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Dragon Age Trailer: Welcome to Haven, Now Clear Off

by Alice O'Connor, Aug 21, 2009 10:40am PDT

Welcome to Dragon Age's city of Haven, which, like every other fictional city named Haven, conceals some manner of dark secret whose resolution will require bloodshed.

BioWare's RPG Dragon Age: Origins will hit PC and Xbox 360 on November 3, with the PlayStation 3 release later in the month. A free piece of downloadable content worth $15 will be included with new copies, presumably to make used copies unattractive.

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Am I the only shacker that thought The Witcher was terrible?

Aug 22, 2009 3:17pm PDT

Am I the only shacker that thought The Witcher was terrible? : dhvyse

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This looks straight out of five years ago. Super-low-res texture on the wood door, totally flat "stone" interiors, MMO-style terrain textures, flat water, rigid facial animation. I'll still probably buy it for the story and the RPG mechanics, but damn, these guys seriously need to update their tech.

Aug 21, 2009 11:38am PDT

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This looks straight out of five years ago. Super-low-res texture on the wood door, totally flat "stone" ... : qsylvr
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  Yeah. It looks bad; almost DirectX 8ish bad. I kind of feel sorry for the Bioware team working on this... : Dr_Cube
  - I'm not yet convinced it has gone wrong, but I suppose we'll see. : Arceihn

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You guys are so wrong about the graphics.

The Witcher: http://www.actiontrip.com/images/The%20Witcher_screenshot_01.jpg
NWN2: http://fallout3.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/nwn2.jpg
Mass Effect: http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2007/191/930279_20070711_screen002.jpg

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Dragon Age: http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/981/981331/dragon-age-origins-20090508042056686.jpg

DA looks as good, if not slightly better than ME1. Not as good as ME2, but as good as ME1. Definitely, definitely better than the Witcher or NWN2, and most certainly any MMO on the market. Name a MMO that comes close. The only sane comparison might be Age of Conan, but that is still vastly inferior.

Aug 21, 2009 4:28pm PDT

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You guys are so wrong about the graphics. The Witcher: http://www.actiontrip.com/images/The%20Witcher_... : Wisp!
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  ...you know that's a bullshot right? Photoshopped to the max? Let's see it in-game first. : azshack
  - I don't think he even knows what a bullshot is or he wouldn't have posted it. : Dr_Cube
  - Yes, I know what a bullshot is. But obviously I included it to further my pro-Dragon Age agenda, funded b... : Wisp!

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Wtf bioware. I loved BG 1 and 2 and ME. They have yet to show me any DA content that excites me or makes me interested.

Aug 21, 2009 10:25pm PDT

Wtf bioware. I loved BG 1 and 2 and ME. They have yet to show me any DA content that excites me or makes ... : d3tached

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The video doesn't do the game very much justice. Even I would think the graphics were crappy if I only had this video to go by.

Aug 21, 2009 4:57pm PDT

The video doesn't do the game very much justice. Even I would think the graphics were crappy if I only h... : djustifier

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Man I dunno, is it just me or does the 2 year old Witcher look better?

Aug 21, 2009 10:57am PDT

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Man I dunno, is it just me or does the 2 year old Witcher look better? : at0micgarden
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  The Witcher managed to turn the NWN Aurora engine into solid gold - It used a modification of the origina... : T-900
  - Big time modifications. : Fred Garvin

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It's the character texturing more than anything that's throwing it off.

And that's the stuff that stands out the most, especially when they insist on doing so many close-up shots.

The textures on the skin look too pale, too flat, insufficiently shaded... If they could just drop in a filter to make the *people* look a bit more lifelike it would help immensely.

Anyway, it looks like much of the actual gameplay is viewed some distance from the characters themselves, so maybe the devs didn't think it would matter as much? When you're doing the cinematics in the game engine... it matters.

Aug 21, 2009 3:46pm PDT

It's the character texturing more than anything that's throwing it off. And that's the stuff that stan... : SeraphielX

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I'm a bit surprised to see everyone complaining about the graphics here. Flashy visuals have never been the draw of BioWare games.

Aug 21, 2009 12:25pm PDT

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I'm a bit surprised to see everyone complaining about the graphics here. Flashy visuals have never been t... : Arceihn
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Looks kind of like a NWN2 mod.

Aug 21, 2009 10:57am PDT

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Looks kind of like a NWN2 mod. : melkore
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  Probably uses the same engine. The NWN2 engine is basically a heavily modified version NWN1 engine. : IndigoAK
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    NWN1&2 use the Aurora engine, I'm almost positive that DA uses a new one. Eclipse Engine maybe, but not s... : Navy Spitfire
    - NWN2 was the Electron engine. Parts of it were based on Aurora, but I believe the renderer and other part... : MillardKillmore
- Depressing isn't it, that The Witcher looks so good ;D : T-900

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Yep, it always comes down to bloodshed.
This ad reminded me a lot of Oblivion. Is this Oblivion with blood?

Aug 21, 2009 10:56am PDT

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Yep, it always comes down to bloodshed. This ad reminded me a lot of Oblivion. Is this Oblivion with blo... : zipr
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- I don't get how they're working on Mass Effect 2 and this title looks so shit in comparison, it's just st... : thebigbeefsandwich

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It looks so anaemic and generally pale. Everything's really stifled.

I was so excited when this game was announced, but I'll certainly give it a miss when it's released.

Aug 21, 2009 11:32am PDT

It looks so anaemic and generally pale. Everything's really stifled. I was so excited when this game ... : zooolander

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The graphics were not impressive at all here. Hopefully it's old or just not the game's best.

Aug 21, 2009 11:03am PDT

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The graphics were not impressive at all here. Hopefully it's old or just not the game's best. : DougL
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- They were like what you'd expect MMO quality graphics to be. And it's not am MMO. Sad. : phipple
- Ya my thoughts as well... So why would I buy this game apposed to NWN2 and all its expansions? (just s... : valcan_s

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