Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition

Golden age of bioware before they lost all their decent writers/devs and replaced them with DEI hires and activists.

Very good cRPG. 1. Fallowing good Bioware plot with visiting 4 locations and then finishing. Original with 6 different backgrounds. Each location have fair share of sidequest. 2. Have real time (active pause) combat in tactical way (no action combat). Each character have multiple powers, and it is supporter with script mode, so it is easy to use. Some combat are challenging. 3. Character models are quite good (considering time). Also skill effects are bloody, sometimes with cool finishers, magic is also impresive in this one. 4. Locations often have own style, and have some nice points of interest, however in comparison to modern games are small, a bit empty, and more have more style than details. However small maps also means less MMO quests, and less traveling. 5. It is easy to love characters in this one, time passes but not many games suprased in when it comes to companions. Generally it is great game. Great that GOG obtained that. If you like Pillars of Eternity you will probably like this. But if you care about action gameplay of Witcher or Mass Effect it may feel less dynamic. Graphic is last gen. But: It has better face animation than Andromeda!

While a great game, with an enjoyable story and gameplay, it is prone to crashes on modern machines, and has a host of "minor" bugs that accumulate. The automatic addition of all of the DLC items also makes the gameplay far easier than intended for the unaware game who does not turn them off before starting play.

I played this game from start to finish on Xbox 360 back in 2010/2011. Completely beat it. To this day, I can't tell you anything about the game at all. Nothing. I've completely forgotten anything that happened other than the game being totally generic. I was never impressed by anything that happened. This is the only Dragon Age game I've ever played and it has given me zero reason to ever want to play any of the rest of them. Is it a bad game? I don't think so, otherwise I would have remembered that. However the lack of any recollection other than a feeling of generic-ness speaks volumes, in my opinion. If you're one of the people who considers this one of the all-time greats in the RPG genre then I have to question the depth of your experience in said genre.

Game is great, but - there is always a but - it is umplayable on Win10. When you get quite far with a story it starts crashing every time on save loading. You can load older saves, but after you progress further to some point, data gets corrupted and you end up with crushes only.