Comments on: Into The Fire: Dragon Age Battle Footage

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:21:01 +0000

I’m glad to see a KOTOR type battle system. I hope the pausing function allows battle planning like KOTOR. I have a lot of hope for this game.

By: MeestaNob!

MeestaNob! — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:26:18 +0000

This looks like Baldur’s Gate 3, except they haven’t called it Baldur’s Gate 3.

I’m not worried at all, cant wait.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:06:26 +0000

Yes, the game is designed first for the PC and then they will be prepping it for the move to consoles. I’m not certain how marketable the game will be for consoles, but they did very well with Mass Effect so I’m sure it’ll do okay.

By: Panther

Panther — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:45:06 +0000

@BrokenSymmetry:

I hope that means that they are making a PC game first, and a console port second. In my selfish way, I’m very glad about that, because it should be made with PC gamers in mind.

By: rpgfanatic

rpgfanatic — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:36:30 +0000

I’d like to be able to zoom up, up and away…. to get that true Baldur’s Gate isometric view.

By: DMJ

DMJ — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:44:13 +0000

How do you… you know… even test a game without even having a controller scheme? Do they do QA by using the power of their mighty brains to move their avatars?

By: BrokenSymmetry

BrokenSymmetry — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:02:36 +0000

@Panther: In that Kotaku article the Bioware representative is quoted as having said “they hadn’t even tested a controller scheme yet”. For a game that is supposed to be released on consoles this year that seems an impossible task…

By: hitnrun

hitnrun — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:34:32 +0000

It’s still more than 6 months from release.

And besides, it’s a Bioware RPG. Were you expecting to be blown away by an in-game movie of semi-turn-based combat? If you’re impressed into spending money based on trailers, you deserve to be.

The only thing anybody should be interested in is too small to see- the hotkeys :) Methinks I saw a WoW-style cooldown starting on one of the simple mage spells? Interesting.

By: tmp

tmp — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:34:12 +0000

http://g4tv.com/trailers/hdvideos/37471/Dragon-Age-Origins-GDC-09-Gameplay-Footage.html

looks like full version of that particular fight, gives better idea of gfx quality and such.

By: Vincent Avatar

Vincent Avatar — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:58:59 +0000

I don’t know what you all are on about. This game looks pretty cool. It will play pretty awesome. The story will probably be pretty all right. It will be a Bioware game.

By: tmp

tmp — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:37:49 +0000

Swords should cut bits off, or get stuck in bodies.

I think humanity have spent some hundreds of years inventing armour, weapons and ways to wave these weapons to prevent exactly that.

By: JKjoker

JKjoker — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:56:55 +0000

meh, they look almost the same as the crappy nwn battles, but slower

also, they didnt show it in these videos (there are a few 10 minutes ones in youtube) but the are spells look impossible to use without causing friendly damage, they take forever to cast, and they deal damage very slowly in a huge area

and that sucky attempt at coolness with the ultra slow swordman is just sad, very sad