Dragon Age Origins is the most perfect of a classic style RPG you could ever get. This game is like Bioware took two of their previous masterpieces; Baldur's Gate and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic and mixed them together, let that ferment for 500 years, uncorked it and boiled it until all they had left was the solid remains of perfection, and then pressed that into a disc and shipped it to you.
If you don't have a long attention span and don't like huge timesinks (I spent 45 hours my first playthrough, then another 35 immediately after to play it again) but still want to play an RPG, maybe try something like Fallout 3, Oblivion or Mass Effect 1/2. Those are much much more action oriented but still heavy with plot. Dragon Age is the perfect example of a classic style RPG, that is one with more strategy elements and light Real Time Strategy-like gameplay. On the PC version at least, it favors an overhead camera that lets you control your party with precision while the console version gives you an over the shoulder view although you are still able to control other party members and use a very very detailed tactics system.
Everything about Dragon Age is perfect, despite what some have said, Dragon Age is about as far from cliche a story as you can get. The closest story it comes to is George R.R. Martin's a Song of Ice and Fire series, and that hardly makes it a cliche. The voice acting is absolutely perfect and along with the superb writing provides the game with what are possibly the most lifelike and believable characters ever in a game.
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