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  • 6 years ago
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    gonna be honest
    I was really disappointed
    Its lore/world was more engaging than Kingdoms of Amalur, sure, but mostly it was... kind of a mess. And still not that engaging.
    The game's combat was frankly pretty terrible. I'd have expected it to revolve more around strategization, but with just how often attacks by both the players and enemies miss, it often feels as if it came down to luck more than anything else. There were only a handful of times when I really felt accomplished.
    But I didn't come in for great combat, I came in for a great story! And in that, Dragon Age: Origins mostly certainly delivers! in dialogue that honestly I wish I could just skim through or something, really, it's not worth all that much. Lots of smaller decisions only have one rewarding conclusion (that being "imma kill u"), and you can often detect BioWare's bias in just the way the lines are written. One way might have a bunch of exclamation marks, indicating that whoever chooses that is speaking childishly or rashly. This really takes away from the value of the decisions, it judges you for them before you can even make them.
    The AI's so dumb, so incredibly dumb. Someone will kill an enemy, then start running a marathon with no other enemy selected. Sometimes they'll use an attack with knockback, and hit an enemy out of range, to which their reaction is to stand in place without attempting to walk close enough to reengage in combat. They'll just stand there like a fucking idiot. Sometimes I'll enter a small battle without giving my friends commands, only to see that for some reason they're very averse to walking through a particular doorway, and never followed along into the room.
    Sometimes I wished that it would be more of a sandbox. The game contains a ton of themes relating to freedoms and restrictions, though often I'm not sure which angle it's pushing, and it just makes me so-so-cleverly think "if only I had more freedom here, HAH, clever Husky, you."
    The game reminded me of the original Witcher in many ways. Some of its tracks sounded almost like inferior copies of things I'd heard in The Witcher, and in every other example, such as the dialogue and the different approach to combat, I only found the comparison to be a negative one. The Witcher's often hated for its different combat, but it was still fully functional. You just had to pick the right sword (out of two), the right combat style (out of three), and then click to the correct rhythm. DA Origins is much less engaging, and either calls for a healthy dose of luck, or just spamming the abilities bar. Half the time my enemies can't even attack me since every other attack also stuns them.
    I did have a strange issue that would plague me every few hours: sometimes I would die, right, and then I'd load back to the last save: but I wasn't making a habit of quicksaving. I was relying on autosaves. In most games I always forget to save, hell I can go through an eight hour playsession before thinking "oh shit, I should really save." Usually for games that load back when you die though, I can bank on autosaves, but not in DA Origins, no. When I die, I'll go back four loading screens and go "wait, what? Where am I? Here? Wait, but I left here HOURS ago!" I eventually found out that the issue might not even be that the game doesn't autosave often: it's that the triggers to automatically save, which are physically placed in the map, are too small, and thus can easily be walked past without realizing it. In most games, if the game wants to save as you walk through a hall, perhaps the trigger is placed to encompass the entire hall! Not here. Nope. You can just skip right over it without realizing.
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  • 7 years ago
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    This is the lamest fictional setting possible.
    It's like everyone picked up american high school rejects and brought them through magical tunnels to populate a fantasy world.
    And gotta love it how it presents itself as "dark fantasy" even though that translates more to "we have no fucking idea what we are talking about lol"
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  • 8 years ago
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    I can't get into this game's story. I really want to enjoy the whole experience, but the story is so lame it hurts :( I think I'll give up
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  • Dany HH wrote his opinion about Dragon Age: Origins
    8 years ago
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    One of the best RPGs of all time!
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  • 9 years ago
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    The base game is currently available for free through Origin. The offer is valid until October 14th, 2014.
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      Editing … Clever marketing. Give an old game away for free when a new entry in the franchise is right around the corner AND introduce new customers to your DRM ecoystem at the same time. They did the same when Sims 4 launched by offering Sims 2 for free. Smart.
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      Editing … Didn't work though, I got Sims 2 for free but in no hurry to get Sims 4.
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      Editing … CARP, it did work, I'm doing their advertisement for them, aren't I? CARP CARP SALMON!
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  • Jack Freeman wrote his opinion about Dragon Age: Origins
    9 years ago
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    I love how the warden you character grows over the cource of this game and like every other single bioware game the companions and characters that you meet are simply fantastic and likeable which makes the overall experience enjoyable even if you are getting you ass kicked by the games combat system.
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  • John Doe wrote his opinion about Dragon Age: Origins
    9 years ago
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    This game takes the standard RPG setting in new exciting directions.
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  • Wrl6199 wrote his opinion about Dragon Age: Origins
    10 years ago
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    throwback to old bioware games. really
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  • In likeflynn wrote his opinion about Dragon Age: Origins
    10 years ago
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    This game is a true gem in the realm of fantasy's, RPG's and tactical combat... brilliant writing, lovable and memorable characters for a compelling journey in the land of Ferelden, excellent music and top-quallity RPG elements serve has means to make you care for your struggle; choosing your race, gender, class and origin give the game a level of immersion few can match, to me makes for a more personal tale; combat is all about strategies where a head-on assault won't always cut it; a great adventure overall. Bioware has a long history of making excellent titles and to me this is their best game and one of the greatest I've ever played.
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  • Fred TR wrote his opinion about Dragon Age: Origins
    10 years ago
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    I got this on a whim for Christmas.
    I got sucked in almost instantly. A grand, detailed and hand crafted world with amazing characters and acting, wonderful music and a graphical style that I just love. The gameplay was great too. Picking your party, venturing forth and pausing frequently to win battles and fights. Goddam it's so engaging and fun. Pausing it often also meant for some awesome looking stills of your characters plunging their sword into people, and crazy poses here and there. It's a great world to just immerse yourself in. Full of emotion, charm, character and soul. It's a meaty, real RPG with lots to think about, lots to do and lots to learn.
    The whole game is fucking awesome. Just awesome.
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