Preview GameTrailers Puts Up Exclusive Dragon Age Footage

[Shannow]

Why is Vincente Valtieri/Prince LaCroix so ubiquitious in games? The guy in golden armour, he is everywhere.

Care to elaborate or is this your "trolling" day?

 

[Wyrmlord]

They are voiced by the same person.

 

[made]

Why do you lie?

LaCroix was voiced by Andy Milder, Oblivion was voiced by Captain Picard.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

This looks fucking awful.

 

[Mogar]

I wouldn't say it was horrible, just very 'meh'. Everything about it seems to be mediocre. From setting, to combat, to dialog (I hate ultra enthused PC's), to voice acting, to soundtrack, it all seems terribly generic and uninteresting.

 

[Shannow]

http://kotaku.com/5189916/dragon-age-or ... the-making

BioWare didn't confirm or deny the depth of the relationship system in the game (e.g. we do know that you can have more than one relationship at a time, but we don't know if homosexual relationships are possible for both genders). They did insist that it was "classy" and highlighted a new gift system where you have to find out what characters like and give them those things to raise their approval rating. For example, Morrigan likes jewelry, but she doesn't like rocks; she will take a rock if you give it to her, but you have to load her up with trinkets to get a spike in her approval rating. Sounds like a dating sim, really – but if jewelry is what it takes to bump Morrigan's approval up enough to unlock her best spells (or at the very least keep her from turning on me), then so be it.

WTF? Tell me this is a bad April fool's jest. Despite it all I had still retained some interest in the game.

 

[Turjan]

http://kotaku.com/5189916/dragon-age-origins--a-tragedy-in-the-making

BioWare didn't confirm or deny the depth of the relationship system in the game (e.g. we do know that you can have more than one relationship at a time, but we don't know if homosexual relationships are possible for both genders). They did insist that it was "classy" and highlighted a new gift system where you have to find out what characters like and give them those things to raise their approval rating. For example, Morrigan likes jewelry, but she doesn't like rocks; she will take a rock if you give it to her, but you have to load her up with trinkets to get a spike in her approval rating. Sounds like a dating sim, really – but if jewelry is what it takes to bump Morrigan's approval up enough to unlock her best spells (or at the very least keep her from turning on me), then so be it.

WTF? Tell me this is a bad April fool's jest. Despite it all I had still retained some interest in the game.

Don't worry. With the first add-on, you don't need to look for ingame jewelry in order to replay bad dating memories anymore, you can just use your credit card.

 

[doctor_kaz]

This game gets less interesting every time that I see it. They waited too long to come out with it, and now the technology is visibly outdated. Then they delayed the game for consoles. The combat looks like Dungeon Siege 2.5, and since combat hasn't been a positive asset to a Bioware RPG since BG2, my expectations are very low. You can tell from videos and screenshots that this game is going to have the same small, tight areas that every Bioware RPG has had since NWN. The dialog looks totally uninteresting. The cutscene after you save RedCliffs has the typical "good", "neutral", "I want a reward" trio of responses that have been in every Bioware RPG. There has been nothing remotely interesting shown off about the world yet that distinguishes it from other fantasy games. If they have to gimp or dumb down anything to get this to work on an XBox 360 or a PS3, then it will only get worse. The "spiritual successor to Baldurs Gate" rhetoric seems to have disappeared since simultaneous release for consoles was announced.

 

[yarpen]

Not sure if using two different engines was good idea. Dialogues in Mass Effect look much better, especially lipsync/mimicry. OTOH combat looks interesting (but enemies could use some more diversity).

 

[Quilty]

Origins video:

"Everyone has been fighting.

...

And dying."

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

this game looks so unbelievably shitty...