Dragon Age: Origins

Deliberate throwback to Baldur's Gate tactics that carried party-approval writing into the HD era.

Released 2009 Developer BioWare Publisher Electronic Arts Platform PC Genre RPG Era Digital storefronts & indie Website dragonage.bioware.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Dragon Age: Origins inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Character Classes ~~1981~~Branching Dialogue Trees ~~1985~~Ability Cooldown Economy ~~1999~~Companion Approval ~~2000~~Consequential Branching Endgame ~~2003~~

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