Can't be long. Darkspawn to kill.

Video game RPG was never a genre that hugely appealled to me. I do like a decent storyline in a game, but I tend to prefer things to require a little less investment. But flickums gave me a copy of Dragon Age Origins and forthed about it do damn much I thought I ought to give it a go.

Took me a while to create a character. So many choices! How do you choose! Then, even worse I had to pick a name!

I've actually got really into it. Flickums got upset with me for being a brutal pragmatist at times. What can I say? There's a world to save. A few extra deaths of NPCs is a fairly minor issue in the scheme of things. I apparently completely failed to pick up several potential party members by skippping Lothering (and killed another).

Not being familiar with the genre, there was quite a bit of a learning curve. I simply had no idea how anything works, and there's quite a few conventions that are apparently common to RPGs. How important are various skills? How much effort should I put into balance? I seem to  have cocked up in a few places in learning. I largely skipped past the whole Lothering thing (I have a save from earlier so I might go back to that but I've gone way too far). My main problem is frequently gettng my ass handed to me. Also load time stinks! Why must it take so long!

So signing off. I sdeem to be trapped in a sloth demon, and need to get out.