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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[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. :)