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HoloDust on 19 October 2025
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
JEMC said:

After asking here I gave Dragon Age Origins a go and... it didn't go too well. For starters, the game crashes a lot. There are supposed to be several fixes you can try to do but none of the ones I tried worked. I know the GOG version of the game is updated and should work fine, but then comes my other problem with the game, the difficulty.
You see, I played my character's origin story, became a Grey Warden, did my part in the battle and reached a town after it with little problems besides the crashes. But after that the difficulty spikes a lot and randomly. I tried to do two different missions (the tower of mages and searching for the Arl) and while both started of well, at one point I would find myself facing one group of enemies with no big problems only to be obliterated by the next group. It was frustrating and coupled with the crashes, I decided to try something else.

With Arl you mean Redcliffe, right?

You really need to do all the side missions to get everyone on board and upgrade their equipment, otherwise that battle will get difficult for sure.

Also, little hint:

Spoiler!
Put some traps on the hill where the darkspawn come from during the night. This can make those battles much easier

I found Redcliffe to be relatively easy back then, but I also naturally made all the sidequests up to that point and was maybe a bit more balanced than your team. Also, like Pemalite says, abuse the pause button to adjust your tactics.

HoloDust said:

That's bit odd, I don't remember Origins as difficult game - I remember back when it released I've played it and really liked it, but not as much as BG1/2 - so, wanting to scratch that itch, I went back to play BG...and oh boy, did I found BG to be way, way more difficult that Origins, though at the time I've played BG I didn't find them too difficult.

I'm playing both Origins and Baldur's Gate 1 right now side by side and found that both had a similar difficulty - At least for my current characters (Human noble thief in Origins and Undead Hunter in Baldur's Gate. Though I have to admit I made a superb roll for my undead hunter, which certainly helps making it feel easier:

I don't know - I haven't found BG1 to be that hard, neither back in 90s, nor year or two ago when I finally replayed it. But I vividly remember after completing Origins back in days that I loaded up my old save of BG1 and kept dying constantly. It really felt to me like a tier above Origins in difficulty back then. I haven't replayed Origins since then, so can't really tell if it was that just my perception of it, or is it really the case.