Koki on 2/11/2009 at 17:19
The game is already available through unofficial channels both for 360(lol there is no piracy on consolez) and PC.
ASHASSIN on 2/11/2009 at 17:37
Quote Posted by Koki
The game is already available through unofficial channels both for 360(lol there is no piracy on consolez) and PC.
Awesome! cuz i hate paying for things that people put years of hard work into to create something i'll love!!!1 :rolleyes:
Koki on 2/11/2009 at 17:38
Really? That's fuck up man.
van HellSing on 2/11/2009 at 19:57
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Another?, so where's the other one? :)
Possibly this? (page 5)
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CD-Action review: 8+ (playability 9, graphics 7, sound 9)
Bottom line: feels oldschool, looks meh, good story and atmosphere, good -though hard- combat with a tactical edge, good character progression possibilities. Alternate mini-review gives it 9
Aerothorn on 3/11/2009 at 11:21
Eurogamer has (
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/dragon-age-origins-review) their review up, which makes it sound like a completely different game than the one the Gamespots of the world are raving about.
Mind you, I'd be more inclined to check it out if I hadn't learned long ago that Gamespot's (and much of their competition, though they are one in the worst in this department) idea of a "great story" was "better (and/or more wordy) than most games."
Thirith on 3/11/2009 at 14:16
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Mind you, I'd be more inclined to check it out if I hadn't learned long ago that Gamespot's (and much of their competition, though they are one in the worst in this department) idea of a "great story" was "better (and/or more wordy) than most games."
IMO that's true for lots of gamers as much as for Gamespot: quantity is understood as quality, and "great story" means "well, there's a lot of it, and it's not quite as cringeworthy than your average game story".
Aerothorn on 3/11/2009 at 14:57
Oh, definitely agree there - Bioware's public position as The Greatest Storyteller Ever is evidence enough of that. Still, I feel like professional game reviewers shouldn't sell short their favorite medium by encouraging low standards in storytelling.
Thirith on 3/11/2009 at 15:27
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Still, I feel like professional game reviewers shouldn't sell short their favorite medium by encouraging low standards in storytelling.
I agree. It'd definitely help, though, if so many gamers wouldn't immediately start shouting "Pretentious!!!!!!!" if anyone takes the storytelling potential of games seriously.
Andarthiel on 4/11/2009 at 00:40
Well I just got paid for my copy of DA:O. Should be geetting it sometime next week, I am in anticipation:thumb:
Zygoptera on 4/11/2009 at 01:51
Quote Posted by Thirith
I agree. It'd definitely help, though, if so many gamers wouldn't immediately start shouting "Pretentious!!!!!!!" if anyone takes the storytelling potential of games seriously.
Oh please.
It would help if some wouldn't take "pretentious" as if it's some sort of mortal insult when it's actually neutral, when used correctly. Planescape Torment is gigantically pretentious (
philosophy, in MY game??????), but its execution of those pretensions is
excellent. And if it's used as part of something like "a pretentious mish mash of pseudo intellectual drivel shoehorned into a setting remarkable only for achievements in extreme derivativeness" then being pretentious is the absolute least of the criticisms, albeit the easiest to hurr durr about.
