Landeril: I need Awakening. <.< And DA:2. You make me wanna shoot you with Storm of the Century!
hunvagy: Get Awakening, but stay away from DA2. I bought the signature. It's still in its box. I could only take 1 hour of that crapfest. And yes, I will probably be marked as an elitist, but after playing DA:O I was NOT expecting a dumbed down diabloesque clickfest as combat. Or that you only have combat skills, and they opted to remove any skill even the farthest in conjunction with social things, in favor of the shitty ME2 movie choice system. But yeah, I like my RPGs with stats, with character progression that makes sense, that doesn't venture much into hack 'n slash territory, proper story, and preferably a solid PnP system in the ancestry to back it up. I read a lot of suggestions and ideas on these pages, but if you really want to experience where RPGs could be today, then I urge you to play two games:
Drakensang and Drakensang: The river of time.
They are the real successors to the RoA series, and you will not be disappointed. I sank more then 80 hours into each, and had fun all the way.
As for RPGs in general, the selling point is mimicing WoW these days it seems, so the mainstream games went that way. Look at Kingdoms of Amalur, it looks like a semi single player wow. And I think that with the demise of Origin/Ultima, the last bastion of mainstream RPG gaming is Bethesda. Especially since Bioware ***** itself out to EA and is making crappy cover based shooters with movie storylines now. We were joking around that DA3 will be a cover based shooter as well. Then the first news hit that it'll be team and cover based.. WTF...
Too late I bought DA2 and actually like it. Save for that I was a Dual Wielding Warrior in DA:O
