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For some reason when I go to that link I get asked my date of birth, as I have no intention of handing out unnecessary information I'll have to wait a bit longer. What will they want next my bank account number?

Galraen your supposed to make up a date

galraen wrote:For some reason when I go to that link I get asked my date of birth, as I have no intention of handing out unnecessary information I'll have to wait a bit longer. What will they want next my bank account number?

's a legal requirement for them Yanks, bra'.

Just click a random day and month and scroll down for the year. I'm pretty sure no one ever fills out their actual birth date.

Brother None wrote:...Just click a random day and month and scroll down for the year. I'm pretty sure no one ever fills out their actual birth date.

Based on these, I'd assume that January 1st is the most common date of birth out of the year.

Just make sure you make yourself out to be 18 or all the gratuitous graphics may be banned to your perusal haha.

Oh ffs is this gonna be +18 too? Oh man that sucks... Like i would have never seen gore and didnt know how little babies are made. Its just good if a game has sort of deeper things included as well, but its impossible for me to get them... I hate the dorks who rate for PEGI!!!!! Well... Its not a long time anymore.... just abit over a year after DA will be released. Then i will be able to buy alchohol legally and play anything i want, not to mention getting into bars and concerts. When that beatiful day comes, ill buy all the +18 games ive ever wanted, some wine bottles(yeah that sounds stupid but i dont like the taste of beer )and play and drink all night... just for the sake of it...

This game is starting to look so cool! I don't care what anybody else says about annoying moral dichotomies or repetitive dialogue options, Bioware games have been, in my experience, some of the BEST RPG's ever! (Sidenote, simply b/c I got annoyed at all the hype given it for not having a set system of "morality": if you payed attention, even The Witcher had a moral dichotomy, just not in faction choices; which is pretty much as close to realistic as I'd expect)

They reupdated the site, for anybody not paying attention. They've revealed a tantalizingly small bit of info about Ferelden, barely hinting at geographical, political, and cosmological stuff about their new (pretty awesome looking, so far) setting.

Not only does it look like it's a great game, there's a toolset too. After you've played the game in half a dozen ways, you can go right on into user made modules.

This is going to rock.

thare is only one thing i hope that BioWare takes its time making it becose this game is gonne be amazing if the hurry to much it can make it like KotOR 2 and thad is not good

TheExTrooper wrote:thare is only one thing i hope that BioWare takes its time making it becose this game is gonne be amazing if the hurry to much it can make it like KotOR 2 and thad is not good

Considering that the release date has been delayed from this spring to the fall (because EA doesn't want people pirating the PC version before the console version is published ) Bioware should have all kinds of time to polish the title.... *That* is probably the least of my concerns.

dragon wench wrote: Bioware should have all kinds of time to polish the title...

And that, DW, is a perfect summation of why I've had to purchase a drool cape for the perusal of Dragon Age's website!

Anyhow, stumbled across an interesting link in BioWare's forums - apparently some intrepid Comic-Con attendee snapped some pictures of the various talents / skills available to the user in the game - perhaps a little spoiler-ish, but not offensively so!

[url="http://dragonage.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=667170&forum=135"]The original post in BioWare's forums[/url]

[url="http://s697.photobucket.com/albums/vv333/flamingchopstick/Dragon%20Age%20Origins%20at%20Comic%20Con/?mediafilter=images"]The actual photobucket album[/url]

I seem to be the only person on this forum who isn't drooling over Dragon Age. Maybe it might turn out to be a good game, maybe it won't, but I'm certainly not holding my breath on this one.

As for the delay, there were also speculations floating around the net that EA was afraid that if the PC version receive bad press from the reviewers, it will affect the sales of the console versions. By releasing them together, at least they will get a return on their investment before the negative press hits in.

Bad Press doesn't seem to be much of a problem

However, they have chosen to accentuate some of the action style features, rather than the Role Play. Gore is being hyped up, and sex, as well.

Kiwi wrote:However, they have chosen to accentuate some of the action style features, rather than the Role Play. Gore is being hyped up, and sex, as well.

The more-or-less consensus of those who participated here in a discussion of DA:O more than a month ago was that the PR folks were utterly inept, and that the programmers they involved in their efforts should have been kept behind closed doors. It looks like it probably has many of the elements of a decent RPG, but whether it will be one or not, remains to be seen in about a week's time.

Brother None wrote:'s a legal requirement for them Yanks, bra'.

Just click a random day and month and scroll down for the year. I'm pretty sure no one ever fills out their actual birth date.

When met with an age gate I always fill out the very oldest age it supports. For the purpose of age gating I am over 100 years old. Besides I only have to fart around with one drop menu, the year.

Some amended (CPU) parts to System Requirements, but the GPUs are STILL WRONG

fable wrote:The more-or-less consensus of those who participated here in a discussion of DA:O more than a month ago was that the PR folks were utterly inept, and that the programmers they involved in their efforts should have been kept behind closed doors. It looks like it probably has many of the elements of a decent RPG, but whether it will be one or not, remains to be seen in about a week's time.

Hmmm? I wouldn't mind scanning through such a thread, if it's not too much trouble to suggest either a good search criteria set, or even a direct link? Meanwhile, has everyone seen the changes?

The originally published (in Bioware's DA:O forum) system requirement proposal was inflated a great deal at the upper, "Recommended" end, and confusing as could be at the lower, "Minimum" end. There also were some dumb & ignorant video card suggestions listed.

The amended requirements are only changed regarding the CPUs, and the stupid video card choices remain unchanged.

In case it missed your attention, a Radeon X850 is twice as fast as a Geforce 6600 GT, so either the Geforce named is wrong, and should be a 6800 Ultra, or the Radeon named should be the X700, or a little of both, such as a Geforce 6800 Vanilla and an X800 GT.

The cards named for Vista minimums are an even worse mismatch than one being half the speed of the other. The X1550 is closer to one third of the speed of a 7600 GT, and ATI's Radeon X1650 XT is the correct equivalent, or else the Geforce should be a 7300 GS!

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Kiwi wrote:Hmmm? I wouldn't mind scanning through such a thread, if it's not too much trouble to suggest either a good search criteria set, or even a direct link?

As for the possibility of a decent RPG in the offing, here's one thread. Here'sanother. They both relate to Buck's experience with a beta candidate. If you go back further in that forum, you'll find plenty of threads criticizing and poking rabid fun at DA:O's incredibly poor PR, and the inane comments of its programmers who were apparently corralled into joining the effort to appeal to 10-year-olds.

EDIT: Just noticed a PC Gamer UK review. A reviewer there gave DA:O a 94%, and wrote, "This is the most enormously detailed game world I've experienced, its history stretching back thousands of years, its cultures vivid, beautiful and flawed, the battles enormous, the humour superb." Then he changed his pants, called his psychiatrist, took some valium, and had a nice lie down.

Is it just me, or are these kiddie reviewers finding it harder and harder to scale Mt. Everest with every new title that they must praise more and more slavishly? Is X truly better than all other games ever made, and Y truly better than even X, and Z truly, inevitably, all so terribly greater than the sum of the everything in the universe? Where do you go from there? And why should anybody in their right mind believe anything a person who thrashes about in that fashion commits to paper?

Is it just me, or are these kiddie reviewers finding it harder and harder to scale Mt. Everest with every new title that they must praise more and more slavishly?

Their problem is though Fable that if they write a review which is in any way negative the game company whines and threatens to withdraw its advertising; which, as we saw with Gamespot, leads to the reviewer being forced out and a grovelling apology issued and a new, slavish, review published. So with the threat of unemployment hanging over their heads, is it any surprise reviewers trot out puerile, meaningless, drivel?

It's been like that for years of course, which is why the more perceptive and discerning gamers come to GB for reviews of games.

I suppose.. to be somewhat fair to those reviewers.. If the threat of unemployment hangs over their heads, can we really, truly blame them for writing some of that drivel? I mean, perhaps they went into the gig thinking they could write objective, critical reviews, only to find out that had been deceived. If that's the case.. well we all need to eat.
Plenty of jobs out there require the selling of one's soul in one way or another, and while most of us would prefer to avoid such situations, it's not always possible.

All of that being said, however, I come to GB for my reviews. And, if I check out a review from somewhere like Gamespot, I read between the lines and employ my own critical lens.