Dragon Age

[AngelicSven]

So, there's a lot of hub bub going on about this series. I kind of curious to why, I mean, I get it, it's Bioware. So, I wanted some opinions on it as I was thinking about picking Origins up and the 2nd one after I was finished. I've played ME 1 & 2 and thought they were good, not the gold grails of gaming but above average, before that I played Jade Empire and KoToR, which were of the same quality.


Though I have some concerns when it comes to Bioware games. Almost all their games never make me care about the characters in my party, I like the stories and such, I care about the big plot points which will make me buy ME 3 but I'm solely about me unless I have to help them with something so I get more stuff. Jade Empire would be the exception.

Moral Choice, I know it's talked to death but they do it really bad to me, I think it's because they're trying to make your choices 'serious' and they'll have 'serious' consequences but they show you what the good and the bad choice is, defeating the purpose, otherwise they'd be awesome. The important ones were really epic and moving but were still sullied with "Well...I wanna be a bad guy..." I liked how Fable did it cause they weren't toned seriously, so get horns and red mist or butterflies and blue hands in this totally cartoonish world and that makes the moral system tolerable.

Also, combat in these games always seems slow to me, like it's giving me way too much time to react to the situation but that's fairly minor if everything else is decent. I played the demo just today as that seems to go along with the aforementioned.

So, would Dragon Age be worth a try?

Sidenote, I miss MDK2.

 

[SwimmingRock]

Your post is a bit confusing, but I think you're saying that the Dragon Age 2 demo had slow combat. If that's the case, you'll probably hate Dragon Age Origins. Combat is much slower and less involving.

As for whether you'll care about the party members, I doubt it. DAO mostly has character development in optional quests. If ME, where character backgrounds are more important, didn't make you care, DAO probably won't either. Hope this helps.

 

[Drakane]

I liked it. Most of the hub bub circling DA now is that they are changing the fighting system for DA2 and some people are afraid they are going to worry to much about the new system and forget about the story (myself included to some lvl). But if you like rpgs and are into them for the story I would def. give DA and DA:O a go. The fighting style gets a little some getting use to and a lot of dieing (at least in my case) but once i figured it out it suited it well. Originally it felt like pugging in WoW to me... a group of people doing w/e the fuck they wanted in a fight not what they should be.... but once you lrn the tactic system its pretty nice especially w/ the game pause and what not.