Topic: Dragon Age: Origins (Read 45220 times)

Bal · « **Reply #60 on:** November 08, 2009, 10:52:03 PM »

Hey, guess what, for once the PC version was actually the original version, and the console version is the port. So suck a dick I guess.

Doom · « **Reply #61 on:** November 08, 2009, 10:58:33 PM »

Quote from: Classic on November 08, 2009, 10:48:09 PM

What, you mean the XBOX version I got is inferior and has bugs that dramatically change the game's balance (for the worse) that can never be fixed?

You sure showed me and my PC, dipshit.

Classic · « **Reply #62 on:** November 08, 2009, 10:59:00 PM »

No, you see, I anticipated having to suck one or two dicks because of that. Little things, like having no command queue to speak of, no isometric view, and issuing a command to any character ends a pause (not really that huge of a complaint I've discovered) are the yellow-sickly icing to the dick cake I was prepared to suffer to be able to actually play the game at more than 2fps within this year. For some reason I wasn't expecting BioWare to let such major bugs slip through.

EDIT:
My machine has trouble playing "The Sims". And getting a proper funtime machine looks to be at least 10 months away.

Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #63 on:** November 08, 2009, 11:09:29 PM »

Well, if it makes you feel any better - the isometric view is much closer and more limited than any actual isometric game ever was, so it's limited in use, and the only extent to which we can queue commands is that we can issue one order to every character before unpausing.

Quote from: Norondor on November 08, 2009, 09:09:43 PM

If ever a game should be pirated, this is it.

You are a bad person and you should feel bad. Assuming there was ever grounds to pirate a game (and there are), I'm pretty god-damned sure the list starts with the entire back catalog of LucasArts SCUMM games, Fallout 1 and 2, and all other great abandonware or semiabandonware titles, and then there's the shitty licensed crap that you should even play but if you really had to you sure as hell shouldn't pay for it, and then there's other games with actually draconian measures like SPORE...

"Because my DLC doesn't work" is the worst god-damned excuse to pirate a game I've ever heard. Literally the worst. I'll be the first to say that nonfunctioning DLC entitles you to pirate that same DLC, but to claim that Dragon Age should be pirated because SOME people have issues with it is like saying... shit, I don't even know.

Classic · « **Reply #64 on:** November 08, 2009, 11:16:24 PM »

That almost makes me feel better. Thanks Burrito!

My buffmage (who needs to fucking max out the healing tree) who will probably go arcane warrior / spirit healer managed to defend Redcliffe without any casualties. He felt like a big man.

Then he got [spoiler]sucked into the fucking fade trying to ally the tower of mages and is now getting his pasty ass pounded on by basically every encounter he meets.[/spoiler]

Looking forward to retrying the game on harder modes at a later date. Maybe building a warrior/champion/???.

King Klown · « **Reply #65 on:** November 09, 2009, 09:50:47 PM »

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Fallout 1 and 2,

You can actually buy them on Steam or get them at Amazon.com. Nice little bundle pack I got a year or so ago with all of the games, when my original FO1 and 2 CD's bit the dust in a move.

Quote from: Classic on November 08, 2009, 11:16:24 PM

That almost makes me feel better. Thanks Burrito!

My buffmage (who needs to fucking max out the healing tree) who will probably go arcane warrior / spirit healer managed to defend Redcliffe without any casualties. He felt like a big man.

Then he got [spoiler]sucked into the fucking fade trying to ally the tower of mages and is now getting his pasty ass pounded on by basically every encounter he meets.[/spoiler]

Looking forward to retrying the game on harder modes at a later date. Maybe building a warrior/champion/???.

[spoiler]That fade shit was annoying as hell. I didn't have any trouble solo'ing it, but I'm not a big puzzle fan. Taking away my team and then saying "SOLVE THIS PLOT RELATED PUZZLE OR YOU CAN'T CONTINUE" annoys the hell out of me. Got fun once you get all the forms and start wrecking shit.[/spoiler]

Lookin' around for a blood mage. I was originally going to go for Spirit Healer, but I killed Wynne to gain favor with Morrigans sweet ass.

Classic · « **Reply #66 on:** November 09, 2009, 10:04:34 PM »

I knew there was a reason my instincts told me to ditch Morrigan when I decided to tackle the mage's tower. Sten has surprisingly few lines to offer.

I have also neglected to give my characters enough constitution to survive the many cans of whup-ass that the revenants would repeatedly bring down on me.

sei · « **Reply #67 on:** November 09, 2009, 10:14:40 PM »

Spam more pots. Kite more. DONT STAND IN GOASTS

Classic · « **Reply #68 on:** November 09, 2009, 10:20:17 PM »

This is where Classic confesses he has no clue what the hell you're talking about. He does not know if sei is complaining about DA:O feeling like WoW lite.

As to spamming shit, my mages are spamming magic basically as much as they can and trying to keep everything that can move in perpetual stun. I also haven't really built any of my warriors very carefully, so I just let the computer handle them and hope they don't die. Excepting of course that I try to use a pot here and there to try and keep them from biting it, often just missing the window, watching the potion get consumed, and a +HP appear as the character falls over and has a skull superimposed over their portrait.

I am bad at game.

sei · « **Reply #69 on:** November 09, 2009, 10:29:30 PM »

Use lesser health poultices on cooldown, on whatever character he's beating on.
Normal/Greater/Potent health poultices are not on a shared cooldown with lesser.
Save Group Heal for after mass pull.
Use regeneration early, if you want, but try to save your single target Heal spell for when he uses pull on his current target, because you said target can not use a poultice while on the floor.
Make sure the revenant is not immune to the type of damage coming from your mages' staves; keep a backup staff with a different element, even if it's a shitty staff, because some damage is better than none.

With all of that in mind, Revenants are still bullshit, because they resist a lot including the -resist hex. This meant no paralyze or captivating song, which often meant no backstab (WHAT IS A WARRIOR TANK I HEAR THOSE ARE FOR FAGS). I think the ones I fought were fucking frost immune, so there was no frozen status from cone of cold, either.

P.S. You can't spam potions in WoW. You can in Diablo (and most clones). The GOASTS thing is in reference to people dying to ghosts spawning from dead mobs in Naxxramas (and Sunken Temple) though.

Classic · « **Reply #70 on:** November 10, 2009, 12:08:59 AM »

I actually managed to solve that one eventually by giving my mages crappy daggers and swords in an attempt to deal some damage. With the attack buff they will hit about half of the time and that damage contribution made the difference between a crushing defeat and the last man standing picking off the last sliver of health.

King Klown · « **Reply #71 on:** November 10, 2009, 12:24:04 AM »

Muckin' around in the Dorf Fortress.

[spoiler]Holy Fucking hell was the Brood Mother hard.[/spoiler]

Norondor · « **Reply #72 on:** November 10, 2009, 06:14:54 AM »

Had a worse time with the random 2 Emissary + 3 spider groups myself

Frocto · « **Reply #73 on:** November 10, 2009, 06:56:36 AM »

Quote from: Newbie on November 07, 2009, 10:31:59 PM

Hell, even among Infinity Engines games, I have a high standard deviation of personal preference. I'd elaborate, but I'm a little drunk at the moment.

This is a man who knows how to get WILD

also, when you guys talked smack about mass effect I could see the occasional post containing praise, but all I can see here among the damning condemnation is number crunching. Is this game fun or not?

Norondor · « **Reply #74 on:** November 10, 2009, 07:14:46 AM »

Oh, very much so. I'm just annoyed that EA thinks it's OK to do business like they are.

King Klown · « **Reply #75 on:** November 10, 2009, 07:45:19 AM »

I don't think I did any number crunching in my original post; look at that.

Game is very fun, but I help but think I'd be much more frustrated with the game if I was less tactically inclined. But I guess there is always easy mode.

The combat is fun if you liked Baldur's Gate style combat without the Dungeons and Dragons bullshit confusing the hell out of you. The animations are equally beautiful and I loved it when my first ogre slowly pulled his fist back and punched my warrior in the face, sending him flying backwards. Characters models INTERACT with each other.

Also, Kaine from Legacy of Kaine voice actor. <3

Pacobird · « **Reply #76 on:** November 10, 2009, 10:21:09 AM »

t frocto it plays like ffxii viewed through kotor-colored glasses. Or the inverse.

Oh well. At least Dragon Age fixes KotOR's so-awful-it-ruined-the-game-for-me inventory. On the whole it is a pretty solid purchase but I can't escape the nagging feeling the game is trying to convince me it's much bigger than it actually is.

Also, easy mode is actually easy this time around (FUCK YOU GUYS I DONT HAVE TIME FOR THIS SHIT) rather than the BG2 "oh? you still require retarded amounts of party micromanagement if you don't want to save/reload every single encounter? does baby need a tissue?" mode.

Norondor · « **Reply #77 on:** November 10, 2009, 11:11:33 AM »

Quote from: P. Birdy on November 10, 2009, 10:21:09 AM

t frocto it plays like ffxii viewed through Mass Effect-colored glasses.

technically

I would actually say that mages are nearly as murderous as they were in BG2, as they were the only element challenging enough that they actually forced you to constantly micromanage every goddamn thing (GOOD THING EVERY SINGLE MERC MAGE OUT IN THE WORLD OR CHILLING IN THE SEWERS HAS CONTINGENCIED STONESKIN, SPELL DEFLECTION, GREATER INVISIBILITY AND MIRROR IMAGE, YOU HORRIBLE CUNTS ON ICE), it's just that you only see them about one tenth as often.

Norondor · « **Reply #78 on:** November 10, 2009, 11:14:28 AM »

Also there are no random encounters with spellcasters who just cast Imprison on the main character and end the game -- in retrospect, fuck BG2

Bal · « **Reply #79 on:** November 10, 2009, 12:25:33 PM »

Quote from: Norondor on November 10, 2009, 11:14:28 AM

Also there are no random encounters with spellcasters who just cast Imprison on the main character and end the game -- in retrospect, fuck BG2

Not quite true. Fortunately, main character "death" isn't game over or this already hard game would be in the fuck you pile already.

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