Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have always been a huge fan of Bioware. Ever since I played Kotor I was always excited for what bioware was coming out with next. I was pretty excited to play dragon age because from what I could see the combat looked a lot like the combat in kotor. As the game started out I was having quite a bit of fun figuring everything out. The combat was a lot like kotor. As I got deeper and deeper into the game, however, I started finding a lot of things about dragon age that frustrated me. It got to the point where I was getting more frustration than enjoyment out of the game. I guess what began it all was when the game crashed on me not once but 2 times. Yes, you can save whenever in the game but the game takes so long to load up. A game just shouldn't do that. There are a bunch of bugs and glitches in the game as well that don't break the game but certainly are noticable. The game doesn't run at a steady framerate ever and the load times can get pretty lengthy at times. I could have forgiven those problems but I got pretty frustrated with some gameplay elements as well. One of the biggest ones for me was the friendly AI. At first its not so bad because the fights are pretty managable but when things get really heavy later on it gets hard and frustrating trying to keep track of what your teamates are doing. I fiddled around with their behavior commands a lot but I found that it didnt help all that much. They continued to keep being overwhelmed and sometimes even ignoring their commands completely. After losing fight after fight after fight I finally gave up. That kind of ties into the other problem I have with the game. It is one of those games where you kind of have to learn as you go. the learning curve is kind of steep. A lot of details about the game don't get explained so you are just left to figure it out for yourself. I constantly got myself into quests that were out of my league due to my lower level but I wouldn't be aware of that until I got into the middle of it. In those cases I had to load my game or backtrack to the beginning. I also felt like my equipment was always inferior to what I should have had. I kept the same dang sword for my whole playtime because none other sword i found was an improvement but my sword hardly did any damage to the enemies. Im not saying that this game is terrible but it just wasn't what I was expecting from bioware. I think i got frustrated because I saw a lot of potential that wasnt tapped into. I can definitely see how others can end up loving this game and having a lot of fun with it. In my case, however, I didn't have the patience required to micromanage everything and constantly be preparing for the next game crash.

I am very impressed with how this item was shipped; it was cheap, free shipping, came way early, and was in darn near perfect condition, despite being "used". My problem with the game, and I can't be alone with this, is the horrible port job they did with this game from the PC to consoles. Dragon Age Origins on PS3 literally looks like a Wii game, and a BAD one, at that. It looks like garbage, freezes constantly, and is missing a host of features that makes it shine so on PC. I am very thankful STEAM put it on such an impressive sale so swiftly after I got acquainted with it on PS3, got good taste of what I and other console gamers were missing out on. Final verdict: avoid it on console if you're PC is capable if running it; if not, get it on PS3 or 360 anyway, it's a good enough game to make its limitations simply petty complaints on an otherwise marvelous game.

Dragon Age Origins is one of those once in a gaming generation games that is great all around. Bioware is known for it's great games, but Dragon Age II aside (lol) this one is a true winner. Can't wait for Dragon Age III!