Looking for games similar to Dragon Age Origins

You must be new to the games industry (correct me if I'm wrong), though FYI..Dragon Age on its own is based on many OTHER Real time Tactical RPGs...

As for what you're looking for...I GREATLY suggest Neverwinter Nights (1 or 2). Its FAR more complicated than Dragon Age...its got GREAT customization options...

There's also a lot more mods in form of expansion packs and stuff...

if you like starwars then you'll love knights of the old republic 1 and 2!

I know that this is stating the obvious, but have you played Skyrim yet? If not, I would recommend it. Other than that, Fallout 3 or New Vegas maybe ;)

Pretty much anything by Bioware:

Mass Effect 1, 2, 3.

Knights of the Old Republic 1, 2

NWN 1, 2 (+ expansions)

Buldar's Gate 1, 2 (+ expansions)

and last but not least:

Dragon Age II (It is a lot more restrictive, combat is more streamlined, but the story is still great. Plus your actions in DA:O have an effect on the storyline in DA2).

I played Mass Effect long time ago and I gave up some where in

the beginning of the game. I didn't find it interesting, it is more like

a shooter (altought as I remember you can costomise your characters)

and does not allow you to control your allies. Or is it? Maybe some one

can refresh my memory...

Button line, I remember Mass Effect as a shooter (I still have the disc

some where in my shelf).

Ummmmm... Drakensang, anyone?

Try Drakensang: The Dark Eye and Drakensang: The River of Time. I think you'll like it, it reminds me of the original epic fantasy tales, books, movies and games... Just give it a try :)

Neverwinter Nights 1 is more enjoyable and story driven than NWN2. NWN2 is graphically more advanced, however both of them have tons of mods and many of them are even better than the oiginal titles. The old Deus Ex games have some tactical elements . The Drakensang series are a bit tough and gets repetitive after some time.

By the way, if you want strategic element in RPG, Baldur's Gate games are the best, though they are in isometric style. The pause feature in them allows the player to make plans beforehand any tough encounter.

I tried some of the games that were suggested here and I had fun

with each of them. But still I want to give my impressions on

these games so I will list them here from top to bottom according

to how much fun I have with each.

Kotor : Fantastic game with great story and characters. The combat

is not as challenging as in Dragon Age and can be very easy even

on hard mode, but it still fun. I like this game as much as I liked

Dragon Age.

NWN2 : This was the most similar game to Dragon Age that I tried.

I liked the characters (especially Qara and Casivir) but I felt that

the story was flat and uninspired. The combat system is more deep

and complex than in Dragon Age, but still I felt that the game was

very easy (I played on normal), much more easy than Dragon Age.

The most irritating thing about this game, like almost every game

that is being made by Obsidian, is the bugs. I can't defeat the last

boss because of a bug. Despite all of these cons I still had a great time

with it.

Mass Effect : I have mixed feelings about this game. It has a great story

and characters, and it is very polished. But I can't embrace it as much

as Dragon Age or Kotor because it doesn't have the tactical combat of

these games. I didn't feel during the whole game that my teammates

were important because I didn't have direct control on them.Overall this

game feels more like a console video game rather than a pc,I guess that

Bioware aimed this game primarily to console gamers somaking this

game with tactical combat will be extremely hard to implement on a gamepad.

Icewind Dale II : This game has the best combat system in my opinion compare

to all the other games I played and the it is very challenging. Unfortunately

until now this is the only positive thing I can say about this game, the story is very

linear and the gameplay itself is linear. The characters have no personality (you create

them after all), so because I can't get into the story the game becomes more and more

repetitive and the combat is the only thing that saves the game for me right now. But I

only finished half of the game so maybe the story it is getting better later.

i would def. recommend Knights of the old republic 1 and 2...its for Xbox and does work on the 360...you can also get it for PC and MAC...combat is VERY similar to Dragon Age, and it has a good story. plus its also by Bioware

If you don´t care about Graphics and know how to use Dosbox or have some old PCs

try Wizardry 6-8. Great Story, Combat is sometimes very, very difficult

try Ultima 4-7. Some of the best Stories ever told in RPG, whole party control, same Characters in all Games

try Torment. Best Story ever (with Baldurs Gate)

try Realms of Arkania (Das schwarze Auge). All you want with poor graphics

To the original poster: Bioware has claimed both Neverwinter Nights and Dragon Age: Origins as the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate 1+2. I say you start there. You said you enjoyed the combat system in Icewind Dale II. Well, play Baldurs's Gate 1 and 2 + Throne of Bhaal, and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised, as the character developement is beautiful and the story is the best you'll come across, plus the combat is almost identical to Icewind Dale's.

To MysticSun

Yes I'm still doing my search for games similar to DAO. I'm playing what most people in this

forum recommended: NWN 1 & 2, Baldur's Gate, PlaneScape,IceWind Dale, etc. These are the

only games that I found and it seems that there is a very limited audience for this genre.

BUT, I would like to inform you that there are two upcoming Kickstarter games projects, Project Eternity

and Wasteland 2, that according to the developers will be similar to games like DAO and

Baldur's Gate. It's so good to see sites like Kickstarter that encourage crowd funding and

make developers independent from publishers (e.g. look what EA done to Dragon Age 2).

I pledged for Project Eternity and unfortunately I missed the crowd funding for Wasteland 2.

Other than that, I looked at games that you suggested, Forsaken the Morrowind. They

look more similar to Skyrim rather than to DAO so I don't know how much interest I will have in them.

There are other games that I putted on my radar and maybe you can give me your recommendation

on them. I heard that King's Bounty is a good hybrid of RPG and turn base tactics (although I prefer

real time tactics like in DAO), also SpellForce seems to be an interesting combination of RPG and a real time

strategy game, but I heard that the production values of this game are terrible.