Difference between this and Skyrim please!

[PKHustle]

Hey all, I'm likely going to buy this game but I was wondering if people could tell me the differences between this game and Skyrim.

I loved the combat of Skyrim but I hated how little there really was in the sense that there was hardly NO item variety and it was just a massive world if you get what I mean.

Please be honest and thorough as I'm probably going to buy this game since it's on sale for so little. Thanks!

[corvek]

Well ... Skyrim is very open world ... And Dragon Age really isn't. You can't jump up a mountain and such... The armors and weapons in Dragon Age are, in my opinion, much more interesting and flashy (Compared to at least vanilla skyrim). The combat is very different compared to the hack and hack of Skyrim. It's more real time strategy based. If you've played the KOTOR games, then it's exactly like this. The story for Dragon Age is probably a little more concrete and interesting in comparison to Skyrim. It's up for debate i enjoyed both personally, but Dragon Age was more story driven and Skyrim was more exploration driven. The biggest thing that Dragon Age has over Skyrim is probably the characters. You love and hate the Dragon Age cast. The smart ass witch, the slightly simple minded templar, the flirty assassin, the harsh and serious warrior. Skyrim doesn't really have any characters that really compare. They're both great RPGs, but they are also pretty different RPGs. If you want to be able to climb every mountain and find things off the beaten path, you're not really going to find a whole lot of that in Dragon Age as it's a lot more linear. But if you do like a great story, fantastic characters with fantastic voice acting, cool armor and weapons and the ability to chose to kill a small child ... Then this game is for you.

[fetalSTIRFRY]

Well, Dragon Age: Origins and Skyrim don’t have a lot in common in terms of combat.
I've played both games repeatedly so I have some bearing of what you need to know/what to look out for.

Dragon Age Origins:

The story it can be confusing what’s going on in the plot (for instance, characters will be mentioned multiple times before they actually appear in game). You’ll spend a lot of time in one area and it feels very lengthy at times. This game focuses on the choices you make as a player and in terms of a role-playing game you feel a greater impact of what you’ve done in DA:O.
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In Origins you have multiple party members that join you (you choose up to three when you travel) and you gain trust or hatred with them. In Skyrim, you just have a follower that’s just kind of… there… like a pack-mule. Also you are able to romance certain party members that you’ve recruited, again, an example that there's deep character development.
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The skill trees are much more in depth than Skyrim and provide more options.
Its much more strategy oriented and you are able to set up an individualized tactic system for your party, this aspect causes many people to say DA:O is very hard.
Because of the strategy aspect, DA:O is ALWAYS in third person combat and character interaction. You are able to fight as your chosen party members in battle. In game, you cannot be your party member to make plot-oriented choices but you are able to personally fight as them in combat or to walk around as them outside of camp. Also if your avatar dies, you won’t necessarily “game over” until everyone in the party passes out. Party members don’t perma-die unless they’ve been killed in a cut scene. So don’t worry too much about friendly fire because they aren’t gone forever.
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Dragon Age has cut-scenes, whereas Skyrim has very little, if not none at all.


Skyrim:

The story has an easier concept to grasp and has a much faster pace.
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Skyrim’s customization is more in-depth, in terms of clothing and character (wider variety of races to choose from) options. Even enchanting weapons have more options than in Dragon Age: Origins. But this is because Skyrim is a much newer game in terms of DAO. The way you dress your character is a bit similar, both games have body, feet, hands, head, rings, and necklaces. In Origins you can have belts and you have two ring slots, not just one unlike Skyrim. In Skyrim you are allowed to concoct your own potions from ingredients you find in the world but in DA:O you have to follow strict recipes. You are also unable to craft potions/traps/poisons unless you’ve leveled party members up to a certain point in DA:O.
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There is no first person combat in DA:O unlike in skyrim.
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There are more fun/silly mods for this game than Dragon Age: Origins. Although, DA:O has a HUGE amount of mods too. Most of them are for appearance and texture tho. There are some cool compainion mods out there tho. I suggest the "1 year with Sten" and "Extra Dog Slot"



You should buy Dragon Age:Origins if you are looking for a good story and the ability to infulence that story. Also, get the complete edition (when/if you do buy it) because it comes with Awakening which makes several improvments of the game (for instance, the games gives you stamina potions now).

I like the Dragon Age series, I own 3 books from it. But I wouldn't suggest this game to someone who has a difficult time with strat games. You'll hear a lot of butt-hurt about Dragon Age 2 too, but that's a completely different post lol. Personally, if I had to choose between playing Dragon Age: Origins or Skyrim, I'd choose Skyrim.

[SEABASS]

Origineel geplaatst door Corvenax:

Well ... Skyrim is very open world ... And Dragon Age really isn't. You can't jump up a mountain and such... The armors and weapons in Dragon Age are, in my opinion, much more interesting and flashy (Compared to at least vanilla skyrim). The combat is very different compared to the hack and hack of Skyrim. It's more real time strategy based. If you've played the KOTOR games, then it's exactly like this. The story for Dragon Age is probably a little more concrete and interesting in comparison to Skyrim. It's up for debate i enjoyed both personally, but Dragon Age was more story driven and Skyrim was more exploration driven. The biggest thing that Dragon Age has over Skyrim is probably the characters. You love and hate the Dragon Age cast. The smart ass witch, the slightly simple minded templar, the flirty assassin, the harsh and serious warrior. Skyrim doesn't really have any characters that really compare. They're both great RPGs, but they are also pretty different RPGs. If you want to be able to climb every mountain and find things off the beaten path, you're not really going to find a whole lot of that in Dragon Age as it's a lot more linear. But if you do like a great story, fantastic characters with fantastic voice acting, cool armor and weapons and the ability to chose to kill a small child ... Then this game is for you.

You know....I didn't even realize that this game was just like KOTOR until you said something. Then I realized that KOTOR was made by Bioware. I think I can understand this game a lot more now.

[Talana 💃]

Like these guys above me said : Loads of differences !

But both well worth playing - both beautiful !

[세렌이엘]

Skyrim is a sandbox game. You can do ( almost ) everything you want. Skyrim also does not end, even if you complete all the quests in the game there are some quest chains that at the end have endless quest objectives.

DA:O is a plot driven game, you have multiple small maps and you have to follow a certain path in order to finish the game. Once you finish the main quests the game is over.

[Razorblade]

The difference between the two? The answer is everything. Skyrim and DA:O have nothing in common, at all. If you're not big on large learning curves and strategic combat, Dragon Age is not the game for you.

[Aurinko]

Origineel geplaatst door TheExperience:

Skyrim and DA:O have nothing in common, at all.

They have dragons.

Also, you spend so much time searching and installing mods that in the end you've lost the inspiration to actually play the game.

But yeah, the more intelligent and answerable question would be what do these two games have in common.

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

Origineel geplaatst door macroexpand:

Origineel geplaatst door TheExperience:

Skyrim and DA:O have nothing in common, at all.

They have dragons.

Also, you spend so much time searching and installing mods that in the end you've lost the inspiration to actually play the game.

But yeah, the more intelligent and answerable question would be what do these two games have in common.

"Also, you spend so much time searching and installing mods that in the end you've lost the inspiration to actually play the game".

Oh so funny and so true I have done that many a time too oh gawd.