Dragon Age: Ultimate Edition - 50% Off on Impulse

Impulse is offering Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition for $24.97. This offer is only good for North American residents. The Ultimate Edition includes the following:

Dragon Age™: Origins
You are a Grey Warden, one of the last of this legendary order of guardians. With the return of mankind's ancient foe and the kingdom engulfed in civil war, you have been chosen by fate to unite the shattered lands and slay the archdemon once and for all. Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures.

Dragon Age™: Origins – Awakening Expansion Pack
The story of the Grey Wardens continues as you are named their commander. Fight new enemies, learn new skills and spells, and explore an all-new area of the world, Amaranthine.

All Nine Content Packs
Extend your adventure with The Stone Prisoner, Warden’s Keep, Return to Ostagar, Feastday Gifts, The Darkspawn Chronicles, Feastday Pranks, Leliana’s Song, The Golems of Amgarrak, and Witch Hunt. Collect new rewards, gain new party members, and more as you delve deeper into the Dragon Age™ storyline.

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Not a bad deal for new players of if your looking to buy again.There will probably be a masseffect 2 ultimate edition down the line also.Funny how you spend $200 and now they release a edition for a quarter of the price.Guess its better to wait then buy new.

There's no denying that's a great deal for a great game.

I don't remember any Mass Effect 1 Ultimate Edition.

Definitely going to get this eventually, but I'll wait until I can get a boxed copy for cheap. I don't plan on replaying DA anytime soon.

How does Impulse work? Is it like Steam where you have to be connected?

Impulse has a client but you dont have to be connected to play ( I own GalCiv2 only from them and i dont know if DRM plays a role there) .

Originally Posted by Alrik Fassbauer
I don't remember any Mass Effect 1 Ultimate Edition.

There wasn't enough content for there to be one.

Originally Posted by blatantninja
How does Impulse work? Is it like Steam where you have to be connected?

No. You have to download and update your games via Impulse, but that's it. You don't have a client running in the background, either, unless you want to. It's one of the things, in my opinion, Impulse does better than Steam.

Edit: It's also subject to DRM, too. You don't get away from it that easily

Thanks! To take it one step further, once I download the game, say Impulse goes out of business, am I hosed? Or am I good as long as I have the game downloaded (not necessarily installed, but downloaded).

It installs once it's downloaded, so you can't have it downloaded but uninstalled (I think). Once it's installed and updated, you do not need to run Impulse again.

Originally Posted by blatantninja
Thanks! To take it one step further, once I download the game, say Impulse goes out of business, am I hosed? Or am I good as long as I have the game downloaded (not necessarily installed, but downloaded).

Also if the game uses GOO protection (Stardock's stuff), you can redeem it via another vendor.

Originally Posted by Dwagginz
It installs once it's downloaded, so you can't have it downloaded but uninstalled (I think). Once it's installed and updated, you do not need to run Impulse again.

You can download and archive any game. Just right click it and choose "download and archive"

Indecently I just reinstalled Half Life 2 even though I had lost disc 3. I had bought the game at a brick and mortar shop, but I was surprised to find out the other day that I could just download it from them again even though I never purchased it directly from Steam.

I know that we're talking about Impulse, but you hardly hear any stories like that about these digital download stores. So thought I'd share how Steam saved me from buying the dang thing again.

Originally Posted by skavenhorde
Indecently I just reinstalled Half Life 2 even though I had lost disc 3. I had bought the game at a brick and mortar shop, but I was surprised to find out the other day that I could just download it from them again even though I never purchased it directly from Steam.

Yeah, that's been a feature of Steam for years. It's no different to most other digital sites in that regard.

Ultimate Edition should keep you busy until the next good Rpg is out . Thats a lot of hours of gaming !!!

Thanks guys! I'm completely new to this who digital purchase thing. I've done GoG, but they're easy. I'm still trying to figure out how the Civ V DVD I got requires Steam!

Originally Posted by blatantninja
I'm still trying to figure out how the Civ V DVD I got requires Steam!

What's the problem?

That's Steamworks. It means you have to have Steam to rn the game, but it also means that you can download the game from Steam any time you like, on any computer you like. It's worth it, imo. You don't have to be online to use your Steam games, either. You have to be online to download and install, but once installed you can play your Steam games in offline mode.

I love Steam. It has saved me loads and loads of cash and also time that I didn't have to spend trying to find DVDs, and juggle between different disks in the drive to play different games.