I had a whole week off for Christmas, plus New Years. We didn't go anywhere and just stayed home. Jon did some work on the house but spent a chunk of time at the drop zone. He bought me Dragon Age: Origins for Christmas and I spent most of my free time playing it.
Like Bioshock is distantly related to System Shock II this game is the indirect descendant of Baldur's Gate. BG is an FRPG based on Dungeons and Dragons. DAO isn't D&D but it will be quite familiar to any experienced RPG gamers. At first I thought the story line was too limiting - I think I'm spoiled by the open worlds of Bethesda Softwork's Elder Scroll series, not to mention my favoritest Fallout 3. DAO's characters and story line sucked me in, however.
I won't go into details - there's a blight upon the land and your character is called upon to stop it. You meet people along the way who can join you for your quest and you can get kind of attached to some of them.
Anyone who remembers the somewhat stilted dialog from portions of Baldur's Gate take heart: the people who wrote Dragon Age apparently watch Joss Whedon shows and the conversation is more entertaining than usual. The first NPC who can join your party, Alastair, is a cross between Xander from Buffy and Mal from Firefly. That's according to the people who designed him and it's a fairly accurate assessment.
Brenden got loads of toys besides the way-cool brain-sucking space aliens. He received a Wii game that he's addicted to: Ubi-Soft's Rabbids go home (it is spelled "rabbid" and for good reason). He was entertained for almost an hour when he discovered a portion of the game where one of the rabbids gets stuck in your controller. You shake the controller and the rabbid makes lots of noises while on screen you see a little cartoon rabbid careening of the interior of a Wii remote. The rabbid is pretty happy about it. Anyway Brenden squees and laughs his little buttocks off when he plays.
Which is great, because it gives me more time to fight blood mages, darkspawn, and the occasional archdemon.
A Word From the Boss
7 years ago
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I bought DAO for my fiance, and I am the one who is actually loving it! I put it on my laptop last weekend, and I spent about 4 hours playing without realizing it! I also found the storyline limiting at first, but then the world seems to open up to you. My fiance was a mage who got stuck in the dungeon, because he didn't want to help out the first guy in his initial quest...LOL.
Oh wait....he got stuck in the mage castle, I guess.
Lol, Butterfly - I remember the first time my husband (who likes 1st person shooters) tried Fallout3 and walked into a town and started shooting. I said "no, you have to talk to them!" He said "this sucks!" and quit playing right there.
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