23. Dragon Age Inquisition
The best Dragon Age in my opinion with an amazing combat system somewhere between real time with pause and action. I spent 320 hours in my two playthroughs with this game, the second on the highest difficulty for the platinum and it was such a fullfilling time. The story beats are great and well paced, exploration gets better in the latter levels and many secrets and side stuff to do like defeating 10 really tough dragons and great collectibles. The characters are fantastic if just tipping over into a slight childishness from the writers at times, as if the writers didn't know how to write or have experience enough to write good small talk dialogue and witty moments as well as romance scenes, just a bit too on the nose but I can forgive that for that epic adventure this game is. The base of operations is cool. The world outside of that is cool. Just about everything is cool, even the mission where you spend no time in combat, it all just works well to keep you engaged. The OST is fantastic and has some really high points like when the cast break into song which gave shivers.
I never got into Origins, not far enough to make a decision on the games quality anyway but this one really sucked me in and this is the start of my list where the game go from great, Fantastic even to masterpieces. Dragon Age Inquisition just misses the mark ever so slightly but is left somewhere in between. If Veilgaurd wasn't a complete waste of time, I'd go back and playthrough this again before going for Veilgaurd but the latter has done irreversible damage and knowing the story becomes a Disney film with writing so poor it would make Enlish Translations of Kojimas work look natural and fluid.
Almost masterpiece level.
