Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

Beginning half was okay - the rest literally felt like I was busting my butt working at McDonlads, just to be paid at the end of the week $7.25 an hour. Play Baldur's Gate 1,2, Icewind Dale 1/2, Planescape, Morrowind, BG3, NWN, Skyrim, ANYTHING BUT THIS GAME!!!! It's just corridors and corridors and area after area of fight after fight - I played this on easy mode and leveled everyone up to 25 and turned on god mode and the last area still took 2 and a half hours to get through with my party dying multiple times over. I don't just want my money back, I want the time I spent on this back.

Good Diablo like game.

How does this not have controller support?

I don't get it? What does the people see in this game? I have played all Classic RPGs, also from the same company (BGI+II, Kotor I, Jade Empire, Nwn I) - the Black Isle Classics /Obsidian (PS:T, IWD I+II, Kotor II, NWN II, Alpha Procotol, Fallout I+II), the Troika ones (Arcanum, Tempel of Elemental Evil, Vampires Bloodlines (also Redemption even though from another company) and the Larians ones as well (Divine Divinty, Beyond Divinity, Divinity II). The story is cliche and the story is boring as fucking hell and gives you a shopping list (find 4 supporters scattered in the world). The dialogues are uninteresting, there is no atmosphere in the taverns. The quests are standard procedure, the fighting ratio is very high. The combat system is boring as well. Even the compagnions are not interesting. I guess if this would be my first party CPRG then I would find them more appealing, but the artificial nature (party gifts to improve the influcence) destroys much. I basically could get to 90 % at the first party camp night by just buying gifts. How is that believable? Bar Morrigan and Alistair the compagnions are also uninteresting in itself. And Morrigan and Alistair only look more interesting because the other party member suck so much. I tried many times to get into the game. But after 15 minutes my mind thinks about something else and I end up doing something in parallel. And that is totally someting new for me. But I don't wan't to be just negative: The origins are great and you actually have the alternatives to do something "bad" and the NPCs react somewhat to your character. But even that is often destroyed e.G. when you realise you can skill Wynne as a Bloodmage....yeah the story is not that important ... I guess? All in all Dragon Age Origin is just a mild and unoriginal repetion of the old classics, just worse. I can recommend to everyone who enjoyed it to try it out. You should have a blast because they are better in almost every depature.

There are simple straight points that make this game VERY bad, utterly less than previous tittles from same company, and a unbearable experience. There is no way in the world in this ultimate edition to make your party WALK with you. There is some sort of always run curse that makes the game simply UNBEARABLE. There is a toggle run/walk button that is, at best, the most silly thing i´ve seen in a game like this. In isometric view, your party runs, in third person view, only selected char may walk with WASD if toggled, but your party members STILL are in this cursed "always run" mode. Click on interactable in third person view, ALSO makes your character to RUN. Neverwinter Nights, a pretty older game had this party control stuff easily solved. Putting this technical issue aside (that is eliminatory for me), there is anything more in the game that may fill you. It´s a patternized cliché story, bringing elements from Baldur´s Gate, maybe KOTOR, but that´s it. There is in no way anything ORIGINAL in here. It´s not open world, not about exploration, that feeling BG1 used to give when you leave Candlekeep. Saying this game may equal or top BG1 is a serious sacrilege, only a person that didn´t trully got involved in the BG games may say this. DAO is, by far, WAY inferior to BG. It is even lesser than NWN, which had more options for control your character and companions. The only explanation i may find for the consideration this game has from players is that belongs to a era of gamers that never trully played the BG series or other earlier BioWare games deeply. Even the modified aurora for The Witcher is superior to DAO in MANY ways. I wanted to play this for many years, due to the comments and what people say about it. A failure. Then is the issue of the balance, OMG the balance. On hardest difficulty you MUST have two mages, because fighting classes are nerfed, or can´t match the math. By far, the worst RPG i´ve tried in years.