[ SECRET POST #2683 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2683 ⌋

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Re: Dragon Age Origins

[darkmanifest]

The combat is nothing like Skyrim. It's third person only, and basically click-and-do-predefined-attack-sequence instead of click-and-swing/block; it's best played with a keyboard, not a gamepad. I think the spellcasting is similar enough, though. It's also like traditional RPs in that your feet never leave the ground, you have to go around or through obstacles instead of jumping over them. Much less of the environment is can be interacted with - no swimming and so on. Enemies are the same, wolves and dragons and spiders, oh my.

Where Origins shines over Skyrim is characters and story. You pick an origin (hence the name) and you play through a unique story for that origin, and by the end of it, the chances that you'll be really invested in your player character and what they have to go through are high. Story's very linear, point A to point B to final battle, but very lovingly detailed and easy to follow via NPCs conversations and codexes (that you collect during gameplay for experience points), you won't be able to wander around willy-nilly, but the choices are many within the storyline. You recruit companions along the way and you develop relationships with them through your actions and conversations, from strong platonic friendships to select romances to hostile rivalries. The game is rigged to play on every emotion you have, from amusement to sorrow to fear to rage. And, like Skyrim, the available PC mods (including brand new campaigns) improve the base game astronomically, and are still being added to today.

Origins was my very first RPG, and it took me minute to warm up to it, but once I was into it, I was a lost cause. I'm on my third and fourth (simultaneous) playthroughs now.

Get the Ultimate Edition if you have three more dollars to spare. Several of all of the DLC packaged in that edition add important aspects to the original story (though not so critical it's unpleasant to play without them), so if you end up enjoying the game, you'll appreciate not having to buy the DLC separately (I hated having to do that with Dragon Age 2, which never got an ultimate edition).

Aaaaand that's enough pimping for today.