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OXCGN's US correspondent gives us his view on the new Bioware RPG, Dragon Age: Origin. Come check out his detailed review on the game, along with some excellent images and videos.
Will this make the grade . . come and find out yourself.
BioWare has developed some of the best role-playing games of all time. Its catalog includes some of the best titles in the genre, such as Baldur’s Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect.
Dragon Age: Origins does not stray too far from the formulas pioneered in those games. The player builds a character, recruits party members with varied skills and undertakes an epic quest with multiple potential outcomes depending on the player’s reaction to different moral dilemmas.
Dragon Age: Origins is set in the territory of Ferelden, a land of humans, elves and dwarves. The nobles of Ferelden are at the brink of civil war even while evil beasts called Darkspawn are invading in a periodic attack called a “blight.”
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The reviewer didn't complain too much I think. I've heard worse.
1)We've got complaining of the controls and saying how pausing slows the action of the game when it's a bloody spirital successor of sorts to D&D based games. Seriously, what do you expect?
2)Then there's complaining about a far too robust tactics system and how it takes trial and error to work out when there's the presets there for a reason. That way people who want to mess with the system can and others that don't have presets.
3) Whining about missions and how they apparently don't point you in the right direction at all and then apparently needing to run through expansive areas just to find the marker. I'm on my 4th playthrough, with the exception of perhaps the random encounter quests, I have never ever been lost and the quest itself has always said things quite clearly and the location told as well.
4) Saying the crap about how you have to go into the codex for information and get lost trying to find it when they are named when you highlight them! Those required for quests are in the quest section obviously and have a corresponding name to the quest itself.
5) Graphics, this complaint has been shared among multiple reviewers. Personally though while it might not have bright colours, I still think it looks brilliant.
While it might not have been the worst amount of complaining ever, what the reviewer did complain about was small and insignificant. Not to mention that it got stretched out so much and made to look like these were horrible, big problems. As others have said, it's the kind of complaining that after reading you expect to see a 6/10 score, not a 9/10. If that isn't being whiny then I don't know what is.
@ Daweii, Yeah, I was expecting a seven or eight out of ten at best considering how the reviewer consistently went on about the negative aspects of the game.
Dragon Age easily deserves a 9 in my opinion and he complained about mostly little things (quest markers, reading the codex). The only other complaint was the controls, which he then said could be mastered and enjoyed. I don't get where all the whining was here?
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