Dragon Age: Origins 2009

Is it still worth playing?

BioWare Edmonton's 2009 role playing game for Windows, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. You are a Grey Warden who has to defeat the Archdemon and end the Blight, a Darkspawn invasion. Who that Warden is changes the start: a human, an elf or a dwarf, paired with warrior, rogue or mage, gives six origin stories of at least an hour each. In battle you set commands that your allies follow when you are not controlling them, and combat often relies on pausing. The main game takes at least forty hours, with 68,260 lines of dialogue spoken by 144 voice actors. Many of its dilemmas have no clear good or evil side, so the decisions are still yours to weigh today, and that keeps the world worth returning to.