Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

In a time long ago when the name Bioware still meant something before the creative people left and they started making crap like DRAGON AGE INQUISITION, MASS EFFECT ANDROMEDA and ANTHEM... DRAGON AGE ORIGINS is an epic RPG, among the best ever made, with approx. 100 hours of gameplay with a captivating story, unforgettable characters and an innovative origins character creation, featuring a different beginning for each of the races. The add-on DRAGON AGE THE AWAKENING features another 15-20 hours with an even better story and darker scenery and an interesting adversary. This is dark fantasy at it's best before it got all watered down and packed full of SJW crap in INQUISITION. Sure it isn't perfect, there are your boring fetch quests, some parts are tedious and drag on (the fade levels are probably the worst), but tactical and challenging combat (yes, this game is hard) and an extraordinary character system make up for it all. The graphics still hold up well today - the animations being the weakest part, but you can zoom into the battle and get real close (over the shoulder) or zoom out to a BALDUR'S GATE isometric point of view any time you want. The combat is the usual pausable real-time style and micro management during the difficult boss battles becomes mandatory on any but the easiest difficulty setting. Charging in rarely works out. The protagonist is silent by the way, except for a few grunts during combat. Whether you like it or not comes down to preference. Personally, I prefered Jo Wyatt's and Alix Wilton Regan's voice acting in the sequels (the only good thing about those, and no I never finished either of them because they got boring real quick). If you like fantasy RPGs you probably already own this one. And if you don't, get it now.

This is one of my all time favourite games. If you like true choices, deep characters, a punishing, but also rewarding solid game play, and a good story, you are right here. there is also a lot of replay value in a game already long enough (without ever extending it's welcome).

Awesome gameplay, the game mechanics are really well designed - active pause while controlling your team is great. There is also lots of additional game extensions prepared by the community. The plot is quite interesting. This game is as must have for every RPG fun.

As others have said it is DRM free. The game runs great on Linux under wine. Playing it on Debian 10 with Lutris. Even got it to work from the wine gog-galaxy client for cloud save sync. Bioware (EA) account works too.

If I can rate this higher than 5 stars....all I can say is this is Baldur's gate on steroids. It's a classic must play for any role playing game fan. The GOG version is hands down the best version to get. I've tried all of them since I own it on each platform: Steam, Origin and GOG. You get all the DLC's, nice patches to the game, and everything runs smoothly with minimal tweaking needed if any at all. Grab a drink, create a character and let yourself go.