Page 2 of 5
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: November 22nd, 2014
by Maigrets
Rhaegos is going for the dark and sultry look it seems.
That sounds like an epic deal with all those extras.
Will keep you busy for awhile I imagine...
Sometimes it can be worth waiting for Ultimate Editions and getting the extras thrown in. Or of course just buying it again.
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: November 22nd, 2014
by Fessels
Maigrets wrote:Rhaegos is going for the dark and sultry look it seems.
LoL yeah he does, but it was a preset I found and downloaded and then all I changed in game was the hair. It was originally an almost military short hair and it did not look as good on him in my opinion.
Maigrets wrote:That sounds like an epic deal with all those extras.
Will keep you busy for awhile I imagine...
Sometimes it can be worth waiting for Ultimate Editions and getting the extras thrown in. Or of course just buying it again.
It was a great deal al right.
Because when I registered the main Ultimate Edition with the things like "Wardens Keep" I found out that if I registered the DLC as well, I would get all the promotional mods. I even got a Bonus folder containing quit a few wallpapers and the complete soundtrack. The wallpapers are nice but I would not have lost any sleep if I hat not gotten them, but the complete soundtrack album is a really nice touch.
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: November 22nd, 2014
by Fessels
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: November 30th, 2014
by Maigrets
Really nice screenshots
Yeah, you have to wonder if adventurers (in any game) are brave or stupid...
How many hours have you put in so far? It seems like a pretty long game. I might look into getting it myself and giving it another go.
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: November 30th, 2014
by Fessels
LoL
Maigrets.
Well if I remember correctly I hat played the game with my first version of Rhaegos for I believe 60+ hours, but since at that moment the game was still new it went slower then it does with my current version of Rhaegos. I am not certain how many hours I have played with the new Rhaegos, but perhaps it is around 20 to 30 hours? ( That is estimated, since I have steam in offline mode, so I can not see how long I have played. ) I reached the same point in the game as I was with the old Rhaegos faster since I knew already how things went up till now. Well accept for the "Return to Ostagar" quest line, that is one of the things added by the Ultimate Edition.
So from now one things are unknown to me, so I have no idea how long it will take to finish the game. But considering that since I have the Ultimate Edition, I have gained a lot more things to do. And from what I was told on the forums, some quest lines can take a very long time to finish. Quest lines like the one in Orzammar to get the aid of the Dwarves against the Darkspawn and the Blight. ) And I certainly believe those people, because I already have a few quests that I got a while ago and I have still not been able to finish them.
So I am certain that personally I will be busy for a long time with DAO Ultimate Edition, but then again it can and will differ from person to person how fast a game is played out. Personally I believe the game is absolutely worth it to play, so many great things are in this game. As for having to pause the game during combat ... well if you use a mod like
EMAT then you can keep the fights in real time. Using the pause function just allows you to set party members to do specific things to specific enemies. Since I started using EMAT I have used the pause button maybe 5 or 6 times. ( And I play on Hard difficulty setting. )
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: December 1st, 2014
by Fessels
I found out that I can see in game how many hours I have played with the new version of Rhaegos, and it is just over 35 hours.
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: December 1st, 2014
by Maigrets
Fessels wrote:I found out that I can see in game how many hours I have played with the new version of Rhaegos, and it is just over 35 hours.
Doesn't it show you in your saves like Skyrim and most other games how long you've played? Anyway, it sounds like there's plenty of good content to keep you interested, so that's a great thing.
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: December 1st, 2014
by Fessels
Maigrets wrote:Fessels wrote:I found out that I can see in game how many hours I have played with the new version of Rhaegos, and it is just over 35 hours.
Doesn't it show you in your saves like Skyrim and most other games how long you've played? Anyway, it sounds like there's plenty of good content to keep you interested, so that's a great thing.
Hmm I actually never checked if the save games show that information in the Main menu, I will have to check that? But yeah I sometimes find quests where I did not expect it.
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: December 2nd, 2014
by Fessels
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: December 3rd, 2014
by Maigrets
, for someone who normally doesn't like companions you sure are collecting them. But, I assume they have decent AI in this game, unlike Skyrim's default followers.
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: December 3rd, 2014
by Fessels
LoL yeah but in this game they are needed, because it would be very difficult to play without them. I am pretty sure it can be done, but you would have to know the game and the creatures very well. Besides their personal stories ( With quests attached to it. ) bring a lot of depth to the game in my opinion, and the conversations between companions can be extremely funny to listen at.
And yes you can see the difference between the Skyrim followers and those in DAO very quickly and very good. Even if you only set a DAO followers behaviour then they are already much better then the default companions from Skyrim. ( In my opinion that is. ) Since you can set tactical rules for each DAO companion separately it can be great fun to watch a fight.
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: December 3rd, 2014
by Maigrets
Fessels wrote:LoL yeah but in this game they are needed, because it would be very difficult to play without them. I am pretty sure it can be done, but you would have to know the game and the creatures very well. Besides their personal stories ( With quests attached to it. ) bring a lot of depth to the game in my opinion, and the conversations between companions can be extremely funny to listen at.
I assumed that's how it would be set up otherwise you could do everything on your own and the companions would be superfluous. It's made to make you feel part of something and connected to the world, unlike in Bethesda's games where you start as a nobody and end up a nobody.
And yes you can see the difference between the Skyrim followers and those in DAO very quickly and very good. Even if you only set a DAO followers behaviour then they are already much better then the default companions from Skyrim. ( In my opinion that is. ) Since you can set tactical rules for each DAO companion separately it can be great fun to watch a fight.
That's one of the things I love about the Inigo follower for Skyrim. He's not just a follower and in version 2.0 he has his own quest (currently incomplete) which is very good. He has depth and conversation and other surprises and because of that he feels more like a real person, as much as a computer controlled AI can anyway.
Do the followers in Origins repeat themselves ad nauseum, or are their conversations always different? I don't think I could take having a group who continually said the same stupid lines over and over.
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: December 3rd, 2014
by Fessels
Maigrets wrote:I assumed that's how it would be set up otherwise you could do everything on your own and the companions would be superfluous. It's made to make you feel part of something and connected to the world, unlike in Bethesda's games where you start as a nobody and end up a nobody.
Yeah in DAO the main story slowly evolves ( Skyrim does that to, but not as deep and definitely not as great. ) and in order to get your companions to share their stories, you must improve their approval rating of your character. Since they all have different personalities, not all companions react the same to how you end a quest for instance. Also picking the wrong dialogue option during quests or when you talk to a companion in the Parties Camp site can cost you several( Or a lot. ) of approval. But you will find gifts for your companions throughout the game and some merchants also sell a few gifts. Those gifts will improve their approval from 1 point to quit a lot, it depends. But the gifts are not universal so to speak, because each companion has different gifts that He/She/It likes.
Another thing I think that adds more involvement with companions is that out of all the companions you can get into a romance with 4 of them. ( Not at the same time of course.
) And to keep the players around the world happy ... two of the companions are Heterosexual and the other two Bisexual.
Maigrets wrote:That's one of the things I love about the Inigo follower for Skyrim. He's not just a follower and in version 2.0 he has his own quest (currently incomplete) which is very good. He has depth and conversation and other surprises and because of that he feels more like a real person, as much as a computer controlled AI can anyway.
I enjoyed Inigo a lot in the time I hat him with my Skyrim character, he is indeed very good and I guess it is pretty safe to say that he is the best companion mod for Skyrim.
Maigrets wrote:Do the followers in Origins repeat themselves ad nauseum, or are their conversations always different? I don't think I could take having a group who continually said the same stupid lines over and over.
It does happen that they repeat certain conversations, but they appear to have more dialogue then the default Skyrim characters. So far I can not remember that companions repeated the same conversation during a gaming session so to speak. Now if you exit the game and then play it again the day after or so, then it can happen that you will hear a conversation that they also did the day before. ( But it is definitely not as bad as in other games in my opinion. )
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: December 3rd, 2014
by Fessels
I found the song that Leliana sang in the game, it is performed by Aubrey Ashburn.
And I finally found out how to get youtube videos to work again with the youtube tags. The links on youtube are all https but if you remove the "s" so that it is http ... then it works again. Less save I agree but that way it works again here on the forums.
Re: Dragon Age Origins.
Posted: December 11th, 2014
by Maigrets
Fereldens version of a Firewall.
That made me laugh for some reason. Firewall....
Nice screenshots. The graphics do look pretty good I must say for an older game. Are you using replacers besides the one's you've mentioned like armours and characters etc?
Now I've got Inquisition working I might think about getting Origins, but I'll wait until Steam has another sale. Although that would mean playing them out of order, but that's neither here nor there. You can transfer your characters to the new game from the previous ones though.