Origins. That said the hate for Inquisition is overblown. It's fun and has some interesting lore and great areas. You can buy the ultimate edition of Origins on gog and if you wait for an RPG or bioware sale you can probably get it for a few bucks. The other two unfortunately can only be bought on origin (if you're playing on a PC that is) last I checked. Their sales are more infrequent but if you're really patient you can probably pick up DAI: game of the year edition for $30 or so which includes both expacs (EA expac prices are always rip-offs so do buy that edition rather than the base and trying to buy the others later). Dragon Age II is worth playing for the story but mechanically and as far as size of the world and feel it isn't that great compared to 1 or 3.
Also the graphics for origins are kind of dated so if you really can't stand your first impression being a low pixel game from 2009 (that was made earlier and has lower fidelity graphics compared to others of its age because of the shear amount of graphical assets and size of the game files already) then you might want to start with DAI and consider working backwards.
Origins. That said the hate for Inquisition is overblown. It's fun and has some interesting lore and great areas. You can buy the ultimate edition of Origins on gog and if you wait for an RPG or bioware sale you can probably get it for a few bucks. The other two unfortunately can only be bought on origin (if you're playing on a PC that is) last I checked. Their sales are more infrequent but if you're really patient you can probably pick up DAI: game of the year edition for $30 or so which includes both expacs (EA expac prices are always rip-offs so do buy that edition rather than the base and trying to buy the others later). Dragon Age II is worth playing for the story but mechanically and as far as size of the world and feel it isn't that great compared to 1 or 3.
Also the graphics for origins are kind of dated so if you really can't stand your first impression being a low pixel game from 2009 (that was made earlier and has lower fidelity graphics compared to others of its age because of the shear amount of graphical assets and size of the game files already) then you might want to start with DAI and consider working backwards.