you have a damn good point ... also i played through DA origons and finished it a few days ago ... the end was a bit of a let down so i think the end killed it for me nowMr. Blik said:
Am I the only one that didn't like Dragon Age?
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see blizzard fans think dragon age ripped off warcraft, tolkien fans think dao ripped off tolkien and ad&d fans i am sure think dao ripped off ad&d cause all fantasy stuff has ripped each other off since the whole thing really took off and that would have been with tolkien and the hobbit and lotr.
Dao borrowed from every fantasy convention and added some interesting characters and packaged it the right way and managed to keep a certain old school feel to it.
now there are many fps children and oblivion fans where the style of combat is either chokingly obtuse or just downright stupid. since we only know how to shoot things and hack things up it must be a bad game if you have to control your whole party. really lest on the pc version you could set up your party pretty well with tactics slots and macros to handle themselves on most everything with rabid aoe use which the ai had no real great grasp on when and where to use aoe in its own but you could set it so you rarely had to touch your party.
pc even had mods to give your party 20 and 40 tactics slots so on the pc you could have so many different macros it got a bit confusing but it covered most any situation. so if you took a bit of time to dl some mods and set some macro triggers up you could play most of the game without ever having to micromanage your party. most of my dao experience was 3rd person i hardly ever used the top down zoom out option, and only for really really hard fights.
were there bad things about dao? sure the fact that it did not try to think outside the box more about the whole story. the fact the epic end battle was about as non epic as you can get, the darkspawn seemed more or less a joke, instead of a dangerous threat.
the good stuff? well it had a great world with alot of conflicting interests, each race was a bit different than the norm for most fantasy stuff it was interesting. the journey getting to the end was fun period. there were enough different options just in the storyline you could play through the same class 2 or 3 times and do things different and get different outcomes. the characters as usual for a bioware game were mostly fun to hang with and listen to. even the annoying ones could hove good moments. and as usual with a bioware game it forces you to make hard choices where you have to live with the consequences.
Dao borrowed from every fantasy convention and added some interesting characters and packaged it the right way and managed to keep a certain old school feel to it.
now there are many fps children and oblivion fans where the style of combat is either chokingly obtuse or just downright stupid. since we only know how to shoot things and hack things up it must be a bad game if you have to control your whole party. really lest on the pc version you could set up your party pretty well with tactics slots and macros to handle themselves on most everything with rabid aoe use which the ai had no real great grasp on when and where to use aoe in its own but you could set it so you rarely had to touch your party.
pc even had mods to give your party 20 and 40 tactics slots so on the pc you could have so many different macros it got a bit confusing but it covered most any situation. so if you took a bit of time to dl some mods and set some macro triggers up you could play most of the game without ever having to micromanage your party. most of my dao experience was 3rd person i hardly ever used the top down zoom out option, and only for really really hard fights.
were there bad things about dao? sure the fact that it did not try to think outside the box more about the whole story. the fact the epic end battle was about as non epic as you can get, the darkspawn seemed more or less a joke, instead of a dangerous threat.
the good stuff? well it had a great world with alot of conflicting interests, each race was a bit different than the norm for most fantasy stuff it was interesting. the journey getting to the end was fun period. there were enough different options just in the storyline you could play through the same class 2 or 3 times and do things different and get different outcomes. the characters as usual for a bioware game were mostly fun to hang with and listen to. even the annoying ones could hove good moments. and as usual with a bioware game it forces you to make hard choices where you have to live with the consequences.
You left out my chosen option: agree with you.
Am I the only one who is noticing a bit of backlash against the Bioware fanboyism that, at one time, seemed rampant on this forum?
Am I the only one who is noticing a bit of backlash against the Bioware fanboyism that, at one time, seemed rampant on this forum?
you basically summed it all up on what i was going to saycerebus23 said:
bioware does things differently, people come into the games going "WHAT IS THIS?!?" well..its bioware, if you dont like it, then oh well
they took alot of good ideas from all over and added em up and stirred up the pot and honestly i really liked the game but i do admit for sure that there was faults and boring parts here and there, but i loved it alot more than the average hack and slash rpg that has been the standard for some time