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Dragon Age: Origins (First Impressions, Well Sort Of)   

   Posted by larch  Promoted 131 days 9 hours ago  1211 views   

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Eh! I really tried thinking up a way to do a “first impressions” on the first 4 hours I spent playing Dragon Age: Origins but the world I encountered while playing and the content was just so massive I gave up on that idea. Hell I would like to know where people start off a review with a massive game like this.





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KallinSaast, on 11/10/2009 7:35:20 AM
Total Posts: 1019, Joined: 10/16/2007
I have been playing Dragon Age Origins for 2 weeks solid now,14 hours a day, everyday. I have the PC version and imediately i was impressed by the character customization. I mean you can really make the face look like your own if you want, and the ability to choose a voice/person i.e charming, cocky that sort of thing, was a cool addition. To start off with for the 1st 20-30 quests u struggle with very little coin to spend and have to rely on finding most decent weapons and armor. The story in itself is awesome and would make and excellent trilogy film that would surely rival Lord Of The Rings.If Peter Jackson made it anyhow lol.

You get to pick up characters on your journey that join your quest if you wish it, i have found 7 so far. You have the ability to give them certain items you find on the way ,gifts if you will, that will carry favour with you and unlock certain plots/romances. I unlocked a plot where im having sex regularly with a witch character, and also the same sex thingy with a male elf assassin character. I was pretty shocked to find Bioware included a racey hetro & gay sex in the tent . You can also visit a whorehouse and choose to have sex with 3 different women or men. Crazy lol.

The control system is really well thought out.A quick bar at the bottom for easy attack selection with the mouse, and a tactics page where you can customize your characters to attack and use your powers, medpacks etc when certain critria are met in battle. The voice acting is second to none as it always is with Bioware. The graphics are awesome. The requirements are pretty low to. Im running it on a Pentium HT 3ghz ,2gig ram and a 1GB 8800 GT. 1280-1024 all setting are on high with antiliasing or whatever it is on 2.Even with a screen full of enemies using magic etc, the game has not stuttered once.

The level design is superb. You get to go pretty much anywhere you want,the gameplay is not linear and you are spoiled for choice when it comes to choosing where to go questing. The PC camera angles are directly over the shoulder, or you can scroll out and have a top down view of the battlefield .The game is one huge motherfucker. Especially the underground Dwarven kingdom of Orzammar. I happened to do this level first, and boy what a mistake that was. It was surely the hardest questline/ level in the game when you at level 3-4 lol.

Im about 3/4 of the way through at the moment playing the human ,warrior class and all i can say is WOW!!! I am totally stoked to be playing this game,The music was produced by the famous Inon Zur who also made the music for Oblivion. Its beautifully deep and immersive. The story is amazing. If you like role playing then this is for you!As soon as im done im gonna try another class and see what else i can discover.

This game gets a definate 10/10 from me. I can't wait for Biowares next highly anticipated project "Starwars The Old Republic" Due out 2010. Kickass!!!
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