Dragon Age

Last night I thought about what game to play after I got off work. I have a whole rack of games sitting next to my computer/entertainment center. The majority of the games are PC, then the PS3 games, and finally the Xbox. My buddies who I play multiplayer games with, one is out of town, and other one is working on a tank so he can attack his dad with. A large portion of the games I had beaten, so those were out. There was only one game though that I had put a whole lot of hours into it, and had not beaten yet, and that was Dragon Age.

Dragon Age is a interesting and strange game for me. I remember vividly when the game was announced back in 2004, there was a lot of fan fare around the fact that Bioware was developing a fantasy game that was not based on a existing IP. Once it was announced, the game fell off my radar because I thought it would be in development for a long time. Well, it ended up being worked on for well over 5 years. That's almost worse than Blizzard.

The next time I remember seeing anything about the game was last summer. Kotaku ran a story on the announcement of the games release date, with the system requirements I think. I think I said "OH FUCK." Then came the E3 stage demo, all the details of the package that came with the game, etc. For the next 6 months I read a great deal about the development of the game, watched a lot of videos, and when it came out, I picked it up on street day. Brought it home, and played the hell out of it for about a month. Put 65 hours into it, and then decided to put it aside so I could play Mass Effect, to prep for Mass Effect 2.

Beat the hell out of that, and some other games, worked a lot and other shit. So last night, Saturday, after watching a movie and killing some creatures in God of War III, I decided to pick Dragon Age back up. Fuck me, that game is intense and fun as hell. I had forgotten much of that, I was nervous about playing it again after the roller coaster ride that was Mass Effect 2. Well I am pleased to say the game holds up, and then some. I love cutting Darkspawn heads off, and watch their bodies spin around spraying blood all over the place. Man, violence is cool!

I also can not wait to finish it, as the expansion just came out and you can import your party leader if they survive the end of the first time. Well, I plan on having my girl live through the battle, though we shall see.