March is gamer's heaven on the PC

[Jupiter551]

I dunno why, but there's a bunch of critically acclaimed and awesome sequels coming for pc in march, starting today in fact.

Dawn of War II: Retribution - March 2

Dragon Age 2 - March 10

Homefront - March 10

Shogun 2: Total War - March 15

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - March 17

ArmA II Reinforcements - March 17 (never played ArmA but I heard great things)

Crysis 2 - March 24

Shift 2 Unleashed: Need for Speed - March 31

 

[zilaz]

I dunno about march in detail, but i cant wait to play portal 2 in multiplayer and HOPEFULLY soon plants vs. zombies 2 (I even had nightmares about it cuz i cant get over flag 56, which is sad I know).

 

[Jupiter551]

Yep Portal 2 in April, also Operation Flashpoint sequel, and then Witcher 2 in May which is one I've been looking forward to for 3 and a half years

 

[zilaz]

We recently started to play starcraft, it took her a bit to "enjoy" it but now we are even watching special tournaments.

 

[Keithy]

Ass Bro has already been out on consoles for months. That's more of a "fuck you PC gamers!" than anything else. Bulletstorm however was a great lead in to March.

 

[Jupiter551]

yeah all the assassins creed games starting from the first have come out up to a year late for pc..oh well... dunno if it was the case here but microsoft and sony have deals with some companies to release stuff on consoles first to help sell them

 

[morment]

I pre-ordered Dragon Age 2 for the 360, can't wait for it to get here.

 

[AmberCutie]

I'm dying for a new PvZ!! Did anyone see there's a PvZ level created by a user on Little Big Planet 2? It looks awesome and it's amazing that they created it so well. LBP is nuts for how you can create a game within a game so brilliantly.

 

[Nerdy_Boy]

I'm not that into Little Big Planet series, but I'm always simple amazed at the user created levels. It is crazy what the community can do with LBP.

 

[Jupiter551]

I pre-ordered Dragon Age 2 for the 360, can't wait for it to get here.

Hey question for any Dragon Age fans...did anyone play as a rogue when it first came out? And if so did you feel like the new fish in a prison shower? lol

Cos like I play a lot of rpgs - pretty much every one that's come out for the last 10 years or so on PC - often in the hardest settings and I found DA, with a rogue character just balls out HARD. On easy mode. Like so freaking hard that after suffering through it for a week I just said fuck it and quit, meanwhile my whole guild in wow were waxing lyrical about how amazing it is...

I just reinstalled it in the hopes of doing a quick (yea right lol) playthrough in preparation of DA 2 and hoping patches, and/or choosing a different class will make it not quite so difficult.

 

[morment]

My main character was a rogue, I never noticed that it was significantly more difficult with that class than as a warrior/mage. In fact I had a couple issues when I played as a warrior when I couldn't utilize the lockpick/disarm skills on my main character and the supporting ones weren't up to snuff.

They did make an effort to rebalance the class in DA 2 though, and it shows from what I've played of the demo.

 

[Jupiter551]

I'm wondering if it was cos I didnt really enjoy micro-managing my party members and never really did the whole AI programming thing the game had

 

[morment]

That could have been part of it. I didn't use the feature all that much myself, mainly to set up the healers priorities, but I would take control of the other characters fairly frequently.

 

[Jupiter551]

well I played DA a lot yesterday, and I had applied 2 patches which weren't out the first time I played it, both of which mentioned damage scaling and difficulty, and I'll tell ya what, it's FAR easier on normal difficulty than it was before on easy difficulty - no joke.

 

[Jupiter551]

And for anyone who was wondering I can confirm Morrigan will happily get busy with a dwarf, lol.

 

[SweepTheLeg]

I can not wait for Dragon Age 2, 3 more days SQUUUUUUEEEEE! (thats the noise i make when I'm excited)

As for your question- in Origins my main character, like every other game that gives me the option, is a rogue (and in DA2 I will make a rogue again, I'm loving them so far in the demo). I never found it too difficult except maybe in the beginning when I didn't have all the tricks and my team wasn't completely set up the way I wanted them to be.

But once I had Shale as my tank, Wynne as my healer, and Morrigan as my fellow damage dealer being a rogue became quite fun, not relatively easy but not pull my hair out frustrating either.

I hated the warrior in Origins, never had the stamina to really pull off enough moves to my liking, it was just the slow ass auto-swing I never made it past level 10. was too boring.

Mage was fun, but I always go back to my rogue- finally put the money in for Awakening and trying to get that and the morrigan DLC completed before I play Dragon Age 2. I can't wait to see how my decisions in origins transfers because my decisions in Origins is one fucked up tale.

 

[morment]

I'm interested to see how the decisions from Origins/Awakenings transfer over too, it's been a while since I've played through it/them but I remember most of the major story arc decisions.

It should be done well based on the way the decisions from Mass Effect carried over to ME2, it was a bit odd playing through the PS3 version of ME2 because of the way Bioware set up the big decisions that you couldn't have made due to the original not being available since I went the opposite way on a lot of the major plot points.

 

[Jupiter551]

Yeah I first played Dragon Age literally the first few days it came out and all I can think is it must have been early balance issues because doing all the same quests and stuff all the way up to the landsmeet on normal difficulty (last time I was on easy) I'm having no problems whatsoever.

Also I had the same problem with ME2 because I didn't have my saves anymore lol. I ended up playing through ME2, then ME1 again to build a character, then ME2 again just to carry it all the way through. They sort of had jacob question you about some of the major plot points but it's going to be a bit clumsy if they do that in DA2.

I wonder if they'll do the whole "oh you've been knocked over the head and woken up with all your gear missing" bit lol.

 

[SweepTheLeg]

In dragon age 2, while the decisions your first character can transfer over, you start off having to make a whole new character where as in ME2 you played as Commander Shepard again.

So thats where I am curious of what they will do to incorporate the decisions you made in the first one.

this is a spoiler for those that didn't play the first game and should stop reading now:

I sided with the evil dwarf politician
Oghred's wife remained deep in her cave to continue making golems
I raised an army of werewolves who would attack anyone that got close to add more werewolves to the army
I killed the danish elven clan
I tried to make Alistair marry the queen but he was a dick.
So I instead made Loghain a Grey Warden, and a general for the army
His daughter the queen remained in power
Killed Alistair
Had the demon baby with Morrigan.

 

[morment]

In dragon age 2, while the decisions your first character can transfer over, you start off having to make a whole new character where as in ME2 you played as Commander Shepard again.

So thats where I am curious of what they will do to incorporate the decisions you made in the first one.

I kind of wish that they'd let you use the same character, since I really liked the way I had my Elvish rogue set up, but I'm not too upset by it.

I think I went the exact opposite route as you did on all of those choices.

 

[Jupiter551]

Ahh yes, I hadn't read whether you could use the same character or not in DA2..I guess there's a bit of a scaling and previous equipment problem when they do that. Well unless they just create some scenario where you lose all your stuff and xp (shepard in me2 lol).

On the bright side, dunno if it's the case here but in previous games where you could move your character over it sometimes came at the cost of missing new classes/races available in the sequel.

Morrigan and I are going to have a demon half-dwarf baby