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Harewood CODEX


Number of posts: 2066 Age: 30 Location: Nottingham, UK Registration date: 2009-03-04
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Noah Conway SPECIES: CLASS: Smuggler
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:05 pm | |
| Shale is the only DLC available for the Mac version, and that came included in the full game download ;(. |
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Lunarwolf Chief Operative


Number of posts: 5116 Age: 31 Location: Bournemouth, UK Registration date: 2009-02-23
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Aleina Fel SPECIES: Near-Human CLASS: Sith Inquisitor
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:23 pm | |
| Really? I smell DISTRIBUTON ERROR. Especially seeing as all my content has a seperate PC / MAC download link on the EA page!
I suspect this might be an oversight and could well be on the way to being fixed; if not let me know and I'll try to download the mac versions and post them to you on a disc or something....assuming they dont have some evil encoding in them that attatches them soley to my account... |
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Harewood CODEX


Number of posts: 2066 Age: 30 Location: Nottingham, UK Registration date: 2009-03-04
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Noah Conway SPECIES: CLASS: Smuggler
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:06 pm | |
| That's a very kind offer sir but looks:  The Golem DLC downlaod was bundled with the Mac version of the game which is only available on download. I expect that sometime in the future they'll get round to doing a Mac OS version of the all the DLCs, but I suppose I'll just have to wait. Which isn't a problem since I've got too much to play already! lol |
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Commander Nord Freelancer

Number of posts: 1601 Age: 26 Location: Norway Registration date: 2009-03-24
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Constantine Nord SPECIES: Human CLASS: Trooper
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:33 pm | |
| | IGN wrote: | New Dragon Age, Shooter from Epic Due in Q4 2011 Electronic Arts lists titles due out in fiscal 2011. by Jim Reilly
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View all 3 videos February 8, 2010 - Electronic Arts revealed the company's title lineup for its fiscal 2011 year (April 2010 through March 2011). Some of the highlights in the list include: Skate 3, which is due in fiscal Q1, Crysis 2 due in fiscal Q2, and a New Dragon Age title as well as the Epic Games co-published title from developer People Can Fly in Q4.
EA also revealed plans to release up to three Need for Speed titles. Need for Speed World is due in Q1, while two separate, unannounced titles in Q3 and Q4. Famed Burnout developer Criterion Games is confirmed to be working on one Need for Speed title.
Another mysterious title, simply being called "Action Title" is due in Q4, but EA notes this will be a full-game download for consoles and not a retail release |
Is the Dragon Age: Origins The Awakening or a other game.
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Lunarwolf Chief Operative


Number of posts: 5116 Age: 31 Location: Bournemouth, UK Registration date: 2009-02-23
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Aleina Fel SPECIES: Near-Human CLASS: Sith Inquisitor
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:15 am | |
| I don't know who is aware and who isn't, but the "Return To Ostegar" DLC is finally available to download. Its coming in at 400 BW points. Downloading now  NOTE: You'll have to update the game to Dragon Age: Origins 1.02a Patch though. [ LINK ] |
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Commander Nord Freelancer

Number of posts: 1601 Age: 26 Location: Norway Registration date: 2009-03-24
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Constantine Nord SPECIES: Human CLASS: Trooper
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:06 am | |
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Commander Nord Freelancer

Number of posts: 1601 Age: 26 Location: Norway Registration date: 2009-03-24
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Constantine Nord SPECIES: Human CLASS: Trooper
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:36 pm | |
| | Quote: | What You Didn't Know About Dragon Age: Origins
Game development often lasts for years. And in that stretch of time, studios have their fair share of ups and downs. From humorous game bugs to stress-relieving antics, Game Informer peers behind the curtain of game development. In this Tidbits column, BioWare shares the stories behind the development of Dragon Age: Origins.
Dragon Age had ‘developer achievements’ for all kinds of things, such as successfully crashing the game.
12,212 of those Achievements were awarded to developers during production of the game. Dragon Age contains 742,000 words of dialogue, and 202,000 words of non-conversational text that were translated into eight languages besides English – Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. Four of those other languages have their own voiceover, whereas the other four subtitle the English VO. QA analyst Bruce Venne played 1,957.55 hours of Dragon Age PC in 5,352 games. At the end of each month, an Achievement called ‘The Bruce’ would be awarded to people who played more hours than Bruce Venne that month. It was awarded only once. BioWare president Ray Muzyka got 134 developer Achievements across 385 hours of play PC and console builds of Dragon Age: Origins before release. He crashed 35 times and filed 311 bugs. Ray Muzyka likes to play mages. Mike Laidlaw prefers dual-wielding rogues. The in-game animation department used the same stunt actors that were used in the movie 300 for motion capture.
In-game animators ‘larped’ with wooden sticks for video reference. Words of dialogue in Dragon Age: Origins: 790,856 (The average novel has 80,000 – 100,000 words.) Lines of character dialogue: 68,260 (The average movie has 3,000 lines of dialogue.)
Lelianna's Song was composed and recorded within 24 hours. The Ogre was once affectionately known as Fluffy. The Dragon Age team goes through 1,400 cups of espresso-sized coffees in a single week!
The orchestrated pieces in Dragon Age: Origins were performed by the Seattle North West Sinfonia. The 44-piece orchestra was recorded twice and melded together to form, in essence, an 88-piece orchestra.
Chris Bleth was the woodwind soloist who has played on numerous Hollywood blockbusters like Up, Star Trek, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Fast and the Furious.
The grey warden used in all of the promo trailers was created by the senior product manager and bears a striking resemblance to him.
A full-scale dwarven tavern and an 8-foot-tall dragon were created for rabid trade show enthusiasts.
144 voice actors contributed to the English version of Dragon Age: Origins.
1,015,977 PC games played in the last 2.5 years of development totaling 8,145 days of runtime. 4,212 different crashes captured and fixed in the last year of development.
QA Analyst Mark Ramsden filed the most bugs (2,699) for a single user.
459 people at Bioware/EA played the game on 582 different computers in the last year before release.
234 different area layouts were used for or during the production of the game. Number of unique icons created: approximately 1,400.
Number of mini-maps (including expansions): 182. The first creatures in the Dragon Age engine were the Ogre and the Human Male with Medium Armor.
There are over 1,600 inventory items in the Dragon Age universe so far.
There are over 3,200 creature/NPC appearances in the Dragon Age universe so far. There are almost 1,600 faces in the Dragon Age universe so far. There are over 20,000 models in the Dragon Age universe so far. There are over 5,500 animations in the Dragon Age universe so far. There are about 3,000 cutscenes in the Dragon Age universe so far. Storm of the century was a result of maverick VFX lead breaking content lock permission.
There were nearly 3,000 individual props made for the game.
The lighting data for the game took our render farm two weeks to calculate. 54.1 hours of audio when played back-to-back. Number of actors in game: 1,535 (Head morphs)
Number of items: 1,463
. Number of playable areas: 221.
Number of unique creatures: 209.
Complete pass on the game took over 90 hours by an experienced QA lead.
Record QA speed playthough was over 12 hours using cheats on skipping all dialogue. One of our development staff creates chain mail from scratch. |
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Commander Nord Freelancer

Number of posts: 1601 Age: 26 Location: Norway Registration date: 2009-03-24
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Constantine Nord SPECIES: Human CLASS: Trooper
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:13 pm | |
| | IGN.com wrote: | Dragon Age 2 Already Dated? BioWare teases release date in Awakening expansion by Jim Reilly LATEST IMAGES
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View all 4 videos March 11, 2010 - BioWare has teased a new released date for what we can only assume is the next complete Dragon Age sequel. A pamphlet found inside all retail copies of Dragon Age: Origins -- Awakening, posted below, set the release for Feburary 1, 2011.
This matches up with Electronic Arts' fiscal 2011 lineup of titles, which said a new Dragon Age game is shipping in the company's 4th quarter beginning on January 1, 2011 and ending on March 31.
IGN has contacted BioWare and EA for additional information. We'll update this post if we hear back. |
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Commander Nord Freelancer

Number of posts: 1601 Age: 26 Location: Norway Registration date: 2009-03-24
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Constantine Nord SPECIES: Human CLASS: Trooper
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:01 pm | |
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Lunarwolf Chief Operative


Number of posts: 5116 Age: 31 Location: Bournemouth, UK Registration date: 2009-02-23
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Aleina Fel SPECIES: Near-Human CLASS: Sith Inquisitor
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:48 pm | |
| Has anyone got "Awakenings" yet? If so I have a question... All my save games from DA:O have been lost and I'm considering just starting an Orliasian Warden rather than playing all the way through DA:O again (which I will do at some point ofc, but I'm eager to play DA:A). What I'm wondering is this: Does anyone know what the "default" choices DA:A 'decides' has happened in DA:O if you don't import a character? In other words, if you | Spoiler: | | | Died or Humped Morrigan | - that would be a pretty major choice. This sort of thing would impact on DA:A, but also things like | Spoiler: | | | whether Alistair became king or not |
If you start a new character in Mass Effect2 for example, without importing a character from Mass Effect, the game "decides" the options you took in the previous game.
anyone know if there is any information anywhere saying what DA:A does? |
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Tando Registered


Number of posts: 891 Age: 29 Location: London, England Registration date: 2009-04-30
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Tando Almus SPECIES: Human CLASS: Bounty Hunter
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:24 pm | |
| No idea mate I've started DA.O again _________________  "I Never Draw My Gun, Unless I Intend to Use It" Tando Alums |
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PrometheuX Registered


Number of posts: 35 Age: 32 Registration date: 2009-09-07
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: PrometheuX SPECIES: CLASS: Bounty Hunter
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:33 pm | |
| Sent you a PM, LW. (just realized that you would know that... why am I still typing?) _________________ I am a man of few words... and many credits. Only a fool would want the reverse.
... PrometheuX
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Lunarwolf Chief Operative


Number of posts: 5116 Age: 31 Location: Bournemouth, UK Registration date: 2009-02-23
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Aleina Fel SPECIES: Near-Human CLASS: Sith Inquisitor
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PrometheuX Registered


Number of posts: 35 Age: 32 Registration date: 2009-09-07
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: PrometheuX SPECIES: CLASS: Bounty Hunter
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:26 pm | |
| Do both. Simultaneously...
i did that with my Mage Elf and my Human noble Warrior until I realized the Elf was cooler cause he reminded me of Anakin before he became a wuss. Seriously, surrounded by enemies and then using Mind Blast ----> Virulent Walking Bomb (on the peon) -----> Crushing Prison (on the same poor chump), then just watch the fireworks... err bloodworks. So evil. _________________ I am a man of few words... and many credits. Only a fool would want the reverse.
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Lunarwolf Chief Operative


Number of posts: 5116 Age: 31 Location: Bournemouth, UK Registration date: 2009-02-23
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Aleina Fel SPECIES: Near-Human CLASS: Sith Inquisitor
 | Subject: Re: Dragon Age Series (no spoilers) Wed Mar 24, 2010 11:33 pm | |
| That's what I'm doing with ME2 actually, playing my Paragon character up to one point and then getting to the same point with my Renegade before carrying on.
Not a bad compromise there ProX! |
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