Posted 08/21/09 08:10 (GMT) by Chris Priestly
If you want to see a bit more of teh Koln Games Convention, I have put up some pictures on the Community Flickr account here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13246991@N08/sets/
There are plenty of shots of the Dragon Age: Origins show booth and some of the OCmmunity lounge DAO area in Day 2.
I forget what we allowed the fans on the show floor to play. If you are invited to the Community Lounge, you have your choice of ALL of the origin stories.
As to the "rumor" of no overhead view on the 360, I also did not know it was a rumor. It is correct that it is not available in teh Xbox 360 version. I heard Mike Laidlaw, Lead Designer, explain it as a technical reason due to memory. If we had included the top down tactical view, it would have drastically eaten up memory to the point we would have had, at best, 1 enemy on screen at a time. we chose to sacrifice the top down view to keep combat more entertaining (and lethal).
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