Anyone beat DAO without using any of the armies for help?

[Locut0s]

I used 2 armies, the dwarfs and the humans but I can see that with a little practice I could have beat the game without using any of them. I actually only had 2 of my 4 characters left at the end and didn't think I was going to make it (especially after Morrigan died). However I did use something like 50 or 60 regular health poultices, 10 or so greater ones and a few potent poultices.

 

[coldmeat]

I didn't, but I was playing on easy so I don't think I count lol.

 

[Locut0s]

I didn't, but I was playing on easy so I don't think I count lol.

Yeah I wouldn't count easy mode . This was on Normal. The game must get really tough on the higher difficulty settings considering Normal is hard enough!

 

[coldmeat]

Yeah I wouldn't count easy mode . This was on Normal. The game must get really tough on the higher difficulty settings considering Normal is hard enough!

I liked the story and wanted to keep playing the game but I hated constantly pausing and strategizing, so I just switched it to easy and played in real time. I controlled 1 character and pretty much let the others do what they wanted and hardly changed their original combat tactics.

 

[Locut0s]

I liked the story and wanted to keep playing the game but I hated constantly pausing and strategizing, so I just switched it to easy and played in real time. I controlled 1 character and pretty much let the others do what they wanted and hardly changed their original combat tactics.

Yeah it has the best story line of probably any game I've played since ... well a long time. Probably since I finished Chrono Trigger which was about 10 years ago or so and still remains my all time fav RPG. I'm definitely getting the Awakening expansion pack though I'm going to wait till they iron out some of the bugs. As for the difficult I found that average enemies were almost too easy after a while but some of the bosses remained very difficult.

A not about the game for those reading this. Don't install patch 1.03 unless you really have to. I've been reading the forums over at bioware and that patch can seriously fuck things up!

 

[slag]

I didn't use any armies and beat it on normal.

 

[JoshGuru7]

I'm definitely getting the Awakening expansion pack though I'm going to wait till they iron out some of the bugs.... A not about the game for those reading this. Don't install patch 1.03 unless you really have to. I've been reading the forums over at bioware and that patch can seriously fuck things up!

I played through Awakenings with patch 1.03 and it behaved perfectly. I had to restart once after 5+ hours of gaming because the performance was getting poor, but that cleaned the issue right up. Now I'm playing through Origins again and I haven't had a single problem of any type.

 

[you2]

I did it on either normal or hard; I forget. There is a trick that makes it easy. The first couple of times I missed it; but then I realized the trivial way to whack the dragon and after that it was *yawn*.

 

[snikt]

Screw that! I did all that work to recruit them so I made their asses work for their homeland and freedom. =D

 

[NoSoup4You]

My first playthrough (on Normal) I did not call a single army to help. I tend to do that in video games, like if they give me an ultra powerful gun (BFG) but very limited ammo, I'll tend to never use it unless I find myself in a spot where I'm constantly re-loading a save. I'm slowly trying to untrain myself from this habit so that I actually enjoy these perks a game will give you.

But yeah, I didn't call any and walked right through the whole end sequence (level + boss) without ever calling them in. My second playthrough was on the next higher difficulty and I did call them that time, but it was more because I had zero mages in my party (sided against both Wynne and Morrigan). That was brutal and quite a fun challenge. I actually sided against everyone I could via dialogue, so my party consisted of I think maybe 5 or 6 characters total when prepping for the final battle. I forget exactly the number, but it was tiny.

The armies were quite handy in that circumstance and I absolutely needed them in two spots, no doubt.

 

[Visaoni]

The ending of DAO is somewhat disappointing in it's ease.

I was playing on normal, and by the time I got to the very last fight it was rather late and I was not at my best. It took me a long time to figure out what the hell was going on with that fight. I spent forever fighting random adds, and even wasted an army or two doing so. By the time I got around to whacking the boss again I was down to just my tank and a couple armies. I still managed to win with relative ease. No reloads.

I had a significantly harder time with some of the random fights you get thrown into and a couple of the bandit attacks.

 

[smackababy]

I didn't call them the first time through, but it was on normal. The second time, I went through on the hardest difficulty (with the nightmare patch) and called them in.