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It would really depend on the person, I personally prefer Demon's Souls.



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If you want to chill and play with ease, I'd suggest Dragon Age

 

 



My laptop meets the required specs but not the recommended specs for Dragon Age. :( Just because you can RUN it doesn't mean it will run well. There is no Dragon Age demo for PC right? Thanks a lot Bioware/EA. How are you supposed to know if a game can run on your PC properly without pirating the damn thing when you don't have a demo available?



I've got both of them, and while both are great games, I have to go with Dragon's Age.  It's absolutely wonderful.



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I have them both and Ill admit that I love both of these 2 games.  Have DA on the PC.

(have NOT beaten DA yet, nor seen all the content.  About 25ish hours into the game and this is my opinion so far)


Ill give you a few bullets with the strength/differences of each and I hope it helps.


Story

DA - Good story, a lot of interaction with NPC, some good-great voice acting.

DS - Not a story drivin game, some but not alot of NPC interaction, bad-good voice acting.

The DS story is kind of misunderstood.  This game is about game play.  Its about you and (maybe your random phantom) vs. the world.  The story/NPC interaction does a great job of making you feel isolated.


Gameplay

DA-If you like anything Biowares, you will love how it plays.  I cannot be 100% sure how it plays on the PS3/Xbox, but on the PC it reminds me alot of Baulders Gate/those type of RPG's (NWN, BG, Planescape Torment, etc).  Overhead view when paused for tactical awesomeness, behind the shoulder for running around the town. The game will become much easier as you level, since the enemies will not level with you.

DS-Over the shoulder combat (zoom in for using bow, lock-on type combat). This game is 100% skill based.  While weapons/soul levels make a bit of a difference, if you suck at the game you will not succeedd.  Game has one difficulty, hard.  The game is hard and you will suffer many many many deaths, none of them are cheap and are all your fault.   Controls are TIGHT (if they were not this game would basically be impossible, hehe)


Lasting Value

DA-Already has 2 expansions and we will probably see many more to come.  3 races to choose from, with 2/3 classes per race and 1/2 origins per character, this "should" have great replay value.

DS-Atlus....I love you but...  This game ran out of copies (after what, 100k?)  Unfortunately, this does not seem like a game that will have any additional content coming out for it (tho I could be wrong...look at ALL the Disgaea 3 stuff)  However, beating the game is only the beginning.  Each time you beat the game it gets harder on NG+ (more so the second play thru than the following), and if you want all the trophies you will need to beat it 4 times, minimum.   Playing as prim ranged/spells, vs prim melee makes the gameplay completely different.  (tho you can do both, id suggest sticking with melee/ranged/magic as prim and keeping the other avaible for secondary) 


Graphics

DA-The character models are not that great so far, same with the enemies.  The environments are great.  If you are a Biowares fan tho, this doesnt matter (most all of their games have kinda terrible character models).  Some of the movement does not look natural, but it in NO WAY takes away from how good this game is.

DS-The characters are not all that impressive either, but the enemies are absolutely amazing.  Bosses are just plain wow.  The game is all about environments and they are completelty top notch.  The animation is amazing and your character does exactly what you would expect when you attack/dodge/parry/block etc)  Oh yea, you can make your protagonist look absolutely disturbing.  And its wonderful!!  Not many games allow you to make a straight up MUTANT to play the game with if you want (tho you can make him/her look like a person...if you want)


The DS multiplayer is documented extensively in the review on VG and elsewhere, so I would recommend you read those if you are interested.  One thing that alot of places do no explain, is how the game saves.  You have 1 and I repeat 1 save per character.  You NEVER save your game, it is all done automatically (and its the BEST auto save I have ever seen, no downtime, no hickups, its wonderful)  After each fight, after each death, after each zoning/rezoning, auto save.  This means that if you do something stupid (attack an NPC that you need and kill him) there is no getting him/her back until you restart the game.  DS is the thought-inspired gamers game.


I have beaten DS a few times now and I love it.  Am only about 20ish hours into DA, but so far I love it also.  I hate it when people try to make up my mind for me, so I wont do that to you :)

 



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@ Ssen

I've heard the console and PC versions play entirely differently with the console one being primarily an ARPG versus the more tactical PC version.



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outlawauron said:
@ Ssen

I've heard the console and PC versions play entirely differently with the console one being primarily an ARPG versus the more tactical PC version.

Yea, was speaking to a friend of mine a bit ago on the phone and we were comparing versions (he has it on PS3)  Correct me if Im wrong, but you can rotate the camera but not pan the screen on the consoles?  No overhead view on the consoles? After having these features on the PC, I dont think I could live without them (although I will admit that if I had played the console version first, i wouldnt need these features)  Ive also heard the PC version is a hell of alot harder? (patch on PC to dumb the AI down a bit I think it was).

 

@ OP: Also, havent had ANY slowdowns on my PC (very up to date) running at 1920x1080 on my 50' tv.  Ive heard there are some noticable (but not game breaking) slow downs on the consoles.

 

 



These are some great pieces of advice guys (especially Ssenkahdavic) thanks. I will be taking all under advisement



 

Adjudicator said:
These are some great pieces of advice guys (especially Ssenkahdavic) thanks. I will be taking all under advisement

Very welcome.



Demon`s Soul`s is magic on a blu-ray disc. If you like something different than all the boring western rpg`s, then the choice is obvious.