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Re: Dragon Age Origins Awakening
« Reply #120 on: March 16, 2010, 04:36:16 PM »
That's really short for that price :(

Seriously?

SP games are 10 hours nowadays for 60 a pop. Metro, Uncharted, GoW, Gears, Alan Wake.....

Would you rather spend 10 hours on good games like that, or waste 25 on a shit one like Dragon Age, is what he is saying
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« Reply #121 on: March 16, 2010, 07:20:11 PM »
That's really short for that price :(

Seriously?

SP games are 10 hours nowadays for 60 a pop. Metro, Uncharted, GoW, Gears, Alan Wake.....

RPG's move much slower though.  15 hours is like 2 real dungeons from the first game.

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« Reply #122 on: March 16, 2010, 08:51:06 PM »
I OD'ed on DA:O and never finished it. Now I want this. help.
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« Reply #123 on: March 16, 2010, 08:54:14 PM »
I think I've settled on playing another run through Dragon Age from the beginning, as a male mage this time so I can avoid the pitfalls I outlined in my spoiler post earlier. And then I'll take him into Awakening.

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« Reply #124 on: March 16, 2010, 09:23:25 PM »
And then I'll take him into Awakening.

That sounds kinda homosexual

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« Reply #125 on: March 16, 2010, 11:31:59 PM »
This is up on XBLA for 3200 points. Only about a gig download.

Interesting... when you install the Awakening disc to the 360 HDD, it just shows up as "Dragon Age: Origins" in your Memory under System Settings.  5.4 GB install.

Playing the DLC version requires you to have the Origins disc in the tray.  But you don't have to own the main game if you are playing the retail version.
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« Reply #126 on: March 16, 2010, 11:34:00 PM »
Can you play Awakenings directly off the CD? Or do you require DAO in the machine. How do you start the DLC?
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« Reply #127 on: March 16, 2010, 11:36:55 PM »
Can you play Awakenings directly off the CD? Or do you require DAO in the machine. How do you start the DLC?

You can play it directly off the CD.  A friend is borrowing my copy of DAO.  I was worrying I wouldn't be able to play Awakening till I got it back.  Turns out I don't need it.
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« Reply #128 on: March 16, 2010, 11:41:41 PM »
INTERESTING. Guess I better rent it then
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« Reply #129 on: March 16, 2010, 11:48:28 PM »
Hmm... when i went to import my DAO save file, it imported my character with no clothes.  Not sure what gives.  I start the game in my frikkin underwear.  Is the Blood Dragon Armor not compatible with Awakening?
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« Reply #130 on: March 16, 2010, 11:49:57 PM »
Is it a Dwarf? Leave it...
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« Reply #131 on: March 16, 2010, 11:52:51 PM »
From the official launch FAQ:
Weapons, armor and other items that are unique to all other DLC releases will not transfer.

well, shit... the only armor I had on me at the end of the game was the Blood Dragon armor.  Guess it's nudy groovin' till I can find something to wear.
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« Reply #132 on: March 16, 2010, 11:53:14 PM »
Is it a Dwarf? Leave it...

No, he's a red headed muscle bear human.
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« Reply #133 on: March 16, 2010, 11:54:10 PM »
YUCK
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« Reply #134 on: March 16, 2010, 11:54:51 PM »
YUCK

Yuck about the armor situation or yuck about red headed bears?
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« Reply #135 on: March 16, 2010, 11:55:20 PM »
Yuck it being a human
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Re: Dragon Age Origins Awakening
« Reply #136 on: March 17, 2010, 01:51:52 AM »

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« Reply #137 on: March 17, 2010, 02:56:13 PM »
Hmmm... I was going to just create a new character since there really isn't a mass effect level of cohesion between the stories and my character died at the end of Dragon Age but I guess I'll just import my old one over anyway.

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« Reply #138 on: March 20, 2010, 06:53:26 PM »
I'm about 6 hours in.

My early impressions are its about what you would expect which is more Dragon Age.

The more relevant question is if that is something you want if you've beaten the game relatively recently like I did (and put in around 100 hours into)

The pacing is definitely accelerated to fit the shorter length. You get your party really quickly and you already start to unlock their friendship related skill tree things. The gifting and romance options (haven't tried that yet) seem to be greatly streamlined also to fit the shorter length.

Haven't really dipped too much into the main plot yet as I've mostly been doing sidequests.

Game seems a bit easy early on since you are so powered up from the previous game. I bumped it up to hard after playing Dragon Age on normal and it still seems pretty easy so far.

I'll post more when I get further into the game.

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« Reply #139 on: March 21, 2010, 04:19:22 AM »
I put in a healthy number of hours today. Game is starting to pick up and get more enjoyable. Still pretty easy though.

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« Reply #140 on: March 21, 2010, 08:29:01 AM »
Yuck it being a human


I can totally see Demi rocking a party full of dwarves in Awakening  :lol

How do you feel about elves, Demi? Worse or better than humans? My rogue elf is so damned scrawny and baby faced... it makes me sick. I think I'm gonna hafta give him a fat beard in Awakening if I can. Make him resemble something of a man.

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« Reply #141 on: March 21, 2010, 10:58:44 AM »
Think i'll just create another character. Seems to me, that it makes more sense for it to be a new Grey Warden coming in from another country since it's badly connected to the choices you made in the first and only one character actually comes back, and it's the shittiest one.

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« Reply #142 on: March 21, 2010, 02:51:21 PM »
Yuck it being a human


I can totally see Demi rocking a party full of dwarves in Awakening  :lol

How do you feel about elves, Demi? Worse or better than humans? My rogue elf is so damned scrawny and baby faced... it makes me sick. I think I'm gonna hafta give him a fat beard in Awakening if I can. Make him resemble something of a man.

Even Dwarves are disappointing. I refuse to believe all dwarves are chiseled beasts, since they all love to be all sloven and drink beer all day and fuck all night.
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« Reply #143 on: March 21, 2010, 03:06:11 PM »
yeah I think every member of a race in DA has the exact same body model, which sucks  :lol   :'(

except this guy: husky cheeseburger dwarf  :-*


Stoney Mason

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« Reply #144 on: March 21, 2010, 11:01:09 PM »
Think i'll just create another character. Seems to me, that it makes more sense for it to be a new Grey Warden coming in from another country since it's badly connected to the choices you made in the first and only one character actually comes back, and it's the shittiest one.

I was going to do that but since it isn't really like Mass Effect that was what made me decide to just use my guy from the first game. What does it matter really since it isn't a true connected story and you get to retain your leveling and most of your items.

Shame thought it would be harder then you describe it.

So far its not hard but then once you were powered up in the original game it also became much easier. You have so many powers now including the new ones and new items like potions that can restore your stamina so you just have so many options and chances to be over-powering.

Stoney Mason

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Re: Dragon Age Origins Awakening
« Reply #145 on: March 24, 2010, 03:15:15 AM »
About 26 hours in although I'm a slow player when it comes to RPG's. I would guess I have maybe 5 to 10 hours more to go.

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« Reply #146 on: March 25, 2010, 01:25:09 PM »
I'm a pretty slow/methodical player and would probably go about at that pace. Thanks for the update-length/price was somewhat of a concern, but that seems to be a good value.

I do want to finish my current character first in the main game though, only have a little bit more to go.
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« Reply #147 on: March 25, 2010, 01:31:06 PM »
I'm gonna finish it up today. I'm really close to the end. I'm kind of mixed on it honestly. Not because of the length to price value because I actually think that's alright especially if you do all or nearly all the side quests. The smaller scale of the game is what sort of suffers imo. Part of the appeal of Dragon Age was basking in this massive RPG with a lot of fleshed out stuff and ideas

Awakening sort of is the streamlined version of that and when you streamline it, some of the charm and appeal is missing. It's enjoyable but its sort of hard to call it a must play. I'll do my full "review" later this evening probably after I finish it. 

For someone like you Frag I'm also guessing it will be crazy insane easy. It was easy for me and I'm certainly not a top notch strategy guy.

My character was level 21 when I brought him over and it just seems like the game was balanced for a lower level or something. Plus some of the new abilities they added and enhancements in general really buff up your party a huge deal. Its neat because you feel powerful and you get to use your special abilities more, but the monsters just can't handle it. 
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« Reply #148 on: March 25, 2010, 01:42:20 PM »
Doesnt sound too amazing.

You know I don't want to give the impression that I don't like it. I do. If somebody loved the original Dragon Age (like I did) then I think its a worthwhile play. Its just doesn't necessarily hit as hard or as fresh as the original did. Which is understandable with it coming so soon after the original.

If you go in with the proper mindset of what this is, I think its a lot of fun. But undeniably it is much easier and slightly less impressive in a scope and scale sense than the original. 

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« Reply #149 on: March 25, 2010, 01:53:29 PM »
thanks for the impressions, stoney. I'm looking forward to it. Like Frag, I'm gonna finish up my final runthrough of the original before I take this on.

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« Reply #150 on: March 25, 2010, 05:54:38 PM »
lame. I've actually accidentily made the final part harder on myself because of how poorly they set up the end game flow.

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Basically you have to split your party into two groups sort of like in the first game. One defends your home base and the other goes on the final mission although it's not 100% clear when you make this decision that this is the final decision. So now I have to do the final part with only three party members instead of 4.
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« Reply #151 on: March 25, 2010, 08:48:19 PM »
Finished it. Somewhere between the 30 to 35 hour mark. I forgot to check the time of my last save.

As I said before I'm mixed on it overall. And the last portion of the game doesn't help my opinon because its a jumbled mess. The over-arching problem here is that this content feels rushed, slightly incomplete, and too much material and story fit over too little time. If given a full dev cycle or simply more dev time, like releasing this in the fall or something you would have had something  probably that I could easily recommend but since that isn't the case its hard to recommend this unless you are a Dragon Age diehard and absolutely must have more Dragon Age before the real sequel eventually comes out.

It's simply an inferior experience in nearly every way to Dragon Age which I think everybody knew it would be going in simply because of the time it took to make it, but until you actually play and experience the consquences of that, you won't understand the dissappointment. I think a concept like this could have been good but they would have had to limit the scope and really focus on a few things. Instead you feel like you are playing something that has intentions on being epic and great but falls very short of it. I was hoping the final portion of the game would sort of redeem and validate the experience but instead it just sort of displays the worst shortcomings of the game.

Decent to fun experience that starts with a great hook and seems really good early on but simply wilts the more you get into the game unfortunately. Very easy also as I've mentioned time and time again (except for a final boss that is annoyingly hard, always a bad sign that a game has been rushed).

If you're curious about how much you will level I started the game at level 21 and finished at around level 32.

Also the game is pretty buggy. Clearly a lot less QA went into this.

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« Reply #152 on: March 25, 2010, 08:56:52 PM »
This is the same price as the original according to amazon.ca.  :cancry

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« Reply #153 on: April 04, 2010, 02:15:30 PM »
bump from the dead because I'm FUCKING PISSED OFF.  There's a glitch at the Silverite Mine that you can go in the door WAY before you're supposed to, and without certain party members. It also fucks over other quests.  I'm gonna have to completely restart because of this bullshit.

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« Reply #154 on: April 04, 2010, 02:20:48 PM »
Yeah there were a lot of quests I noticed that either seemed poorly thought out or had easy potential for breaking. The smugglers quest in the town is one of the worst designed missions I've ever played.

Awakening has a lot of broken things about it. Eurogamer gave it a 9.  :lol

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