Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

dragon orgins is great but the pc port is not. crashes often, texture bugs. can't reccomend unless you want to find fan made patches which I've found none. Since this is EA I doubt they will patcha neally 15 year old game as they can't even release new games like Jedi Survior to run well on pc. What should happen is a remaster retaining the combat system and bascilly fixing the game. My cocern is if they were to remaster the game they would try to wokafiy censor or uglyfiy the female characters in the game.

I never understood thehigh ratings and endless praise for this title, there are a LOT of areas in the game that are just tedious. I played through it once, I will never do so again because of these three sections in particular: 1) the Fade. If you play a mage and want a certain outcome/specialization you will be forced to go into the Fade 3 times. These sections overstay their welcome and you're on your own 2) the entire chapter in the Tower of Mages (with a mandatory extremely long Fade section) is way way too long, tedious and boring 3) the Dwarven city and tunnels I also do not like the combat system at all (realtime with pause, passive combat) which plays kinda like Warcraft. The AI can be either set to on or off. You'd better switch it off, because your companions will run off into certain death, requiring you to micromanage them, so the devs should have gone turn-based the ONLY way for a party-based RPG. For a one time playthrough the game is pretty decent (there are far better titles out there, and no I don't mean Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 with the same garbage combat system). The story is quite good, the characters for the most part really lovable, but I would never ever play it a second time, even though the origin system gives you a different start based on your race & class selection.

Tedious rubbery MMO-like combat with an infuriating camera controls in a generic fantasy setting. Voice acting is good though.

I bought this yesterday. It was on sale, and the ultimate edition is the only way to get the DLC now. I already own the game on steam, and disc, but neither had dlc. It should have just been able to sync up with my other save files. After five failed downloads, the play button finally popped up but when I tried to use it said it was syncing cloud saves. Despite the fact I have all my saves on the computer itself. When I went to the icon to load it, it said I was missing physxloadr.dll. I then went to my steam version of the game to see if anything was wrong with that, and it turns out GOG has succesfully made it so NO BIOWARE GAME WORK ANYMORE!!! It completly messed up all my dragon age and mass effect games, giving the same "Missing physloadr.dll" crap as before. I went through my files, and It was already downloaded. When I clicked on it, a NVIDIA thing popped up and asked if I wanted to download the file I already had. I agreed to terms of service and clicked next, but nothing would happen. I then went online to find the software somewhere else, but it said it didn't have enough space to dowload. I had no option to have the software download to anything except my full hardrive, nevermind the two with a terribyte of free space. I went through and cleared everything I could and ended up with 80mb to dowload a 27.5mb file. It said I didnt have enough space. So here I am, having spent money or GOG to ruin my computer. It is also worth pointing out that GOG has been giving me constant issues, because it refuses to be moved from the full hardrive. I had also never and issue with a bioware game until this. The worst part is that this is my favourite game ever. I have clocked maybe 1500 hours of gameplay into it. Now thanks to GOG, my favourite game is innacesable. This game gets 6 out of 5, but GOG deserves less than nothing. My only regret with this rant was that I was not aloud to put in swear words.

Just a warning that this is a real-time combat heavy experience with a high degree of violence. This may not be what you want to spend your time on. The GOG game description does not properly reflect these aspects of the game.