Slaughter at Cousland Castle - Dragon Age: Origins - Let's Play Part 02
0I've been modding Dragon Age: Origins the last two days, and I've replayed the first section at least four times testing things out in the game. This is the first part in a new let's play playing the game with all the mods installed, but I am trying to keep the experience vanilla in terms of models used and story - I've just added graphical enhancements, gameplay-enhancements and UI-enhancements - and included some highly popular new armors.
So i did originally buy the first game Dragon Age: Origins already for the PC (personal Computer) back in 2009-2010 when it released. I had heard how great the game was, and that it had the same developer Bioware as one of my all-time favourite Role-Playing-Games Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic from 2003. However, I didn't do more than install the DVD, watch the intro, was surprised at the controls of the game where you pointed and clicked using a mouse and then decided to stop playing and uninstall it. I just weren't interested in a game where you moved by using the mouse and pointing and clicking on the ground.
This was a mistake, as I've found out recently that if you zoom-in on the characters you can control them using the keyboard like in SW:KOTOR or World of Warcraft. The game has awesome controls, awesome music, awesome gameplay and it's gory and dark- you have blood splatter similar to in the much later game Total War: Warhammer 2- and when you kill enemies they get beheaded and stuff - it's like features I've only seen in much later games where the models lose their heads in a bloody fashion. You get to pick up to six different replies on many questions during the story which affects the story and its outcome.
So I've played a bit in the game yesterday without recording until I were outside of Ferelden and ready to kill some Darkspawn demons. I played until I got my party killed. Then I restarted the game and decided to voice comment and record it.
I'm using some mods that will change certain aspects of the game, such as the behaviour of every NPC in various locations, dead bodies will stay, you do get the dog-companion as an extra 5th companion, auto-loot, you can bash-up locked chests and some doors etc - in the original game all dead bodies would disappear which I found immersion-breaking.
Unlike Dragon Age 2 and 3 this first game has a battle-system similar to that of Star Wars: KOTOR where the others are action-RPG's with a completely different system in battles. The system of the first game is a true RPG-battle-system that I much prefer.
So I did buy the "Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition" on STEAM during the summer of 2022, as I had only the first game on the DVD- but not the expansion pack "Dragon Age: Awakening" nor the additional DLC's.
As STEAM won't work after January 4th, 2024 on my Windows 7 computer I will try to finish the game before that.
I'm playing as a female human warrior, the other races are dwarves or (wood) elves, and the other vanilla classes are mage and rouge - thanks to a mod there are also the warlock and the ritualist.
I usually play warriors or characters that can summon creatures. In this game the choice became a warrior- I also have only played female characters in any role-playing-game since at least 2004 if I have the choice-the exception being if the character is a dwarf or monster. I mean, human characters or elven characters are often female, while dwarven characters or monsters are male. I do prefer female humans over male humans in games when playing, female elves over male elves.