Bioware has really pulled it off this time, and Dragon Age goes along why to explaining why they have let NeverWinter Nights languish. Lacking the subtlety of NWN which has its origins in PnP Dungeons and Dragons, thus had years of play testing… Dragon Age nevertheless is perhaps every the pinacale of all Pc Roleplaying games, certainly it needs to go to the top of the rpg games list. Winner of multiple awards in 2009.
What makes this game..well for a start I really like the textures used on creatures. And the armours available to players. The designers have still struggled with dwarf armour particularly around the legs… which contributes to undermining the martial prowess of the dwarf. In my opinion all rpg games continue to give dwarves to long a torso and legs that are too short.
The architecture is a complete let down, poor understanding of how building elements go together erodes the believability at a subconcious level. But this is not just Dragon Age, its the low standard set by most game engines, and the Developers who employ them. I struggle with similar issues working in the digital film industry where the directors and bean counters undervalue the perfection in the environment that would truly elevate the average world.
Even so as a one of rainy weekend intense and bloody adventure the game is amazing a deserves all the awards it got.
At an interface gameplay flavour level Dragon Age appears to me as an attempt to bridge between a more serious game like Neverwinter Nights and a World of Warcraft audience. Purists I suspect will prefer the former whilst gamers sick of the cartoony nature of the later might be enticed by Dragon Age, but alas apart from the ontime adventure as you go through the story there is no massively multiplayer online game component to this.
As a last not: if you love dragons, you MUST play this game… check this out:
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