I would like to compare the fighting and combat in Dragon age vs Skyrim .I here there is more fighting and combat in Dragon age.
I had other thread on Skyrim but it gone way off topic so I left that thread and it was not Dragon age vs Skyrim.
Here some of Dragon age vs Skyrim.
More Encounters When Travelling
In Skyrim you have an open world which you can explore it freely, random event may happen such as bandit attacks, dragon attack and so on. Where you can’t really do this in Dragon age. In (Skyrim) you have to walk to a new location to discover it, which you may have random encounter during the trip. Whereas for Dragon age, you click on the maps and you just wait for loading and you reach the new location after the loading, you will have some encounters, however, it only happen following your progress in your main quest, meaning these encounter are part of the “must meet” encounter, rather than random encounter in Skyrim.
Freedom
In Skyrim, you decide what you want to do, you set your own goal, such as joining factions and become the highest ranking in the faction, or choose to side between the rebel and the Imperial, or you can even choose to level up to max level, to be the richest man in Skyrim, build your own house(with heartfire DLC), and any goal you can think about it.
Whereas in Dragon age, you have to follow the storyline of the game.
Mods
There are tonnes of mods for Skyrim, there are also mods for Dragon ages. However, the ease of install for Skyrim is much better compared to Dragon ages as Skyrim is supported by both Steam Workshop and Nexus Mod Manager, which enable you to install mods in just one click. There are also plenty of mods for Dragon Age but things that lack for Dragon Age is that it is not supported by Steam Workshop
There are also some not so good for Skyrim is that, you will feel boring if you are more interested in fast game such as Call of Duty series,
If you are more interested in storyline intensive game, you will feel that you will lost in Skyrim as it do not force you to follow the storyline, you will feel that you don’t know what should you do.
Dragon age allow you to make a lot of choices that may affect the ending, whether will the Grey Warden dead after slaying the boss, and hence affect the story in Dragon age next expansion, Dragon age Awakening.
Dragon age will suit you if you love to make choices and see how your choices affect the storyline, such as what you choose, whether to release someone, or to kill someone, will affect your storyline, such as gain support for the landsmeet, and many interesting choices to make.
The two games really aren’t similar at all aside from “Western medieval fantasy” and “has dragons”.
Dragon Age tells a story and (in my opinion) does a good job of it. The combat, NPCs, etc are things that all come together for the plot. The story certainly isn’t the most original in the world but the execution is excellent.
Skyrim is an open world with some thin trappings of a story. Much of the world isn’t really important the the plot and the story isn’t told all that well. However, it excels at giving you a wide open world to explore and “make your own stories” in.
There’s a bajillion other differences and I enjoyed both games (252 hours* in DA:O/A and 120 hrs in Skyrim) but they’re more different than alike.
*Some of that has to be idle time.
A few other combat differences that immediately come to mind:
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[li]Stealth is a major feature in Skyrim, but barely exists in Dragon Age. [/li]
[li]In Dragon Age Mages are much more powerful relative to fighter types than in Skyrim. Not that Skyrim mages are weak, but they aren’t annihilating whole groups either.[/li]
[li]DA is a game where you usually control a team, in Skyrim it’s normally just you with maybe a follower.[/li]
[li]Skyrim uses real time fighting, DA involves much more pausing while you select attacks from menus.[/li]
[li]DA tends to involve more tactics, unsurprisingly since you are controlling a team.[/li]
[li]Skyrim can be played in first person.[/li][/ul]**
Jophiel** is correct; they really aren’t all that similar except for being Western fantasy, both involving dragons, and being really good games.
Sort of, I suppose. Skyim’s a bigger, more open game though; it’s more that you don’t spend nearly as much time traveling and exploring in DA:O as you do in Skyrim. Once you actually get into a dungeon or some such there’s plenty of fighting in both. But if you don’t like exploration/open world stuff that’s no loss for DA:O obviously.
Both are excellent games at any rate; quite different from each other, but excellent.
Depends. There’s a finite number of battles in Dragon Age*. Once you clear a spot, it’s done unless there’s a plot reason for enemies to reappear. Therefore, there’s a fairly firm ceiling to how many fights you’ll get into before the game is over.
In Skyrim, you can theoretically wander the earth forever punching bears and bandits without ever finishing the quest line. As Der Trihs points out though, the combat in DA:O is “denser” due to greatly reduced travel times.
*I don’t know if you can get random travel encounters by just running laps around Ferelden as I never felt inclined to try.
Not really. As noted, the areas are mostly smaller, so that cuts down some non-fighting time, but the number of NPCs that you’re required to talk to and cutscenes you have to watch is higher (Skyrim has plenty of NPCs to talk to, but you could ignore them all – or kill most of them! – if you wanted to).
DA combat is more akin to Baldur’s Gate, you can pause the game assign tasks to different members, unpause and watch the fun unfold. Skyrim is more like you get jumped walking down the road by a sabre toothed cat and die.
I agree with all of your other points, but you can make stealth a big component of your main character in Dragon Age if you choose to (I did, for one play-through).
I should add that I love both games, but they are different enough that it is hard to compare them. To be honest, I don’t remember the combat in DA as much as I remember some of the hard choices my character made.