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Dragon Age - Preview @ Sorcerer's Place

by Dhruin, 2009-09-05 12:15:15

Another Dragon Age hands-on, also based on a trip to Edmonton is up at Sorcerer's Place.  Here's a sample:

All of this makes for an incredibly rich and detailed campaign that BioWare has obviously invested a great amount of effort into putting together. And it also takes roleplaying to the highest order. I will be highly surprised if there is any potential decision in the game that is truly innocuous. That is to say, any decision can have repercussions for your character, however further down the road. And they can be pretty drastic indeed. It also means that many decisions have a definite complexity that goes far beyond previous RPGs. In the Baldur's Gate series, for example, you could notice relatively simple dichotomies. "Do I always avoid hurting the innocent or do I kill innocents just to play the part and keep my evil NPCs on board?" "Do I do this quest out of the goodness of my heart or do I charge to the max for it?" "Do I embrace my Bhaal heritage and develop my powers for murder or do I show restraint and a refusal to give in?" Many of the decisions in Dragon Age will pose moral quandaries of such complexity that there may at times not even be a black or white choice available, but rather having to pick out your shade of grey. For example, "Do I trust this person? Do I show trust and compassion and possibly put myself at risk, or do I instead harden my heart out of self-preservation?" "Do the ends justify the means?" "Do I sacrifice the few to save the many?" "What kind of person does my character become after this decision?" And the gaming world in which these kinds of decisions are constantly demanded of you is vast and complex. The developers assured us that a thorough playthrough will mean at least 100+ hours of gameplay. In this respect, Dragon Age does succeed marvelously in its claim.

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Dragon Age

SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Release: Released


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