Dragon Age: Origins Xbox 360 or PC?
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Dragon Age origins is much better on the PC. The pause and play style of gameplay is much preferred over it's console brethren.
If you use a 64 bit version of windows 7 then don't get it for the PC since it won't work.
EDIT: Never mind then apparently it does work.
EDIT: Never mind then apparently it does work.
Well I use 64 bit and it won't work for me. Unfortunately this is a common problem with it so you are a lucky one.gof22 said:
UnluckycgaWolf said:
I'm on x64, and it worked fine here. Have they had any luck in finding out what causes the issue?[/quote]
Nope and they gave up. That issue was caused in the update of 1.02 and from what I know its still there. I'm a little confused by 2 people saying its working fine for them so who knows maybe it did get fixed.
DA:O more suited to PC it still had that Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights feel and allowed for more abilities to be mapped.
Note: i had it on the 360 my mate had it on the PC
Note: i had it on the 360 my mate had it on the PC
I finished the game on both systems and found my experience on pc was much better, I played it on a x64 with no problems really. If you want to play on more then easy or very easy I think it becomes more frustrating then fun on xbox. Also playing more than one character is easier on pc. Also I would recommend you go for the game of the year edition or whatever they called it, nice having the bonus stuff for only a few dollars more.
I agree with this and also the ending for the PC was alot better on the PC version the the Xbox. Not that the endings different just its better. Oh and do yourself a favor if u get the GOTY edition downlode it from somewhere the disk version i got was broken and took me forever to get it to workkarp250 said:
Works fine, no idea what your talking about.80Maxwell08 said:
Ultimate worked for me and mine is dvd, weird.octafish said:
PC. Though a word of warning, this game has a SERIOUS memory leak in it. Like, worse than the Skyrim one. Make sure you've got at least four gigs of ram if you plan on playing for more than a few hours.
Dragon Age: Origins was built from the ground up for PC and ported to console late in the development cycle and it shows very obviously.
Absolutely buy it on PC. The interface works fantastically for a mouse and keyboard and was designed completely for it. The PC version also has the ability to optionally toggle between a 3rd person camera view and top down isometric viewpoint (based on the classic CPRG views of old) which is nowhere to be seen on console as it's 3rd person only. The isometric viewpoint helps significantly when quickly issuing group orders and gives a great view of the battlefield.
The 360 controls are quite cumbersome and issuing various group commands and movement orders become a chore which are pretty effortless on PC.
The difficulty on 360 was also toned down a lot by comparison in an attempt to let players play it via button mashing and you can't get friendly fire unless you crank up the difficulty, which is enabled by default on PC.
It's also buggier as well on 360.
Even professional reviewers have taken pretty significant note of the shoddy console versions, and reviewers tend to be extremely forgiving of ports and ignore PC games a lot.
Also, no clue what all this stuff about Dragon Age not working on Windows 7 64bit is. I own it and it works perfectly for me, along with everyone else I know. I have never heard of this issue before.
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As for Dragon Age 2, they switched to console development because the PC version didn't sell enough for the first game sadly. As a result, the sequel isn't all that great on PC. Although, honestly, it's a crap game anyway so I wouldn't bother playing it.
Absolutely buy it on PC. The interface works fantastically for a mouse and keyboard and was designed completely for it. The PC version also has the ability to optionally toggle between a 3rd person camera view and top down isometric viewpoint (based on the classic CPRG views of old) which is nowhere to be seen on console as it's 3rd person only. The isometric viewpoint helps significantly when quickly issuing group orders and gives a great view of the battlefield.
The 360 controls are quite cumbersome and issuing various group commands and movement orders become a chore which are pretty effortless on PC.
The difficulty on 360 was also toned down a lot by comparison in an attempt to let players play it via button mashing and you can't get friendly fire unless you crank up the difficulty, which is enabled by default on PC.
It's also buggier as well on 360.
Even professional reviewers have taken pretty significant note of the shoddy console versions, and reviewers tend to be extremely forgiving of ports and ignore PC games a lot.
Also, no clue what all this stuff about Dragon Age not working on Windows 7 64bit is. I own it and it works perfectly for me, along with everyone else I know. I have never heard of this issue before.
This, however, is true. If you play it for a few hours straight the loading time start to get steadily longer. It hasn't ruined the game for me by any extent, but it can become an annoyance over time and you may want to restart the game client every so often to refresh it. That said, I'm running on a pretty high end machine and have been since before the game came out, so it may be worse on lower systems, but while annoying, it's not too bad for me.Soviet Heavy said:
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As for Dragon Age 2, they switched to console development because the PC version didn't sell enough for the first game sadly. As a result, the sequel isn't all that great on PC. Although, honestly, it's a crap game anyway so I wouldn't bother playing it.