Let me start by saying that this game actually made me register on IMDb to share with you with my opinion, as feeling of utter-disappointment is just smashing!
I won't talk here about game systems, graphics and that kind of aspects, as my only concern in RPG's is plot, story and characters - all that create a true, good RPG base.
Well what to start with? Let me just state the obvious... If Tolkien was still alive he should sue BioWare for a shameless brutal rape they just made upon his works. Dragon Age is absolutely worst type of Fantasy world I've seen, mostly because it is so schematic, so stereotypic, so cliché based, that if not the monstrous advertisement campaign BioWare sponsored this game would NEVER be noticed. It's just everything we have already seen so far and I mean EVERYTHING. It's most stereotype-spam-stuffed game that shamelessly tries to call itself a 'breath of fresh air' in world of RPG's. Even architecture is same as in Tolkien's world, but to hell with that.
AGAIN the plot is about army of Evil, Darkness, Deamons, Monsters (and other things that sound spooky) invading the world for no particular reason, but to destroy stuff and wreak havoc... just because. ((The SAME story is in almost every GOD DAMN Fantasy RPG! Oblivion? Army of Evil Deamons Wants to Destroy the world... Neverwinter Series? Army of Evil/Demons wants to destroy the world... LOTR? Sauron and his Evil army wants to Destroy the world! Myth and Magic? Army of Deamons and monsters wants to destroy the world... World of Warcraft? Army of Deamons wants to destroy the world... Diablo? - guess... It's always the same... you call a fantasy rpg and you got same thing again and again. Ever since I played Baldur's Gate nothing changes, it's same fantasy, saving world in name of goodness and some pseudo-moral politically-correct mumbo-jumbo. - Just because it's good to be good and so we should do good stuff.))
Honestly! What's wrong with you people?! Speaking of Ripp off's even those damn scenes in this game are insanely similar to what we saw in LOTR - one of our Mentors just finished off enemies (that strangely looks like Orcs from the Tolkien's world), looks in direction of distant mountain peaks above which dark clouds gather, and lava bursts into air from volcanic craters... Just call it Mordor, would ya? Capitol of Dwarfs and battles in underground halls where 'darkspawn' roams - yeah... does not recall Moria even a little bit, does it? Oh! And of course a forgotten king who happens to be our fighter-friend, while evil impostor takes his place and governs lands o men. Similarities go on and on...
Story is a naive copy of everything made already... I had this feeling writers of this game just needed excuse to incline some cinematics in between battle sequences, or give reason why to mindlessly grind anyway. It's like they read some random cheep fantasy book you can get for one buck from basket with 'no one want's to buy this crap, but kids'-kind of books, rewrote whole story, changed names of places, characters, fixed new geography, used same models from last Neverwinter game(remade for needs of new graphic engine) and voilà!
I can't believe same people who created Mass Effect (that was a great game with a world made from scraps, professional and serious, with decent climate and style.) made Dragon Age.
Another bad thing is voice acing - it is absolutely awful! No climate and atmosphere at all... random people often use language you can hear on the street, or in school, that not even a little bit resembles to medieval period. There is even this Dwarven girl who talks like some random high school Stacy that sucks lollipops and play with her hair, while flirting with teachers. Characters can't decide to which culture they belong, sometimes they use accents, sometimes not. They act like they were stuffed with wood and their voices are just a fail... simply a fail. Imagine yourself a situation, where whole village is overrun by monsters, world is besieged by daemons and evil that wreaks havoc everywhere... And people we happen to talk with, that just saw how their friends got slain and impaled, talk with you like nothing really happened, like they have a wonderful time, just finished reading morning newspaper and await for a hot cup of tea with pinch of sugar and a slice of lemon. They sound so dull and boring you can fall a sleep in the middle of dialog.
Political correctness was elevated to a whole new level! I am a woman, I understand concepts of equality... BUT PLEASE! Is it made for children?! or does American censorship just stalks for easy prey to suck out millions from one of many lawsuits it's ready to unleash upon BioWare? I loved KOTOR series, where sometimes supporting a tyrant and dictator caused more good to the planet that was under rebellion, than supporting weak princess that ruined economy and so on. It was nice to see that not always choosing obvious good is good in fact, that was tricky, made players to think twice, to make a right judgment... And Dragon Age? It's all same Democracy/Socialism = good, progress, peace, flowers and happy children dancing. Monarchy/Authoritarism/Free Market = Evil! Death! Suffering of Poor people! Little crippled children digging graves for little dead butterflies on dry, blood-stained meadows.
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