Dragon Age Origin: Should I buy it from Steam?

[OldKingClancy]

Today's deals on Steam's summer sale has Dragon Ago Origins for £8.50, it's the ultimate edition so it includes the original game, awakening and the nine content packs.
I have a limited knowledge of the game and I'm interested but I want to know if I should get it or not.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Very much so. I had it for the Xbox, but I got upwards of 100 hours out of it.

By all means, go for it!

 

[darksideslayer13]

the game good but can get a littel slow at times. the storys avrage but the charcters are well rounded. There is also choice in the game that doesn't Classafy the options as good or evil. and have sevreal ways of being resolved. you only have direct control over one charcter but you can alter the ai of your team so they act the way yu want when you want. I classed it as my game of the year and for that price it is dfenety worth it.

 

[Radeonx]

Yes. Dragon Age is a fantastic call to the older RPG's, and the DLCs leave you with tons of time to burn on the game.

 

[number2301]

It all depends on what you like. Do you like Fantasy RPGs with stupid retrograde WoW style combat systems? If so you'll probably like it. Personally I can't stand that kind of combat.

 

[Puzzlenaut]

No because although that deal is good, Dragon Age as a whole is by far the worst Bioware series, and when competing for that title with Mass Effect, that's saying something. There are much better deals on steam on much better games than the piece of steaming crap that is Dragon Age: Origins

 

[ImprovizoR]

Go get it before the sale is over. You will not regret it. It's a fantastic RPG with such good characters and story. It's a pure RPG and you will LOVE the characters. They are better than characters in Mass Effect. And the story is pretty engaging too. Combat is tough, sometimes slow but it's tactical. If you're a true RPG fan you will love it.

 

[Shirastro]

Ofc you should. DA:O would be worth getting even at the full price.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Yes, it is fantastic. It just takes some time to get into.

 

[manythings]

Get it. My friend has a motto of "A euro per hour", in other words for every euro he spends on a game he wants to get at least one hour out of it. With the full ultimate edition you can, if you're the crazier multiple plythrough kind of person, get in the region of 500 hours out of it. I certainly have.

 

[Thunderhorse31]

Yes, especially with all that extra content, that's a sweet deal.

No because although that deal is good, Dragon Age as a whole is by far the worst Bioware series, and when competing for that title with Mass Effect, that's saying something.

So, you're saying Mass Effect is almost as bad as DA:O? That's some decent company.

Calling something the "worst Bioware series" is like whining that you have the ugliest diamond.

 

[The Serpent]

Yes, you could have bought that at full price! And the DLC for that game was awesome and included a lot of cool stuff including a pretty big plot moment in the main story and almost all the best gear in the game. Buy it, it was one of the greatest game-experiences I have had.

 

[AugustFall]

Goddamnit! I bought it full price like a week ago lol.

It's amazing, I'm loving it, get it, that's a steal!

 

[AugustFall]

you only have direct control over one charcter but you can alter the ai of your team so they act the way yu want when you want.

?
If you click on the other members of your party then you can control them directly. Or are you talking about in dialogue?

Edit: Okay seems a lot of people are talking about only using tactics and I just want it clear that the tactics only take over when you aren't directly controlling someone, you can control any of your chars directly, picking skills and targets and movement.
And if you really wanted to micro all of your chars you can just turn tactics off and swap about your party.

 

[Confidingtripod]

It's done in the style of the older RPG's so if you have no experiance with that then you might have difficulty piercing into it (If you choose mage you KNOW you chose mage).

It also has a great morality system, insted of good or evil your team will either approve or dissapprove of your actions, its best to decide on your characters personality and then see how others react to it.

People who call it crap are usually used to games that are more actiony, this game is action packed but tacticle... be prepared to be consantly switching and adjusting during combat, and if you play on normal difficulty... you will die, thats a reality, the game has alot of scenes that need to be played trough more than once to get right.

As for the ultamite addition, if you like the game, you will like the expansions.

 

[darksideslayer13]

you only have direct control over one charcter but you can alter the ai of your team so they act the way yu want when you want.

?
If you click on the other members of your party then you can control them directly. Or are you talking about in dialogue?

Edit: Okay seems a lot of people are talking about only using tactics and I just want it clear that the tactics only take over when you aren't directly controlling someone, you can control any of your chars directly, picking skills and targets and movement.
And if you really wanted to micro all of your chars you can just turn tactics off and swap about your party.

i shuld have made that i bit more clear thanks.

on the combat the comabt can get a bit cluster f---- but the abila to pause the game mid battle and still be able to tinker with you party helps.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

do you like rpg's?


if so then go get it


if not...well still go get it, for the amount of content (plus mods available!) that is a fucking steal

 

[ntw3001]

I didn't like it, but I'm certainly in the minority. I think it's because of my expectations. I'd rather hoped for a little more 'roleplaying', but really the opportunity to develop a personality is a little thin. I went for 'stupid, singleminded and easily led', but was only allowed to be shrewd.

Also, it had that dreadful RPG thing where the player has to engineer a situation rather than respond to it. I'm at the top of the tower, I've just killed my healer, I'm low on potions, now the battle is pretty much unwinnable. The winning strategy would be to undo the healer-killing, call through the door for the big bad to postpone his evil plot and quickly pop down to the shops. I wasn't impressed. I guess that's the nature of the genre. I like games that go along with a player's actions rather than putting the plot on hold while they backtrack and rectify past errors.

Oh yeah, and forced dialogue choices. Why have dialogue choices if one option only leads to me walking around an empty room until I pick the other one? My character would pick the first option. Game over, duration about two hours.

 

[Puzzlenaut]

Yes, especially with all that extra content, that's a sweet deal.

No because although that deal is good, Dragon Age as a whole is by far the worst Bioware series, and when competing for that title with Mass Effect, that's saying something.

So, you're saying Mass Effect is almost as bad as DA:O? That's some decent company.

Calling something the "worst Bioware series" is like whining that you have the ugliest diamond.

Perhaps I didn't make it clear that although Kotor, etc, are absolutely fantastic, both Mass Effect and especially Dragon Age are a pile of steaming crap in my opinion. I can't stand either of them and I can't stand the ridiculous praise for the supposed depth of their characters when all the characters are walking stereotypes, their characters shown only in cutscenes, and all the actual gameplay comes down to is badly done cover-based shooting (in ME that is) and badly done slashing in Dragon Age, despite all pretensions of involving plot and characters. The limitations of earier Bioware game forced them not to rely on combat so much and have genuine depth, also putting more emphasis on the RPG side of things. What Bioware has become is an abomination.