Things I want to like: Dragon Age: Origins – Character introduction

Posted On Monday, September 28th, 2009 By Jay

Continuing with my Things I Like series, I’m going to take this post a little differently.  I didn’t like the character introductions on the DAO website.  At this point from Bioware, I know that they can write a good story.  I know that have some pretty awesome cutscenes.  What I want to see is game play footage.  And beyond that I want to make sure that the game play footage is worth the 60 bucks I want to give Bioware or will I be waiting for the product to sell for 20 bucks on Steam.  Oy!

Here are my reactions:

    1. Does Sex = adult content?  Will I have the choice to not mate with the women in my party.  Can I just mate with all of them at the same time?
    2. Does blood and violence = adult content?
    3. What kind of moral choices will I be making?  *eagerly awaiting the response to this one*
    4. Will it ultimately matter?  *damn well better.  The choices I made in Mass Effect had little to no effect on the game world.*
    5. Is it a matter of killing or not?
    6. Will the thoughts and feelings of the inhabitants change by way of my actions?  Or will NPCs just be missing from the world because I killed them?
    7. What kind of character can I make?  I already know that I’m apart of an organization that saves the world all the time anyways.  Well, at least I’m not androgynous with blue hair this time.
    8. Will the story be as… awesome as Mass Effect?  I liked the beginning intro to the Reaver tech universe and the ending exposition by the former races hologram… that’s about it.

      Most importantly, how will the story be told?  Will I have to spend a boring 1-2 hours in the first hub world gathering information and listening to exposition or will I get to make the story as I go?  Which style will Bioware choose?

      At least I only have to wait about 2 months to find out!

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