It's a solid triple AAA rpg that's completely free for a limited time.
Why wouldn't you download it?
Because I did that via torrent the first time around back when it was released, discovering that the game was crap the hard way.
AAA =/= good. You'd have to pay me to play this shit again
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Leshma on October 08, 2014, 09:27:38 pm
It's a great game, way better than successor (DA2) and probably better than Dragon Age 3. Last good RPG made by Bioware.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: lombardsoup on October 08, 2014, 09:28:47 pm
Bioware was good back in the Neverwinter Nights days.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Leshma on October 08, 2014, 09:35:05 pm
Bioware was good back when they made Baldurs Gate. NWN is like generic Baldurs Gate with epic modding potential and one good expansion in whole series. KotOR was also great, but that's mainly due to well executed SW lore. Mass Effect was good (sequels are mainstream mumbo-jumbo). Dragon Age has some funny banter between characters in the first half and quite effective start. Decent RPG as well and overall fun game but game became dull as you near the end.
Bioware games aren't inherently bad, they are good actually. Their biggest problem is: once you see one, you've seen them all (but that also goes for many other studios like Piranha Bytes and Bethesda Softworks).
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: lombardsoup on October 08, 2014, 09:42:47 pm
(but that also goes for many other studios like Piranha Bytes and Bethesda Softworks).
Beth is worse, didn't even bother with ESO.
...what should a cynic play?
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Leshma on October 08, 2014, 09:45:32 pm
If we're talking about RPGs, then you should play Divinity: Original Sin. It's better than Wasteland 2 imho, does many things better than Fargo's game which is buggy and revolves around one type of weapons (rest are just for show and nowhere near as useful like assault rifles).
ESO was made by Zenimax Studios, not Todd "copy/paste" Howard and his gang.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: lombardsoup on October 08, 2014, 09:47:45 pm
If we're talking about RPGs, then you should play Divinity: Original Sin. It's better than Wasteland 2 imho, does many things better than Fargo's game which is buggy and revolves around one type of weapons (rest are just for show and nowhere near as useful like assault rifles).
ESO was made by Zenimax Studios, not Todd "copy-paste" Howard and his gang.
Heard many good things about D: OS.
Todd "using the same fucking engine since Morrowind" Howard :D
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Leshma on October 08, 2014, 09:54:53 pm
Not the same engine. Morrowind engine is vastly superior to modified Gamebryo bullshit he's been using since Oblivion. Since Daggerfall main point of TES games was freedom. They took that away from us in Oblivion because of bullshit consoles. In Daggerfall you could turn into a werewolf and levitate on a damn horse (like rider of apocalypse). You couldn't do that in Morrowind but there were rocket boots to make up for it. In Oblivion you couldn't do any of that shit (no levitation at all cause cities are closed areas) and as final nail in the coffin of freedom, in Skyrim you can't even create magic and potions like you could in previous games. With every installation he's taking choice from players.
I have high hopes in open source engine replacement for Morrowind. It's nearing completion for vanilla version of the game. They will keep improving it to support graphical mods like MGE and maybe one day (many years from now), they might even create multiplayer in it and find a way how to add all continents and create proper online version of TES games. Man can dream...
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Taser on October 08, 2014, 10:13:19 pm
Yeah you could make crazy shit in morrowind. I loved the levitating spell (guards became stupid when you used it though) as well as the ability to make spells your own with huge ability to change and add stuff to make unique spells. (plus the soul trap stuff to make your speed 1000. lol)
Regardless DA origin is a fun game. Solid rpg. Haven't used Origin though so no idea if it is worth downloading through that. But YOLO.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: LordBerenger on October 08, 2014, 10:30:49 pm
Topdown games are the worst. Ewww. This isn't the 80s-early 90s anymore. Almost as bad design-wise as having cel shaded graphics /cartoon graphics.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: _RXN_ on October 08, 2014, 10:42:14 pm
I never once used 'tactical view' cos that topdown looks awful, just play it over-the-shoulder like it was meant to be played. That zoom-out shit isnt even available on the xbox version and there's a good reason for that (the same reason it starts you in over-the-shoulder as default).
Have fun understanding what going on. Whatever floats your boat I guess.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Clockworkkiller on October 09, 2014, 12:15:07 am
I meant that it's only goin to be a free download for a limited time, not you can only play it for free for a limited time.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Rhekimos on October 09, 2014, 01:19:44 am
Free Dragon Age:O, +10$.
Installing Origin, -50 sanity points.
No thanks EA.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Christo on October 09, 2014, 05:35:17 am
I tried to play through this game last year, seriously I really tried but couldn't.
It was so dull and boring, filled with cliche after cliche. It couldn't keep up my interest, so I left it alone about 50% of the story.
Seriously, it felt like a frankenstein monster stitched together from all kinds of fantasy. 0 originhahaality.
Now, thinking back I have to say my expectations were set insanely high, playing the witcher 2 through before touching this game, I just looked up if there are any good RPG-s around, that's what I saw suggested on some forum threads. Disappointment ensured.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Corwin on October 09, 2014, 09:46:57 am
Dragon Age Origins is currently available for free at Origin store. Never played it but whatevs.
Is it worth my time to click the button and download it?
Yes. There are some original and very well written quests, and the combat system is great - it reminds me of Baldur's Gate in terms of complexity. At least if you are playing as mage, as I did.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Umbra on October 09, 2014, 09:57:53 am
Because I did that via torrent the first time around back when it was released, discovering that the game was crap the hard way.
AAA =/= good. You'd have to pay me to play this shit again
Are you kidding me? Its easily one of the best "recent" rpg-s.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Molly on October 09, 2014, 10:00:56 am
In all fairness, it was pretty buggy when it came out. The curse of torrents - missing out patches when they become available.
Still a stupid and ignorant statement. Fits his post history fine tho :P And you can't compare DA:O with modern games like Witcher 2, that's unfair. DA:O is already old in PC games terms.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Kafein on October 09, 2014, 12:36:27 pm
I tried to play through this game last year, seriously I really tried but couldn't.
It was so dull and boring, filled with cliche after cliche. It couldn't keep up my interest, so I left it alone about 50% of the story.
Seriously, it felt like a frankenstein monster stitched together from all kinds of fantasy. 0 originhahaality.
Now, thinking back I have to say my expectations were set insanely high, playing the witcher 2 through before touching this game, I just looked up if there are any good RPG-s around, that's what I saw suggested on some forum threads. Disappointment ensured.
I personally like DA:O way better than Witcher 2. The combat in W2 doesn't hold a candle to DA:O. Yes, many things are a little bit cliché in DA (although some are not), but at least it's fun to play it.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Overdriven on October 09, 2014, 01:00:44 pm
I love DA:O. I think I've completed it 4-5 times now and restarted it multiple other times. Hoping Inquisition isn't a fail like DA2.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Leshma on October 09, 2014, 01:04:32 pm
DA:O has proper RPG combat and it's party based RPG. Witcher 2 has good story, character development, nice graphics and it's an interesting game but combat system is abysmal and downright boring. If we compare combat, DA:O is superior RPG and fits perfectly what was once considered a proper cRPG. Witcher is action oriented, like Gothic games. Hard to compare them, really.
If you think DA:O is bad, you obviously haven't tried DA2. Also I've seen you, Molly, in DA3 topic hyping the game. Let me tell you, that game is going to be just like DA2 and nowhere near the quality of DA:O. This is the reason why:
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Xant on October 09, 2014, 01:05:33 pm
DAO was great. Couldn't replay it because of some gay design choices, like the Fade part which was the gayest shit ever, and then that dwarven underground place which, although fine the first time around, would have been a drag to play a second time.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Molly on October 09, 2014, 02:32:50 pm
[...] Also I've seen you, Molly, in DA3 topic hyping the game. Let me tell you, that game is going to be just like DA2 and nowhere near the quality of DA:O. This is the reason why: [...]
I have hope. Hope is the return of the tactical camera.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Overdriven on October 09, 2014, 02:33:58 pm
I have never used the tactical camera. I always hated it and never needed it/saw the point in DA:O. I certainly didn't need it to complete the game. I didn't even notice it was missing in DA2 because I didn't remember it from DA:O.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Molly on October 09, 2014, 02:42:48 pm
Neither did I but the mere existence is a clue that they "heard" the criticism about DA2 - at least some of it. Just the re-implementation of DA:O features is a good sign in my book. That's what I ment. Not to mention that those few current gameplay videos look way more promising than the very early videos they released where it looked like a freaking console button masher ala Sacred 3 *shiver*
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: darmaster on October 09, 2014, 04:12:43 pm
imo good gameplay but awful settings, always believed settings were important in an rpg game; I couldn't get caught by the atmosphere so I didn't really enjoy it ):
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Nehvar on October 09, 2014, 04:45:12 pm
DA:O was great but I'm not installing Origin (fuck EA)...even if they're giving me free games.
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Umbra on October 09, 2014, 05:31:07 pm
Pirated it anyway
Title: Re: Get Dragon Age Origins For Free
Post by: Falka on October 09, 2014, 06:03:53 pm
I have never used the tactical camera. I always hated it and never needed it/saw the point in DA:O. I certainly didn't need it to complete the game.
Depends on the difficulty setting which you choose I guess. On PC (console version was way easier) nightmare difficutly without tactical view would be pretty annoying I think, just like it was in DA2.
DAO was very enjoyable, one of very few games which I managed to finish, even though it took me around 50 hours I think.