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Dragon Age II Optimized for a Data Installation on the Xbox 360

Thank god for the mandatory installation of Dragon Age II on the PS3, you won’t have to suffer much on the frame rate and screen tearing issues on the game. As for the Xbox 360, you might want to install the full game data onto the hard drive to experience fully optimized gameplay.

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jbl3165555d ago

Man...I only have less than 2GB on my old 20GB Xbox 360 hard drive...

IHateYouFanboys5554d ago

so you havent actually saved anything on it yet? lol

i kid, i kid. i wish more companies would do OPTIONAL optimized installs for the 360. you can install every single game to the 360, but if they optimize it like they did with say Halo Reach, it will play noticeably better when installed than off the disc.

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videoxgamexfanboy5554d ago

No install should be mandatory imo. I dont wanna be forced to upgrade my hdd if i dont want to. Fortunate for me ive got over 50 gigs left on my 360 and over 100 on my ps3. Id hate to lose all that space due to forced installs.

Raider695554d ago (Edited 5554d ago )

Wend digital foundry makes the 360 VS PS3 version some people are going to see the difference!I have tested the two retail versions and one of them runs really bad!This time the demo have shown the final product!

Insanelyman5554d ago

Oh yeah and which one is it this time, the PS3 bcuz DAO was terrible on that system.

Insanelyman5554d ago (Edited 5554d ago )

Sorry double post.

maxcer5554d ago

they should make optimized installs for all 360 games now. if your too broke to buy a HDD for your 360 then you don't really deserve to have the best performance.

I have 11 games installed on my 360 atm. reduced loadtimes and the fact that the disc isn't constantly spinning are great thing to have.

I also wish digitalfoundry/lensoftruth did comparisons with games installed.

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Dragon Age Lead Says Including World State Reactivity Felt Like It Was "Irrelevant Or Not Enough"

Dragon Age 2 set the precedent that the series would always carry our choices over, but was it worth it?

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TheColbertinator75d ago

If the choices won't matter, why bother? Bioware works so hard at giving meaningful choices but rarely if ever carrying out the impact of such choices to the end.

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EA Made Dragon Age and Mass Effect DLC Free On PC By Retiring The BioWare Points System

Immersed Gamer writes: "In order to replace the oppressive BioWare Points system, EA is making a large portion of the Mass Effect and Dragon Age DLC catalogs free for PC users.

For those of you blissfully unaware, EA and BioWare employed a payment system called BioWare Points on PC to pay for DLCs for titles like Mass Effect and Dragon Age. While PC gamers have been struggling with BioWare point’s unfair conversion rates and extremely scarce and cost-detrimental sales.

Console players have been allowed to purchase content in pieces through the appropriate Sony and Microsoft shops. For real money, and not BioWare monopoly bucks. In turn, console players missed out on some DLC content, such as Mass Effect 2 pre-order bonuses that have been repackaged into a DLC pack."

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TinkerNation1409d ago

Great response to Ubisoft and their disgusting behavior. Ubisoft decide to take away DLC from people who paid for it, while EA give it for free to everyone when they realize their system sucks. Who would have thought that EA of all companies would be showing Ubisoft how it should be done (even if this is EA fixing their own mistakes as well).

Mobis-New-Nest1409d ago

What goes around comes around and I promise you, Ubisoft will see their actions blow back on them when their diminishing sales numbers and stock taking a hit downward. That's the only way a company learns when they decide to be reactive instead of proactive.

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All BioWare Games Ranked from Worst to Best

BLG writes: "There was a time that BioWare games were the biggest deal in gaming. The Canadian developer’s legacy of all-time classics is well known. Mass Effect, Knights of the Old Republic, and Baldur’s Gate are some of the biggest names in gaming.

While BioWare’s quality has fallen off lately, there’s no denying the quality of titles in their portfolio. That’s why we’re going to dive in and rank every BioWare game from worst to best. By every, I do mean every BioWare game, even the ones you completely forgot about!"

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Orbilator1568d ago

Ranked from worse to even more worse more like, they been on free fall for a fair few years now and I personally don't think any of there earlier games have aged well

autobotdan1568d ago

Wow to think at one point in their history they made a Sonic the Hedgehog game..crazy

chicken_in_the_corn1567d ago

Anthem is crazy underrated. I really enjoyed it. ME1 is Bioware's best imo

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Michiel19891567d ago

I actually put quite a bit of hours into Anthem but i dont think its underrated. It was a huge mess, server issues, gameplay issues, crashes, no endgame loop, too few different enemies, uninteresting gear. too few dungeons.

It for sure had potential and if they could have managed to keep the same gameplay of the classes but without the rest of the issues, this game could have been huge, but in the state in which it launched it was such a letdown. They partly fixed some of the issues, but it took too long. A grinding game like this needs to hook players from day 1.