But its the new craze right now. We all know how well it was implemented in ME2. Every game must have it!!!!! Really though I agree with you, give me a different country, new faces to love (and hate) and new problems to solve.

But the new patch is on the way, which 'seems' to be dealing with most of these new crashes to desktop.

I cant remember why I havent played in ages, but for me I always pumped up dexterity instead of cunning, dodgeing attacks and just dishing out a ton of damage, my rogue was fun.


I disaggree DAO has a different team to ME and choices should be a carry over to the rest of theworld of DA, not to mention the arc will likely follow morrigan. So choices should carry over and we will likely still see fereleden, along with other parts of the world.

Leliana is one of my favorite characters, so I'm going to seriously think about it. Its playing as Leliana that is making me think about it. Depending on how I'm playing a character makes my character; playing as an npc that has a set character who interacted with my character and who I normally react to isn't going to be the same, if that makes any sense.

Return to Ostagar isn't bad, necessarily, but it isn't great exactly either. You get another chance to get the key to the mages' chest [which may have different contents than if you get it when you're there at first; I haven't made a new character to try that yet], and a second chance to get Dog if you haven't already. Taking Wynne and Alistair was interesting, but taking Wynne and the "secret companion" was a little more interesting in terms of dialogue, to me. Different viewpoints on characters. YMMV.

Darkspawn Chronicles is *not* a part of the story. It is a standalone, fight on teh evul side hack and slash. While you can take out your frustrations on party members who are normally untouchable, you also end up killing party members you like. Its a fun diversion, but I wouldn't have played an entire game set up like it.

I did both possibilities with the Messenger. I'm still trying to figure out why a Grey Warden would not take care of a darkspawn, intelligent or not? If he isn't taken care of the epilogue points out that isolated outbreaks of blight disease keep happening, every place the "hooded avenger" is seen. My pc is the Grey Warden Commander; I don't want to be responsible for spreading the blight, or for that matter, killing the tainted people who have been exposed. The game makes it clear there are two choices if someone is tainted; if they undergo the Joining quickly enough they may survive to be a Grey Warden and die later, either in battle with darkspawn or of the Calling, or if they don't attempt the Joining they have to be killed so they don't taint others. Since Ostagar my Warden has been fighting to eliminate the blight. Just because the Messenger wasn't blatantly hostile isn't enough for me to not kill him. I think part of it is also knowing *how* he got to be intelligent; the Architect has a lot to answer for, and no, I don't buy his explanation of how he got Warden blood for his version of the Joining, dead or not they were dead because of him.

Huh.

Guess I'll wait for that new patch before I reinstall the game.

It is, but they're taking their sweet time on it. The bugs in 1.03 and Awakening have been well-known for three months now. And there's no guarantee that they'll fix everything, or make a whole bunch of other things even worse.


Problem, though, is that depending on your choices concerning Morrigan, her arc could very well be over. If you don't give her the Black Grimoire, then we don't get the friction between her and Flemeth (or at least, not anymore than was already there), and if you don't do the Dark Ritual, then the whole issue of the god-baby becomes moot. If Morri's unfinished business is going to be satisfactorily addressed in the future, a canon of some sort is going to have to be established.

As for setting, there are a lot of other places in Thedas that sound interesting and are worth exploring in depth. Like Orlais (powerful empire with a corrupt and decadent court, and the seat of power for the Chantry), the Anderfels (where the Grey Wardens run things), Tevinter (home of the Black Chantry and the only remaining magocracy), and Seheron (Qunari central). We've already seen Ferelden and what it has to offer.

I'm not really to concerned which country the next game takes place in but I really hope that we get to visit the black city.

Just saw the trailer for lelianas song, am I the only one who prefers her hairstyle then to the one we have now ?

About to play for the 1st time. Anyone have any suggestions for race/class?

I like her old hairstyle better

I started another mage origin (I gave up on my mages a while ago so I'm about to try again)

Hopefully with my new tactics I'll have a better experience than I have in the past with my mages so we'll see how that goes

Look, you've got six origins. Try them all out and experiment with different classes and talent selections in each, and see what you like best.

The warrior is probably the easiest character to learn how to play but in the end mages become much more powerful and more fun (imo of course). My first character was a Mage and I enjoyed it a lot, although I don't really like the Mage origin (I hate the fade). Anyway I'd recommend you play as a Mage or a warrior; race doesn't really matter very much, the only combo you can't do is dwarf mage, otherwise any race can become good at any class. Just as a warning, for a new player this game can be pretty challenging, even on normal, so don't be afraid to turn down the difficulty if you need to.

I recommend Mage for your first character just because of how OP they are,the game can be really hard..but they make it easy mode.

Nice for getting used to the combat system 'n such.

Old as in the one she has in the trailer from when she was younger, or the one we have in the game ?

Ok, after multiple failed attempts at creating a mage worthy of being a Paladin (Arcane Warrior and Spirit Healer specialties) I think I have finally settled on a design that Im comfortable taking through the entire game. My question to you is this, what are some good offensive spells that would fit with this style of mage? I want to be able to heal when needed, fight, and cast either boost spells for my comrades or damage spells for offensive purposes. Whats better and what spells fit?

Ah not like the elaborate hairstyles we wore in Orlais, now she smells of wet dogs and has hair like a boy!

Fireball does good damage and knocks many enemies down, cone of cold is great crowd control, crushing prison is really powerful and you could also try the Storm of the century combo for insane damage. Those are probably my favorite spells.

I don't know if it's been mentioned on this forum, but I just read that "Dragon Age" will be made into an anime. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45379

Straight to video though.

So I picked up DAO and Awakening for the PC since they were on sale on Steam, but, disappointingly, the textures are even blurrier than the PS3 version, and I have the graphics and texture settings turned up as high as they go. Is this common? I mean, I went through DA Nexus, and found 4Aces HiRes pack, but the vanilla screens show in the comparisons are far sharper than http://members.cox.net/canus/Gal_202.jpg. Any ideas?

I have mine set tot he max and don't have that blurriness your screenshot does. Not sure what to tell you. but maybe someone more knowledgeable about settings and stuff can answer

Well first off I put off playing this game because as I+I was causally checking this game for its rating (I like checking that!) it said "partial nudity" which made me completly put it down! Yet I found another game with the same thing that said it was rated T!

What does that even mean then, will this be a major issue if I bought the game?

Also is the storytelling of the game worth it, i.e are the as origins "dynamic"as they claim to be?

I haven't seen any nudity so far, and the origins are pretty irrelevant after the first half hour or so. They're brought up occasionally in conversation, but that's about it.

I'm werid any nudity breaks the game for me!

So if anyone can surely answer this question then please do!

Thanks for the response but would you consider the conversations "dynamic" then?

Unmodded, as far as I know the game has no nudity, all characters have underwear. There are "romance" scenes, but nothing is "revealed" (and you don't have to pursue any romance anyway.)

I merged your thread with the active Dragon Age topic.