What do you hate most about Dragon Age.

[Turjan]

The big-bad at the end of the game is called an "Archdemon," and is in the form of a dragon.

So even dragons are "grimdark". Charming.

 

[Elzair]

I did not mind the tower; I hated the ice palace and the Deep Roads far more.

I hated the generic, barebones world most.

 

[Brotherman Bill]

I sort of liked the setting.











Yeah, you heard me. Magic as a two-bladed sword with strong drawbacks, strong monotheist religion with political implications and expansionist attitudes, the dwarven stuff, elves as Jews was also fairly well done even though it was ripped off the witcher. All in all there were some definite potential for interesting conflicts here.

Now, the execution of these ideas were shitty alright. The characters were mostly bland, the writing shitty and stuff and as a result the setting didn't realize the potential it had. Of course dialogues is BioWares absolutely worst aspect so I would expect no less but I think you are being a bit unfair to the DA setting. If described to you before you had played the game I think most of you would have liked it.

 

[Volourn]

"even though it was ripped off the witcher."

No, it wasn't. There's nothing original in TW to begin with so it can't be ripped off of. FFS

 

[Serus]

What I hate is that it didn't flop. Expect more WOW-offlines with party romancing in coming years

THIS.

 

[Stabwound]

The endless discussions here regarding how bad it is.

 

[Undead Phoenix]

What I hate most about Dragon Age is that it showed promise.

I enjoy shit for what shit is worth, I'll even give it the but when something shows *promise* in concept but then fails spectacularly in implementation when it showed even the smidgen of something more... the only thing left inside is

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

What is Dragon Age? Let us see...

ooops...wrong game! I think..?

 

[Xor]

 

[laclongquan]

wtf!!!

 

[Bitcher]

Wait, why does Wrex have a top hat & monocle?

 

[Xor]

Why wouldn't Wrex have a tophat & monocle?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Wrex is the most prestigious of NPCs in Mass Effect 1. Hell, in Mass Effect 2 he's a fucking king.

 

[Coyote]

What I hate most about Dragon Age is that it showed promise.

It really did. When it was first announced, they honestly seemed dedicated to making an original world and if you visited the forum, there was (surprisingly) quite a bit of intelligent discussion going on about game mechanics, the economy, how the magic system ought to work, etc. with a high degree of participation from the devs. I stopped paying attention when it became clear that the game wouldn't be nearing completion for several years, and by the time I started hearing about it again, it had already taken its very disappointing turn.

Anyway, I'd have to say the worst part of Dragon Age was either (spoilered because I talk too much )

(a) the hordes of generic filler enemies you had to fight.

Spoiler

This is the bane of modern RPGs, rendering decent games mediocre and mediocre games utterly boring. It would acceptable if anyone ever bothered to try to make the encounters interesting (like the IWDs did) or made a combat system with depth (like KotC and JA2 did), but it's always just things like the orc caves in NWN2 or the deep roads in DA:O - pointless, boring combat thrown in as an obvious ploy to increase the game's length.

or

(b) in-game DLC advertisement.

Spoiler

I already disliked the concept of DLC; in theory, it could be used to help incline the gaming industry by squeezing extra profit from hits at a low production cost, giving developers leeway to pursue more interesting projects. That could take the form of niche games being produced in between AAA games or more unconventional content within the DLC itself (after all, they've already got a large customer base from the main product, of which - as we've seen with real DLC - a large portion is likely to buy the DLC regardless of its quality). Likewise, in theory DLC could give you just as much content for your money as the original game, while generating greater profit since it capitalizes upon existing resources.

In practice, it was obvious from the moment the concept was introduced that it would be used by cynical/savvy businessmen types to nickel-and-dime customers with ridiculously-overpriced shit like Oblivion's horse armor (paying 1/25th of the cost of the game for two extra art assets? FFS) and that it would encourage withholding parts of the finished product to squeeze more money out of customers without investing any extra resources into it. Day-one DLC, which makes the latter practice so transparent that I would have thought even the brainless masses might hesitate before eating it up, is bad enough. But playing a game and having an NPC break the fourth wall to ask me to pay for shit so that I can do some boring-ass quest for him makes me like nothing else the gaming industry has done in years.

...So yeah, I guess I'd have to go with the DLC bullshit, even if it was a much smaller portion of the game than the filler combat.

Edit: That raging troll surrounded by a sea of darkness seems like a fitting metaphor for the Codex as a whole.

 

[The Wizard]

What is Dragon Age? Let us see...

i hate you. i hate you so much.

But yeah - Dragon Age. The game is called fucking Dragon Age. Think about that for a moment. I don't really think my hate needs to be more articulated than that, if you have an ounce of good taste to understand my feeling here. Dragon. Age. This is the game you want to play? Dragon Age. I play Dragon Age. I'm a huge faggot.

oh shit.

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

What is Dragon Age? Let us see...

i hate you. i hate you so much.

But yeah - Dragon Age. The game is called fucking Dragon Age. Think about that for a moment. I don't really think my hate needs to be more articulated than that, if you have an ounce of good taste to understand my feeling here. Dragon. Age. This is the game you want to play? Dragon Age. I play Dragon Age. I'm a huge faggot.

oh shit.

Yes, as I was saying, the state of CR.....

Edit: Just realised I might be turning Volourn on with these pictures...terribly sorry about that. It must be such a wonderful game by the look of it though!

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

At least it's just one person who's very prolific. Easy to purge.

 

[CrimHead]

 

[DragoFireheart]

What is Dragon Age? Let us see...

i hate you. i hate you so much.

But yeah - Dragon Age. The game is called fucking Dragon Age. Think about that for a moment. I don't really think my hate needs to be more articulated than that, if you have an ounce of good taste to understand my feeling here. Dragon. Age. This is the game you want to play? Dragon Age. I play Dragon Age. I'm a huge faggot.

oh shit.

Yes, as I was saying, the state of CR.....

Edit: Just realised I might be turning Volourn on with these pictures...terribly sorry about that. It must be such a wonderful game by the look of it though!

WTF IS THIS GAY ANIME DARGON AGE CRAP!?!?

 

[Der_Unbekannte]

WTF IS THIS GAY ANIME DARGON AGE CRAP!?!?

Dragon age Fanfic, trolling cRPG-Fans since 2009!

 

[The Wizard]

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[Monkeysphere]

 

[Trash]

I dislike the sterile outdoor areas, lame camera, plastic character models and the filler combat. Other than that it's ok.

 

[Risine]

completely outdated graphics, clearly no artistic direction, "outdoors" areas which are just f#@g corridors.
Death system. And of course again, as always, the camera system.
Also, selling that as a whole new / original / epic fantasy world.

 

[Ruprekt]

Thedas isn't a bad setting; kind of a simplified europe along the lines of guy gavriel kay.