Dragon Age: Origins was built from the ground up for PC and ported to console late in the development cycle and it shows very obviously.
Absolutely buy it on PC. The interface works fantastically for a mouse and keyboard and was designed completely for it. The PC version also has the ability to optionally toggle between a 3rd person camera view and top down isometric viewpoint (based on the classic CPRG views of old) which is nowhere to be seen on console as it's 3rd person only. The isometric viewpoint helps significantly when quickly issuing group orders and gives a great view of the battlefield.
The 360 controls are quite cumbersome and issuing various group commands and movement orders become a chore which are pretty effortless on PC.
The difficulty on 360 was also toned down a lot by comparison in an attempt to let players play it via button mashing and you can't get friendly fire unless you crank up the difficulty, which is enabled by default on PC.
It's also buggier as well on 360.
Even professional reviewers have taken pretty significant note of the shoddy console versions, and reviewers tend to be extremely forgiving of ports and ignore PC games a lot.
Also, no clue what all this stuff about Dragon Age not working on Windows 7 64bit is. I own it and it works perfectly for me, along with everyone else I know. I have never heard of this issue before.
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As for Dragon Age 2, they switched to console development because the PC version didn't sell enough for the first game sadly. As a result, the sequel isn't all that great on PC. Although, honestly, it's a crap game anyway so I wouldn't bother playing it.
Absolutely buy it on PC. The interface works fantastically for a mouse and keyboard and was designed completely for it. The PC version also has the ability to optionally toggle between a 3rd person camera view and top down isometric viewpoint (based on the classic CPRG views of old) which is nowhere to be seen on console as it's 3rd person only. The isometric viewpoint helps significantly when quickly issuing group orders and gives a great view of the battlefield.
The 360 controls are quite cumbersome and issuing various group commands and movement orders become a chore which are pretty effortless on PC.
The difficulty on 360 was also toned down a lot by comparison in an attempt to let players play it via button mashing and you can't get friendly fire unless you crank up the difficulty, which is enabled by default on PC.
It's also buggier as well on 360.
Even professional reviewers have taken pretty significant note of the shoddy console versions, and reviewers tend to be extremely forgiving of ports and ignore PC games a lot.
Also, no clue what all this stuff about Dragon Age not working on Windows 7 64bit is. I own it and it works perfectly for me, along with everyone else I know. I have never heard of this issue before.
This, however, is true. If you play it for a few hours straight the loading time start to get steadily longer. It hasn't ruined the game for me by any extent, but it can become an annoyance over time and you may want to restart the game client every so often to refresh it. That said, I'm running on a pretty high end machine and have been since before the game came out, so it may be worse on lower systems, but while annoying, it's not too bad for me.Soviet Heavy said:
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As for Dragon Age 2, they switched to console development because the PC version didn't sell enough for the first game sadly. As a result, the sequel isn't all that great on PC. Although, honestly, it's a crap game anyway so I wouldn't bother playing it.
