Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

If Baldur's Gate was re-created in modern gaming, it would be Dragon Age. The combat is of the highly tactical kind. Pause the game in combat, zoom out to overhead view, and plan ahead. You can have up to four characters in your party, which can be micro-managed. I recommend playing on the highest difficulty for the ultimate experience. The story is high fantasy at its finest, of the grand scale. Dragons, sorcery, a kingdom at war with the "darkspawn", so many elements that will appeal to fans of fantasy. The soundtrack is also excellent. Choose between several different races and classes, and begin your epic journey! I spent over 50 hours on my playthrough of the base game, feeling that I had but grazed the surface of a mountain of sidequests. If you're a completionist, you can easily get a three-figured number of hours out of this. All expansions are included, mostly good (Darkspawn Chronicles is the only one I didn't like). Some are in the game, others are stand-alone campaigns. Awakening is definitely worth your time. Never a boring moment. The amount of content you get in this package is astonishing! Not every location of the game is equally awesome though. If you're playing on a high difficulty, The Deep Roads can get really tiresome. I took a break from my playthrough there. Hordes upon hordes of enemies behind every door, and seemingly never-ending bland tunnels and caves. You could always turn down the difficulty and breeze through though. Having fun is the most important part! :) For being a now seven year old game, it looks quite nice on the highest settings. The details are abundant, and you will see some shiny spell effects. You can zoom in very closely in pause-mode, and stuff does look good even when perused up close. All in all, Dragon Age: Origins is an excellent game, and my favorite of the Dragon Age-series. The combat is not action-based, but a pause-and-manage type of gameplay. The perfect game to play while relaxing with a good ale :)

第三条中文评论，嘿嘿。 me三部曲通关后一直想尝试一下同为生软制作的龙腾世纪系列， 但因为从来没有玩过传统rpg，以及游戏自己经常内存溢出，导致起源被我搁置了好久，通关了流程最短的2代之后才决定沉下心体验一下这个开山之作。 震惊，只有两字才能描述我的心情，难怪2代被那么多人诟病，和起源相比的确是赶工出来的货。 多种族也就算了，选不同的种族居然还有不同的起源故事和游戏影响，包括各类种族对你的好感度、队友对你的看法、技能和天赋等等，都有详细的设定存在。即使暂停布置战略比me系列要详细与复杂，我到现在都没有很好的利用好提前的战略布置，都是战斗中紧急排兵布阵的，手忙脚乱但是玩的很开心。 男人贵不能推囧A一直让我耿耿于怀。 莫姐跟了我这么久，虽然我平时没怎么与她沟通，但她还是在决战前主动献身来保全沃顿性命，决战后不知去向。 我情愿相信她是利用我，来获得大恶魔的力量，以化为己用。不然我会内疚一辈子。 觉醒里的安德斯，看到2代对象在觉醒里出现确实十分惊喜，可惜不能推（我绿我自己）。 小尼为人三观也太正直了吧，简直不敢相信他是仇人的儿子，本以为按照生软尿性他会在最后对我暗下毒手的，结果他居然冰释前嫌对我十分信任，我愧疚哇。 总之，gog既然有终极版，比烂橘子还便宜，趁着打折就千万不要错过补票的机会！

Best of the series by far (not a hard thing to achieve lol) and one of the last good bioware games imho + writing, characters and story (although generic fantasy its well told) + very dark and atmospheric + nice mix of tactics and action - visuals. It wasnt best looking when it came out and the visuals aged extremely poorly - world feels empty and lifeless (problem with a lot of bioware games) Overall 8/10 by FAR the best in the franchise..however didnt age very well

I've ever finished one Bethesda RPG - Fallout New Vegas, you know, the one made by Obsidian. Why do I start my review like this? because I've finished this game multiple times, each time with all the DLC, the expansion and all optional quests. Around 160 hours per playthrough. Now, does that mean this game is a masterpiece? NO. It just means I really, really like the game. That being said, the graphics haven't aged as well as one might have hoped, and the game still has it's fair share of bugs, but it at least doesn't need an unofficial patch like RPGs from other developers whose name starts with the second letter of the alphabet. The GOG version has the advantage of being as close to complete as one can hope considering EA's original release model and plethora of retailer specific DLCs. The price is also acceptable for a game that's this good and this old. What else can I say? I really enjoyed this game and when it comes to RPGs it's up there with Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines as one of my all time favourites. Again, I'm not saying you will enjoy it. I'm partial to story and narrative driven RPGs, and there are still enough exploits in the game that you can play the entire game at the highest difficultly without much of a sweat. If you're looking for the best combat experience you can find in a game like this one you will be disappointed. If you're looking for hyper realistic graphics, you will be disappointed. If you're looking for a great fantasy narrative and story set in an interesting fantasy world, then, this might be that one gem you haven't yet discovered.

I loved the first 25 hours of Dragon Age. I beat Baldur's Gate: EE earlier this year and this game felt truly like the culmination of what they'd been trying to do there. As the game wore on, though, a lot of the systems felt flat. I played the first 25% on nightmare difficulty, then next 50% on hard, and the last 25% on normal--it just kept GOING and I was getting more and more anxious to be done. A couple of plot-related events having to do with your party's composition toward the very end of the game soured about the last 5-10 hours of the game for me, which was disappointing. I would say that pacing is the primary problem with the game. My playthrough took 60 hours, during which time I got to about level 19--more than 3 hours per level up, averaged across the whole game. I got a tier 7 weapon for my main character very early and didn't find an upgrade from the next 30+ hours, which was disappointing. The last 12 hours of the game or so featured a mix between epic, story-culminating battles and weird fetch quests and city guard work, which felt out of place that late in the story. Over all, I recommend this game for real fans of the genre, but I recommend AGAINST playing it on anything other than casual or normal mode. It's not that it's too hard, but the game simply has WAY too much combat without enough variety to support a game that long. I think I liked it more than Baldur's Gate, but paradoxically I would prefer to play Baldur's Gate again before I played this one over.