Dragon Age Origins is a fantasy RPG developed by Bioware and published by Electronic Arts (EA), it is rated Mature. This game is called the “spiritual successor” to Baldur’s Gate, a popular computer RPG made by Bioware from 1998 to 2001, which is based off the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). Now I have not played Baldur’s Gate, but I have played a lot of D&D, and from that standpoint this is very similar. This game is also like playing Knights of the Old Republic,Before I started playing I was thinking…, since both of those games were good, this one, as a mix between both, should be decent. Well I was right, as always, this is a fun and a good RPG.
another one of Bioware’s popular video games.
You can choose from six very different origin stories, from a Human Noble to a mistreated City Elf, to a Dwarf Commoner, and one of three classes you can choose from: warrior, mage and rogue. The plot is epic feeling, you become one of the few Gray Wardens, a order of people who have sworntheir entire lives to defeat the Darkspawn, some willing some not, to fight the darkspawn, demonic creatures that live underground and try to destroy everything living and good. You are tasked with stopping something called a Blight–an event where the Darkspawn, who are lead by an Archdemon, which is an old sleeping dragon-god turned evil, in leading them to try and destroy the land of Ferelden, the world where the game takes place. After getting betrayed, the Grey Wardens of Ferelden are almost wiped out, except for you and another Warden called Alistair, the first member of your party. You and up to three other NPCs (non-player characters) form a adventuring party and travel around the land gathering support to form an army to fight against the Blight and save the world. There is a lot of betrayal, love, hate and a lot of other emotions that you can ignore and just keep hitting stuff with your sword.
The plot is all well and good, but you can skip most of it by just clicking as fast as you can. The combat however is a strange mix of pro and cons. On the pro side, it is fun, you use a variety of spells and abilities to bash, shred, freeze and burn your way through waves of enemies, forcing me to run around as the surviving person and trying to fight everything off. The game looks pretty good, so the flashy spells and attacks look great compared to other games. On the con side, like many games the AI of everyone else in the game is lacking for the most part. I lost count how many times the rest of my party gets destroyed by doing stupids things (like the wizard who randomly runs towards the biggest enemy on the map to gets smashed in the face and die) or simply do nothing besides standing there watching me kill everything. The game does have a way to control what they do however, called tactics. You can assign actions to events that happen–like if you are below 25% health you can set the wizard to heal you when that happens, or the warrior to shield bash the enemy attacking the mage, so the squishy spell caster can flee. You also can control each member, but that is slow and most of the time unneeded.
One thing to keep aware of, this game can get a little dull at points. There is a lot of walking to do; there is a decent fast travel system but the slow wandering around the various towns and cities and other places gets boring. Plus the quests don’t really give that much information about where you need to go, you also cannot set the map to show you, so you have to guess and look at your world map for the new locations. The game slows down sometimes if too much is going on, however the game did not freeze once when I was playing it.Something to help you avoid frustration, the game can get hard for some reason, maybe there are just too many enemies for you to fight, maybe it is the one big monster that kicks your party’s behind every time, or you just have plain bad luck. You should turn the difficulty down, then when you win, turn it back up, believe me, it does not matter at all. Save often, since the dialogue can actually affect the game. Save right before talking to people to make sure that you don’t screw up on something that could help you. Now for something more funny than important: you don’t fight that many dragons, sure you fight drakes and big lizards, but I only counted three total dragons that you fight, for a game where the word Dragon is in the main title, it made me laugh. I would have liked getting my organs handed to me by more giant scaly beasts.
There is also three DLCs for this game at the moment: the Stone Prisoner and The Warden’s Keep which is already out, then Return to Ostagar is to be released soon. Another expansion that is coming out is called Awakening; this one is an actually continuation of the game’s story and not only that, but it looks really cool.
There is also three DLCs for this game at the moment: the Stone Prisoner and The Warden’s Keep which is already out, then Return to Ostagar is to be released soon. Another expansion that is coming out is called Awakening; this one is an actually continuation of the game’s story and not only that, but it looks really cool.
I give these game 4 missing dragons out of 5
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