BioWare has removed the veil of secrecy on all six Origin Stories featured in its upcoming action-fantasy epic, Dragon Age: Origins.
According to the dev, "Each Origin Story starts the player off with a unique series of locations, characters and events that establish their motivations and lay the groundwork for the adventure to come." Each story is said to feature "several hours of unique game play".
Here's the word. Fill your Dr. Martins.
Dalish Elf As one of the last "true elves", you were content to spend your life wandering with your clan...until a chance encounter with a relic of your people's past threatens to tear you away from everything you've known.
City Elf You have always lived under the heavy thumb of your human overlords, but when a local lord claiming his "privilege" with the bride shatters your wedding day, the simmering racial tensions explode in a rain of vengeance.
Dwarf Commoner Born casteless in a land where rank is everything, bound as the lackey and thug of a local crime lord, you have spent your life invisible...until chance thrusts you into the spotlight, where you can finally prove whether you will be defined by your actions or your birth.
Dwarf Noble The favored child of the dwarven king, you proudly take up your first military command...only to learn that the deadly intrigues of dwarven politics pose an even greater danger than that faced on the battlefield.
Mage Gifted with a power considered a dangerous curse by most, you have spent most of your life secluded in the remote tower of the Circle of Magi to be trained and watched closely by the dreaded templars. Now your final test is upon you -- succeed and prove your strength, fail and you will perish.
Human Noble Born to wealth and power second only to royalty, you find your training in both diplomacy and war put to the test when your father's castle is betrayed from within on the very night your elder brother is to lead the family's forces to war.
Alas, I doubt I'll ever know first hand. This would easily be one of my top 5 "Most Anticipated Games of 2009" but with the almost near certainty that EA will screw the pooch yet again with it's DRM and limited activations this will be yet another EA title I refuse to buy. More money for me to spend elsewhere I guess. *shrugs*
Alas, I doubt I'll ever know first hand. This would easily by one of my top 5 "Most Anticipated Games of 2009" but with the almost near certainty that EA will screw the pooch yet again with it's DRM and limited activations this will be yet another EA title I refuse to buy. More money for me to spend elsewhere I guess. *shrugs*
I hadn't thought of that.... oh well, I won't get my hopes up then.
Alas, I doubt I'll ever know first hand. This would easily by one of my top 5 "Most Anticipated Games of 2009" but with the almost near certainty that EA will screw the pooch yet again with it's DRM and limited activations this will be yet another EA title I refuse to buy. More money for me to spend elsewhere I guess. *shrugs*
Buy a console KFD, you poor gameless bastard. It is great that you are a man of conviction, but it pains me (in the ass) to see you moap about. I've seen you post the same thing 10 or so times. Probably an exaggeration but still. You'd be doing yourself a favor to go and get a 360 or something.
Alas, I doubt I'll ever know first hand. This would easily by one of my top 5 "Most Anticipated Games of 2009" but with the almost near certainty that EA will screw the pooch yet again with it's DRM and limited activations this will be yet another EA title I refuse to buy. More money for me to spend elsewhere I guess. *shrugs*
Buy a console KFD, you poor gameless bastard. It is great that you are a man of conviction, but it pains me (in the ass) to see you moap about. I've seen you post the same thing 10 or so times. Probably an exaggeration but still. You'd be doing yourself a favor to go and get a 360 or something.
Hehehe! Why thank you for the kind words, Voad. I have given serious thought to it and came close to doing so once or twice...but I'll bide my time for now and wait. Maybe next generation which I expect will be somewhere around 2011.
You are right: I do bring up DRM and limited activations frequently. It is entirely intentional. I want to try and do my small part in hopefully creating greater awareness about the absolute bile that some publishers are pushing on unsuspecting customers. The more people that become aware of it the better. If a person then decides to still purchase a game after being aware of the risks then that's each person's choice, but at least it will be an informed decision and not just lambs to the slaughter which has been the case for a great many so far. The more awareness I can help create - and in the process, the more harm I can cause publishers and developers who insidiously attack PC gamers this way - the better. I'm tired of being pushed around by these ass clowns and they can kiss my ass before I bend over for those c**k gobblers again!
Alas, I doubt I'll ever know first hand. This would easily by one of my top 5 "Most Anticipated Games of 2009" but with the almost near certainty that EA will screw the pooch yet again with it's DRM and limited activations this will be yet another EA title I refuse to buy. More money for me to spend elsewhere I guess. *shrugs*
Buy a console KFD, you poor gameless bastard. It is great that you are a man of conviction, but it pains me (in the ass) to see you moap about. I've seen you post the same thing 10 or so times. Probably an exaggeration but still. You'd be doing yourself a favor to go and get a 360 or something.
Hehehe! Why thank you for the kind words, Voad. I have given serious thought to it and came close to doing so once or twice...but I'll bide my time for now and wait. Maybe next generation which I expect will be somewhere around 2011.
You are right: I do bring up DRM and limited activations frequently. It is entirely intentional. I want to try and do my small part in hopefully creating greater awareness about the absolute bile that some publishers are pushing on unsuspecting customers. The more people that become aware of it the better. If a person then decides to still purchase a game after being aware of the risks then that's each person's choice, but at least it will be an informed decision and not just lambs to the slaughter which has been the case for a great many so far. The more awareness I can help create - and in the process, the more harm I can cause publishers and developers who insidiously attack PC gamers this way - the better. I'm tired of being pushed around be these ass clowns and they can kiss my ass before I bend over for those c**k gobblers again!
Very admirable, I'm afraid I lack your will power sadly.
That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. For an avid gamer (and I am assuming you are an avid gamer) to not buy a game just because of copy protection is just cutting off the nose to spite the face. Even if you are only getting a few installs per copy, what exactly is wrong with paying for an experience on a few select machines. Even if you disagree with me, find another way to protest DRM that doesn't involve you not playing a game that you want to enjoy. Do you really think that EA or any other publisher is going to view lost sales as a protest? Rather it seems to me that every lost sale EA suffers they are more likely to account to piracy, thereby strengthening their draconian position.
Just don't sacrifice a passion for an ineffective statement.
That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. For an avid gamer (and I am assuming you are an avid gamer) to not buy a game just because of copy protection is just cutting off the nose to spite the face. Even if you are only getting a few installs per copy, what exactly is wrong with paying for an experience on a few select machines. Even if you disagree with me, find another way to protest DRM that doesn't involve you not playing a game that you want to enjoy. Do you really think that EA or any other publisher is going to view lost sales as a protest? Rather it seems to me that every lost sale EA suffers they are more likely to account to piracy, thereby strengthening their draconian position.
Just don't sacrifice a passion for an ineffective statement.
I'd say that the reaction on Amazon that... I believe it was Spore, received a while ago by many many like minded consumers. I am sure some one at EA noticed. Has it changed things? No, but if things like that continue than it at least has a chance of changing things.
That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. For an avid gamer (and I am assuming you are an avid gamer) to not buy a game just because of copy protection is just cutting off the nose to spite the face. Even if you are only getting a few installs per copy, what exactly is wrong with paying for an experience on a few select machines. Even if you disagree with me, find another way to protest DRM that doesn't involve you not playing a game that you want to enjoy. Do you really think that EA or any other publisher is going to view lost sales as a protest? Rather it seems to me that every lost sale EA suffers they are more likely to account to piracy, thereby strengthening their draconian position.
Just don't sacrifice a passion for an ineffective statement.
Yet if I give them my money they win while getting to continue to screw me and others over. No, I will not partake in that and I will sooner see the gaming hobby that I love die a painful death than let it fall into such a state. I would do this precisely because I *do* love PC gaming and I'm not prepared to surrender it to the unscrupulous scum that are running a racketeer-like operation these days.
Voad nailed it on the head: Someone, be it at EA or elsewhere, may take notice and maybe, just maybe, what I and hundreds of thousands of others do may eventually bring about some change. The one thing that I am quite sure of is that if I don't try to bring about change and if I just hand over my money like a sucker then things are far more likely *not* to change in favour of the customers. I buy my games legally these days and yet it has come to the point that if a person were to ask me whether they should just buy a game with the crap conditions that EA pushes on the customer or pirate it I would say that piracy is the preferable option. I want to see developers get paid for their work, but I will not surrender my customer rights to do so and since money seems to be the only thing EA responds to then I will see them hit where it hurts. If EA changes course, fine. If EA (and others,) die out that's fine too. Others will replace them as the gaming industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and there is a demand for new products that other companies - both old and new (see Starforge as one example of a company that opts for no DRM protection because they know it appeals to a good chunk of gaming fans thereby increasing their sales,) will fill. They are not irreplaceable and they would do well to remember it.
Sounds like YET ANOTHER vanilla Papa Tolkien imitation. Why are western developers so frickin afraid of leaving this done-to-death model and come up with something,y'know,original?
Jesus,try reading some Howard,Lord Dunsany or Michael Moorc**k,fellers
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I have given serious thought to it and came close to doing so once or twice...but I'll bide my time for now and wait. Maybe next generation which I expect will be somewhere around 2011. 
