Dragon Age: Origins

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Dragon Age: Origins (PC)

Origin Stories are a major feature of the Dragon Age: Origins experience. Players choose their origin,

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and from that starting point they will play through a unique prelude that lays the foundation for their adventure. The player's choice of origin defines how they will perceive the world and how the world will perceive them. Certain situations, storylines, and conversation options will change dramatically depending on the player's choice of origin and personal motivation. In Dragon Age: Origins, Features Exploration - Travel across the vast and varied lands of Ferelden; from the conspiratorial halls of the last great dwarven city, Orzammar, to the untamed snarls of the Korcari Wilds. Lose yourself in a world crafted by BioWare, the critically acclaimed developer of some the highest rated story-driven games in the world. Customization Dragon Age: Origins will give you deep character customization options including: race, appearance, abilities, and equipment. You will decide how your character looks and through the choices you make, you will determine the type of story your character will experience. Origin Stories - Your Origin Story will define how you see the world and how it sees you. These playable preludes will introduce you to the world and determine your motivations for becoming a hero, setting the tone for the entire story. Moral Choices that Matter - Stand at the heart of the storm sweeping across Ferelden. Decide the fate of nations, people and, ultimately, yourself. Just remember: for every choice, there is a consequence. Combat Dragon Age: Origins features scalable combat options that let you decide the level of control you have over your party. Issue orders, set your own tactical AI, or take control of any party member to lead the charge. Expand your Adventure - Downloadable content will provide you with exciting new stories and ways to extend the Dragon Age experience beyond the original game. The Dragon Age Toolset will give you the power to create your own adventures and share them with friends. Features Exploration - Travel across the vast and varied lands of Ferelden; from the conspiratorial halls of the last great dwarven city, Orzammar, to the untamed snarls of the Korcari Wilds. Lose yourself in a world crafted by BioWare, the critically acclaimed developer of some the highest rated story-driven games in the world. Customization Dragon Age: Origins will give you deep character customization options including: race, appearance, abilities, and equipment. You will decide how your character looks and through the choices you make, you will determine the type of story your character will experience. Origin Stories - Your Origin Story will define how you see the world and how it sees you. These playable preludes will introduce you to the world and determine your motivations for becoming a hero, setting the tone for the entire story. Moral Choices that Matter - Stand at the heart of the storm sweeping across Ferelden. Decide the fate of nations, people and, ultimately, yourself. Just remember: for every choice, there is a consequence. Combat Dragon Age: Origins features scalable combat options that let you decide the level of control you have over your party. Issue orders, set your own tactical AI, or take control of any party member to lead the charge. Expand your Adventure - Downloadable content will provide you with exciting new stories and ways to extend the Dragon Age experience beyond the original game. The Dragon Age Toolset will give you the power to create your own adventures and share them with friends.

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Don't be a noob

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I hate how people compare this game to oblivion, it's nothing like that game. Oblivion was great, but I prefer variety. One disappointed review mentions this game being nothing like oblivion other than being an rpg(and being in the fantasy world?), and thank goodness. That's like asking for mass effect to be like fallout. I cherish both games, but praise the maker it isn't so. The game has so much depth and there's already more DLC coming. Do your research people--watch video reviews, they help you know what's in the game, zOMG.

10 review(s) 0 comment(s) Posted 3 days ago at

Pretty good game

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The game is overall very good. Besides it not being very exciting the only other thing i don't like is all the talking. I can't sit down and spend 3 minutes talking about things i don't care about.

It's not so bad if you can put up with 30 minutes of talking and 10 minutes of play every so often.

10 review(s) 0 comment(s) Posted 4 days ago at

One of the better, original rpgs out there...

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While people may say the storyline, while unique, follows a line similar to Oblivion, thus far it is very enjoyable. I highly recommend playing as a Mage if you like magic, since it seems they are the most effective class against enemies. The interface is different but neat, I like the point of view although I wish it had the option to go to single person POV. It is a very fun game so far and I am only up to the end of the first major quest after the initial story ends. This game really strikes me like another Oblivion in that I think i'll be playing it for months before I get bored with it. Only down side is theres no MP. The Graphics are stellar, but you will need a high end system to run it full on. I am running 1080P resolution, everything maxed out except AA which I have on 4x, and at 1920x1080 with VSync on running on an Intel Core 2 Quad @ 4GHz, 4GB of RAM & 2 GTX 285s in SLI I am averaging between 30-60 fps at all times unless I'm in extremely heavy combat. It helps if

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10 review(s) 0 comment(s) Posted 7 days ago at

A tour de force with some minor qualms

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I went into Dragon Age: Origins with mixed feelings. After my initial excitement over the announcement of the game a few years ago, my thrill was muted by the marketing and most of the emphasis from media sites and from Bioware/EA themselves. Using Marilyn Manson's "This is the New Sh-t" in their marketing seemed curious, when you consider the song is talking about presenting something new, but underneath it's the exact same thing he/they have been releasing for years. That sentiment didn't exactly ooze confidence that Dragon Age would be something special. Ironically, the song does tell the truth in some ways; Origins is the new sh-t. It just so happens that Bioware's sh-t is probably better than most other RPG developers could hope for. Origins begins with one of six stories. When you create your character, you'll select a race, a class and are given one or two possibilities for an origin story. These stories are fascinating in and of themselves, presenting you with the choice

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to begin as a Mage in the Mage's Tower, a Human Noble dealing with unrest in his/her house, a City Elf or a Dalish (forest) Elf, or a Dwarf Commoner or Noble. Each story presents the world differently and can actually be pretty involved. For instance, as a Mage you learn how the world mistrusts magic and has created The Chantry (the religious organization in Origins) to watch over them to make sure they only do approved things. As a Human Noble, you'll live a life of privilege, until you watch your world come crashing down one night. Likewise, the other origins present such themes as fratricide, racism and a look into social castes. Taken together, these origins provide a more rounded view of this mythical world than most full movies or novels do. Whatever choice you select, ultimately you will be ushered into a select group called The Grey Wardens, who are tasked with saving the world from the Darkspawn. The Darkspawn come every so often, in an attacked entitled The Blight and the only thing standing between destruction and these monstrous beasts are The Grey Wardens. Truthfully, the story in Dragon Age will be immediately familiar to anyone who has played a Bioware game. The structure is the exact same structure they've utilized since the beginning. Give a great opening, then give some semblance of freedom to tackle three or four main missions before the game goes back to linearity and you are pushed along a route to the end. Speaking of the end, my first play through clocked in at much over 30 hours. And that was doing some but not all of the side quests. I mostly stuck to the main story, which is amazing. A lot of Bioware games presents a relatively short main storyline and peppers the game with lots of side quests that add to the length. Dragon Age has a very meaty, long main storyline, much longer than their recent games. Adding in the side quests (of which there are lots), and you have an incredibly satisfyingly long game. The most surprising thing about Dragon Age is how unsurprising it is. Most of the character tropes and themes--regardless of how well conceived and plotted they are--are the same we've been seeing throughout Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect, KOTOR, Jade Empire, etc. In some ways, Bioware has become complicit in their game design and so it was almost too easy to see the direction the story took with each mission. That said, even when I knew how the story would progress before I even got to the plot points, Dragon Age had its teeth sunk deep into me and I found myself unable to stop playing. Frankly, the combat system in Origins is the most inspired design Bioware has come up with yet. Merging the RTS-lite feel of Baldur's Gate with the more immediate, third person perspective of some of their later games, Origins makes combat fun and strategic. You choose four people to fill your party and with each combat scenario you are given a few options. You can easily spend the entire time in third person in your main character, allowing the AI to manage the other characters based on tactics (for those who know, think the Gambit system in Final Fantasy XII...except more user-friendly) that will dictate how you want them to play. Want one character to be a healer? Select the healer drop down and it will auto-populate the character's fields with skills and triggers (like "ally

10 review(s) 0 comment(s) Posted 9 days ago at

Best RPG since Planescape Torment and Baldur's Gate II

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This is the best RPG the has come out in a long long time. Bioware has managed an exceedingly rare trifecta: a great story, an epic world, and fun tactical combat. Fallout 3 only had the latter two. Morrowind only the first two. Oblivion, IMO, only the realized the second. KoTOR the first and the second. Etc... Dragon Age, on the other hand, has it all. PROS: First of all the writing is fantastic. While the game sits squarely within the traditions of high fantasy, the game does a pretty good job of reinventing the wheel and producing a more gritty, naturalistic take on the genre. Not since Planescape Torment has an RPG offered such well-crafted and nuanced dialogue and storylines. Secondly, the world is epic. Epic. Thousands of years of history which you can optionally peruse at your leisure via "codex" entries that you find as you play. Only the Elder Scrolls series has constructed as detailed of a world as the one you'll find in Dragon Age. Finally, the combat is actually fun.

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It's challenging enough that you need to approach it tactically, preferably using the top-down view unique to the PC version. That is to say, for most encounters you can't just sit back and let your characters hack away at the enemy while using the occasional power-up. You end up micromanaging your party members a great deal (particularly rogues and mages) but the end result is that even the average fight feels like a challenge, but one that can be overcome by using your party members tactically. I generally play RPGs for the stories (I think of them as interactive novels) and this is the first RPG I enjoy the combat as much the sotry and dialogue. CONS: - Dragon Age is old school in that it's composed of detached zones rather than the one huge contiguous world of games like Oblivion and Fallout 3. It's not a terrible downside, but I feel like you're more easily immersed into the game's world when it's tangibly one big interconnected world. - The "Tactics" system on the whole works well but it might be a bit overwhelming for a few people and it suffers from some curious limitations. Tactics is the games system for assigning behaviors to party members when you're not controlling them directly. Things like "If your health is below 25%, use a healing item". Generally, I really like the level of control that it offers but I realize that most people might just want a *one-button* "turn on AI intelligence for this character" type deal. Noentheless, the game offers something close to that by giving you "presets" which will fill in a character's tactics for you but I think that might still be one layer of complexity too far for casual players. However, personally, I think its absolutely great to have that level of control over your characters, especially given the challenging nature of the combat. The one thing that really bugs me is that the the system lacks a few options that'd be useful for rogues. A condition based on whether you're facing the back of an enemy would be useful, as well as something to instruct a rogue to try to get behind an enemy (though the default rogue behavior seems to already do the this to some extent) Overall: If have any bone in your body that enjoys RPGs, then get this game.

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