Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition

This game has the most interesting, and least dynamic, gameplay of the DA series. The tactics menu is actually useful in this one and with the DLCs some of these companions have busted moves (Sten casually bringing everyone back to life). That said, this game is definitely the hardest and I found myself lowering the difficulty an embarrassing number of times. The plot is great in this one and knowing that I only have one playthrough under my belt as a Cousland has me excited for whenever I bring myself to go through the process of fixing it up again. It is also incredibly buggy on Steam and the fact that I (not very well versed in mods) had to look up how to download a patch just to keep this game from crashing after every combat is pretty rough and has kept me from wanting to start another playthrough. The classes all feel pretty balanced and the subclasses add flavor. Perhaps controversially, the companions in this one are my least favorite overall in the series, not to any real detriment to them, but as a compliment to the character writing in the next two installments. When Bioware hits they hit.

BEST GAME EVER!!!!

I do have this thing (plus awakening) on DVD, which I bought when I was young and stupid, having to travel like 5 km on foot. All bc I played a couple days before at a friend's home. It's been over 15 yrs since then and this game still manages to awe me. My Steam playtime doesn't even approach to the actual one. If you are too young to have played this game on its prime or if you somehow managed to miss it back then, and you like actual RPGs, I can't stress how much you'd like it. Just open your wallet and spend some bucks. And don't forget to fill up some mods; DAO suffers a lot from memory leak but there are solid unofficial workarounds.

I want to give this game a positive review, I really do but there are so many aspects of this game that's driving me up the wall. Quick context: I've played all three mass effects, and SWTOR, all four being games which BioWare developed. Starting off I despise the combat, I hated SWTOR combat with a passion, I stuck around through all eight campaigns due to the compelling story, the combat in DAO is maybe a smidge better but that's because it can be complex, and is flashy, still miserable though, the story so far is compelling hence why I'm still playing. The game, especially the dlcs are buggy, it crashes frequently when tabbing out, I've ran into no save breaking bugs, the bugs I've ran into require you to backtrack a lot, that wouldn't be an issue if the player character wasn't so slow. walking back to fix the bugs can take upwards of 5 to ten minutes of walking, just walking as your playable character drags their feet. But the biggest issue that has made me lose hours of time was, I gave gift to max out my companions 'friendship', not knowing that it would force me, unknowingly into a relationship, I had never initiated a relationship with either character, I've talked to them maybe twice, and then, four hours after I had given them the gift, I find out I'm dating them both. I did not want to date either of them. I do not understand why there wasn't a single conversation about this, just poof your dating them both. due to this I'm having to roll back to a save FOUR hours ago. in mass effect, in SWTOR, romances take several hours of gameplay and tens of conversations where your given the CHOICE if you want to romance the character.

Amazing game if you are willing to install some stuff to make it run properly. Don't play the DLCS

stealing money from ppl, this product is broken if you buy it will work for 2 hours then constantly crash

I love the story and characters, but the combat is incredibly frustrating. I ran into a pack of wolves, and my warrior did so little damage that it took my entire party just to kill one out of all of them. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but I am definitely dropping the difficulty from normal to easy.