Ahh now this was a game i had my eye on since quite some time, but also was expecting more of this game... since it was promised to have a better story than Baldurs Gate, and it was called by Bioware the spiritual successor of Baldur Gate without the DnD franchise, well it was still a good game that i DID enjoy played, also it performed quite good on Win7! well lets go about the char creation since this is a part that i enjoy on this kind of game, it was "decent"... and i also think the elves still needed a more Elvish look, they look too NERDY to be honest, most of the hair stiles look taken straight from a 70s nerdy movie, the elves face options were also a little dull, you dont get to choose the leght of the ears or the type of the eyes, skin color, a total letdown but they still looked a lot better than Oblivion, the elves looked pretty much like humans with a slightly pointy ears, the char creation was nothing out of extraordinary but it served its purpose, the story is in fact absorbing, thou i didnt like the 2 elven factions called the Dalish and the City elves, overall elves were taken of all their mytical glory from literature, you get to see them as slaves everywhere and in small portions in the woods fighting to survive even on their own, the dwarves were actually quite enjoyable! their background history and story was really deep, more so than the humans... i would think the Dwarves were praised more in this game that any other Fantasy game, humans werent that interesting... and in fact quite weak somehow, and the story is rather LINEAR... they brute force you to go straight to the main plot untill getting olmost at the end you get to do small side quests, so thats a point taken out.
On the performance DAO performed quite good on win7, i keep getting frame rates from 40-67 in max settings, the game is quite stable and you dont get to see any glitches untill... the end :
***SPOILER***
------Somehow my Alistair companion became really hatefull of this Loghain antihero, i was in the part were i was deciding what to do with this traitor, and Alistair was forcing me to slain Loghain, even though Loghain human side was making itself present and was accepting he lost and that he had done the wrong things to help Ferelden, and Alistair just went berserk and CHOP HIS HEAD! then i was sent over to redcliff to finally assault Darkspawn and somehow... A BIG GLITCH was spotted, half my companions stayed behind defending Denering while the other part came with me to fight the Archdemon or ArchDragon, and the ones that stayed behind where kinda saying their goodbyes in case they or me died in the attempt, and somehow a ghost appear, a non existant Loghain started talking and saying that why did i left him here instead of taking him with me to fight the Archdemon, that maybe here was his place defending Denerim and that it was a Honor for him to have taken him in my party as one of the Greywarden "&#$!? whe-wha-how-why!? i was confused since i didnt knew who was talking to me untill i recognized his voice and read the subtitles, it was him... the decapitated GHOST of Loghain saying his goodbye... ODD, big TIME-------
Well after all DAO was a great game, but not as great as everyone is sayin all arround in the web, least not for me... if i were to rate this game i would give it 8.2, the lack of multiplayer takes a lot of points, odd how Obsidian released an SDK for DAO, without the MP aspect i see the attempt pointless... yet, it was an enjoyable game, i would recommend it.
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