Friends, here is my story: Coming home to the UK from Summer Game Fest, hungry and heatstruck, I arrived at one of Los Angeles International Airport's many food and coffee stands. Blearily, I ordered a latte and some kind of egg salad sandwich composed mostly of bread. The cashier told me that this humble repast would somehow be $21, in violation both of the social contract and mankind's covenant with the Lord God.
Being an assertive and self-confident type, I said absolutely nothing and meekly paid up. But I shouldn't have, because if I still had that $21 I could have bought the entire Dragon Age trilogy—base games and all the DLC—twice over in the currently ongoing . In place of a thin film of egg smeared on a loaf of wholewheat and a latte that tasted of nothing and which I eventually tipped down a new shirt, I'd have 300 hours of quite excellent fantasy RPG. Yes, Dragon Age 2 included: .
Until June 24 at 10 am PDT / สล็อต 1 pm EDT / 6 pm BST, you can acquire , , and on Steam for a mere $10 (£8.50). The first two games cost $3 (£2.50) each, while Inquisition is a buck extra, coming in at $4 (£3.50).
Personally, Origins is my favourite of the lot: A mid-2000s attempt to modernise the classic Infinity Engine formula in a way that the Xbox generation (that's me) could handle and appreciate. It was , in other words. It's not perfect, but it gets more right than it gets wrong, and I'd be amazed if it got any cheaper any time soon.