Honestly, I would recommend Dragon Age 2. It has the best companions; if you set the difficulty to Easy then most fights are pretty chill and you can bulldoze them with a minimum of fuss; and it's more self-contained in terms of the world than Origins/Awakening and presumably Inquisition (which I haven't played.) I've played it both on PC and console without mods and while there is the occasional hilarious glitch, there's not much that's unplayable. (Note: there is some kind of bug if you play both DLC missions, Legacy and Mark of the Assassin, in the same playthrough, that fucks up saves. I would choose Legacy every time, personally--and have, lol.)
The game isn't without flaws; the fact that it was shoved out the door too fast shows in reused maps and some odd writing choices with regard to timeline, but I just love the companions and the smaller, more personal nature of the story so much. (DAO and DAI--and the Mass Effect trilogy--are all about giant world-shaking disasters that you must save the world from. DA2 is about one city teetering on the edges of multiple disasters and you are just A Person Trying to Live and Everything's A Fucking Mess.)
Also it has Gideon Emery and Eve Myles among its star VAs, and I love that for it.
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Date: 2023-03-20 04:36 pm (UTC)Honestly, I would recommend Dragon Age 2. It has the best companions; if you set the difficulty to Easy then most fights are pretty chill and you can bulldoze them with a minimum of fuss; and it's more self-contained in terms of the world than Origins/Awakening and presumably Inquisition (which I haven't played.) I've played it both on PC and console without mods and while there is the occasional hilarious glitch, there's not much that's unplayable. (Note: there is some kind of bug if you play both DLC missions, Legacy and Mark of the Assassin, in the same playthrough, that fucks up saves. I would choose Legacy every time, personally--and have, lol.)
The game isn't without flaws; the fact that it was shoved out the door too fast shows in reused maps and some odd writing choices with regard to timeline, but I just love the companions and the smaller, more personal nature of the story so much. (DAO and DAI--and the Mass Effect trilogy--are all about giant world-shaking disasters that you must save the world from. DA2 is about one city teetering on the edges of multiple disasters and you are just A Person Trying to Live and Everything's A Fucking Mess.)
Also it has Gideon Emery and Eve Myles among its star VAs, and I love that for it.