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[a pug]

i played da origins few years ago for 5-6 hours but combat system was weird and i kept dying so i deleted the game.i want to start the series again from da inquisition but i have worries about the storyline since its the third game on the series. what do you guys suggest? is the da inquisition universe easy to keep up? or should i start with the first game?

[congokong]

I know what you mean about DA:O's gameplay. I hated it. It was all about the story for me, but I never enjoyed playing it as much as its sequels; making it my least favorite in the series overall.

 

As for which to start with... You really should play all three in order to truly understand and appreciate the series. Each game is unique in having a very different play-style, not merely more of the same, so while you may not like DA:O you might like DA2 or DA:I.

[ComedicSociopathy]

i played da origins few years ago for 5-6 hours but combat system was weird and i kept dying so i deleted the game.i want to start the series again from da inquisition but i have worries about the storyline since its the third game on the series. what do you guys suggest? is the da inquisition universe easy to keep up? or should i start with the first game?

 

Just read from the Dragon Age wiki whenever you get confused or don't get a reference. 

[vellveteen]

It takes time to get used to the combat style in Origins. When I played it for the first time I only reached the battle at Ostagar then gave up and played something else. But I started the game again with an open mind and actually began to really like the storyline and the game overall, and although there was one of two main quests that I didn't like. It is a hard game though. f you do decide to play origins again then save often!

 

I always play as a mage when I get the opportunity, and at this point I find the mages spells to be the most fun to use in Origins of all the three games (I liked the area attacks such as earthquake and fireball. In DAI all I got was firestorm...) 

 

It is better to play all three games but I found I didn't like the DA2 gameplay very much so I imported the save file I played into the dragon age keep and chose the rest of the game choices there in preparation for inquisition. Keeping up with the story line was okay for me in Inquisition after having played Origins. 

[thats1evildude]

If you don't want to play the previous games, this article has a detailed introduction to the series.

Kotaku's starter guide might be useful as well. It is a 'story so far' compilation.

[Obsidian Gryphon]

i played da origins few years ago for 5-6 hours but combat system was weird and i kept dying so i deleted the game.i want to start the series again from da inquisition but i have worries about the storyline since its the third game on the series. what do you guys suggest? is the da inquisition universe easy to keep up? or should i start with the first game?

 

One way of getting through DAO and DA II without fighting is to use the dev console, only for PC, and blanket kill mobs when they come with a cheat code. Or just use god mode, whack everything silly and move on with the story.

 

I used this for DA II when I got tired of the wave after wave of mobs. Repeat dungeon maps does not endear exploration nor fighting.

 

DAI is so far the only DA I actually like exploring and whacking down all the stuff.

[Andraste_Reborn]

My advice would be to use the wiki or the Dragon Age Keep to catch up on the story so far.

 

One of my best friends tried Origins and hated it, didn't bother with DA2, but loves Inquisition. So you're not alone! It's not that difficult to jump in, especially since the game has a new protagonist with each installment.

[nightscrawl]

While you can certainly play DAI by itself, and reading outside materials will help with that, I would suggest giving DAO (and DA2) a shot. If you play both previous games the story will have a more organic progression and you will feel more invested in a world you helped create. You can then use your choices and fill out the Dragon Age Keep for importing into DAI.

 

For DAO's combat, there are some things you can do to make combat less annoying. If you are on the PC you can download mods to help with faster combat. If not, and the melee seems too annoying you can always play a ranged class like mage or archer rogue so you can direct the action from the background. And of course playing on easy or casual difficulty setting helps you to tear through things much easier.

 

But if you REALLY don't want to play either of the two previous games, you can skip them. The devs do try to make it so that new players can just pick up a game and go. DAI in particular suffers from a lack of context because there is so much material carried over from the previous games, and novels, but you can do without them if you wish.

[congokong]

Besides finding the combat in DA:O plain boring, it was also queerly designed. The way you leveled up for example just felt so much more... erratic than its successors. It also had a problem when, playing on normal difficulty, early battles could be almost impossible yet near the end of the game I was almost invincible. Just poorly done. It reminds me of ME1's gameplay in many ways actually, which was also very boring while the game had a great story like DA:O coincidentally, with improved gameplay in its successors as well.

[Morry]

I started the dragon age series from Inquisition. I hadnt played the previous ones, nor did I read anything about the lore. And it went well, I hardly had any confusion through the story as most of it was well explained or at least background was heavily hinted.

 

The only thing I didnt get in DAI was

Spoiler

who Morrigan was and how she was related to anything and also who her mother was, who Hawke was and how he was even tied to DA2 and also that the HoF was who you play in DAO. I also didnt fully understand the mage/templar conflict.

[Aren]

i played da origins few years ago for 5-6 hours but combat system was weird and i kept dying so i deleted the game.i want to start the series again from da inquisition but i have worries about the storyline since its the third game on the series. what do you guys suggest? is the da inquisition universe easy to keep up? or should i start with the first game?

 no problem Darkspawn chronicles happened in your canon when your hero decided to leave Ferelden to it's fate to enjoy a life in Antiva because combat was too clunky boring (well in truth you are right it's clunky in DAO)

Cullen,Leliana,Morrigan,AListair,Loghain and many ohters didn't survived and didn't reached skyhold and DAI never happened while the dread wolf conquered the world,.

while the world was too focused on the archdemon to realize his plans

[akbogert]

I started the dragon age series from Inquisition. I hadnt played the previous ones, nor did I read anything about the lore. And it went well, I hardly had any confusion through the story as most of it was well explained or at least background was heavily hinted.

 

The only thing I didnt get in DAI was

Spoiler

who Morrigan was and how she was related to anything and also who her mother was, who Hawke was and how he was even tied to DA2 and also that the HoF was who you play in DAO. I also didnt fully understand the mage/templar conflict.

 

This essentially sums up my experience. Inquisition was my first, and I never felt alienated. There were moments I figured would make more sense/carry more meaning had I played earlier games -- one mission in particular would have been a LOT more meaningful had I played DA2, I'm sure -- but nothing that made me feel actually lost. I also recommend using the Dragon Age Keep site to build a world state, but I didn't even do that for my first two characters.

 

I will say this, though. I'm a console gamer, which complicates going back to play the earlier games. If I had a PC, I might consider going back to play the earlier games because I fell in love with the world of Thedas. I may not have felt like I needed to know what had happened before, but I want to after having spent so much time in Inquisition. So in retrospect, if playing the entire trilogy had been an easy option for me, I would have done so, not because you need to but because this world and these characters invite spending as much time with them as possible

[nightscrawl]

I started the dragon age series from Inquisition. I hadnt played the previous ones, nor did I read anything about the lore. And it went well, I hardly had any confusion through the story as most of it was well explained or at least background was heavily hinted.

 

The only thing I didnt get in DAI was

Spoiler

who Morrigan was and how she was related to anything and also who her mother was, who Hawke was and how he was even tied to DA2 and also that the HoF was who you play in DAO. I also didnt fully understand the mage/templar conflict.

 

I think the m/t conflict suffers the most, or benefits the most, depending on your perspective.

 

One the one hand, it feels like there is a lack of emotional investment in that particular conflict without having played through the previous two games, especially if you are a player that does tend to play magical classes, like the mage. The segregation of the mages in the South is a really important aspect of Thedas and entwined through most of the lore and history.

 

On the other hand, it can also be argued that coming into DAI totally blind about the issue can enable the player to make a more unbiased judgement using only the information presented in that specific game. It also might benefit players who choose to play a Qunari or dwarf character (and even Dalish, to a lesser degree, since they have to be more wary of conflict with the Chantry), because those origins have no personal involvement, and no stake, in that conflict.