I hate my boss. She’s pretty good as bosses go, is fair and allows me flexible working when I need to sort out some last minute childcare. She’s a Newcastle fan, but I don’t hold that against her. There’s just one problem: sometimes she mentions 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: Origins, and I get the unshakeable urge to 🗹replay it all over again.
This very thing happened again this week, when she wrote about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ba♍ldur’s Gate 3’s Origin chara🎀cters. No, the name alone wasn’t enough to trigger my must-play-Dragon-Age response, but the content of the article was. Origin characters seem really cool, and I love the fact that you’ll meet the prefab protagonists as NPCs or party members if you don’t choose them. But right at the end, she compared the system to Origins’ various starting points. It was one sentence in the final paragraph of an in-depth article about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate, yet it was enough to flick that silly little switch in my brain and make me want t💙o start a new Dragon Age: Origins save right away. Thanks, Stacey.
Nothing will ever top my first playthrough. I was a Dwarf Commoner experiencing Ferelden for the first time, mirroring my experience as a player perfectly. It’s my canon playthrough as I made the decisions I thought best for my ✤protagonist and the wider world around her. Future playthroughs included a Dwarf Noble where I basically picked every opposite choice to my canon game state to see what happened, including sacrificing myself for the greater good. I’ve done a Mage playthrough (accompanied by Morrigan, Wynne, and Barkspawn no less), and I also played as a Human Noble just to hear more Tim Curܫry, but I admittedly didn’t finish that one.
I’m not really fond of fae folk, but there’s a glaring Elf-shaped omission in my origins. And it’s high time I fixed that, right? Okay, I’ll admit that I started my first playthrough of Inquisition as an Elf, but 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I fell off that game hard, and for some reason I have more interest in replaying a 14 year old game than a far more modern one. Except it’s not that odd at all. Dragon Age: Origins has a lot that makes it special, de🍸spite the archaic combat and dated graphics.
Your choices matter in Dragon Age: Origins. They do to some extent in the sequels, and other RPGs, but I’ve never experienced a game where every single quest impacts the story in a meaningful way, and where so few choices a🌼re clear cut ‘good’ and ‘evil’ options. The paragon system just doesn’t hit quite the same, although it seems far less complicated to develop. Simple conversations can have major impacts on who ascends to the throne and I left many situations questioning my morals.
The City Elves intrigued me, too, far more than the Dalish. The latter are a more ‘traditional’ (read: boring) fantasy Elf, whereas their city-dwelling kin are grittier, having dealt with being downtrodden and alienated in the human world. They’re not following the Dark Elf trope, but there’s an edge to them that I’d like to explore more. That’s the best part of Origins’, well, origins: you really get to know the characters, the people, and th🍬e places. Playing as a human gave me a new perspective on the events I experienced as a Dwarf in playthroughs previous. I’m sure playing a✅s an Elf will give me a similar experience.
Dragon Age: Origins is a special game a🎐nd one of the finest RPGs I’ve had the pleasure of playing. I’ll definitely jump back in for another round at some point, but now isn’t the best time for this particular fixation. I’m still in my CRPG mode, desperately trying to play as much of Warhammer 40,00⛦0: Rogue Trader as possible before Baldur’s Gate 3 hits at the start of August. Thanks for moving that forward by nearly a month, Larian. After that I’ll be straight into Starfield and then the autumn avalanche of triple-A releases. I don’t have time for another Dragon Age: Origins playthrough, but I’ll squeeze one in goddammit.