Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

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.

When I first went into this I was expecting a decent experience and maybe a week or two of fun, butwhat I got was hundreds of hours of gameplay and repeated playthroughs because I can't get enough of this world and the characters. I enjoy all the Dragon Age games in their own way but there is something about this particular game - the charm, the epic scale of the storyline, the Baldur's Gate styled gameplay, I don't know - that keeps this one first and best in my heart. If you like RPGs, especially party-based ones, you won't regret picking this one up. All the DLCs being included is icing on the already delicious cake.

Possibly THE all-time favourite of the PC RPGs I've played. Definitely the one with the most "replay value" of any I've ever owned. I say this as I glance over in amusement at the 2Gb external drive I have which is almost full of saves, custom content, and other odds and ends related to the game. :-D For anyone who wants the DRM-free game, but is for some reason unhappy that it lacks the three in-game items from the "Collector's Edition" of the game, be aware that the DLC file to install those three items is freely available for direct download from BioWare's file server. I'll even give you the URL: http://lvlt.bioware.cdn.ea.com/bioware/u/p/eagames/bioware/dragonage/content/DAO_PRC_PROMO_C2/DAO_PRC_PROMO_C2_1.0.dazip That file will install the items Bergen's Honor, Grimoire of the Frozen Wastes, and Final Reason - the three items that somehow were left out of the "Ultimate Edition" DLC content. After installation, you should have one item in your inventory upon the next load, and the others should be available from Bodan. If the link above isn't visible for whatever reason, you can also find direct download links for all of the DLC for the game by going to the Dragon Age Wiki page and looking for the DLC listing. Down at the bottom of the page, they have provided links to all of the downloads. Luck to you, Grey Warden. May you be successful in your quest.

Dragon Age: Origins is, in a word, awesome. Think of everything you love (and some things you might hate) about role-playing games, and that's DA:O. DA:O’s standout feature is meaningful choices and consequences. Consequences can be minor, such as lowering a companion's disposition towards you, while others will affect and even limit your options later in the game. It all feels very natural and dynamic, and often these dilemmas do not have obvious "right" and "wrong" solutions. For instance, when a young boy is possessed by a demon, do you defeat the demon by killing the boy, or by allowing his mother to sacrifice herself in a blood magic ritual? There's no easy answer, and you’ll want repeated playthroughs to see all that the story has to offer (plus the six unique origins story). The lack of moral certainty is refreshing for this genre because it allows you to play a nuanced evil character, offering role playing choices that are more interesting than the usual "evil guy = jerk" characterization that is typical in many RPG's. It also happens that the morally good choices do not always bring the best rewards, so an evil character isn't at an inherent disadvantage. DA:O features an epic story that could possibly be criticized for riffing on Tolkien, but then, what fantasy story doesn't? However, BioWare added enough of their own unique twists to the setting and narrative that they can legitimately call it their own. It's clear that they put a lot of time and thought into the world-building, making Ferelden feel more like a real place than a fictional world, and while much of this information is conveyed through codex entries, they’re well worth your time to read to get the most out of your experience. My only major criticism is that while the combat system is terrifically fun, there’s just a little too much filler combat, but this is easily overlooked since the rest of the game is so stellar. If you’re a fan of RPGs then this is one you do not want to miss.