Yeah, this is the feedback & suggestions forum. You can almost always expect it to consist mostly of complaints.
But when I think about it, perhaps if we'd focused more on the positive of the previous two games in the feedback forum, we might not have lost some of the things we DID like.
I was really excited for it to come out and bought all the hype. Built a monster of a computer that could handle anything just for this and now... I could care less.
Yep me too. I was very excited signed up for the Keep beta so I could try the save transfer stuff and followed half a dozen blogs as well as this site and now all I can say is I would rather have had DA2 with it's shortened quests and exhaustively reused areas than DAI.
I don't like it (DAI) and understand the disappointment of others who are not enjoying something they waited months or even years in anticipation of. I'm pleased for those who got what they wanted and are enjoying it, but it's simply not for me.
Anyone know of a good "What Dragon Age 4 might bring" blog?
Give it another go. Roll up a new character, make some different choices, and stay with the main quest only.
I hate Twilight, but it turns out that it's tolerable if you just reach the first chapter and the last page of final chapter. Therefore, Twilight is a masterpiece.
If you tell me that I need to skip 90-95% of the content of the game in order to enjoy it then there is something seriously wrong with the game.
I have seen this answer from a lot of people.
1. You don't have to do the whole story, and all the quests just do enough to finish the game, you can skip all the requisition stuff, and sell everything, except the Monster study items, all you need is enough power for the main quest.
I know they mean well, and they may be right, but I payed for an RPG game, and I intend to complete every thing in it at least once. To me anything less is not even playing the game, its just finishing it, which to me seems to leave it un-finished.
I like RPG because I have to explore, and figure out all sorts of things, and that is part of the fascination of an RPG for me, if I don't do all these thing's, then I might as well be playing an FPS. Moving from level to level until I beat the boss, just as fast as I can.
Just my opinion, and I know many who just want to see the end real quick will say it is wrong, and they fully intend to go back, and try everything else out latter. I just have never done RPG's in that fashion.
I think of it like a book, sure I could just read the first chapter, and then skip to the middle chapters, and then the last chapter, and Probably be okay, but I would rather not skip pages like that.
2. The Op has a point in that Many of the side quests do seem to be dis-jointed from the main quest, and I guess don't have to be done.
But I feel obligated to try and finish them all.
Call me a completist if you want, but I don't think that is a bad thing.
This is not only DA:I / Bioware. The same kind of posts also in other game forums. Mine opinion is that Bioware is on right track. No one can make games everyone likes. Open world games do require high end computers (PC) and even mine computer struggle somtimes with heat problems - the fans go crazy so after about 40 minutes game time I need to close game and wait a little. I tried to change graphics settings, but I'm not sure. I know that some games running 60 fps do create heat so 30 fps should be ok (at least for me).
Cheers,
-Klevs
Yep me too. I was very excited signed up for the Keep beta so I could try the save transfer stuff and followed half a dozen blogs as well as this site and now all I can say is I would rather have had DA2 with it's shortened quests and exhaustively reused areas than DAI.
I don't like it (DAI) and understand the disappointment of others who are not enjoying something they waited months or even years in anticipation of. I'm pleased for those who got what they wanted and are enjoying it, but it's simply not for me.
Anyone know of a good "What Dragon Age 4 might bring" blog?
not really. Once you get enough power for the first story mission. You never need to grind again
One thing that annoys me is that the Venatori never seemed like a real threat. The Inquisition keeps beating them and they never try and fight back. They don't even try to get their keeps back. You'd think they'd at least send some assassins after the Inquisitor or try to undermine he/her efforts. Corypheus has an entire army at his disposal and he rarely uses it. I spent so much time and effort upgrading Skyhold, thinking that it will be assaulted some time in the future. There was certainly some foreshadowing that this may happen. Apart from Haven, there was never a setback in the Inquisitions efforts. So when the final battle came along, it disappointed me on various levels. Everything went so smoothly it was entirely unrealistic. It was like a fairy tale ending. Afterwards I was like: "That's it?"
and this children, is why you stay grounded and don't let hype eat you up entirely.
Right, because gathering 4o points (by doing lame ass fetch quests) for 'what pride has wrought' is not grinding?
Closing fade rifts gives power quickly. Doing non- fetch quests too like deal with crestwood
Not only do the Venatori mot seem like a threat, after the first dragon nothing seems like much of a challenge.
I see where the OP is coming from. I feel like I got so side tracked by all the side quests, that I was starting to have anxiety attacks 
When I first heard that Bioware was indicating that they were influenced to some extent by Skyrim, my heart fell. Skyrim for me felt like a very buggy, aggrevating, souless, endless go-fetch-join-this-guild-is-there-even-a-main-story-here nightmare. I guess there are lots of poeple out there that like this kind of game. I am not one of them.
What keeps DA:I from totally falling into that mire, are the companions, and the fact that I know the lore and history. Having said that about the companions,
I have to say that I adore Cass and Cole (thought I would detest them) and the only companion quests I will do is Cullen, Cass, Cole, Dorian, Varric and Solas.
Don't care about IB, Sera, Blackwall, Leliana, or Josie at all - they have not engaged me and to be honest, that is a surprise. Maybe next play through as I really need to finish the game.
I finally decided to do the main quest only (after 120 hours). And next play through, I will need to play differently. Once I know the story, I will grind it out and eventually do all the side quests etc. It will keep me busy for a while - kind of like candy crush.
For my preference in games the main DAI story with several of the quests, romances, companions quests and banter = 10/10
With all the add ons which I find distracting and anxiety producing = 8/10
Still a great game overall
As has been mentioned before in reply to the "well, just don't do all the quests and only do what is necessary to beat the game," don't want to just read the first and last chapters of a book. I may know how it ends but I miss out on the real meat a flavor of the story by ignoring all the text and explanations in the pages between beginning to end.
This seems to me as if I'm being told that there's just not that much there between the tutorial sequence and the epilogue.
With small exceptions here and there I would have to agree. There's a little more story here than there was in the NES Duck Hunt game but sadly, not that much more.
Except, to even do that involves mindless power grinding..
Gain some money and than buy some influence from Farris(?) in Skyhold, if you have unlocked him with the War Table.
I see where the OP is coming from. I feel like I got so side tracked by all the side quests, that I was starting to have anxiety attacks
When I first heard that Bioware was indicating that they were influenced to some extent by Skyrim, my heart fell. Skyrim for me felt like a very buggy, aggrevating, souless, endless go-fetch-join-this-guild-is-there-even-a-main-story-here nightmare. I guess there are lots of poeple out there that like this kind of game. I am not one of them.
What keeps DA:I from totally falling into that mire, are the companions, and the fact that I know the lore and history. Having said that about the companions,
I have to say that I adore Cass and Cole (thought I would detest them) and the only companion quests I will do is Cullen, Cass, Cole, Dorian, Varric and Solas.
Don't care about IB, Sera, Blackwall, Leliana, or Josie at all - they have not engaged me and to be honest, that is a surprise. Maybe next play through as I really need to finish the game.
I finally decided to do the main quest only (after 120 hours). And next play through, I will need to play differently. Once I know the story, I will grind it out and eventually do all the side quests etc. It will keep me busy for a while - kind of like candy crush.
For my preference in games the main DAI story with several of the quests, romances, companions quests and banter = 10/10
With all the add ons which I find distracting and anxiety producing = 8/10
Still a great game overall
Honestly, Skyrim is only fun cause I have tons and I mean tons of mods installed... Without those mods I would never touch it again. They failed to see this and look what we got, No story in the areas except a few pages of notes... They should of made the zones slightly smaller and gave each of them a story. Plus our choices don't matter at all. After we do the quest, the choice doesn't matter. Sure we get some dialogue but... Why doesn't it impact anything. Depressing...
I'm feeling as if I were sent back in time to the first Doom or Wolfenstein and having to click on every stone in the wall for loot. At least it was something new back then.
i kind of agree... im a really big fan of dragon age like many of you and somehow im disapointed... the main story feel really short... feel like i was in a single player mmo... never tought i would say that... but even dragon age 2 was better since its still felt like it was a story... its what i like the most about the dragon age universe.. the amazing story, but with the endless side quest and almost no cinematographic discussion i felt like i was not playing the story but it feel like i was watching someone else play....i was hoping for more... im sorry... dont get me wrong and dont hate me .... i like it... but its not what i was hopping for... ''an incredible story'' back to what it was in origin... anyway, if its the direction bioware is going for dragon age, i might not buy the next one.... not because its arent good, but just because its not what im looking for
Evelane, It really doesn't seem like a Dragon Age except for a few names and carryovers but the short storyline is a far cry from what Bioware has proven itself capable of in previous titles.
I finished DA:O twice in a row, same holds for DA2. I enjoyed my 1st DA:I playthrough, started a 2nd one, but after reaching skyhold i am like "meh i don't care anymore". Story quests are cool, but the open world is just no fun for me, zero replay value.
I don't see myself ever doing a replay on DAI if I even decide to go back and finish it. Two reasons for that:
1. I just don't care that much about the story and control system for the PC.
2. I'm concerned about the stress placed on my system. It's liquid cooled, six case fans, eight core and the usage and temps fluctuate so wildly and close to limits that the constant expansion and contraction of certain parts cannot be good and only lead to early part failure.
I don't think you have to worry about overstressing your system. Computers are meant to compute, and the game seems pretty well optimized to me, runs fine on my medicore rig (high graphic settings)
I'm the same. Finished the campaign three days ago. Started a new playthrough as a Mage the day after and got past the prologue and half way through the Hinterlands. Yesterday it was up but I ended up tabbing out. Today I couldn't even be bothered loading the game. You know the writing has failed when the forums are more interesting than the game.
I've been building them for over 30 years and you are right that they are indeed meant to compute but just like the tungsten element of an incandescent lightbulb it is repetitive expansion and contraction of the metal that causes failure. I monitor 8 different points in my box on another screen while I play and have never seen temps rollercoaster as they do in this game even using military spec'd parts wherever I can.
One of the big things that urks me as far as this "open world" is why in the heck do enemies respawn??
I mean the whole point of going into these areas is to clean em up and make em safe for the people right? Then how come ever time i kill some bandits that are attacking people, they pop right back up 5 mins later?? How is that cleaning the place up and making it safe?!?! Ugh...lol
That is one of the biggest problems of this game for me. I mean enemies seems to level up as I do, so grinding for more levels doesn't seem to even benefit much, so what is the point of even fighting anything when they just respawn all the time.
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