Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

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.

This game may have been something fantastic if the gameplay and engagements were lucky enough to receive just a fraction of the attention that the cinematics, lore and voice acting were gifted. Those areas shine and if my review was for a movie rather then a video game, I would give it stars. But... it isnt. Taking a look at the combat, it is a five star, four alarm holy righteous journey down fuck up lane. The scripting is a nightmare for characters not being directly controlled by the player, and I found that the second I moved from one character to another the AI was doing something totally stupid and not even close to what I had laid out in its script. The combat itself is boring, 2 dimensional and repetitive. The game gives you "companions" that have already been leveled up to some degree with skills and spells that dont even work, or if they do, its not what you need as a player for the build your looking for, and no way in game without mods to change any of it. This is just the very very short list. Skills and spells: Another disaster. Most of them dont work at all (15 years down the road from release...???) so this is yet another example of devs dropping the ball midway though and expecting the player base to band aid all of their screwups with modding. The majority of the skills serve little to no purpose. They put crafting in the game as an afterthought as most everything you can craft is sold or drops in game anyway. I could go on for days. Gameplay: No autorun?? Dungeons and instances that you cant leave that go on for hours so you cant sell anything from your inventory when it fills, then you have to run all the fuck back to the entrance by holding down the run key. Not too bright. Some quests update as you progress through the list of "things to do" .. .some just dont. All in all it was another example of half ass, sub par mediocre effort in major areas of the game that ruined the enjoyment of my experience during play through.

The controls sure have aged like cottage cheese alongside the graphics. Most of the time is just walking around empty lifeless corridors with nothing to do. Then you engage in 90's MMORPG combat. Its just not engaging nor fun. Regretful purchase. Old does NOT mean gold.

The response is slow, the controls are confusing, and the gameplay is not that exciting. Even on sale for $4.99, I want my money back.

Did not enjoy.