Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

If you like Neverwinter Nights games you can be dissapointed by this game. I like that developers come with own character stats based on percent instead on some rules from tabletop game. Also GUI is very nice done. The problem comes with combat and the level designs and magic system and overall gamedesign. 1. Combat system is turnbased, however it is in "realtime" (no waits for turns), but you can pause it anytime or set it up in each turn to autopause. It maybe sounds good, but in the end it feels bad. But maybe beacuse your characters are prety weak or you fight with too much enemies. 2. Mages (I like play with those characters therefore I'll write critique only for that characters as rewiew has restriction) feels wery weak. The problem is, they power is too low compared how they are weak on life and protection. Also you will have only few spells on the begining and later you don't get too much. Which make game less tactic. 3. Gameplay: For "turnbased" game it feels more like action game. For example: mage with few spells, makes your tactics simplified. I wonder why they not reduce a dialogs (equivalent to your skills / spells) , maybe my review will be less critique :). Another thing is game design is not well done. Once you enter into area and when fight begin (after long reading dialogs and doing quest without any fight) you found that this area is too strong at you and you cannot go back beacuse you are in the middle of the mission. Also your power not grows up very well with your level. As for mage surely not. 4. Story. (as it has StoryRich tag, I give some critique on that). Written it simply, story is very bad, and boring. I have to say, I don't mind very much about story in games, but if I have to watch long videosequences, and then ingame sequences, and then reading dialogs... If you like a story, it is maybe a good, but If you don't, it is trouble.

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.