I found myself kind of depressed knowing Origins was the first and last time I'd see all of the original characters together and now resent the new ones.. I don't know why.
Dragon Age 2 - Good game, rushed out by EA SWTOR - Good game, but too similar to WoW Mass Effect 3 - Amazing game, best Mass Effect...until the last 10 or so minutes.
@leebone98 The reason no romance options were made was because the full story of awakening is too short for a romance to really take place, not to mention the lack of a party camp where the player character could have a 'private' moment with one of the companions.
Rectus Rectumius ye they screwed up with the bugs in andromeda but i hear that game is actually ok now. Still can't think of anything really terrible from bioware. Even to this day.
@mauriceliabc he is, if you listen to the command prompt podcast, steve lives in north carolina (i think) and he has to phone in the review so that the ign video team (in LA) can edit and track it in.
Screw speccing Anders like Wynne! Spec him Arcane Warrior/Spirit Healer/Battle mage! He's amazing! Keeps everyone alive and if you pour all his points into Willpower and Vitality skill, his mana pool is HUGE! Very nice review, btw. =) I thought you summed it up quite nicely.
@ProblmSolvd In all fairness it wasn't biowares fault, They were rushed by EA because EA knew there was no point wasting time on development sense they were going to get high sales because its a sequel.
@sixsixseveneight It's an expansion to Dragon Age Origins. You must get the Ultimate edition if you are interested (Contains the original game and this DLC plus more). Epic game :-)
Don't worry it took me about a month, you have to set your difficulty to easy try and choose a mellee army set if you have none left choose the elves. You then have to head to the ballista's and spam the dragon the best you can, eventually it will call reinforcements which can be a real pest, so wipe them out as quickley as possible a few of your followers may die in the progress. Then carry on with your spamming untill you kill it.
I almost finished Origins right now. And i have already picked up Awakening hoping it would just extend the story some more. Wow was i wrong. After learning that almost all my companions are AWOL, most of the well known NPC's are nowhere to be found and im effectively starting from scratch despite having the ability to import my Warden... i am having serious doubts i will bother playing it at all. Bring on ME3.
I just now realized there was not any romance. Must have been really important.... I pre-ordered this and my hard drive crashed 2x so I lost 2 playthroughs of the original. Finally beat this this weekend and it was pretty fun. I didn't mind only playing through a 16 hour storyline.
@R9LegenderyFenomeno It's not a massive spoiler, the description of the game even says you can find old favourites from the first game, I think Oghren was just a fan fav, so they placed him back in, beside it adds another dwarf to the group, unless you own Character was a dwarf it kind of felt Human and Elf heavy to me lol
@MyMegatron123 I think more irritating is that if you did romance someone in origins, that romance or even that character doesn't carry over. It fits into lacking continuity.
@ProblmSolvd Thats whys more people need to support indie developers, They are selling games that are way better then most retail games for a fraction of the price of retail games, All they ask for are the funds to continue there studio and money for food and to pay the bills.
best part of getting this was seeing the card on the inside saying 2-1-2011. im taking this as a release day for DA 2 seeing how there was a press release a few months ago saying they would try for a earlly 2011 release!!!
@CU2UK I'm interested what you think about DA2 now that they minimalised the darkspawn that you fight, but tripled the amount of thugs you kill. It got much much worse imo.
the only thing i dont like about this expansion is that the only DLC that carries over is the return to ostogar. but some of the new weapons i saw look just amazing!
Yes the only downside to the expansion is what you did in the first game really doesnt matter in the awakening. They pretty much took out approval rating, its still there but it doesnt play as big of a role as it did in origins. That and all of your party members from the first game are gone except 3 that ive seen so far and only 1 being able to join your party.
why is it that on some DLC's you guys complain that it's still just the same game... and then give it a lowered score. Well, like you said here: if you didn't like the original, you wouldn't be watching this review. Isn't the point of DLC that we did like it and we want more? So why lower other DLC's scores for this reason?
You know, romance in Bioware games isn't all about the PG-13 sex scene at the end of it. It's really there to allow further exploration into the stories and personalities of characters. And don't even try to tell me that story isn't the most important part of an RPG.
@thedarkelf1994 oblivion would be in the catagory of mainly rpg but with some action, while dragon age is between rpg and depending on your console pc for instance some stratagy
I need to try Dragon Age again. Don't get me wrong, its a great game. But I screwed up so bad, I accidentally killed Wynn, not thinking she would join me. So now Morigan has to heal, which she's a bad healer. And I'm just not very good at it.
So if you have this for DLC, will the new abilities bleed into your old game, such as blood magic appearing when you started a new game, and the new spells as well as the armour etc. If it's really short i'll wait for it to go down in price.
they did mess up in my book,why make the main hero not talk,but let us give him/her a voice,or any neutral coosies,like in the first game,i wanted to say "let the queen keep the crown,but let alister be king" but even if you made him king like he asked to be just to kill the queen's father he gets mad as hell,if you pike the queen,alister almost gets kill,but if he isent,he is forced to leave,you lose some one eathir way
and none of them wile up to bioware's legacy! We've got to face the facts: Bioware is lost to EA's corrupting influence, like so many IP's and developers before them.
I need to play Dragon Age again. Don't get me wrong, its a great game. I just screwed up so bad since I killed Wynn, not thinking she would join me. So Morigan has to heal now. Plus I'm just not that good at it.
The first dragon age games (origins and awakening) are definitely better than the second dragon age, but DA 2 is still pretty good and fun to play, in my opinion at least.
@ProblmSolvd You don't understand do you? If the publisher stops the funding, bye bye bioware, they have no choice in the matter. EA put waay more money into advertising then development of the actual game.
@bullcran no she does not :) - just an opinion here but ppl say the sex scenes made the DAO so good is lol, it was a fun addition but not a must, tho this expansion lacks the possibility to just talk to your teammates, thats a bit boring, u cant really talk an ask questions, that bothers me, not the romance stuff tbh :P other then that its a good expansion, too bad its so short :(
i loved Dragon age but i didn't like the way you went from place to place by bringing up a map, i would prefer it if they just made it like oblivion or fallout, just walking there
@cyroblaze518 I've thought about restarting, but it would just take too long. I've already got all the reinforcement papers signed by the people. So it would take me like 20-30 hours to get back where I am now.
@OneFourtyOneDA Quite the overreaction, but apologies for using an overused meme ironically and expecting someone to have a sense of humour about it. Sincerely, Mr. Blitch. ^_^
EXCELLENT GAME! i really enjoy the gameplay, graphics storyline, etc. in DA:ORIGINS. but i can`t wait to play the awakening to see where the game picks up next.
what i really hate about awakening is that u cant just start talkin to ur companions i meen u have to find diffrent locations that ur companions know of and then they start talking to u but thats pritty much the only way of talking to them just so u all know
Idk if it just me... but i feel like Bioware is doing the same thing over. Recruit and Fight!! I love those game but can it be different from just going around and recruit
I found myself kind of depressed knowing Origins was the first and last time I'd see all of the original characters together and now resent the new ones.. I don't know why.
2:57 that quote did not age well
No Romance? Must be horrible...
2:57 Man how times have changed
Bro i looked for this comment. Damn times have changed
I don't even have to click the timestamp to know exactly what you're talking about.
I'm sitting here paralyzed while my cat clicks random links on the Internet
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Dragon Age 2 - Good game, rushed out by EA
SWTOR - Good game, but too similar to WoW
Mass Effect 3 - Amazing game, best Mass Effect...until the last 10 or so minutes.
@leebone98 The reason no romance options were made was because the full story of awakening is too short for a romance to really take place, not to mention the lack of a party camp where the player character could have a 'private' moment with one of the companions.
@jacklino3 no, you dont have to own dragon age origins, but if you want to understand the expansion pack fully, it helps.
3:00 "fortunately Bioware has a pretty good track record of not screwing up" I disagree lmao
this was 6 years ago
Hashtag Gone ''I'm sorry my face is tired...'' ?
Rectus Rectumius ye they screwed up with the bugs in andromeda but i hear that game is actually ok now. Still can't think of anything really terrible from bioware. Even to this day.
@Hashtag Gone lol you will regret saying it noq
Just finished DAO for the first time, now onto Awakening
@mauriceliabc he is, if you listen to the command prompt podcast, steve lives in north carolina (i think) and he has to phone in the review so that the ign video team (in LA) can edit and track it in.
Screw speccing Anders like Wynne! Spec him Arcane Warrior/Spirit Healer/Battle mage! He's amazing! Keeps everyone alive and if you pour all his points into Willpower and Vitality skill, his mana pool is HUGE! Very nice review, btw. =) I thought you summed it up quite nicely.
@Bokyotheturnip I don't think anyone were actually sad the dlc didnt have romance, i just think ppl were dissappointed
@ProblmSolvd In all fairness it wasn't biowares fault, They were rushed by EA because EA knew there was no point wasting time on development sense they were going to get high sales because its a sequel.
@sixsixseveneight It's an expansion to Dragon Age Origins. You must get the Ultimate edition if you are interested (Contains the original game and this DLC plus more). Epic game :-)
Don't worry it took me about a month, you have to set your difficulty to easy try and choose a mellee army set if you have none left choose the elves. You then have to head to the ballista's and spam the dragon the best you can, eventually it will call reinforcements which can be a real pest, so wipe them out as quickley as possible a few of your followers may die in the progress. Then carry on with your spamming untill you kill it.
I almost finished Origins right now. And i have already picked up Awakening hoping it would just extend the story some more. Wow was i wrong. After learning that almost all my companions are AWOL, most of the well known NPC's are nowhere to be found and im effectively starting from scratch despite having the ability to import my Warden... i am having serious doubts i will bother playing it at all. Bring on ME3.
I just now realized there was not any romance. Must have been really important....
I pre-ordered this and my hard drive crashed 2x so I lost 2 playthroughs of the original. Finally beat this this weekend and it was pretty fun. I didn't mind only playing through a 16 hour storyline.
@R9LegenderyFenomeno It's not a massive spoiler, the description of the game even says you can find old favourites from the first game, I think Oghren was just a fan fav, so they placed him back in, beside it adds another dwarf to the group, unless you own Character was a dwarf it kind of felt Human and Elf heavy to me lol
2:57 I wonder if he feels the same way after playing DA 2
Damn straight, never got the bad taste out of my mouth
I wonder how he feels about the current state of BioWare
@MyMegatron123 I think more irritating is that if you did romance someone in origins, that romance or even that character doesn't carry over. It fits into lacking continuity.
I loved dragon age and I can't wait to get this EP
If you get it on disc, I think so. But you totally should play DA, because its amazing.
@jacklino3
yes you do need to own dragon age to play this expansion pack
Interesting fact if you have Origins, Awakening and DA2: you can run both games with only the Awakenings CD-ROM
What's up with the audio quality? It sounds like he's recording it on a webcam for Chrissakes.
I guess it has a lot more content than a regular expansion?
@jonicha3 well if your character died then you create a character that is like a grey warden commander or something like that.
@ProblmSolvd Thats whys more people need to support indie developers, They are selling games that are way better then most retail games for a fraction of the price of retail games, All they ask for are the funds to continue there studio and money for food and to pay the bills.
@xzorac I think your best bet would be to get the ultimate edition, it somes with DAO, the expansion and all the DLC for 50 bucks, pretty sweet stuff
Yes but how could you do it if awakening is set after origins. You basically kill what comes after the archdemon before killing the archdemon.
best part of getting this was seeing the card on the inside saying 2-1-2011. im taking this as a release day for DA 2 seeing how there was a press release a few months ago saying they would try for a earlly 2011 release!!!
@CU2UK I'm interested what you think about DA2 now that they minimalised the darkspawn that you fight, but tripled the amount of thugs you kill. It got much much worse imo.
the mabari hound was the one i missed the most. how could they not add him?????
@CU2UK So sorry to disappoint, Darkspawn are confirmed for DA2
the only thing i dont like about this expansion is that the only DLC that carries over is the return to ostogar. but some of the new weapons i saw look just amazing!
Yes the only downside to the expansion is what you did in the first game really doesnt matter in the awakening. They pretty much took out approval rating, its still there but it doesnt play as big of a role as it did in origins. That and all of your party members from the first game are gone except 3 that ive seen so far and only 1 being able to join your party.
@bluetoaster8822 Since when is an expansion as grand on scale as the original game, especially when it's an RPG?
@Milten36 Awakening IS dlc, it even requires the first game.
why is it that on some DLC's you guys complain that it's still just the same game... and then give it a lowered score. Well, like you said here: if you didn't like the original, you wouldn't be watching this review. Isn't the point of DLC that we did like it and we want more? So why lower other DLC's scores for this reason?
No romance?! Romancing is a huge reason why DAO and KOTOR were so awesome! It's also why I didn't like KOTOR 2. Oh well I will play this eventually.
You know, romance in Bioware games isn't all about the PG-13 sex scene at the end of it. It's really there to allow further exploration into the stories and personalities of characters. And don't even try to tell me that story isn't the most important part of an RPG.
did this expansion come out before mass effect 2? because the whole "bioware doesn screw things up" comments just doesnt hold anymore imo
@thedarkelf1994 oblivion would be in the catagory of mainly rpg but with some action, while dragon age is between rpg and depending on your console pc for instance some stratagy
@JoeWulfing27 Sandal... why is everyone dead? And why are you covered in blood?
...enchantment?
I need to try Dragon Age again. Don't get me wrong, its a great game. But I screwed up so bad, I accidentally killed Wynn, not thinking she would join me. So now Morigan has to heal, which she's a bad healer. And I'm just not very good at it.
So if you have this for DLC, will the new abilities bleed into your old game, such as blood magic appearing when you started a new game, and the new spells as well as the armour etc. If it's really short i'll wait for it to go down in price.
@Baz0kable yea the ads are AWESOME, especially when they take longer to load than the video you are trying to watch
2:57 - "Fortunately, Bioware has a pretty good track record in the Not-Screwing-It-Up department." Nek minit, DA2 comes out.
And then, Mass Effect 3 happens.
they did mess up in my book,why make the main hero not talk,but let us give him/her a voice,or any neutral coosies,like in the first game,i wanted to say "let the queen keep the crown,but let alister be king" but even if you made him king like he asked to be just to kill the queen's father he gets mad as hell,if you pike the queen,alister almost gets kill,but if he isent,he is forced to leave,you lose some one eathir way
and none of them wile up to bioware's legacy!
We've got to face the facts: Bioware is lost to EA's corrupting influence, like so many IP's and developers before them.
@rocksock00444 yes you can you have the option to import him or her or just make new one that is already lvl20 and a grey warden
SPOILER: if i chose anora as queen and alistair lives on as a grey warden, how does that alistair come into scene in awakening?
@mauriceliabc he's reading his review
@nalia9unger did you put her tactics to heal when health got low???
I need to play Dragon Age again. Don't get me wrong, its a great game. I just screwed up so bad since I killed Wynn, not thinking she would join me. So Morigan has to heal now. Plus I'm just not that good at it.
The first dragon age games (origins and awakening) are definitely better than the second dragon age, but DA 2 is still pretty good and fun to play, in my opinion at least.
I agree, DA is an awesome game. it just sucks that Oghren would come back out of all the cool characters.
@sullyandfriends Don't know about your third point, but there is no romance in Awakening.
@ProblmSolvd You don't understand do you? If the publisher stops the funding, bye bye bioware, they have no choice in the matter. EA put waay more money into advertising then development of the actual game.
so even if i made the ultimate sacrifice and die my character comes back?
I did it didn't help much. Maybe my Wynn just failed. It wouldn't be the first time random characters sucked when they were good for others.
@bullcran no she does not :)
- just an opinion here but ppl say the sex scenes made the DAO so good is lol, it was a fun addition but not a must, tho this expansion lacks the possibility to just talk to your teammates, thats a bit boring, u cant really talk an ask questions, that bothers me, not the romance stuff tbh :P
other then that its a good expansion, too bad its so short :(
i loved Dragon age but i didn't like the way you went from place to place by bringing up a map, i would prefer it if they just made it like oblivion or fallout, just walking there
@lolopieman124 Unlike you, some people enjoy the dialogue options. That's a big deal in a ROLE PLAYING game.
@cyroblaze518
I've thought about restarting, but it would just take too long. I've already got all the reinforcement papers signed by the people. So it would take me like 20-30 hours to get back where I am now.
@jacklino3 only if you download it from the marketplace but if you buy the disc from the store no
@wolfassassin15 80 hours?! My first playthrough was like 50 hours.
I like Dragon Age and DR2 seems cool with the better combat, I just wish they take the steps of Mass Effect, with the same engine and success.
@jacklino3 U need to have dao installed in order to play awakening
@OneFourtyOneDA Quite the overreaction, but apologies for using an overused meme ironically and expecting someone to have a sense of humour about it.
Sincerely,
Mr. Blitch.
^_^
where do you get that staff that the main mage character is using?
Ummm the first dragon age had a develoment time of 5 years so you probably don't want a sequel coming out soon for quality reasons
@Hekynn whoa dragon age 2 , when's that?
How does Capcom have anything to do with Bioware?
screw it. i would miss golem.. this would be better as a mini movie. (my opinion)
what i mean is i'm just gonna watch the movie/cut scenes on youtube.
@2:56 Bioware track record broke because of the ME 3 ending
EXCELLENT GAME! i really enjoy the gameplay, graphics storyline, etc. in DA:ORIGINS. but i can`t wait to play the awakening to see where the game picks up next.
what i really hate about awakening is that u cant just start talkin to ur companions i meen u have to find diffrent locations that ur companions know of and then they start talking to u but thats pritty much the only way of talking to them just so u all know
@kxr21007 Thats just dumb. That would be basically be talking about having a time machine in dragon age......
@OneFourtyOneDA Tragically, your cat couldn't get hold of your computer until you took an arrow to the knee...
@me301 are you saying everyone that plays rpg games are nerds?
why do people say that conent you can download. Is not dlc?
@jacklino3 no you don`t.
a little lone game called metro 2033 came out, when are you gona review that?
@loading08 for the most part dude. rpgs arn't exactly for casual gamers. ya gatta be atleast somewhat nerdy to enjoy an rpg.
so how do you reset the talents? i never new how to do that...
how exactly does the game cheat you in if your character died
@wolfassassin15 what do you mean by the original do yo umean dragon age origins?
@elmoz111 its only dlc armor and stuff that doesnt carry on
Yes. after all it is a downloadable content for Dragon Ages.
wait, how do you refund the talents? i play on 360 and didn't even know you could... any help?
man this guy has a good radio voice
Do you keep your companions from the normal game and is this worth buying for 20 euro?
i cant wait for the Darkspawn chroincles looks rly good
@jacklino3 yes. (which he said during the video)
Idk if it just me...
but i feel like Bioware is doing the same thing over. Recruit and Fight!!
I love those game but can it be different from just going around and recruit
Damn... seven years ago.
i just downloaded this but it wont show up when i go to new games???!!!
Hey Guyz,i just want to know,when i import my Dragon Age origins Guy to the Awakening,can i change his look,so he can look a little older?