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Title: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Eschaton on November 12, 2013, 01:18:06 PM
game looks hot :yeshrug :whew :leon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uub6QvxlZjA
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 12, 2013, 01:42:57 PM
"Morrigan disapproves"
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: Rufus on November 12, 2013, 02:01:40 PM
"Morrigan disapproves"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deoEM4VxNq0
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: Rufus on November 12, 2013, 02:13:48 PM
I think it looks promising, but it's Bioware, so I'll wait until it's 20€ or below no matter what.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: Your Stalker on November 12, 2013, 06:06:05 PM
I'll probably pick it up. I enjoyed the first and didn't kill myself during the second.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: Damian79 on November 12, 2013, 07:11:50 PM
I'll be picking this up.  A lot of good ideas for the genre in this game.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: mjemirzian on November 13, 2013, 05:19:18 PM
I'll wait for post-launch impressions. Video does look good though.

I also didn't mind DA2's gameplay as much as some people.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 13, 2013, 05:45:50 PM
I'm going to need to be told it's worth it from at least 3 people whose taste I implicitly trust, and would probably only pick it up for $20 or so even THEN.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: Damian79 on November 13, 2013, 07:29:41 PM
*unless the game somehow becomes sold by Blizzard.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 13, 2013, 11:39:20 PM
::)

You have me confused with... I don't know who the fuck you have me confused with.  I don't really play RTS or MMO games; the only blizzard games I play are Diablo and now Hearthstone
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: Damian79 on November 14, 2013, 01:58:04 AM
::)

You have me confused with... I don't know who the fuck you have me confused with.  I don't really play RTS or MMO games; the only blizzard games I play are Diablo and now Hearthstone

Fair enough.  Thought you were one of those guys when you with the others were defending Diablo 3 as if your life depends on it.

EDIT:  Anyway back to Dragon Age.  I hope that your choices in the game alter end game beyond not fighting a dragon because you killed it before.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: Rufus on November 14, 2013, 08:10:49 AM
They seem to be going for immediate consequences this time around, judging by the video. Witcher 3 seems to be built similarly. Open world, no hard loads, lots of micro choices that affect your immediate surroundings.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: Rufus on November 14, 2013, 10:09:00 AM
I loved the way The Witcher 2 did it, with basically two different versions of Act 2. It's a big difference to actually matter and you don't have to remember a bunch of smaller choices if you want to see other outcomes on repeat playthroughs.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 14, 2013, 11:31:39 AM
:bow Witcher games :bow2

Mostly why I'm building a new pc next year
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition longer vid
Post by: Rufus on November 14, 2013, 02:01:43 PM
Yeah, and you can't fan it out much, especially with modern production values. Two rails in the middle is better than no rails at all though. But I agree with you that all the choice stuff isn't all that important. Bioware set themselves up to fail with Mass Effect pushing choice so much.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 13, 2014, 03:15:09 PM
Hopefully it turns out well.

I find myself less interested in it though because I want something closer to Dragon Age Origins versus Skyrim/Witcher but that's just me.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 13, 2014, 04:47:04 PM
No matter how good this looks, I'm not buying it until well after it's been released.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 13, 2014, 05:03:07 PM
DA1 was kinda generic, but a nice throwback to 90's RPGs. DA2 was garbage.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Himu on January 13, 2014, 05:32:52 PM
Is this another action rpg?

Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 13, 2014, 05:34:15 PM
Is this another action rpg?

Conceptually what they've talked about makes it sound much more like an action rpg. They've mentioned multiple times how in love they were with skyrim so it seems like the game is probably taking cues from that.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Himu on January 13, 2014, 05:37:11 PM
I don't mind the game being an action rpg so long as the action is done well, and with ME2, I think Bioware proved they could do action pretty well. Color me cautiously optimistic.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 13, 2014, 05:39:11 PM
My thing is I think there are enough action rpgs from people who do them decently well. By comparison we have very few western party based rpg's anymore. That was what was nice about origins. I would prefer they stuck with that approach rather than trying to chase other popular trends but whatever.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Himu on January 13, 2014, 05:40:23 PM
That's why the original dragon age was so unique - it wasn't an action rpg. Trust me, I'd prefer turn based. But it's not going to happen. Ever. So I might as well stop wishing it and just accept.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 13, 2014, 06:01:06 PM
DA2 was like a 20 euro expansion pack made by interns in two weeks with the budget being two packs of
Ramen, but released as an actual game.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on April 22, 2014, 07:57:59 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO2h4qUNJ60
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on April 22, 2014, 08:41:07 PM
Still gonna have to hear really positive things from people whose opinions I respect before I give them anymore of my money for this fucking series after DA2.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 22, 2014, 08:46:41 PM
Meh, I liked DA2 for what it was.  Still wish I had only paid 20$ for it though.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on April 22, 2014, 08:54:47 PM
Will buy.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 10, 2014, 08:39:01 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfGTtyYeO8E
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 10, 2014, 08:48:10 PM
that looks pretty badass
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 10, 2014, 08:51:40 PM
i should probably play through the first sometime before this comes out

i started games with all the characters but never got too far with any of them
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rahxephon91 on June 10, 2014, 08:52:19 PM
Can't believe I'm gonna buy a Bioware game
It will be fun. You'll be there for all the backlash.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 10, 2014, 08:53:04 PM
Honestly I still can't get a read on whether I think it looks interesting or not. Dragon Age 2 is such a cautionary tale that its hard to put it out of my memory.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on June 10, 2014, 09:59:37 PM
...fuck. I'm going to buy this, aren't I?
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Madrun Badrun on June 10, 2014, 10:06:34 PM
You are.  You are.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on July 10, 2014, 01:44:31 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdXvFEEBZeo
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on July 10, 2014, 04:50:15 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdXvFEEBZeo

First quest, please retrieve the ring I gave my late husband

Dat Bioware

Looks great though, but after DA2 and ME3 I dunno if I want to pay for another cookie cutter Bioware fanflick
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Your Stalker on July 11, 2014, 07:13:10 PM
part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCGJACVoMPI
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on October 01, 2014, 06:47:10 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYAECehIuKY
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on October 06, 2014, 10:18:00 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0G9Np6TqVo
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on October 07, 2014, 04:33:13 PM
Are you genuinly excited Stony?

After what Bioware and EA have been pulling the last few years and all.

It looks nice, but something must be terribly off.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on October 07, 2014, 04:37:16 PM
Are you genuinly excited Stony?

After what Bioware and EA have been pulling the last few years and all.

It looks nice, but something must be terribly off.

Honestly I have no idea. I'm not excited but I'm not as harshly skeptical as I once was. It looks more like DA 2 than Dragon Origins to me which isn't good. But maybe something like Dragon Age 2 that doesn't suck is passable. I don't hate Bioware like a lot of forum people do. But Dragon Age 2 pretty much took away my love for that series. We will see if this one is able to be a decent game.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 07, 2014, 04:43:31 PM
Against my better judgment, I'm kinda excited over this. I think a lot of it has to do with just having built a pretty capable gaming pc and wanting to put it through the paces, so to speak. I'm actually thinking of getting this, Borderlands Pre-Sequel, and Evil Within all at launch. Duuuuuuuumb.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on October 07, 2014, 05:14:56 PM
Seeing as the promise of Dragon Age 1 has been fulfilled and then some by games like Shadowrun, Wasteland 2, Divinity: Original Sin, and Pillars of Eternity, I'm a lot less enthusiastic about the franchise than I was back in 2009. Didn't help that DA2 was a steaming pile, or that Bioware has made some really dumb decisions lately. But I'm still interested in playing DA3, and I do like that they're trying to bring back some of the strategic element of the first game, I'm just not interested in paying anything close to full price for it.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 07, 2014, 05:15:56 PM
I know you're an official Kickstarter shill dog, but Pillars isn't out yet and most people other than you claim it has serious issues in beta

:ufup
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on October 07, 2014, 05:33:38 PM
I know you're an official Kickstarter shill dog, but Pillars isn't out yet and most people other than you claim it has serious issues in beta

:ufup

It's still better than DA2, though. :yeshrug
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Eel O'Brian on October 07, 2014, 06:22:47 PM
it sure does look pretty
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 07, 2014, 07:10:57 PM
I know you're an official Kickstarter shill dog, but Pillars isn't out yet and most people other than you claim it has serious issues in beta

:ufup

It's still better than DA2, though. :yeshrug

If ever there was a case of damning with faint praise...

:heh
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 07, 2014, 07:11:19 PM
the min requirements for this on PC are going to be bullshit

Time to upgrade, breh

:jawalrus
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rufus on October 07, 2014, 08:39:14 PM
Can't be much worse than other Frostbite 2 games. Of which there is only BF4 out right now, non? Or does some NFS game run on it, too?
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on October 09, 2014, 11:18:47 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HNz2OIp_-U


Sandy is an fps guy so its a bit weird that EA is giving all this footage and access to people who aren't known as rpg guys. Strikes me as some of the bs marketing they tried to pull with Dragon Age 2 to market it to the masses.

Another long one from another youtuber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URUMNR2tKyE
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rufus on October 10, 2014, 03:38:38 PM
PC specs (https://www.origin.com/de-de/news/dai-pc-specs-screens):

Recommended

OS: Windows 7 or 8.1 64-bit
CPU: AMD six core CPU @ 3.2 GHz, Intel quad core CPU @ 3.0 GHz
System RAM: 8 GB
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7870 or R9 270, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Graphics Memory: 3 GB
Hard Drive: 26 GB
DirectX 11

Minimum

OS: Windows 7 or 8.1 64-bit
CPU: AMD quad core CPU @ 2.5 GHz, Intel quad core CPU @ 2.0 GHz
System RAM: 4 GB
Graphics CARD: AMD Radeon HD 4870, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Graphics Memory: 512 MB
Hard Drive: 26 GB
DirectX 10

As expected, not very dramatic.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: cool breeze on October 10, 2014, 03:50:06 PM
any videos showing off the PC interface?
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 10, 2014, 11:58:09 PM
Yeah, my pc exceeds all that handily :epeen
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on October 12, 2014, 12:27:43 PM
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=910883

GAF seems to be an uproar because there aren't traditional healers.


Not sure how I feel about it. My initial instinct is I don't like such a thing but we'll see how I feel about it when I start playing.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on October 12, 2014, 12:39:30 PM
My only thought is that when games have traditional healers, it means you can have more difficult encounters because its the responsibility of that healer to keep feeding health.

But again it all comes down to design and either system could work if designed properly I suppose.

Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on October 12, 2014, 12:40:01 PM
They took out healers because the combat is so easy and straight forward that your party won't even get hurt anyway.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on October 12, 2014, 01:54:31 PM
Why have popcorn encounters as he calls them if they cant hurt you, that is dumb
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on October 12, 2014, 02:15:22 PM
I think he just means the regular combat encounters you have in any rpg that make up the bulk of filler fights. That part doesn't really bother me. Its how you handle them.

I thought Dragon Age 2 handled them poorly for example by just flooding in low level creatures constantly from all angles. That I didn't like.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: etiolate on October 12, 2014, 05:00:30 PM
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=910883

GAF seems to be an uproar because there aren't traditional healers.


Not sure how I feel about it. My initial instinct is I don't like such a thing but we'll see how I feel about it when I start playing.

GAF struggles with new concepts. Healers don't allow more difficult encounters by simply having something there to babysit health bars due to unavoidable damage.

The whole removal of trinity thing is a question of what real difficulty actually looks like and feels like. Having played a game without it for years, it's not a drop in difficulty. You go from relying on a health bar filler to using avoidance, field awareness, blocks, learning to kill faster and using an assortment of preventive measures. I don't miss having a healer, so I don't think people will miss it in this game unless they were always dead set on playing a healer primarily.

Overall, no-trinity = less passive play, more active play in my experience.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on October 13, 2014, 05:21:48 PM
any videos showing off the PC interface?

Here is the PC interface

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X5UfD8Hnhw&list=UUvpyU4SjgVd8zKKM2NnPDRg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtF8z3YSbHg&list=UUvpyU4SjgVd8zKKM2NnPDRg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff4LWEX-xe0&list=UUvpyU4SjgVd8zKKM2NnPDRg
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: kingkitty on October 13, 2014, 05:24:04 PM
I'm hyped.

Does anyone know if this game has nudity. I want to see what Qunari tits look like.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on October 13, 2014, 05:25:30 PM
Does anyone know if this game has nudity. I want to see what Qunari tits look like.

Probably not, but give modders a couple weeks and it will.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on October 15, 2014, 04:29:51 PM
I think he just means the regular combat encounters you have in any rpg that make up the bulk of filler fights. That part doesn't really bother me. Its how you handle them.

I thought Dragon Age 2 handled them poorly for example by just flooding in low level creatures constantly from all angles. That I didn't like.

I forgot about the "waves" in DA2, that was a really weird concept (for an rpg)
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on October 15, 2014, 04:41:18 PM
I think he just means the regular combat encounters you have in any rpg that make up the bulk of filler fights. That part doesn't really bother me. Its how you handle them.

I thought Dragon Age 2 handled them poorly for example by just flooding in low level creatures constantly from all angles. That I didn't like.

I forgot about the "waves" in DA2, that was a really weird concept (for an rpg)

Rather than "weird," the term I would use is "terrible." It completely destroyed the strategy of team positioning because enemies would just keep randomly popping into the battle whenever and wherever they wanted to.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rufus on October 16, 2014, 01:26:16 AM
They didn't even bother to hide the spaws a lot of the time. Enemies would just grow out of the ground or fall from the sky near a wall.

I still remember this combat walkthrough where they made it look deceptively tactical and cut right off before the second and thrid waves of reinforcements would come in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJYtLOSPMnw
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Your Stalker on October 20, 2014, 07:32:19 PM
Skyhold gameplay
spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUm6K3AZuN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cReEu9ZBsik
[close]
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: bluemax on October 21, 2014, 01:57:59 AM
The hype for this almost makes me want to install the Ultimate Edition on PC that I got for Christmas and never played. I started the game on 360 back in the day but never really finished. Think I stopped shortly after the fade. I hear the PC version is better (and even has mods to skip the fade).
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: kingkitty on October 23, 2014, 08:10:47 PM
esrb rating says there will be legitimate nudity.

so we may actually get a chance to see qunari titties. or at least one dong.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on October 23, 2014, 08:57:07 PM
esrb rating says there will be legitimate nudity.

so we may actually get a chance to see qunari titties. or at least one dong.

:rejoice
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 23, 2014, 10:25:43 PM
Quote
"The game includes some sexual material: a female character briefly depicted in front of a man's torso (fellatio is implied); characters depicted topless or with exposed buttocks while lying in bed or after sex; some dialogue referencing sex/sexuality (e.g., 'I will bring myself sexual pleasure later, while thinking about this with great respect' and 'The way your t*ts bounce when I pin your arms and take you on the side of the bed…'). The words 'f**k,' 'sh*t,' and 'a*shole' appear in dialogue."

The ESRB rating also reveals that Inquisition will make the most of its M rating in terms of violence. According to the rating, we'll see cutscenes where characters get impaled or have their throats slit. Other violent sequences will highlight cries of pain, gurgling/gushing sounds, and "large blood-splatter effects."

Bioware  :lol

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Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on October 23, 2014, 10:51:20 PM
:heh
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 23, 2014, 10:52:58 PM
:snoop
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rufus on October 24, 2014, 08:15:30 AM
More embarrassing, badly coreographed/animated sex scenes. :rejoice
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Your Stalker on October 24, 2014, 05:38:31 PM
 :gladbron
Day 1 purchase
 :tauntaun
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: kingkitty on October 28, 2014, 05:39:23 PM
i'm so fucken hyped.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: kingkitty on October 29, 2014, 02:47:06 PM
open beta for the Dragon Age keep is available.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rufus on October 29, 2014, 05:08:43 PM
Looks decent. I could remember all of the events seeing them layed out like this.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: cool breeze on November 03, 2014, 05:46:32 PM
EA Access (xbox) members get a 6 hour trial on the 13th.

Quote
Your membership will get you into Dragon Age: Inquisition on November 13, before the game’s November 18 release date. The six-hour trial lets you create your hero, form your Inquisition, and take your first steps into Thedas, exploring the world and battling evil in both real-time and tactical combat. Discover the Hinterlands, where the war between Templars and mages has hit a fever pitch, or gather materials and schematics for crafting your arsenal. You can even jump into Inquisition’s cooperative multiplayer missions. The choice is yours.

EA Access lets you play before the game is out, and your progress will carry over once the full game launches November 18. Even better, your EA Access membership gets you an exclusive 10% discount if you buy Dragon Age: Inquisition from the Xbox One Game Store. Save some money before you head off to save the world.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rufus on November 11, 2014, 07:12:28 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiJYrtbTYMY

:rofl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTwks-VgoaY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhUh8be6KIY

:heh
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Your Stalker on November 11, 2014, 08:24:51 AM
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Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: sarslip on November 11, 2014, 08:52:31 AM
dem reviews (http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/diddydatazz2.png)
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on November 11, 2014, 11:04:45 AM
Target is giving out free Strategy Guide with purchase
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 11, 2014, 11:14:20 AM
Here's my strategy: Find a dwarf, and them have sex with it.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Cheddahz on November 11, 2014, 11:20:18 AM
Seriously thinking about picking this up instead of GTAV next week (and I told myself I was going to hold off from playing another Dragon Age game for a while)

I have GCU now (thanks to that cheap ass $5 phone) and a $20 Best Buy gift card, so yeah, I would be getting it for pretty cheap
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 11, 2014, 11:44:45 AM
Will  buy GOTY edition with all dlc for cheap/second hand in a year or so.

Not falling for EA Bioware shit until later, they still owe me for DA2.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Your Stalker on November 11, 2014, 02:35:13 PM
just saw some cassandra breast meats  :omg
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: kingkitty on November 11, 2014, 05:52:29 PM
in my blind hype, I made a critical error watching the gamespot vid review, so many spoilers  :fbm

there's one where
spoiler (click to show/hide)
Leliana looks like a zombie...could be due to some evil mage torture....or she was always a zombie and ran out of vanicream...
[close]
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rufus on November 11, 2014, 09:29:55 PM
Or it's just a bad dream.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on November 11, 2014, 10:24:27 PM
I'm glad the reviews were good. Then again the dragon age 2 reviews were higher than they should have been so we will see. I'll move my meter to skeptically optimistic.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Eel O'Brian on November 14, 2014, 01:09:51 PM
So I've been checking this out through the EA Access trial. Pretty good stuff. It's really nice-looking. I made one of the horned people and played through the prologue up until the title.  Doesn't look like you need any prior DA experience.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on November 18, 2014, 03:58:31 PM
Trying to remember and piece together my DA1 save in the keep. Think imma cave and get this for xbone.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: TVC15 on November 18, 2014, 06:15:07 PM
I just put over 12 hours straight into this. It's pretty awesome. Occasional weird bugs with dialog and loading screens and sound effects and the game also glitched and made the area I need to go to recruit Iron Bull inaccessible, but overall I'm loving it. 

Geez, it's been a bad season for really really prominent bugs.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 18, 2014, 07:00:39 PM
I keep saying I'm not gonna cave and get this on launch but I'm probably gonna cave and get this on launch  :-\
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on November 19, 2014, 12:48:46 AM
Just spent over and hour listening to people in the first camp and talking to dudes.

:rejoice

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:brazilcry
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Post by: Human Snorenado on November 19, 2014, 12:49:38 AM
How are y'all playing it? Is it out on dirtperson consoles already but not pc? Thought it wasn't out until the 20th.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Your Stalker on November 19, 2014, 01:14:03 AM
it came out on the 18th in america, some got it on the 17th through vpn
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 19, 2014, 01:14:52 AM
Huh, ok then. Guess I'll download it tomorrow.
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Post by: bork on November 19, 2014, 09:03:50 AM
Yup, it's out on PC.  Pre-loaded it last weekend and played for a bit last night.  Runs great at 1920x1080 with everything on high/ultra settings on my laptop, although I do kind of wish I got it on PS4 just for the multiplayer with some people I know.  By "played for a bit," I mean I sat there making characters for each race first.  I will probably still end up starting over again today because I don't think any of the characters I made turned out very well...thought they looked good at the edit screen but the faces look weird in-game.  Starting over multiple times like that is typical for me with Bioware games.   :lol  I played enough of the game to see that it's pretty much just like Origins, only with much better pacing in the beginning.  You make your character and get right into everything. 

There's a number of people complaining about problems with the PC version, but apart from the game initially starting in windowed mode (had to change the display settings from full screen to windowed full screen to get it to run full-screen.   :dizzy) it's been fine for me.  No problems with mouse/KB controls either; just hold down the mouse button when moving around and it's fine.  Might try an Xbox controller though since the game supposedly plays much better with it.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 19, 2014, 10:12:13 AM
It's downloading now... I'll probably be able to play it for 4 hours or so before work today, and a bunch tomorrow. Man, I hope that's enough to get to have virtual sex with someone.
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Post by: TVC15 on November 19, 2014, 10:51:58 AM
I finally banged Dorian.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Shino on November 19, 2014, 12:13:42 PM
Picked this up last night.
Didn't get too far.  Thought about making a human archer and ended up going with my fallback of Dwarf Warrior.

Ended up doing Sword and Board.
I just recently went back to Origins since I didn't play it when it first came out... and I skipped 2 altogether... so I didn't realize the removed the dual wielding warrior.

:(
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 19, 2014, 12:21:40 PM
You can do a dual wielding rogue tho

I went human sword n board
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Shino on November 19, 2014, 12:27:13 PM
You can do a dual wielding rogue tho

I went human sword n board

Yeah I considered that, but only with daggers right?

in DA:O I could use 1 "main hand" weapon and one "one hand" weapon.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 19, 2014, 12:38:12 PM
Not sure- I do know there are some things that seem like steps back, especially with combat. Can't set up elaborate gambit style scripts for party members, etc. It's entirely possible you're just limited to daggers, yeah.
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Post by: toku on November 19, 2014, 04:44:22 PM
Went with an archer rogue because im lame.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 19, 2014, 04:48:04 PM
Dat first boss fight

 :whew

I think that having access to two sword and boarders in the early going is making it too easy; might ratchet the difficulty up to hard. Then again, I'm also using the tactical camera for EVERY battle, so there's that.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on November 19, 2014, 05:53:31 PM
Dat first boss fight

 :whew

I think that having access to two sword and boarders in the early going is making it too easy; might ratchet the difficulty up to hard. Then again, I'm also using the tactical camera for EVERY battle, so there's that.

Combat gets a bit roughter once you hit the first big zone/hub world area and you start fighting stuff like, 2 giant 2-hand warriors, 3 archers and a mage or two at the same time. Some stuff is gonna hit you way harder than others though and so far combat seems to come down to simple prioritizing targets.

I've run into mages that hit me for like 450 dmg =X
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 20, 2014, 09:11:22 AM
There's something about Dragon Age: Inquisition's character designs that really grates on me.  :-\
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Brehvolution on November 20, 2014, 10:02:35 AM
There's something about Dragon Age: Inquisition's character designs that really grates on me.  :-\

(http://i.imgur.com/07e3apd.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Shino on November 20, 2014, 01:40:56 PM
There's something about Dragon Age: Inquisition's character designs that really grates on me.  :-\

(http://i.imgur.com/07e3apd.jpg?1)
:kobeyuck
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on November 20, 2014, 02:54:09 PM
Switched from Archery to Daggers and now shit be dying hella fast yo. Lowkey might switch back again though because being ranged felt real nice.

:goty2
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 20, 2014, 03:36:19 PM
Jesus H. Shit the Hinterlands are huge and fun to fuck around in.

Huge ass open areas to explore

:noah

:piss Small BS confined areas for an entire game like DA2 :piss2

Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on November 20, 2014, 04:03:51 PM
The hinterlands don't end man. I've been there for like eight hours and STILL getting quests with unexplored areas. Some gaffer who already beat the game was saying you should try to find a balance between the side stuff and main narrative. Apparently the next area is just as big with just as much shit to do :lol
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: fistfulofmetal on November 20, 2014, 10:54:06 PM
i got to the hinterlands then suddenly i had like 400 quests and my eyes went wide

Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on November 21, 2014, 12:07:04 AM
i got to the hinterlands then suddenly i had like 400 quests and my eyes went wide

I just hit the 20 hour mark and I still have 17 hinterlands quests and massive unexplored areas. Everytime I hit 14+ (I had 19 at one pt...) power I go back to haven and do some main quest/war room stuff.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Positive Touch on November 21, 2014, 01:01:24 AM
this game worth getting if a) you gotta play it on last-gen systems b) you didn't play the first two?
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rahxephon91 on November 21, 2014, 01:03:50 AM
I don't know about the last gen stuff, but as a series it's pretty disjointed. Yes events of previous games bleed and shape other games, but at the end of the day they are rather stand alone so I don't see why you can't just jump into this one.

Will have to look up some lore.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 21, 2014, 01:06:51 AM
this game worth getting if a) you gotta play it on last-gen systems b) you didn't play the first two?

Knowing that you like timesink rpgs, I'ma say yes on both counts

The grafx on my computer tho...

:lawd
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on November 21, 2014, 01:11:33 AM
Don't really need to know much of the lore besides the fact that mages are mostly incompetent fuck ups. Templars are ambitious assholes that are also often bloodthirsty.

The first two games favored mages a bit in the sense that they were still fuck up babies that needed to be watched but this game makes a strong case for why the templars draw such a hard line with them.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Positive Touch on November 21, 2014, 01:12:49 AM
my computer is out of commission at the moment and it's three years old anyway. putting the 360 version on my Amazon wishlist tho  :phil
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 21, 2014, 10:21:10 PM
I really didn't think that Bioware would be able to pull this one off, but they clearly went all in on it and were serious about turning the Dragon Age franchise after that garbage pile that was Dragon Age 2. Huge areas full of quests to explore is nice, bringing some strategy back to the combat is nice; that's the two main things here that make the biggest difference.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: fistfulofmetal on November 23, 2014, 09:38:12 AM
A few places I've been reading suggests that people shouldn't stick around in Hinterlands and clear it out since you technically can go to other zones sooner and they are more interesting.

So I did that and now I have like 3 times as many quests.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 23, 2014, 09:54:50 AM
I'm clearing out the Hinterlands now so that I don't feel like I have to go back there again, unless something important comes up. So far it's taken nearly 7 hours and I've got a few more things yet to do.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: TVC15 on November 23, 2014, 06:17:20 PM
I just broke 70 hours.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Shino on November 24, 2014, 12:22:44 PM
I'm clearing out the Hinterlands now so that I don't feel like I have to go back there again, unless something important comes up. So far it's taken nearly 7 hours and I've got a few more things yet to do.
I haven't left the Hinterlands yet.
I'm about 11 hours in.

There are 3 rifts or so that I will likely have to come back to since the enemies have red skulls on them.

This game is huge.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 24, 2014, 12:44:49 PM
There are 3 rifts or so that I will likely have to come back to since the enemies have red skulls on them.

Yeah, same here, but I've got just about everything else taken care of so far [except for getting into Redcliff, which I haven't figured out yet].
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 29, 2014, 09:56:09 PM
The part at the end of Act I were everyone started to sing was so corny.  :rofl

Bioware thinking they're making the next LOTR. :neogaf
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on November 29, 2014, 10:01:11 PM
I like the multiplayer  :tocry
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: mjemirzian on November 30, 2014, 10:34:09 PM
Good RPG, I always liked the Dragon Age series even DA 2. Playing on Nightmare w/ Friendly Fire and imo it's easier than DA 2.

Those assassin elites in DA2 were so annoying, nothing nearly as bad in DA3 so far.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on November 30, 2014, 11:17:30 PM
Is Nightmare unlocked from the start?
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: mjemirzian on December 01, 2014, 12:59:25 AM
Yeah it's unlocked. I rolled a mage (mages are OP in every Dragon Age), best early game setup seems to be 2x barrier mage, 1x shield warrior, 1x ranged rogue (Varric).

Worst enemy in the game so far is the terror demon that teleports underneath you, erupts and knocks everyone down, then does AOE damage + slow. Sometimes you have to fight 3 at once. Enemy damage is very high on nightmare so barrier w/ cooldown reduction, tanking, and crowd control is important.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Shino on December 01, 2014, 10:05:26 AM
Man... I'm 20 hours into this game and I feel like I've only done 3 main missions.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Brehvolution on December 05, 2014, 01:51:47 PM
(https://31.media.tumblr.com/ed2a8d36cfa9460189ed8359187e7267/tumblr_nfvgs5t5IF1rqra5so1_1280.png)
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 05, 2014, 01:58:04 PM
At least male characters get two viable female love interests. Try playing as a lesbian. :tocry
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 05, 2014, 02:03:06 PM
It's pretty legit. Runs rings around DA2 and is better at being its own game, unlike DA1 which was trying to appeal to fans of the older games and still bring in new audiences. Tons of content, too, lots of huge locations to explore that are full of quests and things to do. Combat is solid, fast-paced but still offers the opportunity to slow things down and focus on tactics and strategy for harder fights.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on December 05, 2014, 02:12:05 PM
Havent started yet. It looks really legit, though. Been watching clips on my friend feed.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 05, 2014, 02:25:10 PM
Legit. There's enough gameplay to satisfy anyone.

I also really enjoyed DA1, and this scratches that itch. It's mostly overworld; wish there were more dungeons/cave type shit, but oh well. Still really well done.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on December 05, 2014, 02:26:23 PM
DA:I is legit. I still haven't finished campaign because I met some cool people playing multiplayer so now I'm addicted to leveling and unlocking all the characters. Between SP and MP I have over 60 hours in the game easy.
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Post by: demi on December 05, 2014, 02:30:38 PM
LMAO
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on December 05, 2014, 02:45:17 PM
Sorry, I do not trust you.

(http://i.imgur.com/Noc0tgh.gif)
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 07, 2014, 09:11:12 PM
Yeah, I'm pretty much aced the Wicked Hearts quest. :flex

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I exposed Gaspard's sister in front of everybody, then I forced a truce between Briana, Celene, and Gaspard. I'm like "You guys work for me now." and they just had to sit there and take their L.
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Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on December 07, 2014, 09:21:51 PM
Yeah, I'm pretty much aced the Wicked Hearts quest. :flex

spoiler (click to show/hide)
I exposed Gaspard's sister in front of everybody, then I forced a truce between Briana, Celene, and Gaspard. I'm like "You guys work for me now." and they just had to sit there and take their L.
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Pretty much what I did but
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I told them to work for the good of orlais
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Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 08, 2014, 02:52:39 AM
Still feel like I should wait on the Goty pack nxt year.

But with the good feedback its getting hard to resist.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on December 17, 2014, 03:52:58 AM
Been playing it for the last couple of days. There are things I like and things I don't like from a direction standpoint. This is clearly not a Dragon Age 2 style debacle. It's a much better game than that. And for the most part I see how most people, especially if you are into action style rpgs would find a lot to really love here. At minimum this is a good game.

That being said, I find myself missing the direction of the original dragon age origins. There are just a lot of small little things that add up to a decent amount of stuff for me that makes this a less enjoyable experience than origins. I'll wait until I get much much closer to finishing before I go into real detail because I'm still relatively early so I don't want to speak about things that may change or just may grow on me as I go along more.

As a big general comment though, the game feels like it was influenced a lot by things like mmorpgs and that ubi-soft style of sticking a thousand activity icons on a map and calling that content or depth. I'm just not sure I'm a huge fan of that school of design relative to some others.

Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on December 18, 2014, 07:08:11 PM
About halfway through. Game does grow on you somewhat as you play more into it.
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Post by: chronovore on December 20, 2014, 09:39:40 PM
http://imgur.com/a/VNjNQ

Bunch of screenshots. Holy shit, it's gorgeous.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 21, 2014, 11:10:56 AM
Motherfucker, my keep data did not import correctly now I'm 6 hours in and don't know if I should restart.  Hawke's brother died goddamn it. 
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 21, 2014, 11:16:03 AM
seriously fucking pissed
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 21, 2014, 01:02:24 PM
started over; redid my guy and now he has green and pink eyes.  They totally didn't look like that in the creation screen!
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 09, 2015, 04:08:46 PM
Still haven't beaten the game. I actually took like a week or two break because one night I spent a lot of time crafting and upgrading and re-equipping and the game crashed and I was pissed as I lost that progress. But I've spent enough time to talk intelligently about it in a review kind of way.

So the game is very good albeit with some very big flaws. It's also a big direction change away from the model of KOTOR/DA:Origins/etc which had been the dominant design philosophy of Bioware once the design changed from those older Baldur's Gate style games. This is clearly the new way to design an RPG for Bioware and at first it annoyed me and I was frustrated but now I've just gotten over it and realize it for what it is. Just a different way to design an RPG to attract a modern audience that puts a great deal of importantance in time played in a post Skyrim world.

So the game is just massive. With a crapload of content. Maybe the most I've ever come across in a traditional RPG outside of Bethesda's stuff. It's the complete opposite from Dragon Age 2. As some one who knows how hard it is to create content for this kind of stuff, I do tip my hat to Bioware because this took a lot of work and time.

Now the content isn't the deepest. Which is where my first disconnect came in. In almost all RPG's you have a certain number of "big/main quests" which is maybe half the game. And then you have the other half of the game which is generally a lot of sidequests. Some well detailed quests and some not.

DA:I just explodes the amount of side quests. And most of them are clearly in the filler category. So your experience depends almost completely on how much you wish to fill up on the filler content before you do the main content. You can literally bore yourself out of your mind doing the filler stuff and that wasn't really possible in older Bioware games. There was only so much secondary content in those games and then it was clear you were supposed to move onto the main quest. But this game has so much filler content that you have to make a decision yourself on when to stop like Skyrim.

It's definitely a different way to design a Bioware rpg. And while I'm probably in the camp that wants less content in general and just deeper content, I'm not sure my opinion is the most common one especially among the more casual audience. Doing the filler content isn't painful. It's not awful. And I generally tend to find myself willing to do a ton of it. But I also find myself putting on a podcast and just sort of zoning out as I clear maps doing this stuff which I never do in other rpgs. I can't figure out if that's a bad thing. I mean its not my personal ideal way to enjoy a game but like an addict I find myself still doing the vast bulk of the content so its this weird mix of not hating it but also not really enjoying it. It's just kind of there. And you can literally chew through many many dozens of hours on this type of stuff. So that's that. I could totally see somebody hating all the side-content. And I could see another type of person feel like they are getting bang for their buck. I'm not sure how I feel about it, although I can say for a fact that I preferred the approach of Dragon Age Origins personally.

The combat is meh. The game has clearly been shifting over to being an action game since the first once, and its fun enough in its way but its also mindless after a while and very rote. The combat situations presented are tactically boring and simple for the most part. The tactical combat UI is garbage imo and only necessary in dragon fights. I'm playing on hard but the other issue is that it's very easy to just over level for anything that doesn't scale just because of the vast amount of filler content. Which creates a slightly weird situation where you go looking for areas that are around your level from area to area so you just don't steamroll the game and can actually get equipment for your proper levels.
 
I love the crafting system and herb system to lesser degree. But the crafting stuff is really well done. I find myself spending a crazy amount time doing that to eke out the best stuff which is the way it should be. The whole you have a castle that you can upgrade part is awesome. Every RPG should have that since RPG's are essentially just extended power fantasies. They should go further in that direction in the next one.

The story is "okay". I mean Dragon Age games have never necessarily had great stories imo but the characters tend to really make the game. I think these are probably average characters for Bioware. None of them especially offend me nor do any of them especially jump out as being memorable.

I think that's most of the main stuff. It's a good game. Even a very good game. I don't think its an all time classic for me though. There are absolutely great parts in it. Or elements that are impressive in scope and scale and graphics, etc.

But I'm not quite blown away at the level of the reviews but its absolutely solid and a large step forward from Dragon Age 2 which going into it, was honestly all I really hoped for.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on January 09, 2015, 05:06:34 PM
I lost interest after I got to Skyhold or whatever it's called- haven't played this in almost a month I think. It's a good game but I feel it suffers from too much ubi soft-dom if that makes sense.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on January 09, 2015, 05:13:13 PM
I beat the game a few days ago, had about 70-something hours into it. There were a few more things that I could have done, but I completed the biggest part of the side content and NPC storylines.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Positive Touch on January 09, 2015, 07:48:14 PM
I would once again like to stress how shamefully shitty the 360 version of this game is, and how mad I am at paying full price for it.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rufus on January 09, 2015, 11:05:31 PM
How easy is it to tell wether a side-quest is going to be worth your time or not?
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on January 10, 2015, 05:05:27 AM
How easy is it to tell wether a side-quest is going to be worth your time or not?

by doing the ones that sound the most exciting to you
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rufus on January 10, 2015, 07:06:44 AM
Does it disappoint expectations a lot in that regard?
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: TVC15 on January 10, 2015, 07:12:50 AM
Every zone also has its own line of story quests that bring you pretty much all over the map anyway, so random mmo/filler quests being all over the place never bugged me--you're going to naturally end up near most of the quest points if you're following the main line.

By the time people are getting sick of the mmo/filler quests, they probably have far more than enough power points to complete the game's story anyway. If you find yourself getting tired of the quests, just go and finish the story missions before you get sick of the game. I didn't do nearly all of the available quests and I still had about 120 extra/superfluous power post-endgame.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Beezy on January 10, 2015, 12:12:24 PM
Any reason to play Origins before this? Seems like most of you agree that Origins is the better game.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 10, 2015, 12:32:25 PM
Any reason to play Origins before this? Seems like most of you agree that Origins is the better game.

I think you can just play whichever interests you in whatever order. The game has changed so much that there isn't really a lot of value in playing them in order. I mean there is the concept of a world state and your choices carrying over but its really minor compared to something like Mass Effect so its not really a huge draw to play them in order to get some sort of canonical experience. 
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 10, 2015, 12:45:02 PM
Every zone also has its own line of story quests that bring you pretty much all over the map anyway, so random mmo/filler quests being all over the place never bugged me--you're going to naturally end up near most of the quest points if you're following the main line.

By the time people are getting sick of the mmo/filler quests, they probably have far more than enough power points to complete the game's story anyway. If you find yourself getting tired of the quests, just go and finish the story missions before you get sick of the game. I didn't do nearly all of the available quests and I still had about 120 extra/superfluous power post-endgame.

This is all true. I just think its a different experience than what people have been trained to do compared to other western RPG's (including the other dragon age games) outside of Bethesda games. So that's why there is this big disconnect with a lot of people (Which also happened to me initially).

Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rufus on January 10, 2015, 01:00:10 PM
Yeah, I've learned to ignore side-content in recent years. I was just wondering if the insubstantial time-wasters are obvious at first glance. I imagine there are patterns you recognize, but what looks like a fetch quest at first might also turn into something more, just to mix it up. I presume they don't have multiple kinds of quest/activity markers the way other genres do.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 10, 2015, 01:13:24 PM
Yeah, I've learned to ignore side-content in recent years. I was just wondering if the insubstantial time-wasters are obvious at first glance. I imagine there are patterns you recognize, but what looks like a fetch quest at first might also turn into something more, just to mix it up I presume they don't have multiple kinds of quest/activity markers the way other genres do.

The system in general is confusing at first. There is a war table that has major missions marked with a little green thing over them. So you can always tell where those are. But it absolutely does take a while to discern slightly more important minor quests from less important minor quests.

Basically each area has a map associated with it, and then you have a billion icons on that map that represent minor quests. So its absolutely at first hard to distinguish the importance of these varying quests. I think most people probably just move across the map doing all nearby quests until they get a grasp on the system. So yes, I would say after a while you absolutely can tell what are the more important side quests mainly because they probably end up sounding more unique than the other quests which follow a simple formula of collect X number of shards across the map or kill X number of evil wizards across the map.

I think RPG players tend to be completionists so it feels a little weird to bounce around and leave dangling quests in areas although technically you have to in theory because some areas of a map may have content that you   can't do until you hit a higher level.

The reality is that how I tend to do the quests is just finish off as much as I can do in an area that I can either figure out or is of appropriate level and then bounce around to another area until I get bored. You want to do a lot of bouncing around especially early though because that is how you get the other party members.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: TVC15 on January 11, 2015, 12:54:24 AM
Every zone also has its own line of story quests that bring you pretty much all over the map anyway, so random mmo/filler quests being all over the place never bugged me--you're going to naturally end up near most of the quest points if you're following the main line.

By the time people are getting sick of the mmo/filler quests, they probably have far more than enough power points to complete the game's story anyway. If you find yourself getting tired of the quests, just go and finish the story missions before you get sick of the game. I didn't do nearly all of the available quests and I still had about 120 extra/superfluous power post-endgame.

This is all true. I just think its a different experience than what people have been trained to do compared to other western RPG's (including the other dragon age games) outside of Bethesda games. So that's why there is this big disconnect with a lot of people (Which also happened to me initially).



It happened to me, too. I was letting the completionist and side quest addict get the best of me. At about 75 hours or so, I noticed myself starting to get bored and the formula was starting to run thin, and I eventually mentally said "I need to wrap this up NOW." And because there are only like 6 main story missions, it only took like 2 more hours to finish.

After finishing the game, I did go back a week or so later to walk through the main lines of the remaining zones that I had not opened, and I was able to appreciate them. Except the big fucking night desert area, which I guess you're supposed to actually go to early in the game.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 12, 2015, 09:36:44 PM
So how much hours in order to do every single side quest including 100% of the MMO-filler fetch ones? 100 hours or more?

I don't think 100 hours would be out of the question if you were trying to do a completionist run. But there's also a lot of stuff that's mutually exclusive [especially with regards to player character gender/race], so one run through the game wouldn't be enough for everything.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 13, 2015, 12:16:57 AM
So how much hours in order to do every single side quest including 100% of the MMO-filler fetch ones? 100 hours or more?

Probably pretty easily, yeah
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 13, 2015, 12:24:09 AM
So how much hours in order to do every single side quest including 100% of the MMO-filler fetch ones? 100 hours or more?

Depends on how fast you are. I can tell you that I'm going to do as much of it as I can and I'll probably end up well over 150 hours based on the pace I'm currently on. But I'm slow as fuck and spend a shitload of time collecting herbs and crafting shit which sucks up a lot of time.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: TVC15 on January 13, 2015, 01:21:06 AM
100 sounds about right. I was at 80-85 and all I had left was shards and dragon hunting, mostly. I would have kept playing but after 3 or 4 dragons, the rest wouldn't spawn, even after patches.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: a slime appears on January 13, 2015, 11:06:59 PM
Kind of wish I didn't buy this game on a lark when it was on sale for $40.

I only put in like 6 hours into DA before I fell asleep, avoided DA2 since just about everyone considered it hot garbage, and I'm walking into this one not knowing what the fuck is going on. It looks nice on the PS4 though.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Positive Touch on January 13, 2015, 11:43:05 PM
kotaku has a lore summary that I used
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: a slime appears on January 13, 2015, 11:56:01 PM
Thanks for the heads up. I'll read it before I try jumping back in.

Here's the link in-case anyone else is interested: http://kotaku.com/a-beginners-guide-to-all-things-dragon-age-1658487212

Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on March 15, 2015, 08:19:39 PM
Its aight. Nightmare gets stupid easy once you hit Skyhold. If you want to break the game even more, pick Knight Enchanter (if you didnt, main Vivienne). Tempest Rogue got nerfed in Patch 5.

I'm about done with it, about tojust ignore everything else and beeline it to the 1000 before Type-0.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on March 16, 2015, 01:27:47 AM
This game is dope.

It makes a very good early impression but it starts to wear on you after awhile...


I still haven't beat this game yet. I keep picking it up and starting and then stopping. I know I should ignore the sidequests but I refuse as I feel like I'm probably only going to play it once so I better experience EVERYTHING.  Even though I know that's why I keep stopping because a lot of the side content isn't very engaging. It's like the worst game ever if you have an anal personality about competing stuff in RPG's.

Which is once again not to say its a bad game. There is a good 40 to 70 hour game in here. The problem is that I'm way over that amount of time with no end in sight. It's like Vietnam.  :'(

Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 16, 2015, 07:20:51 AM
So as long as you stick to the main quest you get a good 30 hour game with no MMO quests?

If you dont like open world games is this still worth it?
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on March 16, 2015, 08:56:09 AM
Did every misc. achievement, just need to do the final few story missions. My in game clock is hitting 100 hours, but there is definite idle time there. I did not even finish everything there is to do, I am definitely burned out, had my fill of WRPG action. Ready to jump into a much superior J R P G
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Positive Touch on March 16, 2015, 09:28:35 AM
yeah I like the game  definitely feel like it woulda benefited from being more linear like Mass Effect was. the best parts outside the story missions are the times where you find the minidungeons or are working on the main main in each map. the padding in between is just haphazardly placed mobs and shitty loot. it's never interesting.

overall I like the game a lot but like everyone else I think it'd be way better if they cut out all the fat.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 16, 2015, 09:44:17 AM
Demi is this game worth the effort in your opinion? I have that free trial from EA to get started.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Positive Touch on March 16, 2015, 09:44:42 AM
also I'm gonna need western rpg devs to do two things to improve their games:

1 - stop with the shitty loot all over the fucking place. you know that there's enough unique items that everyone who comes across this shit won't use it, so stop making me sort thru it. it's boring.

2 - I like lore but I'd appreciate it if devs trimmed that down too. like if you find yourself typing up a note that starts as a mundane worklog that eventually hints that there's something evil going on, just stop. we know they found monsters; it's a fucking videogame. it's boring to read and ends up detracting from the atmosphere instead of adding to it. do better.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 16, 2015, 09:54:19 AM
also I'm gonna need western rpg devs to do two things to improve their games:

1 - stop with the shitty loot all over the fucking place. you know that there's enough unique items that everyone who comes across this shit won't use it, so stop making me sort thru it. it's boring.

2 - I like lore but I'd appreciate it if devs trimmed that down too. like if you find yourself typing up a note that starts as a mundane worklog that eventually hints that there's something evil going on, just stop. we know they found monsters; it's a fucking videogame. it's boring to read and ends up detracting from the atmosphere instead of adding to it. do better.

:bow :bow2

Wait you don't want to find 20 pages of a log scattered all across the world detailing how some evil spread in the home village of the writer?  :o

Someone spent a day typing that shit up yo...

I wouldn't say this is exclusive to WRPG's though.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on March 16, 2015, 09:56:12 AM
Demi is this game worth the effort in your opinion? I have that free trial from EA to get started.

Yup, but theres a looooooot to do. Which is funny since the actual "story" is pretty short.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on March 16, 2015, 01:28:10 PM
2 - I like lore but I'd appreciate it if devs trimmed that down too. like if you find yourself typing up a note that starts as a mundane worklog that eventually hints that there's something evil going on, just stop. we know they found monsters; it's a fucking videogame. it's boring to read and ends up detracting from the atmosphere instead of adding to it. do better.

This game is the absolute worst with it. There are so many shitty codexs that are around. They aren't as interesting as in the first game when the whole world was new. It's like shitty backstory for a world already built now. Plus the way they are presented in that little scroll you have to scroll through is terrible.

So as long as you stick to the main quest you get a good 30 hour game with no MMO quests?

If you dont like open world games is this still worth it?

Some of the side quests are fine. Just never feel compelled to do anything that doesn't interest you and you will be fine.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 16, 2015, 01:33:28 PM
One day when I don't have so much shit going on, I'll get back into this game. I really enjoyed what I played of it, just so fucking busy all the time these days.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Eel O'Brian on March 16, 2015, 06:35:42 PM
Yeah, i put it on hold for now as well. There's fuckall coming out this summer other than Batman, so that seems like a good time to blow 50-60 hours on a game like this.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 16, 2015, 09:51:29 PM
have they announced any dlc for it
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on March 16, 2015, 10:10:55 PM
Yes, you get to have Cole tickle your balls while he whispers movie spoilers through your peehole
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on March 17, 2015, 12:20:58 AM
have they announced any dlc for it

http://wccftech.com/dragon-age-inquisition-storybased-dlc-coming/
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 23, 2015, 05:58:04 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/xzHl48s.jpg)
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Positive Touch on March 23, 2015, 08:26:59 PM
so they got an exclusive deal with Microsoft, but that doesn't include the 360 huh?
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Fortus on March 24, 2015, 02:58:18 AM
I'm looking forward to the DLC. Will they have that certain someone return as a controllable party member? Theoretically, since your character doesn't witness that one revelatory scene in the glade, I can see Bioware just having them return to Skyhold much as they did after the quest where you help them with that summoned demon in the Dales.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Positive Touch on March 24, 2015, 07:12:01 AM
lmao make that spoiler a little more obvious
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 24, 2015, 09:09:06 AM
I'm looking forward to the DLC. Will they have that certain someone return as a controllable party member? Theoretically, since your character doesn't witness that one revelatory scene in the glade, I can see Bioware just having them return to Skyhold much as they did after the quest where you help them with that summoned demon in the Dales.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
That looks a lot like Solas on the left in that promo image.
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Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Positive Touch on March 24, 2015, 10:49:14 AM
id been dragging ass on finishing this for a few weeks, and then when i did the twists at the end has me like "NO! MOAR!" good job Bioware. looking forward to this and hope they learned from the criticisms of the full game.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on March 24, 2015, 12:28:50 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fElIdKZX6p0
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on March 24, 2015, 01:01:49 PM
Looks good, digging the glowy weapons. Shame everyone crumples like paper to Knight Enchanter. LAWL
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Positive Touch on March 24, 2015, 01:03:28 PM
looks...ok. basically just another open-world map. I'll wait for a price drop.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 24, 2015, 01:58:03 PM
I didn't realize this was coming out so soon, I thought it was still at least a few weeks off.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on April 06, 2015, 03:23:37 PM
The world is great man and some of these zones are jaw dropping.

:yeshrug
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 06, 2015, 04:59:05 PM
some of these zones are jaw dropping.

Hissing Wastes was easily my favorite, though.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on April 06, 2015, 09:49:41 PM
Even little stuff like walking into an old dwarven cave on the coast zone. Everythings wet (even your clothes) and semi-reflective with the sounds of crashing waves in the background.

Dat Atmosphere

:lawd
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 07, 2015, 09:13:20 AM
2) I can't understand anything Sera is saying and I hate her

u bein cheeky or wot m8?
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on April 07, 2015, 11:12:34 AM
? There is an entire level in the fade.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on April 07, 2015, 03:08:42 PM
Its not really an issue in this game.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rufus on April 07, 2015, 03:41:45 PM
I never got what the big issue with the Fade was.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on April 07, 2015, 04:06:48 PM
Like a Kingdom Hearts game??
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: toku on April 07, 2015, 04:40:22 PM
I never got what the big issue with the Fade was.

Same. There was one section that iirc was maybe a little longer than it should have been but I never got the level of hatred that's poured for it.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Rufus on April 07, 2015, 05:10:30 PM
People went so far as to make mods to skip it. ???
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Positive Touch on April 07, 2015, 05:35:09 PM
dunno what it was like in da1 but in da3 it's just another level where you kill some shit and watch some cutscenes
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Human Snorenado on April 07, 2015, 05:37:09 PM
It dragged on forever and you didn't have access to your entire party for a lot of it in DA:O, making it seem worse than it would have been otherwise.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Stoney Mason on April 08, 2015, 04:33:28 AM
I never got what the big issue with the Fade was.

Same. There was one section that iirc was maybe a little longer than it should have been but I never got the level of hatred that's poured for it.

It was the fade and yeah I always thought people over-reacted to it. I mean I get it, it may not have been the best but the way people went on about it, you would think it was the most insanely long thing ever. I beat origins relatively early so the hate for that level hadn't reached its high point by then.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Positive Touch on April 29, 2015, 01:20:07 PM
you can definitely do that with Vivienne. she's the op tank of the game
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Positive Touch on April 29, 2015, 04:37:06 PM
ha that's exactly what I did when I got to that point. needed to get rid of all the redundant and useless upgrades.

and fuck solas' whiny "I don't know about this" ass. only party member I didn't like.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on April 29, 2015, 04:40:46 PM
I'd dump Blackwall for Vivienne. Solas is pretty nice as Rift Mage. Good for enemy control using Thunder Cage and that Rift Vortex.

The thing with using Vivienne is that you have to USE Vivienne to be OP. AI doesnt know how to use KE to break the game.

I assume youre just playing on Normal anyway so I guess its no concern to be OP.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 30, 2015, 08:54:55 AM
Stopped playing this when I got to skyhold back at xmas.  Should get back to it.
Title: Re: Dragon Age : Inquisition thread of inquiry
Post by: demi on April 30, 2015, 10:51:10 AM
Make armor using Fade-Touched Obsidian / Silverite if you can, it gives Guard on Hit. So your tanks that just beat enemies with a stick? Generating infinite Guard. SCIENCE.