Dragon Age Origins

[Grishnag]

the best origen imo is both of the dwarves

my first playthrough was a female elf mage with blood magic and arcane warrior as specializations
you could tank very well as a arcane warrior if you specced right (i didnt but it was nice anyway)
blood magic gives a large aoe stun that you can target on the ground and doesnt give any sort friendly fire either it is a very nice spell

anyway my second playthrough which im doing now is as a dual wield warrior with beserker and another specialization not sure if i want to try a champion templar or reaver
playing a city elf for the sole reason that you get a skill in dual wield at the start bit of a meh start though

[treachery]

playing an elf mage speced towards healing/cc. im level 9 but havent found any specialization yet. i wanna grab spirit healer and...dunno the second. maybe i should have learned blood magic from the demon in radcliffe but i like to be nice.. so i killed it instead :s

anyway, great game.

[Monstar]

You do know all you need to do is unlock the achievement. So save before, go down the 'bad' route and get Blood Magic, then load up saved game and continue as you like.

[Grishnag]

you get spirit healer from a book in denerim's market district
you also keep all the speciliazations you unlocked in your second playthrough... or atleast with me it did

[Daekesh]

Once u've unlocked a specialisation, it's always unlocked forever.  What Sint did was save before buying the books, then reload the game.  Saved himself 15g each time...

[delling]

What a frickin' cheat!

I bet he hammered quicksave throughout the game too, in case he died.

[kagemoth]

If u die is it a Game over start again or are there checkpoints atleast.

[Daekesh]

u load your last save... there are autosaves every time you zone.

[Douchebag]

What a frickin' cheat!

I bet he hammered quicksave throughout the game too, in case he died.

Yes, he said he saved after every battle

[kawe]

loel

[delling]

Better than shitting dick nipples.

[kawe]

I want to know what it was!

[Goza]

Finally finished it. 50h playtime, wtf. Got a bit stale in the 3rd quarter (for me: the dwarf quests) cause there was nothing new to do, no new interesting spells/skills left etc. Fun again at the landsmeet.

Hate the economy system with a vengeance, spending 80+% of all my money on mats for health/mana potions even with a main healer in the party. Couldn't buy anything else but the skill books and some bags.

Well, ended up with ~100 spare potions in the end, who would know the end battle would be so fucking easy when every other (mini)boss had my casters chew thru potions like mad. Grmpf.

Anyone else noticed how the prerendered cutscenes look way worse than the ones done ingame? Why even include them.

[delling]

I still have the final battle to go. Not done it yet. But I assume the game doesn't end when I do it -- and I can still fill in any quests I haven't done yet?

Economy definitely not great.

Too much combat in the game imo. Couple that, with lots of dialogue, and you can see where all the hours go.

[Goza]

No, game ends when you do the big battle. Short epilogue and that's it.

So do your side quests before that.

Oh, and no need to save your army for later stages. I did that and ended up with 95% of it left.