I remember when DAO came out, the multiple different prologues according to your race and class choices was so cool at the time and to this day remains my favorite aspect of the DA series as a whole. Old school BioWare was out here breaking the mold man

The best thing about the first Dragon Age is actually right in the title - The Origins. Not only do you have different Origin quests depending on your class and race, but you can actually see how origins intertwine during the main quest line. For example if you're a dwarf commoner you have to escape from a prison cell. However if you play any other origin when you reach that cell during the main quest you see a dwarf corpse. Meaning the other origins DO exist but they only become a Grey Warden if you pick them.

Abnsolutely 100%, Origins is one of my favourite games ever made and I still play it once a year. Morrigan is still my favourite DA character,

Paragon7 reviewing DAO. What a great day to be alive. Both Mass Effect and DAO proved to the world that Bioware was by far the very best RPG developer. Meeting characters for the 1st time in these games was always a joy. Great review. Thankyou so much. Sadly DAO crashes on my PC. But man I'd love to play my 5th playthrough. Cheers

glad you loved it. its my favorite dragon age game and one of my all time favorites.

DAO is one of my favorite games, right next to mass effect and halo combat evolved. It is my favorite rpg game, and I’m happy to see that veilguard is coming this year. There’s at least 6 playthroughs for experiencing everything (6 different origin stories) with even dialogue variations on gender/race of character.

Dragon Age Origins is literally my second favorite game of all time right behind Mass Effect 2. I'm so glad even nearly 15 years later we're still talking about how great this game is

Funny thing about looting system, when you pause and stop your team from folowing controled character you can order each team mate to loot separate enemy/chest, once all 4 loot their targets pause and repeat (works also without pause in tactical view when you detatch camera from charactr) It drasticly shortens time it takes to loot battlefield

You make me feel old describing Awakening as a DLC rather than an expansion 😆

so when is the longform spoiler review coming out?

DAO is one of the greatest CRPGs of all time. It has an incredible branching story with many choices, character builds, combat tactics. It hits pretty much everything perfectly. The only real marks against are that there are some glaring balance issues, it's pretty buggy, and it's quite dated looking (even when it released).

One of my all time favourite games. Actually...very probably my number one... 😃

it is worth it

I'm looking forward to playing this one next!

So glad you liked it! I loved the darkness of DAO. DAI pushed the companion friendships/romances up another level. I hope they make them even better in Veilguard. I wasn't a huge fan of DA2 but if you want more Enchantment!, Sandel and his father are there.

Nice to see fresh eyes on an old favorite

Great review and I agree with everything. I first played DA:O on PS3 and in addition to all the criticisms you mention the load times would have given you the biggest mental breakdown. Just knowing that you'd forgot something in an area of the game and having to go back to that area for that one thing actually caused stress because of the time it would take to load the area transitions. It was a significant disincentive to do fetch quests unless you needed to go to the area in question to advance the main plot of the game.

How many playthroughs to see everything? My best guess would be based on the endings, and I think each Origin has a special ending request that the main character can make, plus all the standard ones. So that's maybe 8 or 10 times to see everything. I think. It's at least 6, but I think there's some generic options. There's also being king, being queen, selecting a solitary queen, selecting a solitary king, or marrying off the king and queen options to each other. So that's 5 stories right there.

It's great. The combat can be a bit ...😅 and some parts of the story drag on a bit. But yes, its great, dark, bloody and lewd

I'm sure it's already been said but there are plenty of mods and fan patches that fix all those pc crashes. Eseentially the game was designed to work with a pittence of ram and if u exceed that amount... it crashes. You can download a program if u don't want to mod it called Large Address Aware and it'll fix that problem. There are 6 seperate Origin stories so to see everything you'll need six playthroughs.

Yes. If anything its the most worthwhile entry of this series to play.

Do you have a list of the mods you used? I really like the look of the characters and armor.

Brood-mothers… TRAUMATIZING

I played it when it was released, and I have a different feel for many things, but you are right. I also must complain. You made me think this: ENCHANTMENT! There, it has left my system.

Yes

Oh, so you've only played it once? You haven't found the "hidden" companion? You haven't done all of the origins to see if that changes your feelings on things? Because some of them give you a very different outlook from others.

This game desperately needs a remaster. But the story and characters are fantastic

Yes, yes, yes. omg yes.

It is my favourite game apart from mass effect which is 3 games so better

Can I play this on the PS5? I really want to :(

The glory days of Bioware storytelling! Thanks for the vid. Let's hope some of this awesomeness shows up in Veilguard 😊

It is worth playing on the PC. The console versions have the story, but poor technical execution (story is 7-8, technical/fighting is a 3 on console)

worth more then vailgaurd but seeing how the franchise was destroyed. it's not worth the pain of disappointment of modern dragon age after playing origins. better just keep it for a time the franchised will truly be dead

I got mad at the combat system because the enemy is always taunting and drawing my squad. chasing them into more enemies doesn’t matter what settings I put it on, kept doing it😂😡🤣🤣😡🤬🤣🤣

If you loved ME and DAO the natural go to would be Baldur's Gate 3 cuz it is basically DAO with a turn based combat.

The game is excellent but the Ultimate version is unplayable. It's at the point where it's crashing loading previously perfectly fine saves.