| Leynos said: DAO is the only great entry in the series. DAI is better than DA2 by far but it has a lot of problems. Dumbed down combat. Sidequests that go nowhere. Awkward writing. Enemies don't respawn in worlds so you can kill everything and then have an empty region. I killed everything lol. Giants in a forest respawned but little else. At times it has a nice atmosphere in some regions...at first. The keep is a nice hub area. It was visually nice for the time but it is aging. Dragons start off imposing but at some point they become easy to cheese. The steeds are useless a little bump they can't jump over. Searching for items is tedious. Click the stick and a small area pings. Now the Trespasser DLC was decent. |
Yeah, when I played DAI on release almost 10 years ago I was a bit disappointed. Felt MMO-like, lots of fetch quests, gathering of crafting materials, and mob killing. It just felt overly long and bloated. But I want to replay it ahead of Veilguard's release for story reasons, after 10 years I don't remember much of what happened in Inquisition, and I didn't play it's DLC packs the first time around, so I will be playing them for the first time now.
I've already found some good mods which will improve upon some of DAI's weak points and cut down on the grind, so I'm hoping for a faster and more enjoyable playthrough than my original 112 hour one this time around. Looking at How Long to Beat my original 112 hour playthrough was actually faster than the average player, the average completionist run for base game DAI is apparently 129 hours, the fact that I managed a completionist run in 112 hours on Nightmare difficulty is pretty cool. I don't know if I will even bother with Nightmare difficulty this time around, I only did it the first time for the Xbox achievement, and since I'm playing the Epic Store version this time and don't really care about Epic Store achievements, I'm not sure if it's worth adding to my playtime by going with Nightmare again.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 26 July 2024
