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Posted: 11-06-2009 10:42 PM

Anyone got this? Looks pretty good and seems to be getting rave reviews.

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Mat Linnett
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Posted: 11-06-2009 11:30 PM

So far, so Bioware. In other words, I'm sure it'll be a good game, but the characters and story are nothing new, and truth be told, rather bland.

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shaft
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Posted: 11-07-2009 12:04 AM

I just started it.

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Posted: 11-07-2009 12:27 AM

Mat Linnett wrote:
So far, so Bioware. In other words, I'm sure it'll be a good game, but the characters and story are nothing new, and truth be told, rather bland.

Well, I've never played Baldur's Gate I/II or any of the Neverwinter Nights, so perhaps that's why this has me a bit more interested

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Posted: 11-07-2009 06:44 AM

I'm up to level 10. It's nothing mindblowingly new, but it plays really well, and is really enjoyable. My only complaint is that when there's a large number of enemies, combat can get a difficult to sort who's doing what to who.

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Posted: 11-07-2009 07:08 AM

too much dialogue...

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Posted: 11-07-2009 08:40 AM

go fuck off and die already

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Posted: 11-07-2009 10:12 AM

lol u mad?...

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Posted: 11-07-2009 03:57 PM

Dark Metal wrote:
I'm up to level 10. It's nothing mindblowingly new, but it plays really well, and is really enjoyable. My only complaint is that when there's a large number of enemies, combat can get a difficult to sort who's doing what to who.

I got up to level 8 or so, it's great fun. The graphics are really good, dialogue and voice acting is high quality. Unlike Oblivion's frozen statue conversations, in this game people actually have facial expressions, they move about a bit, the camera angle changes and there was even a "walk and talk". Agreed about the combat though, it does get fiddly with too many enemies and party members on the screen. I think they should have been more lax with their collision detection.

My favourite bit so far is your dog being a party member. Man's best friend and all that. I named him after my first childhood dog

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MKJ
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Posted: 11-08-2009 05:01 AM

how very Fable

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Posted: 11-08-2009 05:03 AM

WAT?! Fable was garbage.

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Posted: 11-08-2009 05:10 AM

it also had your faithful dog as a partymember
settle down

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Posted: 11-08-2009 05:14 AM

Oh =[

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Posted: 11-08-2009 09:57 AM

the dog is quite good. although I swapped him for a rogue. you end up with more people in your squad than you can play with so you can swap them in/out as needed.

the game is really good so far.

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Posted: 11-08-2009 11:45 AM

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Posted: 11-08-2009 11:56 AM

the four locations and ancient civ isnt really applicable to the BG series.
noone tells you to go to those four locations, and they cant be done in the order of your choosing. they simply are 4 locations you stumble upon; there can be many more.

and the Underdark is not directly relevant to the story, especially not in BG1. more importantly, its not a Bioware invention.

other than that, spot on

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MKJ
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Posted: 11-08-2009 11:56 AM

yes im quite the nerd

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Posted: 11-08-2009 12:43 PM

Fender wrote:
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The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Clichés: http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html

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Posted: 11-08-2009 01:05 PM

Don't worry Trans, it has an 'Easy' mode so you can play it.

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Posted: 11-08-2009 02:22 PM

If it has a 'Free Achievement Mode', that would be even better.

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Posted: 11-22-2009 02:06 PM

How freaking long is this game eh?! I've been playing it semi-regularly for about 2 weeks now and it's telling me I've only finished ~34% [just got to the landsmeet bit]. But then again, I am doing virtually every quest I can find.

True that there's tons of dialogue, but I think most of it is fairly well executed. The voice acting is particularly good [I especially like Leliana's accent, I could hear her say "Allow me, I could do that for you." all day].

Also, the Zero Punctuation review:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... ge-Origins

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Posted: 11-22-2009 02:20 PM

So another 4000 hour long game with dragons, orcs, midgets and elves. Yawn.

Why is it that 99% of all RPGs are the same fucking game? And why do people keep buying them? Are they really looking forward to speaking to more NPCs?

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Posted: 11-22-2009 02:41 PM

Well, real people won't talk to me so I've got to fill that void with something =[

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Posted: 11-22-2009 03:37 PM

GONNAFISTYA wrote:
So another 4000 hour long game with dragons, orcs, midgets and elves. Yawn.

Why is it that 99% of all RPGs are the same fucking game? And why do people keep buying them? Are they really looking forward to speaking to more NPCs?

Might have something to do with the different storylines behind each game. I'd imagine it's something like reading another book in the fantasy genre - same stereotypical characters but different plots.

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Posted: 11-22-2009 03:59 PM

Oh...you mean the different plots of "go here, talk to this elf fagg0t, go there, kill spiders, talk to this other elf fagg0t and his orc sex-toy, save the world yet again from a fire-breathing monster/dragon/nemisis" type of plot?

The only reason I played Mass Effect was because it wasn't as blatantly homosexual as the other 10,000 RPGs that came before it...because there weren't any orcs, dragons or elves. I'm appalled to read review after review of the "latest RPG fantasy crotch scratch POS" where they claim incredible storytelling, great characters, and exciting battles...and we really mean it this time. It's the same old recycled crap that dateless nerds keep buying because they really, really, really want to live in the past when soap hadn't been invented.

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Posted: 11-22-2009 04:06 PM

Holy fucking turd burglers, Batman!!

GONNAFISTYA wrote:
I'm appalled to read review after review of the "latest RPG fantasy crotch scratch POS" where they claim incredible storytelling, great characters, and exciting battles...and we really mean it this time.

Gamespot review of Dragon Age

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Incredible storytelling, great characters, and exciting battles are just a few of the things that make this fantasy role-playing game so extraordinary.

Fuckin lol...it's the same headline from every RPG review coughFinal Fantasy cough in the last 500 years.

You nerds simply can't admit you can't get enough of this shit because your lives are so boring that you have to pretend to be some smelly queer with an axe who fucks 12 year old-looking boys.

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shaft
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Posted: 11-22-2009 04:06 PM

you sound upset

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GONNAFISTYA
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Posted: 11-22-2009 04:07 PM

Like I've said 10,000 times before:

I blame the retarded consumer

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Posted: 11-22-2009 04:08 PM

I started playing yesterday and my first impression was how horrible the textures are. It looks like one of those games where the textures load in phases, lowest quality first, but in Dragon Age they never get any better. Lately I've also noticed that the audio compression is lacking, too. Tinselly voices and a distinct static or something... it's hard to describe. I wouldn't have minded if they needed two discs for the game if it would have meant the problem was gone. I know it can be better; I saw Fury playing it on his PC and it looked superb.

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Posted: 11-22-2009 04:10 PM

i haven't had those problems, maybe your 360 is dying.

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Posted: 11-22-2009 04:16 PM

Stop playing games GFY. They're all the same thing.

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GONNAFISTYA wrote:
Oh...you mean the different plots of "go here, talk to this elf fagg0t, go there, kill spiders, blah blah blahfshadfagsjhfga

I think you might be onto something here. Earlier I started nodding off while in a fight, which only ever happens to me when I play a game I don't enjoy.

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i haven't had those problems, maybe your 360 is dying.

Maybe it's because I installed the game to the HDD.

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Posted: 11-22-2009 04:22 PM

According to reviews of the 360 version (Eurogamer in particular), the 360 version is awful both in sound and visuals.
The Eurogamer review specifically mentions compressed audio too.

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Silicone_Milk wrote:
Stop playing games GFY. They're all the same thing.

No, they're not.

But...when it comes to RPGs...they are (orcs, elves, wizards, dragons, ad nauseum...)

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Posted: 11-23-2009 12:04 AM

ok, FPS - Aliens/Monsters/Corporate Henchmen/Terrorists are attacking the area. Doesn't matter what they're up to, you're going to fuck their day up with a hail of lead.

Fighting - beat the crap out of each other to be the tournament master and regain your honor/get revenge on the man who killed your father/uncle/mother/village

RPGs - fight orcs/elves/wizards/dragons as a pedophile queer with an axe. In the end the world's going to get saved by you.

They're all the same.

And yeah, I know there are more than those three genres.

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Anyone got this? Looks pretty good and seems to be getting rave reviews.

So far, so Bioware. In other words, I'm sure it'll be a good game, but the characters and story are nothing new, and truth be told, rather bland.

I just started it.

Mat Linnett wrote:So far, so Bioware. In other words, I'm sure it'll be a good game, but the characters and story are nothing new, and truth be told, rather bland.Well, I've never played Baldur's Gate I/II or any of the Neverwinter Nights, so perhaps that's why this has me a bit more interested

I'm up to level 10. It's nothing mindblowingly new, but it plays really well, and is really enjoyable. My only complaint is that when there's a large number of enemies, combat can get a difficult to sort who's doing what to who.

too much dialogue...

go fuck off and die already

lol u mad?...

how very Fable

WAT?! Fable was garbage.

it also had your faithful dog as a partymembersettle down

Oh =[

the dog is quite good. although I swapped him for a rogue. you end up with more people in your squad than you can play with so you can swap them in/out as needed. the game is really good so far.

yes im quite the nerd

Fender wrote:[lvlshot]The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Clichés: http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html

Don't worry Trans, it has an 'Easy' mode so you can play it.

If it has a 'Free Achievement Mode', that would be even better.

So another 4000 hour long game with dragons, orcs, midgets and elves. Yawn.Why is it that 99% of all RPGs are the same fucking game? And why do people keep buying them? Are they really looking forward to speaking to more NPCs?

Well, real people won't talk to me so I've got to fill that void with *something* =[

you sound upset

Like I've said 10,000 times before: I blame the retarded consumer

i haven't had those problems, maybe your 360 is dying.

Stop playing games GFY. They're all the same thing.

According to reviews of the 360 version (Eurogamer in particular), the 360 version is awful both in sound and visuals.The Eurogamer review specifically mentions compressed audio too.

Silicone_Milk wrote:Stop playing games GFY. They're all the same thing.No, they're not.But...when it comes to RPGs...they are (orcs, elves, wizards, dragons, ad nauseum...)

Mat Linnett wrote:
So far, so Bioware. In other words, I'm sure it'll be a good game, but the characters and story are nothing new, and truth be told, rather bland.

Well, I've never played Baldur's Gate I/II or any of the Neverwinter Nights, so perhaps that's why this has me a bit more interested

it also had your faithful dog as a partymember
settle down

the dog is quite good. although I swapped him for a rogue. you end up with more people in your squad than you can play with so you can swap them in/out as needed.

the game is really good so far.

Fender wrote:
[lvlshot]

The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Clichés: http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html

So another 4000 hour long game with dragons, orcs, midgets and elves. Yawn.

Why is it that 99% of all RPGs are the same fucking game? And why do people keep buying them? Are they really looking forward to speaking to more NPCs?

Well, real people won't talk to me so I've got to fill that void with something =[

Like I've said 10,000 times before:

I blame the retarded consumer

According to reviews of the 360 version (Eurogamer in particular), the 360 version is awful both in sound and visuals.
The Eurogamer review specifically mentions compressed audio too.

Silicone_Milk wrote:
Stop playing games GFY. They're all the same thing.

No, they're not.

But...when it comes to RPGs...they are (orcs, elves, wizards, dragons, ad nauseum...)