Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

I love this game so much that I own it on five different platforms... and, yet, GOG's is the best. Thank you, GOG, for having my favoritest game ever! (Now you need to get DA:2 and DA:I!)

its a good game.. just constantly crashes

Start immediately with the problem, the recent update gog made two changes, added a laa patch and limited the number of cores. Patch laa really important thing improving performance. Unfortunately this can not be said about the second change, at the moment the game is limited using two cpu cores (by the way in 2009 the game was advertised for four core processors). This change leads to multiple performance issues. At the moment it is possible to solve the problem every time by changing the use of cores in the task manager or by rolling back to the previous update via galaxy (old offline installers are now unavailable). Also note that the gog version is now incompatible with some other modifications (such as dxvk patch).

Quite simply one of the best RPGs ever made; epic fantasy plot, wonderful characters you grow to love, many hours of game play (easy to play 100 hours), and a world you will miss when you are finally done. Graphics aged a bit (obviously), but still passable, and a very good soundtrack. The best DA game by some margin. Bioware at their best. Absolute bargain with all the extra content for this price.

This is a large-world RPG, with many characters, long story, and many relatively interesting environments to explore. In few places, I had almost an "epic adventure" feeling such as when playing Baldur's gate . However... There were two aspects that considerably reduced my enjoyment of the game: a) The story progression felt a bit ridiculous - one starts as a relatively ordinary dude, and after a couple of hours, bam, you're the person to reunite everyone and save the world... argh, not again. I am ok with the world-saving motivation, when it's done subtly and over many hours of gameplay. But here, you're given a mega task even as a pathetic little thing that gets killed by three goblins, when the world is apparently full of much greater heroes. Also, as much as I like to help underdogs, help people in general, fight injustice and discrimination, etc. etc., some "social justice" points in this game were just cringeworthy and pathetic. That's not a good way of serving such a difficult and deep topic. b) The fights were just not too much fun for me, but there was a lot of them and they were one like another, with a couple of exceptions. In Baldur's gate 1/2, Fallout, KOTOR,... most fights would be in some way at least a bit unique, you'd profit from different strategy, etc. For some reason, the combat systems in "new" reincarnations of older games (i.e., DA, Pillars of Eternity) don't work so well for me. Graphics is a minor negative for me - I prefer a pretty detailed 2D over a relatively ugly (and unnecessary, gameplay-wise) 3D. Overall, it's a pretty good game, but not more.