The Dragon Age: Inquisition Thread

[Bleed the Man]

Well, game's over. What a shitty villain Corifeus was. It's a reused villan, with almost no development whatsoever and he's really not that menacing (before the final battle, you have taken from him all he has acomplished. He's making a desperate last attempt). That's the EPIC plot they wanted to replace the -actually interesting- mage and templar conflict? Master storytellers indeed.

I still don't know what to think about the cliffhanger, it has obvious potential, but I doubt Bioware will deliver.

 

[DragoFireheart]

I guess some MMOs might, but I don't play MMOs.

World of Warcraft does this.

Funny, DA2 has MMO graphics while the single player WoW-like DA:I doesn't.

Well, game's over. What a shitty villain Corifeus was. It's a reused villan, with almost no development whatsoever and he's really not that menacing (before the final battle, you have taken from him all he has acomplished. He's making a desperate last attempt). That's the EPIC plot they wanted to replace the -actually interesting- mage and templar conflict? Master storytellers indeed.

I still don't know what to thing about the cliffhanger, it has obvious potential, but I doubt Bioware will deliver.

Not sure why Bioware doesn't do more with the Mage vs Templar plot. Guess that would require good writers.

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

The only exaggerated thing i remember about DA2 are enemies blowing up after i hit them with a sword.

Those vibrant colors were only found in deep roads with red lyrium and in dalish elves location. Both are in DAI and look much better. Anyway Emerald Graves/Exalted Plains/Western Approach/Emprise du Lion>anything in DA2

 

[Lhynn]

I guess some MMOs might, but I don't play MMOs.

World of Warcraft does this.

Funny, DA2 has MMO graphics while the single player DA:I doesn't.

Well, game's over. What a shitty villain Corifeus was. It's a reused villan, with almost no development whatsoever and he's really not that menacing (before the final battle, you have taken from him all he has acomplished. He's making a desperate last attempt). That's the EPIC plot they wanted to replace the -actually interesting- mage and templar conflict? Master storytellers indeed.

I still don't know what to thing about the cliffhanger, it has obvious potential, but I doubt Bioware will deliver.

Not sure why Bioware doesn't do more with the Mage vs Templar plot. Guess that would require good writers.

WoW is far from the only mmo, and is far from having the only artstyle you can find in the MMO industry. Stop being so fucking ignorant, if you dont know what you are talking about, then dont fucking talk about it.

 

[Delterius]

Well, game's over. What a shitty villain Corifeus was. It's a reused villan, with almost no development whatsoever and he's really not that menacing (before the final battle, you have taken from him all he has acomplished. He's making a desperate last attempt). That's the EPIC plot they wanted to replace the -actually interesting- mage and templar conflict? Master storytellers indeed.

I still don't know what to thing about the cliffhanger, it has obvious potential, but I doubt Bioware will deliver.

Not sure why Bioware doesn't do more with the Mage vs Templar plot. Guess that would require good writers.

Best to ask why BioWare didn't do more with the Mage VS Templar plot. Yes, they spent the whole DA2 building up to it and shit was hjacked by a pathetic third party. Bringing it up again now would be really boring.

 

[RK47]

 

[DalekFlay]

Well, game's over. What a shitty villain Corifeus was. It's a reused villan, with almost no development whatsoever and he's really not that menacing (before the final battle, you have taken from him all he has acomplished. He's making a desperate last attempt). That's the EPIC plot they wanted to replace the -actually interesting- mage and templar conflict? Master storytellers indeed.

I still don't know what to thing about the cliffhanger, it has obvious potential, but I doubt Bioware will deliver.

Yeah, the whole time I'm doing main story missions I am just amazed they dropped the great setup they had in their hands for a super lame "bad mage trying to take over the world" plot. Imagine a real, dynamic civil war setting where you could aid or fight against certain factions (chantry, templars, mages, etc.) to change the landscape, quests and ending. It's all right there on a fucking platter but they not only ignored that plot but also made the gameplay and quests utterly without choice or impact at all. Infuriatingly stupid, really.

 

[Lhynn]

Well, game's over. What a shitty villain Corifeus was. It's a reused villan, with almost no development whatsoever and he's really not that menacing (before the final battle, you have taken from him all he has acomplished. He's making a desperate last attempt). That's the EPIC plot they wanted to replace the -actually interesting- mage and templar conflict? Master storytellers indeed.

I still don't know what to thing about the cliffhanger, it has obvious potential, but I doubt Bioware will deliver.

Yeah, the whole time I'm doing main story missions I am just amazed they dropped the great setup they had in their hands for a super lame "bad mage trying to take over the world" plot. Imagine a real, dynamic civil war setting where you could aid or fight against certain factions (chantry, templars, mages, etc.) to change the landscape, quests and ending. It's all right there on a fucking platter but they not only ignored that plot but also made the gameplay and quests utterly without choice or impact at all. Infuriatingly stupid, really.

Its like that thing skyrim utterly failed to do as well.

Fucking mount and blade mang, wish it would get a fucking sequel to expand on all the shit it did right and to fix all the shit it didnt quite get.

 

[DragoFireheart]

Its like that thing skyrim utterly failed to do as well.

More proof they wanted to copy Elder Scrolls.

WoW is far from the only mmo, and is far from having the only artstyle you can find in the MMO industry. Stop being so fucking ignorant, if you dont know what you are talking about, then dont fucking talk about it.

 

[Lhynn]

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm

Have fun going tru it, its only a fraction of the mmos currently active today.
WoW artstyle is blizzards artstyle. not "mmo" artstyle.

 

[Malpercio]

Well, game's over. What a shitty villain Corifeus was. It's a reused villan, with almost no development whatsoever and he's really not that menacing (before the final battle, you have taken from him all he has acomplished. He's making a desperate last attempt). That's the EPIC plot they wanted to replace the -actually interesting- mage and templar conflict? Master storytellers indeed.

I still don't know what to think about the cliffhanger, it has obvious potential, but I doubt Bioware will deliver.

The cliffhanger annoys me.

It's been 3 games and the series still did jack shit with Flemmeth.

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

Well, game's over. What a shitty villain Corifeus was. It's a reused villan, with almost no development whatsoever and he's really not that menacing (before the final battle, you have taken from him all he has acomplished. He's making a desperate last attempt). That's the EPIC plot they wanted to replace the -actually interesting- mage and templar conflict? Master storytellers indeed.

I still don't know what to think about the cliffhanger, it has obvious potential, but I doubt Bioware will deliver.

The cliffhanger annoys me.

It's been 3 games and the series still did jack shit with Flemmeth.

well they finally killed her
also DAI clearly states what she is not. She is not fucking Andraste/abomination hunting young witches/simple old hag etc. all those retarded fan theories are now irrelevant.
She is vessel to the Mythal and is/was in alliance with Dread Wolf. She also takes Old God soul from Kieran.

 

[Zewp]

Well, not necessarily.

Spoiler

She might just have transferred herself into Solas' body. No way to know for sure.

Until the $25 DLC, of course.

 

[set]

Well, game's over. What a shitty villain Corifeus was. It's a reused villan, with almost no development whatsoever and he's really not that menacing (before the final battle, you have taken from him all he has acomplished. He's making a desperate last attempt). That's the EPIC plot they wanted to replace the -actually interesting- mage and templar conflict? Master storytellers indeed.

I still don't know what to thing about the cliffhanger, it has obvious potential, but I doubt Bioware will deliver.

Yeah, the whole time I'm doing main story missions I am just amazed they dropped the great setup they had in their hands for a super lame "bad mage trying to take over the world" plot. Imagine a real, dynamic civil war setting where you could aid or fight against certain factions (chantry, templars, mages, etc.) to change the landscape, quests and ending. It's all right there on a fucking platter but they not only ignored that plot but also made the gameplay and quests utterly without choice or impact at all. Infuriatingly stupid, really.

Its like that thing skyrim utterly failed to do as well.

Fucking mount and blade mang, wish it would get a fucking sequel to expand on all the shit it did right and to fix all the shit it didnt quite get.

Uh are you outta the loop?



Also, anyone who says DA2 was tactical should consider a drug test to see if someone's been poisoning them. In DA2, there's not a single non-Ogre bow or blade-wielding enemy in the entire game who has a special ability to consider. Spiders don't have poison and webs - abilities they had in DA:O. And you fight like three Ogres the whole game. In DA2, all of the enemy mages have the exact same 4 spells that do almost nothing anyway. One of the bosses plays just like a WoW fight.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

DAI unlike DAO and DA2 has coherent art direction. You may not like its art style but finally different factions/nations have unique looks. Tevinter, Venatori, Orlais, Grey Wardens,Dalish Elves, Inquisition forces they all have their identity.

Are you referring on the factions aesthetics, right? In DAO the factions have unique looks too. The Dalish elves, the darkspawn, the dwarfs... even the ferelden regions have their own distinctive feature each one, as the red cliff shield.

Indeed DAI have a great art direction, but that critic against DAO is unnecessary.

ffs DAO had like one fucking light armour texture.

No

And yes, they're few

 

[RK47]

 

[Gozma]

Is Mass Effect 2 the best game Bioware's ever done? Easy mode for Codex: Don't worry about Baldur's Gate era stuff, just compared to KotOR forward era.

ME1 felt like standard Bioware filler-stuffed garbage (also gotta love the constant console loading screen disguising that would take a second on current PCs if they didn't go through their 20-second elevator ride delay) but ME2 feels like the Bioware game where they don't hold the player in utter contempt. Thanks steam sale

Edit - if anyone here has got a lot of Bioware knowledge, were there any big high level staff changes at Bio before/after ME2 that explain it being a good game, because AFAICT they've gone back to the old ways.

 

[Infinitron]

Is Mass Effect 2 the best game Bioware's ever done? Easy mode for Codex: Don't worry about Baldur's Gate era stuff, just compared to KotOR forward era.

ME1 felt like standard Bioware filler-stuffed garbage (also gotta love the constant console loading screen disguising that would take a second on current PCs if they didn't go through their 20-second elevator ride delay) but ME2 feels like the Bioware game where they don't hold the player in utter contempt. Thanks steam sale

Edit - if anyone here has got a lot of Bioware knowledge, were there any big high level staff changes at Bio before/after ME2 that explain it being a good game, because AFAICT they've gone back to the old ways.

Summoning Roguey

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

but could you gather 10 glowing clicky thingies, where you have to click on the glowing thingie, in ME2? I doubt it. Didn't even have dwarves.

ps: you could scan planets though

 

[Bleed the Man]

Question: What difference does it make to recruit agents for the Inquisition?

I don't remember that affecting anything more than seeing some of them in Skyhold. They included a mechanic that actually does nothing? Are the agents in Inquisition like collecting Pokemons or something?

 

[Roguey]

Is Mass Effect 2 the best game Bioware's ever done? Easy mode for Codex: Don't worry about Baldur's Gate era stuff, just compared to KotOR forward era.

ME1 felt like standard Bioware filler-stuffed garbage (also gotta love the constant console loading screen disguising that would take a second on current PCs if they didn't go through their 20-second elevator ride delay) but ME2 feels like the Bioware game where they don't hold the player in utter contempt. Thanks steam sale

Edit - if anyone here has got a lot of Bioware knowledge, were there any big high level staff changes at Bio before/after ME2 that explain it being a good game, because AFAICT they've gone back to the old ways.

Summoning Roguey

Christina Norman was a pretty decent Sawyer-esque designer. She was like "Let's throw everything out and make competent third-person cover shooting gameplay first, then build the RPG systems on top of that," just like Josh says you should do. She left in the middle of ME3.

 

[Goat Vomit]

ME2 feels like the Bioware game where they don't hold the player in utter contempt.

 

[Branm]

The totally unwarranted hating on DAO totally not necessary....Its still been one of the best triple A RPG's to come out for a long time and for sure the best rpg Bioware released for ages. Maybe Mass Effect 1 can compare but ehh i still enjoyed DAO more.

Honestly the fact that a shit game with crap writing and WoW gfx like Divinty: Original Sin gets so much credit on the codex yet most users seem to blast Origins just because its Bioware. ANd well I enjoyed that Origins a lot more then Divinity which I couldnt stand for more then a couple hours.

In general I find my taste in games is the same as most people here, I loved Underrail and only got that due to Codex feedback but I simply cant comprehend how DA:O gets so much hate here...

 

[Gozma]

ME2 feels like the Bioware game where they don't hold the player in utter contempt.

I'd add the two shitty minigames to the mineral thing as obvious player-contempt elements but it's like the sniffles compared to the usual Bioware late stage bone cancer

Edit - also having the one universal cooldown thing makes RTw/P so much less of a pausy clusterfuck I can't believe Sawyer didn't steal it for PE.

 

[Jaesun]

As a game, I would have to say Mass Effect 2 is the best game we will ever see from BioWare/EA. It is the single best thing they did, even with all its flaws, and they won't ever achieve that again.

It is not a cRPG though.