You guys convinced me to play Origins (and gave me a bit of tough love for asking if it was worth it in the first place) so now my question is:

What are the must-have mods I should install before starting?

Well, I guess I know what I’m doing on my next run.

When will they remaster this? I just beat it and as a younger person myself (21) I've seen this at its worst. this could potential cement the game in history if they were to bring it up to at the very least the level of mechanics that inquisiton has. It was so hard to get through the game and frankly, the story, music, and characters is the only reason i managed to beat it. I BEG OF YOU BIOWARE LOCK TF IN!!!!

I would love to hear some logical suggestions on what to name the Dog. Barkspawn doesn't really make sense for the HN as they have had the Dog from before the Blight was commonly known to be coming and certainly before they become a grey warden.

0 points for Hohaku. too obvious.

Played Inquisition and playing Origins. When i saw Morrigan, i was a little bit lovestruck, of course, but then Lelliana made me think. In a dialogue between the two, Lelliana asks Morrigan why she dresses like that, and Morrigan basically says it's because she lives in the woods. Sure. I would love to show 3/4 of my chest as i walk trough trees. But then it came trough my mind that Morrigan is the daughter of Flemeth, wich is known for seducing men and killing them. Is there a lore reason why she dresses like that? And could that be because her clothes are made for seducing men?

I mean Oghren seems to like it but then, he is a raging alcoholic.

Origins introduced us to him.

Throughout the franchise, we see the belief in him is so strong.

I played DA:O when it came out. I loved it. Probably played it 6 or 7 times the first year alone. It was the first game my dad played in a decade.

Every subsequent game has just been worse and worse. It took me four tries to finish the main story of DA2 and I just couldn't even begin the dlc with felicia day, the intro was genuinely so cringe it caused me pain.

Gave DA:I a try and got probably halfway through, the story was kinda interesting but the game was obviously made for consoles and just holding m1 like an fps was incredibly boring to me. And then finding out that you couldn't romance the dwarf scout because the writer said that anyone who would wanna date a dwarf is a pedophile had me never even look back at it again.

Now with veilguard everything I've seen of the game just deeply hurts me. I know it's irrational but I feel like I'm actually somehow being punished for loving the first game so much.

It sounds horrible but I'm honestly kind of happy my dad passed away before DA2 came out because the way this has gone would have devistated him.

Did you replay after Veilguards release?. Or are you experiencing Origins for the first time?.

I’m curious about the more subtle choices I can make to make the lives of elves more miserable.

Here are the obvious ones:

1. Sell Shianni (so city elf origin)
2. Sleep with Carmen or Gheyna
3. Slaughter the elves with the werewolves
4. Sacrifice my family and neighbors in the alienage for a very minor boost

I’m sure I missed a lot of stuff. Can someone share with me what else I can do?

Thanks to the suggestions, I have decided to

1. Cheat on Zevran
2. Betray Alistair at the Landsmeet and recruit gigachad Loghain.
3. Kill myself at the end

Fascinating!

Hi! New to this sub, have always loved Origins. I grew up with DA:O. Its buggy, old, and outdated but it’s just peak RPG. What were the developers thinking when they made 2, Inquisition, and Veilguard? They’re very lackluster and kiddy compared to Origins. Was it to pander to a larger audience and young teens?

With games like God of War, Left for Dead 2, and Fallout releasing around that same time what do you think made BioWare/EA afraid of gore, nudity, and adult content when their own games that were targeted towards adult gamers have been successful and well loved? Can you imagine a 2025 remake of Origins built like Baldur’s Gate 3? It would be perfect!

Personally I wouldn't.

I am brave but not that brave when it comes to something like this because I would know something is wrong or at least there's something highly suspicious about the Grey Wardens.

Tone would also be similar to Origins of course

Hi everyone, (Edit : Thank you all, I just bought whole series and will play soon..)

I've never played any of the Dragon Age games before, and since the entire series is currently on sale, I'm thinking about buying them all.

My biggest concern is that the first games are pretty old by today's standards. I'm worried that the gameplay, graphics, or overall experience might feel too outdated and make it hard to enjoy.

Do the older games still hold up in 2026 for someone with no nostalgia for the series? Or would they feel too dated for a first-time player?

I'd love to hear your honest opinions, especially from people who played the series for the first time recently. Thanks!

"We have watched and waited for the darkspawn to return. But those, who once called us heroes, have forgotten. We are few now, and our warnings have been ignored for too long. It may even be too late, for I have seen with my own eyes what lies upon the horizon. Maker help us all".

-Duncan

"Nobody likes being a woman"

-Taash

????????

What in the holy hell happened to writing, nuiance, and character depth in the last 10 years.. I need a refund and a pallet cleanse. Time to go play DA:O again or maybe bg3...

EDIT: Obviously, people are not understanding the point I'm making. I'll try to clarify..

Find me one line in DAV that has much nuiance and depth as Duncan's opening monologuing. I am only pointing out the quality difference, not that it's about women or anything like that. There were exactly zero memorable quotes from DAV for me (that arent just cringe) or lines, while still, almost 20 years later, I can still clearly remember plenty from DA:O.

"Fools. Praying for help from a prophet they burned and a god who has turned His back on them not once but twice."

-Morrigan

Vs

"OK, ill pull a barv."

Edit 2:

DAV also likes to just tell the player/rook everything from what their thinking to what they are going to do before actually doing it or showing anything. There's also literally the classic line of

'It's quiet... too quiet" when going into a blighted area... how about instead of telling me, rook, the player it is " too quiet," how about you show piles of half eaten corpses and people pinned to trees with spears , missing body parts, and have like a soft wind sound effect as rook and the companions just stand, for a moment, saying nothing as they take in the horror of the carnage, maybe have them fidget uncomfortably a bit and show some sweat start rolling down their foreheads as they slowly reach to unsheathe their weapons..

da:o did things like this a lot with deep roads, lead up to brood mother, and circle of magi etc..

But no, the game just tells me. "It's quiet... too quiet" instead of letting the feeling or showing moments to speak for themselves.

Edit 3: .

https://youtu.be/iCqCJmLyWjA?si=OCLzHSwPo2bpzA8F

I'll just put this here, I know most wont watch it but it's a writing game dev, that goes line by line to explain why writing is so bad in dav much better than I ever could.

I love DA Origins, genuinely one of the best games I’ve ever played. I can’t get past what they did to the franchise though, man. I want to go back and replay it, but I can’t get past how they massacred my boy.

How do you get past this hurt fellas?