Dragon Age: Origins - Character Creator & Social Site

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Dragon Age: Origins - Character Creator & Social Site

Post by Shir'le E. Illios »

BioWare has released the character creator and opened up the social site. here is [url=http://daforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.h ... 5:3hysvjw0]Chris Priestly's post[/url:3hysvjw0] on the subject:

[quote="Chris Priestly":3hysvjw0]Hi Everyone

We are pleased to launch the Dragon Age: Origins Character Creator and Social website. To access BioWare Social site:
1) go to [url:3hysvjw0]http://social.bioware.com/login.php[/url:3hysvjw0]
2) log in with your BioWare forums user name and password
3) you will be prompted for some additional information - fill it in and follow the instructions
4) start browsing the site!

To download the Character Creator:
1) go to [url:3hysvjw0]http://social.bioware.com/login.php[/url:3hysvjw0]
2) log in with your BioWare forums user name and password
3) you will be prompted for some additional information - fill it in and follow the instructions
4) Go to [url:3hysvjw0]http://social.bioware.com/charactercreator.php[/url:3hysvjw0]
5) Choose your language
6) Download
7) Visit the Social site while you install. :)



Technical Requirements:
XP MINIMUM SPECS
OS: Windows XP with SP3 CPU: Intel Core 2(or equivalent) running at 1.4Ghz or greater
AMD X2(or equivalent) running at 1.8Ghz or greater
RAM: 1GB or more
VIDEO: ATI Radeon X850 128MB or greater
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater
650Meg HD space

VISTA MINIMUM SPECS
OS: Windows Vista with SP1
CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater
RAM: 1.5 GB or more
VIDEO: ATI Radeon X1550 256MB or greater
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB or greater
650Meg HD space

RECOMMENDED SPECS
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz Processor or equivalent
RAM: 4 GB (Vista) or 2 GB (XP)
VIDEO: ATI 3850 512 MB or greater
NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater
AMD Phenom II X3 Triple-Core 2.8 GHz or greater
650Meg HD space[/quote:3hysvjw0]
The social site contains a set of forums (which will likely replace the existing BioWare forums at some point I would assume), but also contains a host of social networking tools such as friends lists, blogs, wikis, groups, etc. And what's more it allows people to start up projects to coordinate module development [i:3hysvjw0]and[/i:3hysvjw0] will be the place where people can upload/download user-created modules. Though it's still in (open) beta, it's already looking quite impressive.

Not as impressive as the character creator though, giving you your first taste of Dragon Age. having played around with it all evening I must say that I'm quite impressed. I particularly like how nice the characters look and how many options you have for changing your character's appearance while at the same time making it hard to make an ugly character.

At the end of creating a character you can upload your character to the social site where it's listed in your player profile (such as [url=http://social.bioware.com/playerprofile ... e:3hysvjw0]mine here[/url:3hysvjw0]) and then use one of your characters as your portrait. Though it can take a while for the character you upload to appear on the site, so don't despair. Oh, and afterwards you can still edit and change your character in the creator.

Anyway, this is all quite impressive stuff and I honestly can't wait to play this game. :)


[[url=http://daforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.h ... 5:3hysvjw0]link[/url:3hysvjw0]] to forum post by Chris Priestly with the announcement.
[[url=http://social.bioware.com/:3hysvjw0]link[/url:3hysvjw0]] to the Social website.
[[url=http://social.bioware.com/charactercreator.php:3hysvjw0]link[/url:3hysvjw0]] to the Character Creator download.


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