Morning Discussion
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i picked up Dragon Age: Origins on the cheap as i didn't have any money when it came out. I'm about 2 hours in and im not too impressed. does it get better??
my main gripes with it is that the combat isn't very involving and its more of an "issue command" combat system.
although the dialogue and story seems to be going somewhere, i can't help but look at the characters and textures in general and cringe (im playing on xbox btw)
also, i feel there are a lot of things that havn't been explained to me yet about controls and menu content.-
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yeh, i'm learning skills, but the combat seems so automatic. i dont really need to touch the sticks, i can press A and let him walk over to an enemy and then leave him to do his thing. His stats dictate if he hits or misses, how much damage etc. doesnt matter how fast i mash the buttons or anything like that, my skill at combat in games accounts for naught in DA.
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"i dont really need to touch the sticks, i can press A and let him walk over to an enemy"
Well, your first problem is playing on a 360. Your second problem is not playing on a hard enough difficulty.
I really liked the combat on the higher difficulties, it made you use a lot of strategy, positioning, good use of elixers/salves/etc...
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ive never had anything near a top-of-the-range rig, but the 3 times ive bought PC games, (the last one being UT2004, in 2005) i alwayds had issues of crashing, crappy graphics and things generally being a pain in the ass.
i prefer the buy game, insert game, play game flow of consoles. Also, i enjoy knowing that the graphics i see on the box and in screenshots, are the ones i will be seeing when i run it on the console.
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i did a while back. enough to know it was a good enough game for me to play. I got it because it was a long game and wanted soemthing deep to get into when i'm not on bad company2. i picked a human warrior. i like fighting with 2 swords :D
i will stick with it, was just wondering if it's like RDR where the first couple of hours just bring you into it slowly or if it starts as it means to go on.
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I played through both origins and awakenings on 360 and had a blast. the game is an issue command game. the biggest issue (depending on what type of RPG gamer you are) is that if you play on the base difficulty, the game becomes excessively easy. this is because there is no friendly fire so i would just rush my tank into the middle of a horde and throw down AOE after AOE until everyone was dead.
And I would wait on doing the mage tower until the radial menu clicks and you can easily select spells/powers at will. It was one of the first places I went and holy hell was it frustrating due to the controls. Once it clicks though, it's actually pretty good and works as good as you could hope. Still not PC greatness though.-
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Yeah. It would be because no tactical view but the way I used it felt like an exploit since I'd just spam AoEs on my tank. But then again, there are good spells that are not AoE so it'd be possible to play w/o them or just cast the shield on your tank before doing so. I think it also scales up so it wouldn't be full damage if you just go up one tick. But I like to at the end to dominate in an RPG so it was fun for me.
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Later in the game, and on higher difficulties, combat becomes highly strategic and you need to play extremely close attention to everything that's going on. Unit placement, spells used (and in what order and on whom), equipment, potions etc etc. It can be very involved. Up the difficulty and you'll have more fun.
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