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Offline Talon

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Dragon Age
« on: August 14, 2008, 07:53:27 PM »
Is anyone following this, and do they know if it will contain a toolset...

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2008, 10:04:24 PM »
There was an E3 trailer.  Looked very cool.  No word on a toolset.  Looks like a 2009 release.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2008, 02:13:58 AM »
I believe there is indeed a toolset with Dragon Age. Bioware's whole idea was to make a NWN style game without the limitations of D&D and WotC dictates.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2008, 01:44:20 PM »
Here is some info on the Dragon Age toolset: Introducing the Dragon Age Toolset.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2008, 11:54:37 PM »

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2008, 12:44:04 PM »
Georg Zoeller showed up at the NWNCon 4 scripting roundtable and gave us some info on Dragon Age.

Unfortunately, it's single player only. However, everything is now controlled through scripting from combat to any stat belonging to a creature. This means you have complete control over every aspect of the game through scripting.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2009, 08:50:54 PM »
Downloading now via Direct2Drive!

Got amazing reviews.  Looks like an awesome game!

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2009, 12:06:53 PM »
Downloading now via Direct2Drive!

Got amazing reviews.  Looks like an awesome game!
Meh. I just don't see the point if it's single player.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2009, 01:35:21 PM »
I dunno, I may buy it just for a good single player game. Mo let me know how it is please. :D
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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2009, 01:46:04 PM »
Meh. I just don't see the point if it's single player.

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Hmmm.  Is Fallout 3 a single player game?

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2009, 10:01:55 PM »
Seems like its going to be awesome indeed. Unfortunately I'll have to settle for the PS3 version since my computer can barely run anything that came out after 2007

Going to pick it up later today...

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2009, 01:07:08 AM »
Seems like its going to be awesome indeed. Unfortunately I'll have to settle for the PS3 version since my computer can barely run anything that came out after 2007

Going to pick it up later today...

Good job!  The console versions got good reviews also.  PS3 scored higher than 360.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2009, 01:00:59 PM »
Hmmm.  Is Fallout 3 a single player game?
Yeah, but it doesn't come with a toolset and it wasn't made by a company that makes multiplayer RPGs. I just think BioWare is taking a step backward with this decision.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #13 on: November 05, 2009, 01:51:00 PM »
Yeah, but it doesn't come with a toolset and it wasn't made by a company that makes multiplayer RPGs. I just think BioWare is taking a step backward with this decision.

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Well if the game provides an excellent single player campaign then it's worth the price of admission in my opinion.  We'll have to wait for something else to satisfy our multiplayer needs.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #14 on: November 05, 2009, 01:57:30 PM »
I think I might pick it up Friday. lol.
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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #15 on: November 05, 2009, 02:44:01 PM »
I think I might pick it up Friday. lol.

You better.  I haven't installed it yet.  I'll probably get started on Friday.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #16 on: November 05, 2009, 05:06:48 PM »
Well, I was going to until the hours on my paycheck were fucked. So I will have to wait two weeks...........
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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2009, 01:02:25 AM »
So far so good.  The graphics are very nice and the dialogue and story are picking up nicely.  You can kind of understand why Bioware let go of DnD, they are free to go with their own story and vision while not being restricted by WoC.  The one thing missing because of this is the abundance of classes, races and skills available in DnD.  Dragon Age doesn't have many of these.  For example there's Human, dwarf and elf, warrior, mage and rogue.  Specializations can kinda of increase the amounts of classes but no where near the amount of say NWN2.

In any case this game has all the makings of an excellent RPG so I'm highly recommending it for those in the mood for a grade A single player campaign.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #18 on: November 15, 2009, 02:12:32 AM »
I'd rather wait until price drops and expansion releases. It always costs way more to purchase games right when they're released.

It's on my list, but like other games, I've no regrets about buying them later. Whereas some games that I've bought right away, I regret doing so.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #19 on: November 15, 2009, 10:04:06 AM »
What no screen shots?  What class did you pick?  What's the weapon selection like? Spells?   Where are my glasses? What's that funny sound my car makes?  Why are the clouds white?  Why can't we end world poverty? What kind of review is this?

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #20 on: November 15, 2009, 01:12:40 PM »
What no screen shots?  What class did you pick?  What's the weapon selection like? Spells?   Where are my glasses? What's that funny sound my car makes?  Why are the clouds white?  Why can't we end world poverty? What kind of review is this?

Lol it's not a review.  If you want a proper review with screen shots you should head over to gamespot.com or similar.  I'm a human rogue, duel wielding iron daggers (which are more like short swords than daggers).  I'm going to choose the duelist specialization.  I'm still very early into the game so my experience with magic is still low, but from what I've seen there are many spells and they are quite powerful.  I'm playing on hard mode so I need to be careful of spell selection because friendly fire dmg is on.

The game takes automatic screen shots for you during key plot moments.  You can even upload them to Bioware's "social networking" site from within the game.

Here's a screen shot of my part who has just slain an ogre.  Ogres are more like demons than large green brutes.  This one was pretty strong, it could even pick up a person, crush them in one hand and bash them with the other for a crap load of dmg.  Killed me that way lucky my mage was able to bring him down from afar.

Here's another screen shot of me being recruited into the Grey Wardens.  The first screen shot is a view from the tactical camera, an isometric view we are familiar with from CRPGs.  The second is a behind the back camera.  Console versions of the game don't have the tactical camera.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #21 on: November 15, 2009, 01:49:54 PM »
I'd rather wait until price drops and expansion releases. It always costs way more to purchase games right when they're released.

It's on my list, but like other games, I've no regrets about buying them later. Whereas some games that I've bought right away, I regret doing so.
You may want to wait for a Game of the Year edition that includes all the DLC. Apparently the first DLC was made before the game was released and it increases your inventory size and adds a party stash for even more storage. Lots of people are pissed that you have to pay extra money for expanded storage but BioWare seems to have adopted a nickel and dime strategy even though they abandoned the NWN DLC project.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #22 on: November 16, 2009, 10:55:42 AM »
Looks pretty neat - if you still vouch for it come Christmas break, I may give it a try then.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #23 on: December 07, 2009, 10:51:38 PM »
Dammit I didn't play today!!

PS. The game's awesome

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #24 on: January 02, 2010, 12:49:24 PM »
Bioware set up personal profile pages for your main character persona's.  They are updated automatically, except screen shots aren't uploaded automatically.  Pretty cool none the less.  Here's mine.  I'm only about 40% through the game so far.

http://social.bioware.com/playerprofile.php?nid=2300965632&game=dragonage&persona_id=215602445

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #25 on: January 02, 2010, 09:49:39 PM »
2600 friendly fire damage dealt... sure you know what side you're on?

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #26 on: January 03, 2010, 01:37:51 AM »
Actually, I'm not even quite sure how I did that.  Maybe whirlwind hits friendlies.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #27 on: January 03, 2010, 02:42:22 PM »
What difficulty are you playing on?

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #28 on: January 03, 2010, 09:04:40 PM »
What difficulty are you playing on?

Hard.  There's one setting of difficulty above me.

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Re: Dragon Age
« Reply #29 on: January 04, 2010, 02:26:50 AM »
I see, I'm rolling through on casual, so there's no friendly fire.