Ironically, I played Origins before there was anything but Stone Prisoner. I quite enjoyed it, and there are still DLC that I haven't purchased for it. I gave DA 2 a hard pass, and this is what's really funny, reading through the responses here:
I passed on it because the BSN, BioWare's forums back then, were lit up with "It's not Dragon Age, because it's not the Warden", along with all the much deserved negative press about reused areas and wave combat that they went into for 2. Seems familiar, doesn't it? I learned a very valuable lesson about gaming forums during that year, first and foremost, not to rely on them for a "buy/don't buy" decision.
