Posted at 3:44pm on Wed 4 November 2009 |
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Mastorofpuppetz- Posts: 8
| What advances it ME and fallout 3? Worst dialog, lack of meaningful role play or choices? More basic less strategic combat? easier simplistic combat? Seems this is a return to form, not the other way around like this moron reviewer tries to say. |
Posted at 8:53pm on Wed 4 November 2009 |
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Endless- Posts: 682
| I actually agree with this. RPGs have been getting dumbed down and simplified progressively for a long long time, both single player and Massively Multiplayer. If Dragon Age is a return to the way things used to be, then i welcome it. |
Posted at 10:42pm on Wed 4 November 2009 |
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wyp100- Posts: 644
| I fear you've missed the point. "Archaic" is not a negative term. It is to say from the distant past, which Dragon Age certainly is. From the review: "This is not to say Dragon Age is a poor game - it is superb, in fact."
How is the ME radial wheel better? It's more dynamic, intuitive, and reflective of an actual conversation. It works brilliantly and I can see no good reason why it hasn't been used in Dragon Age.
Your comment on the combat is puzzling. The review praises it.
The paragraph regarding Mass Effect, again, is not a criticism. It is, as the review says, a warning to those who might have expected Dragon Age to be a game similar to Mass Effect. |
Posted at 10:49pm on Wed 4 November 2009 |
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El-Dev- Posts: 1,638
| Eurogamer panned it and give it an 8 for some reason when the review read like a 6. |
Posted at 12:07am on Thu 5 November 2009 |
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wyp100- Posts: 644
| Specs:
8800GTX
AMD Triple Core
2GB Memory
Vista 32 Bit
Loading times were awful. Performance ranged - with the settings at max, combat was a struggle. Otherwise, it ran wonderfully. |
Posted at 12:24am on Thu 5 November 2009 |
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Karlius- Posts: 4,230
| Risky mate running Vista with 2gb maybe an update to windows 7 on the cards or a memory update? |
Posted at 11:00am on Thu 5 November 2009 |
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Endless- Posts: 682
| Thanks Wes.
I recently read the Kotaku review and they tested it with an early AMD Phenom, 2gb of ram and a radeon 3650 and still said the game looked better and ran smoother on PC than either console version.
Though you do have a much beefier gpu than mine (Radeon HD 4650) or theirs (Radeon HD 3650). I think i'll be getting the PC version now, I have 4gb of the speedy 1066mhz stuff on Vista 64 and a core2duo with 16mb cache which i hope should speed up the slow loading times you're getting, though as i recall Baldurs gate 2 had massive loading times as well lol. I'll chime in with how it runs when i get it tomorrow.
It's probably too hardcore for my wife anyway lol |
Posted at 4:17pm on Thu 5 November 2009 |
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mhrist- Posts: 1
| Hellow Reviewer, you also forgot to mention that there is no Laser Mk1000 and no Geth. I mean what kind of RPG is that? Ohh, it is not Mass Effect that's why. So how about the game on its own merit? I don't know if you guys do any schooling for this job but you should. |
Posted at 8:38pm on Thu 5 November 2009 |
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Endless- Posts: 682
| You can't review a game and not compare it to other games in the same genre, it wouldn't be a complete review if you didn't have points of comparison. |
Posted at 2:15am on Fri 6 November 2009 |
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goodterling- Posts: 1
| FINALLY someone who mentions the poor graphics. Every movie I've seen of Dragon Age, my reaction has been YUCK. Graphics are simultaneously flat and garishly colored--like they went in and cranked up the saturation after the fact. A 100 hours looking at that? Every reviewer goes on and on about the high detail, and ignores the crap art direction. |
