Best Origin in Dragon Age?

[Knight Templar]

I love the Human Noble Origin, fits perfectly with the kind of characters I make.
It seems to me that few Origin stories get closure, and City Elf gets the most closure by a long shot.

 

[Flamezdudes]

City Elf.

I also enjoyed Human Noble. Dwarf origins were cool but i don't like dwarves much.

 

[Dannyboy1186]

My favorite was the City elf as a female,

Spoiler: City Elf

Since its pretty epic in terms of how you escape that nobles place and the fact he ruined your wedding. Human noble is a good starting point but its not really as gripping as the City Elf; even though your whole house is being attacked.

 

[Axeli]

I love the Human Noble Origin, fits perfectly with the kind of characters I make.
It seems to me that few Origin stories get closure, and City Elf gets the most closure by a long shot.

Just curious, what kind of character did you make?

Because I found cocky, tough and a bit goofy more or less perfect for someone who passed a life in a slum with flying colors, while my noble character is aimed to be more serious, well-mannered and with stricter morals. And more calculating (yet a bit naive) rather than the idealistic (yet disillusioned) rogue my city elf is.

 

[Tyrannowalefish_Rex]

I only played dwarf noble, city elf and dalish elf. I found them all very good for the most part, but I'd choose the dwarf noble. It had the best pacing and was most convincingly wrapped up. Other than the origins I didn't find the game particularly intoxicating (about two quests in each area, the rest is grinding and some chitchat).

 

[Woodsey]

I liked the Noble Human origin, mostly because it became a story about revenge.

Same here. It was great to finally catch up with the bastard; for a time I was more focused on that then the Blight.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

The city elf girl was pretty fun, especially if you set her up to be very wrathful the rest of the time. The poor dwarf storyline was fun, too, since it sets you up as this underdog who nobody saw coming to be capable. The noble human one was pretty sweet, though it's annoying that you never see the brother again.

 

[FastFoot92]

Anyone else notice how "convineient" Duncan is always there? Saving(in most cases) a rampaging,frothing at the mouth, mass murderer and then brining you to meet THE KING before fucking off and hopefully not dying (Seriously he might not be dead. He's proabaly hiding in Allistar's pack or something)

 

[Dr. wonderful]

City elf...Male style.

Why?

Because you proved your badassness by breaking into the Arl's mansion, killing his guards and killing his son + drunk buddies.

Also, The drawven commoner is freaking epic.

Mage was fun, I guess.

 

[Axeli]

Anyone else notice how "convineient" Duncan is always there? Saving(in most cases) a rampaging,frothing at the mouth, mass murderer and then brining you to meet THE KING before fucking off and hopefully not dying (Seriously he might not be dead. He's proabaly hiding in Allistar's pack or something)

What's suspicious about it? It's not like the main character was the only one he had recruited recently.

Unless you mean that he is always where you start your story at (from the six possible places), but really... I dunno, maybe he visits all six in his search for new Wardens, only finding one because the player never made more than one character (and the rest, while still exists, never made it at some point because only the one you play as is capable enough).
Or maybe he always just happens to visit the place you start at, because the narrative requires so for the plot to take off (or your character not to die or something).

 

[RatRace123]

Holy Hell, Ninja'd by the OP, almost right down to the exact word.

I love playing as a cocky underdog city elf, teaching those arrogant humans a thing or two.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

I got to say Human Nobel because its sadder.

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

I've only done City Elf and Mage, but I preferred Mage because I knew a hell of a lot more about Magic than the game expected you to most of the time. And because you get to play as a Mage, making you an automatic stud.

 

[Sallix]

So far, I've played human noble, which was pretty short but fun.
Dwarf noble, was pretty awesome with the whole story around your siblings
but the city elf for me was the best for this reason:

Spoiler

When you talk to King Cailin, when he asks you why you joined the wardens, you can reply "The Arl of denerim's son raped my best friend, so i murdered him" and you get a great reaction from him

 

[Trebort]

I liked the human noble origins.

The only thing I hated about Dragonage were the Grey Wardens. Silly.

 

[Frankster]

My least favorite is the Dwarf noble. You play the entire story thinking thatBalin is the good guy then BAM. Pulls the biggest dick move. It's not bad or anything, it's just the one that made me RAEG.

That's the sign of good story telling. I never understood what made people play humans in fantasy games. That's like choosing accountant for your class.

I dont agree with that being good story telling, there was no clue or prior indication that Balin was anything other then your loving brother who you actually got on with.

I did the drawven noble story last and was shocked by Balin, knowing what he was going to do but not giving a hint about it. And then when you see him later trying to be king he shows none of that aptitude for deceit or coolness that made such betrayal possible, the contrast between Balin from origins and how you meet him later on is staggering.

Being such a good liar and being able to fake such niceness isn't an easy skill at all, and necesitates a degree of subtlety and even diplomacy that Balin doesn't seem to have at all later on.

As for picking human, I actually prefer to play humans in most games (I swear me and you are polar opposites xD ) and avoid playing non humans. Will have to think why, but I guess its because I find it much harder to relate to a non human and Im not a fan of dwarves nor elves.

As for persona favorite origins...
The mage one, I was actually kinda disappointed that I couldn't get Jowain out of trouble 1 last time (even had him fight the fade daemon as redemption) or use right of conscription.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Anyone else notice how "convineient" Duncan is always there? Saving(in most cases) a rampaging,frothing at the mouth, mass murderer and then brining you to meet THE KING before fucking off and hopefully not dying (Seriously he might not be dead. He's proabaly hiding in Allistar's pack or something)

Actually, it's fourtune.

Each origin still begins, even though you didn't pick one.

City elf is excuted
Dwarven castless is kill by the carta
Cousland is murdered
The mage is taken into prison
Dailish dies from the taint
and Noble dwarf is excuted.

Also I agree with Duncan in his Alister backpack...He's too badass to die like that.

 

[PixieFace]

City Elf female rogue is my "canon" play through and my favorite by far.

I think it's interesting to be personally scarred by humans all of her life - with what happened to her mother and her friends - and then in the end find love with a human, Alistair. It's a nice progression of character, and I also enjoy the traditional tale of a downtrodden nobody rising up to be a glorified somebody.