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If you think of yourself as an RPG fan and haven’t had the chance to check out Dragon Age: Origins or its expansion, Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening, then today is the perfect opportunity to do so.

Until tomorrow morning at 10 am on Monday the 21st, all of the Dragon Age titles in all available versions are on sale on Steam for a substantial discount. Check out the sale here.

• Dragon Age: Origins – $26.79 (33% discount!)
• Deluxe Edition – $33.49 (33% discount!)
• Awakening – $29.99 (25% discount!)
• Dragon Age: Origins + Awakening – $47.99 (40% discount!)
• Deluxe Edition + Awakening – $53.99 (40% discount!)

I’m not normally one to hype such promotions from this blog, but I’m not making any money from this and it’s a deal that anyone who wants but does not own these titles should not pass up. I would like to reiterate that the above sale link will likely only be valid until tomorrow morning, so hurry!

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All bugs aside, I had a lot of fun with Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening. Ok, so the writing wasn’t quite as good. Alright, fine–there wasn’t enough talking and decision-making for the amount of combat the game throws at you. I’ll concede that the game is far, far buggier than I would expect from Bioware, even in an expansion. But it was obviously rushed, so some bugs are to be expected, and will hopefully be fixed if they haven’t been already.

But on the bright side, players get to delve back into Ferelden for the second-greatest adventure you can find in the kingdom, and chances are if you’re interested in the game you’ve already finished the first at least once.

Chances are also quite good you’ve also read a number of reviews far more thorough than this. So, to cut to the chase–I’ll confirm what many of those reviews conclude–if you’re into the game, you should definitely give it a shot. If you haven’t played or didn’t enjoy the original, then there is no reason you should play or would enjoy this one either. But if you’re one of those people, I really think you should give the first game another look–it’s truly a deep and rewarding experience.

A word of caution–I did run into a couple of game-breaking bugs. Spoilers follow. Check the Dragon Age Wiki’s Bugs page for full details. Mainly, be careful when and how you complete the Amaranthine smugglers quest, because it can break other parts of the game and ruin your experience as it did mine (the quest ended early and all of the guards in Amaranthine hated me even though I meant to help them). Additionally, toward the end of the game when I chose to help Amaranthine instead of the Keep, the game map indicated the keep was destroyed by darkspawn, while the ending credits confirmed it remained standing strong thanks to the defenses I purchased. All in all, it ended well, and you wouldn’t have had a chance to go back there in the game anyway.

Bioware, I want more large Dragon Age DLC!

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I never used to have any crashing problems with Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening–it was running fine. Maybe it was a coincidence, but that all changed once I got Velanna on my team and started using her and Anders together as a spellcasting duo. Now, during fights I am experiencing random crashes. When I’m not using Velanna, I don’t seem to have any problems.

Perhaps it is related to both spellcasters being used together, or perhaps it is just a bug with Velanna. Or perhaps it’s just a coincidence and has nothing to do with either spellcaster. None-the-less, it is annoying and has caused me to have to restart major battles on multiple occasions so far.

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