Dragon Age--spending my hard earned money

[cyrano]

There will be updatey updateyness eventually, once I've slowed my roll (or whatever the kids these days are calling it), but in the meantime I am lacking in Premium Content for Dragon Age and want other gamers to tell me their experiences; what has your experience been, and what would you recommend acquiring?

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[tersa.livejournal.com]

I read and re-read and then read your comment again, waffled about responding, changed my mind, and dithered again.

Now I am. :)

Basically, I don't understand what you said, in terms of what the issue is and how it pertained to my comment about the patch fixing a lot of the more annoying bugs. It sounds like you're talking about some specific bug, except I'm not familiar with it or why it would involve uninstalling anything (if you've already got Awakenings installed)?

[roisnoir.livejournal.com]

There's some weirdness with the various patches and DLC where I can't seem to have the DLC installed if I want to play Awakening off the disk. It crashes, and takes down the whole system with it.

I play on a PS3, and the PSN store didn't update with Awakening right away, and rather than wait, I wandered over to GameStop and picked it up on disk the first day, rather than waiting to download it.

[tersa.livejournal.com]

I also play PS3, for common ground reference. :)

Is the DLC you're referring to the DLC version of Awakening, or the other add-on DLCs?

My own experience: I downloaded and installed RtO, Soldier's Peak, and The Stone Prisoner prior to playing Awakenings off the disk a couple weeks after it came out, and didn't have any crashes (outside of the normal ones I experience in any PS3 game on occasion--I blame the fact that I have the original PS3 console). I haven't played Awakenings since DSC or Leliana's Song have come out, though.

But I wouldn't be surprised if there might be problems with the DLCs if you've re-installed them maybe relating to the order the patches were applied in.

I just got my Awakenings disk back from a friend, and was planning on playing it again sometime in the near future. Would you like me to try and come back here and let you know if I get a greater number of crashes playing it this time around, with all the DLCs installed and patch 1.04, for reference's sake? Or is that more info than you'd necessarily want/need? :)

[roisnoir.livejournal.com]

All I know is that after Darkspawn Chronicles came out, I couldn't play Awakening without uninstalling everything, and repatching the main game.
As long as I don't reinstall the DLC, it works. Once I do that (I did it all at once, because I could), Awakening stops working.

I'll have to go through the process again, because there's a cut scene I want to try to make into an icon, but I'm going to wait because it's a pain in the butt.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Oo, speaking of icons. I see that people have pretty pictures from the game. Is there an easy way to get simple jpgs or something? I have screenshots but there doesn't seem to be a way to export them out of the game, and I logged in to my account online and it only seems to have the preset icon pictures. Am I trying too hard?

[tersa.livejournal.com]

I think the pretty pictures are screenshots people have taken of the game through their PC. Or there's a tool for it. Try talking to S--, I know she was taking screen caps of her games. :)

Sadly, I haven't yet figured out how to do so within PS3, although I've seen suggestions it might be possible. :P I think the console users literally take photos of their TV screens to get their caps, a trick I may try at a later date (I so want a cap of Asha at one particular point in the game that, thankfully, was at a prompt so I could keep it up on the screen for a while--the imagery was so f'ing beautiful).

[roisnoir.livejournal.com]

I take photos of the screen. Since I can't seem to hold a camera still, nor does my camera focus well in low-light situations, I wind up taking LOTS of photos, to fairly meh results.

Someone, somewhere, will figure out how to take screencaps on a console, and I'll be a very happy woman.

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Someone, somewhere, will figure out how to take screencaps on a console, and I'll be a very happy woman.

Me too!

I should really try harder to research that suggestion of screencap capability that I've seen. It may be a by-game functionality, but if not...

[tersa.livejournal.com]

All I know is that after Darkspawn Chronicles came out, I couldn't play Awakening without uninstalling everything, and repatching the main game. As long as I don't reinstall the DLC, it works. Once I do that (I did it all at once, because I could), Awakening stops working.

Interesting. That gives me a good starting point for observation when I start up Awakenings the first time in the near future, since I haven't tried playing it under that sequence of installs. Good to know!

I fully understand PITA avoidance. No worries. :)