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Ok, I don't really make threads like this but something needs to be said about this. I've been playing this game for a couple days now and It's just flat out amazing. It's almost perfect in every aspect, from visuals to lore to gameplay to content. It just grabs you and pulls you into a world with SOOO much  to do that it's almost overwhelming. There are small side quests and missions with their own specific areas with different things to discover. And the scenery... Oh the scenery is just gorgeous, especially forest areas with streams. I don't even remember how many screenshots I took. All this topped off by an engaging and satisfying combat system.

And not so long ago I was beginning to feel like I didn't have fun play games anymore. I would literally just play games because they were there and I paid for them and they were in my cupboard. Now I can't wait to turn on my PS4 and play DA:I. I know EA fucks up a lot but they really redeemed themselves with this one. Hats off to Bioware.

 

Did anyone else really like this game this much or am I just crazy?



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It's definitely a well polished game with lots of content. At the start you will be overwhelmed by the apparent content but from the middle on you start to see the whole picture and then it just feels like something is missing.

I honestly was disappointed that it was actually a lot shorter than I anticipated. When there were the first previews talking about 200h worth of content I was hyped. But in the end not only was a lot of the content quite arbitrary and just felt like it was there to fill the game. Much like an Ubisoft game. But in the end it was quite short actually. I clocked in less than 100h. And I did like 99% of all the quests until I was painfully overpowered.

It was fun for a bit, then it was a grind and then it left me disappointed when I finished it. It doesn't even have much replay value for me anymore since I got my fill from all the classes during the game.



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It was my 2014 GOTY so I definitely enjoyed it a lot.



Dragon Age: Inquistion was nothing short of amazing ...

It deserves all of the GoTY awards it got ...

This all coming from a guy who doesn't like Bioware much and their Mass Effect series ...



It's a fantastic game, definitely not in my top ten rpg list but I see it as a great appetizer while I wait for the witcher 3, xenoblade x and Fallout 4



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Yes it is quite fun, the story is really short and disappointing though... I still like this game>90% of most other games I buy.



Mystro-Sama said:

Ok, I don't really make threads like this but something needs to be said about this. I've been playing this game for a couple days now and It's just flat out amazing. It's almost perfect in every aspect, from visuals to lore to gameplay to content. It just grabs you and pulls you into a world with SOOO much  to do that it's almost overwhelming. There are small side quests and missions with their own specific areas with different things to discover. And the scenery... Oh the scenery is just gorgeous, especially forest areas with streams. I don't even remember how many screenshots I took. All this topped off by an engaging and satisfying combat system.

And not so long ago I was beginning to feel like I didn't have fun play games anymore. I would literally just play games because they were there and I paid for them and they were in my cupboard. Now I can't wait to turn on my PS4 and play DA:I. I know EA fucks up a lot but they really redeemed themselves with this one. Hats off to Bioware.

 

Did anyone else really like this game this much or am I just crazy?

EA will continue to as far as their philosophy is concerned. They are just smart about which companies they acquire. I was hoping Microsoft would've purchased Bioware. Sony would've been screwed if that had happened. 

Yeah, Dragon Age Inqusition brought back to the DA franchise again. I played part two but compared to Inquisition it was ok. If you like WRPG's then brace yourself for the Witcher 3, which is coming soon. 



shikamaru317 said:
vivster said:

It's definitely a well polished game with lots of content. At the start you will be overwhelmed by the apparent content but from the middle on you start to see the whole picture and then it just feels like something is missing.

I honestly was disappointed that it was actually a lot shorter than I anticipated. When there were the first previews talking about 200h worth of content I was hyped. But in the end not only was a lot of the content quite arbitrary and just felt like it was there to fill the game. Much like an Ubisoft game. But in the end it was quite short actually. I clocked in less than 100h. And I did like 99% of all the quests until I was painfully overpowered.

It was fun for a bit, then it was a grind and then it left me disappointed when I finished it. It doesn't even have much replay value for me anymore since I got my fill from all the classes during the game.

Yeah, I have no idea why some of the previews said there'd be 200 hours of content, I did everything in the game on the highest difficulty setting and my playthrough clocked in at 109 hours. And some of that was time I just spent waiting on war table missions to finish so I could start new ones before I went off questing, so it was probably less than 100 hours of actual content.

You probably achieved a platinum in 100 hours (which makes sense). There are mini missions as well. I clocked 200 hours in the game. 



It was my GOTY.

An absolute treasure!



Well everyone has their taste, there is alot of "content", but to me it feels like a MMO light, totally simplified and streamlined with lots and lots of boring filler content, to me its also just not fun, mostly because its not even challenging on nightmare difficulty, combat is extremely boring and mindless (simple rotation works against all mobs, may it be "trash mobs" or dragons, just chipping away at the huge health bars without any strategy whatsoever). Also character development.. it is totally dumped down, barely any choices, so you can basically do nothing wrong. It's sad what happened after such masterpieces like Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 and a pretty decent Dragon Age Origins.

Here is a pretty decent review that describes whats wrong with the game

 

http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=9752