Dragon Age Origins

[Kawe / Dave]

Not been to a mountain temple yet, but did the forest area, which was very very cool. Also had some big reveals. In a city that has its own travel map and stuff going on!

Loving that fights often offer a real challenge; reminds me a lot of some of Strategy RPGs like Disgaea and Final Fantasy Tactics, but also with a bit of a small-scale RTS feel to it too a bit like the DS game FF12 Revenant Wings.

[Palmar]

I'm last hitting those darkspawns like a pro.

200+apm

[Goza]

Hopefully it'll play better than it looks in their onsite-videos.

(I'm so awesome, I'm quoting myself)
Yeah, way hotter than the lowres shit their PR guys released beforehand. Whoever made those videos should be fired ASAP.

A bit too much talking in some sections for my taste. More dialogues involving several characters please instead of those 30 minute monologues where some guy talks and talks and talks.

Also, some quests are confusing as they apparently get solved during random encounters while travelling on the world map.

I hate the economy system. Wtf stores selling stuff for 22g when my whole party has 4g. Is there some secret way to make money? Crafting? Stores selling for 3x the amount they buy items for - hello, this isn't some MMO that needs a goldsink to counter monster grinding :/
"In exchange for this bag (7g), I'll give you 20 swords, 40 armor items, 2 bars of gold and those 20 gems". Yeah, awesome...

Combat seems to have too much random factor now and then. Not unusual to get instagibbed by some uberspell while having no problems at all during the next try. Works the same with your own spells (fireball lol). Feels a bit like pre-resilience pvp.

[Goza]

Oh, and the quests themselves feel very linear. I haven't come across many quests that offer multiple ways of solving (actually only one single mini-encounter comes to mind). That's pretty lame.

Same with the dialogue options. Most of the time, they don't seem to have much influence. I'm feeling played for a sucker when there are 5 choices but 3 or 4 of them lead to exactly the same line.

[Daekesh]

I hate the economy system. Wtf stores selling stuff for 22g when my whole party has 4g. Is there some secret way to make money? Crafting? Stores selling for 3x the amount they buy items for - hello, this isn't some MMO that needs a goldsink to counter monster grinding :/
"In exchange for this bag (7g), I'll give you 20 swords, 40 armor items, 2 bars of gold and those 20 gems". Yeah, awesome...

As you level up, the gold income becomes greater.  Douche was telling me he'd bought that 138g staff in the tower yesterday, I was like WTF!.

Combat seems to have too much random factor now and then. Not unusual to get instagibbed by some uberspell while having no problems at all during the next try. Works the same with your own spells (fireball lol). Feels a bit like pre-resilience pvp.

I've not encountered any mob that has aoe-splatted me yet.  I'm only playing on normal, though.  All these encounters like revenants and ogres and so on just die fairly easily to good tactics...

[Goza]

Playing on normal, too. I learnt that LOS-ing is a good tactic against larger groups when possible. Those arcane-somethings in the mage tower sure do have some nasty spells if they get them off.

[Daekesh]

I stealth up behind them and 1-shot with riposte

It's the mages in the tower that gave me the most trouble actually, fireballs from 4 mages at the same time... nasty!

[Palmar]

Turns out game wants you to think!

I've bumped it down from normal to easy for now, seems like I was supposed to have been spamming health pots and not spending points in 2hander skills for your tank.

I might reroll actually, since I've made a lot of retarded decisions. Or I'll play catchup on easy till I've recovered from 6 levels of being dumb.

But yeah, the game is awesome

[Goza]

It's the mages in the tower that gave me the most trouble actually, fireballs from 4 mages at the same time... nasty!

Yeah, instagib. I don't use rogue/stealth, cba to micromanage. Does the AI use it itself?

Also I didn't notice the chick from the chantry was a rogue until I opened her char screen by accident. Before that she landed on my discard pile almost instantly.

[delling]

Ah, mages with fireballs? Reminds me of BG1 or 2, I forget which... some zone with a lot of fireballing mages. Durlag's Tower maybe?

Fun times...

[Goza]

The fireballs here are more like meteor strikes.

[Grishnag]

walking bomb is more fun to use then fireball anyway
and then you get virulent walking bomb (if i spelled that correctly) and i loved it even more

anyway fireballs you can target on the ground so you dont exactly have to damage your own party no?

anyway i was in a forest looking for witherfang and i decided to disturb the wards on one of those ancient gravestones... i do not recommend that i mean that revenant that pops up pretty much one shotted all my characters expect Shale the golem (he is awesome btw best tank in the game probably) just seems to me that a healer in your part is pretty nessasary

[delling]

Hehe. I didn't find Shale yet... guess he's from somewhere I haven't been -- only done the Urn and the Woods.

I did the Revenants OK, but if there's extra skeletons I have to set it to Easy.

Pot, pot, pot...

[Grishnag]

there were about 7 skeletons with that revenant which i had to use pots and heals and pots and everything for

also Shale is from DLC you got for pre-ordering or was it cause of the collectors edition... anyway one or the other im not sure which

edit: it might have been 5 skeletons i dunno
does anyone know where you can learn about being a blood mage or arcane warrior btw?

[delling]

Blood mage is from the Urn quest line (Jowan) -- you learn when you're in the Fade, I think.

Arcane warrior is from the dungeon in the Woods/Elves quest. There's a phylactery there that you need to 'listen' to.