Dragon Age: Inquisition

It looks epic story/art wise. But yea i hope tactical can be played like in DA:O. That action combat looks so wrong to me.

Not feeling the characters either. I want awesome female characters like Morrigan instead of that horned abomination (thanks Anita!).

UI also looks bad, almost like placeholder.

Never played a dragon age game also, but looking for my next fix along the lines of Skyrim - can anyone tell me if this is similar? Is it likely to be anywhere near as good? I read middling reviews of the previous games in the franchise.

Checkout dragon age origins - if they claim it's closer to that then it could be awesome - not getting good vibes from the combat here though - the rest looks good ofc

As for a comparison with Skyrim, hmm, all I know is I played over 300 hours of both

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Never played a dragon age game also, but looking for my next fix along the lines of Skyrim - can anyone tell me if this is similar? Is it likely to be anywhere near as good? I read middling reviews of the previous games in the franchise.

Did you ever play Baldurs Gate? Because DA:O basically was a Baldurs Gate game.

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Did you ever play Baldurs Gate? Because DA:O basically was a Baldurs Gate game.

Nope. I didn't actually watch the gameplay video before posting my previous comment, but having flicked through it now it doesn't look like the Skyrim replacement I was after. Too many cutscenes I guess (plus pretty bad voice acting?) and the combat doesn't appeal. Cheers though

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Nope. I didn't actually watch the gameplay video before posting my previous comment, but having flicked through it now it doesn't look like the Skyrim replacement I was after. Too many cutscenes I guess (plus pretty bad voice acting?) and the combat doesn't appeal. Cheers though

It's not really comparable to Skyrim gameplay wise. In DA you have a party instead of just one char. Don't judge gameplay by the video tho. They play the "action" game style in the PR videos which is silly button mashing like Diablo. Imo the proper way to play and enjoy this is the tactical style tho which is a lot of fun. In this style you pause the combat every 1-2 seconds and micro manage the attacks and spells of your party. Doersn't get more proper RPG then that. Also in Baldurs Gate and DA:O the story was really really good with lots of twists and whatnot. Think of the Assasins Guild plot in Oblivion to get the idea. If Da 3 can replicate that it's gonna kick ass.

I will wait for dux's testimony before i touch this game. Feels like no day goes by that i don't see or hear something about it that rubs me the wrong way. I was hoping they learned their lesson from DA 2 but to me it seems while they fixed some of their mistakes they made a bunch of new ones with the direction they have taken.

I'm not sure where you heard that, it's been getting lots of praise. I love it - and I'm a huge critic of dragon age 2 lol

Everything i see and hear from this game is awful, except for the environments and world size. The characters are butt ugly, writing and voice acting terrible, 80% of quests are collect 12 of this and 10 of that from what i've heard. PC controls and tactical view broken apparently. I know it's getting lots of good review scores but when you listen careful to player impressions and watch some youtube clips a different picture emerges. Then you have sites like Polygon giving out extra points for their social political agenda it seems.

Dux is the only one who can convince me to get this game at this point. I will trust his judgement.

you've already made up your mind then

I certainly don't feel like paying full price for it with what i've seen and heard from it. But i'm interested in hearing your opinion, what you like about it and how it compares, especially to the first one.

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Dux is the only one who can convince me to get this game at this point. I will trust his judgement.

That sentence had never been uttered in the entire history of Mapcore, until now.

I sense a disturbing lack of camel toes on this sequel

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That sentence had never been uttered in the entire history of Mapcore, until now.

I make this exception because i wasn't impressed with the first DA either initialy but Dux told me to keep playing and then i utterly enjoyed the game after forcing myself through the first part.

lol shut up Liam I might talk a lot of shit and hate on stuff from now and again but I have taste (shut up I do!) Anyway, I haven't bothered with this one yet as everything I have seen has been rather unconvincing to me. And my arsehole is still sore after Dragon Age 2.

Nevertheless I will be buying this... probably next month when I have some time off and they've had a chance to patch it. I will say though, I watched TotalBiscuits port report and a few things made me go WTF. You have a horse. God knows why. And the top down combat management system I can say without a doubt is a load of wrinkly foreskins. The UI looks pretty awful as well.

And bloody Origin.

So I'll be going into it with a hefty dose of caution.

I played Dragon Age 2 for like ~5hrs at all and I had enough of it.

But I played Dragon Age Inquisition since the release whenever I had time to do so and Im now around 41+hrs and still enjoying it.

I must admit though, that many sidequests are what you actually would expect from a MMO. But on the bright side you get a shit ton to do.^^

lol at the camel toes, true ....

http://kotaku.com/psa-if-youre-p…ands-1661855879

This is true, it was a big mistake to make this the starting zone IMO, it defo feels like an MMO, but this zone only, the others are a nice blend of scenery, little encounters, crafting materials and typical side quests that even dragon age origins had.

The story missions are really cool, very creative so far and they remind me most of DAO

The characters, although some do not hold up well, are very well fleshed out, I love some of the personalities.

The combat, which IMO was pretty much perfect in DAO is not as good for sure, but it's passable, I feel the game on hardest difficulty would force me to use the rather flaky overhead camera. The effects are also overkill and distracting, to the point of not being able to read the battle, but at the same time the direction is more along the lines of a button basher with a more tactical depth than usual.

They added a proper crafting system, but the itemization in general is not as a cool as DAO - but it's not bad - I'm only 30 hours in and I did a lot of fluff, so towards the middle of the game it might be better to judge this.

The game is huge (not just a grind fest like you might of read incorrectly), beautiful, optimized, dynamic and alive. If you're a completionist, this game will drive you crazy, I'm not, I skipped most of the Hinterlands.

It's not as good as DAO for sure, and I feel if they'd of stuck to their original formula it would of been a better game, but they didn't and I don't really care because after "only" 30 hours+ playing it I want to keep going, it;s getting better and better,

So I loved Mass Effect 2 and 3...enjoyed Star Wars ToR (for 30 days then bailed) and the old KOTOR games. Should I go for this game? I'm more of a "shooter" gamer but I also enjoy open world beat-downs like Arkham City. Never touched a DA game before.

Start with Dragon Age Origins.