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You'll get your first look at Dragon Age this Friday, as first footage of the game will be featured on the next episode of GameTrailers TV on Spike.

W-T-F!

The "highly anticipated dark fantasy epic" also has a new name, officially known as Dragon Age: Origins from this point forward.

Weird.. but.. okay.

The official Dragon Age web site continues to tease us with its promise of "More July 9, 2008." We hope they hurry it up, because there's not much July 9, 2008 left to spare.

TRUTH.

Posted by dcdelgado

Oblivion / Mass Effect have spoiled me and FallOut3 is looking very good, so i have faith DA will be just as good also. :)

You know, there's a good chance you'll have to play this with a mouse and keyboard too, right? It's EA though, so, I'm sure there will be some kind of clunky console port in the future.. just look at Red Alert 3 :P

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UrukHaiPT

Since 7103 Days

Lol :D

Ye, they will have a trailer on Gametrailers TV.

Still we are getting the site update! Im still up, and wont go sleep until i see it >_< (2 am here :P)

Dragon Age: origins... Not sure i like much the Origins there, just Dragon Age was better....

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GriftGFX

Since 7576 Days

http://dragonage.bioware.com/

We got what we already knew. I guess Friday it is! :(

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dcdelgado

Since 7436 Days

[quote=GriftGFX]

You know, there's a good chance you'll have to play this with a mouse and keyboard too, right? It's EA though, so, I'm sure there will be some kind of clunky console port in the future.. just look at Red Alert 3 :P

Clunky Controller support FTW! :)

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Isomac

Since 7343 Days

Oh boy... good announcement :(

I hope the trailer is good at least. Great that this is Biowares PC RPG, should be better than those other games :) Should have good inventory and UI :) World builder too? :)

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UrukHaiPT

Since 7103 Days

OMG this sucks, what a lame tease...

Im glad i went sleep. All this to announce the trailer on friday MEH, not even screenshots on site, nothing... :/

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GrimThorne

Since 7448 Days

Posted by UrukHaiPT

OMG this sucks, what a lame tease...

Im glad i went sleep. All this to announce the trailer on friday MEH, not even screenshots on site, nothing... :/

It happens UrukHaiPT. They probably just weren't ready.

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UrukHaiPT

Since 7103 Days

Oh Well, at least i hope trailer will be worth it...

And since they will show it at E3, we will see more of it next week.

Dragon Age logo is pretty cool now, love the dark feel it gives, hopefully DA will be mature as they say.

Also very cool the face of a girl on the blood splatter :)

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Jollipop

Since 7459 Days

Look forward to this, hopefully it will be something im interested in.

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GriftGFX

Since 7576 Days

Posted by Jollipop

Look forward to this, hopefully it will be something im interested in.

lol

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Posted by GriftGFX

lol

What ?

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GriftGFX

Since 7576 Days

Oh, you're serious.. I thought it must be a joke.

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UrukHaiPT

Since 7103 Days

Video here:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36033.html

Ah well, its really a teaser :P

Looked epic though :)

Cant wait to see it at E3.

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dcdelgado

Since 7436 Days

LOTR :)

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Acert93

Since 7547 Days

Looks interesting--much better quality than the old media. I wonder what type of game it will be.

Personally I am waiting for an skill-based action title/RPG hybrid. There really aren't any of these. A merging of GoW, HS, NG, etc fighting styles in an RPG esque game would be totally epic, especially if an MMO.

Actually, the Endorphin Indy game style combat in an RPG would do me just fine. I am sure that BW will do whatever works best for this game, but the fact they tried some FPS elements in ME make me hopefully that BW will be the first to meaningfully merge genres. Depth+Skill based twitch action... other than navigation a mouse to a menu and clicking really fast :P

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GriftGFX

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Posted by Acert93

Looks interesting--much better quality than the old media. I wonder what type of game it will be.

Personally I am waiting for an skill-based action title/RPG hybrid. There really aren't any of these. A merging of GoW, HS, NG, etc fighting styles in an RPG esque game would be totally epic, especially if an MMO.

Actually, the Endorphin Indy game style combat in an RPG would do me just fine. I am sure that BW will do whatever works best for this game, but the fact they tried some FPS elements in ME make me hopefully that BW will be the first to meaningfully merge genres. Depth+Skill based twitch action... other than navigation a mouse to a menu and clicking really fast :P

There's tons of information on what kind of game it will be in the links on the first page. Much of this info is taken from their forums, or older interviews and previews, but much of it is probably still very relevant. There's information on the party system, the world, the lore, and potential insight into the game system in general.

All signs point to this being the spiritual successor to BG, just without D&D's world or systems. I wouldn't expect this to be much of a "skill based action title." You can bet that it will be deep and original though, given the talent behind it, the length of its development cycle, and the direction they've already stated for the title. There hasn't been much info in terms of combat, but I suspect we'll see this game in depth next week, and that mystery will be solved.

I just hope it's a good deal longer and more epic than their console games (as much as I adore KOTOR), and I'm pretty sure it will be. I'm sufficiently pleased with the teaser, they've obviously been hard at work over the last three years since this game debuted at E3 2005. I can't wait to see some real gameplay next week.

Posted by dcdelgado

LOTR :)

Thank god it's not.. but I can definitely see where you're coming from.

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[quote=Acert93]Looks interesting--much better quality than the old media. I wonder what type of game it will be.

Personally I am waiting for an skill-based action title/RPG hybrid. There really aren't any of these. A merging of GoW, HS, NG, etc fighting styles in an RPG esque game would be totally epic, especially if an MMO.

Actually, the Endorphin Indy game style combat in an RPG would do me just fine. I am sure that BW will do whatever works best for this game, but the fact they tried some FPS elements in ME make me hopefully that BW will be the first to meaningfully merge genres. Depth+Skill based twitch action... other than navigation a mouse to a menu and clicking really fast :P[/quote]

There's tons of information on what kind of game it will be in the links on the first page. Much of this info is taken from their forums, or older interviews and previews, but much of it is probably still very relevant. There's information on the party system, the world, the lore, and potential insight into the game system in general.

All signs point to this being the spiritual successor to BG, just without D&D's world or systems. I wouldn't expect this to be much of a "skill based action title." You can bet that it will be deep and original though, given the talent behind it, the length of its development cycle, and the direction they've already stated for the title. There hasn't been much info in terms of combat, but I suspect we'll see this game in depth next week, and that mystery will be solved.

I just hope it's a good deal longer and more epic than their console games (as much as I adore KOTOR), and I'm pretty sure it will be. I'm sufficiently pleased with the teaser, they've obviously been hard at work over the last three years since this game debuted at E3 2005. I can't wait to see some real gameplay next week.

[quote=dcdelgado]LOTR :)[/quote]

Thank god it's not.. but I can definitely see where you're coming from.

Acert93

Since 7547 Days

Thanks Grift. I wasn't trying to crap on the game, as anything BW is pretty much gold. ME inclines me to think BW is never lazy in regards to progressing and improving games and is willing to defy genre limits to make the best game possible, hence my general optimism, even if it doesn't apply to DA which will be a sight for sore eyes for fans of BG. My cousin is a huge BG fan.

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GriftGFX

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Posted by Acert93

Thanks Grift. I wasn't trying to crap on the game, as anything BW is pretty much gold. ME inclines me to think BW is never lazy in regards to progressing and improving games and is willing to defy genre limits to make the best game possible, hence my general optimism, even if it doesn't apply to DA which will be a sight for sore eyes for fans of BG. My cousin is a huge BG fan.

No doubt, I didn't mean to suggest you were. I just don't combat will come down to twitch actions, though I would not be surprised to see something either real time, or semi-real time. I guess we'll see next week. I'm pretty excited.

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szaromir

Since 7333 Days

It seems they went really crazy on productions values this time around. Hopefully Mass Effect 2 will be on par with it. However, this particular fantasy setting seems extremely generic - obviously I don't know the story and so on, but it really gives LITR-like impressions, which I'm quite frankly sick of by now.

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GriftGFX

Since 7576 Days

I'm glad to see Bioware return to the fantasy genre personally. I'm down with them continuing down their science fiction route, but let's not pretend that we're not seeing loads more sci-fi games than we are fantasy titles. For a sci-fi fix, there's always Mass Effect 2, and most likely their MMORPG.

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szaromir

Since 7333 Days

It's not that I hate fantasy... But there are different kinds of fantasy. Jade Empire is a fantasy setting as well, but feels much more unique than the DA:O trailer.

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Acert93

Since 7547 Days

Unique isn't always better, especially in terms of sales.

The pervasiveness of orcs, elves, dwarfs, demons, fairies, ogers, imps, and so forth in these genres is because of their rich lore and ready built fan appeal. What makes them interesting is the nuance and design, which I would agree with you szaromir, this did look pretty generic to me as well. High production values, but generic. Very LOTR like (at first I almost thought it may be a spin off of such).

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wuca

Since 7410 Days

i hope it's just short trailer and game will be dark fantasy RPG inspired by George R.R. Martin's A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE and Frank Frazetta's art like Bioware said.

Posted by Acert93

Unique isn't always better, especially in terms of sales.

That's true but I still hope for a game with Arcanum's art direction even though Troika is dead :(

sorry my eng is weak.

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blmbox

Since 6907 Days

Very epic, and i'm looking forward to seeing more at E3.

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Isomac

Since 7343 Days

I hope the fighting is more like in BG than other Bioware games.

ME has really boring shooting. JE fighting again bad. Kotar had cool fighting. More talking less fighting please Bioware. Better side quests too :p

The teaser really didn't tell anything. I hope to see some pics at E3 about the actually game, like fighting, inventory, UI and you know that stuff.

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