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The Dragon Age: Inquisition Thread
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meanwhileInPoland
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wait til you find out what cassandra is reading in her spare time
i agree they should stop giving false hope for pc players and simply go full action crpg. I wouldnt mind since i dont see today any developer capable of creating Badurs Gate 3. Just fucking deal with it
Unfortunately Laidlaw is not fucking Hideaki Itsuno so combat in DA will never be as good as in Dragons Dogma but it would be better than that weird mix we got in DAI. Half assed tactical view/kb+m controlls but also not that tight controls/animations in 3rd person view.
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Codexers - good at RPGs, horrible at appraising crowd opinions
Well it's 430 pages, I just skipped through the few dozen at the end tail but considering it's a triple A game AND from Beware to boot it's generally getting nowhere near the amount of mob lynching I've learned to expect from Codex.
Compare to threads like ME3, Oblivion or Fallout 3.
Zeriel
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Well, it can't be pirated, so the amount of people who actually can play the game in the first place is much smaller. Don't know what to say, though, there's been a steady avalance of negative commentary in this thread since it released. Tailing off after the first day because a lot of people gave up or had already said all they had to about the game, but it's there.
Necroscope
Arcane
If it's going to be pirated - I'll give it a try, but no way in hell I'm gonna buy it.
DeepOcean
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Dragon Age Origins had fans here... Bioware releases DA 2 = Rage
ME 2 had fans here... Bioware releases ME 3 = Rage
Morrowind had fans here... Bethesda releases Oblivion = Rage
Fallout 1 and 2 had fans here... Bethesda releases Fallout 3 = Rage
Thief 1 and 2 had fans here... Japs release Thiaf = Rage
DA 2 had fans here?...Bioware releases Dragon Age Inquisition = Heh... could be better, could be worse.
You see, there is the lacking of the rage and humiliation from a post rape victim on this thread.
It's funny how lots of people believe that. Apparently there are levels of dumb beyond "bought Dragon Age Inquisition". The argument "I'm a native speaker so I know this language's grammar perfectly" is the same as old folks saying "You don't know nothing about those times, I lived then!" Or demanding to be considered an expert on history of late 20th century Engalnd because you were born in England in the mid-70ies.
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Prime Junta
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I'm... enjoying it.
Just about everything that's been said here about it is true. The blatant pandering is blatant. The combat is easy and tactics amount to "Challenge" with your tank, then clobber with your damagers (plus some simple rock-paper-scissors damage type vs defense thing). The writing goes right through bad and out the other side. The world is generic-fantasy-land. Most of the sidequests are "find 5 of this" or "follow the quest compass" or whatever. There's farming, grinding, waiting for missions to complete, and so on.
Yet somehow despite checking all the wrong boxes, the damn thing manages to be fun.
Why?
First, the world feels hand-crafted and detailed, and there's lots of stuff in it. Reuse of assets is not painfully obvious, the environments make some kind of sense and communicate something about why the things that are there are there and in what order, from pretty neat geological things, to plants and animals, to ancient ruins, to modern ruins, to modern habitations, camps, and what have you. It manages to be believable in a way that few games do. It reminds me of Gothic in this way, and I really liked that about Gothic.
Second, the very simple, very brute-force "Inquisition" idea that ties all that fetch-and-carry together. You're not clearing out some wolves and bandits because some farmer asked you; you're doing it because they're stopping you from moving resources you need from the farmer to your base. There's not a whole lot of system underneath it, but there's just enough to make all that busywork into something bigger.
Third, no level scaling. You can easily bumble into a fight that's way out of your league, with a beastie that will do a TPW in about four attacks. Or a fight that's juuust winnable if you play your cards right. There's a sense of danger that's been almost completely absent from mainstream RPG's since... Gothic I suppose (although this isn't nearly as punishing as Gothic).
Fourth, reactivity. There's a surprising amount of nods to my "world state" and my character race/sex/class, both mechanically and in dialog, and there appear to be some actual mutually exclusive choices when resolving some conficts too. Nothing groundbreaking, but enough to make it not feel like Oblivion's completely linear "master of all guilds" thing.
Seriously. I would never have thought I'd like this, and by rights I really shouldn't like it, but dammit I do. It's a weird Frankenstein monster of a game that is made from rotting pieces of hanged murderers and absolutely should not be able to even twitch, but it's somehow gotten itself into a corset and heels and is singing a rousing rendition of Il Dolce Suono.
WTF BioWare?
Just about everything that's been said here about it is true. The blatant pandering is blatant. The combat is easy and tactics amount to "Challenge" with your tank, then clobber with your damagers (plus some simple rock-paper-scissors damage type vs defense thing). The writing goes right through bad and out the other side. The world is generic-fantasy-land. Most of the sidequests are "find 5 of this" or "follow the quest compass" or whatever. There's farming, grinding, waiting for missions to complete, and so on.
Yet somehow despite checking all the wrong boxes, the damn thing manages to be fun.
Why?
First, the world feels hand-crafted and detailed, and there's lots of stuff in it. Reuse of assets is not painfully obvious, the environments make some kind of sense and communicate something about why the things that are there are there and in what order, from pretty neat geological things, to plants and animals, to ancient ruins, to modern ruins, to modern habitations, camps, and what have you. It manages to be believable in a way that few games do. It reminds me of Gothic in this way, and I really liked that about Gothic.
Second, the very simple, very brute-force "Inquisition" idea that ties all that fetch-and-carry together. You're not clearing out some wolves and bandits because some farmer asked you; you're doing it because they're stopping you from moving resources you need from the farmer to your base. There's not a whole lot of system underneath it, but there's just enough to make all that busywork into something bigger.
Third, no level scaling. You can easily bumble into a fight that's way out of your league, with a beastie that will do a TPW in about four attacks. Or a fight that's juuust winnable if you play your cards right. There's a sense of danger that's been almost completely absent from mainstream RPG's since... Gothic I suppose (although this isn't nearly as punishing as Gothic).
Fourth, reactivity. There's a surprising amount of nods to my "world state" and my character race/sex/class, both mechanically and in dialog, and there appear to be some actual mutually exclusive choices when resolving some conficts too. Nothing groundbreaking, but enough to make it not feel like Oblivion's completely linear "master of all guilds" thing.
Seriously. I would never have thought I'd like this, and by rights I really shouldn't like it, but dammit I do. It's a weird Frankenstein monster of a game that is made from rotting pieces of hanged murderers and absolutely should not be able to even twitch, but it's somehow gotten itself into a corset and heels and is singing a rousing rendition of Il Dolce Suono.
WTF BioWare?
Dreaad
Arcane
I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of rage is subdued simply because it hasn't been pirated yet. The best way to troll and rage is through pirating, if you have to buy something it's a different story that you spent $60 on. It can't be that bad right.... right.... I mean I payed for it, surely it's not THAT bad, I'm not stupid enough to buy a turd hahaha....ha....vomit.
Rake
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No one forces me to talk to these ugly people in RL, let alone spent time with them. But in DAI you are forced to take these things with you as companions...
no that all characters look ugly, but the ones that do... Jesus
When it comes to unique colloquialisms they don't teach in an English book but that are used in everyday speech a native speaker is going to trump you every time. I can't believe you're still acting like you know better than us whether that dialog was okay. You're making yourself look reallllllly stupid.
SarcasticUndertones
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To sum DAI up:
Are those text from game or did someone photoshopped the text? I am not sure, if this is genuine or fake text....
Special as in window licking 'special'?
Everytime I read a post in this thread my impressions of this just get worse. Surely Bio (and their fucking fans) just can't get any lower. They'll be crawling about on their bellys soon.
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Well, eh, Bioware and its fans have gone so low they've evolved into a mutant race of mole people.
Dragon Age: Inquisition is alright though. Not Shadowrun: Dragonfall quality, but okay.
kris
Arcane
Long story short. Most characters are okay. Sera is downright awful and had I been the lead for this game I would never have accepted something that bad.
That guy give it 9/10.
Space Satan
Arcane
He is not called "a retard" for nothing.
Ok, I activated the Cassandra romance... it was fucking worth it.
Saying the writing is at the same level as young/adult romance novels is an understatment. And even persuing a romance, you can't get rid of the stupid fetch quests! "In order to conquer Cassandra's heart, go fetch this three objects, because not even when you want to see cringewohrty dialog and akward cutscenes we will allow you to not waste your time with pointless activities".
I'm going to start continuing the main quest pretty soon, because my enjoyment playing the game is at minimum right now, but because i want to specialize, I've got to fetch more useless garbage in order to do so! Seriously messed up design here.
Why are you surprised?
Saying the writing is at the same level as young/adult romance novels is an understatment. And even persuing a romance, you can't get rid of the stupid fetch quests! "In order to conquer Cassandra's heart, go fetch this three objects, because not even when you want to see cringewohrty dialog and akward cutscenes we will allow you to not waste your time with pointless activities".
I'm going to start continuing the main quest pretty soon, because my enjoyment playing the game is at minimum right now, but because i want to specialize, I've got to fetch more useless garbage in order to do so! Seriously messed up design here.
That guy give it 9/10.
Why are you surprised?
Dreaad
Arcane
Joe is a known retard here.
Mrowak
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there are bowstrings in game
also
http://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/2nmux3/now_it_feels_like_da1_daino_spoilers/
someone needed 6 hours to do it
Ohh, me want. O_O
Probably it gets messed up in the dungeons, but this view and proper camera controlls is what this game desperately needs.
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