Every single journalist on the interwebs has already chanted praises for this game. And I intend to do exactly the same.
Last week I optimistically bought a copy of the PC version of Dragon Age. Optimistically because I realised only after the purchase that my PC at home was an old AMD 2.2GhZ with 1GB or RAM and a puny geforce 7900 GTX (or something like that).
It took some compromising but the game runs. More then my computer being able to deal with it I suppose it’s the game caring for my PC as you would with a senile pensioner.
Nevertheless I played for a few hours yesterday and I have this to say. They got it just right.
I was a huge fan of the original Baldur’s Gate series and played it over and over. Mostly because I was at school at the time and spare time was plentiful and cheap.
Why was I fan? Because of the storyline. It was stupendously enthralling.
After BG I stuck with BioWare and bought Neverwinter Nights. Everybody raved about it yet I didn’t like it. Very little control over the whole party. And the little you had was spoiled by a slightly awkward control system.
The toolset they released with Neverwinter Nights was also mightily impressive. You could see that was the start of a revolution in the way RPG were played and content was created for them. Unfortunately, as most first editions/tries, it lacked in functionality and flexibility.
This, as far as I’m concerned, also put a cap on game designer’s creativity when they were writing the main campaign story.
I’m glad to see they have worked all these things out. Everything I didn’t like in Neverwinter Nights is now fixed in Dragon Age.
The game just flows.
This is thanks to a beautifully written and very compelling story, a more intuitive and usable control system and a fantastic toolset. Which I believe put the power back in the game designers’ hands and allowed them to really go to town with the storyline.
It’s a fantastic game. If you don’t know it watch the trailer video, buy it, lock yourself in your room and start playing.
Ever since the official announcement Blizzard has worked hard to keep the hype going by revealing small portions of the gameplay at a time on their site. Not that they needed to considering the extremely morbid and dedicated community of fans out there.
I’m a 
Rather poorly timed entrance for Santa but very welcome nonetheless.
