It gives me a weird mental stutter when I read it, like I'm starting a new sentence every word. How does that make it look cooler? I wish to be your padawan in coolness.
No, it looks like a ridiculously long song title. It looks cool when you're a kid, but eventually you grow up and start to think "what is this shit?" and stop doing it.
It makes me think he has cognitive difficulties. Plus, did this guy come on to TA to only post in this thread?
The game is huge and the story epic (if pretty familiar). Tons of character customization that is actually meaningful -- your choices affect the backstory of your character and define how other react to you. Combat can be pretty challenging and exciting (though the XBox version doesn't give you multiple points of view, which for me made it more tactical). One big plus is that the NPCs (particularly the members of your party) are memorable -- when they die, their loss is palpable. Graphics are decent, though not groundbreaking. My one disappointment was that, for a WRPG, it's surprisingly linear, certainly much more so than Morrowind or Oblivion. But all in all, it's darn good game.
Being honest here... Dragon Age: Origins is probably the worst looking game I've seen on consoles this gen, and I've only played the PS3 verison which apparently has higher textures than the 360 version. I know not all games can look fantastic, but it still took me by surprise just how primitive some of it looks.
It wasn't the focus of my post. And because Mass Effect is shoddy; endless dull grey planets, speech decisions that make no real difference, crappy UT3 texture loading and so on.
So should I get Mass Effect 1? I really enjoy the storylines in RPGs so I was thinking of playing through it before Mass Effect 2.
I've only played the PC version, which I believe had better graphics than both the PS3 and XBox version. But yeah, some of it doesn't quite look next-gen (from the preview videos, The Witcher 2 looks a lot better). Considering the level of customization and the overall gameplay, though, I think it's suitably immersive. But we're not talking Uncharted 2 here. I think a bigger problem is how linear it is. One of the great things about Oblivion was that you could take on the main quest at your leisure -- there's were tons of areas to explore, many side-quests, etc. Dragon Age has a much stronger story than Oblivion, but at the expense of a much more directed experience.
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IMO I wouldn't take that as a con. Oblivion prides itself on ultimate freedom, but the story/storytelling is pretty bad, if really actually existent (I mean, the first time I ever played it, I'm not sure I was even aware there was a storyline). While the story-focused (not Dragon Age specifically, but those games in general) games don't have nearly as much freedom, it is necessary in order to have a decent story/storytelling method. Though, no-one should ever go into a story-focused RPG expecting Besthesda level freedom (not you specifically, just people in general).
Oblivion is the biggest fail EVAH. what the **** am I supposed to do in the game? Lay an egg? Catch a mouse? damn. I just have no ****ing clue. I needed a walktrough to actually start with the weird story line. Mass Effect is crystal clear. I know what I'm supposed to do and I like lifting aliens in the air and stuff. Better than shooting fireballs or riding a shitty animated horse in Oblivion. E: Oh and if you want an open world, just throw Oblivion away and try EVE Online. Its an MMO but it's really good, lots of stuff to do, you can even trade drinks or medicines. Not recommended, shooting other people or doing some missions will make u rich in no time. E2: Oh and EVE Online is for PC .
They're both as bad as each other. I actually found Oblivion fairly obvious to be honest, but with ME I was walking around that crappy space station thing for ages trying to find someone to talk to that would resume the damn story.
I don't really know what you're talking about, from what I remember, so long as you stick to the quest, Oblivion is pretty easy to follow. You come out of that sewer tutorial thing and it leads you on to the next town, and the main quest. Sure, you stray off the quest and go look around some, it's going to take you a while to get back to it. Probably about as long as it took you to stray off into the wilderness
I bought the guide, and it's massive. I love going back into it from time to time to reminisce on the things I didn't get to do... the fact the guidebook alone plays out like a picture book is awesome.
