Zero Punctuation: Dragon Age: Origins

[randommaster]

I turn my back for a few minutes and suddenly there are two pages of comments.

Whoooo, the contest was mentioned!

 

[Ixal]

By the way, your Origin in DA gets important again near the end.

Very good. Was considering getting this and now the similarities to mass effect have piqued my interest.

In Mass Effect your own character talks when you decide what to say during conversations, but i have heard that in this game your character just stays still and never says anything and that is something i HATE since it takes all of the immersion out of the game in my opinion and makes my character feel empty and hollow. One of the reasons for why i loved Mass Effect so much is that my character actually says shit and has some personality.

Thats hardly possible to do in Dragon Age. In Mass Effect you had very limited character creation options and thus it was able to make 2 default voices for your character. In DA you would need quite a lot of voices to cover all combinations.

 

[Blackadder51]

In my defense, the tower defense genera is less saturated than the platform jumper genera, and mine was the only tower defense style game entered in the contest. I briefly considered doing a platform jumper as well, but I figured every one else would make platform jumpers and I was right.

If your the guy that made the defense game can i ask a question?

(well i am anyway)

What decided to do the weird resource thing, and to make your guys fade out after a while and was the boss level the last one?

BTW i liked you game better then the guy that got 1st

 

[Richard Kain]

I am mildly offended that the game contest winners were tacked on in the middle of the credits, like some afterthought. I was also upset that Yahtzee seemed to put even less effort into reviewing the contest titles than he usually applys towards the weekly show. I'm not saying that the contest winners should have gotten a full 5 minute episode, but I was expecting something a little more insightful. I wrote more meaningful reviews of those games in their comments threads, and it took me no more than half an hour each. I thinks its a little lazy to devote so little time or effort when the participants devoted considerably more time and effort on their entries.

I'm also mildly offended that my game didn't place, but that is another issue, and probably shouldn't be discussed here.

I liked the Dragon Age Origins review, especially the part about bored Arnold. (I'm a sucker for Conan references)

 

[Jandau]

I was hoping that Yahtzee would skip Dragon Age since I like the game so much it hurts a little when someone says bad things about it and I was pretty sure he wouldn't like the game by default. However, I confess I am quite suprised that he seems to like it enough to sink more than a full days worth of time (and counting) into it. I guess he has some taste after all (as was indicated by his dislike of Dead Space and Oblivion)...

 

[Caliostro]

Ah, so I wasn't the only one that thought "Dragon Age" implied Dragon was a new material... Dragon swords... Dragon armors... Dragon farm tools...

STOP SAYING FIRST! YOU DON'T NEED TO SAY IT! WE CAN SEE YOU ARE!

You'll come across like less of an hypocrite if you actually watch the video before commenting on how great the video was.

 

[Carnagath]

Really good one, laughed a lot at "is this the age where everything is made of dragons".

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

Okay... So I like get Dragon Age then, but I also like sex with Girls.
But which is better?

There's only one way to find out...

FIGHT!

I want to see this.

 

[You_have_a_name]

Yahtzee likes a7x

Congrats to the winner of the game contest, although i think 3rd place deserved the win

 

[Woundingisfun]

Brilliant!
Hell no if i'm buying the game, but it's always fun to hear yahtzee's oppinions about RPG's.

 

[khululy]

Dragon age is a great game I mean as far as Fantasy RPG's go. But it's still not a world as believabel as the witcher was where choises do effect your story and where everyone is an asshole .
Gawd I really love the witcher I do.

 

[obisean]

Radial menu? Why did you not play this game on PC? It is a vastly superior version. Why would you base your review on the inferior version? I mean, most of your gripes, as mentioned above were not leveled directly at the game, and would still exist, but you would be playing a version that is a lot more tactical and fun.

 

[jorgemalgom]

Funny review, and like yatzhee said nothing incredibly new, but i like it that way, classic rpg with nice new graphics

 

[MmmFiber]

That was one of the better ones lately. And everything that was said was pretty much what I expected from Dragon Age. "You are an elf," and "you are an asshole," was my favorite part... gave me a nice laugh.

 

[SAMURAJ]

DRAGON AGE is a fucking great game,seriously this is the beast RPG thet i played !!!!
and the story is fucking awesome, i don't know why are you complain about the story because its mind blowing !!!
DRAGON AGE is game of the year definitely !!!!

 

[drakenabarion]

Good review. Yahtzee did exactly what I thought he would with this Genre. Which is tear is to shreds (not as much as I expected actually). That being said, it does appear that he may like the game in the end.

I personally don't expect this game to be any different to those other fantasy games. However I do look forward to the nice polished feel that the game appears to have.

And for all those people who posted "FIRST!!!" or "Moan: I don't care that you posted first". Nobody really cares