I've finished Dragon Age Origins. I got all the Achievements I was missing (about six of them) over the course of a couple of days this past week. It felt good finishing, and I've since given the game to Samantha for her enjoyment. She was really excited to start today, but we ended up spending a lot of time putting her new shelving unit together, ( Read more... )

I finished Dragon Age 2 today!

( Victory )

Last Wednesday Deja Vu Discs gave me a call to let me know that Dragon Age II was in. By then I was on my third playthrough of Dragon Age: Origins since getting it in August. I had 68/76 achievements in Origins, and after playing the game endlessly for a couple of months I was itching to get started with the sequel.

The Good It stuck to the strong ( Read more... )

Curtis came by for some Portal 2 before our weekly Dragon Age. We got through to test chamber 7 of the DLC. It's 'pretty' complicated stuff, but he manages to figure out a lot of the things I get stuck on. It's pretty great. I'm sad I didn't do it with Sam, but maybe we'll still be able to do the last few together or, failing that, she can play ( Read more... )

Finished Dragon Age, Awakening, Golems of Amgarrak and Witch Hunt. I still have Leliana's Song and the Darkspawn Chronicles, but I don't feel quite as enthused about those as I was about Awakening. Awakening was a fantastic expansion. It had a solid extra ten hours of gameplay, a couple extra character decisions, and Justice/Anders/Velanna. I'm ( Read more... )

Dragon Age is a fantasy role playing game that appeals to my modern gamer senses - lots of customization options for your character, high production value, "9 novels worth of text", and plenty of replay value ( Read more... )