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[Julia Luna]

When you like something, let's say, chocolate icecream, you love it because how it tastes. When you go buy chocolate icecream, you buy it and not another one, like strawberry icecream, exactly because you want to feel the taste of chocolate icecream, right? Can you at least agree that if I wanted something different I would have chosen something different? There is no reason for me to buy chocolate icecream if I don't like right? Also there is no reason for me to buy it expecting it be have a different taste.

 

This is what happens to games, music, movies and many other things... when I buy a movie that have a prequel, a game that comes from the same developers, and stuff like that, stuff that have a previous history that became a pattern, I expect it to offer me the same feelings that it used to. Of course it won't be exactly the same, but in general I (and many other people) expect it to be somehow the same. There is no point in being a fan if the characteristics change all the time.

 

So Bioware had a style of games for like 15 years or more and now DAI (it seems like it started with DA2) is another thing. KOTOR II (as NWN2) are not Bioware but feel like Bioware, DAI doesn't feel like Bioware. But let us not hold to feeling as it is subjective, lets us hold on to the facts: There are a lot of characteristics that use to be in a Bioware game that are not in Inquisition and another whole set of characteristics that are in Inquisition that were not in previous Bioware games. Is it enough to not call it a Bioware game or a Dragon Age game? Well, now it is back to subjective answers, but it doesn't really matter.

 

Back to icecream... Can you blame someone if they go buy chocolate icecream and it doesn't taste as chocolate icecream at all? I'm not saying it is a bad taste, it can be a good taste, or a bad one, but it is not the taste you have been tasting for years. Maybe it is enough to sue the company, maybe not, but what it matters is that you wanted that taste and they gave you another.

So I'm in fact ok with people (including myself) being frustrated when things change, because even if some changes are expected they usually are not enough to prevent you from buying a new game of a franchise, and this time Bioware made me VERY cautious about the next DA game. Inquisition is so different from any other Bioware game... not even Dragon Age 2 made me skeptical about the next Dragon Age, it was a bad Bioware game but still a Bioware game, Inquisition is just another thing. I'm forcing myself to like the game because I want to see my story going on but by the end of the first playthrough it did not feel like DAO or 2, it is not my story in Thedas anymore, if it was, now the Druffalos and Unicorns stomped all over it until it disappeared, I'm playing two characters now and I can't find myself in them too, so it is useless.

 

Icecreamwise, if you really want a chocolate icecream and they give you something with the same name but different taste, it won't satisfy you. Many people can come here and say "**** you idiot it is a ****** icecream just enjoy it" but again, if I just wanted icecream I'd pick a random flavor, I chose chocolate icecream because I expected it to taste like chocolate so I feel I have the right to complain about it not tasting like chocolate icecream.

 

Now I'm not saying other people have to hate it like I hate, maybe you love the new taste but what would change in your life if they advertised that they were going to change the taste? But the whole time they said that this game would bring back what people liked in Origins and keep the things they liked from DA2 but the result seems nothing like Origins nor DA2, it seems like another game, another thing, not even a game. This is evil, lawful evil so.

 

In fact I was thinking, if I keep posting topics like these complaining about the game will they banish me to the depths of hell? Then I can focus on something more productive.

 

I loved everything Morrigan, Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts and What Pride Had Wrought, and there is no reason for this information being here I just wanted to write it for no reason at all.

[o Ventus]

With ice cream, you can look at the tin and read exactly what is inside. You can't read a synopsis of the plot and a detailed layout of the game mechanics from the back of a video game case.

 

If you buy strawberry ice cream and complain it isn't chocolate, you're an idiot and illiterate. If you buy DAI and complain it "isn't Dragon Age", that's a baseless statement that is impossible to verify. If you buy chocolate ice cream and the ice cream inside is literally not chocolate ice cream, then you have grounds to complain. Unfortunately, neither that nor it's figurative relevance to whether or not DAI "feels like Dragon Age" mean anything at all, because the analogy is horrid and doesn't make any sense.

 

Each DA game so far has been different from the others. DAO was a slower, more tactical game with a typical unite-everybody-to-fight-apocalypse plot. DA2 was a faster game about Hawke's rise to fame/infamy. Inquisition is a bit of both, with the same plot structure as Origins, but still with the personal semi-focus on the Inquisitor as DA2 had with Hawke.