Dragon Age gameplay footage

[Shoelip]

Right, somehow I always forget about difficulty levels. Maybe cause I always tend to play on the default.

 

[thesheeep]

Well that game definately looks MUCH better than its trailers...

 

[Shoelip]

You know what game with the word Age in it's name has an awesome trailer? EVE Online: Empyrean Age.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35321.html

 

[Raapys]

Looks pretty good, I'll be watching this closely.

Also : magic spells interacting like that? Hell yes.

I might remember wrongly, but didn't spells interact in BG too?

 

[Naked Ninja]

I think Slow countered Haste and that was about it.

 

[Drugar]

Unless you also count the spell shield/breach magic/spell immumnity/remove magic duels, slow vs haste was indeed about it yes. Ice Storm in an Incendiary Cloud just ended up in cold and ice damage being done at the same time. Though there was the Zone of Fresh Air spell (or something similar) which dispersed a cloud effect (Cloudkill, Stinking Cloud, Incendiary Cloud) too.

 

[Naked Ninja]

Yeah, I wasn't counting the spells whose effects were specifically counter-spells, only ones whose nature conflicted with another spells core nature and thus canceled it out., even though that wasn't the spells primary effect.

 

[Raapys]

Ah yeah, I must have been thinking about Zone of Fresh Air.

It's indeed a welcome change though. Just hope they've kept the great spell selection.

 

[Spectacle]

I personally always thought it was stupid that in BG your MCs death meant auto end of the game even if you were surrounded by perfectly healthy and steadfastly loyal allies who'd raise you without a second thought. Hell, Arrie was in love with my character and she had raise dead on her spell list. I mean, after all the shit I went through to save her after she got turned into a fucking vampire slave she sure as fuck better be willing to cast a fifth level spell on me! They don't even cost anything in BG2!

I figured that normal resurrection spells didn't work on the main character because of his divine heritage. BG's game over screen is a video of your character's body turning into dust, kinda hard to resurrect that.

 

[pkt-zer0]

Looks pretty good, I'll be watching this closely.

Also : magic spells interacting like that? Hell yes.

More like "what the fuck took them so long?". Stuff like this had been done in pretty ancient games (For instance, Bahamut Lagoon, 1996, on a console, and before games even had four-pixel chairs).
[BITTER CUNT MODE OFF]

But "hell yes" anyway.

 

[Shoelip]

I personally always thought it was stupid that in BG your MCs death meant auto end of the game even if you were surrounded by perfectly healthy and steadfastly loyal allies who'd raise you without a second thought. Hell, Arrie was in love with my character and she had raise dead on her spell list. I mean, after all the shit I went through to save her after she got turned into a fucking vampire slave she sure as fuck better be willing to cast a fifth level spell on me! They don't even cost anything in BG2!

I figured that normal resurrection spells didn't work on the main character because of his divine heritage. BG's game over screen is a video of your character's body turning into dust, kinda hard to resurrect that.

Imoen...

Looks pretty good, I'll be watching this closely.

Also : magic spells interacting like that? Hell yes.

More like "what the fuck took them so long?". Stuff like this had been done in pretty ancient games (For instance, Bahamut Lagoon, 1996, on a console, and before games even had four-pixel chairs).
[BITTER CUNT MODE OFF]

But "hell yes" anyway.

Dark Messiah had stuff like this. But I can't think of any RPG.

 

[burrie]

Same footage, this time without someone interviewing

The only thing that I was expecting near the end was some sort of reaction from the companions. They're a bit too quiet, it would've been if they actually cheered or something.

I know, I don't think any other RPG has done this so far.

 

[Shoelip]

Mount and Blade is sort of an action RPG and it has that.

 

[Jasede]

Looks pretty good to me.

And cheering companions, I don't know. Would be too jRPG. You have no idea how it pissed me off to hear everyone go "Yeeha! Yatta! All right!" after every battle on Rogue Galaxy.

 

[Shoelip]

Looks pretty good to me.

And cheering companions, I don't know. Would be too jRPG. You have no idea how it pissed me off to hear everyone go "Yeeha! Yatta! All right!" after every battle on Rogue Galaxy.

Why can't I kill Jupis!? WHY!!???!?

 

[Jasede]

That was the best character in the game for me, no joke. Everyone else hates him though. And the game's final fight is so retarded it ruins the good things the game had until then.

 

[Shoelip]

Still haven't beat it. The difficulty ramps up suddenly right after you get "teh ultimate sord!" and the only real way to get through it without using all your items is to grind, so I took a break.

Hey, who has the best fancy glowy ball getting cutscene? I say it's Zegram.