Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

As of last patch GOG added ALL DLCs (yes, even the Collector's Items, even a Tale of Orzammar adventure from PCGAMER). This game is a must buy as it's on 60% off and have EVERY DLCs.

short and brief.... after playing this on ps3...i hate to say it but pc was much much worse for everything ....something about reduced graphics... lower fov...lower everything and tank controls made it absolutely shine like a diamond....its ...ok on pc...and i enjoy other games on pc more than console... but this aint 1 of them...

Graphically it is extremely boring to look at, but I mean it's from 2010 so I'll give it a pass for that. Gameplay is absolutely awful. It has all the negatives of mmo combat. I spent most of the game looking at my phone waiting for combat to finish. The animations are stiff and have no impact and the actual abilities lack any visual flair, so all you see is a vague flash of color. Bad combat gets worse with the absurdly lengthy dungeons. Seriously the dungeons go on and on only to reach an unsatisfying boss that just stands there or, if you're lucky, a conversation. As far as story goes its a pretty standard fantasy tale where you have to stop the evil, totally not orcs, by uniting all the factions. Opinions on the characters, where bioware supposedly shine, are going to be up to you, of course. In my case I was at best annoyed by the main party and at worst wanted them dead. If it weren't for the terrible combat I would say that this is a pretty average rpg that any fan of the genre could enjoy.

Nach 2x komplett durchspielen (inkl. "Awakening), literweise Baldrian zur Beruhigung meiner strapazierten Nerven, 2 Mäusen und einem neuen Monitor bleibt leider nicht mehr allzu viel zu diesem Spiel zu sagen: Wahrscheinlich das best verbugte RPG aller Zeiten. Auf Grund von offenbaren Speicherbugs und unzähliger CTD's ist Dragon Age leider das Geld nicht wert, da auch keine Aussicht auf Patches mehr besteht ...

Disclaimer: I didn't play the DLC this edition has. Dragon Age: Origins is arguably one of the last great titles by BioWare before they started to under-deliver. A superb entry in the relatively uncommon gritty high fantasy setting it puts you in the shoes of quite generic "chosen one" template and sets you on a quest to gather forces to face Great Evil That Has Awoken. The plot isn't that complicated. But the great thing about DA:O is that despite it's flaws like mediocre plot or abysmal class balance (at least in base game) it still is a classic entry in the genre and the closest thing to BG spritual successor up until Pillars of Eternity took over. DAO achieves it's greatness not with exceptional plot or mechanics, but by wonderful, deep lore, setting and characters. It is - I dare say - best incarnation of BioWare character archetypes roster, far from goofy "harem anime" groups that followed. It also does other things right; DAO approach to magic is disturbingly inspired, we see dwarven kingdom in the peak of political struggle, the battles with few actual dragons are rewarding. One of the highlights of DAO are it's multiple tutorials - based on your race and background you'll embrace your fate as the Grey Warden in different ways, each one unique and getting closure somewhere in the main plot. The art-style (tarnished in the sequels) is deliciously semi-realistic. It's refreshingly un-flashy, with toned-down magic and melee animations delivering heavy, crude blows; The characters get covered in blood while fighting all kinds of foes, from spiders to DA variation of Tolkien's orks. Graphically there's only one thing that always irked me - unnaturally huge arms on most models. Unfortunately, Dragon Age: Origins sequels didn't live up to this great game's legacy. I - personally - didn't finish DA2 in my first attempt (forced myself through it later), and never finished the third one. But DAO stands on it's own - if you haven't done it already, play it NOW.