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Dragon Age: Origins |OT| Letting The Fade fade out of memory
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ElectricBlue187
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They are the best items in the game purdy muchMattyH said:
Lone_Prodigy
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Lan_97 said:
Does it say "Item/money received?". Money shows as an amount, but you can't see the new item until you navigate to your inventory. New/unselected items have a yellowish border.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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Alucrid said:
Yes.
Started this a few nights back, about 4 hours in. Stayed up way too late and was a mess the next day at work on Monday actually.. anyhow, enjoying it quite a bit although I have to admit I find it a little odd that there is no way to bash open a chest with lockpicking apparently being very difficult. Is it solely based off dexterity? It's weird that other than my origin story with the fellow dwarf, none of my followers have had the ability to open any chests.. I feel like I am missing out and don't really have many options. Oh well, such is life.
Graphics are a mixed bag but I like the character models quite a bit. The lag on the minimap is weird more than anything else. I think I will like this game very much -- I can definitely see myself playing all of the origin stories to get their achievements.
One thing that frustrated me. I am so used to hitting the X to speed up the dialogue that I've skipped two apparently lengthy cut scenes now so it's a bit disappointing that it is so easy to do. Is there a way to watch old cut scenes in this?
Graphics are a mixed bag but I like the character models quite a bit. The lag on the minimap is weird more than anything else. I think I will like this game very much -- I can definitely see myself playing all of the origin stories to get their achievements.
One thing that frustrated me. I am so used to hitting the X to speed up the dialogue that I've skipped two apparently lengthy cut scenes now so it's a bit disappointing that it is so easy to do. Is there a way to watch old cut scenes in this?
Minsc
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Fafnir said:
From what I read there's a few locked chests with a significant amount of money (dozens of gold pieces), and also a few locked chests relevant to the plot of some of the character's side quests.
But, even without that, the extra money you get from locked chests is essential, I've been pawning everything I don't use, and I'm barely scrapping by, money is near-impossible to accumulate and I'm up to level 12 and not skipping a thing, exploring every last area... not that that's a bad thing, but it does mean I'll probably never have more than 1 or 2 gold pieces if this continues.
Without the help of selling the contents of locked chests, I'd be ever further behind.
I sell off stuff I don't use and have a FUCK TON of money. Just finished my fourth "main" quest, which was the dwarf one, bought a 50 gold suit of armor from the crazy guy in the deep roads, and still have like 40 gold left over. That's after tipping the drake armor dude like 30 gold, and pretty much buying any skill tome, gift or other item that caught my eye. I wouldn't say that this game has money bloat like most RPGs, but I also feel pretty rich and I didn't have to grind or abuse a crafting system to get rich.
Minsc said:
Hm, dunno exactly where you are in the game, but near the end (though still having Orzammar left and several sidequests), I had around 250 gold pieces. During the end rush, I had passed 300 gold pieces. I don't think you'll have to worry much about the moneiz if you OCD areas like me.
Minsc
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markatisu said:
Nope, only been to Redcliffe & Mage Tower/Fade, am currently in the Danish Forest. It takes a long time to exhaust my party member's camp dialogues.
I mentioned this briefly on the last page, but is the
Great Oak
Well, if you don't want to exploit the Lotharing Money bug, you can always sell all arrows/bolts, take the aggressive route and kill everyone possible to sell their equipment (ie. side with both Bhelan and Harrowmont and spawn both of their supporters in Orzimaar), always ask for monetary rewards, always rob people before you let them go, and so forth.
There are also a few instances where you can steal something, and then kill people for another copy of the item. You can grab 2 Loghain's Crowns and 2 stolen Swords from the knight at the Wonders of Thedas.
Leveling up asap also helps. If you do Orzimaar last, you'll also have more high quality loot to sell for more money than if you did it first.
There are also a few instances where you can steal something, and then kill people for another copy of the item. You can grab 2 Loghain's Crowns and 2 stolen Swords from the knight at the Wonders of Thedas.
Leveling up asap also helps. If you do Orzimaar last, you'll also have more high quality loot to sell for more money than if you did it first.
Overall impressions, spectacular. However:
Christ, is the Archdemon a motherfucker. I seem to run into some good old-fashioned Bioware bugs because I cannot even attack him at range when he drops below 50%. I can use my crossbow on him at the start, but it does 1 damage per hit. Alistair dies in a matter of seconds, and as soon as Wynne goes down, its only a matter of moments before the entire party folds. The two melee armies I have are too depleted to help for long. I am loving this game, but it seems like it penalizes you for playing a heavy melee character. Irritating in that a heavy melee character is their marketing boy for the entire game.
If you are really hard up for sovereigns, it is possible to sell potent lyrium potions at a relatively high profit, especially if you are a dwarf noble. This is, effectively, an unending profit source dependent only on how much time you're willing to waste making potions as at a point you are able to buy all ingredients.
So, I have two bards, and I did some testing to see if two Songs of Courage stack. The answer, unfortunately is inconclusive. After checking stats, I noticed that sometimes the effect stack, sometimes there is no change, and other times the stats are actually lower. It also depends on which bard starts the song first. Awesome.
demifiend said:
I'm pretty sure that at a certain percentage he flys away and you have to use a ranged weapon, magic, or ballista. If you used the ballista on the left side overlooking where he lands you can continue to use that when he flys back to the platform you're on and kill him without much hassle. Beware, if you keep hitting him he'll continue to do the stun motion, so you have to stop firing arrows for the death cutscene to start or else you'll keep him in the endless stun motion.
Arde5643 said:It does stack. It stacks for everyone besides the last bard doing the song.
Thanks. I had considered that, but I couldn't rationalize it with the numbers I saw. I will have to check again later.
EDIT: Just checked. Bard 1 sings, every gets a buff. Bard 2 sings, every gets an additional buff except Bard 2, who gets a debuff. ???
EDIT2: Oh I see what it is. Bard 2 gets only the effect of her own song, which was weaker than Bard 1.
Just did the stone prisoner quest. This dude is hilarious.
I'm in love with this game. I'm confident I will see this one until the end.
Playing as an ice/healing spec. Can't wait until I can unlock the arcane warrior specialization. Wearing plate as this dude would be unreal.
I'm auto-leveling. Its been doing a fine job as far as I can tell. I really only like/have the time to focus on my main character's spec. I can see how it can become easily obsessed over, especially if you wish to distinguish members in your party of the same class.
I'm in love with this game. I'm confident I will see this one until the end.
Playing as an ice/healing spec. Can't wait until I can unlock the arcane warrior specialization. Wearing plate as this dude would be unreal.
DeathNote said:
I'm auto-leveling. Its been doing a fine job as far as I can tell. I really only like/have the time to focus on my main character's spec. I can see how it can become easily obsessed over, especially if you wish to distinguish members in your party of the same class.
What's your main? In general, pump strength for warriors until the high 30s so you can wear any armor, and put the rest in dexterity (for +hit and +armor/dodge) and constituion (for health). For rogues, you can go dex/str, dex/cun and cunning only. If you take either of the cunning options, check the Rogue talent lines for Lethality, which lets you use cunning as the melee modifier instead of strength. Cunning also buffs your utilitarian roles like lockpicking and trap-detecting, and occaisionally gives you dialogue choices. I'd recommend a dex/cun split since it's a good middle-ground. Mages I split between magic and willpower mostly. Pump constitution for rogues/mages if you feel they're dying too often, this is a pure feel thing for you.DeathNote said:
I have a dalish level 2 warrior.Doytch said:
I'm afraid to do anything, :lol I'm looking back at the posts a few days after releases. Seeing people play for 15 hours the deciding to start over because of no respec is scary. I'm even starting to rethink my warrior decision.
I'm not sure what any of the classes and specialization are like later in the game. Based on starting areas alone I like Dalish, Human Noble, and City Elf.
I'm assuming the starting areas aren't that long. So writing mage off might be a bad idea.
54-46! said:
I just finished too. The ending is a big disappointment. Even the final battle sucks. 3/4 of my characters died half way through and I still beat it on my first try just by running around and summoning my troops. Just continues the wtf worthy difficulty curve of the game where trash is harder than bosses. Unbalanced too, they made melee completely worthless vs dragons.
Overall, I am satisfied with the experience as it is, in some ways, a return to crpg roots and is not very consolized at all.
dionysus said:
I loved this game, just finished it today, but it does COMPLETELY fall apart when trying to fight dragons. I don't know what the heck Bioware was thinking with this game when it came to those enemies. They should have gone even more environmental based attacks while leading your party around engaging in smaller fights between activation objects. Also, my troops got bugged so it left 2 swordy troops who couldnt die or do damage , so i couldnt call any other troops Xo.
bonesmccoy
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Just finished a Human Noble Warrior, w/Morrigan romance, this afternoon. To be honest, I wasn't all that impressed with the game... considering the last Bioware game I played, Mass Effect, seemed so much more realized and polished.
I second (or fourth, or twentieth) the complaint with the final battles. The difficulty tapers off significantly toward the end of the game.
One major gripe:
I second (or fourth, or twentieth) the complaint with the final battles. The difficulty tapers off significantly toward the end of the game.
One major gripe:
Morrigan gives you a ring so that you and her will always know where each other are... but after she just disappears after the final battle, your character acts as if he's just going to have to look blindly for her! That's one hell of a plot hole.
I just finished the first real dungeon and became an official grey warden. I'm still not sure what to think of this game. It feels quite a bit like playing WOW but the 360 version is surprisingly intact... almost too much maybe. I keep feeling like playing it on PC would be a better bet but I've come to realize that I dislike playing games at my computer.. well at least my current computer. For the time being I've merely borrowed it from a friend , I figure I should at least play through the coming battle against the darkspawn that I'm going to go out on a limb and guess will result in a loss for the good guys. Maybe mess around a bit after that and make a final decision.
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bonesmccoy said:
You should take another look at that scene with Morrigan.
The ring she gave you allows her to know where you are and not the other way around.