Dragon Age Countdown

stusser · 2009-10-08T10:19:39.000Z

It doesn’t take Nostradamus to predict future actions based upon past behavior. You just need to pay attention.

Bahimiron · 2009-10-08T10:27:54.000Z

stusser:

Not calling you a liar, but I look forward to getting the real story just before xmas eve 2011 when EA forces everybody to relocate to montreal or be fired, terminates half of those remaining just after they move, merges all employees into “EA Montreal”, and retains the bioware name as branding only for their new line of iphone action adventures based on the escapades of the jonas brothers and britney spears’ little sister in such wacky situations as a haunted house, goin’ to the emmies, and a saturday night date at the carnival with the hottest boy in school.

This is just silly.

Disney has their own company to make Jonas Bros games for the iPhone!

Warren Spector is working on one as we speak!

Kunikos · 2009-10-08T10:35:17.000Z

So, uh… back to Dragon Age, then. (Stop feeding the troll)

zengonzo · 2009-10-08T10:35:37.000Z

Bahimiron:

This is just silly.

Disney has their own company to make Jonas Bros games for the iPhone!

Warren Spector is working on one as we speak!

It’s a dark, gritty version, however, where the long-neglected Hanson brothers come back to drain all the world of shitty tween music.

It is up to the Jonas Brothers to fill it back up again!

stusser · 2009-10-08T10:52:39.000Z

I can dig it as a post-apocalyptic bloody mortal kombat style battle to the death, hansons vs. jonases, over the one remaining fertile woman in the wasteland, the younger wide-hipped spears. Coming soon from EA montreal studios on the iphone 5XT! Touch the future!

Kunikos · 2009-10-08T11:18:28.000Z

Are you done derailing the thread yet?

Great news for console players!! It has been confirmed that user-created content from the PC toolset will go through an approval process via Bioware and those that pass will be released for free as DLC for the console version of the game.

Wallapuctus · 2009-10-08T11:21:06.000Z

Microsoft hates free DLC.

DDB · 2009-10-08T11:21:09.000Z

Kunikos:

Are you done derailing the thread yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eZMbp7pta8

Great news for console players!! It has been confirmed that user-created content from the PC toolset will go through an approval process via Bioware and those that pass will be released for free as DLC for the console version of the game.

HOLY CRAP! That’s extremely cool.

Cubit · 2009-10-08T11:31:30.000Z

Gameshark just posted Todd Brakke’s interviews:

http://www.gameshark.com/features/635/Dragon-Age-Origins-Exclusive-Team-Interviews.htm

Bahimiron · 2009-10-08T11:32:41.000Z

Kunikos:

It has been confirmed that user-created content from the PC toolset will go through an approval process via Bioware and those that pass will be released for free as DLC for the console version of the game.

…

I can’t watch YouTube, so if you’re fucking with us and that’s a video of a fat guy laughing at a kid he just stole a moon pie from, I will be so angry that I will make flaccid internet threats!

Desslock · 2009-10-08T11:37:31.000Z

Cubit:

Gameshark just posted Todd Brakke’s interviews:

http://www.gameshark.com/features/635/Dragon-Age-Origins-Exclusive-Team-Interviews.htm

Mispelled Greg Zeshuk’s name…

DragonPup · 2009-10-08T12:13:46.000Z

Apparently Dragon Age will have bare boobs now. Link.

William_Abner · 2009-10-08T12:14:01.000Z

Desslock:

Mispelled Greg Zeshuk’s name…

His name is Greg Zeschuk…correct?

Angie_Gallant · 2009-10-08T12:55:17.000Z

Keeper of Secrets does multiboob better.

Larinson · 2009-10-08T13:02:49.000Z

Even though that was a fairly atmospheric trailer, the blood splatter at the end still made me grimace.

mkozlows · 2009-10-08T13:07:32.000Z

zengonzo:

That is insane … Are we talking about stuff you’ll never see if you don’t have a code, or something? Or is this just, like, you’ll get it right off the bat instead of having to find it?

The items are usually in (in-game) stores, and you have to pay for them.

Desslock · 2009-10-08T13:29:01.000Z

William Abner:

His name is Greg Zeschuk…correct?

yes, that’s what I meant to type, lol. Misspelled in the article though.

zengonzo · 2009-10-08T13:32:52.000Z

mkozlows:

The items are usually in (in-game) stores, and you have to pay for them.

So these codes would just give you access to given items from the start, rather than having to buy them in the store?

If there are other ways to acquire them - apart from spacebuck spending - then I’m not really concerned.

mkozlows · 2009-10-08T13:49:57.000Z

zengonzo:

So these codes would just give you access to given items from the start, rather than having to buy them in the store?

No, they put them in the store so you CAN buy them. In my experience with past games (BG2:CE, I think?), the exclusive items aren’t so compelling that you’ll even want to fork over the in-game gold for them, never mind real-world money. (The characters and quests are presumably more compelling.)

Desslock · 2009-10-08T13:54:05.000Z

Good magic items (or even ones you’re interested in) are pretty rare in DA - it’s not a monty-haul game. Worthwhile armor upgrades are particularly rare.