Dragon Age Origins

This game came out of NOWHERE. I AM PUMPED

Dragon Age Orgins

Specs:

20 gb of HD space, must be long game

 

Is this going to be a MMORPG or a single player game? I hope single player.

 

singleplayer
Im about 98 % sure becuase it says nothing about online play

\YES

 

Yeap its a single player campaign and i am also amped for it......completely new universe, epic story....this game is on my must have list......

 

Erm...I've been following this title since it's announcement two years ago.

Looks like a destined classic.

 

BIOWARE strikes again.

They made Baldurs Gate, KOTOR, Mass Effect...

I just hope they keep up the good work.

 

It was actually announced a little more than 5 years ago. They decided to announce it early so as to get fan feedback at a time when few things are set in stone. Of course, they couldn't really say much about the game for the next 4 years so that forum turned into a sort of Off Topic dedicated to all aspects of RPGs.

I'm really glad it is finally coming out -- the release date is October 20th, 2009 and they've just announced the system requirements.

 

It's interesting that the recommended system requirements feature a 2.4GHz Quad Core Hope that the CPU won't be too bottlenecking in this game.

 

Check out this trailer.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-dragon-age/49796

 

Doh! You are correct. I dug out my old copy of PC Gamer and sure enough it was in '04. My how time flies!

 

Bioware is currently developing Star Wars: The Old Republic, Dragon Age Origins, and Mass Effect 2.

I fear they are spreading themselves far too thin by working on so many projects at once.

 

So...think a 9800m GTS will be able to play this on the highest settings at 1900 x 1200?

 

Been following and anticipating this one for a few years.

Hopefully Bioware is finally returning to it's original PC, "REAL" rpg roots and that DragonAge is in the vein of Baldurs Gate and NWN's !

 

doubtful...that'll probly play it at medium.

 

really?

crap watta bout a

2.7 ghz and 9800 gs on 1680 x1050?
High/medium range?


If I can't then I might buy it for ps3

 

It depends how taxing it is on the cpu during actual gameplay... someone else said the recommended was a 2.4 quad, which is a bit more than a 2.7 c2d.

 

I didn't see the word quad...wow Only 11 months and my 1800 dollar laptop is obsolete.....
Good thing I have a ps3
Although the minimum specs seem reasonable....but there is an insane gap between the minimum specs and the recommended...a bit odd (posted specs on front page)

 

I hope that becomes a trend with games honestly. They should make the game able to be stripped low enough so entry level pcs can handle it, but make enough stuff to add in to tax the highest performance pcs. This way everyone can enjoy the game at the level that was meant for their pc.

In my opinion, even at medium/high it will look way better than on the ps3. I have Fall Out 3 on PS3 and PC, and Ultra on PC looks 100x better than the ps3 version.

 

Yes That's what I was thinking
they would make a TON more money if a vast majority of the PCs can handle it.
might as well just buy it for pc, I think I'm giving my ps3 to my brother soon

 

Thats why ive always liked blizzard..they dont release many games that are only designed for high end pcs...sure if you have one you get more but midium pcs can usually play them as well...ie diablo2 etc

 

Not really. There's Bioware Edmonton, Bioware Montreal, and Bioware Austin.

 

Still, I would prefer it if they focused on one really good game.

Like the way Valve did Half Life or Rockstar did GTA4.

Not to mention that it worries me a lot that Bioware is now owned by EA, which has always focused on low-cost above everything else.

 

That might explain why they spread the specs out so far so basically all computers can play it and the people will buy it...

I like how valve and blizzard make there games so that you can strip it down and a crappy computer can play the game but you also can max out the graphics on higher end computers and it looks really nice.

Only thing is, you don't need a quad core to max out thier games...

 

I'm not usually in to the whole fantasy and dragon (if there even are dragons in this one), but after doing a little research, this game looks/sounds really interesting.

 

Dragonslayerz r00l

 

As Signal said, three separate development sites and teams. Bioware has an extremely excellent track record. A couple of guys on DA, including lead writer David Gaider, also worked on Baldur's Gate series, so they have some experience in this genre. Almost everything they make turns to gold, which is probably why EA bought them up.

However, EA is wearing the pants in the family. The game was originally slated for a spring 2009 release, but EA delayed it until fall so it could release console versions as well. For the first several years, Dragon Age was supposed to be a PC exclusive title.

I'm sure Bio/EA struck a deal because Bio was running short of cash during development. EA probably said, sure- we'd love you to come on board, but you will make your titles multi-platform. That's how I read into it when EA acquired Bioware last year.

One way or the other though, I'm totally psyched for this game. Was seriously disappointed when it was delayed.

For another similar title, Divinity 2 is coming out around the same time as well.

 

based on mass effect, I have high hopes for this game

 

The 20GB of HDD space required is quite scary, I'm also wondering if Bioware are actually going to bother with game scalability from the looks of the system requirements.

 

The problem is that focusing on one game is extremely extremely risky. You are literally putting all of your eggs in one basket and if the game doesn't work out, the company might go under.

I remember in some interview from a guy at Valve, the company at one point had most of its staff working just on Half Life 2 for 3 years straight. When they calculated out how many copies they would need to break even, it was 2 million which is extremely high since even 1 million copies sold would make any PC game very successful.

 

I wonder if the recommended specs aren't too pumped out by EA (which is a possibility), how this thing will play on mid-range laptops.

There's a very large gap between the minimum and recommended specs indeed.
But Bioware was always pretty good in making not so demanding games to begin with while retaining high degree of quality.
Perhaps the fact that EA owns them changed that.

 

You're correct of course, it's purely a business decision to make several products at once to reduce risk.

To sum it up, I trust Bioware. I do NOT trust EA.

 

So that means it will probably be more optimized for pcs, hopefully the specs mean that a huge range of computers will be able to play it

 

Exactly right. Case in point: 3D Realms and the whole Duke Nukem Forever fiasco.

 

I cant remember i bioware RPG that has failed, they are going back to what they do best and im really really amped for this game, loved all there rpg's to date...and hoping this is in the same class as the likes of baldars gate 1&2 and NWN........

 

i trust in bioware, these will all be very good games

 

yeah it's got dragons

 

If this has DRM I won't be buying it, if not I might buy it due to the fact that bioware makes good products, even though EA does not.

 

Hey Blacknight,

Damn ARIFJAN is blocking all my attempts to check this out but I googled "Dragon Age DRM" and just judging from the snippits of text it looks like Bioware/EA have somwhat learned from their past mistakes and DA:O is shipping w/out DRM.

 

Yea...army internet is fail. I definitely hope you're right because this game looks like it's going to be killer.

Edit:

"BioWare community coodinator Chris Priestly announced on the Dragon Age forums that upcoming PC RPG will not come with SecuROM copy protection that’s been common on all EA and BioWare’s recently published games, including Mass Effect."

From Tom's Hardware so it should be a legit statement. That's pretty awesome imo.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/bioware-dragon-age-securom-drm,7722.html

 

System Requirements have been posted

Windows XP Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows XP with SP3
CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.4Ghz or greater
AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 1.8Ghz or greater
RAM: 1GB or more
Video: ATI Radeon X850 128MB or greater
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

Windows Vista Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows Vista with SP1
CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater
AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 2.2GHZ or greater
RAM: 1.5 GB or more
Video: ATI Radeon X1550 256MB or greater
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

Recommended Specifications
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 or AMD Phenom II x3 720
RAM: 4 GB (Vista) or 2 GB (XP)
Video: ATI 3850 512 MB or greater
NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)

Pretty steep "recommended" requirements to say the least

I think they messed up on the CPU reqs though since they ask for an Intel Q6600 vs an AMD Phenom II 720 which is 1 less core and is overall less powerful IIRC.

 

They've actually commented on this in the long system requirements thread on their forums. Basically, the game will not use 4 cores to their full capacity so the higher clocked 3-core processors are adequate. They've also pretty much said that the higher clocked C2Ds (E8500/E8600) should be fine except that the frame rate may dip below 30 FPS at a couple of points in the game (with lots of creatures on the screen).

 

Ah okies. Well they're still pretty steep "recommended" settings considering those are desktop specs. I mean, for the GPU you'd need something in the league of a GTX260M to be "recommended". CPU we'd probably need the higher end CPUs. I never thought Dragon Age would be a power hog, but then again, I've only seen one video.

 

Some high requirements ... Maybe i'll just buy it for Xbox 360, i read somewhere that it'll be the another platform for it in addition to PC.

 

With such high recommended requirements, I'm guessing that this game is going to have 4 levels of graphic quality (Low, Medium, High, Ultra?). Also I'm going to assume that this game will look amazing even on Medium .

 

I have an M17x (first gen) with the following :-

Design :- Black Ripley Chassis
Display :- 17" WUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD (1080p +)
Lighting :- Alienware AlienFX System Lighting - Lime
Graphics Card :- 2 x NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX (running in full Sli mode)
Processor :- Intel Core 2 Duo X9000 2.8GHz
Operating System :- Windows Vista Ultimate
Storage :- 2 x 250 Gb HDD @ 7200 rpm in Raid 0 configuration for performance
1 x 500Gb HDD @ 5400 rpm in media "hot swappable" bay.

I have played Bioshock, Oblivion, HL2 all at full res and effects. I increased Oblivion using textures mods Quarl 3 & others.

The question is, will DA'O play at full res?

OB

 

Im pretty sure you should be just fine with those specs.

 

This game look pretty sweet, its great that they just keep pushing their games to the next level.