Dragon Age Is Just Awesome

This isn't going to be a review or anything resembling a critique of Dragon Age: Origins. There are lots of weird little flaws and aspects that might have been better implemented better. But for me those things are easily overlooked because of how the game works as a whole. I purposefully waited weeks after finishing the DA:O before writing this to make sure I still felt the same way, and hey, I do.

So here goes. Playing through this game is a lot like watching Lord of the Rings for the first time. Except it's all rad Orc fighting and no lame introspective talks while strolling through forests. Oh whats that Sam? You made a promise? No one gives a shit. No! This is Aragorn chopping off Uruk Hai heads and Boromir getting all arrowed up. Except that this is even better then LoTR because you have a war hound that loves you and eats everyone you hate. And if you play the game like me there are a lot of things to hate.

The character I created looked like a grizzled old man, but fought like a roided out viking. This was great in the first scene where the character's brown haired father was lecturing his white haired scowling "youngest" son about something soon to be overshadowed by his eminent murder . If it was a possible option to hit the father and mutter "I'm too old for this shit" you can rest assured it would have happened. Throughout the rest of the game I treated every dialog tree as if I was the Murtagh of Middle Earth. Even if there were decisions with good outcomes (there are no good outcomes in DA:O) everyone still would have hated him. It was utterly sublime.

And the ending. OH EM GEE the ending! You have to hack your way through more than 500 (this is an actual figure: I tallied it up) darkspawn in order make your final stand on an ancient god in the body of a dragon. Yeah that was the sound of your heart exploding from too much adrenaline. You're welcome by the way.