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[SpiritSharD93]

Don't take it the wrong way!

I do love this game, truly, but I've never been a fan of MMOs/grinding and this is beginning to feel like just to me. I also haven't felt very captivated by the story, and the actual content itself is...okay. Not great. I guess my relationship is a love/hate one.

I've always loved the story in Bioware games and how it's presented. The only thing that's keeping me going in the dialogue/character interaction.

 

After a hiatus playing this game, I just can't bring myself to complete it like I had originally planned (completing most of the content). It's very time-consuming. I've ended up resulting to just playing the main missions.

Anyone else felt this way, and/or ended up doing this?

 

I'm not bashing the game. I'm just struggling to find the magic BW's previous games interested me in.

[Milana]

I like the game ,the areas,the companions(though bug with panty banter is just awfull, for me its an important feature of dragon age games and it makes running around the areas less boring).

But the story didnt captivate me too, and the ammout of fetch quests and gathering resourses is just too much for me to replay it more than 2 times and it sucks:( While i have like dozens of playthroughs of DAO and DA2.

I understand that a lot of people like  big open world in games, but to me the small area in DA2 made me to connect to characters and to the story more.

[Bear43]

I myself have 160 hours in and am still on my first playthrough and I am still enjoying myself. However, I can fully understand that it can be tedious and there are many others who feel the same as you. As with anything there is a wide range of feelings on the nature of this game.

[Teophne]

Hiatuses on all games are bad, for me at least. After getting back I tend to rather start a new game than continue from my old one. This is the main reason why I might not "win" the game.

I've just started DAI though and only played for 30 hours so none of the boredom stuff in sight.

[Roses]

Took me about three months to make it to 95 hours of my first playthrough... Mostly because the only reason I wanted to play was "I'm so bored I don't feel like doing anything else in my life at all... maybe play Inquisition a bit?" *6 hours of grind later* "Ugh yeah I think I am good for another few weeks". That's why it took so long.

It hurts my heart to say so, but this game is ... underwhelming. I understand many like it, but I, despite being a diehard DA lover/supporter just... couldn't connect to DA:I. I really tried, but in the end it was just what I described before. While back in DA2 times I was running to my computer daily after school just to get to do another quest.

And then one day I was like "you know what? Screw all those dragons I haven't yet killed and that Elfroot I haven't yet collected, I'm finishing it". And so I just went through the last two plot missions. I was almost overleveled so that went quick. And after that I was just left with a sour face and a lot of questions. Despite companions inviting me to "quest some more" I haven't touched it for over a month now. So yes, I'm already bored of it... Probably never coming back to it again, I didn't get half the satisfaction I got from the previous two games :/ Playing Heroes of Dragon Age now instead. Awkward, but that one gives more satisfaction than DA:I...

[Nykara]

I am doing a run through at the moment but only doing as many of the side quests as I need to advance the main story really. I will do all of my crew members personal quests and such and pick up any exploration things I come across along the way but I don't feel as if I will miss a whole lot by not exploring every inch of every map and doing every fetch quest.

[Akka le Vil]

You know what's amusing ? It's that I was bored to death by the outer areas of DAI due to their MMO-ishness, but ACTUAL MMO were more entertaining.

 

Blizzard gave me 10 days of free subscription, which I used right after finishing DAI. I leveled through Pandaria, and had a blast : I noticed myself, with no small amount of irony, that I had actually had more fun leveling in a MMO than leveling in DAI. Overall, I was much more gripped and had much more fun playing these free days than slogging through DAI.

 

Talk about a weird situation.

[Elhanan]

I simply avoid the farming and grinding, though I do concede on harvesting for components. While I dislike Alchemy, watching Gopher's Let's Play Skyrim with Richard (an Alchemist), this allowed me to be prepared for it. And the banter within the Party helps the time pass by quickly.

While there are some quests I prefer more than others, this is also the case in other games, so keeping an eye on both short and long term goals helps. And varied personalities for the Inquisitor aids replay value. Should be good for a while.

[Neo-Hazard]

I'm not bored of it, I like the huge areas, I really get lost doing the secodnary missions and gathering. Sometimes I forget about the main story. I just didn't like how bad geared the qunari is. And also I hate I can't romance Leliana or Sera as a male character. Really? The only romance option for male is a short-haired religious woman with a huge scar on her face and a mediterranian girl with funny accent with who I feel no connection at all?? Come on...

[Nette]

The areas need more REAL content. Like those quirky npcs you came across in Origins. The rhyming oak, the crazy hermit, the dalish elves you could so evily (and hilariously) break up. All we find now are notes....

The areas are pretty but feels so empty. Banter helps but should trigger more often.

[Riven326]

The levels are too large and it's very obvious that the developers didn't know what to do with all the space, so they filled it up with junk content. I always say that just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. In this case, I think I'd have preferred smaller zones with more quality content over quantity.

[DanteYoda]

I agree op, i was feeling a little deflated from my generic dwarf and now after wicked eyes wicked hearts i'm seriously thinking i might just let this game go, i'm not sure how DA I got Game of the Year.. i wonder if all the runners up were just worse..

 

I guess modern Bioware games just do not work for me anymore (i hated Mass Effect 3 as well), too much running around pointlessly and lots of grind for very little reward, very mmorpg feel and i'm done with mmorpgs..

 

Funny thing is i loved Kingdoms of Amalur and it had a very similar game style, better gear/loot, combat was more fluid and story was better though.

 

So i thought i would have enjoyed this more..

[Nefla]

Long ago my friend! I feel that except for the romances, the game only has enough differing content to encourage two playthroughs: one where you do the templar quest and don't drink from the well and another where you go mages and do drink (not necessarily paired like that though). The inquisitor has a mild personality by default and can't stray very far from neutral. They can't be evil at all, and can rarely be passionate, there are so few choices in the main storyline (yet none aside from the Temple of Mythal choices have an observable effect on the rest of the game beyond some war table missions at best), and maybe half of a percent of the non-companion related "side quests" give you a choice in dialogue beyond "goodbye" or "accept quest" let alone different ways to solve them so once you've done it once, there's no point in doing it again (not that those "quests" are fun in the slightest the first time either imo).

 

You also have companion related things such as very infrequent party banter and companions being hardly involved in the story quests if at all. Even Varric has almost no interaction with Hawke's questline and he's one of the few characters you have to recruit. Not only are the companions not tied to the story, they don't give input or react beyond a few words if you're lucky and the quest NPCs almost always ignore them. Remember Morrigan goading you into annulling the circle in DA:O? Sten trading cookies (which he apparently stole from a fat village child) for passage on Carrol's boat? Varric convincing the templars that you were "first enchanter Hawke" from a different circle, Fenris squeezing hearts to get information and getting pisssed off at Hawke for taking in Orrana (but backs off if you hire her as a servant), etc...I really miss that stuff and the lack of it just makes the game feel empty and lonely, like our companions only exist in Skyhold. The best you can hope for out in the world is a companion telling a potential agent to join the inquisition.

[st0ra]

I think I wasted my money on this empty soulless game, I got bored after the first hour playing, I'm only just in which I believe is the first area Hinterlands. This game is tediously boring to play, its a shame Bioware went in this direction for DA, I understand why they did, still its a shame.

[VelvetStraitjacket]

Nope. I am on my 4th playthrough, waiting for the PS4 patch before I continue it, and I am not bored at all. Eager to get back into it, in fact. That said, I do want DLC - something nice and meaty. 

[SnakeCode]

Yep. I'm staying active(ish)  on the forums but i'm waiting for some significant DLC before I start playing again (Story content, not hairstyles or weapon packs.) Right now i'm playing other games (GTA V, Witcher 2, AC: Unity amongst others.) 

 

Unlike many on these boards, I can't sink 100+ hours into a game, complete it, then start all over again. Then rinse and repeat anouther 5-6 times. I've seen people saying they're on their ninth or tenth playthrough, and already have the next one planned. Not only do I wonder how they find the time, I wonder how they aren't sick of doing the same things over and over.

[Nykara]

Yep. I'm staying active(ish)  on the forums but i'm waiting for some significant DLC before I start playing again (Story content, not hairstyles or weapon packs.) Right now i'm playing other games (GTA V, Witcher 2, AC: Unity amongst others.) 

 

Unlike many on these boards, I can't sink 100+ hours into a game, complete it, then start all over again. Then rinse and repeat anouther 5-6 times. I've seen people saying they're on their ninth or tenth playthrough, and already have the next one planned. Not only do I wonder how they find the time, I wonder how they aren't sick of doing the same things over and over.

I can't speak for everyone but on my second play through I am not bothering with all the side quests - I am just doing the main story and my companions side quests. Claiming/Picking up anything that happens to be on the way to each of those and just getting enough influence for the next part of the story. You don't have to do the grind.

[Thandal N'Lyman]

I can't speak for everyone but on my second play through I am not bothering with all the side quests - I am just doing the main story and my companions side quests. Claiming/Picking up anything that happens to be on the way to each of those and just getting enough influence for the next part of the story. You don't have to do the grind.

 

You and me both, Nykara! 

[sjsharp2011]

Hiatuses on all games are bad, for me at least. After getting back I tend to rather start a new game than continue from my old one. This is the main reason why I might not "win" the game.

I've just started DAI though and only played for 30 hours so none of the boredom stuff in sight.

Me too I tend to forget where I left it if I leav the game too lomg so if I start a game I play all the way through. I've only done 1 playthrough thus far of Inquisition but I personally thoroughly enjoyed the experience and am planning on doing another. Not yet mind you as I'm busy doing other things now including working through another playthrough of the Mass Effect Trilogy.

[mfr001]

This is the first game where I have started a second playthrough almost immediately after finishing the first, which must say something about it. There were several points where I wondered what would happen if I made a different decision, so now I want to find out. Also, I seem to be a bit obsessive about doing as many quests as possible before the final battle. Also, I have been alternating DAI with Rome 2, and a change is as good as a rest, as they say.

 

I await with interest any DLC announcement.

[Darkly Tranquil]

One playthrough drained all enthusiasm from me. I don't see myself playing it again. I think I will just watch the other conversations and story paths on YouTube.

[DragonAgeLegend]

I like the game ,the areas,the companions(though bug with panty banter is just awfull, for me its an important feature of dragon age games and it makes running around the areas less boring).

But the story didnt captivate me too, and the ammout of fetch quests and gathering resourses is just too much for me to replay it more than 2 times and it sucks:( While i have like dozens of playthroughs of DAO and DA2.

I understand that a lot of people like  big open world in games, but to me the small area in DA2 made me to connect to characters and to the story more.

I love the smaller areas of the past games, It indeed made you feel so much closer to the story. DAI feels too disconnected to me, I do love it and am waiting for the PC controls patch to start my second play through. 

[JasonPogo]

I did my one playthrough and have tried a few times to go back and play through again.  But the game is SO boring it hurts now.  I enjoyed my first playthrough but doing any of it again just feels like pulling teeth.