The Dragon Age: Inquisition Thread

[pippin]

Fake accents always bother me. Or, it bothers me when companies hire french speaking people and still force them to do fake accents (Leliana's VA).
DA2 is bad, while DA:I is boring. In my opinion, sometimes it can be better to be bad rather than plain boring.

 

[set]

you're just bullshitting us.

Why would I? I actually played DA2 twice (mage and rogue) and loved it. Third playthrough as soon as I clear my backlog (which may take a while).?

Why would you? Why does anyone troll?

 

[Bubbles]

Cassandra's accent is completely made up, so it's technically not the same kind of "fake" accent that the setting's fake Frenchmen have. It *should* be easier to listen to because of that, but in practice it annoyed the shit out of me. Especially because Cassandra's VA can't really maintain a consistent accent over longer monologues (which she didn't have to do in DA2) so she constantly makes odd pauses to readjust her pronunciation. It just sounds very silly and strained.

 

[AwesomeButton]

If there is one thing I can testify to being well made in DA:I, it's the area design. It's pretty looking because it's Frostbite 3.0, that's a given, but the areas themselves are well designed. I haven't been everywhere yet, just Hinterlands, Storm Coast, Fallow Mire, Therinfal Redoubt, Val Royeaux, Forbidden Oasis, but they are all very cool. Too bad they are mostly emty content-wise. It would have been a great game, if only the rest of the team had put real work into it.

 

[GrainWetski]

Fake accents always bother me. Or, it bothers me when companies hire french speaking people and still force them to do fake accents (Leliana's VA).
DA2 is bad, while DA:I is boring. In my opinion, sometimes it can be better to be bad rather than plain boring.

You can laugh at DA2. It almost feels intentionally bad.

DA:I they actually tried their best. It's really sad.

 

[yes plz]

I can agree with Solas being a decent character but Cole? I mean, the concept was good and if he were just a supporting character that popped up sometimes he probably would've been good but as a party member with hours of dialogue I found him to be really repetitive and annoying. Any time I talked to him I swear I could hear the writers shouting, "He's so weird! Really weird! He's like sooo weird! So unique and special! Isn't he totally weird!?"

Most dialogues sound about as authentic as those in "Dallas" or "The bold and the beautiful", but really Solas is the least annoying so far. BTW he is supposed to have been written by Gaider. :D

prodigydancer, careful with statements like that while you have something lile "Joined: Monday" on :D My observations suggest that you wil now get jumped...

As Bubbles pointed out, Solas and Cole were written by Patrick Weekes (who I think also wrote Iron Bull). Gaider, I believe, only wrote Dorian and Cassandra.

 

[Delterius]

So, what did people around here think of Dorian? Seems like you haven't dissed him since the game's release.

Fake accents always bother me. Or, it bothers me when companies hire french speaking people and still force them to do fake accents (Leliana's VA).
DA2 is bad, while DA:I is boring. In my opinion, sometimes it can be better to be bad rather than plain boring.

Personally, native orlesian is so derpy that I absolutely love it.

WELCOME TO THE GAEM INQUISITORR~. How can you not laugh at that?

I had preordered the game and started playing it way before this was posted, but thanks

This breaks my heart.

Another soul I couldn't save.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I had preordered the game and started playing it way before this was posted, but thanks

This breaks my heart.

Another soul I couldn't save.

Haha, I read your review and I was actually surprised how easy you went on it

As Bubbles pointed out, Solas and Cole were written by Patrick Weekes (who I think also wrote Iron Bull). Gaider, I believe, only wrote Dorian and Cassandra.

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Solas#Trivia -- "Solas is written by Patrick Weekes, with heavy input from lead writer David Gaider"

 

[Bleed the Man]

So, what did people around here think of Dorian? Seems like you haven't dissed him since the game's release.

Dorian and Blackwall were the best companions in the game by far, IMO.

Solas was too much of an info dump for me but not bad in general, Cole and Sera were annoying as fuck, Iron Bull was exclusively an arquetype and a badly written one, didn't care for Vivienne at all and I just talked to her to see more content, Cassandra was okayish (started good and went progressively worse), and Varric is nice but worse than in DA2 (much more serious in this one, which is fine as character development goes, but it didn't feel warranted and the plot was too much of a mess to make the "drama" the character can live through the game belivable).

That's my take, anyway.

 

[Bubbles]

Blackwall was a good no-nonsense companion (plus bonus TERRIBLE SECRET), probably the first one in any Dragon Age game. I can't see how anyone could hate him.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

^Sten and Dog. Their interactions even consist of staring at each other.

And Shale, to an extent.

 

[Bubbles]

Sten was presented as simultaneously being a straight-laced fanatic, an mass murderer full of barely contained rage, and a secret softie who pretended to hate human weakness but played with kittens, loved cookies and called you his "kadan". Shale was constantly creating pigeon memes for the benefit of the fan base. But I forgot about dog, he fits.

 

[pippin]

Well, at least Sten and Shale laughed at you in every situation where you had to show you were biowarian fantasy jesus (tm). That made the game tolerable for me.

 

[Delterius]

So, what did people around here think of Dorian? Seems like you haven't dissed him since the game's release.

Dorian and Blackwall were the best companions in the game by far, IMO.

Solas was too much of an info dump for me but not bad in general, Cole and Sera were annoying as fuck, Iron Bull was exclusively an arquetype and a badly written one, didn't care for Vivienne at all and I just talked to her to see more content, Cassandra was okayish (started good and went progressively worse), and Varric is nice but worse than in DA2 (much more serious in this one, which is fine as character development goes, but it didn't feel warranted and the plot was too much of a mess to make the "drama" the character can live through the game belivable).

That's my take, anyway.

Well, my experience is somewhat similar and I do believe that Dorian was the best and, I think, one with good potential. At first, I feared that him being a rebellious Red Wizard of Thay would make for too much of an easy character, too much of a good guy, to the point where it doesn't even seem like he's really from Tevinter. I think the writers were aware of it and for this reason included the conversations about slavery with both Dorian and Cremissus (Iron Bull's lieutenant).

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

you're just bullshitting us.

Why would I? I actually played DA2 twice (mage and rogue) and loved it. Third playthrough as soon as I clear my backlog (which may take a while).?

Why would you? Why does anyone troll?

It's just someone trying to keep this retarded thread alive by any means necessary. Really, this thread died like a stone a month after release, pretty much the exact moment RK finished his playthrough. Most of the bumps since then have been the most tarded bullshit and it has to tell you something that it takes a DA II fanboynutterderangedlunatic posting the most godforsaken shit to even get a response out of anyone about anything about this game...

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

Are You crazy ? Im still playing this game [I do not have "24 hours a day" for playing and finishing such titles over one week] and enjoying it alnogside with other good crpgs. It's good to see that "true codexian" shitstorm calm down here. Bioware made good crpg with this game again, and upcoming patch feautures looks nice. While im plyaing crpgs from late 80's [and still getting back to M&M , and many other crgps from past years] ive found Inquisition as part of "AAA"crpgs slight incline and im satisfied with it, for defending my opinion ive got a "fanboy" label here even [thanks anyway, im great fanboy of crpg genre] , becouse great gems in "another" more hardcore focused sector like Age of Decadence, D:OS or Xulima, Underrail are and always will be directed for crpg fans only not wider audience.
Games like Dragon Age, Skyrim or Witcher 3 are for everyone," hardcores" included but they have other design concepts than mentioned above. So it has no any sense to argue that DoS , Underrail etc. are more complicated and interesting, etc.
I found both approaches good as im getting older and having more to do than spending hours in front of monitor and playing my favourite crpg title as long as i want. Sometimes sure, it's nice to have game that need that few hours of constant playing, but other time it's good to have somewhat "casual" but "large" too crpg.

 

[Sykar]

Are You crazy ? Im still playing this game [I do not have "24 hours a day" for playing and finishing such titles over one week] and enjoying it alnogside with other good crpgs. It's good to see that "true codexian" shitstorm calm down here. Bioware made good crpg with this game again, and upcoming patch feautures looks nice. While im plyaing crpgs from late 80's [and still getting back to M&M , and many other crgps from past years] ive found Inquisition as part of "AAA"crpgs slight incline and im satisfied with it, for defending my opinion ive got a "fanboy" label here even [thanks anyway, im great fanboy of crpg genre] , becouse great gems in "another" more hardcore focused sector like Age of Decadence, D:OS or Xulima, Underrail are and always will be directed for crpg fans only not wider audience.
Games like Dragon Age, Skyrim or Witcher 3 are for everyone," hardcores" included but they have other design concepts than mentioned above. So it has no any sense to argue that DoS , Underrail etc. are more complicated and interesting, etc.
I found both approaches good as im getting older and having more to do than spending hours in front of monitor and playing my favourite crpg title as long as i want. Sometimes sure, it's nice to have game that need that few hours of constant playing, but other time it's good to have somewhat "casual" but "large" too crpg.

 

[Infinitron]

Ah, Wulfric, you're back.

 

[zero29]

Are You crazy ? Im still playing this game [I do not have "24 hours a day" for playing and finishing such titles over one week] and enjoying it alnogside with other good crpgs...

gr8 b8 m8 but 2 l8. the trolling potential of this thread seems to be exhausted. better luck next time!

 

[Jick Magger]

Are You crazy ? Im still playing this game [I do not have "24 hours a day" for playing and finishing such titles over one week] and enjoying it alnogside with other good crpgs. It's good to see that "true codexian" shitstorm calm down here. Bioware made good crpg with this game again, and upcoming patch feautures looks nice. While im plyaing crpgs from late 80's [and still getting back to M&M , and many other crgps from past years] ive found Inquisition as part of "AAA"crpgs slight incline and im satisfied with it, for defending my opinion ive got a "fanboy" label here even [thanks anyway, im great fanboy of crpg genre] , becouse great gems in "another" more hardcore focused sector like Age of Decadence, D:OS or Xulima, Underrail are and always will be directed for crpg fans only not wider audience.
Games like Dragon Age, Skyrim or Witcher 3 are for everyone," hardcores" included but they have other design concepts than mentioned above. So it has no any sense to argue that DoS , Underrail etc. are more complicated and interesting, etc.
I found both approaches good as im getting older and having more to do than spending hours in front of monitor and playing my favourite crpg title as long as i want. Sometimes sure, it's nice to have game that need that few hours of constant playing, but other time it's good to have somewhat "casual" but "large" too crpg.

 

[Jaesun]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?members/wulfric-pinewood.18408/ignore

 

[Lhynn]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?members/wulfric-pinewood.18408/ignore

Hes a clown, why would you ignore a clown?

 

[zero29]

cause they're evil?

 

[imweasel]

Are You crazy ? Im still playing this game [I do not have "24 hours a day" for playing and finishing such titles over one week] and enjoying it alnogside with other good crpgs. It's good to see that "true codexian" shitstorm calm down here. Bioware made good crpg with this game again, and upcoming patch feautures looks nice.

 

[Angthoron]

Meh, the "german kid" persona defending Raven's Cry did it better.