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[Lord Raijin]

This game isn't bad but it's also not good either. The only thing that has improved is the environment all thanks to the Frostbite 3 engine.

 

You really don't have much of freedom in this game other than to become everyone’s favorite inquisitor errand boy (Fetch this and fetch that... go put flowers on my dead love ones grave, go kill certain numbers of animals to feed the villages, etc) to gain power points, which you're obligated to do it because you need a certain amount of points to initiate the main quest line at the war table. During peaceful hours you can go into the tavern, but you can't sit down on any of the empty chairs or request the bard to sing another song of your choice. It's all automatic, and not in your control. In the Chantry you cant pray or ask one of the sisters/mothers to bless you. You're unable to sleep in your own bed, and you're unable to walk; you're set to run and run only. What is the point of giving this game the title of RPG when you do not have the freedom? Didn't Bioware learn anything from the Elders Scrolls Skyrim, and why the game is overly successful? Skyrim isn't successful just because of the open world. Its successful because it gives the players freedom. Oh and theirs no brothels to go to like you could in the previous games (Origins The Peal DA2 The Blooming Rose). What a shame! I also find it highly annoying that you have wild animals in the game yet the only thing you can take off of them are their pelts. Why can't I take their meat, and cook it? Why is their no cooking in this game?

 

I'm disappointed in the design of clothing that is in the game. As a mage only player it seems as if I have no other choice but to wear nothing but cowboy outfits with cowboy hats, which is glitched up to the bone. The venatori Spellbinder's has way better clothing than my inquisitor. I really like how Bioware forced my character to wear pajamas's in my castle in Skyhold. I am suppose to be this important person that everyone looks up to yet I “run” around the castle like a headless chicken wearing this ridiculous tan like pajamas while everyone else is appropriately dressed. I never felt so embarrassed inside of a game before, especially when my Inquisitor finally meet up with famously known Kirkwall champion, and hero...Hawke, in my infamous tan pajamas non of the less! Why couldn't we engage in dialogue with “Please end my endless suffering!”.. and then the murder knife given to us from our Hawkes as an act of mercy. I am even force to wear this undergarment while I'm judging people. It's nothing but pretentious nonsense. Shame on Bioware for presenting this to us!

 

The story seems cheesy. Bioware took a villain from a DLC (Legacy) in DA2, and then used him as the main villain in Inquisition. I'm sorry but that is just lame and ridiculous. I'm forced to side with either Templar's or Mages (sight.... again!) to advanced in the main story. I was not able to choose both through negotiation from both parties. I'm getting rather sick of having to pick sides all the time. When will we have the ultimate freedom to have a neutral political stance between the situation of the Templar's and the Mages, and that instead of choosing one... why not choose both?

 

The crafting in this game is ok, but don't expect to depend on making a living off of selling off your T2 T3 custom made armor and weapons because you'll only get 5 gold no matter how powerful it is.

 

As a PC player I simply cannot see the validation of peoples complaints about the poor controls with the keyboard and a mouse, and accusing this game to be a console port. I've purchased a 50 dollar Xbox ONE controller plus a 13 foot USB port cord, and couldn't believe how bad it was. To this day the Xbox ONE controller is resting on my computer desk reminding me that consoles controls are just flat out crap, and that PC gaming is the way to go. I found nothing wrong with the PC controls in this game.

 

The muliplayer feature is a total failure at best. F minus minus minus and go on. I am unable to choose any other character but an elf mage. Perhaps the game would have been a lot better if Bioware focus on the actual game, and not turn it into a boring MMO.

 

On the positive side I find the humor in this game to be in my likings. I've laughed several times during my game play from the dialogue (Especially with Cassandra and Varric). I hope Bioware continues to add humor in the Dragon Age series.

 

1 out of 10 ratings I give this game a solid 4.

[C0uncil0rTev0s]

Well I'd say MP isn't a complete failure. In fact it is the best part in the game from the gameplay mechanics point of view, it's copied but at least it is working. Nugged, unbalanced, but it is working as it was intended.

 

Single player doesn't work the way it was intended as both battles and plot are broken.

[atlantico]

Good review, thanks. There's one thing that came to mind when I read it, and you mentioned that crafting items to sell was not a good way to make a living, it occurred to me that well, there is hardly any reason for money in this game. You don't need it to fund the Inquisition, that's taken care of, weapons and armor you either find or craft yourself, potions are free ... I'm just swimming in gold usually and have nothing to do with it. 

 

It's kind of silly. 

[Yosharian]

I found nothing wrong with the PC controls in this game.

You can't be serious.  Even if you didn't mind the controls, to say there's 'nothing wrong' with them is a complete joke.  If there was 'nothing wrong' with the controls, we wouldn't have had changes to the controls in the first major patch, and (admittedly vague) promises to overhaul the tactical camera and other control issues in the following one.

 

Sorry but your review completely lacks authenticity with this statement.

[fchopin]

I find it a little strange that you played the game for 220 hours and only give it a 4, if you gave the game a 6 or 7 I may have understood better why you played for 220 hours.

[C0uncil0rTev0s]

I find it a little strange that you played the game for 220 hours and only give it a 4, if you gave the game a 6 or 7 I may have understood better why you played for 220 hours.

Some people like to suffer. Since I've had like 130 hrs I can count myself in.

[jeetkunelo]

Thoughtful and honest review.  Much appreciated!

[Rizilliant]

I find it a little strange that you played the game for 220 hours and only give it a 4, if you gave the game a 6 or 7 I may have understood better why you played for 220 hours.

I too had 187hrs in my original (what wasnt lost due to constant directx crashes, or complete and total shut down of my pc with that last patch).. I wanted to be sure i did everything possible.. Think i was lvl 24, with Inquisition lvl 15 or somehthing.. i honestly dont even recall my Inquisitions level now that i think of it.. Was over 10 though

 

Admittedly, i gave up, and only finished half the Hissing wastes, and Half of...?... Crap!... The other desert...I 100% everything else but the 2nd half of those 2 regions.. Pure snorefest.. I gave it a 5-6/10 

 

-2 for the bad coding, poor performance, everything PC related

-2 for the plethora of design changes, or flat out aspects being completely removed, my enjoyability which was everything from 1/10 with a large majority of the game: Exploration, side "quests",  to 8/10 with the main missions, and companions ones..

 

For the first time ever, i had to FORCE myself, over, and over, to sit and play the game.. I had to find encouragment, in reading other players experiences, videos, or through that garbage cash cow DAMP..

[Darkly Tranquil]

You played for 220 hours? What did you afterwards, go out for a nice relaxing turn on the hobbling wheel?

[Greetsme]

Good review and as fair as possible. If you had told last year that I would repeatedly fall asleep while playing a Bioware game, I would have said that you where stark raving bonkers, but.................

[AlanC9]

You played for 220 hours? What did you afterwards, go out for a nice relaxing turn on the hobbling wheel?

Reminds me of that Rita Rudner joke: "One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours."

I used to think people were being stupid, but maybe C0uncil0r Tev0s is right and it's straight-up masochism.

Edit: just to be clear, I totally get playing just to get to the end of the game. What I don't get is taking so many unnecessary hours to do it.

[DanteYoda]

I find it a little strange that you played the game for 220 hours and only give it a 4, if you gave the game a 6 or 7 I may have understood better why you played for 220 hours.

I just completed the Witcher 1 i suffered long and hard through it boredom and tedium, clunky controls, i suffered through Dragon Age 2 boredom and Tedium because i wanted to get through them to understand the later ones..

 

Now i'm on the Witcher 2 getting through it for Wild Hunt and loving every second of it, its everything the Witcher 1 is not.. I cannot say the same for Inquisition though, but it wasn't as bad as Dragon Age 2 i guess there is that..

[Greetsme]

The major downfall with the frostbite engine is the cut scenes, which are rarely smooth.  The facial expressions that seem to be restricted to the nose, always giving the impression that someone has farted in the room, and every npc with the exception of scout Harding, makes a pigs bum look attractive.  Frostbite, hu, it should be called Uglybite.

[Darkly Tranquil]

The major downfall with the frostbite engine is the cut scenes, which are rarely smooth.  The facial expressions that seem to be restricted to the nose, always giving the impression that someone has farted in the room, and every npc with the exception of scout Harding, makes a pigs bum look attractive.  Frostbite, hu, it should be called Uglybite.

I suspect a great many failings in this game can traced back to the decision to use a completely unsuitable engine.