Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

Ну была и была. После Mass Effect забылась почти сразу.

I fail to agree with the good reviews. The game is playable, but has lots of faults. I especially disliked: - most battles consist of hordes of identical enemies. - the tiny inventory requires to throw away things, or to go back (possibly a long, long, long way) to sell items. - there are very few meaningful choices. - for no apparent reason, view control must be switched between two modes to zoom fully. - there are lots of long and quite boring backtracks. - tactics seems to be useless. Maybe I didn't understand it, but I told an archer "stay put" and he happily ignored it and ran to be butchered. - money is useless (well, lots of RPGs are badly balanced here). - loot is utterly insignificant. The best weapons are found almost at the beginning. - on my i7, the game uses 70% CPU when in background. - pathfining is sometimes broken, especially on stairs. - graphics are all the same almost-monochrome reddish tint. On the plus side, two chapters are decently satisfying: the one where you have to use magic in creative ways (no spoilers here) and the final chapter. At least it isn't an utter failure.

In my opinion it doesn't even come close to Baldur's Gate 2, but in terms of modern RPGs it's a great game. RPG friends should definitely try it.

Dragon Age Origins is a great game and I will never play it again. The amount of crashing that occures in this game is so obnoxious that I uninstalled and I will never install it again. I applied a patch that should fix this issue but to no avail. This game has been done a major disservice as these kind of issues have still not been fixed all these years. I do not reccomend anyone to buy this, not even on sale. Broken games should get fixed or removed from the store. Period.

The game starts well but is needlessly long and lacking in variety. The combat isn't awful but judging by the slew of enemies you have to chew through the designers thought it was a lot better and the while the characters are fun the RPG elements tend to be quite shallow. The game lets you choose what areas to explore first but the areas themselves tend to be very linear and the only way the difficulty varies is by throwing higher level versions of the same enemies at you in increasingly annoying unavoidable ambushes. Also on my computer the game tends to crash when I do something to surprise it like kiting all the enemies from one of those ambushes back to town. If you're looking for a dungeon crawling time-sink with modern-ish graphics then I'd recommend it. Otherwise the RPG selection on GOG is so deep it's quite hard to justify this option.