was it weird playing through the begging (the origin story) as an old man, being older than your father? (or maybe he just looks like an old man to me, lol)
Yeah, I've had an account since before the game was released, back when the character generator was released and the Bioware Social thang went into beta. Apparently it's still in beta, lol - my guy has been level 8 on the site since the 11-5. Apparently it's a common problem *shrug*.
those pics don't do any real Justice though. The neighbor kid has it on 360 and I watched him play it, it was bad to say the least, choppy, faded and lots of jagged mapping.
he thought it was fine until I let him play on my PC, and now he wants his parents to by a gaming PC, lol.
I also saw a video of the PS3 version, and although I have read a lot of people complaining about it, it looks better than the 360 one, and I guess a patch is on the way to fix bugs for the console versions.
So, I just beat the game, with around 65 hours, I didn't actually look, but I last remember seeing 63 something.
Anyway, the game is fantastic, but the ending I got on this play through, was lacking, and I was disappointed. And even though other choices I could have made would have made for a better ending I think, how they do the ending, for me anyways, is just a slap in the face. They really didn't put any effort into the ending, no major cut scene's, no big spectacular finale that you would remember from beating the game.
All in all I love the game, and will be playing all the other origins, but I just wish they could have done more with the end game, especially since this is the start of a series, or what ever you want to call it. They plans for at least two more, but there have also been rumors since this game was received so well, there might be more.
I'm actually enjoying Dragon Age a bit, although I'm having trouble with the whole party thing. Strategy has never been my forte, so I either attack by myself or or have everybody go after the same monster.
You might try tanking the bigger guys with your tank and burning down the adds with some extra DPS, Dubbers; or get the attention of most everyone with one toon (your tank, hopefully) then run him or her in circles, leading the pack, while the rest of the party burns down one at a time. The NPC AI is really pretty bad.
yes, it is. Some of those monsters are tough early on too. I was in the Korcari Wilds trying to find Rigby's lockbox when I encountered a large group of Darkspawn. I managed to fend them off by killing them from a distance, but not before they killed off the rest of the party.
I was also wondering, how do I go about healing my party's injuries once they're revived? I've got a couple guys with cracked skulls and another with an injured eye.
I just started my next play through as a Human Mage this time (first one was a Human Warrior), and I like the Mage class better so far. I think after I do this, I will do an Elven Rogue.
how do you take an in game cap? I know how you can take a system cap with the print screen, but when you look at the profile in game, it lists photos, and one is player taken, but I see no instruction on how to take one?
hmm, the manual says its is print screen, but its not working for me. Maybe its because I tried to do it on an animation, of the ogre being taken down, I will try an actual still.
If it doesn't work, go download Xfire. I'm pretty sure the screenshot tool works offline, so you won't have to make an account if you don't want to (Although 80% of TZ's PC community uses it )
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I didn't want to take actual screen caps. The game itself has a photo album for your player. It takes them auto durring certain points, and it says you can take them yourself. I wanted to take one of me jamming my sword into an ogres head, that cool little finisher scene they have.
I figured out my problem, I had cap locks on, from accidentally hitting it when using the tab key.
I have been playing through all the origins, and out of the four I have played (just the two Dwarf ones to go), the Dalish Elf is the worst (so far), very short, and boring, no real story, like it was the last one they had to go, and just mailed it in. I loved the Human Nobel and the City Elf one, those seem to have good background stories. And the Mage was not as good, but not as bad as the Dalish one.
The only thing I'm not liking about Dragon Age is the responsiveness of the mouse. It seems like there'll be times where it takes a few clicks before my character or any of my party members will do what I want them to do, primarily when they're fighting.
I have also had that issue quite a few times, also loosing track of the cursor during battle, one second its in the middle of the screen, and the next its god knows where and you have to wave it around to see where it is.
#239 posted November 17, 2009 at 12:49pm (EST) edited November 18, 2009 at 10:20am (EST)
I've had the same issue with the mouse in battle. I have it set to normal difficulty and it has been fairly easy, I take out a mob with my main character in 2-3 swings. The whole group of four just destroys anything.
I've been playing a noble Dwarf warrior. Haven't tried any of the other origins, but I've slowed my playing in the last week... lotta RL stuff going on. I've done the mages tower, brecian forest, wardens keep, most (i think) of redcliffe castle... im in denethir now and collecting quests. never got this dog companion i keep getting items for.
