Keith Justice
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How many hours did you clock into it, unmei?
Dragon Age: Origins
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unmei
Member
I still a fair amount of side quests left unfinished, but I was getting to the point where I needed to see how everything ended!
As for this
I'm still trying to get a handle on the controls and what I can do from the radial menu. That and how my special attacks work. Some seem to recharge and others seem... to make my character glow.Not easy keeping track of everything when the whole screen blows up with action.
It's pretty much Activated (attacks, spells, special shots, have cooldown timers) vs Sustained (Think of them as stances if you're playing the rogue like you planned, you get more accurate but slower shots, faster shots with less accuracy, shots that distract the enemies doing less damage, but slowing them down, restricting their movement making it easier for the rest of your team to clean up, or making you more accurate or harder to hit in melee combat) Those are the ones that give you that little glow. They don't have a cool down time until you turn them off, but they take a set amount of your stamina/mana to sustain, you you have less to work with for special attacks.
Also keep in mind that this game is meant to be played strategically. If things are getting hectic, pause the game and assign moves to your team. The tactics system does a good job of setting up any amount of scenarios for your party members to follow using a lot of if=then scenarios, but you can always pause, and manually assign their next moves.
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KingRanger
Banned
Has anyone played the PC version of this game? I have heard it is so much easier to control than the console versions. I have also heard that the cameras are A LOT better on the PC version. Is any of this true?
Tenraisenpuujin
Black Version
Hey Keith, don't forget that you can actually check to see what stuff does in the radial menu by pressing X.
I'm currently in the midst of the Orzammar quest, having FINALLY gotten through [HIDE]the stuff with Arl Eamon (man, that **** took forever; on my evil play through, I am totally killing him if I can.)
[/HIDE] I am trying to do as many sidequests as I can; I just wish they were a little more free about how to deal with some of them. [HIDE]I really wish I'd been able to lie and tell the Chanter in Orzammar "sorry, the Shaper said no way," or similarly, when the Shaper voiced his objection, to be able to say "that's what I thought, just checking."[/HIDE]
This game is sweet buttery "okay, I will stop playing and go to bed at midnight... I mean one... oh hell, is it three already?" crack.
I'm currently in the midst of the Orzammar quest, having FINALLY gotten through [HIDE]the stuff with Arl Eamon (man, that **** took forever; on my evil play through, I am totally killing him if I can.)
[/HIDE] I am trying to do as many sidequests as I can; I just wish they were a little more free about how to deal with some of them. [HIDE]I really wish I'd been able to lie and tell the Chanter in Orzammar "sorry, the Shaper said no way," or similarly, when the Shaper voiced his objection, to be able to say "that's what I thought, just checking."[/HIDE]This game is sweet buttery "okay, I will stop playing and go to bed at midnight... I mean one... oh hell, is it three already?" crack.
unmei
Member
Very much so. The PC Version (provided you have a decent PC) is miles better. This comes from owning the PC version, and playing the PS3 and 360 versions. The interface just feels so much more natural compared to the cycling rings of the console versions. It plays very much like the Never Winter Nights series (or if you're not familiar with that, the PC version feels almost like an offline version of WoW, point, click, kill, hotkeys for attacks.) , it also includes a top down view that is missing from the console versions, which is useful for planning out strategies and ambushes.
I'm not typically a PC Fanboy, In fact I'll usually go for the console version unless I know it's jsut a port of the PC version like this is, with no extras, but considering how much more you get from the PC version than the console version... for $10 less, it's just ridiculous.
On a side note the difficulties on the PC version are different as well, the individual difficulties on the console versions were made easier to compensate for the lack of strategic view. Easy and Normal modes are easier. They start to balance out once you get to the harder difficulties though.
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KingRanger
Banned
Yeah that sold me. I plan on getting DA and ME2 for PC.
MrMonk
Member
I actually bought ME on 360, and then repurchased it on PC because it was that much better.
On DA:
Morrigan and I had a 'talk' in her tent. Leliana then confronted me about it, and I persuaded her that we were actually just talking. And then she confessed her love me.
Persuade is always wonderful in Bioware games.
unmei
Member
Gotta let a playa play.
unmei
Member
According to Bioware, you can still sue the blood armor code from the PC version to get the blood armor for the 360 version of ME2 if you want to go that rout.
Tenraisenpuujin
Black Version
Oh, and I'm my main is a female human rogue with Morrigan, Sten, and Alistair as my usual team. [hide]Sten's got the DLC Blood Dragon Armor and the two-handed sword from the meteorite incident, Alistair's tanking with the Warden Commander Armor from the Warden's Keep DLC. My female rogue's done the deed with Alistair and is currently seducing Leilani. And Morrigan and Sten are totally flirting. XD[/hide]
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