Dragon Age: Origins on mega-Steam sale.

Don’t bother with the $4.99 version, if you haven’t played Dragon Age: Origins before: just get the Ultimate Edition for $7.49.  It’s so absolutely worth it.  I may have told this story before, but: I bought it first, and then my wife watched me play it for a bit, and then she asked if she could have her own gamesave (which of course she could), and then she got her own copy, and then we upgraded her computer so that it could play it properly, and it turned out that naturally my machine needed upgrading… seriously, it was addictive. My wife compared it to ‘a mediocre tabletop RPG campaign,’ which is actually an amazing compliment.  Getting a computer to fake it that well is no easy task.

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4 thoughts on “Dragon Age: Origins on mega-Steam sale.”

  1. I pre-ordered that it at full price because I really enjoyed Neverwinter Nights, and I figured BioWare doing their own world / game system would be really cool. I tried to like the game, but I just could not stay engaged with the story. I didn’t care enough about it to slog through it. At least part of the problem, I think, was just trying to juggle all the half-finished quests and story things with only spotty periods where I could focus on the game. I’d be away from it for a couple of weeks, come back, and start going through the whole, “What was I doing? Why did I come here? Who is that?” all over again. By the time I dusted off the cobwebs and started moving forward, I’d burned up most of the time I had to play the game.

  2. Just don’t try to play it on console.
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    In that format, it’s somewhere between interface screw and unplayable.
    (I especially loved it when the camera panned just so I couldn’t see my loyal companions abandoning me just before finding myself surrounded by invisible assassins. But Alistair setting off all the traps we’d so meticulously set up came close.)

  3. I loved that game. Literally played it through with every possible starting character. Have been disappointed with the sequels, of course.

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