Dragon Age: Origins

[deerokus]

Yep

[Rudi von Starnberg]

Pfft, there's always some whining gimp telling me about an attack or something. If I'd stayed could I have helped and saved them, like at Redcliffe? Was there anything good there which I missed?

You can't save them, but there is stuff there that you could miss, including two companions and several sidequests.

[Broker]

Crap, might be time to start over, play that opressed, city dwelling elven ranger I thought might be cool. Actually I think I'll just hang on and ride out this game quickly, then start the replay when I've seen a good ending.

[HappyCat]

Quickly? Pffft. Nothing quick about this game

[Broker]

Well I'm certainly doing it a lot quicker than the people earlier in the thread spending 7 hours on their origin =]

[sprite]

Well I'm certainly doing it a lot quicker than the people earlier in the thread spending 7 hours on their origin =]

I had quite a quick playthrough. Still took me 40 hours or something.

My origin took a couple of hours or so, plus the hour and a half I lost due to a crash, of course.

[Broker]

Are you the "How the hell can they not quicksave more?!?!?!?" guy from earlier? I've experienced this rage briefly, the autosaves are useless. Don't save when I leave a dungeon or beat a boss but autosave about 4 times in the space of 30 seconds when I'm just running around Redcliffe.

[sprite]

Are you the "How the hell can they not quicksave more?!?!?!?" guy from earlier? I've experienced this rage briefly, the autosaves are useless. Don't save when I leave a dungeon or beat a boss but autosave about 4 times in the space of 30 seconds when I'm just running around Redcliffe.

Nope, I'm the "I lost three hours of my life due to bugs" girl. After the first incident I got to saving manually moderately often, however I still lost about an hour after I had the party member mysteriously vanishing bug, just because I'd been doing a lot of story stuff rather than actual progress and didn't think to save

[Broker]

I watched the cut scene with the Lady of the Forest with the dialogue totally out of synch with her mouth movements and her submerged up to her waist in that wolf, Witherfang. After the cutscene where

she dies

she was still stood there and I could talk to her and she'd tell me to go get that elf dude just like she did before I went and got him and triggered the cutscene.

[JPR]

I've been looking for some mods for my next play through, found quite a good thread on the Bioware Social site. Dragon Age redesigned is really good, lots of new faces for the NPCs which I think generally look better, especially the Elves. Cammen in the Dalish Camp for example is a big improvement, I like the new Sten as well, not quite sure on Leliana but you mod all the characters individually so can pick and choose.

[Space Renegade Ulala]

Jinkies, did the author of that miss the point or what? Yes, lets turn the creepy, maleficar swamp witch into a pretty Pantene model.

[Broker]

Is there one which can replace all of the werewolves with Johnny Depp yet?

[JPR]

Jinkies, did the author of that miss the point or what? Yes, lets turn the creepy, maleficar swamp witch into a pretty Pantene model.

That's actually a different mod based on a model who was supposed to be some influence on her look, still playing around with mods to see which look best. This is Morrigan from the mod, which I think is an improvement but still keeping her look.

[Rudi von Starnberg]

Jinkies, did the author of that miss the point or what? Yes, lets turn the creepy, maleficar swamp witch into a pretty Pantene model.

Yeah generally I don't think I'd want to change the appearance of any of the characters in the game (although that 'redesigned' mod is better than most, generally speaking, it generally seems to keep the spirit of the characters intact) but the beauty of these mods is you don't have to add them on unless you want to.

Morrigan the model is just hilarious though.

[Space Renegade Ulala]

Someone on Something Awful posted a screenie of a mod that removed the tassels from the Desire Demon's 'outift'.

Oh and gave it a cock and balls.

[SM47]

Sten's beard.

[Broker]

Is there a list anywhere of all the current DLC and how much it costs on the PSN?

[spaceyjase]

Is there one which can replace all of the werewolves with Johnny Depp yet?

This.

Worth modding for this:

And the pantene model works, I reckon:

90% of the other character mods are shit though

[Mr Ben]

The one that mods the party and main character to look like the ones in the actual trailer is the best I've seen. Shame I got the Xbox 360 version, I so wish I'd got the PC one now. Might get it and use that for the expansion though.

[ElNino]

I had Leliana sing to me last night.

It stemmed from

me siding with the Werewolves

[Harsin]

I couldn't get Leilani to drop her draws for love or money? Was it because I shagged Morrigan first? I had her on full approval but everytime I'd talk to her she'd force a conversation about me and Morrigan, so I did the right thing and told her I'd dumped her witch ass. Ever since all I get at camp when I talk to her is an option to tell her"You mean everything to me!" which she likes but she's keeping her ginger growler under lock and key still.

[ElNino]

I couldn't get Leilani to drop her draws for lover or money? Was it because I shagged Morrigan first? I had her on full approval but everytime I'd talk to her she'd force a conversation about me and Morrigan, so I did the right thing and told her I'd dumped her witch ass. Ever since all I get at camp when I talk to her is an option to tell her"You mean everything to me!" which she likes but she's keeping her ginger growler under lock and key still.

I actually meant sing.

[Broker]

Jesus, I'm trying to nail Morrigan so I've been giving her gifts and stuff, chatting to her and generally agreeing with her. Found that

book about her mum

and it seemed like it was helping with her liking me.

But jesus, when I got there to kill her mum flemeth just turned into this fucking massive dragon which kicked the shit outta me in about 4 seconds.

What's a good tactic for fighting dragons? And how much is warder's keep on PSN?

[Rudi von Starnberg]

Dragon fighting:

Get some flame resistance on the character you're using to fight up-close. Some resistance to knockdown or the like can help, too. If you've got them, use death hex and misdirection hex, and whenever the dragon picks someone up, try to stun/interrupt somehow. Keep most people back so they can't be torn to pieces. Be ready with heals.

[Broker]

Where can I find another decent mage to recruit? Someone a bit evil preferably. And maybe a tank?

[Space Renegade Ulala]

Have you done the Circle of Magi yet? As for tanking, Alistair should be fine but the best dragon tank is Shale from the included DLC.

[Rudi von Starnberg]

Best dragon damager is a weapon that's best suited to a companion you probably don't have, though, seeing as you rushed through Lothering.

[Broker]

Have you done the Circle of Magi yet? As for tanking, Alistair should be fine but the best dragon tank is Shale from the included DLC.

Yeah, is there anyone other than Wynn I can recruit? She's a totaly bellend. Why aren't there more evil or morally ambiguous characters? BG was stuffed with them.

Best dragon damager is a weapon that's best suited to a companion you probably don't have, though, seeing as you rushed through Lothering.

Arse. Have I missed the weapon or the person?

[Space Renegade Ulala]

Both, possibly, though I can't remember for certain if you get the sword (a +10 dragons two-hander) for doing all the Lothering Chantry quests or not. The companion Rudi refers to is the murderer locked up in the cage on the way out of the village. He *loves* two-handers.

[Rudi von Starnberg]

The sword, Yusaris, can be found in the Circle Tower if you complete the Watchguard of the Reaching codex quest.

And there are only two NPC mages in the game, sorry.