Dragon Age: Origins will always have a special place in my heart. I still remember playing this game till I fall asleep, then wake up the next morning and resume playing the game. Such a very good time.
DA:O was a great gaming experience back in its time 14 years ago. I had a lot of fun maxing my character, good speech choices/paths, and using the pausing combat strategy. Baldur's Gate 3 is quite amazing and I could make an even more badass demonesque character but I still can't really get myself to enjoy the turn base strategy although I know that is integral part of D&D just like the dice rolls. Gets tiresome when a battle consists of ten to fifteen enemies.
I always interpreted it as him checking if we succeeded at our task(In heat of battle he doesn't look around for the signal, he is just waiting for reinforcement to join any minute). But at his final moment he looks at the tower to confirm we have succeeded - he does that out of worry for us, but mostly for Alistair. He says he didn't do it to protect us but he actually did, he didn't want new blood to possibly die that night. Even if the victory seemed so "easy" in King's eyes. I think it was actually relief and hope in Duncan's final moments, that Alistair has a chance to survive(obviously not knowing we were also betrayed and then swarmed - cause Loghain was gonna sabotage the tower regardless of who goes). Either way Duncan was sweet and it sucks we didn't get Alistair DLC that would let us play his origin, his joining and few months before he met us - would be great opportunity to know him better and learn about Duncan and how the order was before the fall in Ferelden Duncan thinking about reinforecements not coming despite the signal are kind of far fetched - don't mean to be rude. He only checks the tower as he is about to die, so he does not know how long it has been lit(and from narrative point of view it seems the tower was just lit, hard to deduce the timing here but it is likely loghain wouldn't save Cailan anyways, although they could have recovered his body and save Duncan - who btw is yet missing in terms of his body, many speculate darkspawn do things to Grey Wardens, maybe somehow keep them alive and corrupt them, if there is anything to it then DA4 should have it. Architect used Grey WArdens for his experiments but i think he would mention Duncan or Ostagar at all so either it was some other magister or Duncan missing body has some meaning to it, especially since darkspaw have enough brain to understand who Cailan was and to corrupt his body)
I agree with this. While I still liked DA:2 I felt them turning it into more of an action game and not giving it a very satisfying ending (too many loose plot threads) really left it feeling... not as complete as the original Dragon Age. The same issue except even worse for Inquisition. I've now written away the franchise. I really don't think the series can get back what it lost. Thankfully games like Baldur's Gate 3 are coming out and beating it at it's own game by... returning to the roots of what it was trying to be. BG3 is more like Dragon Age than DA:2 and DA: Inquisition combined.
@@Shifft-This I liked both DA:2 and DA:I but I just see them as a spin-off series or sorts. Even with the games losing more and more RPG elements to me they don't feel like proper sequels in a general sense. First off, no sense of progression. Some things do carry over (elves opression, mage rebellion) but the main thing regardind the Darkspawn and the ancient Gods it's not touched upon until Dragon Age 3, and by then you're playing with a brand new character unrelated to both the one from the first game and Hawke. That takes weight away since it doens't feel like a big adventure in the vein of Mass Effect where you're Shepard all the time, or the first two Baldur's Gate games where you are the bhaalspawn until the last expasion. It's worse when you take into account that Hawke and Inquisitor just meet each other for 5 minutes and neither of them ever meets the Hero of Ferelden (assuming the hero survived the encounter with the Archdemon). Secondly, Origins aesthetic was dirty, gory, bleak and kinda erotic. The two sequels are so clean and sanitized that it's not funny. You do get some bloody bits here and there but they're sparce, and a good deal of the time they feel out of place because the rest of the game is too kid-friendly. That's specially agravating when you take into account the both sequels have darkers themes than the first one, yet they shy away from adressing them properly. tl;dr: Gameplay aside, changes in tone and aesthetic make the whole series feel disconeted.
Agreed. Skipped DA2 all together because every time I played it I couldn't get past the combat in the first 30 minutes. Same exact thing happened in DA:I which I did play some multiplayer in but just like with ME:A I couldn't get past the first hour. Rubbish.
just the main menu music alone with the sword dripping in blood brings back the nostalgia. Still one of my all time favs. Bioware was killing it with their games back then. KOTOR, Mass Effect, Dragon Age. Also I've been reading The Stolen Throne which is a prequel novel. Really changes the context of the game when you have the background information.
@@hibernate44 Boooo, I actually liked DA 2 for what it was. I think the gaming community has this weird fascination with popping a hate boner over sequels.
I... f*cking love this game so much. Baldur's Gate 3 comes incredibly close to how I feel when I play DA:O from time to time. It just has that "I actually care about the game I'm making" vibe to it.
Playing through BG3 rn and it truly feels to me like the sequel DAO never got. There is a big difference to me where DAO had so many more character moments and more conversations you can have with companions. BG3 has so much combat back to back to back. Not a bad thing but kind want for it to be slower and more atmospheric
I think each game brings some neat concepts but origins is the most complete by far. 2 has amazing characters, inquisition adds some polish to combat imo and a compelling homebase
I just replayed DAO and was struck by how fantastic the role playing is. The lack of a voice protagonist and the dialogue options just make it so much better than the later games in that regard. I was also struck by how brown the game is. This was definitely from the era when a dark fantasy meant a brown game.
It’s not even the color brown, it’s just the art direction tells tells you that you are in a brutal world. In a way this makes me more appreciate to the funny/silly bits in this game.
I was mostly joking. I remember fallout new vegas having a similar color palette for pretty much the same reason. Too many modern games go for a bright, vibrant look that just clashes with their serious plots. @@andywang2483
@@camraid9 It also suits a game dealing with something called "the blight." Various environments still feel different but there is a clear, consistent vibe (for lack a a better word) to the entire game. I wish more games would be like that.
@@Piketom1 Honestly, I think the overall brown-ness undermines an aspect of the Blight. The darkspawn taint is supposed to slowly corrupt and taint as it progresses. If the world were a bit more vibrant, they could have played with that a little, shown portions of Lothering getting a bit withered, perhaps, or made parts of the game look bleaker the further into the main quest you were when you got there. I'm not saying go full bright-and-cheerful with it, but I think using contrast between brighter and bleaker tones can accomplish a bleaker overall feeling than just... pure bleakness. The Korcari Wilds are probably the only location they did something like this with, and in that only between games-there's a fair amount of plant life there in DA:O, but when Hawke's family is fleeing through it in DA2, it's an absolute wasteland.
How did it reminded you of Dragon age. BG3 is for me totally different. Different story feeling, different way the companions are, totally different mechanic and different lay out.
@@sayurioffenborn4960 The combat mechanics are different, but both are party based character driven RPGs for an adult audience with fully voiced dialogue (except for the player character in Origins and BG3). There just aren't many games that check these boxes. Most of that genre is smaller indie games or AA games that lack the voiced cinematic dialogue, so they have no chance against Dragon Age.
Alistair I could bro down with. Gale just wants to constantly gargle my balls no matter how many times I tell him no. Although now like 50 hours later he realizes “I have eyes for another.” Now he’s just sappy.
@@RiderZer0 It's a minor complaint, but yea, I felt like the companions in bg3 pushed sex a bit too hard. In Dragon Age it usually felt like you had to really go out of your way to win the companions over. In bg3, laezel is trying to sleep with you for simply agreeing with her once in Act 1.
One of my favorite parts of origins was the character creation. The fact you had different starts based on your characters race, etc was awesome. I really hope the new dragon age goes back to this
@@peterpanda6931 I mean, BioWare is being shifted away from live-service because even EA gets that it doesn't work for them at this point, so I wouldn't hold my breath on those NFTs. Very much doubt Dreadwolf will be heavy on roleplay, though. Possibly Dragon Age 5, if BioWare is allowed to exist long enough to learn lessons from BG3's success. But Dreadwolf is already deep in development, I think? So probably not gonna change course on that one.
@@OneTrueNobody Yes, Dreadwolf is in alpha state and playable from start to finish since a year ago. So it should be close to completion. I think people need to manage their expectations. It's not gonna be Origins 2.0. It's gonna be more likely to be just Inquisition but better. And I'm fine with that because I like Inquisition. 🤷
I just started playing recently man have I unlocked a gem, I miss gaming back in those days. Ive barley became a grey warden and I must say this game washes Skyrim as an RPG already imo
@Edo_has_a_marvelous_persona shit combat in an rpg is almost a necessity, lol. Of the old 90's And 2000's CRPGs, few are considered classics because of their combat.
It's so cool that someone else thought the same thing. Baldurs Gate 3 reminded me so much of Dragon Age it felt like i was at home from the start and gave that warm feeling of nostalgia.
@@sayurioffenborn4960 Almost everything really. The only difference is that Origins is an old game so graphics, combat and art style are modern but everything from lore, to romance, characters, companions and quest remind me of DAO mixed with Divinity.
DAO is actually better in some regards as it shows armies fighting along side you and also has a fully fleshed out epilogue where you see all the consequences of your decisions you took along the way tied up nicely. BG3 when downhill from the later part of Act 3. The allies just show up in the linear upper city fights (although final battle was quite good). The epilogue was basically "yay we won, bye bye then" after spending 100hrs with the characters it left me feeling wanting for a better closure.
@@sayurioffenborn4960DAO was essentially the original bg3 in spirit when bioware lost the DND license. The genes of bg2 are in it absolutely. It belongs in the conversation. Da2 and inq do not
@@sayurioffenborn4960 They both have MC stuck with powers that can kill them (BG3 parasite, DAO The blight) They both have memorable and wonderfully written companions, Both have great and slightly similar lore. Yes there are differences that set them apart but they’re so similar I feel like I’m playing the successor to DAO when playing BG3.
I loved how the origins linked back into different parts of the narrative. For human noble in particular I loved how it was tied into the political manoeuvring of the landsmeet, and it even ties into your relationship with Nathaniel Howe in awakening.
Yeah, I kinda hoped for Mass Effect Legendary Edition treatment for DA series tbh. And who knows, we might get it yet, just to remind people what DA is before "Dreadwolf" comes out.
How inmersive it was. The epic beginning with Duncan and Alistair, the misterious and beautiful Morrigan, the funny accent of Leliana... all I can remember is magical. There wont be games like this anymore, not by the actual standards
@@MWHBowen The way they changed the gameplay experience and execution of the story was kind of lackluster in comparison to Origins. The settings/themes were pretty cool though, but I think Origins is still the best one out there. Especially when it comes to branching of choices and the different backgrounds/start that was prominent through all of the story. Still think Dragon Age Inquisition had the most interesting story when you look past all the side-consuming-stuff, only the pacing was kind of doodoo.
@@alessandrodebonis4888 Not really sure how inventory management would drive anyone insane in BG3 unless you just ignore the existence of Shift+Click, Ctrl+Click, and the search bar.
You should play the Dark Urge. They feel like the intended main character and have a really nice backstory, that is tied into the main story of the game.
Dragon Age Origins and Mass Effect 1 are peak BioWare. They both started massive IPs, both were the best (imo at least, with unique more mature and ambience/worldbuilding oriented storytelling) and are really nostalgic to me.
One of my best memories from this game was spending like 20mins just talking to Leliana in camp. Like a random chat with a companion ended up being so much more and compelling. At that time it blew my mind.
The cinematic before the ostagar battle blew my mind when I first played this game. I have some issues with Bioware these days but I still think they're one of the best for cutscenes.
I don't agree for the cinematics per say, but i do agree for how they build the story and scenes in said cinematics. That cinematic and the moment "Then the Grey Wardens came". Is still one of the best cinematic lines coupled together with the main theme.
@@hah-vj7hc I started to kinda "hate" them when i realized that i couldnt play with my grey warden in 2. 2 was a mess but it took a different approach away from the basic save the world from some ancient evil formula. I couldnt even bring myself to play the post game dlc for Inquisition. Each time i turned that game on i was asking myself why arent i just playing origins. Bioware has changed and i think that none of the old talent is around. Its a shell of its former selv just like blizzard.
I am currently playing Dragon Age: Origins and is the story that drags me into the game. At first it was a big jump from Mass Effect in terms of graphics but after awhile I got used to it. Did I mention the voice acting in this game is incredible. Wow, good stuff.
@@michaelh878 I'll disagree on that, but I also disliked Dragon Age's shift to a more "videogamey" stat system even back at the time. To be fair, I also kind of dislike that aspect of the Divinity: Original Sin games, even though the action point system reminds me of Fallout. The sticking point for me is that the Baldur's Gate games, whether real-time-with-pause or turn-based, have a tabletop ruleset to them that is designed to be comprehended mathematically by the people playing them, whereas with Dragon Age, even at its best, the most I could hope to really figure in my head was, "Aaaaaah, um... high damage GOOD, city elf SMASH!" There was enough tactical depth to offset that, but I'm not looking at my equipment and immediately understanding the significance of every point difference the way I would in KotOR, Baldur's Gate, or Neverwinter Nights. And to compensate for that, some aspects of the combat system are geared to be kind of brainless. Not nearly as brainless as Dragon Age would become in its sequels, but... kinda brainless, even so. I'm not saying they should have cloned D&D again, but I would definitely have preferred a system that wasn't quite so numerically opaque. We have JRPGs for that kind of thing.
@@OneTrueNobody if you're reaction is "aaaaaaah, um... high damage GOOD" maybe you didn't understand how it works. Play the game on Nightmare, i'll wait here for you asking for help
@@OneTrueNobody ok lol, at least I don't make excuses when i don't get how thing works. Dragon Age 2 on Nightmare requires only strategy and no room for mistakes. Still, you think the combat Is brainless. You never played those game at their fullest and still you spoke like you know everything about the games. You are delusonal
DA: Origins really is such a special game even nowadays, it's honestly a shame that the series never quite took off in quite the same way that Mass Effect did. As much as I do enjoy DA 2, it certainly isn't as great as Origins was overall and Inquisition while being a huge upgrade in terms of scale, at times feels more shallow, plus there's an atmosphere in Origins that none of the other games really could capture again. An almost suffocating oppression and sense of foreboding, while still having that glimmer of hope. Bioware back in the day were absolute masters of storytelling and world building while now they've stumbled with things they used to nail.
I think in terms of games i was looking forward to letting me down, none come close to DA2, i was so disappointed in what they did with that game. The story was still decent though.
@@Itzxkazer The story was ok, the worldbuilding continued being great, and the conflict between mages and... paladins? forgot the ingame term for antimagic warriors, was even done even better, mostly because it was the main plotline. DA mages are the coolest part. ALSO, DA2 reduced complexity in combat which led on to Inquisition taking out the keyboard combat for the "only 4 skills or something" style to be able to adapt to a controller. No matter how much I liked Cassandra and some parts of the story, I'll never forget how absurdly dumbed down the combat is.
@@Jonsoner It would have been cool as a cheaper spin off. I still, enjoyed it for what it was. Can't say the same for inquisition. That was a nightmare of Mass Effecf Andromeda proportions.
I quit playing 2 after like 10-20 hours or smth. just fighting the same swordsmena dn archer in the same(looking) alleys all the time was an insult to the name Dragon Age
Man DA:O was something special. I must’ve stretched my first playthrough out to over 70 hours just obsessing over everything in the game, and I was left just so immensely satisfied with the ending. I can’t wait to get BG3 on my PS5 to recapture that feeling.
That's how I felt when I first played baldurs gate 3. It immediately brought back my memories of DAO. It's like a spiritual successor, especially when at camp to rest.
Did anyone notice Yenna (the little kid with the cat that runs up to you when you first enter Act 3) is parallel to the little boy you meet when you first enter Lothering? They both are searching for their mothers, both red hair, and similar personality. You have the option to give them money or food (at least I think you can give the boy food). There are many aspects of DAO in BG3, but for me, there are certain points in DAO's writing that still beat any RPG to date.
Dwarf Prince has the best real world consequences and mage/dalish were tied for best origins Edit: I remember if you got the vials but not treaties you could infinitely turn in the vials for xp
@@ХузинТимур Oh yeah, i remember going full Braveheart in the City Elf origin, big ass sword and everything. But yes, Dwarven Noble is my favorite as well, loved playing as one.
What I prefer with the dragon ages is that you can do both style of combat (kinda). You can either play tactifully, so pause the game and chose who does what in your party. Or you can have real time combat (which I prefer). Shame that BG3 doesnt offer this
Real time combat was mostly for easy fights. In DA:O strategy was more important so u had to play "turn based" more often, and then they dumbed down sequels to the point you no longer needed that. So IMO trying to make real time combat work more frequently sort of ruined the quality of the fights
CRPG don't like action real time. If they did, more people would talk about pillars of eternity. Good game, but doesn't have mass appeal either direction
@@thomasb5307 I think I never played "real time" in Origins. It was always tactical and barely making it through hard difficulty. Inquisition is just a walking simulator on Nightmare a majority of the time.
One of the many reasons i loved this game was the conversations between your companions while you were taking a break while out questing, some genuinely funny dialogue, even wynne used to roast Alistair just brilliant writing
One of my favorite things to do in Origins was to get a full party of Mages and make them all keep Haste on. Made you 8x faster at everything, really sped up the pace of the game.
Very few people ever recognize that Neverwinter Nights 2 is actually the pioneer before Dragon Age: Origins and Baldur’s Gate 3. A lot of the DNA that those games share have originally come from that one game. Which is why it will always still be one of my favorite games of all time.
AFAIK Dragon Age Origins was literally called (by the devs) a spiritual successor to the original Baldur's Gate games. No idea where you're getting Neverwinter Nights 2 from. If anything I'd say it's closer to Neverwinter Nights 1 (which, like Dragon Age and Baldur's Gate, was also made by Bioware)
This game pulled me out of a really dark spot in my teenage days. It was just magical and overall perfect. It is Bioware's Magnum Opus in my opinion and I have played all of their games throughout the years. I'm glad Baldur's Gate 3 took inspiration from it.
No, it's not. Dragon Age was a watered down action RPG that was never as good as the RPGs that succeeded it. Just because it was your first RPG, it doesn't change that.
@@Amonny Did you even play Dragon Age Origins ? It was itself a spiritual successor and picked up from the first Baldur's Gate games (made by Bioware). You're probably talking about the sequels
DA:O was one of the best RPGs I've ever played. I remember I talked shit to Morrigan and she left my party for good literally at the beginning of the game lol
As a fan of DAO I can confirm I am having certain Deja Vu moments between BG3 and DAO, although the stories are completely different and Divinity OS and OS2 are closer to BG3, I think what makes it feel similar is the strategic combat, huge variety of characters and tons of animated sequences and also, forest, dwarf mountain city , first act at least has vibes
DAO is the pinnacle of RPGs, especially if you put it in the context of the time it was released. I am sure I had a good 400 hours on it BEFORE I discovered the mods on PC. Damn...now I gotta play it again.
When I put Skyrim on for the first time, I thought that if it was as good as DA:O, it would be fine. Within 2 hours, Skyrim made me forget I'd ever played DA:O. Call it a stereotypical opinion by now, but Skyrim truly is the peak of RPGs.
@@Nonamearisto Let me guess, you haven't played Morrowind when it was released) Imo, Morrowind is by far better than Skyrim & Oblivion, sure tes3 engine is hideous nowadays but if you put it aside, you will see how great TES3 was and how TES series degrated...
Can we just admit that this game has a simplicity to its gameplay thats amazing, the ability to simply have your characters attack Automatically and altogether without any pause or delay makes the gameplay not only faster, but better than b3
This is still in my top 10 fav games. Building up an army and actually feeling the pressure of the conflict is so good in this. The final fight and seeing all your allies coming in to help is great. Not many games do this well. Plus all the characters in this are awesome - Alistair and Morrigan are hilarious always bickering. "Swooping is bad".
The main reason why I loved DAO is the different origins. Inquisition missed out on that part. They really could have made different starting points for each background. Like if you are a mercenary you started at center of prologue before the rift. If you are a Dalish, you sneak into the gathering and such.
Dragon Age Origins was so good that all my kids know my main characters name and his story. I would tell stories to my youngest kids when they were 4 years old and my eldest son who was 9 at the time. They are all grown now but they still remember the stories of Pintov, my dwarf from DAO.
Dragon Age is a must play. I also returned to it again after many years for the nostalgia and to see if my matured mind can excell better with the strategy gameplay. It seems im actually better than before. You tend to go more panic when you're young or atleast thats how it feels for me. So cool to see u shed light on this gem of a game
Origins is amazing, I played every origin start to finish, and its so crazy how different the start of the game is from a dwarf thats either a noble, or has no cast, An elf thats a city elf or a wood elf. Human thats either a noble or a mage. All fairly large unique opening stories/tutorials, alongside throughout the game that origin being called back to, your race and gender being mentioned. Amazing characters, and amazing choices that affect not just the ending but the experience throught, the way to tackle that I forget what it was called, the red is it cliff area, with that possessed kid, the array of different outcomes, becoming queen is a possibility. This game had it all, something DA2 and especially inquisition, while good enough games, just couldn't hold a candle to.
Dragon Age Origins was one of my first introductions into the fantasy genre. Before that I played a lot of KotoR and saw this had similar combat styles, but it was more intuitive and satisfying. I played through this game so many time. I remember taking an entire weekend one time to play through every single opening on every single race.
Whoa - got teary-eyed and major nostalgic hearing the character creation music 😢 this game was everything to me as a young adult, and definitely get those same fantastical vibes from BG3! There are even some moments I try to remember what DA:O had in it… I’ll need to replay that one too!
Bioware and Obsidian, who put together the first BG games, are absolutely pioneers in both CRPG and ARPG games, where they continued the CRPG aspect through Dragon Age, then Pillars of Eternity with Obsidian.
Hehe, I remember when Dragon's Age: Origins was being released, the buzz around it was that 'It's the spiritual successor to the Baldur's Gate series that we never got'. I'm 37 now, and grew up with BG1, BG2, and the Infinity games. Can't remember how many times I finished those games - they were contenders for my favorite games ever. To be honest, I tried to get into DA:O but could never do it - I left the game unfinished, it simply could not do for me what the BG games did. Perhaps it was that I had grown up, and that my expectations and free time was not what it used to be when I was younger. It's great to see that a newer generation however seems to have found in this game what I had found in the BG originals, and just find it funny how now BG3 is the 'spiritual successor to Dragon's Age that we never got'.
I had the opposite I played Dragon Age Origins and later picked up Baldur's Gate and haven't been able to finish it because it couldn't do for me what DAO did. I think it really depends on preference and what you experienced first.
It's great to see people going back to a classic and giving it love while noting how it's influenced or inspired modern titles. I adored the Mass Effect series, but Dragon Age Origins is probably still my favorite standalone Bioware game and one of my favorite RPGs of all time. I feel like every stage of the adventure is a memorable standalone story in itself.
One of the fun things about Dragon Age: Origins is that the specific race and origin combination you pick can also affect your starting skills with the class you pick. For instance, a City Elf will always begin with a bit of dual-wielding in their starting loadout; a Dalish Elf with a bit of archery; and a human with a bit of sword-and-board, as both warrior and rogue. So your Origin has an impact on your starting build, not just the story you play. My first character was a City Elf Warrior and since she started as a dual-wielder, I kept her as one, and she turned into the most OBNOXIOUS skill-spamming heavy-armored sweeper tank. Just gathering all the enemies to her and unleashing with those wide-area double sword attacks. Started Awakening buck naked and without weapons though, because of the way the save import borked the DLC equipment, which also happened to be the best stuff for the Origins endgame. Whoopsie-doodle. I miss the kind of build flexibility Origins let you experiment with. DA2 and Inquisition both had really rigid build limitations, such a dual-wielding being daggers-rogue-only, archery being purely a rogue thing too, warriors being nothing but melee or melee-plus-shields, and so on.
Dragon Age Origins has a special place in my heart. It was the first ARPG that I played and I started with a Human Noble Warrior origin like you. I was both devasted with the fate of our family and the war at the Ostagar. This was the game that made me fell in love with RPGs and specifically with Bioware. It's a shame how Bioware fell this low.
Dragon Age: Origins is a truly great game. No, it's not just a game. It's a novel, a portrait, a movie and a play all in one. And you're both the writer/painter/director as well as the main protagonist. Haven't imagined in my wildest dreams that 14 years later a Baldur's Gate title made by a company other than BioWare would end up being even more wonderful than DAO. Eternal gratitude to BioWare for setting a standard for rich CRGP and to Larian for bringing that standard to new heights!
Absolute gem of a game, and Baldurs Gate is such a reflection of everything Origins accomplished. Def will be playing Origins again soon in between Baldurs gate playthroughs.
Dragon Age Origins/Awakening will forever be my favorite Bioware game. I also played human but I always chose mage and then built into arcane warrior so I could tank with spells.
I actually just picked up Dragon Age: Origins (I didn't have any BioWare titles growing up; I was a Wii kid), and I was fortunate enough to get Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 Enhanced Edition through Prime Gaming, so I'm excited to see how you think this has aged!
The story is pretty great but the game is much harder than you'd expect. You get to make pretty significant choices and your traveling companions have a good excuse to travel with you during the adventures. The fantasy elements are generic enough but have a twist to them. Such as dragons being godlike creatures and mages are always a few steps away from being tempted by demons.
It's insane that despite after more than a decade since I've last played Dragon Age: Origins I still remember story as if it was yesterday. Baldur's Gate 3 has managed to surpass DA:O for me and become my new favorite game. But this just shows how great DA:O was at it's time and how high the bar was set. Kudos to Larian on delivering 3x of the greatest cRPGs ever made and honoring old school Bioware. I just wish EA and current Bioware would look up to BG3 to make Dragon Age 4 like a modernised DA:O
I mean, if Dreadwolf is just "Inquisition but better" (which is pretty much what you should expect) I'll enjoy it. Obviously Inquisition did some things wrong but overall it's still a decent experience.
@@theobell2002 yeah dai is by far the most replayable game of the series imo. dreadwolf has been in development for quite a long while now so maybe they wont fumble the bag partly like they did in dai. (mmo quest/zone design)
@@jaded-harper Oh yeah, Inquisition definitely has flaws but this comment section and Origin fans in general act like it's the worst game ever made. lol
Inquisition's the worst of each of Bioware's main two intellectual properties imo (Excluding Andromeda which I have not even touched), I can not remotely concur with the often spouted idea it is one of the greatest videogames of all time. Mass Effect 3's woeful quest design of barely getting to interact with NPCs beyond a binary choice at the end of a fetch quest to the Galaxy Map and the Citadel was held up by having superb conclusions to larger narrative arcs and a handful of real missions. For me Inquisition went in on that quest design and then some, tedious crafting and inflated resource collection on an oversized map come to mind as one example, another being the combat itself being so drawn out by artificial number bloat especially during the DLC areas. Whilsts restricting you to only a pitiful six skills at a time and no attribute distribution, it clearly does not respect my limited time, clocking in at two to three hundred hours when finished. It's an okay experience the first time around but just because I like Thedas and have a prior history with Dragon Age, even with the most shallow characters (aside from a handful of characters, just Dorian if I am being completely real) and plot to date... most infuriating of all for a role playing game, you do not get to do an awful lot of role playing. The Inquisitor offers neither the depth of The Champion or breadth of The Warden. It is a story where you are at the center of a world shaking story with no meaningful consequential autonomy, best exemplified in Trespasser, as you are locked in to being in awe of Solas. Finally I really really wish the Art Nouveau inspiration worked anywhere near as well in the world itself as it did on the Tarot Cards. Clothing in general looks largely pretty awful. Just look at old Bann Teagan. And The Darkspawn design still does not work. I am glad Trevor Morris will not be returning for Dreadwolf either, I found his take on Dragon Age supremely dull in comparison to Inon Zur, it's just mediocrity incarnate, it's total white noise. I find the videogame largely immature and shallow, as an example the inclusion of a transgender character although somewhat respectful's tainted with the complete inability to role play your Inquisitor as already understanding the situation, they get to be ignorant at the best. I absolutely loathe Inquisition, to me, it honestly borderline did nothing right. Any influence it has had on the industry's a negative one and it's success lead to many more failures for Bioware ultimately. They outright have said since they wanted it to fail so that they could cut their crunch practices, and being pushed by Electronic Arts to make videogames for that fabled "wider audience" and unfortunately they succeeded. That's what a rant from me looks like. (My apologies for the candor of this comment, but it is indeed how I feel about the entry.)
@@theobell2002 LMAO Indeed I got all 3 games finished it both console and PC 😂 I feel like it's those kind of people who are hating are ones who stuck in Hinderlands or played in higher difficulty and stuck and blaming the game for it or have low attention so they lost interest quick. 🤔
I've been playing DAO since I was a teenager (17 at the time of release) and continue to do so to this day (I'm 31 now). The amount of time I restarted and replayed DAO is amazing! I will always love this game! DA2 was alright; I enjoyed it, and DAI was a no for me. DAO truly is a timeless classic. Just the main menu theme (along with Fallout 3's menu theme) gets me going!
Baldur's Gate 3 is basically the Dragon Age sequel I've been waiting for. I know there's a lot of people who still enjoy the Dragon Age series but unfortunately for me it became something entirely different than what I hoped the series would become.
Dragon Age is literally my childhood and I'm so pleased to see someone bring it up as similar to Baldurs Gate. I have yet to play BG3 and this makes me even more excited to experience it in the future!
I'd be happy for them to just make Dragon Age: Origins stable on modern PC's, had so many crashes* on my most recent playthrough it was insane, even with mod fixes.
I made the exact same connection while playing BG3. It feels so similar to playing Dragon Age Origins, between the bouncing between adventuring and the camp, and the constant horniness 😂.
@@waters3700 Neither of them can compare to DA:O, but DA2 was better than Inquisition at least... Inquisition is basically a glorified shopping list that the devs expect you to complete for them. I have chores in real life, don't need them in a game.
this video is the video i subscribed to you for. Dragon Age Origins is one of the best RP games and THE best Dragon Age game. 😭 i actually started the series late AND backwards (blame Sony)... since ive silently been subscribed for a good 4 months i wanna say that you're such a good content creator, and i strive for your consistency.
oh that is so, so kind of you to say! it's funny, i don't think of myself as that consistent but i needed to hear that :) just keep making things you enjoy and as long as you're having fun, you'll find that consistency!! and yes as a longtime DA fan... i'm holding out for hope that the new one will be good.
I loved Baldur's Gate 3 but I think DA: Inquisition will always remain my favourite ARPG. While the characters in both games are both fantastically rich and creative in equal measure, my character having a voice in all cutscenes and parts of the game made him feel like part of the world rather than just a flexible self insert of myself. More over I would say that the story was a little bit more creative than the one in bg3. While still fantastic, it ultimately did sort of come down to collect the infinity stones (netherstones) and defeat Thanos (the absolute). There were similar elements in DA:I but they were a bit more nuanced and I loved the way they were tied with the companions you'd spent the game playing with. I could counter that with the fact that on multiple occasions rolling a melee character in DA:I made me want to blow my brains out (looking at you descent expansion final boss). No complaints however, just fond reminiscing. I hope the world continues to bless me with these wonderful experiences of storytelling
Yea....wow... DA:O is still such an amazing game. That was really peak bioware right there. So much content and such good writing. Very good graphics and mo-cap for the time. Admittedly, some gameplay mechanics have aged a little, but it's still perfectly serviceable. They opted for a more action oriented approach with DA2 (also hoping to sell more on console) because 'kids like action games more now' It failed. And looking at Bg3 now, a turn based crpg, doing so well - it shows that people are willing to adopt the more classical approach to these rpgs as long as the game is solid. And bg3 and DA:O are f-ing solid.
If you recruit Loghain you get to see his side of the story. He thought the battle of Ostagar couldn't be won, but Cailan wouldn't listen to reason because he wanted a glorious victory. So not only all his men would die, but there also wouldn't be anyone left to defend Ferelden from Orlais, the neighbouring country. I like this because no one can say for sure if he was right or wrong, he just did what he thought was tight.
I can! He was wrong lol Loghain let his fear of Orlais almost destroy Fereldan beyond recovery. It goes past the battle of Ostagar cause he never changes direction when it becomes more than obvious a blight is at hand. Instead all of his actions result in weakening Fereldan in a time of extreme emergency. Just thinking about the threat levels tells he made the wrong call. You Fereldan from invasion but you can't recover it from a blight as it corrupts and poisons even the land and animals.
A lot of games give you multiple endings but very few have multiple beginnings . Loved this game back in the day and still have two beginnings to playthrough
BG3 is the first game with "meaningful choices" that I've felt has actual meaningful choices. Your decisions completely change the journey you go on, and where you end up.
Man, I don't think I've been hit by a nostalgia bug like that in awhile. Makes me a little bit teary eyed. I had just graduated HS and moved into my own place with my girlfriend 5 months before this game dropped. I loved it, such a great RPG. I wouldn't trade my life now for then, not even close, being that young sucked, but it makes me remember that "new and anything is possible" feeling you have when you're that age and discovering how to be an adult while going through college. AHHHH, I miss not being a grizzled adult veteran! Thanks for the blast from the past.
I absolutely love this game. Cant believe the amount of time I have played/finished this game. Also the easiest way to kill the ogre is to have all of you party members with ranged weapon. Then whoever the ogre targets just run around dont let him get close while your team attacks the ogre with their ranged weapons and kill him
I usually run as a Human Rogue when playing this. Rogue is my most played Fantasy setting class, because a lot of fantasy games don't have an Engineer equivalent class. What's funny is of my three favorite D&D classes one is Rogue/Thief and the other two are Bard, which is a Rogue specialization in Origins, and Artificer, which is a Rogue specialization in Inquisition.
Its so interesting how much people loved Dragon Age Origins so much. I thought it was pretty decent at the time, but I distinctly remember it being solid, rather than good or great.
2000 to 2010 were basically the golden age of modern gaming. Every AAA company was hitting home runs left and right so stuff like DAO didn't really get to shine. Then after 2010 the RPG genre took a massive nosedive. Once the market flooded with absolute garbage the value of all those 2000s era RPGs ballooned to the top of the quality spectrum. DAO in particular has been helped along by it's really unique setting and themes.
gaming as a teenager 🤝gaming in my late 20s
Get a life!!! Lol jk I still game everyday after work😂😂😂
@@Bearandsonsgunworks me too! Lol. And I'm 34
hello rdr1 is coming to ps4 and switch can you play it when it comes out on the 17th of aug
Late 20s is still a teenager.
JV2017 if you know you know 🐐
Dragon Age: Origins will always have a special place in my heart. I still remember playing this game till I fall asleep, then wake up the next morning and resume playing the game. Such a very good time.
Same with Baldurs Gate 3 now 🥲
Me too, DAO is great.
The music was amazing and entrancing .
DA:O was a great gaming experience back in its time 14 years ago. I had a lot of fun maxing my character, good speech choices/paths, and using the pausing combat strategy. Baldur's Gate 3 is quite amazing and I could make an even more badass demonesque character but I still can't really get myself to enjoy the turn base strategy although I know that is integral part of D&D just like the dice rolls. Gets tiresome when a battle consists of ten to fifteen enemies.
I’m just now playing it for the first time
Duncan looking at the beacon and realizing that reinforcements wont come and they are doomed is the best scene in the game.
Poor Duncan
That scene is forever burned into my memory..RIP Duncan.
facts, that look of despair and loss of hope. such a great game, this video makes me want to do yet another playthrough
I always interpreted it as him checking if we succeeded at our task(In heat of battle he doesn't look around for the signal, he is just waiting for reinforcement to join any minute). But at his final moment he looks at the tower to confirm we have succeeded - he does that out of worry for us, but mostly for Alistair. He says he didn't do it to protect us but he actually did, he didn't want new blood to possibly die that night. Even if the victory seemed so "easy" in King's eyes. I think it was actually relief and hope in Duncan's final moments, that Alistair has a chance to survive(obviously not knowing we were also betrayed and then swarmed - cause Loghain was gonna sabotage the tower regardless of who goes). Either way Duncan was sweet and it sucks we didn't get Alistair DLC that would let us play his origin, his joining and few months before he met us - would be great opportunity to know him better and learn about Duncan and how the order was before the fall in Ferelden
Duncan thinking about reinforecements not coming despite the signal are kind of far fetched - don't mean to be rude. He only checks the tower as he is about to die, so he does not know how long it has been lit(and from narrative point of view it seems the tower was just lit, hard to deduce the timing here but it is likely loghain wouldn't save Cailan anyways, although they could have recovered his body and save Duncan - who btw is yet missing in terms of his body, many speculate darkspawn do things to Grey Wardens, maybe somehow keep them alive and corrupt them, if there is anything to it then DA4 should have it. Architect used Grey WArdens for his experiments but i think he would mention Duncan or Ostagar at all so either it was some other magister or Duncan missing body has some meaning to it, especially since darkspaw have enough brain to understand who Cailan was and to corrupt his body)
I like the scene where he swords the guy for not drinking the wine with darkspawn taint. It was like shit just got real. I'll never forget that scene.
As a big fan of Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate 3 is giving me what I expected from Dragon Age 2 and Dragon Age Inquisition.
I agree with this. While I still liked DA:2 I felt them turning it into more of an action game and not giving it a very satisfying ending (too many loose plot threads) really left it feeling... not as complete as the original Dragon Age. The same issue except even worse for Inquisition. I've now written away the franchise. I really don't think the series can get back what it lost. Thankfully games like Baldur's Gate 3 are coming out and beating it at it's own game by... returning to the roots of what it was trying to be. BG3 is more like Dragon Age than DA:2 and DA: Inquisition combined.
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I liked both DA:2 and DA:I but I just see them as a spin-off series or sorts. Even with the games losing more and more RPG elements to me they don't feel like proper sequels in a general sense.
First off, no sense of progression. Some things do carry over (elves opression, mage rebellion) but the main thing regardind the Darkspawn and the ancient Gods it's not touched upon until Dragon Age 3, and by then you're playing with a brand new character unrelated to both the one from the first game and Hawke. That takes weight away since it doens't feel like a big adventure in the vein of Mass Effect where you're Shepard all the time, or the first two Baldur's Gate games where you are the bhaalspawn until the last expasion. It's worse when you take into account that Hawke and Inquisitor just meet each other for 5 minutes and neither of them ever meets the Hero of Ferelden (assuming the hero survived the encounter with the Archdemon).
Secondly, Origins aesthetic was dirty, gory, bleak and kinda erotic. The two sequels are so clean and sanitized that it's not funny. You do get some bloody bits here and there but they're sparce, and a good deal of the time they feel out of place because the rest of the game is too kid-friendly. That's specially agravating when you take into account the both sequels have darkers themes than the first one, yet they shy away from adressing them properly.
tl;dr: Gameplay aside, changes in tone and aesthetic make the whole series feel disconeted.
exactly
I enjoyed inquisition, but this is exactly what I was thinking when I saw this video haha
Agreed. Skipped DA2 all together because every time I played it I couldn't get past the combat in the first 30 minutes. Same exact thing happened in DA:I which I did play some multiplayer in but just like with ME:A I couldn't get past the first hour. Rubbish.
just the main menu music alone with the sword dripping in blood brings back the nostalgia. Still one of my all time favs. Bioware was killing it with their games back then. KOTOR, Mass Effect, Dragon Age. Also I've been reading The Stolen Throne which is a prequel novel. Really changes the context of the game when you have the background information.
those were the days 🥲
don't forget jade empire.
@@Oichier I never got to play that but I know it was probably amazing.
Baldur's Gate 2 was Bioware's GOAT.
Jade Empire is definitely one of the most underrated games of all time. It’s one of my all time favorites.
Origins is the best out of the series by far. The other games feel so different in theme that they could be in an entirely different franchise.
Absolutely. The fact the sequels dumped the whole Grey Warden storyline was absolutely absurd!
DA2 is like a weird fantasy Mass Effect knock-off.
It's not objectively bad, but nobody really wanted it.
@@SpadeDraco it was put out within 1 year of DA from memory. Completely half arsed and rushed, hence being so half efforted
@@SpadeDraco except it is objectively bad
@@hibernate44 Boooo, I actually liked DA 2 for what it was. I think the gaming community has this weird fascination with popping a hate boner over sequels.
I... f*cking love this game so much. Baldur's Gate 3 comes incredibly close to how I feel when I play DA:O from time to time. It just has that "I actually care about the game I'm making" vibe to it.
yes!
Perfectly worded.
A lot of games these days lack the feeling of hopelessness and desperation, but DA: O nailed it.
Playing through BG3 rn and it truly feels to me like the sequel DAO never got.
There is a big difference to me where DAO had so many more character moments and more conversations you can have with companions.
BG3 has so much combat back to back to back. Not a bad thing but kind want for it to be slower and more atmospheric
I think each game brings some neat concepts but origins is the most complete by far. 2 has amazing characters, inquisition adds some polish to combat imo and a compelling homebase
I just replayed DAO and was struck by how fantastic the role playing is. The lack of a voice protagonist and the dialogue options just make it so much better than the later games in that regard. I was also struck by how brown the game is. This was definitely from the era when a dark fantasy meant a brown game.
It’s not even the color brown, it’s just the art direction tells tells you that you are in a brutal world. In a way this makes me more appreciate to the funny/silly bits in this game.
I was mostly joking. I remember fallout new vegas having a similar color palette for pretty much the same reason. Too many modern games go for a bright, vibrant look that just clashes with their serious plots. @@andywang2483
I much prefer the bleak misery ascetic. It suits all the death your dealing out.
@@camraid9 It also suits a game dealing with something called "the blight." Various environments still feel different but there is a clear, consistent vibe (for lack a a better word) to the entire game. I wish more games would be like that.
@@Piketom1 Honestly, I think the overall brown-ness undermines an aspect of the Blight. The darkspawn taint is supposed to slowly corrupt and taint as it progresses. If the world were a bit more vibrant, they could have played with that a little, shown portions of Lothering getting a bit withered, perhaps, or made parts of the game look bleaker the further into the main quest you were when you got there. I'm not saying go full bright-and-cheerful with it, but I think using contrast between brighter and bleaker tones can accomplish a bleaker overall feeling than just... pure bleakness.
The Korcari Wilds are probably the only location they did something like this with, and in that only between games-there's a fair amount of plant life there in DA:O, but when Hawke's family is fleeing through it in DA2, it's an absolute wasteland.
I was immediately reminded of Dragon Age when I was playing Baldurs gate 3 and it was incredible. City Elf Origin Warden main for life.
Eyyyyyy, City Elf brothers and sisters, unite! Tear down the aristocracy! Wooooo!
How did it reminded you of Dragon age. BG3 is for me totally different. Different story feeling, different way the companions are, totally different mechanic and different lay out.
Female city elf origin is savage as fuck.
@@sayurioffenborn4960 The combat mechanics are different, but both are party based character driven RPGs for an adult audience with fully voiced dialogue (except for the player character in Origins and BG3). There just aren't many games that check these boxes. Most of that genre is smaller indie games or AA games that lack the voiced cinematic dialogue, so they have no chance against Dragon Age.
@@sayurioffenborn4960The originals were made by Bioware, which also laid the ground work for DAO.
Had a huge soft spot for Gale playing through BG3 just cause of how much he reminded me of Alistair!
He is a mix of Pre DA 2 cool Anders and Alistair. But tbh I find all the companons in BG 3 better written than DAI and DA 2 and even DAO characters.
Alistair I could bro down with. Gale just wants to constantly gargle my balls no matter how many times I tell him no. Although now like 50 hours later he realizes “I have eyes for another.” Now he’s just sappy.
or astarion and zevran
I was convinced Gale had the same voiceactor as Alistair, they sound so much alike, but apparently I was wrong.
@@RiderZer0 It's a minor complaint, but yea, I felt like the companions in bg3 pushed sex a bit too hard. In Dragon Age it usually felt like you had to really go out of your way to win the companions over. In bg3, laezel is trying to sleep with you for simply agreeing with her once in Act 1.
One of my favorite parts of origins was the character creation. The fact you had different starts based on your characters race, etc was awesome. I really hope the new dragon age goes back to this
Hah! It will most likely try to sell us NFTs
@@peterpanda6931 I mean, BioWare is being shifted away from live-service because even EA gets that it doesn't work for them at this point, so I wouldn't hold my breath on those NFTs. Very much doubt Dreadwolf will be heavy on roleplay, though. Possibly Dragon Age 5, if BioWare is allowed to exist long enough to learn lessons from BG3's success. But Dreadwolf is already deep in development, I think? So probably not gonna change course on that one.
@@OneTrueNobody Yes, Dreadwolf is in alpha state and playable from start to finish since a year ago. So it should be close to completion. I think people need to manage their expectations. It's not gonna be Origins 2.0. It's gonna be more likely to be just Inquisition but better. And I'm fine with that because I like Inquisition. 🤷
@@theobell2002 inquisition?!! 🤮🤮
@@nikolasferreira3247 Another Origins fanboy blinded by his own nostalgia hating on a great game. Classic.
Origins is still my favorite game of all time. Basically the perfect embodiment of everything an RPG should be.
I just started playing recently man have I unlocked a gem, I miss gaming back in those days. Ive barley became a grey warden and I must say this game washes Skyrim as an RPG already imo
Is this your first time playing origins?@@dboy4034
I mean, apart from the fact the worldbuilding is very derivative and the combat is shit?
@@Edo_has_a_marvelous_persona I gurentee this game runs circles around your favorite RPG 🥱
@Edo_has_a_marvelous_persona shit combat in an rpg is almost a necessity, lol. Of the old 90's And 2000's CRPGs, few are considered classics because of their combat.
It's so cool that someone else thought the same thing. Baldurs Gate 3 reminded me so much of Dragon Age it felt like i was at home from the start and gave that warm feeling of nostalgia.
Can you tell me what exactly reminded you of Dragon age. I can't see it.
@@sayurioffenborn4960 Almost everything really. The only difference is that Origins is an old game so graphics, combat and art style are modern but everything from lore, to romance, characters, companions and quest remind me of DAO mixed with Divinity.
DAO is actually better in some regards as it shows armies fighting along side you and also has a fully fleshed out epilogue where you see all the consequences of your decisions you took along the way tied up nicely. BG3 when downhill from the later part of Act 3. The allies just show up in the linear upper city fights (although final battle was quite good). The epilogue was basically "yay we won, bye bye then" after spending 100hrs with the characters it left me feeling wanting for a better closure.
@@sayurioffenborn4960DAO was essentially the original bg3 in spirit when bioware lost the DND license. The genes of bg2 are in it absolutely. It belongs in the conversation.
Da2 and inq do not
@@sayurioffenborn4960 They both have MC stuck with powers that can kill them (BG3 parasite, DAO The blight) They both have memorable and wonderfully written companions, Both have great and slightly similar lore. Yes there are differences that set them apart but they’re so similar I feel like I’m playing the successor to DAO when playing BG3.
I loved how the origins linked back into different parts of the narrative. For human noble in particular I loved how it was tied into the political manoeuvring of the landsmeet, and it even ties into your relationship with Nathaniel Howe in awakening.
Why on earth hasn’t this been remastered yet? I’d buy it in a heart beat
That would be a dream 😩
Cause they hate us.
It won't be remastered because it would take away from the dragon age feel to the game
You cant just play the game normally?
Yeah, I kinda hoped for Mass Effect Legendary Edition treatment for DA series tbh. And who knows, we might get it yet, just to remind people what DA is before "Dreadwolf" comes out.
How inmersive it was. The epic beginning with Duncan and Alistair, the misterious and beautiful Morrigan, the funny accent of Leliana... all I can remember is magical. There wont be games like this anymore, not by the actual standards
I loved origins, sequels never quite filled the void
Origins was amazing, I thought dragon age 2 was ok, definitely felt so different from the first but still enjoyed it nonetheless
it was last game before EA stepped in and changed the company forever
@@SkylarTrahan the only thing i thought was cool about DA2 was the City of Chains...loved that idea
Same origins felt complete compared to the other games
@@MWHBowen The way they changed the gameplay experience and execution of the story was kind of lackluster in comparison to Origins. The settings/themes were pretty cool though, but I think Origins is still the best one out there. Especially when it comes to branching of choices and the different backgrounds/start that was prominent through all of the story.
Still think Dragon Age Inquisition had the most interesting story when you look past all the side-consuming-stuff, only the pacing was kind of doodoo.
The one thing I missed from DAO in bg3 was origins. They're so much more interactive.
what about the "manage party" button? Inventory and party managment in BG3 drives me fucking insane
@@alessandrodebonis4888 I think the inventory is still better than most inventories I've seen. But it sure stands out as a flaw in BG3
They have origin characters instead. But I did like DAO's version better too
@@alessandrodebonis4888 Not really sure how inventory management would drive anyone insane in BG3 unless you just ignore the existence of Shift+Click, Ctrl+Click, and the search bar.
You should play the Dark Urge. They feel like the intended main character and have a really nice backstory, that is tied into the main story of the game.
Dragon Age Origins and Mass Effect 1 are peak BioWare. They both started massive IPs, both were the best (imo at least, with unique more mature and ambience/worldbuilding oriented storytelling) and are really nostalgic to me.
One of my best memories from this game was spending like 20mins just talking to Leliana in camp. Like a random chat with a companion ended up being so much more and compelling. At that time it blew my mind.
The cinematic before the ostagar battle blew my mind when I first played this game. I have some issues with Bioware these days but I still think they're one of the best for cutscenes.
I don't agree for the cinematics per say, but i do agree for how they build the story and scenes in said cinematics. That cinematic and the moment "Then the Grey Wardens came". Is still one of the best cinematic lines coupled together with the main theme.
@@stoifan91"Per se". It's French
For me, Bioware has died after DA2 and MEA were such huge disappointments to me. And it used to be the one developer I'd buy any game of
@@hah-vj7hc I started to kinda "hate" them when i realized that i couldnt play with my grey warden in 2. 2 was a mess but it took a different approach away from the basic save the world from some ancient evil formula. I couldnt even bring myself to play the post game dlc for Inquisition. Each time i turned that game on i was asking myself why arent i just playing origins. Bioware has changed and i think that none of the old talent is around. Its a shell of its former selv just like blizzard.
@@123pa1n Yeah, really hoping Larian won't end up like Bioware and Blizzard. But if they do, there's gonna be another indie dev getting big...
I am currently playing Dragon Age: Origins and is the story that drags me into the game. At first it was a big jump from Mass Effect in terms of graphics but after awhile I got used to it. Did I mention the voice acting in this game is incredible. Wow, good stuff.
I also think the combat and the skills are just better than the Larian games.
@@michaelh878 I'll disagree on that, but I also disliked Dragon Age's shift to a more "videogamey" stat system even back at the time. To be fair, I also kind of dislike that aspect of the Divinity: Original Sin games, even though the action point system reminds me of Fallout.
The sticking point for me is that the Baldur's Gate games, whether real-time-with-pause or turn-based, have a tabletop ruleset to them that is designed to be comprehended mathematically by the people playing them, whereas with Dragon Age, even at its best, the most I could hope to really figure in my head was, "Aaaaaah, um... high damage GOOD, city elf SMASH!" There was enough tactical depth to offset that, but I'm not looking at my equipment and immediately understanding the significance of every point difference the way I would in KotOR, Baldur's Gate, or Neverwinter Nights.
And to compensate for that, some aspects of the combat system are geared to be kind of brainless. Not nearly as brainless as Dragon Age would become in its sequels, but... kinda brainless, even so.
I'm not saying they should have cloned D&D again, but I would definitely have preferred a system that wasn't quite so numerically opaque. We have JRPGs for that kind of thing.
@@OneTrueNobody if you're reaction is "aaaaaaah, um... high damage GOOD" maybe you didn't understand how it works. Play the game on Nightmare, i'll wait here for you asking for help
@@marc0lin00 If you're going to be too lazy to read what I actually say, friend, be a little lazier and don't type out a response.
@@OneTrueNobody ok lol, at least I don't make excuses when i don't get how thing works.
Dragon Age 2 on Nightmare requires only strategy and no room for mistakes. Still, you think the combat Is brainless. You never played those game at their fullest and still you spoke like you know everything about the games.
You are delusonal
I went through this game again not too long ago. It honestly still holds up so well. Such a great game.
If you put 4k texture mod it actually looks decent
DA: Origins really is such a special game even nowadays, it's honestly a shame that the series never quite took off in quite the same way that Mass Effect did. As much as I do enjoy DA 2, it certainly isn't as great as Origins was overall and Inquisition while being a huge upgrade in terms of scale, at times feels more shallow, plus there's an atmosphere in Origins that none of the other games really could capture again. An almost suffocating oppression and sense of foreboding, while still having that glimmer of hope. Bioware back in the day were absolute masters of storytelling and world building while now they've stumbled with things they used to nail.
I think in terms of games i was looking forward to letting me down, none come close to DA2, i was so disappointed in what they did with that game. The story was still decent though.
@@Itzxkazer The story was ok, the worldbuilding continued being great, and the conflict between mages and... paladins? forgot the ingame term for antimagic warriors, was even done even better, mostly because it was the main plotline. DA mages are the coolest part.
ALSO, DA2 reduced complexity in combat which led on to Inquisition taking out the keyboard combat for the "only 4 skills or something" style to be able to adapt to a controller. No matter how much I liked Cassandra and some parts of the story, I'll never forget how absurdly dumbed down the combat is.
@@Jonsonerthey were templars
@@Jonsoner It would have been cool as a cheaper spin off. I still, enjoyed it for what it was. Can't say the same for inquisition. That was a nightmare of Mass Effecf Andromeda proportions.
I quit playing 2 after like 10-20 hours or smth. just fighting the same swordsmena dn archer in the same(looking) alleys all the time was an insult to the name Dragon Age
Man DA:O was something special. I must’ve stretched my first playthrough out to over 70 hours just obsessing over everything in the game, and I was left just so immensely satisfied with the ending. I can’t wait to get BG3 on my PS5 to recapture that feeling.
That's how I felt when I first played baldurs gate 3. It immediately brought back my memories of DAO. It's like a spiritual successor, especially when at camp to rest.
@@dew8368 No. Dragon Age was a spiritual successor to Baldur's gate 2....
@@DanishSegaGamer Tbf you're both correct
If you can enjoy turn based combat, then it's really something you're gonna enjoy. Personally, I prefer BG3 combat by a lot over DAO
@@hah-vj7hc I’m not the biggest fan of turn-based, but story and character content is my primary focus.
Did anyone notice Yenna (the little kid with the cat that runs up to you when you first enter Act 3) is parallel to the little boy you meet when you first enter Lothering? They both are searching for their mothers, both red hair, and similar personality. You have the option to give them money or food (at least I think you can give the boy food). There are many aspects of DAO in BG3, but for me, there are certain points in DAO's writing that still beat any RPG to date.
Dwarf Prince has the best real world consequences and mage/dalish were tied for best origins
Edit: I remember if you got the vials but not treaties you could infinitely turn in the vials for xp
City elf origin is good too.
@@ХузинТимур That one is great for the roleplay of feeling just what life is like for elves in the setting. Fantastic worldbuilding all around.
@@ХузинТимур Oh yeah, i remember going full Braveheart in the City Elf origin, big ass sword and everything. But yes, Dwarven Noble is my favorite as well, loved playing as one.
All the origins had really good roleplay (very fitting for the name of the game)
@@Nichaelas Just my personal preferences of origins.
This game reminds me a moment of my life where everything was simple and perfect.
What I prefer with the dragon ages is that you can do both style of combat (kinda). You can either play tactifully, so pause the game and chose who does what in your party. Or you can have real time combat (which I prefer). Shame that BG3 doesnt offer this
Real time combat was mostly for easy fights. In DA:O strategy was more important so u had to play "turn based" more often, and then they dumbed down sequels to the point you no longer needed that. So IMO trying to make real time combat work more frequently sort of ruined the quality of the fights
CRPG don't like action real time. If they did, more people would talk about pillars of eternity. Good game, but doesn't have mass appeal either direction
Rta is where it's at with the option to pause. Larian was never going to do this since it would be too much work
@@thomasb5307 I think I never played "real time" in Origins. It was always tactical and barely making it through hard difficulty. Inquisition is just a walking simulator on Nightmare a majority of the time.
One of the many reasons i loved this game was the conversations between your companions while you were taking a break while out questing, some genuinely funny dialogue, even wynne used to roast Alistair just brilliant writing
One of my favorite things to do in Origins was to get a full party of Mages and make them all keep Haste on. Made you 8x faster at everything, really sped up the pace of the game.
Very few people ever recognize that Neverwinter Nights 2 is actually the pioneer before Dragon Age: Origins and Baldur’s Gate 3. A lot of the DNA that those games share have originally come from that one game. Which is why it will always still be one of my favorite games of all time.
yep that was one of the best of all time, still remember that underground fight club.
Its a looong list of incremental improvements of rpg
Yep. It was a 3d Kingmaker... from zero to Lord story. Great.
AFAIK Dragon Age Origins was literally called (by the devs) a spiritual successor to the original Baldur's Gate games. No idea where you're getting Neverwinter Nights 2 from. If anything I'd say it's closer to Neverwinter Nights 1 (which, like Dragon Age and Baldur's Gate, was also made by Bioware)
Or you know, Neverwinter Nights 1...
The prologue sequence from the origin stories to the Battle of Ostagar is the best opening to a cRPG ever.
This game pulled me out of a really dark spot in my teenage days. It was just magical and overall perfect. It is Bioware's Magnum Opus in my opinion and I have played all of their games throughout the years. I'm glad Baldur's Gate 3 took inspiration from it.
Baldur's Gate 3 is the spiritual sequel to Dragon Age Origins we never received 🐉
Yup, we just hope that Swen and the Larian Team don't allow greed and make a stand for anyone buying their studio, like what happened to Bioware.
@@greedyyawgoo5635 bioware was acquired by EA when EA wasn't owned by Tencent. You're looking at two different CEOs
No, it's not. Dragon Age was a watered down action RPG that was never as good as the RPGs that succeeded it. Just because it was your first RPG, it doesn't change that.
@@Amonny Did you even play Dragon Age Origins ? It was itself a spiritual successor and picked up from the first Baldur's Gate games (made by Bioware).
You're probably talking about the sequels
nah bro.
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DA:O was one of the best RPGs I've ever played. I remember I talked shit to Morrigan and she left my party for good literally at the beginning of the game lol
As a fan of DAO I can confirm I am having certain Deja Vu moments between BG3 and DAO, although the stories are completely different and Divinity OS and OS2 are closer to BG3, I think what makes it feel similar is the strategic combat, huge variety of characters and tons of animated sequences and also, forest, dwarf mountain city , first act at least has vibes
It's the camp scenes and getting closer to your companions as the story progresses.
I understand what you mean. Sadly for me the larian paint destroys everything for me.
DAO is the pinnacle of RPGs, especially if you put it in the context of the time it was released. I am sure I had a good 400 hours on it BEFORE I discovered the mods on PC. Damn...now I gotta play it again.
When I put Skyrim on for the first time, I thought that if it was as good as DA:O, it would be fine. Within 2 hours, Skyrim made me forget I'd ever played DA:O. Call it a stereotypical opinion by now, but Skyrim truly is the peak of RPGs.
@@Nonamearisto Let me guess, you haven't played Morrowind when it was released) Imo, Morrowind is by far better than Skyrim & Oblivion, sure tes3 engine is hideous nowadays but if you put it aside, you will see how great TES3 was and how TES series degrated...
@@Vindold I played Morrowind. It's harder to play than Wizardry 8. And Wiz8 is almost fully voiced. Really, a gem of an old game.
It's not even close to the pinnacle of RPGs.
@@Nonamearisto it's certainly a great game but very weak as an rpg.
Can we just admit that this game has a simplicity to its gameplay thats amazing, the ability to simply have your characters attack Automatically and altogether without any pause or delay makes the gameplay not only faster, but better than b3
This is still in my top 10 fav games. Building up an army and actually feeling the pressure of the conflict is so good in this. The final fight and seeing all your allies coming in to help is great. Not many games do this well. Plus all the characters in this are awesome - Alistair and Morrigan are hilarious always bickering. "Swooping is bad".
Go and watch the dialogue between alistar and wynne where wynne tries to explain to alistar how babies are born.Peak Bioware right threre
The main reason why I loved DAO is the different origins. Inquisition missed out on that part. They really could have made different starting points for each background. Like if you are a mercenary you started at center of prologue before the rift. If you are a Dalish, you sneak into the gathering and such.
Dragon Age Origins was so good that all my kids know my main characters name and his story. I would tell stories to my youngest kids when they were 4 years old and my eldest son who was 9 at the time.
They are all grown now but they still remember the stories of Pintov, my dwarf from DAO.
That’s actually pretty awesome
Dragon Age is a must play. I also returned to it again after many years for the nostalgia and to see if my matured mind can excell better with the strategy gameplay. It seems im actually better than before. You tend to go more panic when you're young or atleast thats how it feels for me. So cool to see u shed light on this gem of a game
Loved Origins, even the music was epic… of course we all fell in love with Morrigan.😂
Origins is amazing, I played every origin start to finish, and its so crazy how different the start of the game is from a dwarf thats either a noble, or has no cast, An elf thats a city elf or a wood elf. Human thats either a noble or a mage. All fairly large unique opening stories/tutorials, alongside throughout the game that origin being called back to, your race and gender being mentioned. Amazing characters, and amazing choices that affect not just the ending but the experience throught, the way to tackle that I forget what it was called, the red is it cliff area, with that possessed kid, the array of different outcomes, becoming queen is a possibility. This game had it all, something DA2 and especially inquisition, while good enough games, just couldn't hold a candle to.
Dragon Age Origins was one of my first introductions into the fantasy genre. Before that I played a lot of KotoR and saw this had similar combat styles, but it was more intuitive and satisfying. I played through this game so many time. I remember taking an entire weekend one time to play through every single opening on every single race.
Whoa - got teary-eyed and major nostalgic hearing the character creation music 😢 this game was everything to me as a young adult, and definitely get those same fantastical vibes from BG3! There are even some moments I try to remember what DA:O had in it… I’ll need to replay that one too!
Origins is a fantastic game and it makes me sad because by the second game you could tell that BioWare had completely changed for the worse.
Same
Bioware and Obsidian, who put together the first BG games, are absolutely pioneers in both CRPG and ARPG games, where they continued the CRPG aspect through Dragon Age, then Pillars of Eternity with Obsidian.
I've lost count how many times I've re-played this game. Such an amazing classic!
I think dragon age origins has the most memorable soundtrack ive ever heard in a video game. Hauntingly beautiful theme.
Before bg3 I never thought that a game would come out that could compete with this one
Hehe, I remember when Dragon's Age: Origins was being released, the buzz around it was that 'It's the spiritual successor to the Baldur's Gate series that we never got'.
I'm 37 now, and grew up with BG1, BG2, and the Infinity games. Can't remember how many times I finished those games - they were contenders for my favorite games ever. To be honest, I tried to get into DA:O but could never do it - I left the game unfinished, it simply could not do for me what the BG games did. Perhaps it was that I had grown up, and that my expectations and free time was not what it used to be when I was younger.
It's great to see that a newer generation however seems to have found in this game what I had found in the BG originals, and just find it funny how now BG3 is the 'spiritual successor to Dragon's Age that we never got'.
I had the opposite I played Dragon Age Origins and later picked up Baldur's Gate and haven't been able to finish it because it couldn't do for me what DAO did. I think it really depends on preference and what you experienced first.
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“Can I get you a ladder so you can get off my back” the single voice line that is ever burned into my head when I remember this game ! 😂
Dragon's Age Origins and Inquisition are just lovely games.
It's great to see people going back to a classic and giving it love while noting how it's influenced or inspired modern titles. I adored the Mass Effect series, but Dragon Age Origins is probably still my favorite standalone Bioware game and one of my favorite RPGs of all time. I feel like every stage of the adventure is a memorable standalone story in itself.
Dragon age origins > BG3. Still in Act 1, story cant touch DOA intro and main narrative
this is the video i needed a year ago when i was getting into dao!!! seriously its so refreshing to see dao in 2023
One of the fun things about Dragon Age: Origins is that the specific race and origin combination you pick can also affect your starting skills with the class you pick. For instance, a City Elf will always begin with a bit of dual-wielding in their starting loadout; a Dalish Elf with a bit of archery; and a human with a bit of sword-and-board, as both warrior and rogue. So your Origin has an impact on your starting build, not just the story you play. My first character was a City Elf Warrior and since she started as a dual-wielder, I kept her as one, and she turned into the most OBNOXIOUS skill-spamming heavy-armored sweeper tank. Just gathering all the enemies to her and unleashing with those wide-area double sword attacks.
Started Awakening buck naked and without weapons though, because of the way the save import borked the DLC equipment, which also happened to be the best stuff for the Origins endgame. Whoopsie-doodle.
I miss the kind of build flexibility Origins let you experiment with. DA2 and Inquisition both had really rigid build limitations, such a dual-wielding being daggers-rogue-only, archery being purely a rogue thing too, warriors being nothing but melee or melee-plus-shields, and so on.
DAO still remains one of my favorite games. Couldnt get into the others since i wasnt playing my Warden.
Dragon Age Origins has a special place in my heart. It was the first ARPG that I played and I started with a Human Noble Warrior origin like you. I was both devasted with the fate of our family and the war at the Ostagar. This was the game that made me fell in love with RPGs and specifically with Bioware. It's a shame how Bioware fell this low.
Dragon Age: Origins is a truly great game. No, it's not just a game. It's a novel, a portrait, a movie and a play all in one. And you're both the writer/painter/director as well as the main protagonist.
Haven't imagined in my wildest dreams that 14 years later a Baldur's Gate title made by a company other than BioWare would end up being even more wonderful than DAO.
Eternal gratitude to BioWare for setting a standard for rich CRGP and to Larian for bringing that standard to new heights!
Absolute gem of a game, and Baldurs Gate is such a reflection of everything Origins accomplished. Def will be playing Origins again soon in between Baldurs gate playthroughs.
Dragon Age Origins/Awakening will forever be my favorite Bioware game. I also played human but I always chose mage and then built into arcane warrior so I could tank with spells.
I actually just picked up Dragon Age: Origins (I didn't have any BioWare titles growing up; I was a Wii kid), and I was fortunate enough to get Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 Enhanced Edition through Prime Gaming, so I'm excited to see how you think this has aged!
The story is pretty great but the game is much harder than you'd expect. You get to make pretty significant choices and your traveling companions have a good excuse to travel with you during the adventures. The fantasy elements are generic enough but have a twist to them. Such as dragons being godlike creatures and mages are always a few steps away from being tempted by demons.
It's insane that despite after more than a decade since I've last played Dragon Age: Origins I still remember story as if it was yesterday. Baldur's Gate 3 has managed to surpass DA:O for me and become my new favorite game. But this just shows how great DA:O was at it's time and how high the bar was set. Kudos to Larian on delivering 3x of the greatest cRPGs ever made and honoring old school Bioware. I just wish EA and current Bioware would look up to BG3 to make Dragon Age 4 like a modernised DA:O
I mean, if Dreadwolf is just "Inquisition but better" (which is pretty much what you should expect) I'll enjoy it. Obviously Inquisition did some things wrong but overall it's still a decent experience.
@@theobell2002 yeah dai is by far the most replayable game of the series imo. dreadwolf has been in development for quite a long while now so maybe they wont fumble the bag partly like they did in dai. (mmo quest/zone design)
@@jaded-harper Oh yeah, Inquisition definitely has flaws but this comment section and Origin fans in general act like it's the worst game ever made. lol
Inquisition's the worst of each of Bioware's main two intellectual properties imo (Excluding Andromeda which I have not even touched), I can not remotely concur with the often spouted idea it is one of the greatest videogames of all time.
Mass Effect 3's woeful quest design of barely getting to interact with NPCs beyond a binary choice at the end of a fetch quest to the Galaxy Map and the Citadel was held up by having superb conclusions to larger narrative arcs and a handful of real missions.
For me Inquisition went in on that quest design and then some, tedious crafting and inflated resource collection on an oversized map come to mind as one example, another being the combat itself being so drawn out by artificial number bloat especially during the DLC areas. Whilsts restricting you to only a pitiful six skills at a time and no attribute distribution, it clearly does not respect my limited time, clocking in at two to three hundred hours when finished.
It's an okay experience the first time around but just because I like Thedas and have a prior history with Dragon Age, even with the most shallow characters (aside from a handful of characters, just Dorian if I am being completely real) and plot to date... most infuriating of all for a role playing game, you do not get to do an awful lot of role playing. The Inquisitor offers neither the depth of The Champion or breadth of The Warden. It is a story where you are at the center of a world shaking story with no meaningful consequential autonomy, best exemplified in Trespasser, as you are locked in to being in awe of Solas.
Finally I really really wish the Art Nouveau inspiration worked anywhere near as well in the world itself as it did on the Tarot Cards. Clothing in general looks largely pretty awful. Just look at old Bann Teagan. And The Darkspawn design still does not work.
I am glad Trevor Morris will not be returning for Dreadwolf either, I found his take on Dragon Age supremely dull in comparison to Inon Zur, it's just mediocrity incarnate, it's total white noise.
I find the videogame largely immature and shallow, as an example the inclusion of a transgender character although somewhat respectful's tainted with the complete inability to role play your Inquisitor as already understanding the situation, they get to be ignorant at the best.
I absolutely loathe Inquisition, to me, it honestly borderline did nothing right. Any influence it has had on the industry's a negative one and it's success lead to many more failures for Bioware ultimately. They outright have said since they wanted it to fail so that they could cut their crunch practices, and being pushed by Electronic Arts to make videogames for that fabled "wider audience" and unfortunately they succeeded. That's what a rant from me looks like. (My apologies for the candor of this comment, but it is indeed how I feel about the entry.)
@@theobell2002 LMAO Indeed I got all 3 games finished it both console and PC 😂 I feel like it's those kind of people who are hating are ones who stuck in Hinderlands or played in higher difficulty and stuck and blaming the game for it or have low attention so they lost interest quick. 🤔
I've been playing DAO since I was a teenager (17 at the time of release) and continue to do so to this day (I'm 31 now). The amount of time I restarted and replayed DAO is amazing! I will always love this game! DA2 was alright; I enjoyed it, and DAI was a no for me. DAO truly is a timeless classic. Just the main menu theme (along with Fallout 3's menu theme) gets me going!
Dragon age origins to me was the STANDARD when it came to rpgs. The amount of effort and content put into this 2008 video game is incredible.
Even BG3 doesn't come close to dethroning this game. 9 years of development time shows.
I’m actually playing it for the first time right now! Such an amazing game!
DAO is still my favorite game. BG3 is fun and beautiful… but nothing has beat how special DAO is to me then and now.
Baldur's Gate 3 is basically the Dragon Age sequel I've been waiting for. I know there's a lot of people who still enjoy the Dragon Age series but unfortunately for me it became something entirely different than what I hoped the series would become.
To think DA:O was released in 2009 and is still a golden standard. Without DA:O there'd be no BG3.
This game made me fell in love with western RPG. Now BG3 is giving me the same vibes.
Dragon Age is literally my childhood and I'm so pleased to see someone bring it up as similar to Baldurs Gate. I have yet to play BG3 and this makes me even more excited to experience it in the future!
With the success of Baldur's Gate 3, let's hope EA remakes Dragon Age Origins 🙏
We can only hope
Yeah, with added DLC and Expansion Packs for completing a incomplete game. Plus lootbox and gacha for itens
I'd be happy for them to just make Dragon Age: Origins stable on modern PC's, had so many crashes* on my most recent playthrough it was insane, even with mod fixes.
Let's hope that it will never happen. You must be a clinical idiot if you think that remake will be playable.
DAO is such a good game omg. It’s also the game that made me fall in love with crpgs. BG3 is a fantastic spiritual successor for sure
I made the exact same connection while playing BG3. It feels so similar to playing Dragon Age Origins, between the bouncing between adventuring and the camp, and the constant horniness 😂.
Dragon Age: Origins still holds up so well
I really love this game, is so sad that there is no sequels
inquisition was okay, but dragon age 2 was baaad
shame. I heard there's this fangame called DAI but it's pretty bad
@@waters3700 Neither of them can compare to DA:O, but DA2 was better than Inquisition at least... Inquisition is basically a glorified shopping list that the devs expect you to complete for them. I have chores in real life, don't need them in a game.
@@miriamkapeller6754 Inquisition can easily compare to Origins in some aspects.
@@theobell2002 Inquisition is the worst RPG I've ever played.
I recommend Never Winter Nights as well. Even older but very good. The expansions were great too and you could play in coop
Morrigans' voice (Claudia Black) always made me melt, still does. Great Game 🖖👍
I love inquisition I don't know why people hated it
this video is the video i subscribed to you for. Dragon Age Origins is one of the best RP games and THE best Dragon Age game. 😭 i actually started the series late AND backwards (blame Sony)... since ive silently been subscribed for a good 4 months i wanna say that you're such a good content creator, and i strive for your consistency.
oh that is so, so kind of you to say! it's funny, i don't think of myself as that consistent but i needed to hear that :) just keep making things you enjoy and as long as you're having fun, you'll find that consistency!! and yes as a longtime DA fan... i'm holding out for hope that the new one will be good.
I loved Baldur's Gate 3 but I think DA: Inquisition will always remain my favourite ARPG. While the characters in both games are both fantastically rich and creative in equal measure, my character having a voice in all cutscenes and parts of the game made him feel like part of the world rather than just a flexible self insert of myself. More over I would say that the story was a little bit more creative than the one in bg3. While still fantastic, it ultimately did sort of come down to collect the infinity stones (netherstones) and defeat Thanos (the absolute). There were similar elements in DA:I but they were a bit more nuanced and I loved the way they were tied with the companions you'd spent the game playing with. I could counter that with the fact that on multiple occasions rolling a melee character in DA:I made me want to blow my brains out (looking at you descent expansion final boss). No complaints however, just fond reminiscing. I hope the world continues to bless me with these wonderful experiences of storytelling
I still play this game to this day, can never get enough of it🥰
Even in 2024, this game looks nice, btw you see dragon age 4 trailer, I haven't felt so a lot disappointment a long time
God the soundtrack alone gives me chills , I played this 20 time,s and last this year
As someone who played all dragon age games and baldur gate 3, i still 100% prefer DA Origins over bg3
Yea....wow... DA:O is still such an amazing game. That was really peak bioware right there.
So much content and such good writing. Very good graphics and mo-cap for the time.
Admittedly, some gameplay mechanics have aged a little, but it's still perfectly serviceable.
They opted for a more action oriented approach with DA2 (also hoping to sell more on console) because 'kids like action games more now'
It failed.
And looking at Bg3 now, a turn based crpg, doing so well - it shows that people are willing to adopt the more classical approach to these rpgs as long as the game is solid. And bg3 and DA:O are f-ing solid.
If you recruit Loghain you get to see his side of the story. He thought the battle of Ostagar couldn't be won, but Cailan wouldn't listen to reason because he wanted a glorious victory. So not only all his men would die, but there also wouldn't be anyone left to defend Ferelden from Orlais, the neighbouring country. I like this because no one can say for sure if he was right or wrong, he just did what he thought was tight.
I can! He was wrong lol Loghain let his fear of Orlais almost destroy Fereldan beyond recovery. It goes past the battle of Ostagar cause he never changes direction when it becomes more than obvious a blight is at hand. Instead all of his actions result in weakening Fereldan in a time of extreme emergency. Just thinking about the threat levels tells he made the wrong call. You Fereldan from invasion but you can't recover it from a blight as it corrupts and poisons even the land and animals.
W jayvee keeping story mode gaming alive
A lot of games give you multiple endings but very few have multiple beginnings . Loved this game back in the day and still have two beginnings to playthrough
BG3 is the first game with "meaningful choices" that I've felt has actual meaningful choices. Your decisions completely change the journey you go on, and where you end up.
Man, I don't think I've been hit by a nostalgia bug like that in awhile. Makes me a little bit teary eyed. I had just graduated HS and moved into my own place with my girlfriend 5 months before this game dropped. I loved it, such a great RPG. I wouldn't trade my life now for then, not even close, being that young sucked, but it makes me remember that "new and anything is possible" feeling you have when you're that age and discovering how to be an adult while going through college. AHHHH, I miss not being a grizzled adult veteran! Thanks for the blast from the past.
Love to see this game resurface
I absolutely love this game. Cant believe the amount of time I have played/finished this game.
Also the easiest way to kill the ogre is to have all of you party members with ranged weapon. Then whoever the ogre targets just run around dont let him get close while your team attacks the ogre with their ranged weapons and kill him
I usually run as a Human Rogue when playing this. Rogue is my most played Fantasy setting class, because a lot of fantasy games don't have an Engineer equivalent class. What's funny is of my three favorite D&D classes one is Rogue/Thief and the other two are Bard, which is a Rogue specialization in Origins, and Artificer, which is a Rogue specialization in Inquisition.
Rogues and rangers tend to be the crappest npc characters too making them a good choice for your player character.
My first classes in BG2 were Druid, then Bard. So I've always played these two more than any. Guess they grow on you
Completed my Bard run and now started as a Druid. And i can tell you Bard in BG3 is an awesome choice!
Its so interesting how much people loved Dragon Age Origins so much. I thought it was pretty decent at the time, but I distinctly remember it being solid, rather than good or great.
2000 to 2010 were basically the golden age of modern gaming. Every AAA company was hitting home runs left and right so stuff like DAO didn't really get to shine.
Then after 2010 the RPG genre took a massive nosedive. Once the market flooded with absolute garbage the value of all those 2000s era RPGs ballooned to the top of the quality spectrum. DAO in particular has been helped along by it's really unique setting and themes.