Dragon Age - Comic Con Impressions @ RPS

Kieron Gillen provides some unvarnished impressions of Dragon Age from Comic Con (lumping it together with Battlefield 1943 in one article):

Meanwhile, I played Dragon Age for much longer, and come away with less to say. That’s the perennial problem with playing an RPG like this on a show-floor - it’s not the format. I can play with the party control mechanism and prod around a few menus, but in terms of key elements like storytelling, I haven’t a clue. The whole demo took place in a dungeon containing (er) things. Which I killed. With swords. And magic.

I managed to get into one interactive conversation with NPCs, which managed to show off the Mass-effect-esque character acting and a pretty-typical Bioware troika of conversation options. As in, the be nice, be mercenary, be a right bastard choice. So, no, I don’t have a sense of whether it’s going to blossom into a delightful RPG epic of dark fantasy or similar.

Read on via the link for a description of his combat and camera experiences.