Ranking Every Bioware Game From Worst To Best

2. Dragon Age: Origins

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Bioware's fantasy epic Dragon Age: Origins provided the perfect antidote to the developer's more action-orientated Mass Effect series when it released in 2009. Returning to the developer's dungeon-crawling roots, the title dropped the real-time shooting of ME in favour of a style that was closer to KOTOR, attempting to create a more classic role-playing experience.

Spinning an epic high-fantasy story that managed to be even more complex than the world-building found in Mass Effect, the game proved that even under EA, the developers were still committed to making sprawling, hardcore role-playing games.

Likewise, excellent expansion packs also cemented Origins as a modern classic, resulting in hundreds of hours of gameplay that never had to resort to cheap, uninspired quest designs to pad out the experience. Everything in the game feels vital and important in the moment, and it all adds to the brilliant sense of progression surrounding your created character.

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