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Batman: Arkham Asylum wins my game of the year award as well, with Dragon Age is right behind it.

>> ^berticus:
i FINALLY get a gay romance option in a videogame... and it's with that irritating elf dork! i wanted to get it on with the way more awesome and funny Alistair, but of course he only liked the ladies...
... actually this is a lot like reality.


You could enable romance with Alistair from the PC console, even with a male character.

What sort of retard reviews a game after playing through the first section of the first level? For someone who's so good at bashing games (rightly so more often than not) it's a shame that when a truly unique one comes out he can't even be bothered to give it the effort. Honestly, Demon's Souls is easily the game of the year, there's no shortage of great games that came out lately, RPG-wise there's the amazing Dragon Age, but even Dragon Age in all its greatness doesn't achieve what Demon's Souls does and it's so rare that developers try at such unique innovation that when they succeed so beautifully they should be commended again and again.

>> ^demon_ix:
Everyone knows people who pick Elves in RPGs are fags, though it's usually in the South Park meaning of the word


Hey hey hey, hold on a minute.

I got a Dalish Elf Rogue equipped pretty good. You should see what he does to Morrigan!

So like, when's the game going to be live? I need a new fix to get me off my M.U.L.E addiction. Which got me off my Dragon Age addiction. And THAT, got me off my World of Warcraft addition.

I keep saying I'm gonna do this with Dragon Age, suddenly I have cold feet though

I'm maybe 10 or 15 hours in to Dragon Age on the PC and I've got to say the game has me hooked. Background: I'm an experienced RPG and MMO gamer, but haven't played any of Dragon Age's predecessors.

The combat has a steep learning curve, even for an experienced MMO'er like me, but outside of that I'm very impressed with the level of polish in the game. The voice acting and story and facial animation are surprisingly compelling. I even find the slightly alien "neutral" look that characters usually wear interesting. Maybe it's good enough that it's not in the uncanny valley, so instead of evoking "kill it with fire" it evokes stoic confidence.

I'm certainly liking this game much more than Oblivion, which I felt was a let down compared to Morrowind.

I'm just glad I don't need to fight a golem made of this stuff in Dragon Age.

Milkman dan is exactly right. It's not quite as free a baldur's gate, but baldur's gate was by no means a fully open world either. It's easier to crank out maps and locations in a BG style environment hence easier to create a game and make good profit from the work you put in.

Have we had a PERFECT reincarnation of BG using modern day gaming standards? Not yet, but it was close. Maybe it's a holy grail we're looking for, all us die hard BG fans.

I will however admit that the side quests and storyline in BG were so incredibly involved and engorging. Dragon age did not drag me in as much. I was absolutely infatuated with Leliana's accent and when i realised i could get my sexy redhead elf girl to get it on with the sexy orlaisian bard temptress, i was obsessed with getting that to happen.

I don't think that counts, though. I believe it was Durlag's Tower that i always remember most of all from any game, ever. The story and depth of that place was immense, you were slowly taken through the dwarf's footsteps and his eventual decline into insanity which led him to kill all his loved ones. That storyline really blew my socks off, and it didn't need lesbian sex or a hugely attractive exotic accent to do it.

Alright, Dragon Age isn't QUITE our new baldur's gate, but it's been the best contender by miles and miles. Maybe if this one does so well and we show our appreciation for the display of quality in areas that we most wanted it, they'll be able to improve on it and give us more. And maybe then we'll have our new baldur's gate.

Despite being ported to multiple systems I've noticed a distinct lack of consolitis, which is a lot more than can be said of many of Bioware's multi-system games. Mass Effect while a fun game, had a terrible UI. The inventory system lacked anyway to sort items and the item upgrade comparison was limited to who was in your party ATM. The in game video options menu was just horrid. You actually couldn't select some video settings because the interface was so screwed up it made clicking on them impossible. Anyways, Dragon Age didn't have any of that, I couldn't guess by playing the game it had counterparts on console systems. So to that I say, thank you Dragon Age development team for making the PC version a true PC version and not some hastily cobbled together port. Only problems I've noticed are some map and clothing clipping problems.

I'm watching this video while waiting for my wife's television program to end so I can play Dragon Age til 3:00 AM again tonight. Which I've been doing nearly every night since the game came out.

I was expecting Yahtzee to mention the Revenant. Fucking Revenant. Usually when they show up my entire party is dead before I can figure out which button to push in order to get control back after I accidentally push every button on the controller in a blind panic.

>> ^Drax:
Well, for the record all the level scales in DA have caps. They all fall within a certain range (Which Obscuro's Oblivion Overhaul does to some extend too), vanilla Oblivion scaled with you all the way through.


That's interesting. It would explain why, if you just go stubbornly down in one direction from the outset, you eventually run into stuff that's just out of your league. If by chance the first place you go is to fight the god damn dragon on the mountain, his difficulty isn't going to scale down to your crappy equipment and skills.

I sort of like it, even if it means I have to go back to certain areas later. In Oblivion, you got the sense that armor just gets progressively prettier, and monsters get larger, but behind that it's all calculated to be of a bland unchanging difficulty.

For everyone commenting on the game I'd like to hear the platform your playing on. I can't undersand people comparing it to Mass Effect or KotOR. With those I played in third person/FPS perspective. With Dragon Age on the PC I mostly play from an isometric point of view. This gives a much better tactical overview and is quite necessary when using the powerful area of effects spells (but only if friendly fire is on).

I've played it for about 20 hours and I still don't know if I really like it. It's good, but the worlds of KotOR, Mass Effect, and especially Fallout 3, and Morrowind, and even Risen had much bigger draw on me.

Big downside of Oblivion was the level scaling and quite repetitive world. But this could be solved by installing the overhaul which removed leveling and made the game much more interesting.
The level scaling in Dragon Age can be pretty annoying when you have quite high level characters and suddenly a large group of wolves become a danger. Or a large group of thugs which you should be able to kill easily. Also making a good party is quite tricky. Because if I just want to using a quite important skill like lock picking, that means I have to have a 'weak' rogue in my team.