Anyone picking this up? I'm thinking about getting it for the 360. Supposedly it's a "spiritual successor" to Baldur's Gate, which I thought was pretty cool way back when. I think it's coming out soon.
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Only thing I'm not decided on yet is PC or 360
PC.
The game is made for PC, the controls are a bit cumbersome on the consoles, I believe. With the PC you get the slot bar at the bottom of the screen that makes combot a bit more manageable. Not to mention better graphics etc.
As for content, everything is identical, the DLCs are the same.
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The review made it seem that it plays more like KOTOR on the console and more like Baulders Gate on the PC
You can adjust the camera angle. Right now I'm playing it from a closer angle, like Kotor or Mass Effect. But you can zoom out and do an isometric angle if you want and give it a Baldur's Gate/Neverwinter Nights feel as well.
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With Black Friday just around the corner, retail shops are slowly jumping on the discount bandwagon. On top of the heap is Sears Corp., who will be offering the PS3 and Xbox 360 Dragon Age: Origins (also on PC) under US$ 40.
BioWare's latest RPG IP includes six playable preludes, main character voice options, character customization and vast land to travel. The discount comes in good timing too (well, for the customers, not really for BioWare), as the game's only set to come out tomorrow, November 3, 2009.
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The characters and voice acting are drawing me in quite a bit. I already recognized the voice of Duncan as the guy who voiced Al Mualim in Assasin's Creed, and Teryn Loghain is definately the voice of Kain from the Legacy of Kain series. Very mature story in this game,
and not so much in the gore and sex but just in the writing. The dialogue is well written and the plot seems cloaked in shades of grey instead of black and white. It's refreshing to see a game based in a fantasy landscape actually feel adult instead of adolescent. Listening to two of my party members have a legitimate-sounding theological debate about whether a creator exists sold me on this game, especially in that they had this interaction with each ofther in the background as I walked around exploring a new town.
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The characters and voice acting are drawing me in quite a bit. I already recognized the voice of Duncan as the guy who voiced Al Mualim in Assasin's Creed, and Teryn Loghain is definately the voice of Kain from the Legacy of Kain series. Very mature story in this game,
and not so much in the gore and sex but just in the writing. The dialogue is well written and the plot seems cloaked in shades of grey instead of black and white. It's refreshing to see a game based in a fantasy landscape actually feel adult instead of adolescent. Listening to two of my party members have a legitimate-sounding theological debate about whether a creator exists sold me on this game, especially in that they had this interaction with each ofther in the background as I walked around exploring a new town.
Morrigan is played by Claudia Black the chick from Stargate SG-1 and Farscape.
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I'm really liking the game so far. While it may be lacking a little in the graphics (backgrounds are kind of shoddy, but the character modeling is pretty good), the storyline and gameplay more than make up for it. Seems highly replayable.
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