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A couple things to note/summarize:

All NPCs start with one specialization allocated. You can choose any unlocked, class-appropriate specialization for their second one once it is available to be allocated.

The player starts without any specializations allocated. You get to allocate both of their specializations.

All mages have access to Heal, Regenerate, Rejuvenate and Mass Rejuvenate. Morrigan does not start with any of these, but can learn them as she levels up. Any mage can heal but only a spirit healer excels at it.

Depending on how you play, and what difficulty you are playing on, you can play without a spirit healer.

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Quote: Posted 10/28/09 21:19 (GMT) by flem1
Which of the joinable NPCs do you think (or, if you're a dev, know) was the first conceived as a character for the game?

For joinable NPC's? I'd say possibly Wynne or Zevran -- certainly they have survived most recognizably from their first concepts. If you're talking about which character role was first conceived, then probably Morrigan.

Quote: On the other hand, this makes it look like an early draft of the Tower of Ishal quest (the very first main plot one after origin convergence).

That old tech demo was put together before any of the world or characters were conceived. Those characters on the screen are simply "barbarian guy" and "enchantress". Although I guess we could make claims as to how they evolved into the other characters and we meant it all along... yeah, that's the ticket...

Sorry, folks. While informative (I certainly learned something new), this is not DAO related. Feel free to discuss this in Off-Topic.

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Just as an update for you all. We are working with Valve and EA to resolve the pre-load situation for Dragon Age: Origins. Nothing is finalized one way or the other right now, but are hoping to get a final decision between all parties Real Soon Now(TM).

So not only have I been awake FAR too long, am in a strange foreign country where people don't speak English, but I hear you monkeys have somehow gotten into the Wardens' Quest scoring system and are questioning what happened with the first elimination and why the Czech Republic/Slovakia team went first.

Some of you have crunched numbers and think that the math did not indicate that CR/S should have been chosen. What you do not know is that ALL teams, after they finished their Origin story, had their scores zeroed. This was done as it made for an even start to the Wardenss Quest for all teams. During their Origin play they were allowed to play as long or as deeply as possible. To balance play, it was zeroed and reset so everything was fair from that point on.

Now that I have hopefully cleared that up, I better get back to the Wardens Quest. Chat more post event (and post sleep).

Upsets happen all the time in any comp.

You constantly see good teams getting eliminated by sudden death situations like that in every sport.

Maybe they were the first to kill the ogre because of excessive potion use, which would of hurt them drastically in the long run.

Maybe they charged through and didn't loot as much or didn't do side quests. I didn't catch the first part. But in Dragon Age, faster isn't always better.

And some of you wanted to solo on nightmare.

We have updated system specs for you; I have updated the original post:

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Windows XP Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows XP with SP3
CPU: Intel Core 2 Single (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater
AMD 64 (or equivalent) running at 2.0Ghz or greater
RAM: 1GB or more
Video: ATI Radeon X850 256MB or greater
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

Windows Vista/Windows 7 Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows Vista with SP1, Windows 7
CPU: Intel Core 2 Single (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater
AMD 64 (or equivalent) running at 2.0Ghz or greater
RAM: 1.5 GB or more
Video: ATI Radeon X1550 256MB or greater
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

Recommended Specifications
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz Processor or equivalent
AMD Phenom II X2 Dual-Core 2.7 GHz or greater
RAM: 2 GB (XP) or 3 GB (Windows Vista/Windows 7)
Video: ATI 3850 512 MB or greater
NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

Maybe we need a new thread?

Sorry, that's just way too great of an invitation for this thread to get out of hand. Suffice it to say that they are two completely different games and that comparing them is very difficult to do. If you want to discuss something a little more specific about the game, please try again.

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Quote: Posted 10/28/09 21:52 (GMT) by Leonises

Quote: Posted 10/28/09 21:06 (GMT) by Nathan Frederick

The Xbox save functions in pretty much the same way as the PC.

You open up the menu, and select save. Choose a slot, and then it saves.

There are also autosaves at pre-determined locations.

You cannot save in combat, cutscenes, or conversations.

I'm assuming you can quick save?

On the PC you can quicksave, yes. On the console, you have to use the menu option.

To be honest, while Dog isn't part of my "Dream Team" tactically (I'm not going to give details into said team, to avoid spoiling tactical information discovery for people), many of my favorite conversations in the game, involve Dog. Usually Dog and another party member, but not always (minor spoiler - there's an *awesome* conversation with Dog that can trigger in Denerim, if he's in your party).

That said, everyone has their personal favorites and dislikes (Leliana drives me nuts, and is a common favortie of several people on the team, for instance).

You may love Dog (in a non-romantic way), or Hate him... it will depend heavily on your preferences, obviously

Yes, the DLC content is region-locked to NA or Europe.

Sony actually has seperate companies/divisions for Europe (SCEE) and North America (SCEA), with seperate + different rules and requirements that have to be followed for each region.

Sorry