Dragon Age: Origins

excellent jeu en tout point graphiquement et techniquementimpeccable gamplay plaisant ost et doublage de qualité bonne durée de vie et scénario intéressant

The graphics are very dated and outright ugly in places, but it's not enjoyment-affecting at all IMO. I've played games that aged far worse, and everything does its job. If you're on PC, there are plenty of texture and cosmetic mods to modernise things a little. The characters don't stick with me as much as the DA2 and some of the Inquisition companions do, but they're varied and interesting nonetheless. Your romance options are Zevran, a seductive elven assassin; Leliana, a pious Chantry sister hiding dark secrets; Morrigan, a gothic and asocial swamp witch; and Alistair, a naive and humorous ex-Templar with royal blood. Additionally, you can recruit companions such as Wynne, an elderly healer who seems to be assisted by some mysterious force; Sten, a soldier from a foreign culture who's entirely new to Ferelden; Oghren, a dwarven berserker who's crude with a love of alcohol; and Loghain, a morally questionable but complex antagonist-turned-ally. The Stone Prisoner DLC will also give you Shale, a stone golem with a previously mortal identity. The voice acting is varied but generally good - Alistair's VA is endearingly awkward, Leliana's sounds stilted in places, and Zevran stands out as suitably suave and perpetually amused. The dialogue options you get as the protagonist are typically pretty extensive and easy to roleplay within; my biggest complaint is that I feel romance/flirt dialogues are not at all obvious enough, and very easily confused with platonically kind gestures, which means you more often than not end up 'stealth' romancing a character. The story is pretty generic, and overrated in my opinion - it's a cliche fantasy plot, there's an evil force threatening the world, you and your band of companions are the only ones who can stop it, and you have to travel around to individual locations in order to recruit factions for your army. The gameplay is clunky, and my least favourite part of the game. The combat is aggravating enough that by the time I've been playing for a few hours I'm usually using mods just to skip most of the non-significant battles. Overall, this game didn't connect with me as much as it seems to for most; I think nostalgia (and the "older = better" mindset among gaming elitists) is a huge factor in the favouritism for Origins, and I prefer the sequels in most respects. However, the extensive dialogue options and roleplaying opportunities keep me coming back to Origins regardless.

N'ayant jamais fait le premier Dragon Age à l'époque, je me suis décidé à le faire et franchement, il est très cool, très bien écrit, Bioware sont juste trop fort. Petit point négatif, néanmoins logique, son gameplay qui est de nos jours très vieillissant, donc parfois assez frustrant, mais passez ça, c'est un très bon jeu.

A couple difficulty spikes are ridiculous. I didn't play this game on casual ever like I'm sure a lot of the reviewers did and I wasted lots of time on bad AI and RNG. This combat is more luck and min-maxing than skill. Bioware needs to learn to balance encounters. The difficulty variance from game to game, encounter to encounter, is embarrassing and simp reviewers just let it slide. Combat is clunky and too reliant on RNG. Ally AI is stupid even with tactics. Nothing like setting your Mage on passive and having them run ahead of everyone into battle. Half the time your Allies don't even do what they are programmed to do, even though you've micromanaged their tactics to the umpteenth degree. Tanks will just stop fighting in the middle of a battle. Had that happen a couple times. One time it even helped me because the enemy AI glitched out for some reason as my tank just stood there. Dungeon design reminds me of D&D dungeons that I designed in middle school on graph paper. Dungeons are circular and basic. Story Is Tolkien for dummies written by a grim dark teenager. Everything is just too much and too long. The end boss is just a damage sponge with adds. Don't make the mistake I did. Play this game on casual but ultimately don't play this game.

Did my first (and only) playthrough as a mage and it was hard to get into. Gameplay was annoying as hell at times with too much missable stuff and no chance to go back.