Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

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.

A legendary game. The story is alright. Everything is straightforward: bad guy is bad, good guy is good, you've got to put no effort to figure out what is going on and how come. Tons of reading, but none of them notes / books you find do really matter. Adds to the ambiance a little? Maybe. Fighting my way through the story has been extremely boring. Maybe I had too many good games and the original Dragon Age has been just a little more boring? But fighting my way through the first three locations for more than four years really forcing myself to take a look at the next room or dungeon? Boring, empty rooms - empty or filled with some deceivingly interesting-looking rubbish - but you can not interact with this rubbish. Encounters with enemies are all alike, except for few ones. You can not loot most chests unless you are a 100% lockpicker, looting enemies is worth 0,00001 coins and encumbers you so much that you are unable to pick up anything worth picking up, merchants are selling some sophisticated gear for hundreds of coins, which you can afford by the endgame only - if you know exactly what shall make sense in the end and what doesn't, and if you are ready to be starving for it all game long and if you don't mind going back to the cleared locations to pick up all rubbish ten times over. Two stars for the dialogues. You'll have to talk to every character 10+ times, try all an every dialogue option in order to refrain from offending him/her, in order not to make him/her hate you. Not intuitive at all, there's really no option of being honest with your companions - you can only follow their whimmy whims or you lose. So that's what it feels like: chore, following whims, starvation, trial and error, having to know the endgame if you want to reach it. I really forced myself to make each next step in order to find out what this legendary game is a all about. Boring. Extremely boring. Waste of my time, waste of money.