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[Fatex3]

So I loved Dragon Age, within the first few minutes of game-play I was hooked. Then came Dragon Age II, I was excited and played through the whole game, while hugely disappointing, I did finish it twice.

 

Now that I've finally found a bit of free time, I picked up Dragon Age Inquisition. It is so boring I can't bring myself to play it. While the game is pretty looking and smooth (PC) Its damn bland, there hasn't been a "hook" for me. I feel bad having spent the money and not even enjoying the game. 

 

I'm not sure if anyone else has had this experience with DAI. I find none of the characters interesting, or worth spending time with. I typically love Bioware games, so somehow I feel this might be just me, but I can't get over it.

[Lethaya]

DAI started slow for me as well, and I don't know how far you've gotten, but for me the game picked up during the main quest In Hushed Whispers. From there on, I had little trouble with investing myself in the game, though there were certainly tedious parts since I'm a bit of a completionist. XD Ah, shards. And regions! Bleh.

 

What have you experienced in the game so far? I'm guessing a lot of the Hinterlands. XD

[devSin]

The narrative is fairly well done, but it can be really hard to find in the endless expanse of those levels. You may just prefer to stick to the story missions if you're getting bored by the exploration.

Where are you in the game? You should at least try to make it to In Your Heart Shall Burn before giving up.

[Lee T]

I had the same experience. i mostly love previous bioware games, I mostly love open world games but I find almost nothing of the things I like in both category in that game. The story doesn't draw me in, the character do not interest me, the world feels empty and sterile. I thought it could be a match made in heaven of my favourite style of gaming but it's a nightmare. I pushed through up to the Empress of Orlais plot, but I still had no fun as I felt I was forcing myself to play it. I told myself I would wait for the box patch (I'm a hoarder in games), but it didn't do it. My last hope is to borrow a physical copy from a friend to try the original voices which were not included in my digital version.

[guntar74]

Nope, I'm there as well. Did plenty of full runs of the last 2 and I've yet to do a complete run on inquisition. For me its just the issues of the side quests being so detached from the main story and the fact that they take so long and are spread out so much on the bigger maps. Were as the old games you could usually bust them out quicker and on the way to main quests.

I still plan on doing a complete run at some point, but I think that's on hold till all dlc and patches are out

[Jawzzus]

ok

[TheExtreamH]

Ive played both Origins and 2 multiple times i can act out almost every scene. Inquisition starts slow yes, but do you always need over the top action or the deaths of millions in the first 3 min of gameplay to hook you. When im going into a DA titles i know im going to get some fantastic characters, relationships, lore and history, which is enough to hook me.

[Panda]

I actually like the characters, but I think getting bonded with them suffers from lack of cinematic view in dialogues, party banter bug and having to roam wilderness 24/7. However, after the start and with companion quests, I think the situation becomes little better.

[Junebug]

I agree. DA:I started off really slow for me on my first playthrough. I almost dropped it to play something else but persevered and now I have more hours on it than I'd like to admit. It's still slow in the beginning every time I make a new character but it's getting easier to breeze by. The characters are actually some of their best imho—I felt like they were huge improvements on DA:O and DA2 characters as much as I loved the two. Each individual is largely flawed in a way that's realistic and I love their development (I have a love-hate relationship with Sera though; you'll see why later). Whereas in DA:O and DA2, it felt like I was hanging out with a lot of one-dimensional characters. Not all of them, of course, but too many that I didn't care much for.

[KaiserShep]

I actually like the characters, but I think getting bonded with them suffers from lack of cinematic view in dialogues, party banter bug and having to roam wilderness 24/7. However, after the start and with companion quests, I think the situation becomes little better.

 

Going through all the dialogue, I find what takes away from the "outside" view sequences is that the characters are planted in that spot with very basic animation that's shared for all NPC's, with nary an expression between either character. A character that might have funny mannerisms and hand gestures in cut scenes will suddenly have the same grasping hands and shifting weight side to side thing that everyone does, or just be a total statue like Iron Bull.

If characters moved around more and were more expressive with their body language to reflect the things they were saying, that would have helped a great deal.

 

This takes me back to ME3's method of occasionally interacting with the crew, though at least here it's proper dialogue rather than the full-auto, only occasionally interrupted by the NPC selection thing (e.g. support salarian merchant or customer on the Citadel).

[Shechinah]

There is always the chance that you might dislike or even be indifferent  to an installment in a franchise, that's how it is sometimes but maybe the next installment will be better for you if you decide to buy it.

 

My advice is to contribute to constructive feedback by listing what you liked,  what you did not like and why it was in the Feedback section. Of course, only if you want to and you should not feel obligated to do. 

 

While I and others very much liked Inquisition, I can understand why it might not be the case for others so it is not just you. You are rarely ever alone in an opinion. That will almost always be the case with anything; literature, films, videogames, cake and so forth.

 

If you do decide to buy the next installment, I hope you like it better and find more enjoyment in it than you did this installment    

[DarkKnightHolmes]

Welcome to the world of fetch quests.

[Thandal N'Lyman]

Welcome to the world of fetch quests.

Or not.

As others have mentioned, you can ignore almost all of the "side quest" stuff if you don't like them. There's so much to do that you can "play your way" without spending hours-and-hours doing things you don't like.

[Lord Bolton]

My experience with DA:I was a bit different. When this game came out, it was a definitive 10/10 for me. I was a total fanboy (I think it's because I'm a huge fan of DA lore for so many years, so the gameplay wasn't a big deal. Now it is.). In February I went to an internship, so I wasn't able to play this game for a month. Before that I've played DA:I almost everyday. This huge break gave me a time to think about what I was doing before. Suddenly, I found what's wrong with DA:I and I just can't play it anymore. The structure of DA:I very annoying. It's something like this: main quest--->filler with ton of fetch quests and zero cutscenes--->main quest--->filler with ton of fetch quests and zero cutscenes---->main quest---->filler with ton of fetch quests and zero cutscenes-----> etc. It's very inconsistent and it breaks immersion, because it feels very unnatural.

But Unlike OP, I love the characters (except blandquisitor and one companion I absolutely loathe) and I want to spend some more time with them. But those fetch quests... my god...

 

 

Or not.

As others have mentioned, you can ignore almost all of the "side quest" stuff if you don't like them. There's so much to do that you can "play your way" without spending hours-and-hours doing things you don't like.

 

I still need to do a ton of fetch quests if I want to level up and start the main quest. I just want to do some interesting side quests with cutscenes... but we don't have any.

[Gileadan]

Or not.

As others have mentioned, you can ignore almost all of the "side quest" stuff if you don't like them. There's so much to do that you can "play your way" without spending hours-and-hours doing things you don't like.

The thing is, it's hard to tell in advance whether some found letter might actually lead to some fun, deep story line (it usually doesn't) or whether it's just another "walk there and click" job. So skipping quests you don't know is a bit of a gamble - you just might miss something really good. Of course, given the nature and quantity of DA:I's filler, chances are in your favor this time around.

 

That said, I actually made my first (quite completionist) playthrough at a good speed and mostly enjoyed myself. It's playing through the game a second time that I find very hard, now that I know that the best mission happens rather early in the game and it never gets quite as good again.

[turuzzusapatuttu]

Welcome to the world of fetch quests.

 

I like pie.

[Bob Walker]

I think there is a pattern: the players that like DA:O more and didn't care about DA2 tend to dislike DA:I.

 

I feel sorry for the OP, but at least he/she expressed his/her dissatisfaction in a polite way.

 

I guess I am lucky because until now I liked all Dragon Age installments and I hope it keeps that way.

[Sylvius the Mad]

I think there is a pattern: the players that like DA:O more and didn't care about DA2 tend to dislike DA:I.

I love DAO, and I love DAI, but I couldn't stand DA2. Couldn't bring myself to play Act 3.

So we're not homogeneous.

[DarkKnightHolmes]

Or not.

As others have mentioned, you can ignore almost all of the "side quest" stuff if you don't like them. There's so much to do that you can "play your way" without spending hours-and-hours doing things you don't like.

I play on nightmare. If I don't, I'm under leveled and getting my ass whooped.

 

Besides, what else is there to do in the game? I either do fetch quests or 20 hrs of story at best or waste my time with war table timer or do *shudders* requisitions.

[AshenSugar]

I think there is a pattern: the players that like DA:O more and didn't care about DA2 tend to dislike DA:I.

 

I feel sorry for the OP, but at least he/she expressed his/her dissatisfaction in a polite way.

 

I guess I am lucky because until now I liked all Dragon Age installments and I hope it keeps that way.

 

Well I'm an Origins fan boy. I'd go as far as to say it's (in my opinion at least) the best video game ever created to date.

 

I disliked DA:2 at first, but repeat playthroughs caused me to appreciate it a bit more, so that I ended up having a kind of love/hate relationship with it. liking some aspects, disliking others.

 

But I was more than happy to give Inquisition a chance, and thus-far my perseverance has paid off.

 

Like DA:2 there's some aspects of Inquisition that I truly dislike, and other aspects that I love. My first few hours of the game felt like I was constantly fighting against the controls - combat felt like herding cats!  

 

Now I'm used to the interface, and it's starting to feel more fluid and natural. Still LOATHE the eight spell limit on the action bar, and still LOATHE the lack of out of combat health regeneration, still LOATHE the lack of proper party tactics... but I'm finding the story and characters engaging, and the locations within the game are breathtaking. In fact I look forward to getting home from work each evening so that I can play it. If the game had the same mechanics and interface as DA:O I suspect I'd be able to put the two games side-by-side.

 

Clearly the 'open world-stuffed with minor quests' aspect of the game just isn't your thing. I'd still recommend playing it, and ignoring all the minor stuff, only doing the main storyline. You may discover that the rest of it grows on you after a time.

[Fatex3]

Some of the people were asking where I was at in the game, I actually had to boot it up to check.

 

I guess the main quest is "Champions of the Just". I've opened up 5 or so areas on the map outside of the Hinderlands. Even booting the game up to check progress, couldn't bring myself to play any.

[Uccio]

So I loved Dragon Age, within the first few minutes of game-play I was hooked. Then came Dragon Age II, I was excited and played through the whole game, while hugely disappointing, I did finish it twice.

 

Now that I've finally found a bit of free time, I picked up Dragon Age Inquisition. It is so boring I can't bring myself to play it. While the game is pretty looking and smooth (PC) Its damn bland, there hasn't been a "hook" for me. I feel bad having spent the money and not even enjoying the game. 

 

I'm not sure if anyone else has had this experience with DAI. I find none of the characters interesting, or worth spending time with. I typically love Bioware games, so somehow I feel this might be just me, but I can't get over it.

 

You are not alone in this. My first DA game I had to struggle to finish.

[exboomer]

So I loved Dragon Age, within the first few minutes of game-play I was hooked. Then came Dragon Age II, I was excited and played through the whole game, while hugely disappointing, I did finish it twice.

 

Now that I've finally found a bit of free time, I picked up Dragon Age Inquisition. It is so boring I can't bring myself to play it. While the game is pretty looking and smooth (PC) Its damn bland, there hasn't been a "hook" for me. I feel bad having spent the money and not even enjoying the game. 

 

I'm not sure if anyone else has had this experience with DAI. I find none of the characters interesting, or worth spending time with. I typically love Bioware games, so somehow I feel this might be just me, but I can't get over it.

Give the game a chance. Yes it starts out slow but as you progress and meet more of your inner circle companions it becomes a lot more interesting, at least it did for me.

[RedLens37]

This probably doesn't help any, but I've enjoyed my second, third and fourth playthroughs much more than I did my first. I can't really explain why, but I think I got a little too bogged down in trying to do every quest the first time, and started feeling like "God, when is this ever going to end?" I never visited a couple of the main areas, and only briefly stayed in a couple others, and finally just finished the last few story missions to "get it over with."

 

But...since then I've played another character up to (but not finishing) the final mission, completed the game with a third character, and am now on a fourth character. I've focused more on the role-playing aspects, and really paid attention to building a party focused around a particular strength or tactic. I think you have to have a slightly different mindset for this game, compared to other Bioware games. Yes, it has a good story, but for me, I discovered the story to be more about the adventures and development of the group of characters I choose to spend time with, and less about the 5 or 6 "story" missions built into the game.

 

I also bumped up the difficulty from hard to nightmare after my first playthrough, which added to the challenge, making the game more interesting for me anyway.

[Lebanese Dude]

*snip*

 

You changed your approach to the game in order to enjoy it, by focusing on its strengths as opposed to what is different from previous iterations.

 

If only a significant portion of BSN had your wisdom