DAnnisms

Some things I don’t like about Dragon Age

Dragon Age: Origins is a great game and well worth the much-anticipated wait, but while the folks at Bioware did a solid job on many aspects of the game, there are a few things I really don’t like about it.

• The items leave a lot to be desired. There are a few cool items in the game, but mostly, you spend your time finding leaves and dust and rags and useless pieces of paper.
• I don’t see it as being high on the replayability. The cut scenes are great and story fantastic, but I’m not sure I’m going to want to sit through it all. And with long dungeon crawls with no variation (i.e. nothing random) and no fantastic loot, it just seems like it’d become a bore trying to go through again.
• There is no way to put together your party in the campsite, which means you have to travel somewhere even if you simply want to give a companion a gift.
• I don’t mind not being able to respec skills and abilities, but we should actually get good information on abilities from the selection screen. No fun spending four points only to find out mass paralyze only lasts a few seconds.
• I really would love it if the class specializations were more than just four abilities. This is especially disappointing considering that many of these abilities are mostly useless.
• The hotkey bar continually thinks I’m trying to drag an ability when I’m just clicking on it to select it. Ug!

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