Dragon Age reviews and press

[BrownShoes]

The Giantbomb video preview looks pretty good to me.

 

[s44]

No new reviews (the Desslock one looks to be in the Holiday issue of PC Gamer), but a couple of hands-on previews:

Gameshark (mostly spoiler-free)
GamingTrend part 1 and part 2 (massive but clearly marked spoilers)

 

[raystorm]

Its up on the steam coming soon list for $55 bucks (deluxe version) if anyone prefers that service. Looks like a lot of content there. Amazon doesn't have a price for their collectors edition and gamestop doesn't have anything similar. Direct2Drive has a similar package to Steam except with their own exclusive item and its $65.

Dragon Age Deluxe Edition on Steam



edit: Price error! Its now $65 ..grrrrrrrrr I should have bought it while I had the chance.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Will this be like Neverwinter Nights where people could put persistent worlds servers (for say 80 people) and then make their own custom worlds content? Will it be moddable?

 

[s44]

No, it will be single-player only. Yes, it will be moddable.

 

[alcoholbob]

The dragon looks nice.

 

[s44]

Not many details yet, but apparently PC Gamer in France, Sweden, and the UK are giving the game 94%+.

Thread on the UK version here:

Verdict
A truly astonishing game. Vast, vivid and microscopically detailed. Dragon Age is the RPG of the decade

94%

The Swedish one isn't in print yet, but from this blog post has the news of their highest score awarded in four years (which means at least 94%):

Epic role-playing with unprecedented emotion.

And from France, a 95%:

Old-school gameplay with a fast rythm and a foregrounding of the story, this title mixes together the best of what Bioware has done in the last few years. The intensity of a Baldur's Gate and the depth of a good book series, what more could you ask for?

Desslock's review for the US version of PC Gamer will be in their Holiday issue.

 

[Jumpem]

Being party based really turned me off from it.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally posted by: s44
No, it will be single-player only. Yes, it will be moddable.

I've just lost all interest in it. Lack of online multiplayer is a deal killer for me.

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: adriantrances
The graphics will be the only downside of DA-O. Working on a game for 9 years, BLIZZARD style!

wtf? they worked on this for 9 years?

 

[s44]

Originally posted by: Gothgar

Originally posted by: adriantrances
The graphics will be the only downside of DA-O. Working on a game for 9 years, BLIZZARD style!

wtf? they worked on this for 9 years?

I think 7, technically. But the first three were pretty much just a couple of people speccing out the world and basic gameplay structure concepts.

Added this to the first post already, but more bits from the PC Gamer UK review here.

 

[Mike Gayner]

This game has a ton more potential than certain other extremely overhyped games. I expect the average review score will decline substantially as more reviews come out though.

 

[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....

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Jumpem
Being party based really turned me off from it.

on the contrary, that's what i enjoy most about RPG's - parties, and specifically, well-defined characters. Minsc and Boo from Baldur's Gate are just amazing

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: Jumpem
Being party based really turned me off from it.

on the contrary, that's what i enjoy most about RPG's - parties, and specifically, well-defined characters. Minsc and Boo from Baldur's Gate are just amazing

"Butt kicking for goodness sake!"

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: datalink7

Originally posted by: Dkcode
It gets my money.

Please release it on Steam too.

They just inked a Steam deal and said it should be up on Steam within a week. I'll be buying it.

Does that mean we will see BGI and BGII on Steam soon?

 

[datalink7]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: datalink7

Originally posted by: Dkcode
It gets my money.

Please release it on Steam too.

They just inked a Steam deal and said it should be up on Steam within a week. I'll be buying it.

Does that mean we will see BGI and BGII on Steam soon?

I don't know. Didn't hear anything about that. Though I still have my hard copies. It would be cool though.

For anyone interested, it is up on Steam now. I pre-ordered the deluxe copy already.

 

[lifeobry]

I'm pretty amped for this. Just found out about it a few days ago!

 

[dighn]

how did I not find out earlier about this? this looks pretty sweet.

 

[StinkyPinky]

I see Game Informer has a review. Short and useless though

http://gameinformer.com/games/...2009/10/05/review.aspx

90%

 

[s44]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: datalink7

Originally posted by: Dkcode
It gets my money.

Please release it on Steam too.

They just inked a Steam deal and said it should be up on Steam within a week. I'll be buying it.

Does that mean we will see BGI and BGII on Steam soon?

Those are stuck in the Interplay black hole.

 

[Super56K]

The game looks like it'll be a good one. I went to preorder it through Amazon today, but the ECA codes are now gone so I decided to wait it out. I'll probably pick it up sometime between thanksgiving and Christmas instead.

 

[alcoholbob]

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.

 

[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.

 

[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.