Why should I play Dragon Age? And some questions too about the game?

[Dr. wonderful]

Questions:
1. Are the optional quests more story driven, action driven, or MMO driven (kill x number of creatures, go find missing person or item).
2. Is the story predictable (good guys must go destroy this great evil) or unpredictable?
3. What makes Dragon Age different from other rpg's?

I have been playing the Witcher (and I do like it), but the "go talk to this person" quests are getting tiresome. If Dragon Age is like that, no thanks.

All WRPGs (and JRPGs) are like that.
This game isn't for everyone. If DA were a game for you, you would have already known.

lol dude you managed to say absolutely nothing

the game will be too hard for you.

...I think he will get it.


Also US witcher sucks, you should have gone to get the UK version.

 

[adrian_exec]

3. Nothing. It's pretty much Neverwinter Nights, but better. It doesn't innovate, but it perfects!

Yup, it does feel a lot like Neverwinter Nights 2, so if gold_digger22 liked Neverwinter Nights than he would also enjoy Dragon Age.

I also strongly recommend it, especially with Stone Prisoner and Return to Ostagar DLC.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Questions:
1. Are the optional quests more story driven, action driven, or MMO driven (kill x number of creatures, go find missing person or item).
2. Is the story predictable (good guys must go destroy this great evil) or unpredictable?
3. What makes Dragon Age different from other rpg's?

I have been playing the Witcher (and I do like it), but the "go talk to this person" quests are getting tiresome. If Dragon Age is like that, no thanks.

I've just started out playing Dragon Age Origins, and so far the story has been pretty predictable. But there are four main things that stand out to me.
1. The dialogue is simply awesome. Not only the detail in characters backgrounds, but also their random talking with one another, on more than one occasion I couldn't help but laugh at interactions between characters.
2. Detail in general, it's just such a...real world, as everything is really well fleshed out and sometimes believeable.
3. Optional Quests are pretty awesome, sometimes you do things to back up areas of the main quest and give you an increased chance of success (like Mass Effect 2), and even when they r gress to simply find and kill the combat system makes up for it.
4. You can play as mother-fucking dwarf with a big-ass axe. Honestly, what more can you want from a game? Well you could be a dwarf using two axes at once....AND THAT'S POSSIBLE!!!

this.

they basically take old school type combat, and take alot of classic ideas, and do them really well, and like the poster above me said, they make the world REAL and very immersive. they are not just npc's...dammit i care about those characters!

dont look necessarily for anything NEW or genre changing, but overall it brings together alot of solid ideas and wraps it up pretty nicely into whatever you make of it (the storyline that is)

if you do get it..my favorite origin is human noble, i think it is the most polished with the story.

 

[Judgement101]

1-Yes, but quests are sort of annoying
2-Predictable
3-Basically its single player WoW

 

[Axolotl]

As most reviewers said the main flaws are that you get to chose what race you are and you don't fight like a Spartan.

 

[Sephychu]

snippage

Which part did you not like?


Dragon Age is great fun to play. At the beginning, the side quests are quite monotonous, but the main quests are momentous and really interesting.

Story line is very BioWare. "I am [Important figure from absolutely nowhere], and I request the help of [important figure previously existing] to help me fight [world consuming chaotic evil]."
However, there are some points you couldn't predict, but whether those appear or not depends entirely on choices you make.

It isn't different from other RPGs. It combines the best elements of BioWare's other RPGs for a refined and great game.

The Deep Roads. That was just horrible.

I'd also like to add that the banter and conversations between your party when out on the road can be very funny and one of the little details in the game that make it that bit better.

Ah, yes. I had suppressed that memory.

I asked because some people oft say the Sloth demon, but I found that quite trivial.

 

[Durendarte]

I love the game, it's very "tried and true" and polished, but doesn't take chances and for that it fell short of The Witcher.

The Witcher had tougher choices with deeper consequences, a darker and harsher atmosphere and a smarter plot. It does have quite a few technical issues (though the Enhanced Edition fixed this), but it was a deeper and more all-around more engaging experience than Dragon Age.

Still, they're both great games that are worth experiencing

 

[squid5580]

The only problem with it is IT IS GETTING REALLY EXPENSIVE!!! I must be over the $200 mark by now. Though no regrets.

 

[Outamyhead]

Questions:
1. Are the optional quests more story driven, action driven, or MMO driven (kill x number of creatures, go find missing person or item).
2. Is the story predictable (good guys must go destroy this great evil) or unpredictable?
3. What makes Dragon Age different from other rpg's?

I have been playing the Witcher (and I do like it), but the "go talk to this person" quests are getting tiresome. If Dragon Age is like that, no thanks.

1. All the quests are driven by action and solving puzzles, up to you if you want to do them.

2. Seeing as the ending has at least 5 endings I can think of I'd say it's unpredictable,

3. Think of Dragon Age as a medieval version of KOTOR, with a bigger skills tree to choose from, and probably more flexible on how you can sway your character and party members emotions besides light or dark side, heck they could just leave all together, or you can tell them to get lost.

 

[Sir Bob]

No, its too slow paced and waaaaay to hyped..

It's essentially THE fantasy game. As in it's the amalgamation of everything that's good about fantasy in one nifty package. Not a terrible lot of originality, but you don't come in expecting that.

Odd, I viewed it as everything bad about fantasy RPGs brought together into one package.

^ Also this.

The classes are all unoriginal, so are all the races and places. For a game so heavily based on story it does not promote reading all the texts at all, and the 'Codex' system (for Xbox) is a nuisance at best.

 

[Weaver]

IMO this game appeals to old school RPG fans and fantasy nerds, if you can't immerse yourself in a world, care about characters and back story to everything than this game probably isn't for you. I loved it personally.

 

[TOGSolid]

The Deep Roads. That was just horrible.

And the mage tower lasts forever.

But apart from those 2 parts, the game is awesome. I pretty much agree with everyone else here, so I'm not gonna repeat the "slightly predictable but blaa blaa blaa" thingy.

I felt that the Mage Tower was a quicky. Once you do it once, it's an absolute cakewalk the next time and the first time isn't that bad either. The Deep Roads were a nightmarish fuckhole that Bioware should be smacked around for.

No, its too slow paced and waaaaay to hyped..

It's essentially THE fantasy game. As in it's the amalgamation of everything that's good about fantasy in one nifty package. Not a terrible lot of originality, but you don't come in expecting that.

Odd, I viewed it as everything bad about fantasy RPGs brought together into one package.

^ Also this.

The classes are all unoriginal, so are all the races and places. For a game so heavily based on story it does not promote reading all the texts at all, and the 'Codex' system (for Xbox) is a nuisance at best.

The game is a clone of Dungeons and Dragons. All the spells are clones, all the classes are clones, all the races are clones. Dragon Age is intentionally meant to be a throwback to the Infinity Engine days (all those games were D and D). I'm not sure at what point this was not obvious. Maybe if they packaged nostalgia goggles in every box?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/326.170030 <--My review of Dragon Age. Should help you decide on whether to purchase this game or not. Anyone who says this game is like WoW really doesn't know a god damn thing about video games, so just ignore them.

 

[Axolotl]

The game is a clone of Dungeons and Dragons. All the spells are clones, all the classes are clones, all the races are clones. Dragon Age is intentionally meant to be a throwback to the Infinity Engine days (all those games were D and D). I'm not sure at what point this was not obvious. Maybe if they packaged nostalgia goggles in every box?

DnD was turnm based, none of this RTw/P nonsense. Besides the whole system lacks anywhere near the depth of the IE games, and to be honest there wasn't much depth there to begin with, at least with the combat.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

if you do get it..my favorite origin is human noble, i think it is the most polished with the story.

I tried most (maybe all?) of the origins. The two best were Human Noble and City Elf. It's too bad the story took a nose dive into mediocrity after the origin. I could have done without another tale of Sauron and his orcs the Archdemon and darkspawn trying to conquer Middle Earth Ferelden.

A more solid (and individual) continuation of the the story set up in each origin would have impressed me.

And now back to the quirky but fun Trinity Universe. How I missed Flonne!

i will agree the world is very parallel with alot of the same old same old for LOTR and stuff, but i didnt quite delve into that world growing up..so im not that bored or overdone with it, so dragon age i didn't get bored with that easily, plus the characters i really liked so that helped alot.


what game is the trinity universe?

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

It's essentially THE fantasy game. As in it's the amalgamation of everything that's good about fantasy in one nifty package. Not a terrible lot of originality, but you don't come in expecting that.

Odd, I viewed it as everything bad about fantasy RPGs brought together into one package.

Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. Aside from a few parts mentioned before such as the Deep Roads (Going through again on my second play through, fun!), I found nothing wrong with it.
Again, the game never claimed to be original. It's just what it'd be like if everything cliched about RPGs and fantasy media in general came together in one package, for better or for worse.
Besides, you'll definitely get your money's worth if you enjoy it.

The best thing to say is if you like RPGs, you'll very likely enjoy Dragon Age. Just don't go in expecting anything groundbreaking or nonlinearity.