to me. In the more dense areas, not just the villages/towns, it's reaaallly choppy. I normally can't stand games with framerates like this, but I really, really like Dragon Age's gameplay and story a whole lot, so I've been a bit hooked.
But when that nasty framerate pops up, I try to move myself further away from the TV, so that I don't get a headache from the framerate (this often happens to me).
But when that nasty framerate pops up, I try to move myself further away from the TV, so that I don't get a headache from the framerate (this often happens to me).
LoganKnight4949
Member
Jayge said:
Makes sense. Leveled up to Level 6 before starting the main story. Explains why everything is piss easy even on Nightmare.
No level scaling confirmed!