Comments on: Playstyle Frustration

By: Joe Tortuga

Joe Tortuga — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:02:47 +0000

I get that. I think that’s why I was framing my thoughts about it in terms of play style. Like this isn’t the game I want to be playing, *if* that’s the way I have to play it.

By: TheGameCritique

TheGameCritique — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:54:41 +0000

Dunno, I hate scripting and am used to and frankly love getting nitty gritty with every turn. It’s from my time with the Baldur’s Gate series. Still waiting on BG3.

By: Joe Tortuga

Joe Tortuga — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:44:19 +0000

I feel like I tried that approach, and the mage pummeled me with fireball. I’m willing to try it again, maybe even twice more, but it’s frustrating.

I admit I don’t have all that experience playing party-based BioWare games. The last one I played to any extent was Jade Empire, and it’s always just you and one other person, and it is more action oriented. I also think that DA made me feel like I was playing and MMO, and I expected my party members to be smarter than a bad PUG (a mistake).

Where is the game I can play where I don’t have to micromanage the party? does that work in DA?

By: TheGameCritique

TheGameCritique — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:29:43 +0000

I’m often confused by people complaining about the difficulty of Dragon Age as I never once found the need to drop difficulty, but now I think I get it. I’ve spent so much time playing Baldur’s Gate since ’98 that I’m accustum to the language the game works in. I know that bridge section and I only failed there once, learning that there was alot on the other side. All you do isince forward taking out the enemies one at a time as they appear from the fog of war. Once you got enough, then you can charge in.

By: Travis Megill

Travis Megill — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:29:37 +0000

This is pretty much my experience as well. My first impressions were good, but combat is either really hard or mind-numbingly easy depending on the difficulty setting. I finished the game with a mage on Easy, but spent the entire game casting the cone freeze spell over and over while the members with swords hacked at the enemies that couldn’t move.

I liked the characters and seeing how my actions affected them, but the time I spent in interesting dialogue over the course of a 40 hours or so is pretty minimal.