BioWare’s Dragon Age: Origins has blood and sex. (Let that sink in for a moment.) The universally lauded RPG developer has finally pulled the veil on its self-labeled “dark heroic fantasy” game, revealing, well, blood and sex. You can view some footage of said grittiness after the jump.
You shouldn’t be too surprised. BioWare has consistently cited authors like George R.R. Martin as inspiration for this project. Martin has never pulled any punches and if this trailer is any true indication of the final product, it looks like BioWare won’t either. (Please don’t kill off all the cool main characters, BioWare.)
This is a good way to turn heads. Tell me people, is your head turned? (If it's not, I'll crank it myself.)
The trailer does a great job at making it look great, in terms of the blood and sex. If I really had to nitpick, I'd have to say they could have chosen someone else rather than Marilyn Manson's music for the background. Not a big fan of his stuff.
Agreed. It's nice to see a game company ignoring the media and continuing to push forward, and allow games to tell as indepth stories as books and movies.
I know the engine is made for a Baldur's Gate 2 view, but I hope the trailer is just seriously low def. Even though I try to enjoy the story of Bioware games more then their graphics, I really hope they used a Mass Effect type of engine to create the game and not a NWN one. Making a simple toolsets for both developpers and customers tends to have the desastrous result of repetitve environments and horrible 'module based' not so smooth loading times.
All in all, my expectations for DAO are just a bit too high, but I'm hoping so badly that they'll be fufilled.
I suppose I should finish Mass Effect before starting in on this one. And by finish, I mean install it finally. After actually finishing KOTOR2. Goddamn I'm backed up.
The actual game looks cool, but I question the taste of the people who paired the dark fantasy stuff with Marilyn Manson. If they wanted to go the heavy route, there's plenty of fantasy-themed heavy metal and even industrial (the 300 song was NIN) but they had to pick the one song that makes it look like an AMV.
A Song of Fire and Ice is hardly War and Peace and Bioware aren't reowned for their complex and multi-layered plots, just for those in the 'this game will be art' club.
Are we going to actually see anything in the sex scenes? I want BioWare to earn their controversy this time, unlike the hubbub surrounding Mass Effect.
Fucking awesome! Kill as many main characters as you can Bioware. Make it bloody, make it meaningful, and let me take revenge the good old fashioned way.
No- it's "turn based" as in there is a turn-esque system in place. But it runs as a real time action game. It's like Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights.
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9:00 PM on 05.11.2009 | 
Agreed. It's nice to see a game company ignoring the media and continuing to push forward, and allow games to tell as indepth stories as books and movies.
All in all, my expectations for DAO are just a bit too high, but I'm hoping so badly that they'll be fufilled.
The only thing that can make this even better is having BLOODY SEX.
Looks cool though.
No- it's "turn based" as in there is a turn-esque system in place. But it runs as a real time action game. It's like Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights.