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Strange. The game autosaved me *spoilers* in the hall of the castle just before the main character steps though the doors before the text endings.
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I want this now. Damn. Must spend american dollars now. Dammit!
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I just hope it's not limited to your progress in the game, as in you can't do the quest after a certain point like in Mass Effect.
11/19/09
Way to get me to keep spending my money while my interest is high you horrible, awesome game designers.
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Personally, I think DLC in RPG games is horrible. New content should be treated as an expansion with a new story line and etc. Otherwise you run the risk of DLC "breaking" the orginal game and the main story line.
You also run into the problem of how to integrate the DLC into the story. You have to find that balance where the DLC is important enough to matter but not so important that it is required to understand the whole story.
I think Bioware is on to something but using the DLC as a method of exploring the worlds Past and recruiting new characters. But like I already pointed it, it won't add much to the main story.
I would like to see bioware go back to modules and the ability for user made modules.
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It makes sense in some places, also including multiplayer, but I think I just found a theoretical mathematical formula stating how much we should pay for games!
MW2 is worth $25! Dragon Age: Origins is $400!
..wait...
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On that note, they did pretty well with 'adding' Shale into the main story... although, to be fair, I think it was more of adding her back IN to the main story, given how she was released. There are several pivotal moments in the game where she speaks up, other NPCs respond to her, etc. It'd be great if they did that with other DLCs as well (past references and such), but that'd require a lot of past voice actors to be rounded up again...
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#speakup
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This is awesome and what made NWN1 and NWN2 so great.
#speakup
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or just make a box, chest, whatever for the camp.
also, moar desire demon tits.
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But yeah... mm... I guess it's just that people shouldn't expect to see any cinematics or lipsyncing even as tools are available, modders don't have resources for such things. And fear that the ever increasing number of tools seem like "requirements" and scares the modders from doing their awesome adventures.
11/08/09
The less tools the faster they do stuff: Uh, what are you talking about?
These are not stable jobs: Yes... and so it's even better they can do it easier with tools. Now they don't have to put professional hours into it.
Quake was so simple to mod: yes, and now this is simple too.
nowdays you need to be almost professional: Can be easy and professional.
Seriously, there are so many contradictions in your post. And you probably have not opened the editor. I know I have not but if they are giving out tools, that makes it easier, no matter how hard it would have been to do with out any. #dragonageorigins
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However, I think there are people who actually like all the micro-managing that these options require (I assume there must be, else why would game developers keep putting in all these options?), and I am quite excited to see what those obsessive modders come up with. #dragonageorigins
11/08/09
Obviously that was sarcasm (and re-reading it sounds ruder than intended, I was mocking Apple not you). On another note I see yet again for some reason I'm assuming the control freaks at Microsoft and Sony won't allow mods on their consoles. It's such a shame, but at least this gives the PC a strong advantage over the console versions for some games.
I understand your point but like I said they don't have to use those features.
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It's probably because I have a jacked dwarf warrior with a Santa beard that goes by the name of Murphy. #dragonageorigins
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Not that that's really a bad thing #dragonageorigins
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Aren't we all. It's not like PC gaming in the modern era is the great thing it was back in the day. #dragonageorigins
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I don't know, I still love PC gaming and as you said there's still a lot of great quality but it seems like most publishers just want to change it into a console experience and get control of the reigns. Sure we still have great devs like Valve, Relic and Crytek on our side but there's something disheartening about hearing John Carmack saying he probably won't be using dedicated servers for the multiplayer part of Rage on PC. #dragonageorigins
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While there are probably other benefits for moving away from dedicated servers, I wish publishers and developers would stop trying to ignore the elephant in the room and just be honest about it: this move is (at least partially) due to rampant piracy. #dragonageorigins
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