Dragon Age Rpgs similar to Dragon Age 2

Time to relive the pain.

 

I've been getting the urge to replay Dragon Age Origins, resulting from what I can only assume coronavirus living in my brain rent-free.

Sadly, it's not available on the Switch, so I didn't bother.

 

Hahaha, DX11 mode still runs worse than Doom Eternal. Also has a big with AA that blurs the entire screen to shit. Lovely.

 

If there is a mod to completely skip combat, I will follow you.

 

The non-stop wave after wave of combat is what wore me down and forced me to quit. It's retarded as fuck.

 

Inquisition's characters and story has me looking forward to the next game.

 

No, don't do it!

 

Solas is a pretty good character, and fairly interesting antagonist if handled properly.

 

They intended to make her an ugly and annoying dyke, so if you think of it in terms of execution she's the most well done character ever.

 

Seriously, I tried returning to DA:2 three times, and each effort was fucking painful.

Dire is too forgiving a word for how awful an experience it is. There literally is nothing to enjoy, just brief breaks from torture.

 

The combat was awful, but some of the DA2 characters weren't too bad. Varric and Isabela have some amusing banter if they are in the same party together. Aveline and Merrill were kind of boring.

 

Who?

 

It's not as bad as DA:I

 

DA2 is complete wank while Inquisition is just kinda boring, I don't get why people prefer 2.

 

It's a tough call that one. Personally I preferred DA:I to DA:2, but it's like preferring being punched in the bollocks as opposed to being kicked in them.

 

No, it's worse.

DA2 might have had a more interesting premise, but the execution of it is utter shit, it needed like 2 years more in the oven for what they were trying to do, it didn't get that time.

 

Aveline and Merrill were retards. Aveline has some disgusting traces of Jaheira's Neutral-Goodness. That, but cranked up to Lawful-Goodness. She's a character someone from Beamdog may come up with it. In fact, that paladin from Dragonspear, Corwin or whatever, may be on the same level.

 

2 has some semblance of tactical combat and quest design in it, Inquisition does not.

 

The game that has enemy waves magically spawn out of nowhere is tactical? How exactly? Dragon Age 2 is a button-masher that has all of the tactical depth of Space Invaders.

 

DA2 had extremely shitty combat, but it had an entertainingly terrible story, and a sorta-interesting setting and premise. And some of the side-characters weren't too bad.

DAI was bloated and filled with generic fetch-quests and collections to the point where I seriously suspect it was built to be an MMO and later repurposed as a single-player game, a completely boring and worthless plot, and deformed SJW abominations as side -characters. It also took a massive dump all over the lore set up in DAO.

 

The tactical combat in 2 sucks, yes. Mostly because of respawns, poor enemy placement and lack of friendly fire. However "some semblance" doesn't mean its good, it means it's there on a fundamental level, and it is. Inquisition is entirely an action game, with barely any structured quests and a lot of MMO style bullshit. I only played each of them once, but I'd take 2 over Inquisition simply because it's more the kind of game I enjoy, even though it's a super sucky example of one. Inquisition isn't even a good action RPG.

 

DAII also feels like it was envisioned as an ambitious project, that later got severely cut down in scope and budget.

In the lore, the setting of the game - Kirkwall, is part of a confederacy of Free Cities, but we only ever get to visit various parts of Kirkwall and its immediate environs (plus one fairly short trip to the Underdark). I can't imagine that Gaydar et al were planning to set the game in just this one city. It would have made a lot more sense if Kirkwall was the main hub, but as the story progressed, other parts of the Free Marches became available.

It would also have made more sense for the Artichoke and his army to be stationed in a different city - rather than the entire military leadership of the Qunari given their own quarter of Kirkwall in which they stayed for several years before finally losing it and going berserk, which is ridiculous and retarded. Instead, the Qunari should have conquered a different city nearby, but left the rest of the region alone.

Also, the game is divided into three chapters, and each chapter has a completely different plot, and none of them have anything to do with each other. Feels like the writers just came up with a bunch of ideas, and then went ahead and implemented them as is, without bothering to create a coherent story for the game. I imagine the writers would think of a more solid and relevant reason for the Qunari to lose it and start attacking everybody, something more clever than the Artichoke going "RAWR ALL THIS DYSFUNCTION AND CORRUPTION IS MAKING ME MAD!!".

 

The only good thing in DA2 is the cameo of Justice if you take that faggoty mage with you into the fade.

 

"non-stop wave after wave" = 1 extra wave, maybe 2 in larger battles.