I meant to write this four days ago, but I’ve been playing the game and fighting a cold (or something). I started playing Dragon Age on release day, I was really excited to get home from work that day!
I didn’t do a lot of research on this game before it came out, I’d seen a few TV and web commercials for it. It looked great, reminded me of Oblivion which I really like playing. With that, I pre-ordered the game.
It started out well, creating a character and all the standard RPG goodness. Like I usually do, I created a rogue character. I was looking forward to some sneaking around.
As most people know, the first part of Dragon Age is your character origin. It may or may not have much to do with your character type because it is more based on your character’s history and what brings him/her to fight with the Grey Wardens. Since I knew this would happen, I wasn’t disappointed when the first part of the game didn’t give me any chance to sneak around for completing missions. It was also neat to get a backstory that wasn’t all cutscenes.
I’m about 16 hours into the game now. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not 16 hours into the main storyline – I get easily sidetracked. I am doing every quest I can get my hands on.
There are some rouge-type quests I’ve found. Stealing, breaking in, assassination. You know, the normal stuff. The thing is, the main campain and most quests are all hack and slash.
I was really hoping there would be more options for my rougue skills in the main campaign, maybe I’m just not there yet. Hard to tell (I’m not going to go look at walk-throughs or anything).
I’m not real keen on the fighting style so far, seems like the control for the hacking and the slashing is a bit sluggish. I think that has to do with strength, armour, etc…but I dont really want to look into it so much – I just want to play and have fun.
Overall a good game and I’m having fun, I jut wish there were more reasons to be a rougue. If anyone asks me I’ll recommend becoming a warrior, maybe a mage.