Amaranthian

Too busy with Dragon Age. It's really really good btw. Some great voice acting and the plot is alot of fun. That Mario game looks sweet though, I'll pick it up soonish.

Too bad New SMB has no online play, only couch co-op. And it's on the wii : (

Also, dragon age has totally sucked me in. My female elf mage just defeated the demon who was controlling Arl Emon's son, and is now on a quest for the holy ashes which will cure the Arl. This game is like the ultimate DnD campaign lol.

Yeah Dragon Age kinda somehow ate 75 hrs of my life since it dropped two weeks ago :/

I beat it last night but now I got to work on all the achievements...which means another play through. Good thing the government is subsidizing this activity a.k.a. unemployment. Yeah Fap it's like playing a really really good D&D campaign, wait till you get to the Deep Roads underground area, that place is huge.

Oh and also you should friend me on the 360, my gamertag is surprise: doasain

Also did you notice a major geographical feature on the world map? Why it's the Amaranthine Ocean, and the bad guy voiced by Tim Curry is the Earl of Amaranthia.

can i bootleg this game? =(

Here's a link to it on Pirate Bay:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5145068/Dragon_Age_Origins-SKIDROW(No_Rars)

Seeders:
5312
Leechers:
13980

So it's a working copy.

Nope, I think it was down for like a week after the legal problems. I DL music from there all the time still.

Actually, their tracker *is* permanently down. http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-tracker-shuts-down-for-good-091117/

so...
omfg...dragon age is the shit

just thought i'd let you know!

Agreed, Dragon Age is amazing.

Fap, you didn't take Leliana for your party? If I wasn't playing a rogue I would have her in mine. Right now I'm using Morrigan, Alistair, and Wynne. Just finished the mage tower. I think I just hit level 9.

i had an elf warrior reaver that was like 12 but i just recently rerolled as a female mage because melee isnt really all that great...apparently rogues are alright but warriors are baaaaad...oh and also i found out you can get into some sort of romantic relationship with alistair who is like my favorite character and the best rpg npc dude ive ever seen...and hes hetro =(

i usually have alistair, leliana and sten...how did you get wynne?...she was at ostagar but like she didnt come into my party D:

Ah, yeah, I have both of those two rogues at my disposal now. The 2nd one I believe teaches the Assassin talent. And yeah, the talent part is the problem with the other two rogues. At least with Leliana, I don't want her to be ranged and she has all those ranged skills <.< My rogue is I think 3rd tier lockpicking so I can unlock everything near my level.

As for warriors..I haven't played one yet but it does seem they are very meh. I think I'm going to do a female mage next too (my rogue is male). Already romanced Morrigan and now I'm going after Leliana, her approval is at like 45 right now. I've heard you can romance Leliana as a female too, but for Morrigan there's a mod you have to do. Same thing with Alistair, you can do some editing and be able to romance him as a male :P

Wynne is awesome because she's a healer. You get to play her during the mage tower, then she asks to join you after it.

the mage im making is a healer so it works out really well...i usually just control alistair into the battle making sure he taunts and shield slams some shit and then switch to my character to heal up the party...fucking crazy tactical micro-management is my weak point so i just invest in a bunch of tactic slots and leave the ai alone...you know...ben would really like this game...i bet he never even reads these forums...

Dragon Age is awesome except for the fact they want you to pay extra for the side quests.

I actually almost beat the new Mario game. I highly recommend it if you're a fan of the old mario side scrolling. Also the fact that you can have friends randomly play along side of you is a HUGE bonus.

Speaking of games, if you haven't already , you should download torchlight (illegally or legally for $20). It's basically diablo + steampunk + mods. The base of the game has 32 levels, but there is an unlimited dunegon after you beat the final boss.

or dl all the add-ons and special items from an illicit source, as i did : D

alistair looks funny with the blood dragon helmet on

where do you get those mage specialties? I've only got shapeshifter from morrigan

theres a vendor that sells the codex for spirit healer, i think..

Aw man that sucks, means I have to learn blood mage on my next playthrough then!

And yeah I saw the vendor that has the codex yesterday

Same thing happened to me, I missed the Reaver spec also on the first playthrough. I got the Blood magic the 2nd time. Blood magic = teh win.

For my second playthrough I also used the gold cheat so I could buy all the expensive stuff from your camp vendor. It's very simple you just:
1. Place 1 expensive item in the junk like the Dragon armor plate
2. Try to sell the item to a vendor from the junk section and also hit sell all junk in quick succession. If you did it right you will sell the item twice and then you can just buy back the item and do it again. Even if you mess it up you can buy it back for the same price you sold it for so there is no worry. It takes a few secs of practice on the xbox you hit Y then A almost at the same time. I had like 800 gold after 10 mins.

I don't recommend this however for your 1st playthrough but for my 2nd I had more fun not worrying about being poor.

Also one more glitch but if you buy all the expensive stuff from the camp vendor as soon as you see him right after you leave Lothering he re-stocks everything once more. Which means I had two Vashelle's (the sweet 1 handed axe) and two skill-up tomes etc.

Oh and also one more piece of advise, make sure you give one of your chrs. the alchemy/herb specialization. Vendors don't restock potions always. I found myself at endgame with like 2 lyrium mana potions and sure sometimes you get lucky and get them from dead enemies but it's wiser to get someone to make them.

So, I found another exploit/cheat/whatever in Dragon Age. When you level up, you can get infinite attribute points at the cost of one attribute. How it works is you assign your three points to whatever attribute is your throwaway (I did this to str on my mage), then hit reset. You get the three points back, but you can also tick that attribute down three points from where it was, giving you six points to spend. You can just keep assigning three points, then resetting. If you do it 50 times, you can then click your attribute down 150 points and get that many points to spend. The most interesting part is that the game only registers a zero, so you don't have a negative attribute. I feel a little bad about doing it, but now I have 60s in magic and will at level 12, which is awesome.

I still cant find the junk stack that you were talking about though, nate.

Ohoho interesting to know about that. Might have to make a char who is a cheating char :P

Morrigan keeps getting angry with me that Lelianna's approval is so high (even though it isn't 100 yet so she won't sleep with my guy!), kinda funny. She's a very jealous type! o.o

Also I think that this junk thing must be part of the console versions, because I don't know what he's talking about either.

*edit*

Yeah, the far right tab on PC is the "plot items" (quest stuff) tab.

it works for me and i only have the pc version.

yeah, the last tab is plot items, so i guess i don't get infinite gold, just infinite pew-pews : (

huh, so weird! makes you think the glitches weren't accidental. we got platform-specifics cheats instead of the usual platform-specific characters.

i'm thinking about starting a reaver or something. I totally messed up on my mage, having selected the shapeshifter specialization without reading any literature at all. Now I'll be a shapeshifter/arcane warrior lol.

oh, here's a decent dragon age wiki, though i'm sure everyone already has it.

It looks fun! and I hear rumors of a multi-player Kirby game too!

Fixed.

This game is soo addicting. I've spent like 47 hours on just my rogue and I'm still not even at the landsmeet yet <.<

Just started a female elf mage who is going to be my evil character. Think I might do arcane warrior/blood mage on her, or maybe spirit healer instead of blood mage just so I don't have to have Wynne in my party.

Speaking of male sluts and Dragon Age, why have you all neglected to inform me of this:

http://videogum.com/archives/video_games/nsfw_dragons_age_originss_gay_103181.html#more

The link was sent to me from a total non-geek friend! Seriously people, you are letting me down.

just wait for virulent walking bomb, that shit is awesome.

lol

yeah, i pretty much constantly encounter large clusters of enemies now, and rarely do they all drop in one assplosion. the chain explosion is where it's at, imo.

living creatures, but they're usually knocked down to pretty low health by the first explosion so they blow up pretty close to each other.

oh, my mage has 120 magic, 100 will, and 60 con. i'm such a cheater lol

uh...i totally played a male elf...that was my first character and who i ended up beating the game with...but i didnt homosex it up with the other elf...i instead banged morrigan like 15x in a row...but i did make a human templar with the intent of sexing the male elf assassin in mind...also like...this game is so fucking intricate...theres so many play styles i just cant make enough characters to do everything i want to...ive never even gone down the entropy tree...right now im working on my bard...they suck at beggining levels...or maybe its just me that sucks...i guess ill need to do some attribute hacking

i know! i was just reading through the entropy tree this morning actually and was like, holy shit, i need to entropy bitches next time!

I've played this game for several hours a day since I got it and still haven't beat it. I have no idea how you burned through it so fast.

Just beat it last night. The Archdemon was super easy..I just kept freezing it with CoC. Going to raise the difficulty for my next char. Janet, you only had 40-something hours in game? o.o According to xfire I had 70, though I did listen to most of the conversations and all that. I should check the in game time too. Alistair did the same thing to me, got pissed off because of some choices I made <.<

I only have a little under 60 hours of in game time so I must have been pausing the game, alt tabbing, etc a lot. I did have 98% of the map explored. 55% of the game completed with only 1 character. 1629 conversations initiated..that probably ate up a ton of time :P

I thought there was a side quest % completed stat, but I guess not because I can't find it.

i am totally doing that right now too...except instead of morrigan im bwning zevrhan

Dude zev will bone anything.

I love that there's the possibility that your son or spawn of Morrigan with the heart of an old gold will probably be the sequel. Also lolz at convincing Alistar to sleep with Morrigan if you don't (or can't if female).

I'm not really sure how you guys also blew through it so fast. I'm not even 60% done and have already spent over 70 hours playing.

I have on one character had sex with morrigan, lelianna , and zevran. Not to mention I've done every side quest including the "premium content" which grants me to items like the commander's plate and the starfang (best freaking longsword in the game).

I also made two story lines with the elves:

I had the typical curing the wolves, but also went to the extent to convince the wolves to kill off the elves and now they will be going into battle with me at the end against the archdemon. What's interesting is that if you do both paths, and go back to your saved version of the elves you end up still running into werewolves in random encounters.

My favorite spell's to use so far have been :

grease + fireball + blizzard
petrified + stonefist

Also I'm in love with the locust swarm for some reason. It's a highly underrated spell for the fact it jumps from target (max 3)

The only spell I've found to be a bit of a disappoint was the animate dead . Granted I don't have the might spell to cast to make them uber, but something is really lacking from them.

PC or Console. Premium content required me to re-enable it in options. Also I had the collector's edition which required me to select the proper serial number when loading off of steam.

Gamestop started preorders for it at $29.99 on PC

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot

rofl

I picked up the expansion, then got the best armor in the expansion, then a glitch ate my armor and I didn't have a save to back up far enough to get it back. I'm mad at that game right now.

Chris, I recommend arcane warrior (in case I only said that like 12 times in this thread).

So I just read through this entire thread, trying to skip the spoiler bits when I could see them coming, and I have to admit that I'm trying not to be tempted by rerolling and being OCD about all of the different shit you can do. >_<

Must....not.....make......alts.....

I broke down and made a female dwarf rogue and a male human mage last night.

SIGH.

Haha...yes, actually now I'm sort of meh about the warrior I made. I like big swords but I'm not enjoying the mechanics a whole lot. I just want to make a mage who has a big sword and can steal and lockpick, what's wrong with that?!

i have a legit base game, and i torrented all the patches and updates and add-ons. everything works fine except for the fact that the awakenings expansion ate my armor, which is a known issue and not isolated to the torrented versions.

badass

yeah, just save your, uh, save files. the reinstall should redetect them if you put them in the folder they should be in.

your mom's a farce . . . in my pants?

i didn't know where that was going from the beginning.

How are you going to take the money from them?

Well now I'm picturing the back-stab animation . . .

Sooo, I'm at 41 hours played and only 25% of the way through the game. This effer is LONG. If you know what I mean.

I think my first playthrough took me 70 something hours. Including every DLC

About 20 hours or so into my 2nd playthrough and I have only done redcliffe and a couple DLC things.

Yea the first time I tried tanking in DA I was still in WoW tanking mode and it isn't really even remotely similar other than the fact that you have this person taking damage and someone healing him while everyone else dpses.

Otherwise, fun! I need to finish it.