It's true. DA:O is the best Dragon Age game ever made.
Well played sir.
It's true. DA:O is the best Dragon Age game ever made.
There was only ever one Dragon Age game, it was released in November of 2009, and it was pretty good. Still have it on the computer, maybe one day a true worthy sequel will happen.
Study and learn? I find D&D 3.5 fun, and like learning it while playing the game, but I don't stress complex rulesets in RPGs. I love to pore over character options, stats, etc., but I also just wing it, learn it a bit as I go and enjoy.
I've never had an RPG where I messed up the character building so bad I could not progress. Just use your RPG Sense skill. Life finds a way, etc..
I agree that DAO had many strengths, and it's a shame they didn't iterate upon it to create a real classic of a sequel. With the original, good as it was, I found myself getting pretty bored by about half way through, and I think the content could have been more interesting.
I remember the same happening to me, around the time when you had to visit the various races' home areas. Still, it was decent enough, but ultimately not that memorable for me. I did like aspects of it, though, like the ethereal area (The Fade, I think?), and Shale had some hilarious dialogue. My original playthrough was on console, too, so it was not optimal, and it was also my first RTWP game, so I wonder if the game would seem better after much more experience in that area now if I revisit it.
Still, I'd probably play Drakensang or River of Time instead. NWN/NWN as well, with their large amounts of quality modules. Just installed an NWN 2 Planescape module, actually. Looks pretty interesting.
I do think DA:O has some of the best writing in the genre, though. I particularly liked all the "Fade" stuff - which is probably why I enjoyed that sequence in the game. Not in terms of gameplay (which was incredibly tedious) - but because the lore regarding all the demons and their relationship with magic was fascinating.
I do think DA:O has some of the best writing in the genre, though. I particularly liked all the "Fade" stuff - which is probably why I enjoyed that sequence in the game. Not in terms of gameplay (which was incredibly tedious) - but because the lore regarding all the demons and their relationship with magic was fascinating.
Lemme simplify it a bit.River of Time was also great but I think it was a little more clunky and more…"special" than Dragon Age: Origin, it just wasn't as polished. For example the AI in combat was a mess. Drakensang had an aggro system which often lead to a bad chain reaction.
You just moved one character by a meter and the enemies attacking him moved, the characters attacking that enemies moved and so on. And that in a way, as if you just poked into an ant hive.
Also both games had one thing in common: Their DLCs were a horrible mess and a pure money grab without any good content (excluding the 2 Dragon Age DLCs which were available right at release which in itself doesn't speak in favor of the game either though.).
Lemme simplify it a bit.
Drakensang games and DA:O share two things in common.
Both are epic RPGs and both are musthave/mustplay.
And @Fluent;: That's also the reason why you should definitely play it, if you liked the first already. The second one just brings big improvements.