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How you can start playing Dragon Age today
Everyone knows the first and hardest part of an RPG is rolling up your character, which includes difficult decisions like what class you want to play, whether to put that last point into strength or constitution, and that most difficult decision of all: your name.
Electronic Arts and Bioware will let you get all that stuff done for Dragon Age weeks before the game is out. If you sign up for their social networking site here, you can download the character creator and then store your character online. Alternatively, just grab it straight from this link if you're not interested in crossing Dragon Age with Facebook. Either way, you'll be able to import your character directly into the game when it comes out next month.
The character creator not only gives you a thorough look at all of Dragon Age's skills and talents, but it shows off yet another one of those detailed face builders with sliders for nostril width, chin depth, and ear size. It also allows something that is completely unrealistic: women dwarves. I mean, seriously, Dragon Age? Everyone knows there was no such thing as women dwarves. There goes your credibility as a realistic fantasy game.
By Felipe 058 at 8:07 AM ON 10/14/09
It's true you don't see many dwarf women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are often mistaken for dwarf men. (It's the beards.) And this in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no dwarf women, and that dwarves just spring out of holes in the ground! Which is, of course, ridiculous.
By Cormac at 9:16 AM ON 10/14/09
Ah.. You must be Gimli, right?
By MIhos at 9:22 AM ON 10/14/09
I hope they address the lack of toilets in fantasy games. My Elf Sorcerer has been holding it for years....
Come to think of it, where are all the dwarf children? Maybe Gimli was mistaken about them springing up out of holes in the ground...
By nilus at 9:38 AM ON 10/14/09
Mlhos, Elves are all about nature and communing with spirits and stuff. IE You character poops in the forest.
Does anyone know if this works for X-box and PS3 as well or just PC? IE can I download it to my laptop and make a guy and use it on my 360.
By IntelKnight at 2:00 PM ON 10/14/09
WoW has both female dwarves and toilets.
Well, I only remember seeing outhouses in the Human villages. Elves might indeed be doing the nature thing.
By joesocwork at 12:20 AM ON 10/15/09
That may explain the opaque pixels I saw in the creator! :P
By Online Games at 9:12 AM ON 10/17/09
Dragon Age really is expanded. First a novel similar to the Mass Effect series and now this. Good to see.
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