Dragon Age reviews and press

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: Mike Gayner
I loved Oblivion. I loved it vanilla, and I loved it even more with 100 mods installed.

In fact, I was never interested in RPGs before Oblivion. I played Oblivion, and exposed myself to a world of games I ahd never experienced, and Oblivion was a way of easing me into that world. None the less, I still enjoy Oblivion, and Fallout 3 for that matter.

I liked Oblivion and loved Fallout 3. Fallout 3 is one of my fav ever games.

However, Oblivions reviews were too high. There was too much wrong with that game to be constantly getting 90%+ reviews. In my opinion the way the game did leveling was diablolical and is a game breaker. Whatever designer thought that was a good idea should have been sacked on the spot.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

Originally posted by: Astrallite

Originally posted by: Arglebargle
I just hope that Dragon Age has legs: That it isn't suffering from 'Oblivion-inflation'. All the Oblivion reviewers gave that game many gold stars after 6 or 10 hours of play time, thus missing the many issues that developed as you got deeper into the game. A substantial chunk of the players didnotlike.

Bioware has the chops to do it up right, to keep the story going and the gameplay non repetitive. Ongoing reviews of deeper play into the game are the ones I am most interested in reading. I have my fingers crossed for this one....

User reviews on BG and BG2 were phenomenal and lined up with the reviewers (both in the mid-90s) on Metacritic.

User reviews on Oblivion were in the low 70s.

Too many people got suckered by high reviews of Oblivion.

Yeah but it sure had awesome graphics

Who cares if the gameplay sucked and that every bandit under the sun had full daedric armor worth thousands of gold.

It had awesome shiny graphics man. That's worth at least a 90% review.

i still can't get past two things in oblivion:

1) only like 5 people do the NPC's. I understand there are limitations with such a vast world, but it seriously needed more variation

2) the leveling system is perfectly sensible on paper. in practice, it's just awful IMO. i'd gladly take the standard XP system rather than gimping my character because i used a main trait one too many times.

 

[Arglebargle]

This is why I get a little nervous with the early reviews of a big time game....There are little, subtle things that reviewers, with limited time, may not pick up. And that while the game continues on, they end up being big pains...

Certainly, the marketing hype machine can go into full gear regardless.

I cross my fingers over Dragon Age....

 

[coreyb]

This game will be awesome.

 

[s44]

So, no reviews for a while, but there is this.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: s44
So, no reviews for a while, but there is this.

I only see two girls, a brunette and a red head. Could have used more variation instead of making them all look the same.

 

[Martimus]

Originally posted by: Mike Gayner
I loved Oblivion. I loved it vanilla, and I loved it even more with 100 mods installed.

In fact, I was never interested in RPGs before Oblivion. I played Oblivion, and exposed myself to a world of games I ahd never experienced, and Oblivion was a way of easing me into that world. None the less, I still enjoy Oblivion, and Fallout 3 for that matter.

Oblivion was one of my favorite games. It got rid of a lot of the legacy problems with classic RPG's (that were due to poor technology in the past), but added some of its own. Either way, I loved the game, and may start up a new one since I deleted my previous 400+ hour character (since I didn't think through what I needed to keep on a format.)

 

[s44]

Updated with IGN UK review.

 

[Kromis]

I'll probably pick up the game...AFTER I finish NWN2 and MOTB

 

[TheVrolok]

Well, my Deluxe Edition is preloaded - 22 hours to go.

 

[Tristicus]

I should start installing this right now- I could have some screens by tonight.

 

[s44]

Yeah, Steam, D2D, and EA preloads have all started.

Also, if you ordered it by mail from the EA store, you probably have it already (!).

 

[Mem]

My CE version is on the way,I'll give my feedback later after it arrives .

 

[BrownShoes]

Will be delivered tomorrow.
I'm looking forward to this game.

 

[Tristicus]

I'm not much for story, but this one seems interesting so far. I'm also not much for choosing what to say...but I think I might actually like this game in that sense. Visuals aren't bad, but not stunning. Some screens (without HUD/with text are obviously cinematic):

Things I do not like: cutscenes are a little odd...such as characters armor goes through their bodies and people put hands through each other (one chick was crossing her arms and hands were sticking through). Combat system click and fight...wish it was more Age of Conan-ish.

 

[gizbug]

Is this a single player game, or an online MMO?

 

[zerocool84]

Please, if you're going to post pics at least resize them for people with slow connections or link to them. No need to post such huge pics in a thread.

 

[insect9]

Is this a single player game, or an online MMO?

Single player game.

 

[Mike Gayner]

I'm looking forward to this game, but I've got to say, the graphics are really, really shit. I'm sure the game will make up for it, but seriously, five year old games have far superior graphics to this.

 

[shortylickens]

Looks much prettier than NWN2, but still has a strong NWN feel to it.
As a serious Baldurs Gate fan I sincerely hope this quenches my thirst for good gaming.

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

The graphics look terrible. Is the game maxed out in those screens?

 

[Tristicus]

As far as I know, yes. There wasn't many options- only one to put it to high/max and AA, which I set to the highest and 1920x1080.

 

[Kyle]

Just put in my order @ amazon...graphics don't look that great, but I really couldn't care less about graphics- especially w/ RPG's

 

[masterxfob]

couldn't care less about the graphics. i just hope that the gameplay is more like BG and less like NWN.

 

[shortylickens]

couldn't care less about the graphics. i just hope that the gameplay is more like BG and less like NWN.

Thats exactly what I want, but I dont think it will happen. Given that the original team of BG1 and 2 got scattered to the winds a long time ago, I dont think we will ever again see quite the same gameplay.

NWN2 with the latest patches comes close, but not perfect.