Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

This is just a technical review of this GOG edition. (The game itself is amazing and deserves 5 stars) It works perfectly fine IF you enable all CPU cores manually after launching the game (Ctrl+Alt+Del => Details => right click on DAOringins.exe => Set affinity => All cores checked) I play on 1920x1080p monitor. Perhaps the game is unstable on higher resolution, so beware. I play on max graphics, everything is smooth (always more than 60 FPS). I had 0 crash. My computer = GTX 1080 i7 6700K 16 Go RAM. HDD use. So, even if GOG does not fix the CPU affinity issue, you can easily enjoy this masterpiece. Take care adeventurers!

The game by itself works great hence the 3 stars. But installation of any content through the DAupdater refuses to work. All I get is the "content was created for an updated version of the game" warning. This prevents modded and other content being used installed. Modding is a key component of DAO and it's been eliminated by this error. Dragon Age toolset can't be installed because the installation cannot detect the installation of the game in the GOG folder. The toolset fix to prevent this problem is in the toolset. The toolset installation is supposed to be in the game folder from GOG, but it does not exist anywhere in the game folder or at GOG. I'm forced to use a download from EA which doesn't work with the GOG version of the game. The other fix is adding an entry to the registry. I'm not about to go messing with my computer's programming. In short, the GOG initiative to same older games is a great idea. It's just not working for DAO. I'll be heading back to EA and writing off this purchase. Sorry.

An incredible game, and I don't usually enjoy older games that I don't have nostalgia for. Best bought on GOG for PC, it runs really well apart from some minor stuttering issues, very minor, they don't really affect the game. Story is incredible, the characters are amazing and deep with flaws and realistic thoughts and feelings. All in all I'm having a blast, just got to Redcliffe Village, exploring all I can and I'm having so much fun. 5 out of 5 stars.

Play it (don't worry about the others)

The beginning of one of the most epic IPs of all time. In my opinion, still the best characters and the best final act of any story-driven RPG. One day they'll make games like this again: where you can play as whatever kind of person you want, where your background and your choices matter, where writing is snappy and "voicey" and smart all the way through, where you feel like you've just seen the greatest movie ever when the credits roll and you think about the characters for years afterward. Or maybe that's just me. I'm a big fan of pause-and-strategize over "mash buttons as quickly as possible," so I'm nostalgic for combat like this, too. But there are no games exactly like this one, IMO, though many have tried (including its own sequels). This is the real deal, pure uncut genius, and only Baldur's Gate 3 has come close to giving me the same feeling, even after nearly twenty years.