Dragon Age: Origins

[Slater]

The Ostagar DLC sounds worthless.

[Farsight]

Originally Posted by Pompoussory Estoppel

Do any of you guys lower the difficulty when you reach a point that you cannot get past?

On my first playthrough, the only time I did was when the game crashed on the final battle. There was no way in hell I was doing that over (it's long and difficult - Spoiler!). Then again, I was playing a Mage (the Jedi of Dragon Age), so it was probably a bit easier.

On my second playthrough, I've turned down the difficulty a couple times. Mainly it's because I'm in it more out of curiosity about the story branches. Also, it appears that once you beat the game, the difficulty is raised automatically. I've noticed that since winning, Friendly Fire is now ON regardless of what difficulty setting I pick. That really screws up my genius strategy of mages nuking the battlefield into oblivion!

Originally Posted by DerekT

So quick question, how many endings are there.

Four. All involving how you deal with the Archdemon. But the ending also features significant epilogues depending on your choices throughout the game, so for "How many different combinations of things can happen after you win?", I'd say thousands.

[DerekT]

On the DLC, it depends how many quests the new land will have. I thought this is basicly how they would do it, add a new town/dungeon with about 10 quests for you to solve most being of the fetch quest variety but one being a major quest. If it trully is just find out Callin wasn't really as idiotic as you first thought he was and the armor that Callin was wearing (because I love wearing armor from someone who was killed using it) then I agree. I want to know more though.

Oh and Farsight can you invisotext me the endings. I wondering if I can do them all by just reloading my past saves. I did notice the epiloge thing, I laughed when I found out that me not killing a dragon in one area meant that a major discovery was made very useless.

[Farsight]

Once you've played through the ending, you should be able to tell what the four endings are...


1) You die killing the dragon
2) Alistair dies killing the dragon
3) Loghain dies killing the dragon
4) Morrigan's deal means no one dies killing the dragon

[stelios]

I'll probably by the Ostagar DLC, although I stayed away from Warden's Keep, since I think day one DLC is kind of pushing it. But I got so much out of Dragon Age that I see this as me tipping the developers for doing a great job.

[Jmacq1]

Originally Posted by The Rain Dog

Im running around now looking for side quests so I can level up my party a bit before I do the Dalish elves-werewolf quest and then the landsmeet. Ive faced down the blood mages in Denerim, Ive done many of the Mages Initiative, Chanters Board and even Merc quests and now Im sorta just floating looking for shit to do - anyone got any advice of where I ca go to trigger a big fight that isn't in a major quest?

I just want to get my human noble to 38 strength so he can wear his blood dragon armour really.

The Bartender at the Gnawed Noble Tavern in Denerim has a series of "underworld" quests you can perform. There's also an Antivian Crow contact in that same tavern that you can do a series of quests for (be careful of your party roster when accepting/performing these quests though, as more "morally upstanding" members like Wynne and Leliana will lose approval if you accept work from him). There's another guy in Denerim named Slim Coudry that has some Rogue-oriented quests, as well, though I'm not sure where exactly you find him. Also if you haven't done them already, the City Guard Sergeant (Kylon? Something like that) has a couple "Go and beat up these guys" quests, too.

Basically there's a bunch of "shady" quests you can do in Denerim. Though oddly it seems like only the Antivian Crow quests provoke any reaction from your party members, from what I've seen. Leliana and Wynne didn't even make a peep when I was dumping bodies for one of the Bartender quests.

[Polygon_Wizard]

I am partway through the Orzimmar quest right now, and I am loving how devious the dwarves are. It was also nice to see references to the dwarven origin stories. Even though I was playing another character, I had already played all the origins, so I already knew about the in-fighting between the brothers in the royal family. It made it much easier to pick which of the two dwarves fighting to become king would get my backing. Later tonight I'll be heading off into the Deep Roads to kick some darkspawn ass.

[Jacob Singer]

The Deep Roads is a fun area, but there should have been a breather (and at least a vendor) after the Broodmother. Be prepared when you go down there.

[Trevor]

Shale's total questline leading up to Cadish Thaig (and the resulting camp dialogue) is my favorite part of this game so far.

[DerekT]

Thanks for the info Farshight.

I was just wondering if any of the endings involved the idea of you becoming king but if it doesn't then I can just move on then.