Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

It follows the trend in modern game play to replace substance with more glamour. From start to finish I found the game to be simply tedious, & ultimately boring for 90% of the time. The story line ends up being what you bother playing for and quite simply if you play this game you will be rewarded by rushing through it on god mode because the narrative is too spread apart with the daily grind otherwise.

Note: If you want to play this game you need to download mods (patches) to make it work. All the necessary patches are listed on PCGamingWiki website. Even with them I got 3 crashes but it is playable. After loving Dragon Age: Inquistion and finishing it multiple times I wanted to try Origins, because I saw many people saying that it was the best DA game. And I'm very disappointed; I didn't see anything captivating about it. I played for 8 hours I guess, GOG didn't track my playtime, and like a show with bad first episodes, I don't see why I should keep playing it, and I was thinking: why do people even like this ? The combat system is very bland for a CRPG, compared to Divinity: OS2 and Pathfinder: WOTR. Maybe the music ? I could just listen to it on YouTube. The graphics ? Obviously not. So the story ? Those 8 hours of playtime were of complete boredom, nothing special happens, 8 hours of just "go talk to that person, and now that person makes you talk to three more people about mundane topics about the world." This is a game, I don't care to learn about their fictional religion or politics in a room with nothing happening. 8 hours in and the game doesn't show anything to catch the player's interest, you don't even see the main villain, there's a war happening, you should care but why ? At least Inquistion has nice graphics, better combat, beautiful effects and maps that aren't completely mud. I didn't pay enough attention to the reviews praising this game, is because of nostalgia, if you don't have that I don't know why bother at all.

Size is actually 36.1G.

Awkward liberal Canadian attempt to combine The Witcher 1's "adult" dark fantasy themes with the naive and bumbling Baldur's Gate. Still better than the latter though.

If you value your life and your time then do not play this game. Do not make the same mistake as me and give it more of your time because you wanted to see if they would do better for the other landmark/places that you have to visit. They don’t change and they all waste your time. The dungeons are too long and the exp is too low. The constant having to pick up useless stuff and clicking is too much. There should have been an auto pick up. But the main problem is that the game drags on for too long and no matter how many enemies you fight, they will always hit as hard and have as much life as they always have when playing the game. You slog through the game with time just ticking away. There’s so many battles…so many. Big dungeons, tons of battles, horrible loot, no story. The game is garbage. I thought, man I could really be doing something better with my time or playing a better game. Yes, the game is old and it has some interesting plot points but they never come up after hours of playing. It’s too much. Stay away from this game. I do not play with mods. I think the game should stand on it’s own and the game just blatantly sucks. It’s just another AAA big budget grind time waster of a game.