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[brad2240]

Yes, it is sad. People these days complain about co-op being announced for stabilished franchises like Dragon Age, but we must remember that bioware was known for making great games with co-op and great storytelling. After all, what is RPG if not a game that encourages cooperation? But when people spoke here about adding co-op to Dragon Age, a lot of people said NO, which is odd.  

 

I think a lot of people just want a good single player game, without a tacked-on multiplayer being forced on us. Especially when it's an established single-player, story-driven franchise like DA or ME. The gaming world is all about online multiplayer gaming now, but it's still good to be able to sit back and relax with a good game by yourself.

 

There's also the perception (true or not) that the resources devoted to making a MP game could have gone into more content and improvements for the SP side. So sometimes it feels like we single players are being ripped off, like things are being taken away from us in games that were originally designed for us.

 

Having said all that, I'm a big fan of the ME 3 multiplayer. I was against it at first but I fell in love with ME 3's combat and the MP gave me plenty more of it. But Bioware shot themselves in the foot when they said MP would have no effect on SP and that turned out to not be the case upon release. I could see where that might have colored people's perceptions about adding MP to Dragon Age.

 

Also, BW being "known for making great games with co-op and great storytelling" is true... but neither of those were really present in ME 3 MP. There's absolutely no story to speak of and, IMO, the game didn't do enough to force players to cooperate on team objectives. In almost every match there was at least one person that refused to do the co-op objectives and made it harder on the rest of us. So I would say that adding MP to these franchises is BW getting away from what made them great in the first place, not going back to it.

 

But they did do a great job of making a very fun MP experience with ME 3. I've also started playing SWTOR thanks to some friends and I'm enjoying that so far too. I can't speak about DAMP, I haven't played it and don't intend to after the issues I've had with the SP game.

[rak72]

I played the multi-player - it's BORING.  Not even facebook worthy.

[TheOgre]

MP is actually pretty fun if you make some friends on there. Perilous runs are pretty funny or glorious when you kill demon commander.

[Abyss108]

Buggy FB3 engine, very questionable lack of character customization (hairstyles specifically), terrible up close conversations, and hack and slash, dumbed down AI..

 

Between BG and Origins, which is closer to BG because of the combat, I do not see how you could like inquisition as they are a night and day difference.

 

But it's just an opinion I have that this makes no sense.

 

- buggy - yep, can't disagree with that. Never affected me in a big way though. Had 1 crash, and a few graphical glitches so no big deal. I know others have had it worse, but it's been fine for me.

 

- customization - I think it's great except the hair. Best character creator yet, lots of nice customizable armour, and I finally don't have to wear robes just because I'm a mage. Hair options aren't great, but I don't like any of the ones from Origins either. So no loss there for me. 

 

- up close conversations - I think you mean how some of the conversations just use the normal camera? Fine by me. They were all minor conversations where nothing was happening. If major cutscenes were like that, I'd complain, but I don't need a closeup when Solas is describing the fade, or Varric is telling me about Hawke. They're just having a normal conversation, there's nothing to see. There are plenty that are fully animated, and they look much better than the ones in Origins. The ones without the closeup camera are just little extras.

 

- hack and slash - Disagree. I played on Nightmare with the tactical camera in most battles, there was no "hack and slash". Controls were pretty bad here, but I honestly don't pay a lot of attention to controls whilst I'm playing, I get used to them. I honestly don't understand people who think BG or Origins had more tactics though. You can beat BG by summoning an army of monsters to take hits for you, cast some form of Dispel on the enemy, and then hit them a lot. Or in any fight without arrows, just have one character run around the enemy in a circle, whilst the others attack. BG is ridiculously easy. Origins is just too slow for me. Just the way things move, and the animations, it all takes forever for anything to happen. There's absolutely no reason for things to be so slow in a game I can pause at any time.

 

Inquisition was a lot more fun for me, because it's quicker. I like the abilities in the game (though I pretty much play with an all mage team, so dunno what the other classes are like). I used more tactics than I did in BG, and paid attention to timing my spells right, and combining my different mages for the most damage. Until I became a Knight Enchanter anyway! Then I pretty much solo'd the rest of the game. 

 

Also a lot of why I prefer Inquisition is the plot/characters. I hated the plot of Origins. Stop the army of evil monsters, which I didn't even have any reason to care about. Why wouldn't I just leave the country? My character had been locked in a tower her entire life (mage), so it wasn't like she would have any reason to care. It was really hard for me to get into the story when I had no idea why I was hanging around. Didn't really like many of the characters either. Inquisition did a much better job with plot/characters for me.

 

I also thought the UI in Inquisition was LESS bad than Origins (they are both awful though). Specifically, I mean the inventory. I hate the list format, but in origins everything was TINY on my screen. Inquisition had nice pretty 3D models at least.

 

And then there are other factors, like the music and graphics which are better in Inquisition. 

 

So lot's of reasons I prefer Inquisition!

[brad2240]

Also a lot of why I prefer Inquisition is the plot/characters. I hated the plot of Origins. Stop the army of evil monsters, which I didn't even have any reason to care about. Why wouldn't I just leave the country? My character had been locked in a tower her entire life (mage), so it wasn't like she would have any reason to care. It was really hard for me to get into the story when I had no idea why I was hanging around. Didn't really like many of the characters either. Inquisition did a much better job with plot/characters for me.

 

 

But the exact same thing can be said about DA:I. I'm not saying that to assert that DA:O is better but that both games are pretty much the same in that regard. In both cases circumstances force you, the PC, to participate whether you want to or not. If you want to be a good guy you do it because it's the right thing to do; if you're more selfish you do it because it's the best chance you have to survive the villains hunting you. Either way, you're stuck. I think both games even briefly address the issue of just packing up and leaving and point out that's it's not an option. 

 

I personally felt much less reason to care in DA:I. Here I am with a character I know nothing about, a single text of bare minimal background giving me only the thinnest of reasons to be at the center of this earth-shaking event. And the "villain" is a hole in the sky. This was by far the least engaging intro of the trilogy, and it leads to a very anti-climatic reveal of what really happened that makes the game's actual villain look like a buffoon and my Inquisitor look like just a sucker that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

Origins, on the other hand, gave me some background into who my character was before, gave me a good feeling of being part of something larger that was heroic but maybe dark and dangerous at the same time. The Wardens, personified by Duncan, were something I really wanted to dig into and know more about. And then it was all taken away by the game's real villain, Loghain. Loghain really felt like an understandable, relatable antagonist, a real person with his own motivations who (shock and horror!) was not a puppet of the Big Bad. He betrayed me, left me to die, then put a bounty on me. It was personal. And I wanted to end it!

 

It was never personal with Corypheus. It was... an accident. The entire plot hinges on the fact that Cory was too stupid to put a guard at the door. It never engaged me, it never angered me, I wasn't looking forward to the villain's ultimate defeat at my hands. I didn't so much want to end it as I just wanted it to end.

[Spectre Impersonator]

Origins Bioware's best game? Hell no. It isn't even in the league of the Mass Effect series. Gaider is a sloppy writer tbh, and his "original" dark fantasy world is not remotely original.

 

That said, it's way better than this disjointed mess called Inquisition.

[Abyss108]

But the exact same thing can be said about DA:I. I'm not saying that to assert that DA:O is better but that both games are pretty much the same in that regard. In both cases circumstances force you, the PC, to participate whether you want to or not. If you want to be a good guy you do it because it's the right thing to do; if you're more selfish you do it because it's the best chance you have to survive the villains hunting you. Either way, you're stuck. I think both games even briefly address the issue of just packing up and leaving and point out that's it's not an option. 

 

I personally felt much less reason to care in DA:I. Here I am with a character I know nothing about, a single text of bare minimal background giving me only the thinnest of reasons to be at the center of this earth-shaking event. And the "villain" is a hole in the sky. This was by far the least engaging intro of the trilogy, and it leads to a very anti-climatic reveal of what really happened that makes the game's actual villain look like a buffoon and my Inquisitor look like just a sucker that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

Origins, on the other hand, gave me some background into who my character was before, gave me a good feeling of being part of something larger that was heroic but maybe dark and dangerous at the same time. The Wardens, personified by Duncan, were something I really wanted to dig into and know more about. And then it was all taken away by the game's real villain, Loghain. Loghain really felt like an understandable, relatable antagonist, a real person with his own motivations who (shock and horror!) was not a puppet of the Big Bad. He betrayed me, left me to die, then put a bounty on me. It was personal. And I wanted to end it!

 

It was never personal with Corypheus. It was... an accident. The entire plot hinges on the fact that Cory was too stupid to put a guard at the door. It never engaged me, it never angered me, I wasn't looking forward to the villain's ultimate defeat at my hands. I didn't so much want to end it as I just wanted it to end.

 

Yep, they both force you to take part (obviously they have to, or there would be no game!). But, for me, Inquisition did a much better job of making me care. The mark is killing you when you first wake up, and everyone thinks you killed the Divine. No matter what type of character you play, your survival depends on you taking part. When you first join the inquisition, Cassandra/Leiliana says they can protect you from the chantry. Even if my survival didn't depend on it, I have a green glowing painful shiny mark on my hand. Seems like a good idea to investigate that, and the inquisition gives you the power to do that! 

 

I like the fact that my character just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time!

 

I hated the Wardens and had no feelings whatsoever on Duncan. He just walked in at the end of my origin and said "yup, you're coming with me" and then forced me to drink blood and died. At which point, I had no reason to stick around. Loghain, I just hated. Guy was a moron. He's the kings best advisor or something, who Cailan completely trusts, and he couldn't think of a way to poison/assassinate him without getting the entire army killed too? Ugh.

 

Cory wasn't a great villain (actually, I really like him at Haven, he just gets worse and worse as the game goes on). But I cared enough about the characters, and the lore, and the rest of the plot that it didn't really matter. 

 

Inquisition is in joint first place for best opening for me along with BG2.

[AresKeith]

Origins Bioware's best game? Hell no. It isn't even in the league of the Mass Effect series. Gaider is a sloppy writer tbh, and his "original" dark fantasy world is not remotely original.

 

That said, it's way better than this disjointed mess called Inquisition.

 

This guy lol

[Spectre Impersonator]

This guy lol

This game lol:

[sunnydxmen]

origins is over already in i prefer dai over dao it is simply a matter of tastes.

[brad2240]

Yep, they both force you to take part (obviously they have to, or there would be no game!). But, for me, Inquisition did a much better job of making me care. The mark is killing you when you first wake up, and everyone thinks you killed the Divine. No matter what type of character you play, your survival depends on you taking part. When you first join the inquisition, Cassandra/Leiliana says they can protect you from the chantry. Even if my survival didn't depend on it, I have a green glowing painful shiny mark on my hand. Seems like a good idea to investigate that, and the inquisition gives you the power to do that! 

 

I like the fact that my character just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time!

 

I hated the Wardens and had no feelings whatsoever on Duncan. He just walked in at the end of my origin and said "yup, you're coming with me" and then forced me to drink blood and died. At which point, I had no reason to stick around. Loghain, I just hated. Guy was a moron. He's the kings best advisor or something, who Cailan completely trusts, and he couldn't think of a way to poison/assassinate him without getting the entire army killed too? Ugh.

 

Cory wasn't a great villain (actually, I really like him at Haven, he just gets worse and worse as the game goes on). But I cared enough about the characters, and the lore, and the rest of the plot that it didn't really matter. 

 

Inquisition is in joint first place for best opening for me along with BG2.

 

Interesting views on Origins. You seem to feel about it the way I feel about Inquisition. If I'd had that experience with DA:O I highly doubt I would have tried any other games in the franchise.

 

Out of curiosity, what's your feelings on DA 2?
 

[Rawgrim]

Origins Bioware's best game? Hell no. It isn't even in the league of the Mass Effect series. Gaider is a sloppy writer tbh, and his "original" dark fantasy world is not remotely original.

 

That said, it's way better than this disjointed mess called Inquisition.

 

A story is the sum of all its parts. he ME ending alone puts ME at the very bottom of the foodchain by itself. Add to the fact that it utterly nullifies ME2, we are pretty much down to ME1 + 3 + the rotten ending. Nothing you did in ME2 mattered at all in the end, and ME 3 pretty much just handwaved the game away.

 

If DA is a mess, which it is, ME is even worse. And this is coming from someone who likes ME.

[Rawgrim]

Yep, they both force you to take part (obviously they have to, or there would be no game!). But, for me, Inquisition did a much better job of making me care. The mark is killing you when you first wake up, and everyone thinks you killed the Divine. No matter what type of character you play, your survival depends on you taking part. When you first join the inquisition, Cassandra/Leiliana says they can protect you from the chantry. Even if my survival didn't depend on it, I have a green glowing painful shiny mark on my hand. Seems like a good idea to investigate that, and the inquisition gives you the power to do that! 

 

I like the fact that my character just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time!

 

I hated the Wardens and had no feelings whatsoever on Duncan. He just walked in at the end of my origin and said "yup, you're coming with me" and then forced me to drink blood and died. At which point, I had no reason to stick around. Loghain, I just hated. Guy was a moron. He's the kings best advisor or something, who Cailan completely trusts, and he couldn't think of a way to poison/assassinate him without getting the entire army killed too? Ugh.

 

Cory wasn't a great villain (actually, I really like him at Haven, he just gets worse and worse as the game goes on). But I cared enough about the characters, and the lore, and the rest of the plot that it didn't really matter. 

 

Inquisition is in joint first place for best opening for me along with BG2.

 

Loghain hadn't planned on killing Cailan for a long time. He made that desicion while at Ostagar, when he found out Cailan had "betrayed Ferelden" by allying with the Orlesians.

[mutantspicy]

- buggy - yep, can't disagree with that. Never affected me in a big way though. Had 1 crash, and a few graphical glitches so no big deal. I know others have had it worse, but it's been fine for me.

 

- customization - I think it's great except the hair. Best character creator yet, lots of nice customizable armour, and I finally don't have to wear robes just because I'm a mage. Hair options aren't great, but I don't like any of the ones from Origins either. So no loss there for me. 

 

- up close conversations - I think you mean how some of the conversations just use the normal camera? Fine by me. They were all minor conversations where nothing was happening. If major cutscenes were like that, I'd complain, but I don't need a closeup when Solas is describing the fade, or Varric is telling me about Hawke. They're just having a normal conversation, there's nothing to see. There are plenty that are fully animated, and they look much better than the ones in Origins. The ones without the closeup camera are just little extras.

 

- hack and slash - Disagree. I played on Nightmare with the tactical camera in most battles, there was no "hack and slash". Controls were pretty bad here, but I honestly don't pay a lot of attention to controls whilst I'm playing, I get used to them. I honestly don't understand people who think BG or Origins had more tactics though. You can beat BG by summoning an army of monsters to take hits for you, cast some form of Dispel on the enemy, and then hit them a lot. Or in any fight without arrows, just have one character run around the enemy in a circle, whilst the others attack. BG is ridiculously easy. Origins is just too slow for me. Just the way things move, and the animations, it all takes forever for anything to happen. There's absolutely no reason for things to be so slow in a game I can pause at any time.

 

Inquisition was a lot more fun for me, because it's quicker. I like the abilities in the game (though I pretty much play with an all mage team, so dunno what the other classes are like). I used more tactics than I did in BG, and paid attention to timing my spells right, and combining my different mages for the most damage. Until I became a Knight Enchanter anyway! Then I pretty much solo'd the rest of the game. 

 

Also a lot of why I prefer Inquisition is the plot/characters. I hated the plot of Origins. Stop the army of evil monsters, which I didn't even have any reason to care about. Why wouldn't I just leave the country? My character had been locked in a tower her entire life (mage), so it wasn't like she would have any reason to care. It was really hard for me to get into the story when I had no idea why I was hanging around. Didn't really like many of the characters either. Inquisition did a much better job with plot/characters for me.

 

I also thought the UI in Inquisition was LESS bad than Origins (they are both awful though). Specifically, I mean the inventory. I hate the list format, but in origins everything was TINY on my screen. Inquisition had nice pretty 3D models at least.

 

And then there are other factors, like the music and graphics which are better in Inquisition. 

 

So lot's of reasons I prefer Inquisition!

I feel very similarly.  Regardless of many other issues, I felt like I was able to Role Play a character moreso than any other DA game.  And share your feelings on tactics.  To me just because a game like origins is slower and forces dated rules upon you doesn't make it more tactical.  

 

My biggest issues lie in the changes to the magic schools, they don't make sense lore wise.  And Cory the clown was not a worthy adversary. 

[TobyJake]

Interesting! I play Origin with 80+ mods. So definitely not vanilla!

But if you try and compare Inquisition to Origin (modded) it is no contest!

1. I have hair!!

2. Makeup

3. There were\are some amazing modders on BSN and Nexus.

4. The Origin I played had no resemblance to vanilla Bioware.

5. 50 buttons on my toolbar, a chest in camp, dozens of runes. Plus the Winterforge

6. City Elf, Dalish Elf, Human, Mage, Dwarf Noble, Dwarf common.

7. Mods give you the game you want to play, not the one that Lee or Laidlaw say you must have!

8. Inquisition is not WoW and has the chance of a snowball in hell of competing with WoW.

Maybe they plan to make a MMORPG, but with their handling of the delivery and updating of DAI I do not see any success coming their way. Very few companies make a success of online gaming. It takes huge resources AND A SUPPORT STAFF that communicates!!

[Abyss108]

Interesting views on Origins. You seem to feel about it the way I feel about Inquisition. If I'd had that experience with DA:O I highly doubt I would have tried any other games in the franchise.

 

Out of curiosity, what's your feelings on DA 2?
 

 

The post probably makes me seem more negative about Origins then I actually was... I did enjoy it at the time, just wasn't a big fan of the main plotline.  The gameplay issues I only noticed on my second playthrough. I do like the game, just like BG/Inquisition a lot more.

 

DA2: Hate it. I honestly can't play it. I just put it on easy mode, so I could steamroll everything. And then used cheatcodes to kill everything. I didn't even buy the game, I played on someone else's copy just to see what would happen. I was interested in the world/lore from Origins, so I didn't want to miss anything, but couldn't bring myself to play with no tactical mode. The characters are all awful people, but I like a lot of the basic ideas behind them/the plot. I think it could have been good if they had some time to work on it and fixed the gameplay.

 

[Abyss108]

Loghain hadn't planned on killing Cailan for a long time. He made that desicion while at Ostagar, when he found out Cailan had "betrayed Ferelden" by allying with the Orlesians.

 

Still doesn't mean he had to do it right at that second and get the entire army killed in the middle of a war. Just slip him some poison during the victory feast or hire an assassin or something. Killing Cailan is fine (I disagree, but can see why he thinks it might be necessary), murdering all the people giving their lives to fight the darkspawn and defend their country, no - Not if there's another way.

[Saphiron123]

DAO, Baldurs Gate, Never winter knights, , etc. those games were all great.

 

Back then, games were more for PC and today, more for consoles and controllers.

 

Bioware has to make money, so they went the console route.

 

Will I run out and buy an XBox One or PS4? No.

 

 

How do you make more money today?

 

- more hack and slash

- quicker, simpler, easier with some challenges

- better graphics, eye candy

- better music and sound effects

- longer cut scenes

- cater to the XBox One and PS4 crowds.

I'd like longer cutscenes, I love the cinematic storytelling. I don't play dragon age to play skyrim... I have skyrim for that. Sadly there are few cutscenes in this game, and little character interaction scenes.

Doesn't feel like a dragon age game.

[Rawgrim]

Here is a fun, but also very sad fact. Fifa 15 - the number 1 mainstream sports game. The career mode in that one has more options when it comes to character creation, skills, "level up", than DA:I. It also gives the player more control over his own character's development.

 

 

Something is seriously wrong when a basic soccer game offers more complexity than a roleplaying game.

[Rawgrim]

Still doesn't mean he had to do it right at that second and get the entire army killed in the middle of a war. Just slip him some poison during the victory feast or hire an assassin or something. Killing Cailan is fine (I disagree, but can see why he thinks it might be necessary), murdering all the people giving their lives to fight the darkspawn and defend their country, no - Not if there's another way.

 

He needed Ferelden to have an enemy, so people would flock to his side. No need to do that if it was "just the king" dying. The loss of an army at Ostagar had people flocking to his side.

[Fredward]

Honestly? I'm feeling much, much, MUCH more nostalgic for DA2. I can't even remember the last time I thought of DAO. I liked it, don't get me wrong, but it was a very standard kind of fantasy game. Very prototypical. I get all shivery when I imagine what DA2, with it's tighter scope and lack of 'I'M THE WORLD'S ONLY HOPE WHEEEE!' thing would have been like with DAIs resources and time.

[Il Divo]

He needed Ferelden to have an enemy, so people would flock to his side. No need to do that if it was "just the king" dying. The loss of an army at Ostagar had people flocking to his side.

 

An enemy like the Darkspawn? There is absolutely no sensible reason to waste those resources. Ferelden was committed against the Blight as it was, considering the King himself was willing to lead an army into battle, even without an Archdemon being seen.

[TheOgre]

- buggy - yep, can't disagree with that. Never affected me in a big way though. Had 1 crash, and a few graphical glitches so no big deal. I know others have had it worse, but it's been fine for me.

 

- customization - I think it's great except the hair. Best character creator yet, lots of nice customizable armour, and I finally don't have to wear robes just because I'm a mage. Hair options aren't great, but I don't like any of the ones from Origins either. So no loss there for me. 

 

- up close conversations - I think you mean how some of the conversations just use the normal camera? Fine by me. They were all minor conversations where nothing was happening. If major cutscenes were like that, I'd complain, but I don't need a closeup when Solas is describing the fade, or Varric is telling me about Hawke. They're just having a normal conversation, there's nothing to see. There are plenty that are fully animated, and they look much better than the ones in Origins. The ones without the closeup camera are just little extras.

 

- hack and slash - Disagree. I played on Nightmare with the tactical camera in most battles, there was no "hack and slash". Controls were pretty bad here, but I honestly don't pay a lot of attention to controls whilst I'm playing, I get used to them. I honestly don't understand people who think BG or Origins had more tactics though. You can beat BG by summoning an army of monsters to take hits for you, cast some form of Dispel on the enemy, and then hit them a lot. Or in any fight without arrows, just have one character run around the enemy in a circle, whilst the others attack. BG is ridiculously easy. Origins is just too slow for me. Just the way things move, and the animations, it all takes forever for anything to happen. There's absolutely no reason for things to be so slow in a game I can pause at any time.

 

Inquisition was a lot more fun for me, because it's quicker. I like the abilities in the game (though I pretty much play with an all mage team, so dunno what the other classes are like). I used more tactics than I did in BG, and paid attention to timing my spells right, and combining my different mages for the most damage. Until I became a Knight Enchanter anyway! Then I pretty much solo'd the rest of the game. 

 

Also a lot of why I prefer Inquisition is the plot/characters. I hated the plot of Origins. Stop the army of evil monsters, which I didn't even have any reason to care about. Why wouldn't I just leave the country? My character had been locked in a tower her entire life (mage), so it wasn't like she would have any reason to care. It was really hard for me to get into the story when I had no idea why I was hanging around. Didn't really like many of the characters either. Inquisition did a much better job with plot/characters for me.

 

I also thought the UI in Inquisition was LESS bad than Origins (they are both awful though). Specifically, I mean the inventory. I hate the list format, but in origins everything was TINY on my screen. Inquisition had nice pretty 3D models at least.

 

And then there are other factors, like the music and graphics which are better in Inquisition. 

 

So lot's of reasons I prefer Inquisition!

 

I will first say that people have their preferences, but I still am not sure if you know what I meant by some of these things that I listed.

 

zoom in to conversations, did not like that. I liked being in short dialogue conversations. I don't like the way the camera focused on the npc, when I am on a different character like varric for example, and my character, who isn't near the npc, talks as if he is within whisper range of the target. The current dialogue for quest npcs or npcs that aren't in cutscenes are lazy and I feel it was an attempt to bandage how buggy FB3 cutscenes are by having the awkward zoom in.

 

Hack and Slash - The tactical zoom! WHY IS IT SO SHORT? I can't even see all of my units. If I used a third and illegal party program to fix this I'd be much happier with it but no, I cannot break the ToS. That's the ONLY way to eliminate the hack and slash feel of the game. You cannot tell me holding down a button to auto attack is appealing? Because it isn't for me. But that's just me! I don't know how anyone can enjoy seeing you legolas staff attacks as if it were a bow. Spells in this game are short of meaningless aside from your frost and barrier skills. You are better served with still playing the support role mage while hack and slashing with your staff while your too low on mana to cast anything else. Have you tried playing reaver yet? Hold dragon rage down for your 4-5k critical strikes. Granted, you do lose health per swing, but if you are smart about using the %health lost ability you will be fine. The combat is closer to a devil may cry than a role playing game setting and I don't see how I can possibly be wrong about that, all it lacks is the style points feature. 

 

Plot, your character is a generic build with no real origin or prologue feature. I already said this too I'm sure but you don't have anything negative happen to you aside from being cursed with the "must save the world from a generic villain". In origins, you had more diverse backgrounds to draw from for your hero of ferelden. Dwarf commoner or dwarf royalty each had their own rough start which came back to haunt Harrowmont or Bhelen when they become king. I had absolutely NO connection with my character. He just seemed to do everything the right way. It felt like my character was pulled from Bleach the manga, always the solution to the problem. In origins, you had to depend far more on your counterparts for how the game would end. Aside from more interesting dialogue choices and party banter, I'd hazard the only truly necessary character to the story was Solas, and maybe Cassandra for starting the Inquisition. That's it!

 

That being said, I only have my opinions, and I felt DA:I wasn't as good as O or 2 for that matter, still fun.

[Rawgrim]

An enemy like the Darkspawn? There is absolutely no sensible reason to waste those resources. Ferelden was committed against the Blight as it was, considering the King himself was willing to lead an army into battle, even without an Archdemon being seen.

 

That changed when Loghain found out Cailan had allied with the Orlesians.

[brad2240]

The post probably makes me seem more negative about Origins then I actually was...

 

Guilty of the same about DA:I. I actually like Inquisition, there's more I want to do in it and builds I want to try out, but I just can't seem to get through a second playthrough. And I can't deny this is the first BW game where that has been an issue.

 

I like DA 2, more than most apparently. I like the Hawke and I like the his story, but yeah it could have been better.