Sunday, February 13, 2011

Dragon Age?

Despite the lack of dragons this is an awesome game. The story is really good and I like how they give you a different beginning story depending on your race and such.

As i got into the game it was fairly quickly I picked up a magic weapon, I was quite surprised by this, but as the game went on I was less impressed. It wasn't until about the last stretch that I picked up a magic weapon that was in any way better than the beginner weapon I had gotten. I spent most of the game using standard weapons and armour.

I was a tad disgruntled that there was no class crossing over or dual classing but the classes and sub classes make up for it quite well, I played the majority of the game as a rogue/ranger and eventually chose duelist over assassin late game, only to realize that I had no points to put into any of its skills...

The way the party would resurrect after a battle if some members survived was a very good feature (I appreciate not having to go through a massive battle and gaining a small amount of loot just to have to spend it all on a raise dead spell) and one that often caught me out when relied on it to get me through a battle no problem (thank god for quicksave)

I would say that my favourite part was probably the circle of the magi, in the fade due to the sloth demon. I thoroughly enjoyed that part and actually loaded a save in order to go back and play it again.

One of my least favourite parts was the bridge puzzle, I'm really bad at puzzles like that and spent a good half hour trying to figure it out before I caved and searched online, and then found out that it is much more difficult on PC than on any other platform...

Overall it has a fantastic story, great character depth and background stories. The side missions are very interesting (strangely enough)and the ability to actually talk people out of things rather than having to fight everyone is a fantastic addition.

A couple of bad things about it were the lack of magic weapons and armour, the small number of classes and lack of dual classing and that ONE DAMN bridge puzzle.

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