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[HikariWS]

Hey guys.

 

I'm playing DA:O and really loving it, and thinking if I should buy DA2. A lot of people say DA2 is awful, and if played it's not worth buying its DLCs.

 

I know I'll be able to import my DA:O save into DA2 and somehow affect it. Is it possible to do the same with DAI? And if so, how much does DA:O affect DAI?

 

Can I load a DA:O save into DAI without playing DA2? Or am I forced to play DA2 first to be able to import?

 

Also, how much of DA2 lore is referenced in DAI? Will I lose much fun if I don't play DA2 first?

[DarkAmaranth1966]

Without spoilers all I can say is somewhat. Both previous games and what you did in them (or set up in the keep, have some effect on what happens or is there in DAI.

 

 

You don't need to play the previous games at all, you need to set up a wold state in Dragon Age Keep.

[Catilina]

Without spoilers all I can say is somewhat. Both previous games and what you did in them (or set up in the keep, have some effect on what happens or is there in DAI.

 

 

You don't need to play the previous games at all, you need to set up a wold state in Dragon Age Keep.

If you want to learn more from the backstory and motivation, you might want to play with DAO and DA2, although it really is not mandatory. If you only adjust in the Keep, much more impersonal, I think.

[Andraste_Reborn]

DA2 is pretty cheap these days, so I recommend buying it and seeing for yourself if you like it if you have the spare cash. I thought it was just as good as DAO, albeit with different strengths and weaknesses. And if you DO buy it and like it, get the DLC! Legacy is the best part of the whole game, IMHO, and Mark of the Assassin is pretty good too.

 

You can skip straight to DAI and still understand the plot, but it's nice to see a world state you spent many hours creating reflected in the game.

[nightscrawl]

For DAI, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you play DA2 and its DLC Legacy. It IS relevant to DAI, along with one of the DA2 followers who is also in DAI.

 

 

Because the import system tended to be a bit buggy, they changed the method of using save files for imports. Dragon Age: Inquisition uses the Dragon Age Keep, and it is what all future games will use as well.

 

Dragon Age Keep site.

DA Keep on the official forums.

 

I'm not sure what version of DAO you have, but there is also the Awakening expansion and the DLC. If you play that as well, then your save import order goes like this:

Dragon Age: Origins

Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening (expansion)

Golems of Amgarrak (DLC)

Witch Hunt (DLC)

Dragon Age 2 (play Legacy either during the main DA2 play, or after).

 

So you import from DAO into DAA, from DAA into Golems of Amgarrak, from GoA into Witch Hunt, and from Witch Hunt into Dragon Age 2.

 

But... it should be noted that DA2 does not use any information from the two DLC -- GoA or WH -- so you don't have to use that import path and can just go from DAA into DA2.

 

After playing DA2, you go to the Keep and input all of your choices BY HAND. I know it's an annoying process, but there were technical limitations. You can upload your Warden and your Hawke into the Keep, but the only information that it takes is your origin, race, gender, class, name, and character portrait, nothing else is used for those two games.

 

The main benefit of using the Keep is that you don't have to use the exact same choices you made in all of the games. If you want a different result for a Big Decision, you just change that in the Keep and that is what DAI will import.

 

Dragon Age: Inquisition updates the Keep as you play because that game is fully integrated.

[Sylvius the Mad]

I have been an outspoken critic of DA2 for years...

...and I think you should play it. I think you should get to know the characters in it, and you should play the Legacy DLC.

At the very least, you should read a detailed plot synopsis.

I didn't enjoy playing DA2 (lots of people did - I'm just old and crotchety), but I think I enjoy DAI a lot more because of my knowledge of DA2.

Also, as mentioned, there's no save import. You create a world state in the Dragon Age Keep (online) and import that. And you can do that even without playing the games, so there's nothing stopping you from reading about a game or DLC and making your choices based on that.

My preferred world state is a Frankenstein creation that combines elements of multiple actual playthroughs plus some details taken from content I never played at all.

[AlanC9]

For DAI, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you play DA2 and its DLC Legacy. It IS relevant to DAI, along with one of the DA2 followers who is also in DAI.

 

I don't see any problem in playing them out of order, though. Your DAI PC won't have lived through the events of Legacy anyway.

[Sylvius the Mad]

I don't see any problem in playing them out of order, though. Your DAI PC won't have lived through the events of Legacy anyway.

That's a really good point. It would be interesting to experience Legacy after having encountered descriptions of its events in DAI.

[nightscrawl]

I don't see any problem in playing them out of order, though. Your DAI PC won't have lived through the events of Legacy anyway.

 

Yeah but a case like this isn't about the PC, it's about how the player experiences the game and story. I think that having that knowledge from the Legacy DLC will enrich DAI for the player. And you know, Bioware clearly wrote it that way.

[Kapilux]

My personal opinion:

DA:O is great! DA2 is ok, but nothing special. DA:I is garbage and has nearly nothing in common with the previous installments.

[DarkAmaranth1966]

If I hadn't played them all, I would read the full Wikia for both of the earlier games, that gives you ALL of the details of every story in them,  lots of reading but, it's free and, then you will know what happened in all of the previous games.