Dragon Age Countdown

[zengonzo]

Just have to creative with the fantasy-world phonetics.

[Derek_French]

Looks like if you sign up with their social networking site, you can save your premade character for use in the full game?

The characters are saved locally on your hard drive. When you run the full game, you will be given the option to import any found characters and finish tweaking them. You are not required to upload them to get this.

[Soldats]

The characters are saved locally on your hard drive. When you run the full game, you will be given the option to import any found characters and finish tweaking them. You are not required to upload them to get this.

Awesome, thanks for the clarification, Derek. Looking forward to trying to run the full game on my laptop come November.

[RepoMan]

Just have to creative with the fantasy-world phonetics.

Phuckingge Schluttiye Whorfe, here I come!

[Dejin]

I’m enjoying the character maker; I remember spending hours in the Baldur’s Gate 2 character creator (sad, I know!).

I spent a huge time on that too. IIRC Icewind Dale was even worse, since I had to get good rolls on all my stats for 6 characters!

[thurauh1]

Well, that’s closer. Is this one of the hunger demons or something? Is kind of monster that will evoke a real sense of dread for players if they see it? Is this one of Dragon Age’s equivalent of the D&D “party killers” (mindflayers, drow, beholders, dragons, etc) ? (Aside from the dragons) In D&D a lot of players are familiar with the really nasty creatures, which is something that you don’t get with a whole new system like DA:O. You have to re-familiarize yourself with everything.

Edit: The wikia doesn’t really have any more info. http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Broodmother

The picture is of a brood mother, which, apparently, is the mother to something called nugs. (hairless thingies who dwell in the dark roads)

Anyway, the character is up, and it is really great :)

Bioware has really done a great job here :)

I hope that it means that my computer at least can play DA: Origins if I can use the character creator?

[Sarkus]

The character creator is fun. I like that you can mess around with the actual portrait used in-game, changing the angle of the shot as well as the expression on the face of your character. No more default “noble” pose crap. :-)

[Desslock]

Anyone else see the skills section as a bit lacking with only 8 total? hopefully these mysterious tactics slots will offer a bit more- but Ill probably buy the game anyway, so it wont stop me.

Tactics are just additional AI scripting commands you can give to that character, not additional abilities. Not very exciting, although the scripting is extremely customizable - i.e., cast a particular spell on the closest mage, or “use stonefist to shatter any frozen enemies”, etc.

There are only a few skills, but at least they’re all useful (although I’ve never maxed Survival) and not limited to particular classes as you might otherwise expect for skills like stealing/ traps not just for thieves, Herbalism (potion making) not just for mages etc

[TimJames]

Not very exciting, although the scripting is extremely customizable - i.e., cast a particular spell on the closest mage, or “use stonefist to shatter any frozen enemies”, etc.

Display sideboob upon dragon encounter.

[Anaxagoras]

Display sideboob upon dragon encounter.

This one’s only available in DLC.

[Boinkology]

The picture is of a brood mother, which, apparently, is the mother to something called nugs. (hairless thingies who dwell in the dark roads)

Anyway, the character is up, and it is really great :)

Bioware has really done a great job here :)

I hope that it means that my computer at least can play DA: Origins if I can use the character creator?

I think the brood mother is what produces darkspawn, not nugs. Nugs are like large hairless rabbits, that dwarves eat like cattle among other things.

I think the broodmother is pretty cool looking too! :)

[Dejin]

Anyone else see the skills section as a bit lacking with only 8 total?

I agree. The skills seem pretty dull. Also I personally prefer a tree structure ala Diablo 2 vs. a straight line of skills with no interaction between skills families.

[Angie_Gallant]

If anyone else is on the social site, you can see my characters here. For some reason it didn’t save Elodie’s facial expression correctly.

[Murbella]

why oh why did they just make me sit through an extremely long trailer that i’ve already seen before letting me mess around with the character creator?

[zengonzo]

Guess they figured registering for a site to download and install a tool whose only function is to create characters for the game was not a sufficient demonstration of interest.

[Lee_Johnson]

Is that Colm Meaney voicing the Grey Warden on the Sacred Ashes trailer? It sure sounded like him.

[Lizard_King]

Is the DLC going to require the same song and dance as the Mass Effect DLC?

[Murbella]

Is the DLC going to require the same song and dance as the Mass Effect DLC?

You mean where the pc version is free? i hope so heh

[Lizard_King]

You mean where the pc version is free? i hope so heh

I would rather pay than go through the bullshit the steam version required. And as a general rule I don’t want to be asked to register on a manufacturer’s website.

[Ben_Sones]

If anyone else is on the social site, you can see my characters here. For some reason it didn’t save Elodie’s facial expression correctly.

It’s probably for the best. The only facial expression choice other than “none” seems to be varying degrees of goofy mugging. I made my first character to take full advantage of this slider. Then because I am a geek, I made Imoen.