DA:O: 9/10
DA2: 6/10
DA:I: 8/10
DA:O: 9/10
DA2: 6/10
DA:I: 8/10
For personal enjoyment I'd rate it 6/10. Enjoyed the story and several of the characters but actually "playing" the game was a frustrating experience for me.
I feel the same but I rate it lower just for the fact of the HORRIBLE pc controls and ui, not to mention the horrible grindy feel of the game and fact they removed even more RPG staples from the game (attributes being tied to gear and powers...meh).
DAO 10/10
DA2 1/10
DAI 3-4/10
DA:O: 9/10
DA II: 5/10
DA:I: 7.5/10
DA:I, in my opinion, is a lot better than DA II, but parts of the game annoy me enough to deduct points. Mainly the limited skill system and lack of non-combat skills (or rather the way non-combat stuff was made into perks/crafting upgrades rather than skills), the restrictions on weapon skills/armors, level restricted gear, lack of customisation in regards to game mechanics (stat allocation) and the overly flashy combat.
In many ways it's a step in the right direction, however. Having actual exploration was nice, some story missions were absolutely brilliant, companions were largely better than previous titles.
DA:O: Without a doubt a 10/10 game imo.
DA:2: 7/10. The companions were good, I also liked the story. The score suffers most from re-used assets and a very short and poor act 3. Overall a good game.
DA:I: 8.5/10
- Main story too short.
- Character actions and dialogue has no roleplaying options:
Cant sympathize with Tevinter, support slavery, attempt to or actually join Corypheus, dialogue with main villain lacking, cant enter the black city, no true opposition after Skyhold, roleplaying a dark, evil or anti-hero denied - horrible roleplaying. Be who you want to be is a big lie. Cant disband the chantry, party members wont ever leave as advertised. Hinterlands and Emerald graves the only zones that feel alive. Most other zones are empty and lifeless sandboxes. No party members ever in danger. Skyhold never gets attacked. Game is too easy after Skyhold.
-Graphics are good. Combat is fun. Companions well written. Cinematics and overall feel is great. Crafting is fun and addictive. Overall quality of the game high.
DAI - 2/10, its all show and no go. Quantity without quality. Dragon age starts and ends with DAO. The sequels should be forgotten about and should start again after DAO, and make an actual sequel.
Wow so many great answers. I can see of your points. Glad to see so many people enjoying the new game
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10/10
Love the game. Just wish modding wasn't so annoying but that's another topic.
I'd give it a solid 8/10
I enjoy the game.
9/10
I won't even pretend that it's objective, but given the sustained entertainment all three games have brought me they're ALL 10/10 for me. Just like Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2 are. Any CRPG I play eight or nine times is worth the maximum score, even if it's not actually perfect. (Not that I've played DAI eight times yet, but I see no reason not to.)
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DA:O: 9.5/10
DA:2: 8/10
DA:I: 7/10
yep I'm a story and characters first kind of guy
and DA:I lacked in that department (way too many generic fetch quests, barely any story missions, huge lifeless areas etc.) maybe DLC will fix it still a solid game though
DA2 apart from the reused enviroments was awesome I never got the hate for it
Its still not as good as DA:O though
DA:O is the first DA game and still the best
its Bioware at its best (linear story and character games) great story with many choices along the way, great companions
great soundtrack, interesting side quests etc.
still like to replay it
Most of my gripes with Inquisition are techincal related. I enjoyed the story, but the first month my game crashed every two hours. I think it is an 8/10 with all the technical issues at release. I also dislike many of the new skills/combat system, but that is mostly personal preference. I don't think it is better than Origins, but it is damn close. I'm sad for DA:2 tho. I think it would of been better than Origins and Inquisition if it had the same development time of Inquisition.
Inquisition: 7/10.
2 points off for bugs and such of which there are a few.
1 point off for companions conversations. Of which some companions have very little unless you romance them. I have only done the Cullen romance but the amount of interaction there was fantastic - best yet of any bioware game.
DA:O: 9.5/10
DA:2: 8/10
DA:I: 7/10
yep I'm a story and characters first kind of guy
and DA:I lacked in that department (way too many generic fetch quests, barely any story missions, huge lifeless areas etc.) maybe DLC will fix it still a solid game though
DA2 apart from the reused enviroments was awesome I never got the hate for it
Its still not as good as DA:O though
DA:O is the first DA game and still the best
its Bioware at its best (linear story and character games) great story with many choices along the way, great companions
great soundtrack, interesting side quests etc.
still like to replay it
Yeah my scores would follow a similar pattern, with inquisition suffering the lowest score for exactly the reasons you state.
For a first run - 7/10
For a replay - 2/10
DAO 9/10 epic, good for replay.
DA2 7/10 good, with flaws. Replayable, thought gets repetitive.
DAI 5/10 meh. No replay value.
The general downward spiral comes from the dumping down of the game mechanics/features. In each spin mages, for example, have less abilities/spell trees. There is no character leveling anymore. Also the storyline gets more and more trivialized, there is no more feeling left in DAI. It just feels like general MMO hack´n slash, with flower and rock picking. What any good is there with the characters gets drowned in the pool of mediocrity and empty silent waste spaces (no interaction outside homebase).
That's A LOT of disappointed people man.
This is the longest development time Bioware has had with a game since DA:O. Yet they still came up short. The worst part of it is a lot of the biggest complaints towards the came, came from questionable design choices. I think it's pretty obvious that the developers thought More = Better.
For me
DA:O 8/10 - Its a Great game, but to this day still full of bugs and a nasty memory leak.. Modders helped somewhat
DA 2 3/10 - Terrible Story, terrible reuse of assets, great combat system, still buggy as well. As above with mods..
DA:I 5/10 - Very Pretty game, average story, marred by horrible combat, flat characters and romances, MMO feel, dumbed down console issues and still incredibly buggy months after release..
My personal opinions.
Origins: 9 (10 at a push), short and sweet: I picked this and DA2 up for £4 each while waiting for ME3: the game blew my mind.
DA2: 7/8, I love it, love the story, Hawke, the characters- but it has glaring issues. If it had of had as much development time as Inquisition I think it could have been better than DAI.
DAI: 8, I loved it upon release but it lacks something that the other two possess. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I just doesn't feel like I will come back to this one as much as I did to the other ones. It lacked the atmosphere of a demon invasion, I mean look at the names of those demons, I never once felt like they utilised their potential. I also think the open-world is large and hollow, the same issue I had with Skyrim. Luckily a few main quests were truly excellent, and as always the characters were too. The last boss sucked. Nightmare and level 17 on my second playthrough and I still whipped him easy. The finale in general was pretty underwhelming.
DAO 10. Still my favorite rpg to this day, Witcher is a close tie.
DA2 There was DA2? Cole must have made me forget. And i think that was a good thing.
DAI 6. I liked the story enough, and the music (when it actually played).
DAO had just the right amount of content for each of its areas. Sure its way smaller then DAI, but every encounter was worthwhile. DAI not so much.
DAI was big, and quite empty. I personally dont find reading one codex/scroll after another as content rich. Its hollow, and thats what i feel about DAI. There is very little interaction with anything in this DAI world. And filling a map up with a bunch of collection junk is not what i consider quality at all. Its just filler. That said, i still enjoy the story even if the ending was a bit lackluster.
Inquisition is a solid 8.5/10 for me.
DA:O and DA2 are 9/10 and 7/10, respectively.
DA:O 9/10 (after mods to fix the broken melee combat)
DA:2 7-8/10 (my biggest gripe are the recycled maps and the heavy handed story that falls apart before act 2 is over by requiring every character to act like an idiot but the characters are great and the combat is great, and sarcastic female Hawke is a hoot).
BUT, if I was rating DA:2 when it came out and before I installed mods to fix mages, I'd rate it a 6/10, maybe lower. It was a huge disappointment at the time.
DA:I 5/10 (It's pretty, but looks aren't enough).
The worst thing about the game was that you can spend over a hundred hours building you inquisition and it changes nothing. Bioware was always marketing you as this up and coming leader but you spend all this time building an army to battle Corypheus and then you never lead it anywhere. You apparently use the army at one point but you character does not lead it into battle no instead you see a short cutscenes with you advisor's and then next think you know you and some of your companions are walking into a camp that is the start of that mission. It was completely anti-climactic and weak. The same can be said for the ending which was pretty pathetic not to mention static. No choices you make change anything about the ending. It makes it hard to go back to invest another one hundred and twenty hours when I know it will all be that same thing.
You just summarized the ending for ME3.