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Dragon Age: Origins |OT| Letting The Fade fade out of memory
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Sir Garbageman
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Kadey said:
Wynne is set up to be the best healer in the game, so it makes sense gameplay wise to keep her around.
sweetvar26
Member
NIN90 said:
Just make sure you always have enough charm/intimidate skills, very useful in conversations
My copy arrived yesterday, but my new pc is still missing a dvd drive and, because of that, an OS :lol
Can I install the game on my brothers pc/my laptop and then again on my new one? I´d be okay with losing the other install.
And I thought about making a rouge that snipes peoples with bows and then storms in with a nice sword, like Aragorn or Warhammer Wood Elves (or Neytiri dot dot dot). Is this okay or a hard build to do? I´m not big on real time squad based rpgs, last one I played was Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption.
Alternative would be a two-handed weapons soldier/mage.
Can I install the game on my brothers pc/my laptop and then again on my new one? I´d be okay with losing the other install.
And I thought about making a rouge that snipes peoples with bows and then storms in with a nice sword, like Aragorn or Warhammer Wood Elves (or Neytiri dot dot dot). Is this okay or a hard build to do? I´m not big on real time squad based rpgs, last one I played was Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption.
Alternative would be a two-handed weapons soldier/mage.
Lime said:
Then I still couldn´t install drivers from dvds or games. And I only own a 2 gig usb stick, I´d need a 4 gig one. I´m not shelling out 10 when the drive could arrive any day.
Guess I´ll install it later on my brother´s pc, any comments about the characters I talked about, anyone?
Alpha-Bromega
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Binabik15 said:
My main character/first playthrough was a rogue who used Bows. He was really underpowered throughout the entire game, and was almost only useful in battle for the default stun move that rogues have. I pumped everything into cunning and Dex, but I was doing abysmal damage all the way til level 20 basically. I hear that there is something wrong with Dex for the Rogue, and I'm sure there is a Pc patch for that. You can certainly nerf a little bit of your ranged skills to get some double blade skills, but you won't be too great at either.
Kadey said:
If you kill
Wynne
Morrigan's evil plan for the final battle
Sandal
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
2nd playthrough
Using Arcane Warrior/Blood Mage on Easy. Much easier to take out mobs now. I understand that Bioware wanted to make every battle life or death (which certainly felt that way with a rogue assassin/duelist), but they didn't need to have a group of darkspawn gangbang you from their ambush points all the time.
Trying not to cave and get the expansion pack now...
Using Arcane Warrior/Blood Mage on Easy. Much easier to take out mobs now. I understand that Bioware wanted to make every battle life or death (which certainly felt that way with a rogue assassin/duelist), but they didn't need to have a group of darkspawn gangbang you from their ambush points all the time
.Trying not to cave and get the expansion pack now...
Alpha-Bromega
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Kuro Madoushi said:2nd playthrough
Using Arcane Warrior/Blood Mage on Easy. Much easier to take out mobs now. I understand that Bioware wanted to make every battle life or death (which certainly felt that way with a rogue assassin/duelist), but they didn't need to have a group of darkspawn gangbang you from their ambush points all the time
Trying not to cave and get the expansion pack now...
easy? I'm not trying to bust balls or be haha cool guy but the Arcane Warrior + anything spec is OP and basically a cake walk even on Nightmare.
Yeah. Having both Morrigan and Wynne is actually better for me. I seem to be doing better in battle with that setup than Morrigan and Leliana. I'm still having somewhat of a hard time though since A.I controller characters still aren't on par with what I want them to be. I just wished the A.I had common sense instead of these dumb variables.
TheFightingFish
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NIN90 said:
I'm not the guy to tell you real min / max stuff, but I had pretty good luck with Dex / Cun focus and duel wielding daggers after the dagger fix patch. Use stealth when you get aggro and go after guys who are attacking your tank. When you get the ability to get instant backstabs on helpless targets I focused on abilities and items to multiply backstab damage (lots of these in the assassin tree) and I focused the rest of my party on abilities to paralyse / freeze / sleep enemies so that I would always have targets to go after. If you go this route know that good daggers can be pretty hard to find sometimes. I found and puchased my two good ones both in the dwarf area.
Leatherface
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Just beat the game. Flawed but fantastic none the less. I have some questions for people who beat it though, only because I'm curious what the outcome would be if I made a few different choices.
I played a dwarf noble btw. The two choices I'm curious about have to do with Morrigan and Loghain. First off, I had Loghain executed becuase he was a douche and I felt no sympathy. Second, I chose not to sex up Morrigan and make a baby. Becuase of this choice she took off into the night and I died killing the Arch Demon. Can someone tell me what the outcome would have been if I let Loghain live and I screwed Morrigan? Thanks!
JayDubya said:
Wait, is this true he can join you in the expansion?
That means I have to pick between my main character and getting Alistair as a party member. FFS. Makes me think the demon baby was the correct way of ending it even if it is one of the darkest bits of magic in the entire game. There should have been a way to save everyone as stay a good guy.
I had to reinstall for various reasons and thought it would be a good chance to take some comparison shots of the vanilla game vs the game with the hi-res texture pack. The game is running at max settings.
The standard textures are on the left and the new ones are on the right.
The standard textures are on the left and the new ones are on the right.
I just watched the Developer Diaries. I really love those diaries. Especially Bethesda stuff and God of War ones since they cover almost every step of the development even tho they are fairly short. I couldn't even finish watching this one it was so boring. It felt like it was done just because they needed some material for the CE. I would't be suprised if this whole thing got made in one afternoon. I don't have any Mass Effect material but i am not as tempted to get them after watching this.
Leatherface said:Just beat the game. Flawed but fantastic none the less. I have some questions for people who beat it though, only because I'm curious what the outcome would be if I made a few different choices.
I played a dwarf noble btw. The two choices I'm curious about have to do with Morrigan and Loghain. First off, I had Loghain executed becuase he was a douche and I felt no sympathy. Second, I chose not to sex up Morrigan and make a baby. Becuase of this choice she took off into the night and I died killing the Arch Demon. Can someone tell me what the outcome would have been if I let Loghain live and I screwed Morrigan? Thanks!
If you
sleep with Morrigan
Loghain, who undertakes the joining and becomes a grey warden and one of your party member
archdemon goes into the baby
Loghain
If you let
Loghain
sleep with Morrigan
archdemon
Basileus777
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Ceebs said:
I found the texture pack to not be worth the hassle, especially with the crashes it causes in Denerim and the Dead Trenches.
Hyunkel6 said:
Man, I
killed that bastard good and locked up the stupid princess for good
Also, I posted my thoughts on Dragon Age in my blog on Gamasutra: ?syntax error: emotion.
Warning, heavy spoilers.
I was trying to work out why I felt so flat after beating the game.
Leatherface
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Hyunkel6 said:
Damn. You just made me wish I at least let the whole
Loghain
Ok I got a question.
So basically I had the assassin in my party and we met up with his band of Gypsy's and that son of bitch turned on me. I had to slay him. So I still have my save from before that. My question is can I do anything different to not have to kill that traitorous bastard? Perhaps I can ween him back to my side by way of subtle suggestion?
Shamrock said:
You have to be in good standing in approval rating for him not to turn on you. If you still have gifts you can try giving it to him and seeing if the extra push is enough, but I doubt it unless you've been hoarding gold/silver bars and leather boots and gloves.
HadesGigas
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Playing a 2nd time. Why did I choose to go to the Circle first? I must have blocked the fade out of my mind.
I seem to be having a far easier time as a mage than I did as a warrior. But maybe it's just I know the game far better than I did 100 hours ago.
I seem to be having a far easier time as a mage than I did as a warrior. But maybe it's just I know the game far better than I did 100 hours ago.
Sooo... beat the game yesterday... only to find that I couldn't watch the end cut scene since my baby woke and I had to make her sleep again...
Final battle was quite easy, playing on Hard, and I have like one million potions of both lyrium and health, didn't need to use one.
Final battle was quite easy, playing on Hard, and I have like one million potions of both lyrium and health, didn't need to use one.
Gully State said:
I wouldn't worry about Alistair, he's a big girl and has a whinge about everything.
DieNgamers said:
I liked the deep roads. It was actually a relief to get in there because I felt I was solving boring political disputes in the drwarven city for hours. Going from one half of the city to the next then back again and talk to this dude then that dude then do this then back over there. Jesus, I just wanted it to end.
DieNgamers said:
I ended up fighting the
golems. I saw that anvil and thought, you want to destroy that? It's awesome! So the battle began...
DieNgamers
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I don't know what you decided to do but it went by pretty fast for me.Mar_ said:
I chose Harromont and
fought in the "proving" for him
After that I killed the mafia for him that's controlling the underground
If you decide to
fight Branka you fight the golemns, too. The only difference is the main boss (either Branka or the Paragon).
The only difference is the main boss (either Branka or the Paragon).
Huevos de Oro
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360 user, first playthrough, closing in to the 40 hour mark, female human noble warrior with a focus on two-handed combat. So far I've been to the Brecilian Forest, Red Cliff and last night I completed the main Orzammar quest, where I supported
and had to
.
I am so in love with this game. Main quests have so many different ways to approach, and sidequests are both entertaining and varied. A couple nights ago I did the
quest, which horrified me through the codex entries, and left me wondering if there will be future consequences, since I chose to
. I think I should have left those things where they were. *shudders*
I should be hanging around the Deep Roads for a little while more, because I had Shale with me, and she wants to
.
Harrowmont fighting at the arena
kill Branka and help Caridin in destroying the anvil
I am so in love with this game. Main quests have so many different ways to approach, and sidequests are both entertaining and varied. A couple nights ago I did the
Asunder
let the demon go at the altar in exchange for money
I should be hanging around the Deep Roads for a little while more, because I had Shale with me, and she wants to
go to her old Thaig
Lucky Forward
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I've put about 50 hours into this game, but my PS3's blu-ray drive just stopped readings disks. No matter what I put in...game, blu-ray movie, or DVD...nothing shows up in the XMB. So it looks like I need a new PS3.
My PS3 is a 60GB model, but last year I upgraded the HDD to 250GB. Does anyone know if I can put the 250GB HDD in a new PS3 and keep all the content and game saves, and just pick up where I left off in Dragon Age? Or am I going to be forced to re-format the drive once I put it in the new PS3?
My PS3 is a 60GB model, but last year I upgraded the HDD to 250GB. Does anyone know if I can put the 250GB HDD in a new PS3 and keep all the content and game saves, and just pick up where I left off in Dragon Age? Or am I going to be forced to re-format the drive once I put it in the new PS3?
Diatribe1974
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About the (possible) endings:
All in all, it's (yet another) awesome game from Bioware, one of which I'm sure to continue to play over and over again, because I love having Sten, Ohgren & Lelianna in my group, all chattering with each other.
Is the best possible "Happy Ending" you can get (non-sacrificing your Grey Warden) is romancing Lelianna & (via the credits) finding out you're traveling the world with her after it's all said and done?
I ask this, because I've found that the vast majority of the endings are a depressingly horrible, yet awesome, collection of very sad endings in which:
1) You die to save the world
2) You die to save the world & lose a future with Lelianna (but get a double whammy when you find out that when she dies, she says she'll "Finally be reunited with her love..."
3) You die to save the world & lose Morigan (yes, she is in love with you)
4) You let Allistair die to save the world, so you can live & be with Lelianna
5) You let Lohgain die (big whoopie) to save the world so you can be with Lelianna
6) You perform the Blood Ritual with Morigan so you can live, kill the dragon, so you can be with Lelianna (and also find out that Morigan does love you, even though you never romanced her)
See where this is going? There's several other possible endings (all small variations on a common theme: You save the day, but ultimately, still lose something important. I'd honestly would have loved to have had the option of a very difficult to attain ideal ending. Something in which Bioware said "Okay, you nitwits want a "Rainbows & Puppy Dogs ending, eh? Okay, you have to do this, 100% in order to get it." To me, that'd be the ultimate goal to shoot for & all the other endings, what I replay the game to experience.
I ask this, because I've found that the vast majority of the endings are a depressingly horrible, yet awesome, collection of very sad endings in which:
1) You die to save the world
2) You die to save the world & lose a future with Lelianna (but get a double whammy when you find out that when she dies, she says she'll "Finally be reunited with her love..."
3) You die to save the world & lose Morigan (yes, she is in love with you)
4) You let Allistair die to save the world, so you can live & be with Lelianna
5) You let Lohgain die (big whoopie) to save the world so you can be with Lelianna
6) You perform the Blood Ritual with Morigan so you can live, kill the dragon, so you can be with Lelianna (and also find out that Morigan does love you, even though you never romanced her)
See where this is going? There's several other possible endings (all small variations on a common theme: You save the day, but ultimately, still lose something important. I'd honestly would have loved to have had the option of a very difficult to attain ideal ending. Something in which Bioware said "Okay, you nitwits want a "Rainbows & Puppy Dogs ending, eh? Okay, you have to do this, 100% in order to get it." To me, that'd be the ultimate goal to shoot for & all the other endings, what I replay the game to experience.
All in all, it's (yet another) awesome game from Bioware, one of which I'm sure to continue to play over and over again, because I love having Sten, Ohgren & Lelianna in my group, all chattering with each other.
Splash Wave
Member
Just how bad is the 360 version? After playing Mass Effect 2, I'm dying to play this (I was a huge Baldur's Gate fan). My old-ish Macbook Pro isn't good enough to run it.
Sir Garbageman
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Jimmy Stav said:
Runs without issue. Due to the lack of an isometric camera, will probably feel more like KOTOR than BG2.
Much more fun, IMO. They built the game so there would be no problems having a view behind your character (whereas NWN2 has clipping issues and problems with the camera), and the "FF12" style tactics system gives the game an automated + your character action feel, feels like your group works how you want them to, and you can still be a part of the actionJimmy Stav said: