http://dragonage.bioware.com/

http://www.gametrailers.com/game/9022.html

So finally Bioware is finally ready to show the spiritual successor to, imo, the greatest RPG of all time.
Those clips on gametrailers didn't really do much for me, however this screenshot alone shot this game to damn near the top of my most wanted games list.



That's fucking Baldur's Gate!!!!!!!!!!

7/14/2008 9:46:41 AM

GIMME!
NOW!
RIGHT NOW!
Aww, hell. And I'm looking at a system upgrade right now, anyway...

7/14/2008 9:51:10 AM

I've been waiting for this.

7/14/2008 10:27:21 AM

Unless they forget substance for graphics!

7/14/2008 10:36:14 AM

More screenshots, holy shit this really is Baldur's Gate III.

7/15/2008 8:43:52 AM

wow that does look good. i wish they'd title it something a little less generic than 'dragon age'.

I didn't know anything about it or that it looked this good. Seems stupid but still.

7/15/2008 9:03:39 AM

nice!

7/17/2008 10:00:43 AM

HD hameplay vid,

http://files.bioware.com/dragonage/videos/e32008/DAO_3min_gameplay_performanceenhanced_H264.mov

Previews,

http://pc.ign.com/articles/890/890260p1.html

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/dragon-age/890315p1.html

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/dragon-age/890644p1.html

Hype!

7/17/2008 10:07:34 AM

This game looks sweet. Too bad it's not going to be ported to the console for some time. My wife was looking for a Baldur's Gate type of game that we can play together. But this looks like it's going to be single player and maybe multiplayer online only.

7/17/2008 10:21:51 AM

This game looks solid!

7/17/2008 10:57:45 AM

ttt

9/22/2009 12:09:58 PM

So this comes out in November for PS3, 360 and computer

I've read some great things it seems cool, but its getting very little hype

I'm thinking of preordering to get a lot of the related bonuses, inlcluding some that are tied into the new Mass Effect coming out next year

Looks cool as shit

9/22/2009 12:23:55 PM

preorder complete. can't wait.

9/22/2009 12:29:51 PM

Looks like a fun rpg to pick up for ps3 now that im done with sacred 2

9/22/2009 2:05:00 PM

Character creator is now avaliable for download.

Good way to build hype if I do say so myself

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/dragonage/news.html?sid=6232963&om_act=convert&om_clk=newsfeatures&tag=newsfeatures;title;2

Not to mention the awesome trailers.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/dragonage/videos.html?mode=all

10/17/2009 9:21:27 AM

10/17/2009 10:35:30 AM

Quote :

"Dragon Age Journeys Available Today Playing browser-based will unlock items in upcoming Dragon Age: Origins. EA 2D is set to release Dragon Age Journeys today, a browser-based tactical RPG based on the upcoming Dragon Age Origins. If you're interested in picking up Origins, you might want to check it out -- there are prizes in it for you. According to a Q&A in the Dragon Age Journeys developer's blog, "By completing certain accomplishments in Journeys, you can unlock 3 items for use when you purchase a copy of Dragon Age: Origins for the PC, Xbox 360 or PS3." "By playing DAJ while signed in with your EA account, these items will automatically be added to your inventory in DA:O when you sign in with that same account. These entitlements work across all three platforms." The flash-based tactical RPG was created by Daniel Stradwick, who previously worked on the web-based strategy RPG The Monster's Den. Like it's more advanced sibling, it features character classes and talent trees, as well as a similar interface. Along with the recently released character creator, Dragon Age Journeys should keep you busy until the game's official release on November 3. You can download the first of three chapters here at noon PST. "

10/22/2009 4:33:49 PM

I pre-ordered this yesterday, and it says Not Yet Released in my Steam Games List. I'm more excited about this game than even Left4dead 2!

10/22/2009 4:45:13 PM

^ PC? nm, guess so if it's on Steam.
trying to decide between PC and 360, leaning towards PC. any thoughts?

10/22/2009 4:47:58 PM

^PS3! haha but seriously, probably PC.

10/22/2009 5:15:21 PM

I'd like to thank all you faggot console gamers for the fact that there's already $15 of downloadable content before the game is even out.

10/22/2009 5:30:07 PM

Dell XPS M1730
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme
CPU X9000 @ 2.80GHz, 2.79 GHz
x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel ~2793 Mhz
Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT
4.00 GB of RAM
2 TB

On my 46" Sony Bravia HDTV @ 120 Hertz Can't wait!

[Edited on October 22, 2009 at 8:20 PM. Reason : -]

10/22/2009 8:18:51 PM

Apparently PC Gamer UK gave it a 94 and called it the RPG of the decade.

Quote :

""I've not only been to huge cities but I've learned their past, their present and been involved in shaping their future. This hasn't felt like passing through a series of checkpoints but having experienced a world. I know enough about the religion of the Chantry to preach their own Chants. My connection to the Grey Wardens is palpable and the part I played an honourable one. This is the most enormously detailed game world I've experienced, its history stretching back thousands of years, its cultures vivid, beautiful and flawed, the battles enormous, the humour superb. Roleplaying games now have a great deal to live up to. A truly astonishing game. Vast, vivid and microscopically detailed. Dragon Age is the RPG of the decade." "

10/22/2009 9:22:45 PM

gah! too many games, too little time. I think I'll put this on my christmas list. My wife was complaining that everything on my list is too expensive so this should simmer down the price.

10/23/2009 8:46:47 AM

Man...I still haven't even played my copies of Fallout 3, Left4Dead, and Metal Gear... But I really want this, Demon Souls, and Borderlands...

10/23/2009 8:57:52 AM

You haven't played Fallout 3 and you own the software? My bobblehead frowns on your shenanigans.

10/23/2009 9:14:13 AM

Not playing Fallout3 when you own it is a gamer sin.

10/23/2009 10:32:38 AM

I preordered this yesterday on Steam. I cannot wait.

10/23/2009 7:03:22 PM

Not playing Fallout 3 when you own it is a waste of money. I can't really call it anything worse than that, though, because compared to most RPGs Bioware makes, Fallout 3 was pretty far below mediocre.

Unfortunately, Bethseda gives a shitty name to Western RPGs in general... they'd be a great studio, too, if they could just learn how to script dialog, hire decent voice actors, and include some meaningful content outside of the (excessively short) main story lines of their games... as opposed to just more empty and pointless shit to explore in their huge environments.


As for the thread topic, Dragon Age... I'm reluctant to buy it when it comes out, because I want to continue attending classes for the rest of this semester... but if I get it at Christmas time, then I'll be ruining the beginning of my next semester... I could always try not becoming immediately addicted to it, but I doubt that plan would hold up.

10/25/2009 6:09:03 AM

Quote :

"Not playing Fallout3 when you own it is a gamer sin."

I am going to gamer hell than.

10/25/2009 8:10:42 AM

I've had Mass Effect sitting in the wrapper since release...

10/25/2009 8:25:48 AM

I bought Bioshock VIA steam, played through like 2 hours of it and haven't come back to it.

10/25/2009 9:27:00 AM

wow, somehow I totally missed this, but will be checking it out next week

10/25/2009 11:44:41 AM

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-dragon-age-origins-360/17-1528/

Shows some gameplay footage, focuses on 360 version.

10/25/2009 12:35:30 PM

The naked dwarf covered in blood is ftw

10/25/2009 1:05:29 PM

^ I love the quick looks by Giantbomb

Unfortunately it causes me to want games I had never heard of before (ex. Demon's Soul for PS3 )

10/25/2009 1:06:09 PM

I want this pretty hard.

10/25/2009 4:37:04 PM

yea, been waiting for this fucker for a LONG time... hope my laptop can run it ok...


I havent really kept up with computer specs much in the last 5-6 years (esp. video cards) so I am not sure if I am in good shape or not... anyone help?

I got:
Intel Core2 Duo T8300@2.40GHz
4GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT


I think I am in good shape except not sure about the video card

10/25/2009 11:13:59 PM

why dont you just get it on 360 if you're worried about performance

10/25/2009 11:19:41 PM

^Have you ever played Baldur's Gate? Do you remember the gameplay style?

Consoles simply can't recreate that command system.

10/25/2009 11:22:06 PM

baldurs gate is some faggot shit

this is way different

10/25/2009 11:23:42 PM

oh well okay then

10/25/2009 11:25:30 PM

yeah, xbox is only good for football, hockey and bball.

10/25/2009 11:27:24 PM

^4

Did you see that video I posted. Looks like it will work fine for 360.

10/26/2009 12:13:55 AM

Oh, I'm sure it'll work. There was never any question about that. Bioware is making this, after all.

It would just work a lot differently.

I didn't get a chance to watch much of the PC version quick look video, so I really didn't see much gameplay, but I would expect that they'd include some sort of vaguely-RTS-style click-and-drag or multi-character command system for the PC version, which really isn't as easy to implement on a console. If they don't... well, I for one will be somewhat disappointed... but I really don't see why they wouldn't do that when given the capabilities.



And on an unrelated note, I am a bit disappointed that the combat bar on the PC version is basically directly emulating World of Warcraft. Seems like a sort of mass-customer-appeal cop out when they could have just as easily used the (in my opinion) far better-looking and more functional command bar of their older PC RPGs. Then again, I could be completely wrong on this, and it may very well be possible to include buttons on the bar that aren't just different types of attacks (like Forced Talk, Stop, Forced Attack, and stuff like that), such that it essentially looks just like the command bar from Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale. ...What seems more likely, though, is that those sort of actions end up on some kind of hotkey or shift-click/ctrl-click system (though I for one would rather use the direct clicking method). Ideally, we'll have the option to be able to do it both ways. And of course this is all speculation, since I've never played the game. For all I know, they've completely let me down and not included a Forced Attack command at all.

10/26/2009 12:40:33 AM

pretty sure the industry standard is to "copy what works"

why keep trying to reinvent something if it is already widely accepted as a certain way?

10/26/2009 8:45:56 AM

I have had this pre-ordered since they first announced it...I can hardly wait the last home strech to get my hands on it!

10/26/2009 12:28:14 PM

sooo anyone else know anything about my video card in relation to the reqd and rec?

10/26/2009 3:47:33 PM

Windows XP Minimum Specifications

* OS: Windows XP with SP3
* CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.4Ghz or greater
* AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 1.8Ghz or greater
* RAM: 1GB or more
* Video: ATI Radeon X850 128MB or greater
* NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater
* DVD ROM (Physical copy)
* 20 GB HD space

Windows Vista Minimum Specifications

* OS: Windows Vista with SP1
* CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater
* AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 2.2GHZ or greater
* RAM: 1.5 GB or more
* Video: ATI Radeon X1550 256MB or greater
* NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB or greater
* DVD ROM (Physical copy)
* 20 GB HD space

Recommended Specifications

* CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz Processor or equivalent
* RAM: 4 GB (Vista) or 2 GB (XP)
* Video: ATI 3850 512 MB or greater
* NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater
* DVD ROM (Physical copy)
* 20 GB HD space

You'll probably be alright.

10/26/2009 3:51:16 PM

does it really cost that much to get a license from wizards of the coast

because I always kind of want to see that DnD logo

ya know?

10/26/2009 3:54:58 PM