Dragon Age Origins

I was looking at Dragon Age Origins the other day and I had a couple questions about it. I know that Dragon Age Origins was really popular among people in the Fleet before Star Trek Online was announced and that were a lot of people that played Dragon Age 2 when it came out so I hoping some of you could answer my questions.

From what I can tell you have a merry gang of misfits to accompany you on your quest. How do you control your team mates? Do they just do there own thing and is there any form of instructions? If you do tell them what to do, is it just like issue commands every now and then or is it more advanced?

Also, I'm not a fan of fantasy. Never have bee, prolly never will be, but the storyline in DAO does look interesting. Would a pure sci-fi loving nerd like me still find Dragon Age Origins fun?

Thanks!

I have recently become semi obsessed with this game in the last couple months. Your people will primarily do their own thing, but you can control them or give them orders. Personally, I prefer to just set them up with tactics and let them roll unless they need a quick health potion. So basically take Alistair, usually the character chosen as tank (wish you could pursue a romance with him as a male cause he'd be my pick every game) you use tactics to determine what stances he uses and what moves he does. Honestly, this won't make much sense till you actually play it. Try the demo out.

As to the story I'm having a blast and I think it's pretty engrossing and a lot of fun.

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I have recently become semi obsessed with this game in the last couple months. Your people will primarily do their own thing, but you can control them or give them orders. Personally, I prefer to just set them up with tactics and let them roll unless they need a quick health potion. So basically take Alistair, usually the character chosen as tank (wish you could pursue a romance with him as a male cause he'd be my pick every game) you use tactics to determine what stances he uses and what moves he does. Honestly, this won't make much sense till you actually play it. Try the demo out.

As to the story I'm having a blast and I think it's pretty engrossing and a lot of fun.

What are 'tactics'?

Tactics is a control window that lets you customize how your party reacts in different situations.

There are several pre-built Tactics based on the character (Tanker, Ranged Damage Dealer, Rogue, Healer), but you want even stricter control can customize these even further (For example, if your entire team is at half health or below, cast a power group heal). I never got that deep in the first game (I did so only with one character in DA2 since depending on his form he can be a power-healer or cast nasty damage anad I wanted the AI to switch between the two).

Generally you just pick one and let the AI go to work. Further, you can directly control any of the companions as you would your primary character, just any human/story interaction defaults to the primary character (and his traits).

Thanks for the info guys!

The tactics sound pretty neat. I played Final Fantasy XII and they had something called gambits which I really enjoyed. Been looking for a game with a similar system for a long time.