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    Dragon Age: Origins

    Game » consists of 20 releases. Released Nov 03, 2009

    Dragon Age: Origins is an epic fantasy role-playing game featuring a rich story, personality-driven characters, and tactical, bloody combat. It is considered a spiritual successor to the Baldur's Gate series.

    Dragon Age scores a 91% with PCAction

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    #1  Edited By DeviantJoker

    Germans love David Hasslehoff... and Dragon Age.

     PCAction is one of the big game magazines in Germany. In their latest issue they got to test Dragon Age Origins and rated the game with 91%, although mentioning it has a few flaws here and there.

     

    Pros

    • Great storytelling
    • Great staged fights
    • No questbugs found
    • Neat monster design
    • Nice soundscenery
    • High replay value

    Cons

    • Unfinished class balancing
    • Silent main character
    • Sometimes unfair random battles


    Unfinished class balancing and Unfair random battles
    - To me, this might be a "User Error". A lot of reviewers are finding this game difficult - even on normal setting. Unfinished class balancing makes me wonder if he did not efficienctly utilize the classes... hopefully it's not that one class was significantly underpowered compared to another. And I say "underpowered" because I definitely don't think any class is "overpowered" if everyone is complaining about difficulty.
     
    If Dave's QL is any indication, you really must keep your Archer's and Mage's shoved in the back - waaay back and keep them there. Do not lead with your main character unless he happens to be able to take an arrow or a fireball to the friggin face or slip out relatively easy (I will be leading with my stealthy/scouty rogue). Some amount of tact must be brought forth in this game. Party-Based Game.
     
    Anyways, second good review over seas. Wonder what the US reviews will think of it?
     
    Edit: Forgot to include ZEE LINK! The google translation of the article is semi-hilarious.
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    #2  Edited By piratepwnsninja

    What was the first good overseas review? I had only seen the 9/10 in Gameinformer prior to this.
     
    edit: n/m. I found it.

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    #3  Edited By buzz_killington

    The QuickLook made me go back and re-install Icewind Dale II. After playing that for half an hour, I realized why I stopped playing these kind of games.

    But Dragon Age looks neat. I might pick it up if the reviews for the console versions are good (I have a shit PC).

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    #4  Edited By bwooduhs

    Hopefully the console versions good too.

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    #5  Edited By flaminghobo

    Silent Main Character? Strange.

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    #6  Edited By DeviantJoker
    @FlamingHobo said:
    " Silent Main Character? Strange. "
    Ya, the your character has no VO unfortunately. You just the text dialogue you choose when encountering folks. Everyone else is voiced though.
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    #7  Edited By Linkyshinks

     Unfinished class balancing makes me wonder if he did not efficienctly utilize the classes    

    The Germans are known for their efficiency, so I doubt that, as much as I doubt German gaming publications to provide decent reviews for games. 
     
    I will wait on Dave's opinion... :)
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    #8  Edited By DeviantJoker
    @Linkyshinks said:

    "

     Unfinished class balancing makes me wonder if he did not efficienctly utilize the classes    

    The Germans are known for their efficiency, so I doubt that, as much as I doubt German gaming publications to provide decent reviews for games.  I will wait on Dave's opinion... :) "
    Fair enough. I won't argue with things I don't know. It'd be great if some US reviews popped up in the short weeks left remaining before the game launches and offers their opinions. Dave has said that the review should be up on game launch and as I won't be receiving the game until 3 days after the Nov 3rd release, this will be a welcome treat. 
     
    Although.. I know that day, I'm going to be twitching as everyone will have their hands on the game and I will yet be waiting. Sigh.
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    #9  Edited By flaminghobo
    @DeviantJoker said:
    " @FlamingHobo said:
    " Silent Main Character? Strange. "
    Ya, the your character has no VO unfortunately. You just the text dialogue you choose when encountering folks. Everyone else is voiced though. "
    Oh, that's alright then.
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    #10  Edited By AhmadMetallic
    @buzz_killington said:
    " I realized why I stopped playing these kind of games."
    why ?
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    #11  Edited By ArbitraryWater
    @DeviantJoker said:
    " @FlamingHobo said:
    " Silent Main Character? Strange. "
    Ya, the your character has no VO unfortunately. You just the text dialogue you choose when encountering folks. Everyone else is voiced though. "
    Yeah, I noticed that. It's kind of weird, considering how well Mass Effect did it. Then again, I assume Bioware didn't want to half-ass it and only have two different voice actors in a game with multiple races. It's not a huge deal, but having Shepard talk in Mass Effect really helped the immersion in that game.
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    #12  Edited By buzz_killington
    @Ahmad_Metallic said:
    " @buzz_killington said:
    " I realized why I stopped playing these kind of games."
    why ? "

    Too much to keep track off. These console games have made me lazy...
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