Dragon Age: Origins

[Dekstar]

My current main team is me (a rogue Dalish Elf who's average with both crossbow and blade), Morrigan with her magic, Shale (he's two levels above my team currently, thus awesome), and Alistair, because having two warriors is good.

Yes I did both DLC packs first, and I'm now doing the main quest, taking every side-quest I can like I usually do.

 

[Gargantou]

Sten is awesome and loves

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kittens and cookies.

And

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cake.

In my ending, he said "Where is the cake? I was told there would be cake. The cake is a lie!" I'm not kidding, awesome reference to Portal IMO

 

[B_MAN]

Kinda regretting not releasing Sten.....
oh well, maybe in my next playthrough!

 

[Krynn72]

Sucks in combat, or just sucks as a character?

Both. Especially in the early game he sucks. He dies the fasted out of any party member I've used, even Liliana could take more hits.

 

[Gargantou]

Both. Especially in the early game he sucks. He dies the fasted out of any party member I've used, even Liliana could take more hits.

That's because Liliana's a hot human woman, and the Darkspawn/monsters/others all want to violate her, rather than kill her!

 

[phantomdesign]

Huge what the F*CK moment when I

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tried to kil Flemeth.

And I actually thought I could do it

Also, played for 20 hours, 9% done. God damn.

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That part was cool

It's also easy if you don't melee, ranged attacks only.

 

[Vigilante]

Just started this game. Hope it's good .

 

[Kadayi]

Just started this game. Hope it's good .

See advice in my earlier posts in the thread about reading the manual & doing the flash game.

Also I'd say it's good to treat your first encounter with the game as a dalliance. Seems most people restarted at one point or another once they figured out how they wanted to play.

 

[Vigilante]

Probably an epicly retarded question, but is there any efficient way to switch between your target with larger groups of enemies? Clicking sucks. I always end up taking control of a party member I don't want to and it screws my flow up, lol.

 

[Krynn72]

Pause the game.

 

[Zephos]

Only up to the large Osthgar (?) omgbbq battle.

Playing as a City Elf, lots of fun so far but I have no idea how/what I should spec my character into. Thus far I've just building up his dual weapon specialisation but otherwise I'm confused as to where I should go.

 

[tvharti]

just finished it yesterday in a little over 57 hours. A fantastic game, great storyline. It kept me hooked the whole time, and I will start a new game right away, just to see what changes i can make with another character and other choices. Sure I will be occupied with this until ME2 comes out ...

 

[Sparta]

Only up to the large Osthgar (?) omgbbq battle.

Playing as a City Elf, lots of fun so far but I have no idea how/what I should spec my character into. Thus far I've just building up his dual weapon specialisation but otherwise I'm confused as to where I should go.

Wise choice. Dual Weapon is easily the best damage class in the game besides an elemental Mage.

This game is awesome. I've almost finished my 2nd run-through and there are so many options I'm bound to replay from the

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landsmeet

multiple times just to see how they play out.

 

[Kadayi]

Only up to the large Osthgar (?) omgbbq battle.

Playing as a City Elf, lots of fun so far but I have no idea how/what I should spec my character into. Thus far I've just building up his dual weapon specialisation but otherwise I'm confused as to where I should go.

I went City Elf as well. Dual Weapon is a good choice. I focussed on coercion, lockpicking & trap making as my asides, as Morrigan is a great herbalist & Leliana is a good pickpocket & poisoner. Seems to have worked out fairly well for me. Investing in sneaking is well worthwhile also, so you can scout ahead and disarm/set traps.

 

[Naph]

Playing as a healer, so much easier.

Only up to the large Osthgar (?) omgbbq battle.

Playing as a City Elf, lots of fun so far but I have no idea how/what I should spec my character into. Thus far I've just building up his dual weapon specialisation but otherwise I'm confused as to where I should go.

Doesn't really matter what you pick, all you really need to know is to stack up on good party buffs. Sustained damage buffs for yourself help a great deal. Having your whole party dealing a lot of damage is far better than just yourself. I'd say start stacking Activation once you hit level 6-10. The rest is easy mode.

 

[Kadayi]

Also never let the NPCs have free AI, invariably they will inadvertently gang rape you in some fashion unless closely supervised ("yes that's it Morrigan you cast cone of cold when we are all in front of you...")

 

[Dekstar]

Also never let the NPCs have free AI, invariably they will inadvertently gang rape you in some fashion unless closely supervised ("yes that's it Morrigan you cast cone of cold when we are all in front of you...")

That's the one thing I'm not liking about this game so far. The AI just seems ridiculously retarded. Morrigan stands there all battle, only moving to heal my characters every once in a while. I've tried practically everything with tactics fiddling but she just stands there gawping.

 

[taviow]

That's what the tactics screen is for! I can pretty much leave them alone most of the time because I filled it up.

 

[B_MAN]

That's what the tactics screen is for! I can pretty much leave them alone most of the time because I filled it up.

kinda sucks having a limited number of tactic slots though

 

[Kadayi]

That's what the tactics screen is for! I can pretty much leave them alone most of the time because I filled it up.

For the fighters and rogues yes, but the Mages with their AoE stuff are another matter.

 

[Dekstar]

That's what the tactics screen is for! I can pretty much leave them alone most of the time because I filled it up.

That's the thing though, I have mine full too with loads of commands but she just stands there watching everyone get owned.

 

[taviow]

That's the thing though, I have mine full too with loads of commands but she just stands there watching everyone get owned.

Tactics are disabled for selected party members, so avoid selecting the entire party.

 

[Krynn72]

Also make sure you're not accidentally turning on independent movement.

 

[Dekstar]

I'm not a newb guys, I know all that. While I'm controlling my main character I expect Morrigan to do her part, but I keep having to pause it while I sort her out :\

 

[KagePrototype]

The person who made some parts of the UI only register left-click and others right-click is a stupid poophead. Just make it all left-click! :frown:

 

[taviow]

I'm not a newb guys, I know all that. While I'm controlling my main character I expect Morrigan to do her part, but I keep having to pause it while I sort her out :\

Well then the only reason I can think of right now is you suck at tactics. :3

 

[B_MAN]

getting your party member(s) to attack "main character's target" seems to work quite well in general

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Just picked this up for the Steam sale, excited to play the next few weeks. Looks like there's quite a few mods to play around with already. Anyone else pick it up with the recent price slash?

 

[tesher06]

Am currently playing it and it is so hard.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Am currently playing it and it is so hard.

It wasn't really all that hard for me; but, due to some really crappy design decisions on Bioware's part(was amazed they could ruin such a nice game for me), there are random difficulty spikes in the form of near-impossible bosses and 'elite' monsters that two-hit your whole party, even while on Normal.

I found myself moving the difficulty down to easy after dying 20+ times on one part. Even with good equipment and good tactics.

 

[Combine Hybrid]

Holy shit, that ****ing ogre on the tower in the beginning of the game pwned me many times.

BTW, I just realized that every time you kill a enemy boss with your main character, he does this cool finisher move on the boss. Pretty damn neat.

 

[tesher06]

That Ogre was pain, I had died like 10 times from it and finally decided to get the warrior and dog to attack him using his bow, and my warrior just ran around in circles.

 

[taviow]

I found myself moving the difficulty down to easy after dying 20+ times on one part. Even with good equipment and good tactics.

Or perhaps your tactics weren't as good as you thought. :dork:

I've been playing on normal, didn't have to lower difficulty yet, but the ending sequence in Denerim is being quite difficult for me.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Or perhaps your tactics weren't as good as you thought. :dork:

I've been playing on normal, didn't have to lower difficulty yet, but the ending sequence in Denerim is being quite difficult for me.

That whole tactics page was just an excuse by Bioware to blame bad AI on the player.

The whole end level was easy, and that's where the game started getting really meh for me.

 

[taviow]

That whole tactics page was just an excuse by Bioware to blame bad AI on the player.

The whole end level was easy, and that's where the game started getting really meh for me.

I figured you weren't talking about the tactics page. You should manage battles yourself most of the time.

Also, good thing it only got really meh in the end, yeah?

 

[Mirage]

That broodmother is really pissing me off. Not only do you have to contend with all of those tentacles, but at half health Darkspawn appear. I should have brought another mage with me, I only have Wynne atm.

 

[Tacoeaterguy]

I bought this game for the Xbox, and I'm not sure if I should return it, and buy it for the PC later. Seems like a better experience on PC.

 

[Shyam]

I expressed the same concerns some of you had expressed in the Bioware forums. Only I got ripped on for being an 'RPG noob', a troll and a Bioware hater.

 

[Insano]

(...) Your party seems to follows the same aggro-style principles scene in many MMOs, and as a result telling them to stay back from a fight or ordering them to do specific things at specific times can be extremely difficult. (...)

Anyway, I'm looking forward to playing this game after the exams.

 

[Gargantou]

I figured you weren't talking about the tactics page. You should manage battles yourself most of the time.

Which is poor design, because managing the battles yourself, especially on the controls, are a real bitch.

Hence it's not the players that are 'responsible', it's BioWare.