Dragon Age, anyone?

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Anyone else picked this up? I completed it earlier, and it is a pretty amazing game for anyone into RPGs and the like. Modern Warfare 2 is getting all the hype, but it never really interested me much. By all accounts, you can clock it in about five hours or something. Which is kind of similar to the first one. I don't play multiplayer much, so it really isn't worth the money for me.

But yeah, it's always good to get another heavy hitter RPG. It took me thirty something hours to get through and I missed some quests, I think. I recommend it.

I'm not sure if something like Oblivion is a good comparison. They're both RPGs but they go down different routes. Oblivion is open world do what ever you want kind of thing, where as Dragon Age is more linear but goes in a different direction. I guess if you've played other Bioware RPGs then you should have some understanding of what to expect.

There seems to be a lot of choices based on my play through and lots of different ways the quests can go. You get to pick and play through your character's 'origins' at the start of the game. It sets out your character's background and stuff. It's pretty cool. The characters you can pick for your 4 man party are interesting and some are particularly amusing. They like\dislike you more based on what you do when they're with you and they come and go depending on your decisions.

It is a pretty epic game in general. It's cool to get such a big thing to play through, particularly given the shortening nature of games these days. Length isn't always a good thing, but a lot of games don't seem to be such good value for money these days unless you're into multiplayer and all that.

I'm something of a Bioware fanboy, but I don't think you can go too wrong if you've liked their previous games. I didn't think the marketing campaign for the game was very well done. It had me concerned over what the game would turn out like. But yeah, it's all good.

I've tried playing it on "Hard", but I could never manage to stop getting the AI companions from hitting each other with their friendly fire. Playing it on "Easy" for the boss fights, and on "Hard" for everything else, eventually I'll get the hang of the combat system. I'm very much new to BioWare RPGs (although I am a seasoned veteran of JRPGs - those two genres couldn't be more different, as we both know).

I am having a fun time playing this game, though. I still need to level up a lot more before I try to kill Flemish again, though. That's one tough battle.

Dragon Age is pretty much Win. The voice acting is incredible, the gameplay actually challenging and immersive and the story is great. As a nice perk the graphics are magnificent, especially if you have a PC capable of handling it. The interactions between the characters is great as well, keeping Morrigan, Alistair and Shale in your party is a great way to keep a bit of humor going.

So far I haven't been able to stop playing the game, haven't gotten into a game this much since FFIX.

Do not compare this game to Oblivion. You can compare this game to Baldur's Gate or NWN if you want. I think the game is just fantastic for reminding me of Baldur's Gate. I beat it a few days ago on Nightmare. It's more fun and challenging when you switch from "Third Person, over the shoulder view" to Isometric. Turn off the AI and control the party members yourself. Plus you won't get pissed a lot. Take your time positioning your characters and it will be worth it.

I've played the game for six hours now, and am finding it difficult to go on. The game's plot and setting is dull and uninspired, and very slow. The gameplay is virtually identical to the Baldur's Gate series, which is decent, but the aforementioned issues make playing the game a slog.

Actually the game was horrible on loading times. I had to quit to main menu, restart the game, and then sometimes restart to fix "the lengthly loading times" Yes this would be avoided if I had a brand new shiny computer to play on. But you stick with what you got.

I picked it up for the Ps3. I love it. Load times could be a little better, but this is an old school party based RPG.

I don't think the loading times on the 360 are all that bad. But then again, I installed the game to my 360 hard drive, so that probably helped out quite a bit.

Stayed up until 4AM last night, and kicked the archdemon's ass after several attempts. True, I was only playing on "Easy" for the most part (since I am new to games of this type - if it were a JRPG-style game, the harder difficulty levels would present me with little trouble) - but that last battle still was insane at the lower difficulty level. And my Dalish Elf character also had gay sex with the assassin. Heh. It was a 25-hour first playthrough that gave me 490 gamerpoints, not bad at all IMO. I still need to purchase "Warden's Keep", however.

Dammit Bioware, get back up into space where you belong. I like the plots and cinematic scope of the games you release, but I just can never get into the fantasy genre... I want my Mass Effect 2 and Kotor mmo already...

Ive played Bioware's RPGs (NWN, NWN 2, Mass Effect), but im curious. Does it play more like NWN, or more like Mass Effect? And is it an open-ended world like Oblivion (cant stand the lack of direction in Oblivion)?