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Dragon Age Ships

BioWare announced today that Dragon Age: Origins is now available on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. They have described it as a "dark and gritty approach to the fantasy genre where players must make ruthless decisions and be willing to sacrifice their friends and loved ones for the greater good of mankind."

Also, downloadable content packs are on offer, including Warden’s Keep, The Stone Prisoner and the Blood Dragon Armor.

“The launch of Dragon Age: Origins is the fantasy event of 2009,” said Dr. Ray Muzyka, co-founder of BioWare and Group General Manager of the RPG/MMO Group at EA. “I am extremely proud of the entire development team - and we’re all very excited to release one of our best games yet!”

Here's a bit more about the DLC:

BioWare has also launched a robust package of downloadable content (DLC) for Dragon Age: Origins. The Stone Prisoner gives players access to new environments, items, hours of additional gameplay and the mighty stone golem Shale who can become one of the most powerful party members in the game. The Warden’s Keep premium DLC provides players of Dragon Age: Origins with a new dungeon-exploring adventure, new loot including a set of ancient Grey Warden armor, a chance to gain two of six mysterious new abilities, a new base complete with merchants and a party chest to store their hard-earned items. In addition, BioWare has released the Blood Dragon Armor DLC, a set of themed armor that gives players additional protection in combat and will be available for use in both Dragon Age: Origins on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC and in Mass Effect 2 on the Xbox 360 and PC.





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Xmortis [mail] Nov 03 2009, 10:00 am EST
My copy should be arriving this afternoon... ordered from EA online. UPS says it is out for delivery. The hype leaves a bad taste, but still hoping they did a good job. I dislike EA, but Bioware makes great games. I expect major lack of sleep tonight.
SubForce [mail] Nov 03 2009, 10:47 am EST
So want to make sure I understand this. They are sooooo proud of the game they created that they took a few items out of the first release and decided to screw gamers by making them buy a couple of trinkets and levels that should be in the game in the first place.

Errrr, is that accurate?
  Jedrus: Pretty much so.
InsanePotato [mail] Nov 03 2009, 11:47 am EST
Its a 60 hr game on a quick play through without the DLC dude. Get over it.
Nameinuse [mail] Nov 03 2009, 12:00 pm EST
But if they allready made the content, why not include it in the full game? It could be forgiveable if they released the DLC's a few months after the game.
  PainZero: Because they didn't had the time to release trailers for the...
Nameinuse: Ah, good point!
shadowwolf [mail] Nov 03 2009, 02:03 pm EST
Well the stone keeper DLC, the $15 one, is included with the game if you buy it new. Its just a way to try and get people to purchase new instead of used, which personally I'm not against. The other DLC is a regular one, which I do agree should be included in the game and not charged for since its before release.
Bigolli [mail] Nov 03 2009, 02:11 pm EST
As much as I hate DLCs, they may be the only thing that will keep dev's working on PC games. Was it Dragon Age that was supposed to have no DRM at all, but instead have these "cool" items that would hopefully sway ppl from piracy, or was that something else?
shadowwolf [mail] Nov 03 2009, 04:18 pm EST
Well after the first hour of gameplay this Is what I have noticed:
+Some of the best in-game cinematic scenes yet from Bioware

+Character models look good, especially in the faces, and the armor so far is nicely detailed. However the "skin" that is shown with my armor (female warrior) is really poorly done.

+Voice acting is pretty decent, although not nearly as good as ME so far.

+Dialogue is alright, but again it pales to ME

-Combat could use some spicing up, its quite slow and most of the time you are looking at your characters auto-attacking because all of your abilities are on cooldown. This is obviously the beginning where there is only a couple abilities given to your character, but high resource costs and slow resource regen, makes it so melee characters atleast are auto-attacking a lot, which I think is boring.

-Back again, is Bioware's annoying desire to make half the items in the game locked, I swear they feel that every party needs a rogue, I really hate that style of game design.

-BUGS!!! I have not BSOD yet, playing the pc version, but I have had the cutscenes freeze like 5 times in the first hour. Thankfully ctrl-alt-del, open task manager and then going back into the game fixes it, although I think it just jumps to the next decision because it seems like I have missed some dialogue when I do this.

Overall: Feels like an upgraded NWN and for the most part that is a good thing. The controls are surprisingly good, with no need to click-to-move if you don't want to. However the combat is a bit oldschool for me, which I kind of expected. With a bit spicing up in that department and some bug fixing, this will be a fantastic game.

I also just want to say, not only can you see the outline of your character's nipples in their bra, yes I checked on this personally :), but she has a quite obvious cameltoe as well. I guess Bioware is going for as much sexuality as possible >.> although the cameltoe is a bit too far imo.
  Vodoo: fantastic....no, not even close. good....or in other word...
shadowwolf: you should read what I said, with some spicing up in the gam...
ZeroWolf [mail] Nov 04 2009, 04:16 am EST
So what we have here is bloodied and sexed up version of Baldur's Gate. Sounds bloody familiar......oh wait that's right its like the RPG I played from a certain Polish developer 2 years back.
thestewieman [mail] Nov 04 2009, 01:57 pm EST
PC version is the best (what a surprise)
what is a surprise is the PS3 getting a higher score than the xbox360 version on gamespot.
http://www.gamespot.com/reviews.html?type=reviews&mode=top&om_act=convert&om_clk=subnav&tag=subnav;reviews

and cheddar suck on it:
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8734/dsc03850zw.jpg
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