Number of posts : 1761 Age : 39 Location : Norway Registration date : 2009-03-24
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:52 am
Bioware wrote:
Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening From the Makers of the Best RPG of 2009, Dragon Age: Origins, comes the first official expansion pack.
For centuries, the Grey Wardens—the ancient order of guardians, sworn to unite and defend the lands—have been battling the darkspawn forces. Legend spoke that slaying the Archdemon would have put an end to the darkspawn threat for centuries to come, but somehow they remain.
You are the Grey Warden Commander and have been entrusted with the duty of rebuilding the order of Grey Wardens and uncovering the secrets of the darkspawn and how they managed to remain.
How you choose to rebuild your order, how you resolve the conflict with "The Architect", and how you determine the fate of the darkspawn will be but some of the many complex choices that await and shape your journey as you venture to the new land of Amaranthine.
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A Stunning World Expanded: BioWare's deepest universe to date just got bigger with an all new area of the world to explore, Amaranthine
Unlock the secrets of the Darkspawn and their true motivations Rebuild the Grey Warden order and establish their base of operations at Vigil's Keep All-new Complex Moral Choices: Embark on an epic story that is completely defined and reactive to your play style
Shape your entire experience based on the choices you make and how your handle complex situations New Ways to Customize your Hero: Experience additional spells, abilities, specializations, and items to further personalize and customize your hero and party
Import your character from Dragon Age: Origins or start anew as a Grey Warden from the neighboring land of Orlais Encounter five all-new party members and an old favorite from Dragon Age: Origins Even more Bone-Crushing, Visceral Combat: Battle against a new range of horrific and terrifying creatures
Put your skills to the test against an evolved, intelligent breed of Darkspawn and other menacing creatures including the Inferno Golem and Spectral Dragon!
Dragon Age Website
Kol Registered
Number of posts : 85 Age : 27 Location : Workington, UK Registration date : 2009-09-21
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:35 pm
Just got this on monday, currently at the tower. And all i've got is 10/10 playing a rogue and loving it. Currently download the bload dragon armour but i can't find the shale download anywere, unless i buy it.
Overall: Excellent
Commander Nord Freelancer
Number of posts : 1761 Age : 39 Location : Norway Registration date : 2009-03-24
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:06 pm
Renia Vais wrote:
Just got this on monday, currently at the tower. And all i've got is 10/10 playing a rogue and loving it. Currently download the bload dragon armour but i can't find the shale download anywere, unless i buy it.
Overall: Excellent
Have you actived the shale code on the Bioware- Draon Age site. and its a great game
And a video
PrioryJK Special Agent
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Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:37 am
Renia Vais wrote:
Just got this on monday, currently at the tower. And all i've got is 10/10 playing a rogue and loving it. Currently download the bload dragon armour but i can't find the shale download anywere, unless i buy it.
Overall: Excellent
Its a pain to do Renia although I'm pretty sure Shale is free, you need to go to the Bioware social site (register) and use your CD key or Game key on the activate DLC bit, I got it free with the standard game from Steam so I'm sure you hav eit free also, dont bother with the EA site I dont think that has any relevance on getting it It took me ages to get working though so dont dispair.
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
Number of posts : 6401 Age : 44 Location : Southampton, UK Registration date : 2009-02-23
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:02 am
Interesting video there Nord.
Gonna be close to the Return to Ostegar DLC at this rate though...
Kol Registered
Number of posts : 85 Age : 27 Location : Workington, UK Registration date : 2009-09-21
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:45 am
Nice video... Anyway shale has appeared in my download now. I guess you need to wait longer than it says. Also really getting into alot more than i thought i would. (Normally hate fantasy; warrior, mages & elves ect. *cough*WoW*cough*)
PrometheuX Registered
Number of posts : 33 Age : 45 Registration date : 2009-09-06
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:02 am
Maker's breath! I can't wait to crush more bloody dark spawn with my Sleep, then Horror spell.(I feel in command of the dark side of the force when I do this)
When does Ostagar come out anyway?
Smudge Agent
Number of posts : 369 Age : 34 Location : Southampton, England. Registration date : 2010-01-08
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:38 am
No ETA for Ostagar at the minute, can't really blame Bioware for not giving one considering they missed the last two they set for it. Looking forward to it though, really enjoying playing through with a slightly-nasty Dwarf Noble.
PrioryJK Special Agent
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Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:00 pm
Yeah but I'd rather it be late and good then early and crappy, I would say like Valve but they still havnt released HL2 episode 3but manged to make l4d2?
Commander Nord Freelancer
Number of posts : 1761 Age : 39 Location : Norway Registration date : 2009-03-24
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:33 pm
PrioryJK wrote:
Yeah but I'd rather it be late and good then early and crappy, I would say like Valve but they still havnt released HL2 episode 3but manged to make l4d2?
Remember Half- Life and Half Life 2 have the best history in an FPS games in other FPS games is a horrible story and the second Half Life series is the "main" product to Valve. Steam is not that important the HL episode 3 take there time and make a good game valve. I think ep3 will come this year.
Commander Nord Freelancer
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Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:58 am
News about DA: Return to Ostagar:
Microsoft have made the dlc available to download on Xbox 360 before PS3 and PC before Bioware/ EA have annunced the release.
Great MS get the speed up EA bioware.
Edit:
Bioware DA:O Forum wrote:
Hi folks
Return to Ostagar is now unexpectedly available for the Xbox 360. We will be making the PC version available later today and will have the PS3 version available later.
Please DO NOT discuss the story of Return to OStagar in thsi forum. Please use the Official Campaign Quests and Storyline forum here to discuss the story: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/category/47/index
DA:O Forum'
Commander Nord Freelancer
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Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:17 am
Return to Ostagar are delayed to a problem with the XBOX 360 are done also on computer
Sorry the triple post
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
Number of posts : 6401 Age : 44 Location : Southampton, UK Registration date : 2009-02-23
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:36 pm
Due for release on multiplatform on March 16th 2010,
Dragon Age: Origins - 'Awakening', the first expansion to the DA:O game is available on Pre-Order from STEAM, coming in @ £19.99
Steampowered wrote:
A Stunning World Expanded
BioWare’s deepest universe to date just got bigger with an all new area of the world to explore, Amaranthine
* Unlock the secrets of the Darkspawn and their true motivations * Rebuild the Grey Warden order and establish their base of operations at Vigil’s Keep
All-new Complex Moral Choices
Embark on an epic story that is completely defined and reactive to your play style
* Shape your entire experience based on the choices you make and how your handle complex situations
New Ways to Customize your Hero
Experience additional spells, abilities, specializations, and items to further personalize and customize your hero and party.
* Import your character from Dragon Age: Origins or start anew as a Grey Warden from the neighboring land of Orlais * Encounter five all-new party members and an old favorite from Dragon Age: Origins
Even more Bone-Crushing, Visceral Combat
Battle against a new range of horrific and terrifying creatures
* Put your skills to the test against an evolved, intelligent breed of Darkspawn and other menacing creatures including the Inferno Golem and Spectral Dragon!
Commander Nord Freelancer
Number of posts : 1761 Age : 39 Location : Norway Registration date : 2009-03-24
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:57 pm
and the latest DLC is out its cost 400 Bioware points or $5 it maximum if 2 hours of plat
DA:O Awakening Q&A DA:O Awakening Must have List
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
Number of posts : 6401 Age : 44 Location : Southampton, UK Registration date : 2009-02-23
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:41 pm
Woot! I have 1200 BW Points spare
....but I need to stop playing ME2 long enough to play it
Guest Guest
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:05 am
Shale is the only DLC available for the Mac version, and that came included in the full game download ;(.
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
Number of posts : 6401 Age : 44 Location : Southampton, UK Registration date : 2009-02-23
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:23 am
Really? I smell DISTRIBUTON ERROR. Especially seeing as all my content has a seperate PC / MAC download link on the EA page!
I suspect this might be an oversight and could well be on the way to being fixed; if not let me know and I'll try to download the mac versions and post them to you on a disc or something....assuming they dont have some evil encoding in them that attatches them soley to my account...
Guest Guest
Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:06 am
That's a very kind offer sir but looks:
The Golem DLC downlaod was bundled with the Mac version of the game which is only available on download.
I expect that sometime in the future they'll get round to doing a Mac OS version of the all the DLCs, but I suppose I'll just have to wait. Which isn't a problem since I've got too much to play already! lol
Commander Nord Freelancer
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Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:33 pm
IGN wrote:
New Dragon Age, Shooter from Epic Due in Q4 2011 Electronic Arts lists titles due out in fiscal 2011. by Jim Reilly
LATEST VIDEO
View all 3 videos February 8, 2010 - Electronic Arts revealed the company's title lineup for its fiscal 2011 year (April 2010 through March 2011). Some of the highlights in the list include: Skate 3, which is due in fiscal Q1, Crysis 2 due in fiscal Q2, and a New Dragon Age title as well as the Epic Games co-published title from developer People Can Fly in Q4.
EA also revealed plans to release up to three Need for Speed titles. Need for Speed World is due in Q1, while two separate, unannounced titles in Q3 and Q4. Famed Burnout developer Criterion Games is confirmed to be working on one Need for Speed title.
Another mysterious title, simply being called "Action Title" is due in Q4, but EA notes this will be a full-game download for consoles and not a retail release
Is the Dragon Age: Origins The Awakening or a other game.
Ign
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
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Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:15 pm
I don't know who is aware and who isn't, but the "Return To Ostegar" DLC is finally available to download.
Its coming in at 400 BW points.
Downloading now
NOTE: You'll have to update the game to Dragon Age: Origins 1.02a Patch though. [ LINK ]
Commander Nord Freelancer
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Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:06 pm
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Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:36 am
Quote :
What You Didn't Know About Dragon Age: Origins
Game development often lasts for years. And in that stretch of time, studios have their fair share of ups and downs. From humorous game bugs to stress-relieving antics, Game Informer peers behind the curtain of game development. In this Tidbits column, BioWare shares the stories behind the development of Dragon Age: Origins.
Dragon Age had ‘developer achievements’ for all kinds of things, such as successfully crashing the game.
12,212 of those Achievements were awarded to developers during production of the game. Dragon Age contains 742,000 words of dialogue, and 202,000 words of non-conversational text that were translated into eight languages besides English – Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. Four of those other languages have their own voiceover, whereas the other four subtitle the English VO. QA analyst Bruce Venne played 1,957.55 hours of Dragon Age PC in 5,352 games. At the end of each month, an Achievement called ‘The Bruce’ would be awarded to people who played more hours than Bruce Venne that month. It was awarded only once. BioWare president Ray Muzyka got 134 developer Achievements across 385 hours of play PC and console builds of Dragon Age: Origins before release. He crashed 35 times and filed 311 bugs. Ray Muzyka likes to play mages. Mike Laidlaw prefers dual-wielding rogues. The in-game animation department used the same stunt actors that were used in the movie 300 for motion capture. In-game animators ‘larped’ with wooden sticks for video reference. Words of dialogue in Dragon Age: Origins: 790,856 (The average novel has 80,000 – 100,000 words.) Lines of character dialogue: 68,260 (The average movie has 3,000 lines of dialogue.) Lelianna's Song was composed and recorded within 24 hours. The Ogre was once affectionately known as Fluffy. The Dragon Age team goes through 1,400 cups of espresso-sized coffees in a single week! The orchestrated pieces in Dragon Age: Origins were performed by the Seattle North West Sinfonia. The 44-piece orchestra was recorded twice and melded together to form, in essence, an 88-piece orchestra. Chris Bleth was the woodwind soloist who has played on numerous Hollywood blockbusters like Up, Star Trek, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Fast and the Furious. The grey warden used in all of the promo trailers was created by the senior product manager and bears a striking resemblance to him. A full-scale dwarven tavern and an 8-foot-tall dragon were created for rabid trade show enthusiasts. 144 voice actors contributed to the English version of Dragon Age: Origins. 1,015,977 PC games played in the last 2.5 years of development totaling 8,145 days of runtime. 4,212 different crashes captured and fixed in the last year of development. QA Analyst Mark Ramsden filed the most bugs (2,699) for a single user. 459 people at Bioware/EA played the game on 582 different computers in the last year before release. 234 different area layouts were used for or during the production of the game. Number of unique icons created: approximately 1,400. Number of mini-maps (including expansions): 182. The first creatures in the Dragon Age engine were the Ogre and the Human Male with Medium Armor. There are over 1,600 inventory items in the Dragon Age universe so far. There are over 3,200 creature/NPC appearances in the Dragon Age universe so far. There are almost 1,600 faces in the Dragon Age universe so far. There are over 20,000 models in the Dragon Age universe so far. There are over 5,500 animations in the Dragon Age universe so far. There are about 3,000 cutscenes in the Dragon Age universe so far. Storm of the century was a result of maverick VFX lead breaking content lock permission. There were nearly 3,000 individual props made for the game. The lighting data for the game took our render farm two weeks to calculate. 54.1 hours of audio when played back-to-back. Number of actors in game: 1,535 (Head morphs) Number of items: 1,463 . Number of playable areas: 221. Number of unique creatures: 209. Complete pass on the game took over 90 hours by an experienced QA lead. Record QA speed playthough was over 12 hours using cheats on skipping all dialogue. One of our development staff creates chain mail from scratch.
Gameinformer
Commander Nord Freelancer
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Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:13 am
IGN.com wrote:
Dragon Age 2 Already Dated? BioWare teases release date in Awakening expansion by Jim Reilly LATEST IMAGES
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View all 4 videos March 11, 2010 - BioWare has teased a new released date for what we can only assume is the next complete Dragon Age sequel. A pamphlet found inside all retail copies of Dragon Age: Origins -- Awakening, posted below, set the release for Feburary 1, 2011.
This matches up with Electronic Arts' fiscal 2011 lineup of titles, which said a new Dragon Age game is shipping in the company's 4th quarter beginning on January 1, 2011 and ending on March 31.
IGN has contacted BioWare and EA for additional information. We'll update this post if we hear back.
ign.com
Commander Nord Freelancer
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Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:01 pm
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Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:48 am
Has anyone got "Awakenings" yet? If so I have a question...
All my save games from DA:O have been lost and I'm considering just starting an Orliasian Warden rather than playing all the way through DA:O again (which I will do at some point ofc, but I'm eager to play DA:A).
What I'm wondering is this: Does anyone know what the "default" choices DA:A 'decides' has happened in DA:O if you don't import a character? In other words, if you
Spoiler:
Died or Humped Morrigan
- that would be a pretty major choice. This sort of thing would impact on DA:A, but also things like
Spoiler:
whether Alistair became king or not
If you start a new character in Mass Effect2 for example, without importing a character from Mass Effect, the game "decides" the options you took in the previous game.
anyone know if there is any information anywhere saying what DA:A does?