I've been playing Dragon Age: Origins steadily over the past week or so, and it is quite good. My expectations were rather low going in, due to not having read anything about the game for an entire year, and thus far it is one of the better games I've ever played. The storyline is undeniably epic, the characters likeable and dynamic and combat a mixture of MMO's and hack and slash RPG's.

It is a definite must have for all RPG lovers, and hell, even if you don't play many RPG's I think you'd like this game. It does have its flaws however, notably, the randomness of combat encounter difficulties. You can be progressing quite nicely thorough the game destroying all foes standing in your way and then come upon a random group of wolves or bandits who vastly outnumber you and prove difficult to defeat.

I do not fault the game for this however, it's more like a problem with my focus or complacency upon entering the battle, meaning I become to comfortable and forget I actually have to micromanage my characters if I plan on surviving more than a few moments.

Continuing with the RPG theme, I reinstalled The Witcher today and hope to start playing sometime tomorrow after Thanksgiving dinner, if I manage to stay awake that is. Every time I have started the Witcher I enjoyed it, but never finished the game due to school or other notable distractions. I intend to finish it this time as my Christmas vacation starts the 10th of December and I will have plenty of time to play games until school starts back the 4th of January.

That's the plan at least, I doubt it will go as well as I imagine.

I've been playing Dragon Age: Origins steadily over the past week or so, and it is quite good. My expectations were rather low going in, due to not having read anything about the game for an entire year, and thus far it is one of the better games I've ever played. The storyline is undeniably epic, the characters likeable and dynamic and combat a mixture of MMO's and hack and slash RPG's.

It is a definite must have for all RPG lovers, and hell, even if you don't play many RPG's I think you'd like this game. It does have its flaws however, notably, the randomness of combat encounter difficulties. You can be progressing quite nicely thorough the game destroying all foes standing in your way and then come upon a random group of wolves or bandits who vastly outnumber you and prove difficult to defeat.

I do not fault the game for this however, it's more like a problem with my focus or complacency upon entering the battle, meaning I become to comfortable and forget I actually have to micromanage my characters if I plan on surviving more than a few moments.

Continuing with the RPG theme, I reinstalled The Witcher today and hope to start playing sometime tomorrow after Thanksgiving dinner, if I manage to stay awake that is. Every time I have started the Witcher I enjoyed it, but never finished the game due to school or other notable distractions. I intend to finish it this time as my Christmas vacation starts the 10th of December and I will have plenty of time to play games until school starts back the 4th of January.

That's the plan at least, I doubt it will go as well as I imagine.