Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

Dragon Age Origins is one of the finest, story rich RPG's around - like all the Dragon Age games. If you have even a passing interesting in this, dont hesitate - BUY IT. Story, story, story - and plenty of action, but character development and story are where this game shines.

DRM FREE!!! Great story. Party members you get overtime are truely amazing. Combat+pause is great. Challenge on nightmare is must. At least 100+ hours. I got original boxed version, Steam version and GOG version, do i say more. Only negative maybe is outdated graphics but for me not that important gameplay is so good i forget ugly textures sometimes. Easy 5 stars earned. With The Witcher 3 Origin's is my most favorite RPG i own on GOG.

Amazing: - Main thing for me: In the end, I was left completely heartbroken in the best possible sense. Not many games do that. I wanted more of one specific story, and thank god Witch Hunt DLC is included here. It let me say exactly the words that were on my mind for a couple of days after beating the main game. If not for this, it would be just a good game to me with its share of problems that may not be worth it. Instead, it is a game that touched my soul, made me care, identify with my main character, and MY LIFE IS BETTER because I played this game. - The lore. You can go as deep as you want to experience this world. A lot of it comes via reading the Codex though. - The cast of companions and different ways your relationships with them may go. Different people find different characters great, I am pretty sure you will find one that you will always remember. Bad: - Steep learning curve when it comes to combat. It was so frustrating to the point I was ready to give up completely. (Hint: look up some guides that will explain the abilities, skills, etc. if you keep getting slaughtered in every single fight. It's not enough to just click on the enemy and expect it to die.) - Grind, grind, grind. - Too many dungeons and areas that look uninspiring. - Overall story is quite predictable. - Bugs. Oh my god, I had such a bad time in Denerim: save files kept getting corrupted, the textures glitched from time to time, and the game crashed again and again. (Good old hint: Save often and in different slots) Good: - Some nice unexpected twists in the story. - Once you figure out how to combine different characters' abilities in combat, it can be quite enjoyable, despite the grind. - Good degree of freedom when it comes to solving majority of main and side quests. - You get to know the outcome of your important decisions. - Writing. I wouldn't call it amazing, but solid. - The expansion and all DLCs are included, so once you get this, you don't need to buy anything else.

Just one of the best. Invaluable edition too, for this price anyway. Or wait for the sale wich is very good deal too... Fun for months is promised. (If you think appereance/ graphics is to old check the mods :)P Imho, you wont regret, if (!) you like a storydriven RPG with a very satisfying combat system. All together higly recommended. Just in the row with the immortal classics. Ita est.

For those curious. There are only 2 ways you can play DA:O on PC. Via the EA App on their own launcher. OR buying and downloading the GOG offline launcher for this game. It has to be the offline launcher as well, Galaxy breaks the game somehow. If you have further problems running in an older compatibility mode may fix it. Steam version is straight broken and is never getting fixed. Finally I'm afraid the only real way to play this is to buy a raspberry PI install windows 7/XP on it dump the GOG offline installer on it and then play it off that. It shouldn't be like this and I would hope GOG could support by working with EA to make fixed edition of the game but we will wait and see. I expect you will find a remastered version will release one day too and I eagerly await that day. Outside of all that this game is a masterpiece. Great writing, graphics, world design and combat which easily surpasses the vast majority of RPG's that get released today. It is ultimately worth the effort to play this game at least once.