Dragon Age Origins, ...sweet.

So I don't know if anyone has been watching this game or anything but it's Bioware's newest and it's supposedly the spiritual successor to the Balder's Gate series.

I just recently played a Flash game called Dragon Age Journeys which acts as a prequel of sorts and allows you to score some loot for use in Origins.

www.dragonagejourneys.com

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Excited for this game! Been looking forward to it for like a year.

what art thou buying the Origins for mein freund? A personal computing device? Or perhaps the white red ringing devil? I personally will be obtaining it for my PS3 which was contructed by the great wizard Sony.

And also PC.

Well, I found out my PC is powerful enough to run it, but I feel like it would be alot easier if I bought it for my 360. I'll just wait and see I suppose.

Well, I found out my PC is powerful enough to run it, but I feel like it would be alot easier if I bought it for my 360. I'll just wait and see I suppose.

That's why I'm buying it for my PS3. I think my PC can handle it but I just don't want to have to worry about crashes and things like that. I'll end up with it on both eventually and possibly on 360 but why would I really want 3 copies you know?

Game does look amazing though.

Image trying to play WoW on your console. That's why you wouldn't want itt for the consoles. Plus, there's a lot of cool shit you only get in the PC version.

I bought this game last night. It was between that and Borderlands, and my friends agreed: While Borderlands is fun, Dragon Age takes the cake if I'm a fan of this RPG style. So I spent the 3 hour download on Steam, spent another few hours looking at boobies [which I do every night, to some degree or other], and by the time I managed to get around to playing it, I was falling asleep at every cutscene.

From what I've seen, what I expect, and what other people are saying, this game is going to blow my mind.

Also, I rolled Elfish Mage, and I have no idea what the **** I'm doing.

Should I focus on one specialization [like Conjuration or the elemental one] or should I be picking some of my favorite spells from different categories?

Specialize I imagine.

I might put this down for a Christmas gift. Kinda looks like NWN2, though.

It is like NWN and Baulder's Gate.

KOTOR as well in some ways I imagine.

How is combat? I havent looked at any gameplay vids yet. Is it hack 'n' slash or is it a pretty standard DnD type game?

I think it's pretty much NWN / DnD style.

Spells on a skill bar, you click spells (or hit the keybind) to use them.
You can pause combat and queue skills.
You can switch between the characters in your party at will. Anyone who's not being controlled by you just follows an AI.

It's just not a DnD based game. That's what I read at least. There's nothing about DnD rules, like in NWN. No die or anything.

Well, sort of. I mean, one could say the dice rolls are there behind the scenes as the RNG. It just isn't as obvious as it is in NWN.

Otherwise, some of the terminology used in the game are very DnD-esque, like a few spells which say they "perform an Willpower check" and such.

But yeah, if you liked NWN or Baldur's Gate, you'd probably like this game.

Hey, cool, a BioWare RPG. Cool.

Where's my ****in' Jade Empire 2 and KOTOR 3, you ****s?! WHERE?!?!