Dragon Age 3
 

Apparently EA opened up their offices in LA to let some media play DA3, so lots of new gameplay videos have come out over the last week:

https://www.youtube.com/results?filt...play&lclk=week

Only watched a couple so far, but it's looking good. Already scheduled time off for that week (well, Weds-Fri) and the first week of Dec for SWTOR. BioWare is saying ~150 hours of gameplay for DA3, so I'm hoping I can finish a mostly thorough play-through before the SWTOR early-access release in Dec.

Very cool. Been itching for a deep RPG experience. Hope it delivers

Just looked at the recommended system requirements for DA3:

Quad core @ 3.0 GHz (Six core @3.2 for AMD)
8 GB mem
GeForce GTX 660 w/ 2GB mem
26GB disk space

I'm currently running quad-core 2.6 GHz CPU (i7 920), 12 GB mem, GTX 580 w/ 1.5GB mem. Granted, I built this machine almost 5 years ago now, but damn. Considering I want to play DA3 on ultra graphics settings I guess I'll need to do some upgrading in the next few weeks.

I was surprised to see the quad-core CPU requirement. Didn't think most games were very multi-core friendly these days.

Anyone have any thoughts on 6-core vs 4-core for gaming? Looks like clock speeds go up to 4 GHZ on the quad cores (~$350), and 3.5 GHz for the hex cores (~$600, $400 for 3.3 GHz).

Seems to primarily be an issue of "Future-proofing". If you can afford the 6-core, go for it. Probably saves you money in the end.

I'm beyond excited. I took off the 18th-21st from work so I have almost a solid week of playing DA3 non-stop.

I will be putting my PoE ethics into this, play hard while I can.


and Asano I built mine about 1.5 years ago I have a 3.3GHz Six core.

Dragon Age Multiplayer
http://www.twitch.tv/bioware/c/5445932

Well, just booked a trip to Vegas with a friend for early Dec, so I guess I'll be putting off those upgrades. Gotta put those LV girls through school!

Oh man! Watching now.

nice