| ps3-sales! said: Just shipped back Dragon age to those wonderful peoples at Gamefly (seriously if you don't have Gamefly you should; another thread for another day) After putting in a little bit over six hours, I came to the conclusion that this game is BORING. Nothing I did ever screamed "meaningful" or "exciting" or "should be in a video game". Go here, do this for that guy, go back to guy. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Story was mediocre at best; with some interesting dialogue bogged down by a confusing and all over the place main plot line. Filler content EVERYWHERE. Seriously I'm supposed to be this all powerful king/inqusitor yet I'm doing mundane tasks myself?? Gameplay was ehh. Not as great as the first Dragon Age (I did not play the second installment). Overall I was very disappointed. I went in really wanting to love this game. Another massive RPG with good critical success that I could spend 100+ hours in. I was looking for my next Skyrim-esque world. Sadly, I did not find it.
Coming from the developer of possibly my 2nd favorite game series of all time in Mass Effect; I am now sad. How did this game get great reviews?
Thoughts on Dragon Age Inquisition? |
This is typical of most open ended open world western RPGs. They play like 15th century reality simulators and just drag on and on and 95% of the game development is focused on photorealistic graphics and gore and ambience.
If you want that slow ramp up edge of your seat story climax and emotionally stirring heart tugging suspense and tragedy and endearing characters and sense of epicness that's the realm of JRPGs which are sadly a dead genre right now outside of a handful of remasters and ports.
I've heard good things about Mass Effect but have never played it because I long avoided EA and Activision for a while now. I plan to pick it up when they do the PS4 HD collection. It seems to be the exception and not the rule when it comes to western RPGs.
I loved Fallout 3 and Borderlands for western RPG/hybrids for the exploring and packratting of loot type gameplay, but they are a far different experience to something like Xenoblade Chronicles or Ni no Kuni or a Tales of* game.
