Good storyline, fantastic gaming world.....would be a GREAT game if the memory did not leaking and no limited gameplay.

User Rating: 8 | Dragon Age: Origins (Collector's Edition) PC
By chunyu19 | Review Date:
The storyline is GREAT in my view, although part of the story is copying from old style fiction. I was playing Human Warrior, at Normal level, died for several times without knowing what is happening. Is it difficult for a new player to play Normal level? I DO think so.

Honestly, the level-up system is only in standard level, where there are only FOUR stats - strength, Dex, Con...etc., only limited skills and spells. Some of the skills/spells I've never used, it only because I want the higher level skills/spells at the same categories. The game limited the freedom to learn different kinds of skills/spells......

Weapons/armors only have limited types.....and those armors seems familar and old style.

Fighting system is a poor one, where I have to order the main character (player) to FIGHT, although I have set in the tactic screen - attack the nearest enermy. "Space" bar should always be used at the beginning of the fight. The most surprising is my mage being killed by his own magic (it is not Friendly Fire possible?).

Journal (quest log) is not good enough to show or teach what I am going to do or must do..... there maybe ICONs on the map to show the target NPC, but it was not appear until you walk near the NPC (there is FOG on the unexplored Map). The map is not detailed enough to show the path and special items too. I remember when I was in the Fade, I always have to walk arround to search for exits where some of the ways were blocked (but the map did not shown it).

Finally, the major problem of the game, memory leaking. When you play the game, memory will leak upon time, the longer you play, the longer the loading time between maps.....the longest loading time I counted was arround 10 minutes.....Then, I quit the game and re-start the Windows.

At the same time, you have to SAVE frequently as the game may crash suddently without any warning. I remember I killed the xxxx (forgot the name) at the top level of Circle of Mage after long fighting, it suddently crashed to desktop .....and I have to replay this again. It was arround TWO hours gameplay.

Remember.....SAVE game as soon as you can SAVE. I hope a NEW patch will solve the problems and this may become a GREAT game forever.

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