When you get into the Tower, remember to look up and enjoy the art ;) Supporting the "J" Cam, or Tactical Cam, was quite hard to do for all environments. All our modular sets had to support the slice point where the game hid the rest of the art. This became quite tough around the more complex walls. It also had the unfortunate effect of not many players looking up at all the effort we put in our ceiling pieces ;)
Nice little tip, holding tab will show all interactable object in the area by both highlighting them and putting name above them. So if you ever wonder if you got everything, it's a easy way to check. This includes doors, codex books, chests, or anything else you can interact with.
yeah, great advice. i like to bind it to my mouse button, makes it easier to hold. plus if I'm feeling lazy, i can play the entire game with just the mouse and still highlight
There's two explanations for finding lyrium potions in Orzammar. The boring one is that they're on the standard loot list. The more interesting one is that lyrium is Orzammar's #1 export. The lyrium potions on the carta thugs aren't for use, they're an alternate currency.
Regarding the origins, they all always happens, but only the one recruited by Duncan survive... As soon as you reach ostagar they're already dead, for example had you chose another origin, the dwarf commoner would be killed by beraht instead of escaping
@@syressx9098 well on other characters SPOILER: During orzammar questline, in the carta hideout you find leske in the prison and a corpse in the other cell (the one you end up as a dwarf commoner)
One thing you do have to watch in this game is your inventory size. It fills up really quickly. There are backpacks you can purchase throughout the game that add inventory size, but it is still a good idea to periodically sell stuff you don't need (low level armor/weapons, etc,).
Well I collect everything since start of gane and put in chest in Warden Keep all items. Later on all items in chest will magicaly scale their item tier from iron ti dragon bone, so item from 20copper i can sell for 20 sverings. XD
@@rpmfla now you can "leagally" afford all best expensive items early in the game, like Andrulir Blessing and even in end game chapters in wade and heren sho0 8f you do not make an upgraded drake scale armor you can purchase unique expensive items with codex entries that way.
I think its safe to read the DLC item descriptions. The Feastday Gifts and Pranks DLC items can sort of break the game . . . you can buy them for 0 gold later from a vendor . . . they alter companion approval, basically allowing you to maximize or minimize approval insanely . . . which breaks companion dialogue by skipping over dialogue that is approval gated.
@@grimerime23 I guess, it's also useful when you have a bunch of mods that makes the game harder. I personally use Slinks Ravage, great mod but near impossible eraly game unless you use better gear from the dlc's.
A little tip mapo. You as a rogue will do backstab additional damager as a rogue if you position yourself on the opposite direction your target faces. This is especially useful if you have a tank aggro and then you flank from behind. Notice the damage numbers look bigger and then your attacks animation changes when you backstab.
Not sure if it was mentioned yet, but every character can equip two weapon sets. You can switch those by clicking the I/II button on the left side of the inventory. Easier then microing the equipment all the time. Makes me happy that you enjoy the game so much. 😊
Just as you said the detail in the tactics system is one of the highlights for me. As an example with Leske when you were manually switching between ranged and melee, you can use the tactics to have companions switch to their other weapon loadout based on if an enemy gets in to melee with them and then switch back when no longer in melee. And of course it goes even more in-depth than that.
2 tips I have for you Mapo: holding Tab button will highlight all interactable things in the game, also your quickbar can be extended, by dragging the end of it.
@38:49 _Was she there before?_ Yes, your sister was aproching you right behind Duncan in the cut-scene as you walked out the door.. I love this game and love your fresh "discovery" playthrough.
When I commented on the first video of this playthrough I forgot to say how happy I am that Mapo chose the casteless Dwarf background. 5 of the other 6 DA:O playthroughs I have watched so far were Mages and the sixth one was city elf. I really enjoyed playing all 6 different backgrounds, so I was a little disappointed when one after the other chose mage for their playthrough. It was like Vanguard in Mass Effect playthroughs. I was also very happy to see Mapo liking the tactical view and I hope he will make use of it. Also, I'm keeping it vague in order not to spoil anything, but I am really curious to see how he will react to a certain quest that has elicited strong reactions from others.
@@dirkbsilver9260 I only prefer Human Noble as canon because it makes sense for you to get Arl Howe's lands for the Grey Wardens, not to mention you are a human that understand Ferelden's politics better than Dwarves or Elves. But yeah, Dwarf Noble was my first playthrough too!
Mapo, I am really enjoying your Dragon Age series :) I found you through DAI playthrough and decided to start from DAO to see your adventures. It's such a wonderful game and world setting, and I love the pure joy you have for the game. Surprisingly rare attitude these days - and I appreciate it :D Definitely following you to see more video game adventures :)
You can in fact smack the guards head open on the metal bars like originally thought. I had that option. In think you need a higher strength score for it. I was playing a warrior so that makes sense. You can only steal from enemies in combat at the higher levels of steal. For the lower levels, you are suppose to steal from innocent NPCs, you evil evil rogue you :P
As a suggestion, if you don't mind - using dlc equipment is kinda OP at the beggining, so don't recommend using it just for nice RP reasons, you'll figure it out when to use it is ok (mid-late game) - there are gifts and the whole relatioship with companions instead of morality system (allows you to be real jerk or just "grey" character), so dlc add dlc gifts that break that system which is needed for second, third, etc playthroughs, but not for the first one, without spoilers I will say that these gifts cost 0 coins. Gifts that are found thoughout the game are "canon" tho.
I love that you got to see a finisher so early on. They're so unnecessary but so cool and satisfying for action flavor. A protip for the hotbar, for later when you get more actions and items to add to it: you can click and drag the very end of it (where there are 3 horizontal lines) and extend or shorten it. Makes it easier to manage multiple actions later on in the game.
Well, functionally they add nothing to the combat. You don't do extra damage or dodge more during a finisher, it's there only for flavor and the cool factor. Which I mentioned. So yes, they are unnecessary, they're just cool to look at. And I never said was a bad thing.
@@destinykazuya depends on the person, for me they're necessary because of the cool factor (you mentioned) they bring. I even installed a mod that forces them to occur everytime.
@@busanikingz3453 Sure but, see, I would find that excessive, though. I prefer them being sparse because they're that much more special when they do happen if they're not always guaranteed. Also, no matter how cool they are, I would eventually end up not liking them as much because they're not really short. Fighting a mob of 7 enemies and, each time you kill one of them, going into a finisher that keeps your character unresponsive for a few seconds before you can move to attack a new one would slow down combat significantly. I usually find myself coming back to a quote from Chuck whenever I talk about stuff that exists just for the cool factor: "If everything is awesome, and there is no unawesome, then awesome by definition is just mediocre". Cool is cool because it's special, not if it's mundane. It was cool to me that Mapo saw his first finisher so soon because I've always seen one the first time much later in the game. Didn't know you could get one in the origin story.
In case it hasn’t been mentioned - you can equip 2 sets of weapons to each character eg. Melee and range. The smaller sword icon above your main weapon in the equipment screen allows you to switch between the two sets so you dont have to swap weapons manually during combat. Anyway, loving the playthrough! This was the game that introduced me to Bioware and I have finished it many many times, done all the intro stories. Its a journey I am definitely along the ride for. Have fun!
MELL WET 😂😂 gets me everytime! Was never really interested in Dragon Age - didn’t know much about it and didn’t care. But seeing you play so much of it, I decided to give your LP a go, and I’m so glad I did. It’s a good time!!
Ok seriously I lost it when I heard you say "I here by resign from the grey wardens and want to join the ash warriors to ride my stead into battle" it got me good!! LOL Anyways love your content!! :)
Love to see another person experiencing this gem of a game for the first time🔥 I hope this helps but getting behind an enemy for rogues can inflict backstabs which does critical damage a good thing to remember but love that your getting the combat down hope this series does well man keep up the good content 🤙🏽🔥
All the other backgrounds are happening as you do your origin, however they don't have Duncan to save them and never make it to Ostagar. "kill the dog" the beginning of the kill all companions run. Dunno if you've recorded past this, but buy the backpack before coming back as his inventory resets after you return, gets you 20 more inventory space before leaving ostagar.
On most days I consider this my favorite game. The banter and the world building are hard to beat - and I actually really like the combat on the highest difficulty.
Fun Fact: All 7 background stories (when you create a character) happen at the same time. But Duncan only saves whichever character you chose for your background. The other 6 background characters die.
Nice i can`t wait for next part) Couple hint for you: 1) You can set 2 weapon set for each character and companion. On left hight corner i equipment screen you can switch between weapons set. Same switch you can see on quick bar so you can easy switch durig fight ( for example between melle and range). But take a notice that with default Tactic profile character will be switch weapons automatically if you not control it. and 2) do not waste point on crafting because companions can do it for you. But persuade can do only main character.
I just started watching this playthrough and am excited to visit this game again. I have to admit that I was IN LOVE with Alistair when I played this years ago and was actually devastated when he divorced me right before the game ended. Havent been able to play this since :D
Very interesting to see this after watching playthrough with a sorcerer. The difference between the start areas and especially the information you get about the world is great.
I like that you are willing to try and role play from the actual perspective of your character. Recognizing that if you were such a super goody virtuous person you never would be as well off in opportunity as you are. It is all too common, that no matter the origin I always see players reacting as if they were a human noble good guy. No deviance, and no thinking like a dwarf might. Acting a bit meta with the grey warden bit.. but.. yeah. Pretty arrogant to call Alistair the newbie and assume your better than him, when he is your senior. Although I'm sure you were just joking.
3:15 I recommend to not use the DLC gear at all (and not just in DAO, but also in DA2 and Inquisition). The gear is massively overpowered and allows you to use equiment of endgame level quality right from the start which completely destroys the game balance. Or if you decide to use the gear at least ramp up the difficulty to Nightmare to avoid that the enemies become total pushovers. 9:45 An interesting but really bad idea. Combat is your main source of XP, with a few additional XP earned by completing quests, disarming traps and picking locks. If you don't fight you'll not really be able to level up. 15:55 Of course it is not a scripted stealth escape. Don't forget that the Dwarven Commoner background is also open to warriors. Your character is only capable of stealth because you picked rogue as class and stealth as skill. If you had picked a warrior or a rogue with different skills (like dual wield combat skills for example) you wouldn't be able to stealth at all (mages and warriors cannot pick any of the rogue skills). A scripted stealth escape wouldn't make much sense when like 80 % of the players wouldn't be able to do it because they can't stealth.
i hate this devs' lazyness of just dumping all the dlc gear into your inventory right away. cmon, they know their game structure - couldn't they put some triggers at least for after the prologue or some lvl req?
I don't think it was laziness. I got the sense that the dlc gear was something mandated from upper management/marketing. Remember, for the most part this was promotional dlc that you initially could only get from pre-ordering the game from different retailers. I'm sure most of the programmers/devs wanted to focus on the core game and experience over something like promo dlc that they thought only a fraction of players would have access to. Considering how big the game is and how solid an experience it is, I'm glad they focused on that. For me at least, having the dlc gear in your inventory at the beginning is a minor nuisance I'm willing to deal with for a game as good as this one.
@@CdrTWrex that's not a problem if you are as self aware as mapo and choose to ignore this stuff. if not though then it ruins the intended experience - you get top notch gear and or tons of money and tons of gifts to boost party disposition with no challenge. reminds me of morrowind goty where you get db assassins at lvl one who you inevitably kill and get best armor in the game or tons of money. it's easily avoidable by either ignoring the loot and progressing the quest, installing a mod to delay them or simply turning the esm file manually. but that's if you know the game. and you only blind play the game once, so catch 22. this should've been implemented in the code initially.
@@CdrTWrex yeah, whoever made the choice to add the dlc items didn't care about balance. Some of the fine but others are overkill fir the start. Not so bad fir the stat requirements but jewelry don't really have any.
So little detail for anyone curious, but there are 3 bugs that mod pack doesn't touch. Bug 1+2) if Mapo had the DLC items on before this they would all be lost. In game you are meant to get them back at the gear chest, but the DLC and Achievement (Insanity difficulty expansion completions) will not be returned. Similarly the Dwarvern Noble and I *think* the elven commoner also have this issue. It's good to accidently find out how to avoid this. Bug 3) during the Wardens keep expansion a critical quest breaking bug can occur where the important mage character doesn't quite make it to where he's meant to be and the next step doesn't trigger. to fix this, bring a mage with fireball and use it to push him into the weird circle. you need fireball as it's the only AOE spell with friendly fire knockback and you can therefore throw him to where he should be.
i'd love to see you play dragon age 2 and inquisition aswell. although DA2 isn't a great game due to how rushed they were in production, it's still very enjoyable and not nearly as long as the other two games. and inquisition is just great, even though there's much less true roleplaying and diverging paths
38:50 you can act see her coming with Duncan and the gang lol. Also, you would like to place chars behind enemy back to make autocrit, esp ones with daggers and axes
It is good that you did not enable the DLC items till after the imprisonment as they would be "stolen" by the game. Both Dwarf origins have this happen so if you play again as a Dwarf, turn them off till after you are picked up by Duncan.
A little late to the party here, so I don't know if Mapo will actually see this, but with armor be aware that beyond the stats that each item will give you, in this game there is an overall "Set Bonus" that you can have if you equip item from the same "type" of armor (i.e Leather Boots, Leather Helm, etc). Just at the part where you equipped the Dwarven Armored Boots, which (compared to the Leather Boots in a vacuum) offer more protection, but when you equipped them your Set Bonus went away because the Armored Boots are made of Iron (not Leather, like all your other equipped armor). So, in all likelihood, your overall defense rating is now worse. Just something to keep in mind. Also, you'll know if you have a Set Bonus because an Icon will show up next to your character in the Equipment Screen.
... I killed the dog my first PT 😅 I didn't want to, but I was so sure it would attack me haha. And I always laugh when hearing your dwarfs name. Mapo Brosca - MaBro 😂😂
I'm playing a table top RPG called Blue Rose as a sort of orc like race called Night People they were genetically engineered by the demons but aren't inherently evil although because my character needed a dump stat he is as dumb as a box of rocks (or at least a dead loss academically) although he's also quite charismatic and articulate. There's also some equivalent in Dragon Age but you'll get to that fairly soon.
While fantasy is made to fantastical at the end of the day it's being created by a human. So it can be difficult to completely remove some storytelling aspects of that. If you're a DnD fan you'd know there was some dialogue on this topic a while back.
There are a few pieces that are DLC, but a kajority of what I see in his inventory now is from a mod. You can see the difference in the art style. I would say it is overpowered in the early game, but combat difficulty spikes are basically this entire game.
33:45 This is why i hate the dlc items in dao and why i never install them if i don't have to. They're all completely OP and ruin the game. It would have been so much better if they'd just integrated these items into the game in loot you find in the normal game, or through extra side quests like soldier's peak or return to ostagar. But now, just giving them at the beginning is completely ridiculous. A duster dwarf, a city or dalish elf, a new tower mage, or even a human noble shouldn't start with a ton of powerful magical items, weapons, armour, etc.
Just gonna post this now if you care about it, but once youre done with all the linear intro parts of the game and it opens up, there actually is an order youre supposed to do things that bioware thought ppl would pick up on, but they didnt, and had to tell people the order, so if you want to know: >Circle Tower >Redcliffe >Brecilian Forest >Haven
What? I always did Redcliffe/Haven first, then the Brecilian Forest, then the Circle and then Orzammar. There's no correct order. You can even start Redcliffe, go to the Circle to get mages, and then finish Recliffe. I've never seen any indication of where we should go first, in fact I first went to Recliffe (and then always went there first) because that's what Alistair suggests if you ask him, since he's related to Arl Eamon.
@@Calabresa022yes you *can* but bioware did put out an intended order shortly after released cuz players were getting wrecked when trying to do forest or orzammar first
@@soledsnak6632 I think the Forest is easier than the Circle though, I still get the shivers just by thinking about the Fade. But yeah, Orzammar is tough, the first time I did it I almost gave up, the Deep Roads is too long and the Broodmother is terrifying
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When you get into the Tower, remember to look up and enjoy the art ;) Supporting the "J" Cam, or Tactical Cam, was quite hard to do for all environments. All our modular sets had to support the slice point where the game hid the rest of the art. This became quite tough around the more complex walls. It also had the unfortunate effect of not many players looking up at all the effort we put in our ceiling pieces ;)
mister, I must say, I love your game
@@fromdusktilldusk2856 I think it would re-sell very well if it was updated to modern resolutions and lighting solutions.
Oh wow, now I have to start a new character just to look at that ceiling :D I had no idea you can do that
Well time to start another playthrough to enjoy this facet. Thank you for your work on one of the best RPGs ever!
Yep, time to download this one again. 🔥
I can't express the joy I feel watching Mapo gleefully running around the hideout in stealth exclaiming how great the game is. 😂
This is my favorite video game of all time. I don’t know this streamer but he’s gained a fan from how much he is appreciating this masterwork!
@@lyricmezzosoprano5357 He is absolutely the best reactor ever! From an Egghead lover😉
Nice little tip, holding tab will show all interactable object in the area by both highlighting them and putting name above them. So if you ever wonder if you got everything, it's a easy way to check.
This includes doors, codex books, chests, or anything else you can interact with.
yeah, great advice. i like to bind it to my mouse button, makes it easier to hold. plus if I'm feeling lazy, i can play the entire game with just the mouse and still highlight
I play this game since the release 🤣 i put my fingers on the keyboard instictively every time
There's two explanations for finding lyrium potions in Orzammar.
The boring one is that they're on the standard loot list.
The more interesting one is that lyrium is Orzammar's #1 export. The lyrium potions on the carta thugs aren't for use, they're an alternate currency.
"not the jalapeno juice with tequila shot"
Knowing the joining this phrase made me lol
LOL same here, all I could think was "if only"
Regarding the origins, they all always happens, but only the one recruited by Duncan survive... As soon as you reach ostagar they're already dead, for example had you chose another origin, the dwarf commoner would be killed by beraht instead of escaping
Not sure about Beraht, but other dwarfs for breaking the law? For sure
@@syressx9098 well on other characters SPOILER:
During orzammar questline, in the carta hideout you find leske in the prison and a corpse in the other cell (the one you end up as a dwarf commoner)
Dude you do know this is a huge spoiler right?
@@dsilvermane0 even if, it is an insignificant one... More of a "fun fact" really
@@dsilvermane0 even if this were a "spoiler" its not DEFENETLY not a "huge" one lmfao
I envy those who've yet to play all dragon age games...
Can't wait to watch you play the whole series, Mapo, keep it up🥺🌟
One thing you do have to watch in this game is your inventory size. It fills up really quickly. There are backpacks you can purchase throughout the game that add inventory size, but it is still a good idea to periodically sell stuff you don't need (low level armor/weapons, etc,).
He plays on normal? so traps, special arrows, potions also for sale..
Stash health, mana potions and injury removal packs only
Well I collect everything since start of gane and put in chest in Warden Keep all items. Later on all items in chest will magicaly scale their item tier from iron ti dragon bone, so item from 20copper i can sell for 20 sverings. XD
@@daxxad6 Wow! I played this game many times and I never knew that items scale up in that way. Good to know for future plays.
@@rpmfla now you can "leagally" afford all best expensive items early in the game, like Andrulir Blessing and even in end game chapters in wade and heren sho0 8f you do not make an upgraded drake scale armor you can purchase unique expensive items with codex entries that way.
I think its safe to read the DLC item descriptions. The Feastday Gifts and Pranks DLC items can sort of break the game . . . you can buy them for 0 gold later from a vendor . . . they alter companion approval, basically allowing you to maximize or minimize approval insanely . . . which breaks companion dialogue by skipping over dialogue that is approval gated.
It's the same with the starting items, it breaks combat by making the character way op early on. I always remove the bonus dlc's because of it.
@@Skumtomten1 but it makes the grind of getting through the start way quicker, useful when you've played all the origins at least 3 times over
@@grimerime23 I guess, it's also useful when you have a bunch of mods that makes the game harder. I personally use Slinks Ravage, great mod but near impossible eraly game unless you use better gear from the dlc's.
The pranks and gifts fantastic as long as you give them both gifts at once. That way their loyalty isn't affected.
So glad to see someone playing a dwarf!
Your playthrough has been invaluable for easy listening while sewing mages robes! Thank you.
A little tip mapo. You as a rogue will do backstab additional damager as a rogue if you position yourself on the opposite direction your target faces. This is especially useful if you have a tank aggro and then you flank from behind. Notice the damage numbers look bigger and then your attacks animation changes when you backstab.
Whats sleep? Theres no sleep when theres DA:O to be watched, lemme tell you.
time zones are fun! It’s 10 in the morning here in Germany
Not sure if it was mentioned yet, but every character can equip two weapon sets. You can switch those by clicking the I/II button on the left side of the inventory. Easier then microing the equipment all the time.
Makes me happy that you enjoy the game so much. 😊
I don't quite remember if they tell you but you can set 2 weapon loadouts. So you can switch between ranged and melee if you want some variety.
Just as you said the detail in the tactics system is one of the highlights for me. As an example with Leske when you were manually switching between ranged and melee, you can use the tactics to have companions switch to their other weapon loadout based on if an enemy gets in to melee with them and then switch back when no longer in melee. And of course it goes even more in-depth than that.
2 tips I have for you Mapo: holding Tab button will highlight all interactable things in the game, also your quickbar can be extended, by dragging the end of it.
@38:49 _Was she there before?_
Yes, your sister was aproching you right behind Duncan in the cut-scene as you walked out the door.. I love this game and love your fresh "discovery" playthrough.
When I commented on the first video of this playthrough I forgot to say how happy I am that Mapo chose the casteless Dwarf background.
5 of the other 6 DA:O playthroughs I have watched so far were Mages and the sixth one was city elf.
I really enjoyed playing all 6 different backgrounds, so I was a little disappointed when one after the other chose mage for their playthrough. It was like Vanguard in Mass Effect playthroughs.
I was also very happy to see Mapo liking the tactical view and I hope he will make use of it.
Also, I'm keeping it vague in order not to spoil anything, but I am really curious to see how he will react to a certain quest that has elicited strong reactions from others.
I love the Dwarven Noble origin, but my headcanon is still Human Noble for the Awakening DLC
@@Calabresa022 dwarf noble for me is canon.🤠👍It was my first playthrough. A fun run for sure. But castless dwarf is almost as fun.
@@dirkbsilver9260 I only prefer Human Noble as canon because it makes sense for you to get Arl Howe's lands for the Grey Wardens, not to mention you are a human that understand Ferelden's politics better than Dwarves or Elves. But yeah, Dwarf Noble was my first playthrough too!
I can’t believe I just realized that the VA for Alistair is the same guy as Harry Flynn from Uncharted 2😂
Mapo, I am really enjoying your Dragon Age series :) I found you through DAI playthrough and decided to start from DAO to see your adventures. It's such a wonderful game and world setting, and I love the pure joy you have for the game. Surprisingly rare attitude these days - and I appreciate it :D Definitely following you to see more video game adventures :)
Between calling Duncan "Dad" and the "mel wet", I'm laughing way too much during this playthru
*cough* Backstabs! *cough cough* :-) - Amazing series, thank you for uploading! I like that you are not using the DLC items - good choice.
You can extend the quick bar by dragging it from the edge to the right
You can in fact smack the guards head open on the metal bars like originally thought. I had that option. In think you need a higher strength score for it. I was playing a warrior so that makes sense. You can only steal from enemies in combat at the higher levels of steal. For the lower levels, you are suppose to steal from innocent NPCs, you evil evil rogue you :P
As a suggestion, if you don't mind
- using dlc equipment is kinda OP at the beggining, so don't recommend using it just for nice RP reasons, you'll figure it out when to use it is ok (mid-late game)
- there are gifts and the whole relatioship with companions instead of morality system (allows you to be real jerk or just "grey" character), so dlc add dlc gifts that break that system which is needed for second, third, etc playthroughs, but not for the first one, without spoilers I will say that these gifts cost 0 coins. Gifts that are found thoughout the game are "canon" tho.
I love that you got to see a finisher so early on. They're so unnecessary but so cool and satisfying for action flavor.
A protip for the hotbar, for later when you get more actions and items to add to it: you can click and drag the very end of it (where there are 3 horizontal lines) and extend or shorten it. Makes it easier to manage multiple actions later on in the game.
I didn't even know this... time to replay!
Finishers are unnecessary? It's one of my favorite things to see in combat, especially against Ogres and larger enemies
Well, functionally they add nothing to the combat. You don't do extra damage or dodge more during a finisher, it's there only for flavor and the cool factor. Which I mentioned. So yes, they are unnecessary, they're just cool to look at. And I never said was a bad thing.
@@destinykazuya depends on the person, for me they're necessary because of the cool factor (you mentioned) they bring. I even installed a mod that forces them to occur everytime.
@@busanikingz3453 Sure but, see, I would find that excessive, though. I prefer them being sparse because they're that much more special when they do happen if they're not always guaranteed. Also, no matter how cool they are, I would eventually end up not liking them as much because they're not really short. Fighting a mob of 7 enemies and, each time you kill one of them, going into a finisher that keeps your character unresponsive for a few seconds before you can move to attack a new one would slow down combat significantly.
I usually find myself coming back to a quote from Chuck whenever I talk about stuff that exists just for the cool factor: "If everything is awesome, and there is no unawesome, then awesome by definition is just mediocre". Cool is cool because it's special, not if it's mundane. It was cool to me that Mapo saw his first finisher so soon because I've always seen one the first time much later in the game. Didn't know you could get one in the origin story.
The Mabari are BAD-ASS man... absolutely powerful warriors in their own regards.
“What a beautiful day to be a dwarf”, as he walks up to the joining meeting” oh the innocence 😂
In case it hasn’t been mentioned - you can equip 2 sets of weapons to each character eg. Melee and range. The smaller sword icon above your main weapon in the equipment screen allows you to switch between the two sets so you dont have to swap weapons manually during combat.
Anyway, loving the playthrough! This was the game that introduced me to Bioware and I have finished it many many times, done all the intro stories. Its a journey I am definitely along the ride for.
Have fun!
I’d love to see your reaction to the other origins one day!
"Mell wet."
Liked and shared.
The regret about an unpleasant shot is so hilariously inacurately accurate😂
MELL WET 😂😂 gets me everytime!
Was never really interested in Dragon Age - didn’t know much about it and didn’t care. But seeing you play so much of it, I decided to give your LP a go, and I’m so glad I did. It’s a good time!!
Ok seriously I lost it when I heard you say "I here by resign from the grey wardens and want to join the ash warriors to ride my stead into battle" it got me good!! LOL Anyways love your content!! :)
Sucks that's not an option
Love to see another person experiencing this gem of a game for the first time🔥 I hope this helps but getting behind an enemy for rogues can inflict backstabs which does critical damage a good thing to remember but love that your getting the combat down hope this series does well man keep up the good content 🤙🏽🔥
All the other backgrounds are happening as you do your origin, however they don't have Duncan to save them and never make it to Ostagar. "kill the dog" the beginning of the kill all companions run.
Dunno if you've recorded past this, but buy the backpack before coming back as his inventory resets after you return, gets you 20 more inventory space before leaving ostagar.
On most days I consider this my favorite game. The banter and the world building are hard to beat - and I actually really like the combat on the highest difficulty.
I thought you won't meet Alistair in this episode and I'm so glad you did. I missed him. Looking forward to the next episode :)
I know I'm late to the party but I have to applaud your decision to go with a dwarf rogue.
Fun Fact: All 7 background stories (when you create a character) happen at the same time. But Duncan only saves whichever character you chose for your background. The other 6 background characters die.
Nice i can`t wait for next part) Couple hint for you: 1) You can set 2 weapon set for each character and companion. On left hight corner i equipment screen you can switch between weapons set. Same switch you can see on quick bar so you can easy switch durig fight ( for example between melle and range). But take a notice that with default Tactic profile character will be switch weapons automatically if you not control it. and 2) do not waste point on crafting because companions can do it for you. But persuade can do only main character.
btw, buy all the backpacks you can get your hands on
and you stop right before the part im waiting to see! love the series, cant wait for the next one.
Reading the codex: "King Cailan...umm....King Cailan." 😆
Here’s a tip: you can actually drag your quick bar all the way to the right if you want more space
I love your play throughs!! You’re so funny! Thanks for giving DA a shot it’s my fav game series!
To this day I sometimes automatically say "thank the Maker" instead of "thank god" :D I have no intention of fighting this habit.
I just started watching this playthrough and am excited to visit this game again. I have to admit that I was IN LOVE with Alistair when I played this years ago and was actually devastated when he divorced me right before the game ended. Havent been able to play this since :D
Very interesting to see this after watching playthrough with a sorcerer. The difference between the start areas and especially the information you get about the world is great.
I've noticed that Duncan's VA is the same VA as Altair's assassin master, Al Mualim. So cool
The story of lathius seems to be a reimagining of Cuchulain and probably some other story and legend
I like that you are willing to try and role play from the actual perspective of your character. Recognizing that if you were such a super goody virtuous person you never would be as well off in opportunity as you are. It is all too common, that no matter the origin I always see players reacting as if they were a human noble good guy. No deviance, and no thinking like a dwarf might.
Acting a bit meta with the grey warden bit.. but.. yeah.
Pretty arrogant to call Alistair the newbie and assume your better than him, when he is your senior. Although I'm sure you were just joking.
3:15 I recommend to not use the DLC gear at all (and not just in DAO, but also in DA2 and Inquisition). The gear is massively overpowered and allows you to use equiment of endgame level quality right from the start which completely destroys the game balance.
Or if you decide to use the gear at least ramp up the difficulty to Nightmare to avoid that the enemies become total pushovers.
9:45 An interesting but really bad idea. Combat is your main source of XP, with a few additional XP earned by completing quests, disarming traps and picking locks. If you don't fight you'll not really be able to level up.
15:55 Of course it is not a scripted stealth escape. Don't forget that the Dwarven Commoner background is also open to warriors. Your character is only capable of stealth because you picked rogue as class and stealth as skill. If you had picked a warrior or a rogue with different skills (like dual wield combat skills for example) you wouldn't be able to stealth at all (mages and warriors cannot pick any of the rogue skills). A scripted stealth escape wouldn't make much sense when like 80 % of the players wouldn't be able to do it because they can't stealth.
i hate this devs' lazyness of just dumping all the dlc gear into your inventory right away. cmon, they know their game structure - couldn't they put some triggers at least for after the prologue or some lvl req?
I don't think it was laziness. I got the sense that the dlc gear was something mandated from upper management/marketing. Remember, for the most part this was promotional dlc that you initially could only get from pre-ordering the game from different retailers. I'm sure most of the programmers/devs wanted to focus on the core game and experience over something like promo dlc that they thought only a fraction of players would have access to. Considering how big the game is and how solid an experience it is, I'm glad they focused on that. For me at least, having the dlc gear in your inventory at the beginning is a minor nuisance I'm willing to deal with for a game as good as this one.
@@CdrTWrex that's not a problem if you are as self aware as mapo and choose to ignore this stuff. if not though then it ruins the intended experience - you get top notch gear and or tons of money and tons of gifts to boost party disposition with no challenge. reminds me of morrowind goty where you get db assassins at lvl one who you inevitably kill and get best armor in the game or tons of money. it's easily avoidable by either ignoring the loot and progressing the quest, installing a mod to delay them or simply turning the esm file manually. but that's if you know the game. and you only blind play the game once, so catch 22. this should've been implemented in the code initially.
@@CdrTWrex yeah, whoever made the choice to add the dlc items didn't care about balance. Some of the fine but others are overkill fir the start. Not so bad fir the stat requirements but jewelry don't really have any.
small tip: you can backstab by attacking enemies from behind
Why is "Mell Wett" so funny to me 😆
I really love the Ostagar music
So little detail for anyone curious, but there are 3 bugs that mod pack doesn't touch.
Bug 1+2) if Mapo had the DLC items on before this they would all be lost. In game you are meant to get them back at the gear chest, but the DLC and Achievement (Insanity difficulty expansion completions) will not be returned.
Similarly the Dwarvern Noble and I *think* the elven commoner also have this issue. It's good to accidently find out how to avoid this.
Bug 3) during the Wardens keep expansion a critical quest breaking bug can occur where the important mage character doesn't quite make it to where he's meant to be and the next step doesn't trigger. to fix this, bring a mage with fireball and use it to push him into the weird circle. you need fireball as it's the only AOE spell with friendly fire knockback and you can therefore throw him to where he should be.
ehh... watch you play raised memories... ok... downloading Origins again :D
Been following you with the resident evil games, currently running gos an now this old classic game. Love the content please keeping on gaming.
i'd love to see you play dragon age 2 and inquisition aswell. although DA2 isn't a great game due to how rushed they were in production, it's still very enjoyable and not nearly as long as the other two games.
and inquisition is just great, even though there's much less true roleplaying and diverging paths
Thank you, using the UI scaling mod makes things much more readable on RUclips (compression on very fine text looks really bad)!
playing this again lmao it never gets old
38:50 you can act see her coming with Duncan and the gang lol.
Also, you would like to place chars behind enemy back to make autocrit, esp ones with daggers and axes
IIRC there's a "Go to click" that will allow you to move multiple party members in parallel.
To be fair the story in the codex is actually pretty much coopted story of Cú Chulainn from Irish Mythology.
“Queen Aioli” lmao
It is good that you did not enable the DLC items till after the imprisonment as they would be "stolen" by the game. Both Dwarf origins have this happen so if you play again as a Dwarf, turn them off till after you are picked up by Duncan.
I have so many games just waiting to be played and the only thing I want to do is play the Dragon Age series again.
Alister is my FAVORITE character in this game. Love him.
1:17:03 I was really caught off guard by how much I couldn't un-see this as being so similar to that meme with Tyler One.
Oouuu boy this is gonna be a fun let's play :)
A little late to the party here, so I don't know if Mapo will actually see this, but with armor be aware that beyond the stats that each item will give you, in this game there is an overall "Set Bonus" that you can have if you equip item from the same "type" of armor (i.e Leather Boots, Leather Helm, etc). Just at the part where you equipped the Dwarven Armored Boots, which (compared to the Leather Boots in a vacuum) offer more protection, but when you equipped them your Set Bonus went away because the Armored Boots are made of Iron (not Leather, like all your other equipped armor). So, in all likelihood, your overall defense rating is now worse. Just something to keep in mind. Also, you'll know if you have a Set Bonus because an Icon will show up next to your character in the Equipment Screen.
Mell Wet! Love it!
Focus on one enemy at the time and also yiu have increased hit snd crit chance when attacking an enemy from their back arc.
I've always played on console, I recently tried on my laptop, but it crashes after a while, also I can't seem to get mods to work
Have you Played Divinity ? Now THAT game is amazing. More strategic playing than Dragon Age but both amazing games !
Nope. It's less strategy, and just not as good period.
@@volourn9764 that’s not true at all, but okay
The tragedy of being a theif and not stealing all over ostagar
... I killed the dog my first PT 😅 I didn't want to, but I was so sure it would attack me haha. And I always laugh when hearing your dwarfs name. Mapo Brosca - MaBro 😂😂
I've always kinda wondered, why were we never able to summon demons despite most blood mages having the ability to summon them.
Such a great game
24:00 Dwarves mine lyrium.
Alliastar is the best boy 🥰
You're a rogue, I don't think you will need any shield.
edit: in fact he will, for Alistair.
Just like he'll need them lyrium potions for the mages companions
that water might be Dwarven Piss For mouth wash
I do wonder if there’s a gungan mod for this now
this game plays Massefect with Compsnions Hrlping u out
I'm playing a table top RPG called Blue Rose as a sort of orc like race called Night People they were genetically engineered by the demons but aren't inherently evil although because my character needed a dump stat he is as dumb as a box of rocks (or at least a dead loss academically) although he's also quite charismatic and articulate. There's also some equivalent in Dragon Age but you'll get to that fairly soon.
This is my favourite game, so happy to see you play it! Can’t wait to see your next video. 🫶🏻🖤🙌🏻
While fantasy is made to fantastical at the end of the day it's being created by a human. So it can be difficult to completely remove some storytelling aspects of that. If you're a DnD fan you'd know there was some dialogue on this topic a while back.
The topsider is luthias?
Is the gear DLC or a mod?
I don’t remember having all of those extra items just dropped in the inventory from DLC....
It is all DLC
There are a few pieces that are DLC, but a kajority of what I see in his inventory now is from a mod. You can see the difference in the art style. I would say it is overpowered in the early game, but combat difficulty spikes are basically this entire game.
@geoffrey cannon It is quite literally all DLC lol
I hope you figure out how to pet the doggie later
33:45 This is why i hate the dlc items in dao and why i never install them if i don't have to. They're all completely OP and ruin the game. It would have been so much better if they'd just integrated these items into the game in loot you find in the normal game, or through extra side quests like soldier's peak or return to ostagar.
But now, just giving them at the beginning is completely ridiculous. A duster dwarf, a city or dalish elf, a new tower mage, or even a human noble shouldn't start with a ton of powerful magical items, weapons, armour, etc.
Oh god just use the gear,while it's good at this point it's just taking up valuable inventory space. And honestly it's not op enough to not used.
Game will be easier if you hold Tab all the time, you miss do much of codex entries and so on
I wouldn’t use the dlc gear because it’s overpowered and doesn’t make any story sense for your character to have it. It unbalances the progression
"I didn't know dwarves could be Grey Wardens." ... really? 😮💨😮💨😮💨
Well, he explained why he thought that right after.
@@SolProxy yeah, but it means he forgot the open cinematic and why Duncan is in the dwarven city. It happens, though.
Just gonna post this now if you care about it, but once youre done with all the linear intro parts of the game and it opens up, there actually is an order youre supposed to do things that bioware thought ppl would pick up on, but they didnt, and had to tell people the order, so if you want to know:
>Circle Tower
>Redcliffe
>Brecilian Forest
>Haven
What? I always did Redcliffe/Haven first, then the Brecilian Forest, then the Circle and then Orzammar. There's no correct order. You can even start Redcliffe, go to the Circle to get mages, and then finish Recliffe. I've never seen any indication of where we should go first, in fact I first went to Recliffe (and then always went there first) because that's what Alistair suggests if you ask him, since he's related to Arl Eamon.
@@Calabresa022yes you *can* but bioware did put out an intended order shortly after released cuz players were getting wrecked when trying to do forest or orzammar first
@@soledsnak6632 I think the Forest is easier than the Circle though, I still get the shivers just by thinking about the Fade. But yeah, Orzammar is tough, the first time I did it I almost gave up, the Deep Roads is too long and the Broodmother is terrifying
@@Calabresa022 maybe but the circle is where you get wynne so having a healer really makes the game easier lol
@@soledsnak6632 That's a fair point, although I always got by using Morrigan as a healer, not to mention it's nicer to look at Morrigan than Wynne :P