Review RPG Codex Review: Dragon Age: Inquisition

[Franny Frogpill]

Lots of descriptive text with some cautious complaining about mediocrity... when I was hoping for "TERRIBAD" with acid and chuckles.
Somewhat disappointed here - but thanks for the effort.

 

[Infinitron]

I don't think the review is cautious at all, and the description it conveys is that of a bad game, not a merely mediocre one.

What it isn't is LULZTASTIC.

 

[Cadmus]

I don't think the review is cautious at all, and the description it convey is that of a bad game, not a merely mediocre one.

What it isn't is LULZTASTIC.

there's a difference between LULZTASTIC and boring =/

 

[Infinitron]

Well, at least you have all those rich homies to make things more exciting, eh? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[DarkUnderlord]

gaiz gaiz

its ok i spiced it up.

 

[Black_Willow]

DarkUnderlord, have you been doing drugs lately?

 

[kris]

Deltrius did a good job on the screenshots.

I still feel I should make a collection of the most hilarious stupidities in a screenplay of screenshots.

 

[felipepepe]

DU is one of the few people I've ever seen able to properly role-play a Chaotic character.

 

[Athelas]

He's not role-playing.

 

[Revenant]

Everyone who played this game (except for reviewing purposes) is a moron

Even the review was boring as fuck

Although DU's shitty pranks didn't help to read it, maybe it was slightly better

 

[Infinitron]

Infinitron confirmed for agent of RPGWatch.

http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1061301952&postcount=3051
http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1061301954&postcount=3053

 

[FeelTheRads]

For a bit I thought Infin it ron went crazy.

 

[Zed]

Articles look so much better on the watch.

 

[zero29]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/foxreplace/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/word-replacer/djakfbefalbkkdgnhkkdiihelkjdpbfh?hl=en

 

[PhantasmaNL]

Yes the Watch version was easier to read..

A solid review, agree with most of 1t. 1ts maybe a bit serious, which is not bad perse, but 1t could have used more sprinklings of edgy codexian stabs. On the other hand in this state 1t is easily digestible for casual readers too. Good work.

 

[Trash]

Excellent article. The game felt to me like a grinding mmo experience. And if there's one thing I dislike in gaming it's grinding mmo experiences. I recently read a nice Dragon Age 2 retrospective where the author praised the tight story, the characterization and the fact that an rpg wasn't about saving the world but instead all about a family story and family ties within that story.

That tighter, more personal story is exactly what I enjoyed in that game and in a game like the first witcher. Therefore it felt like a massive letdown to see the return of the EPIC plot. Which really is as run of the mill as it gets. Moreso since the whole faction management that at least seemed to promise some originality turned out to be so shallow and empty.

DA2 got so much wrong, through what seemed to me mostly a ridiculously short dev period. However it did manage to have an interesting story that for once went inward instead of outward. Felt like a breath of fresh air. Shame they went with big, bigger, biggest here. Losing what felt like a genuinly interesting take for rpg stories. Still, in the end it was the gameplay that made me turn away from DA:I. Grinding. Mmo. No thanks.

 

[Franny Frogpill]

What i-t isn't is LULZTASTIC.

Lulztastic would have worked for me, true. But I was really hoping for something along these lines:

Vault Dweller on Dragon Age 2:

I stopped playing the game when I started Act 3. [...] Somewhere between sitting and watching my characters slowly – ever so very slowly – chipping away at the dragon’s health bar and keeping an eye on the cool down counters, I asked myself what part of this tedious exercise constitutes fun and couldn’t really come up with a good answer.

I remember fighting Firkraag, the red dragon in Baldur’s Gate 2. Now THAT was fun. The dragon didn’t have a health bar. I-t had only 180 hit points. There were no cool downs. Now, I know what you're thinking.

"But, without cooldowns, how would I know when to click my buttons?"

We called them tactics, son. And the sword you got after the fight didn’t become obsolete the moment you leveled up.

Good times, good times.

 

[Infinitron]

Well, since you mention Vault Dweller, let me just say that he had a major influence on the way this review turned out. I'll let him speak for himself, though.

 

[Black_Willow]

Well, since you mention Vault Dweller, let me just say that he had a major influence on the way this review turned out.

You mean, besides the retarded word filter?

EDIT
I mistook VD for DU. Laugh at me.

 

[Infinitron]

Well, since you mention Vault Dweller, let me just say that he had a major influence on the way this review turned out.

You mean, besides the retarded word filter?

That was DarkUnderlord. Also it's gone now if you didn't notice!

 

[Outlander]

Let's see:

Rich Homie Cloaked

 

[Mantiis]

It said review and yet there was no score at the end.

 

[Tigranes]

I'm waiting for the inevitable 'codex sold out, watered down, infiltrated by the one-eyed spamatron' outrage.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Waiting for the leak about EA donating 750.000€ to prestigious gaming magazine for a documentary on what makes an rpg.

 

[Grotesque]

Bought the game, got bored even before the title appeared on the screen (I think I spent more time creating my character than actually playing the game) and then I returned the game and got my money back.
They just could have release a demo so I could be spared of all this hustle.