Dragon Age Screenshots Detail Big Boss Battle

May 11, 2009 11:37 AM

Our latest glimpse of BioWare's upcoming Dragon Age: Origins (PC, PS3, 360) offers a look at the lead-up to and the resulting action found in one of the RPG's big boss fights.

All three versions of Dragon Age are slated to arrive this fall, though BioWare has yet to say exactly when. Keep an eye out for our hands-on impressions, coming soon.

Chris Faylor

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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Defacil

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May 11, 2009 11:48 AM

So is this still going to be like a 3D Baldur's Gate type RPG or will it be more action oriented like a third person Morrowind.
- riddleofsteel
  
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  May 11, 2009 11:55 AM
  
  Baldur's Gate style as far as I know. Is it just me or are some of the textures in these screenshots a little behind in the quality department? And also, the "new direction" shown in the trailer has me ambivalent about the game when before I was sure I would be buying it.
  - Defacil
    
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    May 11, 2009 11:58 AM
    
    Eh, any specific examples? I think the art and textures for the characters are well done. There is one screenshot where the armpit area of clothing is poorly jointed but that's so minor.
    
    To be honest though, I'm one of those gamers where realistic graphics needs to only go so far. For example, CoD4's realistic graphics is enough to satisfy me and anything above that is just gravy.
  - CapnBiggles
    
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    May 11, 2009 12:57 PM
    
    Looks pretty kick-ass to me.
  - -shadin-
    
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    May 12, 2009 10:29 AM
    
    Yeah, the "new direction" was a huge bucket of cold water thrown on my e-erection for this game. Now I'm not convinced this won't be a shallow hack n' slash RPG and nothing like the old BG games. People cheer Mass Effect, but it was pretty shallow compared to older BioWare titles.
- Arceihn
  
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  May 11, 2009 11:58 AM
  
  I think you get a choice of perspectives.
  - CapnBiggles
    
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    May 11, 2009 12:57 PM
    
    You do.