(Playing on Hard, FIRE/healing main, the dog, SHIELD/precision Alistair, rotation of HEALING/support Wynne and Traps/Bow Imoen)
I find the game to be perfectly difficult.
I die, I get wiped, I have to reload often on the big fights. I have to try new things… but with some clever thinking and thoughtful tactics, a way to win has always eventually presented itself.
There is a noticeable lack of treasure and wealth to be found. I have just enough money to keep upgrading skills and equipment, replenish supplies, and still have a little more left over every time. Never have I seen such a well-balanced sense of economy in a crpg.
I'm 40. I've been playing pc games since the day there was such a thing as a pc; and several years before that too. You name it (especially crpgs), I've played it.
I watched Ultima evolve from a rogue-like, to a living, breathing world. I learned tactics with the Wizardry(s)… the Gold Box(es). I was conditioned by the nuance of the Might and Magic(s).
War… War never changes. I sat spellbound for days after I first heard those words. It was the game of my dreams.
If not for the slightly clumsy attempt at AD&D combat in the Infinity Engine, I would think those games to be entirely perfect. Baldur's Gate I and II, the Icewind Dale saga, and of course Planescape… in so many ways they were the culmination of all I'd ever hoped for… way back when Zork was all I had.
But, they were all "difficult". In exactly the same way that Dragon's Age is.
I'm just wondering… for younger players, who have never had to deal with things like graph paper and 200-page manuals for the games they've grown up with, are you the ones that find it hard?
I'm not trying to pick a fight. You had what you had, and you know what you know. That's being young, nothing else.
I see Dragon Age as exactly what Bioware said it would be: the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate II. Which was the successor to Fallout. Which came after Ultima 7. Etc.
Are any older gamers finding it too difficult? Are any younger gamers finding it ridiculously easy?
Is there any correlation between age and difficulty to be found?
I find the game to be perfectly difficult.
I die, I get wiped, I have to reload often on the big fights. I have to try new things… but with some clever thinking and thoughtful tactics, a way to win has always eventually presented itself.
There is a noticeable lack of treasure and wealth to be found. I have just enough money to keep upgrading skills and equipment, replenish supplies, and still have a little more left over every time. Never have I seen such a well-balanced sense of economy in a crpg.
I'm 40. I've been playing pc games since the day there was such a thing as a pc; and several years before that too. You name it (especially crpgs), I've played it.
I watched Ultima evolve from a rogue-like, to a living, breathing world. I learned tactics with the Wizardry(s)… the Gold Box(es). I was conditioned by the nuance of the Might and Magic(s).
War… War never changes. I sat spellbound for days after I first heard those words. It was the game of my dreams.
If not for the slightly clumsy attempt at AD&D combat in the Infinity Engine, I would think those games to be entirely perfect. Baldur's Gate I and II, the Icewind Dale saga, and of course Planescape… in so many ways they were the culmination of all I'd ever hoped for… way back when Zork was all I had.
But, they were all "difficult". In exactly the same way that Dragon's Age is.
I'm just wondering… for younger players, who have never had to deal with things like graph paper and 200-page manuals for the games they've grown up with, are you the ones that find it hard?
I'm not trying to pick a fight. You had what you had, and you know what you know. That's being young, nothing else.
I see Dragon Age as exactly what Bioware said it would be: the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate II. Which was the successor to Fallout. Which came after Ultima 7. Etc.
Are any older gamers finding it too difficult? Are any younger gamers finding it ridiculously easy?
Is there any correlation between age and difficulty to be found?