Mon, Oct 12, 2009 | 20:09 BST

Dragon Age launch trailer is joke-awesome

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BioWare’s Dragon Age launch trailer is pretty much amazing. Watch is after the break. We’re not lying.

This game can’t happen soon enough. Fantasy RPG never, ever looked so good.

It’s out on November 5 for 360, November 6 for PC and November 30 for PS3.

Thanks, BigDownload.

22 comments

#1

sxpacks
12/10/09, 8:16 pm

need to see gameplay…Has all things Diablo in it which is a good start

#2

Mike
12/10/09, 8:18 pm

Fucking mental. Can’t wait.

#3

Mike
12/10/09, 8:19 pm

#4

Bleak Harvest
12/10/09, 8:21 pm

Dull as bones.

#5

Mike
12/10/09, 8:22 pm

:O

#6

mescalineeyes
12/10/09, 8:39 pm

you want gameplay: Go play Baldur’s Gate, then play Mass Effect. Now combine the two in your head.

boom, Dragon Age.

back when I worked at EA, we had some down-time between projects so I played Dragon Age. A LOT of Dragon Age; I don’t even usually like these kind of games, but for some reason, this one hooked me.

#7

Gekidami
12/10/09, 8:43 pm

I dont see the Mass Effect in this, the combat is barely real-time. Unless the console version plays differently.

#8

mescalineeyes
12/10/09, 8:53 pm

combat is entirely real time, but you can stop it at any time with the space bar.

#9

Aimless
12/10/09, 9:03 pm

If it was 1999 this game would look really impressive. But it isn’t. And it doesn’t.

Still you never know, maybe it all comes together well. I think I’ll refrain from pre-ordering, though; word of mouth is the only thing that can sell this game to me now.

#10

endgame
12/10/09, 9:05 pm

well, bioware always sucked at making good cg movies and even though the intro trailer for the star wars the old republic was good, this one is not, that good. still, i like it. and i can’t wait to play the game. their strength was always story, audio and gameplay.

btw was that Loghain, a grey warden now? did i get that right? :)

#11

Mike
12/10/09, 9:06 pm

I can’t wait for the comparison vids.

Internetz meltdownz

#12

Phoenixblight
12/10/09, 9:25 pm

THis is not Bioware CG. This is a third party called Blurr they also made the Warden’s Calling CG trailers. Its just for PRomo won’t actually be in the game for obvious reasons.

@8 No the game play is not real time. Devs have stated multiple times that it is not its based on a Cooldown system.

#13

mescalineeyes
12/10/09, 9:29 pm

@12 wtf, are you seriously going to argue with someone who played the game extensively?
how does a “cooldown” system not make it real time. In WoW, the spells also have to cool down, yet it is real time, is it not?

#14

Gekidami
12/10/09, 9:34 pm

I never said the combat wasnt real-time but that is was “barely real-time”. Mainly for the reason that you dont have full control over the battles you start or how you want to fight them unlike in Mass Effect.

#15

mescalineeyes
12/10/09, 9:42 pm

you can control every character individually, you can give all of them individual commands… I don’t get what you mean.

#16

No_PUDding
12/10/09, 9:48 pm

Mike… This is a Dragon Age… The meltdownz come from interesting/good games.

/burn

But seriously that trailer looked awesome.

It’s amazing how good CG has gotten, AND when the woman was firing arrows at the dragon, all I could think of was Shadow of the Colossus.

#17

Uncontested
12/10/09, 10:17 pm

Can’t wait to mess around with the character creator tomorrow, assuming its still coming out tomorrow, should be fun to see how customizable your character can be in this game.

#18

blackdreamhunk
13/10/09, 1:22 am

the pc version of dragon age is gong to be the best.I hav e already preordered my game.

#19

freedoms_stain
13/10/09, 2:45 am

I don’t think I could part with cash for this without playing a demo. The mechanics looked a bit dull in another video I watched earlier. Kind of like FFXII in a way, you control one guy directly (if you want) while the other the guys all fight automatically until you intervene when they’re being fuckwits.

The mouse interface made it look a bit smoother, but no less dull – and I found FFXII so dull I haven’t bothered completing it as of yet.

#20

OrbitMonkey
13/10/09, 3:00 am

Quite right mate. FMV always make the charecters look good, then when your in charge, they hobble about like your nan and have a handfull of stances… Walk, run, cast spell, swing huge phallic weapon etc.
Demo please Bioware/EA? :-)

#21

Phoenixblight
13/10/09, 3:35 am

No Demo just character creator coming out tomorrow.

#22

Suikoden Fan
13/10/09, 8:28 am

loving it absolutely loving it

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