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Best RPG PC Game or Expansion 2010

February 26, 2011 By

Ok guys, you had a month to vote for what you felt was the best PC RP game or expansion of 2010 and now 504 votes later it’s all closed. It was super close between Dragon Age: Orgins – Awakening and Mass Effect 2 but one had to be the winner.

Here are YOUR top 5.

5 – Divinity II: Ego Draconis

From the website:

Following the lineage of these two much-acclaimed RPGs, Divinity II: Ego Draconis has adapted many of the most famous elements that made these two original games classics. Divinity II: Ego Draconis makes use of the same classless system that was incorporated in Divine Divinity, which allows you to choose your own path as you become a Dragon Knight.

4 – Fallout: New Vegas

Bethesda’s only RPG release for 2010 made it’s way into the top 5 games. I was surprised that it didn’t rank higher though. I believe many gamers felt that they just ended up with an expansion for Fallout 3 which visually it did seem like that. However, gameplay and story wise it was classic Fallout thanks to the development team being largely from Obsidian Entertainment. Definitely worth checking out.

3 – World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

It’s not surprising that the third World of Warcraft expansion found it’s way to the top 3. The sheer number of WoW gamers was sure to give it’s placing a nice boost. This expansion, like the others, threw the game in it’s head with several new features such as Goblins and Worgens, new raid options and completely changed maps.

2 – Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2 scraped in at a close second. Bioware did a great job at responding to community suggestions from the first Mass Effect and fixing annoying things like the inventory system. They did however add that really annoying probe mining system that had a way of chewing up gaming time that you really wanted to spend blowing bad dudes up. A great looking game, I look forward to taking on the Repears in Part 3.

1 – Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening

There it is, number one… and it’s an expansion. It’s not surprising that the expansion to the highest rated game of 2009 would take place as the best PC RPG of 2010. Building off the enthralling story of Dragon Age: Origins, Awakening throw’s your character right back into the fray. Apparently the Darkspawn are NOT dead so you have to quest again to defeat them once more. A must play, but be sure to play Dragon Age: Origins first.

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Dragon Age: Origins Review

June 5, 2010 By

Rating 8.5/10

The short review

This game is a cross between: Neverwinter Nights/World of Warcraft

It’s good because: • Great story • In depth NPC relationships • Cool combat animations

It’s bad because: • You must travel with a balanced party

The long version

Kick ass storyline

The storyline of Dragon Age: Origins is by far one of the best story lines from any RPG that I have played. For starters depending on your race and class the first chapter of the game is different.

I went with a Human Noble in an attempt to recreate my character from the original Neverwinter Nights. That’s all I’ll say on the matter as to not give away any spoilers.

Sex?!?

One of the rather odd things I found about Dragon Age: Origins is the ability to have sex with your companions. Som

e companions even swing both ways depending on how you want your character to act. These sex scenes are accompanied by some absolutely awful cinematics (with great ‘O’ faces) that just made me cringe.

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So I Finally Got My Copy Of Dragon Age: Origins

April 22, 2010 By

You may remember a that a few weeks ago I before Easter I ordered Dragon Age: Origins off eBay from a supplier in India (pc_gaming_store). This was because I couldn’t order the game from Amazon (shipping restrictions). After reading some of their feedback I worked out that I could probably expect some sort of unusual packaging. Here’s what I received last week in the post:

The packaging is a biodegradable canvas material. The game is slipped into a pocket and then hand stitched up. The ends of the stitching are held in place with a small amount of wax (the red bits on the end there). Pretty cool and very environmentally friendly. The only down side was that it took over 2 weeks to arrive.

I have installed, but not yet played Dragon Age: Origins. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is still just too much damn fun. Especially trying to get all of those pins and insignias. You can expect a review in the next couple of weeks.

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The Sunday Dwarf: The Top 20 Open World Games And Blog Carnival

April 12, 2010 By

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Gameplan has made a great video about the top 20 open world games for PC. Worth a watch to reminisce on some of your favourite games.

Worth checking out

  1. Gangland Mafia is a pretty cool new browser MMORPG. It’s free to play, however they do have in game additional content that can be purchased.
  2. Aryel over at God Is A Geek has given a great review of Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening.
  3. Lots have links have been popping up for a new MMO account sales site. At this stage they only appear to be selling WoW accounts and some WoW Gold.
  4. Angry Joe has made a great video review on Risen for the Xbox 360. I like his style of not holding back but rather telling it how he sees it.

April Blog Carnival

Humour

Casey Markee presents 15 Warning Signs You’re Addicted to World of Warcraft | Troubled Teens Wizard posted at Troubled Teens Wizard Blog, saying, “Do you or your friends exhibit any of these 15 Warning Signs You’re Addicted to World of Warcraft? If so, seek help immediately. The life you save may be your own.”

Reviews

Meg presents a gamer review of Nick Bounty posted at Simpson’s Paradox.

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Poll Results: The Best 5 RPG PC Games

April 2, 2010 By

Yesterday my time and today US time our last poll (The Best RPG PC Game  Ever) ended. The poll asked you guys for what you thought was the best RPG game of all time.

It was an interesting battle with Oblivion leading up until the last couple of days. It was won by Dragon Age: Origins in the last hour which proves that this game has probably done two things:

  • Bring new gamers into the RPG genre
  • Really impressed the existing RPG fans with a damn good game

Here are your best 5 RPG PC games ever voted by you (full results):

    1. Dragon Age: Origins (15%, 13 Votes)
    2. Oblivion (13%, 11 Votes)
    3. World of Warcraft (12%, 10 Votes)
    4. Diablo II (9%, 8 Votes)
    5. Baldur’s Gate II (8%, 7 Votes)
($39.99 on Amazon)
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($17.48 including Baldur’s Gate and expansions on Amazon)

Next weeks poll:

What is your favourite platform for playing RPGs?

  • PC (88%, 21 Votes)
  • Playstation 3 (13%, 3 Votes)
  • Xbox 360 (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Wii (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 24

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Bioware Countdown Revealed: Bioware Bazaar

March 30, 2010 By

While I was dreaming in my sleep last night about slaying dragons and what not, the mysterious countdown timer on Bioware’s page reached zero. For those who don’t know, about a week ago Bioware placed an untitled timer on it’s main website as well as the Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins. Today the mystery is solved!

So what was realeased?

A new expansion? The announcement of Mass Effect 3? No, it is a super awesome competition to win free stuff simply by participating in community activities. It’s called:

So how to you win stuff?

The bazaar is a place you can compete in Auctions using Bioware tokens. You earn these tokens by doing stuff like signing up, registering your games and answering questions. Pretty easy yea?

The items you can auction on range from US$2,000 Mass Effect 2 computers to Bioware branded beanies and books(full list here). Auctions start on April 5 so you have around one week to get as many tokens as you can get. If you want to get started now, head over to the Bioware Bazaar. Don’t worry about having to make yet another account on yet another website again, you can simply log in using your EA Master Account and clicking the Bioware Bazaar picture at the top.

If you don’t own DAO or ME2 you can still win

Bioware have guaranteed that you won’t need to spend any money to enter this competition. If you don’t own the games that you get tokens for registering, you can simply fill out a questionnaire to prove your awesomeness and pick up the points anyway.

If you want to grab the games anyway (like me), I just picked up Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening including shipping for A$113.85. They would not let me ship DAO to Australia. I did however get it on eBay for just A$30 including shipping! If I can though I usually stick to Amazon simply because I trust the brand and they have always looked after me with troubleshooting.

To buy in a store here in Australia it would have cost me A$258.95 for all 3 games. Simple proof that it’s better to go online for your games.

For more info and to start earning tokens follow the link.

Before I go, I want to know if anyone wins an Auction next week so let’s keep everyone up to date in the comments below.

UPDATE: This competition is only available to those who live in the USA (except for New York and Florida who are also out). This is due to Bioware not making sure that the terms and conditions met competition laws of every country and state. Big stuff up by them which has resulted in quite a kerfuffle on the Bioware forums.

Bioware has promised more competitions for the excluded countries at a later date.

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