Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate Edition
Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate Edition
- Includes The 2009 ?RPG Of The Year? Dragon Age: Origins, The Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening Expansion Pack, Plus All Nine Additional Content Packs
- Critically acclaimed winner of more than 50 awards including over 30 ?Best Of 2009? awards
- A tremendous 4 value at one low price
- Critically acclaimed winner of more than 50 awards including over 30 ?Best of 2009′ awards. A tremendous 2 value at one low price.
Get the ultimate Dragon Age experience! Dragon Age: Origins – Ultimate Edition includes: Dragon Age: Origins. You are a Grey Warden, one of the last of this legendary order of guardians. With the return of mankind’s ancient foe and the kingdom engulfed in civil war, you have been chosen by fate to unite the shattered lands and slay the archdemon once and for all. Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures. Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening Expansion Pack. The story of the Grey Wardens continues as you are named their commander. Fight new enemies, learn new skills and spells, and explore an all-new area of the world, Amaranthine. All Nine Content Packs Extend your adventure with The Stone Prisoner, Warden’s Keep, Return to Ostagar, Feastday Gifts, The Darkspawn Chronicles, Feastday Pranks, Leliana’s Song, The Golems of Amgarrak, and Witch Hunt. Collect new rewards, gain new party members, and more as you delve deeper into the Dragon Age storyline.
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August 8th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
THE RETURN TO THE AGE OF THE CLASSICS IS NOW COMPLETE!,
In the past I have chastised EA a number of times for its release of cookie-cutter games, crippled with atrocious DRM schemes. So, in all fairness, I now have to say this: DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS IS A GAMER’s DREAM! It is an excellent game collection which (unfortunately…) does not come free of DRM madness. The original game and its expansion have only a simple disk-check; however, for some unfathomable reason, the DLCs/Packs in this edition have to be…downloaded (and activated) from EA’s site. So, thank you EA for trying to listen to your customers but too bad you missed the cigar for not been able to hold it together to the end.
This is one of those games that are easy to control, a joy to roam through and fun to play at no end.
I am a huge cRPG fan and cannot remember such a great companion/squad cRPG ever since the Baldur’s Gate Saga. And to tell you the truth, this is the game I was dreaming of being able to play one day while playing BG (yeah, by now we all know that NEVERWINTER NIGHTS never delivered).
There are about a dozen gender/race/class/background choices and a great many combinations in forming your party. The armor and the weapons are exceptionally made and everything shows on your characters. And the graphics are truly beautiful! You have to see the rendering of flames to believe them.
Nevertheless, what really stands out is the gameplay. Every battle is a puzzle to be solved, pausing ever so often to reallocate enemies to the best suited party members (a feature I loved in BG!). Of course one can always turn off the autopause feature and let the AI take over the rest of your party and turn the game into an hack&slash action RPG (not exactly my cup of tea but, hey, it’s still nice to know it’s there).
Finally, this is a game made just like the classics in many ways, including duration. I have been playing the game for hours at no end and I feel the urge to start over the moment I reach the epilogue. Now DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS is one satisfying RPG!
My only gripe is this: I did not appreciate such short dialogue options. Most fit a single line and more often than not they consist of a couple of words. I like my RPGs to be wordy and challenging to my verbal imagination as well – and I want my characters to participate in the humor, not just provoke it or react to it. Remember the long dialogue options in BG? Well, expect to find DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS much more laconic.
I guess 10 years of fast-paced FPS and blitzkrieging RTS do take their toll…
This ULTIMATE EDITION not only contains both the original game and its AWAKENINGS expansion but also all nine Content Packs. For such an epic game to be sold at this price, this is a bargain not to be missed!
The blood sprays, the swords clang and the spells explode. The animations are beautifully made and add a lot to both enjoyment and immersion. There is a verse in Homer’s Iliad I love: “the warrior fell, his armor echoing around him” – and I was reminded of it many a times throughout the game.
The game is now complete and it will stay with you for a very long time.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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|August 8th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Great Game, pathetic tech support, questionable efficiency,
I can’t say enough great things about the game itself.
Although the conversation’s can get tiresome when trying to get straight to the ‘hack-n-slash’, some of the conversations between npcs can be incredibly amusing. 2 npcs (not directly associated with the pc) discussing the meaning of life. “What if we are all just a dream?” After I got used to needing to have a few lengthy conversations, I now find some of them to be quite entertaining. The ability to change the game through conversations is also something I like – the game doesn’t need to be played the same way twice. This drastically increases the replay potential.
And then there is the ‘hack-n-slash’ element. After a day at work, the ability to come home and commit virtual murder is great. There are no laws against it! And DA:Origins provides plenty of hack-n-slash. I have played all 3 character types (warrior, rogue, and mage)and the types seem to be fairly well balanced so that no character type has a clear advantage or disadvantage over the others in the game (it is possible to create ‘weak’ characters, but each type has the potential to be strong). Some are more straightforward than others, but I’ve enjoyed playing all three types.
I could go on and on about how much I enjoy playing this game.
Game Play 5 stars
What causes the low rating?
1) This game chews up a lot of space on the desktop. I ended up deleting all of the screenshots and cleaning up most of the interim saves because DA was hogging so much disk space. Some mention of this might have been nice so that I didn’t need to discover it myself and figure out how to fix it. Other games do not seem to be the space hogs that DA is: 3 stars
2) DLC – yep, there is FREE downloadable content included. If you can get it to work. Unfortunately this seems to be a common complaint and one that DA seems to have no interest in addressing. So after hours of research, tinkering with settings, and tech support, the free DLC has never been used – which makes it not quite so free. And there seems to be no possibility that the ‘free’ DLC ever will be accessed: 0 stars
3) Tech support – here I can not say enough negative. The initial support tickets don’t seem to be read so they provide a LOT of instructions that are unrelated to the original question. And have to be worked through to find out that they are unrelated. After literally weeks of trying to get the DLC issue resolved, the response is now that they don’t support Mac/Parallels/Windows XP. I would have bought that as an answer – if my first question hadn’t started with the platform that I was running on and admitting that since I’m running a nonstandard platform, they might not be able to help me. And if their site didn’t provide information (supposedly) for running on a Mac. And if people running on PCs weren’t reporting the same problem (DLC won’t work) and the same poor support. Poor tech support -10stars (that’s negative ten stars, not a dash) Considering this is a 5 star scale, I think my feelings about their tech support are clear.
EA/tech support – 0 stars
If this game runs for you, it is GREAT and I can not suggest buying/playing it strongly enough. If it doesn’t, then it is miserable trying (and failing) to get it to run.
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|August 8th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Great Game, but horrible DRM issues and poor tech support,
Unlike the other reviewer, I can’t even enable any of the DLCs because of the silly DRM system in place. I originally bought DA:O and Awakenings for the Xbox 360. I loved DA:O, and have to say it one of the best RPGs in years. However, the limitations of the console versions had compared to the PC version were quite noticeable. But I didn’t want to spend a ton of money to buy everything again individually. So I jumped at the opportunity to get the “Ultimate Edition” which promised all the official DLCs included with the original game + Awakenings. Although this content is already in the installation, I cannot actually enable it until I log in with my EA account. “Not a problem” I think to myself. Unfortunately, when I go to log in, I get the error message “EA servers no longer available.”
What???
I went to the forums and the official EA support board, and have not had a single response. I even looked at some older questions with the same problem, and no official answer. There are enormous amounts of users having problems with DLC. So far, only the forum users have come up with solutions, which are extremely complicated and involve going into the command console and messing around with the windows registry. Ugh. Seriously, if you are going to have DRM checks, CLEARLY LABEL IT on the box, and MAKE SURE IT WORKS, before you release it. This is the kind of frustration that drove me away from PC gaming in the first place. I am very upset with this purchase, and the complete lack of response from Bioware and EA support. Even though the writers and producers of this game made a very compelling story and enjoyable gameplay experience, the DRM has totally ruined it for me. I now understand all the anti-DRM hate. DRM only punishes and frustrates users who abide by the law and choose to give their money to game companies. I will no longer be buying any games with these DRM schemes.
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