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method114 on 23 September 2015
Augen said:
The Fury said:

Dragon Age Origins was one of the best games last gen and hard to live up to. Dragon Age Inquisition was a great game but to each their own. I loved it but then I also liked DA2 in it's own way.


I want to love Inquisition as I fell in love with Ferelden and Orlais in Origins.  The world seemed so alive and characters so vivid.  Within a few hours I was fully invested in the story and understood my objective and was fascinated by the choices. The dungeons and enemies were solid and combat was great balance of fun and strategy.  I played Inquistion for nearly 20 hours and felt nothing. Not a single story beat or character or even vague understanding of the world. What is going on? What am I doing?  My experience was running around in empty fields with no sense of purpose. It is everything I loathe about MMOs in that regard. Kill X enemies, take X to Y, rinse, repeat in combat that consisted of me nearly falling asleep.

I'v ehad this discussion here before, but I am tempted to try again because it seems impossible to me that anyone could enjoy the experience I had. I must be doing it wrong or missing something. Maybe there is a good walk through that shows how the game could be worth while.


Stop doing all those pointless side quest. I skipped any sidequest that involved doing stupid stuff like that and just did the sidequest that had actually story to it. The game is much shorter then but its still a good 30 hours.



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Random_Matt on 23 September 2015
method114 said:
Augen said:


I want to love Inquisition as I fell in love with Ferelden and Orlais in Origins.  The world seemed so alive and characters so vivid.  Within a few hours I was fully invested in the story and understood my objective and was fascinated by the choices. The dungeons and enemies were solid and combat was great balance of fun and strategy.  I played Inquistion for nearly 20 hours and felt nothing. Not a single story beat or character or even vague understanding of the world. What is going on? What am I doing?  My experience was running around in empty fields with no sense of purpose. It is everything I loathe about MMOs in that regard. Kill X enemies, take X to Y, rinse, repeat in combat that consisted of me nearly falling asleep.

I'v ehad this discussion here before, but I am tempted to try again because it seems impossible to me that anyone could enjoy the experience I had. I must be doing it wrong or missing something. Maybe there is a good walk through that shows how the game could be worth while.


Stop doing all those pointless side quest. I skipped any sidequest that involved doing stupid stuff like that and just did the sidequest that had actually story to it. The game is much shorter then but its still a good 30 hours.


Takes away value of a game to me. If you're not going to 100% complete it, then it's a waste of money.



Goodnightmoon on 23 September 2015

What a boring game, i can´t understand how is possible this won the GOTY, but it tells a lot about the value of that prize.



Augen on 23 September 2015
method114 said:


Stop doing all those pointless side quest. I skipped any sidequest that involved doing stupid stuff like that and just did the sidequest that had actually story to it. The game is much shorter then but its still a good 30 hours.

When i have a spare day in the coming months I'll give a 4th and final attempt starting from scratch this time to see if I can get anything out of the experience.  Seems bad game design when people dislike 70% of the game though if what you're saying is true.



PieToast on 23 September 2015

I'll jump on the bandwagon too.

This game is such a lost opportunity. It put things into perspective for me about how Bioware can make good stories, good games but bad RPGs. In Inquisition, the player has to consciously choose the missions that progress the story, otherwise they're lost in a big world full of content that were created solely to advertise how big and long the game is. Had fun with it for a while, however I'm not sure I can invest my time in any of their future games.

It probably got this many GOTY awards because it had an excellent presentation, and 2014 as a whole wasn't exactly a good year....



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lonerism on 23 September 2015

Origins > Inquisition >>>>>>>> DA II

 

Gosh I miss Origins so bad

I remember being terrified when my human male stepped into the Fade for the first time



Angelus on 23 September 2015

Gamers......

Game I love gets recognised with awards: "Aww yeaaa, told y'all it was the shit! #Greatest #GOTD #BestOfGen"

Game I don't much care for gets recognised with awards: "These motherfuckers don't know shit. These awards don't mean a damn thing"



The Fury on 23 September 2015

I wonder if they called this "Dragon Age: Inquisition Plus All the DLC Edition." if it would get as much hate right now.



Hmm, pie.

OttoniBastos on 23 September 2015

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RPGFan1 on 23 September 2015

I was hyped up about this game, got bored of the 10 hours I spent in it doing fetch quests, played the multiplayer and enjoyed it because you actually did more and it was more of a challenge.  Didn't like how unbalanced it was and mages being far superior to all other classes, but other than that still got a lot of enjoyment out of the multiplayer alone.

If the game was a giant world filled with dungeons that you could explore and find more powerful equipment.  Basically a more skill based version of Diablo , then maybe they could have salvaged this game, but random groups of human enemies walking around the world map gave this game no challenge whatsoever, and I was playing on nightmare.  I finished a decent amount of side missions, someone told me to give it a chance and do main missions, I did three more and gave it up since they didn't seem much better.