I agree. The NPC mages in DA:O could be the bane of a warrior Warden's existence because of Misdirection Hex. Nothing comes close to being that dangerous in DA:I, IMO.
OMG that spell was the bane of my existence in DAO. Whenever I did not bring Alistair and his cleans area spell....
I thought it was ******* awesome.
I remember watching a pre alpha video and one of the devs that was dealing with combat said how if the enemy was sufering electric damage you shouldn't use grappling chain
they took that out form the final product it seems
Then perhaps they will add it in DA4, I hope they will.
I think that a game could benefit from more clever AI for enemies, all Dragon Age enemies have fairly limited and repetetive set of actions and they don't adapt. So I kind of feel that instead of focusing on what your character can do in the battle (and reinventing it over and over again) it would be far more interesting if the developers where focusing more on what the enemies can do to you.
Well, definitely enhancing enemy AI and abilities would be good. That's actually another plus for DA:O: DA:O is the only game in the series that had symmetrical combat where enemies had the same abilities as your characters, meaning they had a lot of dangerous stuff. It's not impossible to create the same experience for asymmetrical combat, but so far I haven't seen many successful examples.
What I would like to see in a combat system for a tactical fantasy RPG based on experience with many of these:
Completely my opinion. The game feels too long and consumes too much time with all that running around gathering materials you may never need plus the timers on the war table drag the fun down if you change the system clock or not (which you shouldn't be forced to begin with).
Somewhere after the middle of the game i was rather spent and wanted the game to end and after that horrible dissatisfiying endbattle it left a bad taste in my mouth. There was hardly any tension to the story and my character never felt like mine because of the lack of interesting choices. There was no stupid or selfish extra stuff to do like seducing elven girls or becoming a renowned thief. Also no immediate threat to your party like Mass Effect. Everything felt just too safe.
Yes it was a good game but not what i was hoping for.
I get really sick of people running the Origins nostalgia line. I played Origins again just before DAI released and it was as good on the 16th run as it was on any of the others. I enjoyed my last run of Origins far more than the first run of Inquisition despite knowing almost every line of dialogue off by heart. Even though DAI was new, it was nowhere near as engaging and I doubt I will bother to play it a second time; I will however, without doubt, play Origins again in future.
And I guess some people are just really adverse to change of any kind.
about character hate in DA2 i was angered because the characters never evolved, and the returning ones were completely ruined (Anders anyone?). The world could colapse, you can kill all of their beloved ones and they still act naive and useless, they didn't get hardened neither showed any other feature that was not into their unifacetic character script... i seriously saw a better job in fable2 spanish dubbing (and it was monotone) than in the entire DA2 script
Well I agree there. One thing that got me in DA2 that I could be a blood mage, slicing into my arms in the middle of the market and no one notices. At least in DAO Wynn comments on my use of blood magic.
Although in DAI, blood magic, which at one time was a central theme in the game, hardly gets a mention.
Well I agree there. One thing that got me in DA2 that I could be a blood mage, slicing into my arms in the middle of the market and no one notices. At least in DAO Wynn comments on my use of blood magic.
Although in DAI, blood magic, which at one time was a central theme in the game, hardly gets a mention.
Probably because the people who use it are either dead or in hiding. Its supposed to be a secret and forbidden dark magic, so it kinda makes sense that every mage you see isn't running around slitting their wrists.
it was on the brink of greatness. The issue is the unending, uninteresting fetch quests. They had such an opportunity here, and just missed the mark. The world is Big and Beautiful. The dragons are awesome. The lore is cool. They answered (DAO, DA2) questions are awesome, but they used so little of this awesome world to further advance the overall DA universe was a disappointment. Collect the shards, collect umpteen elfroots.... so close. They could have had it all but fell back on uninteresting MMO fetch quests. They were SO close to making a memorable game. Still, I've enjoyed my DAI time in Thedas.
Probably because the people who use it are either dead or in hiding. Its supposed to be a secret and forbidden dark magic, so it kinda makes sense that every mage you see isn't running around slitting their wrists.
Really I think its cause bloodmagic uses health for magic and was a sustained ability. No more sustains and because of the way health works i think is behind the reasoning why there is no BM spec.
Well I agree there. One thing that got me in DA2 that I could be a blood mage, slicing into my arms in the middle of the market and no one notices. At least in DAO Wynn comments on my use of blood magic.
Yeah, though it's funny how she can be a blood mage too XD. Unlocking it for Anders in Awakening is pretty amusing.
The game was alright, if I look past the irrelevant padding I found quite a lot of great moments in there. However, the way the story just fizzles towards the end means I probably won't revisit the game again. I don't think I've ever seen such a boring, cardboard cutout of a muahaha'ing villain that wasn't somehow a jingling set of keys cleverly stealing my attention for the moment when the real villain jumps out, much to the delight of everyone present.
I mean, it's not like Corypheus didn't have promise but they pretty much abandoned any character development or exploration of said character quite early on. Then they just had him repeatedly spill failure all over himself and his useless henchmen for the next insertdoubledigits hours. It was almost comedic when he kept monologuing in the final confrontation, as if he had somehow earned speaking in a way that would suggest that he was threatning. Then he died faster than some regular enemies. The end.
To me it feels like they focused so much on making everything look nice, shiny and big that they forgot to, or ran out of time to do quests.
It's ok, but nothing more. People keep excellent games, like DA:O, in good memory, but DA:I with all it's boring grind and fetch quests, has only very few memorable moments and will be forgotten in a few month.
It has superb scenery, but the game is boring. Still not done with it. Probably only half-way into it, and I am just indifferent to it. Feels like a book I have to force myself to read. The companions are great, though.
It's Bioware's best game in the past few years, but given how much of a trainwreck their last three games were, that's a low bar. DA:I suffers the most from it's lack of main story missions, and proper final battle. Otherwise it's a good game, but not great.
Also inb4 "Urrrr I love Mass Effect 3!"
I love the Baconater too. Doesn't mean it's good for you.
I don't mind if people don't agree with my views on Origins, what I object to is the assertion that preferring Origins over DAI is the product of nostalgia and not a legitimate preference.
When this pretence is used to diminish or as false propaganda on how suuperior origin was in respect of inquisition than it is rose tinted glass vision .
I get really sick of people running the Origins nostalgia line. I played Origins again just before DAI released and it was as good on the 16th run as it was on any of the others. I enjoyed my last run of Origins far more than the first run of Inquisition despite knowing almost every line of dialogue off by heart. Even though DAI was new, it was nowhere near as engaging and I doubt I will bother to play it a second time; I will however, without doubt, play Origins again in future.
I am in 100% agreement with this. The feeling of accomplishment and impact I get when I play Origins the emotional connection to my PC has never been equaled by any other game only ME2 comes close. Since I still play it to this day the word nostalgia does not even remotely fit within the context of comparison. I feel it is a term used to justify completely dismissing a differing opinion and all the points made by such opinions.
It's Bioware's best game in the past few years, but given how much of a trainwreck their last three games were, that's a low bar. DA:I suffers the most from it's lack of main story missions, and proper final battle. Otherwise it's a good game, but not great.
Also inb4 "Urrrr I love Mass Effect 3!"
I love the Baconater too. Doesn't mean it's good for you.
I love Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2.
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