Did you ever finish Dragon Age: Origins?

Dragon Age: Origins was one of the most longest games in recent memory.

It took me seventy hours on my first try to beat it, and even then, I left a lot of sidequests unfinished.

I later came back, did another walkthrough, and beat it again. It was that good.

But, I know of a ton of people who haven't beat it. Are you one of those people?

I finished it (100% completion) three times.

I did. It was a good game.

Yup and the ending sucked.

Yup and the ending sucked.

Whiteblade999

It was cliched, sure, but it didn't suck. Not one bit.

No... I finsihed the danish elf/werewolf mission (a huge maze with trash mobs), mage tower (another huge maze with the fade, though there is a mod to skip it), deep road (another fxxing enormous maze with trash mobs), then after saving the kid of earl, I burned out. I've tried all race/class though to see how the beginnings differniate.

Yes, I did. It's my most played game this gen come ot think of it. Across a few playthroughs I've probably put in close to 150 hours. Great game.

Nope, even tried playing through it 3 or 4 times... Just couldn't, found it utterly dull with boring characters.Ravensmash

Get out of Lothering, and it really starts to pick up.

Pity Dragon Age II wasn't quite the same experience.

I quit later on. The game just didn't wow me. As a so called spiritual successor to BG2, it dropped the ball in many ways.

[QUOTE="Ravensmash"]Nope, even tried playing through it 3 or 4 times... Just couldn't, found it utterly dull with boring characters.The_Capitalist

Get out of Lothering, and it really starts to pick up.

Pity Dragon Age II wasn't quite the same experience.

I did8) Just look at my Xfire stats

I completed all the side quest and read everything EVERYTHING:x

Dragon Age: Origins

No. I finished Arl of Redcliffe main quest which included in my run doing the Mage Tower and the Fade (that was long). After that I was just really, really, really bored with the game. When I last played I was toying with doing the Urn quest or doing the Dalish one. I just couldn't be bothered to do either. The game's story really wasn't that interesting. Didn't pull me in at all.

Which was surprising for me since I really enjoyed Neverwinter Nights and KOTOR. Mass Effect was fun as well. Though I never finished Jade Empire but that had more do with me getting distracted by other games and college at the time. I got it very cheap and used so it wasn't a big issue on my mind. I might go back and finish it one day as I did enjoy the little I did play of it.

Overall I found Dragon Age: Origins to be a disappointment. Controls were bad and I knew I should have gotten the PC version isntead of the Xbox 360 one. Didn't even bother with DA2 or even the expansion for DA:O. I usually like to finish RPGs, even if I don't do it the first time around. For example I found myself going back trying to finish off Mass Effect and I'm playing Tales of Vesperia again but I have no regret not finishing DA:O. I just regret buying it.

Yes i did and i never touched it again. I didn't have that fun and satisfaction i get from playing and finishing The Witcher. That's why i didn't bought DA2 because i'm waiting for The Witcher 2 which will be better most probably.lordlors

As great as the Witcher was, I felt less satisfied playing it. The characters were less interesting (with a few exceptions), the writing was considerably drier, and the gameplay was just awful. Only thing going for it was a morality system that mattered.

No doubt, the Witcher 2 will be a better game, though.

Longest? I beat it in like 24 hours :\ Yeah I beat Origins twice. Second one bored me too much so I stopped.Ace6301

The Deep Roads alone took me ten hours the first time through. How did you do it?

I beat it, but didn't do some character side quests. Took me around 70 hours for origins and awakening. I'm playing again as a rogue, which I didn't even use the last playthrough. I'm doing it much quicker this time though, skipping all the chantry board quests and the like, also skipped the fade.

And the first time I pretty much avoided talking to Leliana whenever I could, her voice just annoyed me so much. But now I actually kind of like her character.

I quit later on. The game just didn't wow me. As a so called spiritual successor to BG2, it dropped the ball in many ways.

malebog123

Really? I never played BG2, but DAO encouraged me to give that game a try. Still haven't really beaten BG2, however.

I never really played it very much. But I have it for PC now and I plan on playing through it

[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Longest? I beat it in like 24 hours :\ Yeah I beat Origins twice. Second one bored me too much so I stopped.The_Capitalist

The Deep Roads alone took me ten hours the first time through. How did you do it?

What class did you play? It took my mage like about 3 hours.

What class did you play? It took my mage like about 3 hours.

ghostofzabis

Well if you do your spells right, mages are insanely powerful. And what difficulty were you playing on?

[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Longest? I beat it in like 24 hours :\ Yeah I beat Origins twice. Second one bored me too much so I stopped.The_Capitalist

The Deep Roads alone took me ten hours the first time through. How did you do it?

Yup. You were so terribly powerful by the endgame is was more a matter of patience while your party trashed normal mobs. I hunted down all the major side bosses just as a pride thing, and then beat the game and sent it back to Gamefly. My roommate bought it later, but I just couldn't bring myself to do any more playthroughs/

[QUOTE="ghostofzabis"]What class did you play? It took my mage like about 3 hours.

cain006

Well if you do your spells right, mages are insanely powerful. And what difficulty were you playing on?

Normal, since hard/any difficulties higher usually mean NPC get higher damage/damage resistance soak/HP/etc.,

not like their AI would improve, choosing different skillsets against players with new combos or anything.

Yup. You were so terribly powerful by the endgame is was more a matter of patience while your party trashed normal mobs. I hunted down all the major side bosses just as a pride thing, and then beat the game and sent it back to Gamefly. My roommate bought it later, but I just couldn't bring myself to do any more playthroughs/

Kickinurass

If you found it easy, why didn't you just raise the difficulty?

Yep I beat it.

I would say I easily put 200+ hours into Origins... but there's still quests I never finished

I don't get why people keep claiming it was a long game. In terms of the genre, its length was quite average in my opinion. That said, I beat it in about 80 hours. One hell of a game.

Normal, since hard/any difficulties higher usually mean NPC get higher damage/damage resistance soak/HP/etc.,

not like their AI would improve, choosing different skillsets against players with new combos or anything.

ghostofzabis

The enemies use way more abilities when you raise the difficulty. And yeah, they improve artificially as well. You need really high magic on insanity or else half the time your spells will be resisted.

[QUOTE="Kickinurass"]

Yup. You were so terribly powerful by the endgame is was more a matter of patience while your party trashed normal mobs. I hunted down all the major side bosses just as a pride thing, and then beat the game and sent it back to Gamefly. My roommate bought it later, but I just couldn't bring myself to do any more playthroughs/

cain006

If you found it easy, why didn't you just raise the difficulty?

Played on Nightmare, and purposefully tried to weaken myself by relying on Poison making and trap at the beginning, which became ridiculously overpowered as the game went on. Might rebuy it on PC because I hear it's even harder, but waiting on a good deal for it with all the DLC.

[QUOTE="ghostofzabis"]Normal, since hard/any difficulties higher usually mean NPC get higher damage/damage resistance soak/HP/etc.,

not like their AI would improve, choosing different skillsets against players with new combos or anything.

cain006

The enemies use way more abilities when you raise the difficulty. And yeah, they improve artificially as well. You need really high magic on insanity or else half the time your spells will be resisted.

[QUOTE="malebog123"]

I quit later on. The game just didn't wow me. As a so called spiritual successor to BG2, it dropped the ball in many ways.

The_Capitalist

Really? I never played BG2, but DAO encouraged me to give that game a try. Still haven't really beaten BG2, however.

problem is, I was hyped up for the game back when it was first announced couple of years ago and I was expecting a unique and different fantasy world unlike anythig else. What I got was a generic universe that had nothing surprising or unique about it. Good game though, just not what I wanted. The Witcher at least tried a new approach to fantasy and it ended up being one of my favorite games.

I got bored and stopped playing. Might get around to finishing it someday.

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[QUOTE="Kickinurass"]

Yup. You were so terribly powerful by the endgame is was more a matter of patience while your party trashed normal mobs. I hunted down all the major side bosses just as a pride thing, and then beat the game and sent it back to Gamefly. My roommate bought it later, but I just couldn't bring myself to do any more playthroughs/

Kickinurass

If you found it easy, why didn't you just raise the difficulty?

Played on Nightmare, and purposefully tried to weaken myself by relying on Poison making and trap at the beginning, which became ridiculously overpowered as the game went on. Might rebuy it on PC because I hear it's even harder, but waiting on a good deal for it with all the DLC.

Theres an ultimate collection on steam.

[QUOTE="ghostofzabis"]Normal, since hard/any difficulties higher usually mean NPC get higher damage/damage resistance soak/HP/etc.,

not like their AI would improve, choosing different skillsets against players with new combos or anything.

cain006

The enemies use way more abilities when you raise the difficulty. And yeah, they improve artificially as well. You need really high magic on insanity or else half the time your spells will be resisted.

I know there is the magic resistance, but it is just another way of boosting damage resistance to mobs. Personally I would rather be fighting against something else instead of twitching mechanics to boost their stats.

It's like if I play D&D, instead of having random mobs getting spell resistance/stat boost/etc. like almost ALL NWN servers do, I would rather see some different creatures, or different tactics (such as they cast spells that grant spell resistance on them, and such)

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[QUOTE="malebog123"]

I quit later on. The game just didn't wow me. As a so called spiritual successor to BG2, it dropped the ball in many ways.

malebog123

Really? I never played BG2, but DAO encouraged me to give that game a try. Still haven't really beaten BG2, however.

problem is, I was hyped up for the game back when it was first announced couple of years ago and I was expecting a unique and different fantasy world unlike anythig else. What I got was a generic universe that had nothing surprising or unique about it. Good game though, just not what I wanted. The Witcher at least tried a new approach to fantasy and it ended up being one of my favorite games.

I'll give you that. Dragon Age's setting was pretty generic as far as I was concerned. But great game, still.

I've beaten twice, both times took me around 30 hours.

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[QUOTE="cain006"]

If you found it easy, why didn't you just raise the difficulty?

PSdual_wielder

Played on Nightmare, and purposefully tried to weaken myself by relying on Poison making and trap at the beginning, which became ridiculously overpowered as the game went on. Might rebuy it on PC because I hear it's even harder, but waiting on a good deal for it with all the DLC.

Theres an ultimate collection on steam.

Yeah, but that's $40. And since Amazon and Best Buy have Portal 2 for $35, I'm leaning toward buying that with the extra bit of money.

I'm hoping Steam puts it on sale for like 25% - 33% off. Then I'd be all over it.

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[QUOTE="Kickinurass"]

Yup. You were so terribly powerful by the endgame is was more a matter of patience while your party trashed normal mobs. I hunted down all the major side bosses just as a pride thing, and then beat the game and sent it back to Gamefly. My roommate bought it later, but I just couldn't bring myself to do any more playthroughs/

Kickinurass

If you found it easy, why didn't you just raise the difficulty?

Played on Nightmare, and purposefully tried to weaken myself by relying on Poison making and trap at the beginning, which became ridiculously overpowered as the game went on. Might rebuy it on PC because I hear it's even harder, but waiting on a good deal for it with all the DLC.

I found a lot of the dlc wasn't worth more than a dollar or two. You might as well get the ultimate edition though because it's basically the same price.

It's slightly harder on pc (Nightmare on consoles = Hard on pc), but if you still find it easy I think there's a mod called Nightmare Plus that makes it harder.