Dragon Age: Origins -- Anyone got it? (no spoilers please!)

[Chanlin]

If you think those were good wait until you take down The Brood Mother and the final boss.

There are other simpler ones, but I think my favorite is with duel wielding: standard off hand stabs into the chest and lifts the enemy up, main hand lops the head off.

[Broomjockey]

Eh, already took down the brood mother. Nothing special happened there. The issue, I've discovered, is I'm a mage. And I now realize this was both a good and bad first choice for a playthrough. Bad, because really it's quite mediocre. Magic doesn't give you any spiffy kills, you deal decent amounts of damage from a distance, and you can heal the snot out of your party. Makes for a fairly easy playthrough. Good, because it gave me the opportunity to learn the game mechanics. I think I'll revise my plans for my second playthrough, and take a rogue instead. I think I'm familiar enough to get away with it.

[LewisLegion]

On my first ogre in the tower, my PC and Alistair BOTH did the bear-down stabby leap thing.

It totally rocked. We're so in sync...

[Binky]

I am a gamer nerd! I got this game about 4 days ago....and I've already finished it

OK so I may have used a few cheats here and there because I get frustrated when I pic a REALLY weak character and can't get past certain areas simply because they die! I tried a few things again and again! And died every time, using as many different tactics as I could....so I decided to just finish it.

The next time round I'll pick a better character! And do ALL the side quests...build things up naturally!

[LewisLegion]

I finished my first playthrough and boy, was it messy. Looking back I made stupid mistakes and it was just...just messy. I started a second playthrough with a human noble and so far this is going much better. I'm also romancing Leilana this time and I must say, now I'm torn between her and Alistair. She's so sweet

[Broomjockey]

I'm trying to do a second playthrough, as a rogue this time around, and let me tell you, it's *hard*. I'm dying way more than I did before, and I'm cheating this time. I bumped myself up to max level at one point, just trying to get through a section. I also went for Morgana as my paramour. And I had to laugh when it came time to bump up the relationship to "the next level." She's about as subtle as a freight train.

[Binky]

lol yeah I played as a Rouge the first time round...that's why I cheated I could NOT get past a lot of things and just gave up.

This time I'm going to do everything didn't know you could romance anyone guess I have to try now

[Rine]

I'm playing a rogue and it's fun. Though, I'll admit to having not played in a little while because of being too busy.

I use stealth function a lot. I get my party to hold their position and I sneak up to where there's a bunch of enemies, sneak attack one, and then run like hell back to the party. Only a few of the enemies go after me at a time, so we can get through big combats bit by bit this way. Another attack I use a lot is the one that stuns enemies. I stun an enemy, the tank drops it, and I move on to the next enemy. Yeah...maybe I think about this too much.

[RayvenQ]

lol yeah I played as a Rouge the first time round...that's why I cheated I could NOT get past a lot of things and just gave up.

This time I'm going to do everything didn't know you could romance anyone guess I have to try now

Same here, switched to a Warrior and was sorted, well, once i got past the Human start glitch.

[LewisLegion]

I'm a warrior and probably will be on all my playthroughs (except my human mage because, well, ya can't be).

I'm just a tank. I like beating on stuff. To heck with being sneaky. RARR!!

[Gravekeeper]

I've done all 3 classes so far to the 20 hour mark until I foolishly installed the Toolset and Microsoft used it to annihilate everything I know and love as punishment for not upgrading to SP3.

Now I have to start over again. ><

Oh well, kept my specialization unlocks at least.

I recommend the City Elf or Human Noble origin though, those two are the best. Being an elf also gives you lots of smart ass commentary options throughout the game. <3

Get Shale asap too for the comedic value.

[LewisLegion]

I liked the City Elf starting story but my two favorites stand as the Human Noble and the Dwarf Noble. Played as a female, the Dwarf Noble has a whole different set of context, esp where you and your second Gorim (if I remember his name right) are concerned.

[Gravekeeper]

I liked the City Elf starting story but my two favorites stand as the Human Noble and the Dwarf Noble. Played as a female, the Dwarf Noble has a whole different set of context, esp where you and your second Gorim (if I remember his name right) are concerned.

Human Noble just because it has Tim Curry? ehe

I mangina'd City Elf too so it was doubly horrific. I have a golden rule to never play anything under 5 feet tall in an rpg though so dwarves, halfings and hobbits are out. =p

Going to do Mage now I guess. Or maybe an archer build. Mage Origin kinda blows but its the only class I haven't played much yet.

[LewisLegion]

Yeah, not terribly fond of the mage origin. Once you get past that though the mage isn't a bad class to play, and this is from someone who hates caster-classes.

[Broomjockey]

Huh, I liked the mage origin. Then again, I'm a sucker for glass cannons in games.