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[Flamedancer]

Oooh... There's a genuinely tough question.  And in my heart of hearts, it's pretty hard to decide. If you add up all of the parts of everything together, then all three in the series rank about equally with me.  Each of them have something I really love about them and something I really hate about them.

 

Origins - Amazing story, entertaining characters (even the ones you just HAVE to make fun of) And if one takes into consideration the state of the technology when it was released, it was pretty amazing with the models and cinematics. One of my favorite parts about it was that even though the Warden was NOT fully voiced, the voice acting in the overall game was very well done.  I have a very good ear for such things, and if I pay attention, I can pick up on multiple characters voiced by the same actors, but overall, even most of the minor NPCs had individual, disparate voices.  The music was really good for the time period also - Inon Zur was a really inspired choice. Best feature?  BioWare released the DA Toolset allowing an unprecedented level of customization and the ability to truly make the game your own.

 

Bad points?  That poor, overworked engine that drove the game was fabulous for it's time period, but it is pretty clumsy and clunky and definitely awkward at times.  Some of the bugs where doors or areas fail to open or flags fail to set so that quests can be completed are frustrating still - if not for the Toolset and the modding community, it would likely have been too frustrating to play repeatedly.

 

DA2? Again, a good storyline, though some of the add-on content was far more annoying to me that engaging. (Anyone besides me REALLY hate Sebastian?) Combat mechanics far improved over the original set in Origins.  Ability to actually import your prior save to set up your world to be a familiar place based on your previous choices. Again some fairly fine voice acting - and the addition of full voices for Hawke.  Companions with very obvious personalities of their own. I also liked that your companions could still respect and stay with you even if they did not agree with your choices, and I liked the concept of the "rivalmance."  One of my favorite Hawkes was my Female mage who rivalmanced Fenris.  Some of those conversations are simply priceless. ...and it doesn't hurt a bit that Gideon Emery has the ultimate "do me now" voice when Fenris gets serious about Hawke.  

 

Bad points - Well, my main complaint honestly was it really did feel like it was rushed out to the masses and they should have taken the time to actually create new areas for different things rather than the painfully obvious re-use of the same ones over and over and over....(BUT - I will admit that once I had done a cave or building or whatever, it was kinda handy that I knew the next one would be identical except for the doors.  Kept me from missing entire areas because I didn't know they were there...) Biggest disappointment? BioWare/EA did NOT release an updated Toolset that worked with the game.  (Not that it stopped the modding community, but still...)

 

Inquisition?  Well, the story is every bit as good as I hoped.  The characters are "real" to me, and after doing every single thing I could find to do, I feel I have filled in a whole lot of the story of Thedas and it's troubles.  I have the same sense of satisfaction I get from reading the next installment in a really good series of books. The world is beautiful to look at and run around in.  It does feel like there should be another installment in the series yet to come though...  I was disappointed that one cannot import actual saves into the game, but was actually pleased that the Keep and Tapestry allows you to create custom World State options.(I can create a save that has options I was just too bleeding heart goody-goody to actually play through just so I can indulge my desire to see different scenes in Inquisition based on those choices. Pretty cool, actually...) 

 

The bad? The character models and animations look like they were recycled from a decade or more ago and they do not fit that beautiful world they are running around in.  The overall game mechanics are glitchy, unstable, and far too often prone to crashing the game.  There is far, far too much FPS/Platformer action in the game and far too little actual RPG.  Too many of the choices are simply forced upon you - you can decide how much you resent it, you can say nasty things about it, but in the end you have no choice but to do as you are forced to do.  The mechanics and the appearance of the game are simply not equal to the quality of the writing, and you have to do a ton of really stupid things to fire some of the quest flags.  Even though the world is huge and beautiful, you are trapped into a very shallow and ugly pool for character and environment customization. The main voice acting is pretty good - though not up to the standards of the previous games, and it's woefully, painfully obvious just how few actors did just how many of the minor voices.  (...and LOL - I thought for sure Riordan died falling to his death as the Archdemon flew to the top of Ft. Drakon in Origins, but damn, it seems he's been reincarnated in Stroud and I swear I hear his voice in every awfully uttered sentence spoken by an Orlesian man!)

 

The worst? HATE the Origin client and the new DRM.  HATE the fact that I cannot let someone else play the game on my machine without letting them log in to MY Origin account and screw up my Keep, my Achievements, etc.  Hate that I cannot activate the game or import a custom world state unless I am connected to the internet, logged into the Orign client, etc.  I wanted to give my daughter a copy of the game, but the gaming computer I set up for her at her college apartment doesn't have an internet connection.  I can't even install a BOX copy.  That sucks!

 

Anyway, that may have been more than $0.02 worth, but it's not like anyone's going to pay attention to what I say anyway. <sigh>

 

Will I keep playing?  Well, duh. Yeah. I will.  I'm addicted and by now it's pretty hopeless.  Will I buy the next one?  Ummm.... If I can install it on the computer, activate it and let my daughters play too?  Sure.  If I can only install and play it from one damn account?  Not a chance.  Hell, even STEAM lets you authorize other users on the same computer to play your games from their Steam account.  And I used to think they were awful.  The "New" Origin is leaps and bounds worse.

 

Time to go crawl back into my cave. 

[PlasmaCheese]

DAO

[zqrahll]

Origins by miles.   I like 2 more than Inquisition, which I just don't really like much at all.   They somehow even made Varric worse.

[Texhnolyze101]

I have an idea...

 

A "BSN Wars"

 

Text mmo rpg game... pick from three factions. DA:O, DA:2 and DA:I.

 

Only two types of class... PC gamer and console gamer.

 

Basically attacks are flame insults to opposing sides... for instance, a DA:O player can say to a DA:I player, "You aren't a real RPG, you're a mongrel action adventure lolz."

 

DA:2 can say to DA:I, "Your story and cinematics suck, mine is waaaaaaaaay better."

 

And DA:I can say to you all, "Well I made the most money so suck it!"

 

So basically its like that SJW indie game?

[Texhnolyze101]

Also. Origins.

[DanteYoda]

Saints Row

Haha.. i just purchased Gat out of Hell

[Darkly Tranquil]

Wot.
 
There's a SJW game?

Yep. Just came out. Totalbiscuit just did a WTF is...? for it.

Spoiler

[Incantrix]

If. inquisition had more story involvement and build options, it'd be so much better. 

 

 

Despite that, I'll claim inquisition as my favorite. 

[MaxQuartiroli]

The correct answer should be: a mix of all 3 games.

But since I know it's an invalid option I'll go with Origins.

[wicked cool]

Hair/beards in origins 10x better. Mods added in dao clearly show the lack of effort put into this. Even the dwarf braided beard in dai is sad compared to any of the braided beards. You just cant go backwards with something like this

[Heimdall]

Honestly, I don't feel like I can directly compared them. Origins does a lot of things right, but Inquisition surpasses it in some areas. I've fallen a bit out of love with the silent protagonist since I last played Origins and coming back to it after DA:I and DA2 feels jarring.

So I'll just say both.

[RoraM]

Inquisition

[element eater]

DAO is better

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Inquisition is good but there's some areas in which it is sorely lacking

[Bioware-Critic]

Dragon Age Origins

 

 

(But Awakening is AAAAWWWWEEEESSOOOMMMMEEEE !!!)

 

(Inquisition is very beautiful and has great characters ... but it cannot compete with Origins - PERIOD!)

[b09boy]

Origns and it's not even close.  Solid game that had overly slow combat and dated graphics, but it really did a lot right.

 

DA2 was bad.  And really, the people saying it had a good story, that's a joke.  It did not.  You would literally have to TRY to write a worse story, and even then you probably wouldn't succeed.  That's how messed up the story was in DA2.  There are ENORMOUS storytelling gaffs within that game, largely because of the opening hour attempting to depict four stories at once over a seven year span whilst skipping over literally all character and setting development.  And the characters did not make up for it.  Hawke was a horrible character who had no motivation to speak of, and all his/her companions aside from Varric had every reason not to tag along due to their own goals and motivations.  I really have to restate, you would have to try very hard to make a worse story than DA2.

 

Inquisition is funny.  It's got a nice pretty world and some not so bad quests, but it's also a game which makes DA2 look better by comparison.  That's pretty messed up.  Like, you look at the combat in Inquisition and realize how much better it was balanced and executed in DA2.  Then realize further that combat wasn't all that great in DA2 to begin with.  Or the protagonist and antagonist, how generic they are in Inquisition, compared to Hawke and the Arishok.  Or even the storytelling.  DA2 was fundamentally flawed, but at least it was present.  You could spend hours upon hours in Inquisition without any narrative backing, only for the game to dump everything out in a rush.  The attack on Haven, for instance, then finding the survivors and moving to Skyhold takes a laughable amount of time which never allows the moment and losses to sink in.

[cyrslash1974]

DA:O for ever !

[SwobyJ]

Origins.

 

However, Inquisition had the foundation and ingredients to potentially be better than Origins.

 

If DAI patches actually do their job (they have NOT YET), and DLC and content patches (lol I can hope) really enrich the game to a significant degree, I may change my mind and say DAI. It has the stuff for it, but there's too many problems still.

 

 

DA2 was good at best. Personally, I found it mediocre, and just barely worth its new price at release. Not at all a bad game, but hilariously overhyped in retrospect.

[hoechlbear]

Origins, by miles.

 

Heck, I even prefer DA2 to DAI... lol

[Lilithor]

Origins, obviously.

[RayZ]

DAO >> DA 2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DAC

 

Bioware fucked up with DACisquisition real bad.

[Lilithor]

Dragon Age Origins > Dragon Age 2 > everything else > Inquisition