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The sounds are off, the animations are all wrong, and the interface can barely keep up with human input. I think this is what people think of when they trollishly mutter about “dice rolls” determining their bullets’ paths. Try shooting something out of VATS in Fallout 3. Turn based combat? It’s now a shoddy slow-mo combat mode, a poor copy of the kind of tactical brilliance and visual excellence found in Max Payne games, and ultimately the only thing that stops the gunplay from being a broken, unplayable nightmare. It takes things from the original Fallout games (games I enjoyed) and updates them in the least imaginative ways possible. The actors behind the characters are (like all Bethesda actors) complete villains: their voices are so completely unemotional and uninteresting that they sound like they’re acting from beyond the grave. It’s bland, in its level design, its art, and its writing. He's a Hispanic ghoul in a game set in the post-apocalyptic Mojave, a Mojave free of brown people! Humor! To start playing Dragon Age with a new character − especially after a long break from the game − is to be unpleasantly reminded of the AI’s complete inability to do anything right. Party member AI in combat is almost unbelievably stupid (though this is a game brought to us by the people who created the path finding in Baldur’s Gate 2, so I shouldn’t be surprised). I certainly can’t praise Dragon Age’s combat mechanics. Instead, I’ve come to relish the game’s character leveling system and combat encounters.

While I’m a fan (of a sort) of Bioware’s writing, plotting, and actor-hiring, the solace I’ve taken out of all of these playthroughs (and especially the most recent one) of Dragon Age has had little to do with the game’s world or story.

For me, 100 hour and over playtimes are reserved for multiplayer games like L4D2 and games with titles like Call of Honorable Men in Bad Companionable Duty. Considering Dragon Age is a single player game, that’s actually very impressive. I haven’t written about it that much here, but I’ve played around two hundred hours of the game (spread across 3 playthroughs). I enjoy playing Dragon Age: Origins quite a bit. You get dollars if you remember seeing this ages ago and thinking: "Crap, I hope that's not a real screen."