Dragon Age: Origins Exclusive Video Interview

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BioWare talks combat, party dynamics, and characters in its upcoming PC, PS3, and 360 game.

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98 Comments

  • yepper

    Posted Nov 2, 2009 4:22 am PT

    Looks like a nice game!!
    Loved the Baldurs Gate games... soo Ill with no doubt buy this game aswell!!

  • am_f1 posted Oct 11, 2009 2:47 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    am_f1

    Posted Oct 11, 2009 2:47 pm PT (hide)

    Diablo 3 come and save us from these games lol

  • saxatron58

    Posted Oct 11, 2009 10:41 am PT

    a while ago they had a combat movie that looked like a really cool fighting style, i'm thinking this is the PC version, and the other was the 360. or am i completely wrong?

  • saxatron58

    Posted Oct 11, 2009 10:41 am PT

    a while ago they had a combat movie that looked like a really cool fighting style, i'm thinking this is the PC version, and the other was the 360. or am i completely wrong?

  • winter_knights

    Posted Oct 7, 2009 12:30 am PT

    the only thing is it doesnt look like a hack and slash.. it looks turn based... *sigh*

  • winter_knights

    Posted Oct 7, 2009 12:27 am PT

    hmmm... interesting...

  • Jshaw71

    Posted Aug 8, 2009 3:11 pm PT

    heh early 2009, i wish, ho well, so what races are there to play as human, elf, and dwarf? hmm, seems a lil limited, i wish there was a 4th race, maybe half elf, or halfling, oh well...

  • poetdead

    Posted Jul 12, 2009 8:30 am PT

    i say NO this this game after i played demon;s soul

  • Armyboy5

    Posted May 12, 2009 7:20 am PT

    The ONLY thing i hate about this game, which will make this game one of the worse games ever this year for me, is the stupid gameplay ( Like in Neverwinter nights ), i mean seriusly, this video was the coolest, but it shows alot of fighting and stuff, but when you fight in the game, it's worse then Age of Conan!!!

    P.S. Agreed with helborhamy and Sharevok.

  • Sharevok

    Posted Feb 22, 2009 10:58 am PT

    The Game looks great, the cinematic trailer shows a lot of lore (a spitted head with outcoming blood of the eyes and nose, head cut,...) but right, in the Gameplay you can see nothing like that.

    The good thing: The Storybase, Atmosphere, Sound?,...

    Most bad thing: The Movement, fight-animations, TOO CHOPPY and slow (Games in the last 10 years had got better Animations), in every BioWare Game you have that silly large pause between the cuts... The scene with the Stairs... a disaster the movement itself, unrealistic.

    To every Game-designer for 3D-movement, please take a look at Games like "Assassins Creed"... ...and I don't understand why bioware make such crap animations?

  • helborhamy

    Posted Feb 12, 2009 11:57 pm PT

    Has good graphics, good ideas, but the game doesn't look very intense to me. Not enough gore, action is kind of slow, and it looks like it should have been a strategy game rather than role-playing.

  • fradam

    Posted Feb 11, 2009 10:17 pm PT

    It looks cool! Im deffenetly going to play it! BG 2 is the best game I have ever played, I think. Thereby I agree with some in here, that the standards they set is extremly high, and maybe thats not wise, we will first surely know when the game is out
    Another thing that I can see, which annoys me is that they dont use the old User Interface as they did in both NWN, BG and Icewind Dale. They use one that looks very close to the one Blizzard developed to WoW. I dont know why though as the UI to the old game gave a special feeling too, I think

  • noxboxlive

    Posted Jan 30, 2009 8:41 am PT

    so is this going to be tyrn based or somthing. or is it hack and slash?

  • CrazyFox_444

    Posted Jan 22, 2009 9:57 am PT

    are u forced to choose out of 3 characters or it it like NWN alot of diffrent classes and Prestige classes and multi/dual classes?

  • CrazyFox_444

    Posted Jan 22, 2009 9:55 am PT

    is this D&D based System like BG?

  • beyonder007

    Posted Jan 14, 2009 1:53 am PT

    cant wait for this, it just goes to show.. you put out good work..and every wehre you go success rains down..

    they deserve every bit of success they get.

  • lightwarrior179

    Posted Jan 3, 2009 10:36 am PT

    Being a Baldur's Gate fan I am really looking forward to that pause-and-play strategic combat and the characters especially Morgen look interesting to say the least.

  • the-bob-kills

    Posted Dec 30, 2008 8:57 pm PT

    so-so, like origins so it will be a good replay game

  • Webrider

    Posted Dec 17, 2008 4:37 pm PT

    If everyone would turn down thier detail on computers to what the graphics looked like on an Xbox or PS3 no one would ever complain about frame rates. But when you kick up the res and detail there is no comparison. I was so dissappointed in my xbox and ps3 compared to my PC. And noting compares to a mouse, and nostro N52. Good thin my ps3 does Blu Ray.

  • killeridis

    Posted Dec 17, 2008 12:23 pm PT

    great game i really looking forward to play it, i just hope it will be good optimized and not many bug but i put my hopes very high...........

  • blackmage0_15

    Posted Dec 12, 2008 12:59 pm PT

    @Skicreature

    Mass effect wasn't different from DnD, silly. it's like what star wars did for DnD. just another form of pen and paper RPG. I wouldn't mind seeing some better P&P games as opposed to this. It's been a while since something new came out for pen and paper.

  • Lebowski-Dude

    Posted Nov 9, 2008 8:26 pm PT

    Neverwinter Nights 3.

    Totally friggin awesome.

  • jadelotuz posted Nov 1, 2008 2:56 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    jadelotuz

    Posted Nov 1, 2008 2:56 pm PT (hide)

    This is how Fallout 3 should have been

    Controllable Groups, Pause n Play, etc. But with a bit more Tactics. Maybe it whould be possible to make a "mod" for Fallout, that makes it play like this, or vice verse, a Mod for this that lets you play Fallout!

    Anyhow. I'm looking forward to this game. I realy like (and miss) the classical Baldurs Gate, Icewindale, Fallout kinda RPGs. Now it looks like its here, with "modern" graphics. NeverWinter Nights was the closest in resent days, but you wasnt able to controll the entire "group" as with the older games. Dungeon Siege is also like this, but that game lak alot else ... Just wonder how it will be played on PS3 and X360? Is mouse and Keyboard gonna be supported? or entirely Gamepad controlls? The former is the way to play it on the other hand (Keyboard and Mouse).

  • willard1975

    Posted Oct 30, 2008 1:02 am PT

    Can't wait for this. I play Bioware games mainly for their rich stories. This looks alot like the first NWN, especially the HUD. The engine plays like it too. Character models looks nice so i'm hoping the environment is the same, hard to tell from a preview.

  • Divine_Ex

    Posted Oct 29, 2008 12:14 pm PT

    This is looking prety sweet....and im glad they're moving out of AD&D system. I knw there are die hard fans of tht system and it was fun at the time, i enjoyed the baldur's gate games, icewind dale etc but its time to move on. Games like oblivion and fable def has more immersive combat than the old skool D&D and im glad this game is trying to move in tht direction. My only concern is they're trying to pleace everyone here by trying to intigrate the old system into this....i jst hope they get it right instead of making one or both systems weak.

  • joeleos

    Posted Oct 25, 2008 11:06 pm PT

    this game looks mad have u seen the trailer

  • gmonkey000

    Posted Oct 25, 2008 9:04 am PT

    Anyone know if the coop mode will be like Balders Gate?

  • Firelord4

    Posted Oct 23, 2008 3:08 pm PT

    The variety thing again.If you have something to say, you say it.Simple.

  • waffle posted Oct 21, 2008 4:46 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    waffle

    Posted Oct 21, 2008 4:46 pm PT (hide)

    This game looks pretty terrible, like a copy of dungeon siege. I can pause that game too. Why change what is already good? Oh, Morrigan is in the game. How exciting! Who the hell is that? The daughter of Flemith? Oh wow, I don't care. I had forgotten about this game since updates stopped coming about 2 years ago... looks like I don't need to check anymore. Look at that interface! But, Bioware makes some good RPG's so I'm sure it won't be as bad as my initial impression.

  • Skicreature

    Posted Oct 21, 2008 9:34 am PT

    the D&D system was a great system for the pc although there were definitely some parts of the system that did not work with the pc due to the fact the pc moves much more quickly. Mass Effect was not a lite rpg it was definitely a deep story line but it is true that most games outside of the D&D are lite rpgs. mass effect was just an exception. Hopefully fallout 3 will be a deep game.

  • Humorguy_basic

    Posted Oct 17, 2008 5:24 am PT

    shame that the only deep rpgs are AD&D type fantasy game. Why Sci-Fi (Mass Effect) and Japanese (Jade Empire) RPG's have to be 'lite' and not 'deep; rpg's like DA escapes and worries and frustrates me. We will have towait on Fallout 3, but generally we need more genres when it comes to hardcore RPG's. Like the old games of years gone by Wasteland and Martian Dreams (google if you don't know them!)

  • docsmiley

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 1:49 am PT

    I disagree. The AD&D universe was far more than a System. It left the player with a feel that he was in a world with physical boundries, and that was, in part, what made the game great. In Baldurs Gate you really had to think Strategy and plan ahead for an encounter. This game just looks like mindless hack and slash to me.
    Also don't forget that Baldurs gate was set in the Forgotten Realms, so you could actually read books about almost every aspect of the game. And the people who made the game obviously had made a great effort reading the history of the game World before they made the Game. Im my oppinion, if you want a game that looks like this and feels like Baldurs Gate, buy "the Witcher". It has cutting edge graphics, and a Story that is based on Novels of a Professional Fantasy Author. And it lets you make desicions that will REALLY affect your Character in the game later on...

  • Gwarpup

    Posted Oct 13, 2008 6:31 am PT

    So glad to see Bioware finally getting away from AD&D system. It was alwasys the worst system to translate from P&P to computer. The idea of having to memorize spells just begged to be exploited by force camping all the time, and the whole system was built around that and it weakened the whole system and totally unballenced it.

  • madroxide87

    Posted Oct 7, 2008 8:25 pm PT

    Looks like it might be fun. I think I'll probably just stick with Fable 2 on the Xbox though.

  • shoopdogg

    Posted Oct 7, 2008 5:46 pm PT

    Weak combat.

  • CHAOS7777777

    Posted Oct 7, 2008 1:50 pm PT

    I like this kind of game. I hope they have a good AI system that u can use for your AI controlled party members tho. Kind of in the way they had it in ff 12.

    For me at lest It was allot of fun designing how your characters would act then seeing in a fight how it would turn out

  • tunaface posted Oct 7, 2008 12:09 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    tunaface

    Posted Oct 7, 2008 12:09 pm PT (hide)

    this game looks retarded

  • milosc

    Posted Oct 7, 2008 6:42 am PT

    Well MEGAWANG! You're being an idiot now! Thats his meaning! Even though it's stupid, it's still his meaning!

  • MegaWang

    Posted Oct 6, 2008 11:28 pm PT

    chechak7-

    You are an idiot, we haven't seen any of the real gameplay, you don't know anything about it. Also there is nothing wrong with the shader it's just a dark game (which I love and I think is fitting) so your comments are invalid.

  • Mar044

    Posted Oct 6, 2008 8:38 pm PT

    he was talking about baldars gate for the PC back before the ps2

  • rockatanski

    Posted Oct 6, 2008 8:01 pm PT

    Hmm. I got a feeling this will be the best RPG in the world when it comes out. I dunno why, but it just looks like it so far.

  • JaredTrotterboy

    Posted Oct 6, 2008 4:09 pm PT

    He had me at Baldurs Gate, i loved those PS2 games. I'm definatly getting this.

    World changing how u play it, i like the sounds of that.

  • JaredTrotterboy

    Posted Oct 6, 2008 4:09 pm PT

    He had me at Baldurs Gate, i loved those PS2 games. I'm definatly getting this.

    World changing how u play it, i like the sounds of that.

  • mismajor99

    Posted Oct 6, 2008 4:01 pm PT

    A true CRPG..I'm loving it so far!!

  • mismajor99

    Posted Oct 6, 2008 4:00 pm PT

    A true CRPG..I'm loving it so far!!

  • ArdcoreCasualty

    Posted Oct 6, 2008 2:37 pm PT

    Yes, just yes.

  • Belgium_1830

    Posted Oct 6, 2008 10:17 am PT

    definately picking this up! good work!

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