The Official Kodex Kritial Konsensus Dragon Age Poll

[racofer]

I've just finally started my second playthrough this game. Made myself a dwarf noble rogue, I'm halfway through the origin story so far














































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I.... can't find the will to continue.

alt+f4

 

[racofer]

more like dragonturd amirite, or was it turd age?

it's pretty good.

 

[Konjad]

There is surely a lot of "official" threads in RPGDiscussion.

THIS IS THE NEW SHIT

gonna make more

 

[Jack]

Worst RPG of the decade.

No, That honor belongs to Oblivion.

Hmm, I didn't think of it as an RPG.
You see with Dragon Age they tried really hard to make a full fledged classical RPG.
They failed miserably and have given up completely, just look at the sequel.

Bethenda didn't even try to do anything good with Oblivion, they just continued to follow their dumbing down formula.
I didn't really expect them to suddenly change their ways, with Bioware it was different.
I expected them to actually do something at least bearable.
Finally they can make good use of the Aurora engine and with that work out of the way they can focus on making the campaign great, I thought.
Boy was I wrong.
That's why I consider it the worst RPG of the decade.

 

[Shannow]

Worst RPG of the decade.

No, That honor belongs to Oblivion.

Hmm, I didn't think of it as an RPG.
You see with Dragon Age they tried really hard to make a fully fledged B-movie (E)ARPG.
They failed miserably but simply tried again, just look at the sequel.

fixed

 

[1eyedking]

Why are they wearing Star Trek suits? For fuck's sake, the red glow coming from his wrist could be a comm link for all I know.

BioWare cannot into art direction.

 

[Konjad]

BioWare cannot into art direction.

Athkatla looked pretty awesome, Baldur's Gate was okay too.

Except that - news at 11

 

[Ruprekt]

It wasn't what I was hoping for but it was still a respectable attempt at at RPG.

So I voted yes and fuck you.

 

[1eyedking]

Athkatla looked pretty awesome, Baldur's Gate was okay too.

Except that - news at 11

Pre-Neverwinter BioWare I'm speaking.

BG1 had cool scenarios and a nice overall art direction. Fuck I'm aching to replay it right now, it had an awesome traveling feeling.

 

[Konjad]

True, I loved travelling anywhere I wanted, trying to sneak through too hard to fight enemies just to explore, find a new cave, possibly with cool item. Too bad they removed that in BG2.

 

[Ruprekt]

I agree: BG1 and Pool of Radiance had this sense of exploration.

SoZ was a near miss unfortunately

And it definitely is too bad. The DnD rulesets (pre 4E) suit this kind of gameplay perfectly.

 

[SuicideBunny]

Also, I hope you understand how fucking stupid your post was. Seriously.

of course it was, considering it was aimed specifically at you.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

BioWare cannot into art direction.

Athkatla looked pretty awesome, Baldur's Gate was okay too.

Except that - news at 11

And anyone who thinks the ME games lacked art direction is fucking brain dead.

 

[CrimHead]

Show me some good Mass Effect Art. Now, fgt. Mass Effect is to Star Wars what Dragon Age is to LotR. Bioware has no creativity whatsoever.

 

[Sceptic]

Mass Effect is to Star Wars what LotR is to Dragon Age.

Don't you mean "what Dragon Age is to LotR"?

 

[CrimHead]

Yes I did.

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

didn't read the thread, has the kritical konsensus been reached already?

 

[SuicideBunny]

More likely you thought you were being witty but whatever.

eh, not really.

 

[Barrow_Bug]

Never played/bought it. Couldn't stand the idea of all that filler combat. Plus, it is DAMN ugly.

 

[Ancient]

Kodex

 

[lefthandblack]

I voted kingcomrade.

I just finished my first playthrough yesterday. I actually enjoyed it up until the landsmeet, after that it went completely to shit. The game just had way too much combat. After all the repetitive fighting through the early stages of the game, when I saw that the end multiplied this exponentially, I said fuck it and enabled the console and cheated through to the end. I killed the end battle enemies via 'runscript killallhostiles' as well as the Archdemon, just so I could see the end and get it over with. Ridiculously stupid numbers of enemies belong in games like Serious Sam and Diablo, putting them in a game like DA just makes the game a chore instead of fun.

 

[Jaesun]

Why didn't you just vote no.

 

[lefthandblack]

If Loghain had been the big bad and the game had ended with killing him, I probably would have had a better overall impression, so I cant honestly vote no.

 

[Sceptic]

If this and if that != the game you have in your hand.

The point of the poll is to vote on what the ACTUAL game is like, not your imaginary idealized version of what the game should've been like.

Hell if it worked that way Oblivion would be my #1 CRPG.

 

[SCO]

Voted kingcomrade.

I don't play shit games, how would i know if i liked or not? That abyss is covered over with a bridge for me.

I didn't dump WIS.

 

[qliveur]

I actually enjoyed it up until the landsmeet, after that it went completely to shit.

Agreed that it fell apart, there, but I can't really say that I enjoyed it up to that point. Yes, it had its moments, but it could've so much more than it was. Fighting the same goddamned battle over and over again everywhere I went was infuriating. After Landsmeet I figured that it would be just more of the same so I stopped playing at that point. Then I had to reinstall Windows and I never bothered to reinstall the game because I had no desire to finish it.

Voted "no".

 

[hakuroshi]

Kingcomrade of course. It's not worth hating.