I genuinely loved Dragon Age Inquisition, even as a fan of Origins. I didn't mind the open world and found the combat incredible. But the highlight were the companions. I loved Cassandra. Also i completely agree with you on Solas. My first playthrough, i thought absolutely nothing of him. Even the ending teaser of him had me scratch my head as to what was going on. But Trespasser dlc really added alot of depth and made me pay attention to him on my replays of the game.
I'm sure you have already, but if you haven't you should check out Dawn of the Seeker. Mandatory for Cass fans. She was always meant to be a hot religious chick that totally kicks ass. 😂
@@theotakunatebiggest problem I had with Inquistion, is all the best gear was crafted. Meaning there was little to no excitement for any interesting armor or weapons you found on the way.
DA Inquisition was always kind of a vibe for me. I like the leadership choice stuff like in the Pathfinder games. You hold a court and you make choices that impact the realm or keep.
@@threestars2164 True, the game world is incredibly static aside from a few visual changes in the maps as you progress. It doesn't matter who you pick to rule Orlais, nothing changes in the Exalted Plains as both sides remain there forever. You can choose a judgment option to have Mistress Poulin supposedly rebuild Sahrnia but that never happens in game.
Regarding Jaws of Hakkon, I do think that the side content is an improvement over the base game. I really liked how a lot of it tied to the central story of the zone as well. The story of the first inquisitor and how it was kept quiet by the Chantry was amazing lore.
Don't let this idea that "all side quests are fetch quest rubbish" put you off looking out for them. So many side quests in inquisition are incredible. Yes there is a lot of MMO type fetch quest ones, but we humans have brains and we can tell when something seems worth our time or not haha. If it doesn't seem interesting to you just move on :D There is many ways to get exp/loot and stuff.
9:51 Something I don’t like about Trespasser is that the big reveal that he’s Fen Harel is not a reveal at all because you already know that thanks to the Solas/Flemeth scene, it would have been such a cool reveal if in that scene Flemeth simply hadn’t called him “Dreadwolf” but only “old friend” because that way you would have learned that he might be someone very powerful without knowing exactly who he his and then the big reveal at the end of Trespasser
You have to remember tho at the time DA:I was finished (not shipped and sold but just done with development) trespasser hadn’t even been developed or written yet. It was the last DLC dropped so they hadn’t thought that far ahead just yet. But yes it was a bit of an early reveal. I think however the big surprise isn’t that he’s fen’harel but the lore for the veil and what he plans to do to bring back the golden age of the elves.
Finished Trespasser this week and the music blew my mind, on the last convo especially. The setup for the antagonist has been so lit. Veilguard shows a lot of promise in this regard.
Nothing will make you question things as much as only giving a sense of speed on the horse when it's not actually moving any faster and people fell for it.
Inquisition was the first and only Dragon Age game I have ever played. It was a 10/10 for me upon release. Nothing that has been released since has kept me interested at all in the ip. I may check out the new one on a deep deep sale.
Well, they would have to remaster it first. It isn't on PS4 or PS5. I'm in the same boat as the OP. I've played Inquisition three times, but never the first two. *shrugs*
Veilguard won’t read any saves from inquisition. Instead the game will ask you about which important decisions you made in inquisition and you choose the corresponding dialogue options
As someone who has played all three DA games recently, Inquisition has surprisingly not held up as well as I remember it. I much prefer DA Origins and 2
i bought it for 2$, gave it a go.................................. didnt enjoy it at all.... i tryed to, but it just felt................. not great...? the story also was really boring at the start, i tryed to give it a go, but then i felt kind of lost after the begining. and i just moved on to a different game... i should probably give it another go, maybe when im done with other games i enjoy.
Forced myself to play 12 hours until I realised the game was literally bloatware. Whatever decent story people claim Inquisition has, it's buried underneath bloat and boring gameplay.
6:16 -6:20 the Song of Ice and Fire. Dragon Age was originally inspired by those novels and was supposed to be a game about the Wall. So, not their own BG, but their own GoT. I really loved that inspiration. Rendon Howe was the true villain... such a Roose Bolton... Pity Bioware lowered the tone in the Awakening.
Nightmare mode is not that hard if you have the right builds. There are mage class combos that synergizes with specific party members that makes all enemies very easy to defeat even on the hardest difficulty. But you need to build all characters perfectly to get there. Not just your own character but also micro manage the leveling of all the other characters as well. I have not played the game sense maybe 2016 so don't remember all the details but it was something with lightning and stunning that was so OP.
Ability combos is really how this game is meant to be played, especially in higher difficulties. Bioware, in-game, does very little to explain this, leaving it to the player to discover the mechanics by themselves. Enemies are all just damage sponges and not using combos just makes combat a chore.
just downloaded it on my ps5. going for the plat. However, the last achievement I need is nightmare mode. Are there any recent videos on tips for nightmare mode. Haven't played DA3 for years
I played all Dragon Age games ( excluding Veilguard) and read some books that explained a lot of Alistair origins ( his mum was an elf and this woman appeared in Inquisition as the elf that the king criticised - the king being Alistair himself - in the Hinterlands).
I replayed this year with all dlc and i made sure to not let hinterlands and side stuff bog me down as playing and just did a lot of it later and was way more enjoyable. My romance with Sera was also great. Lol love her even if you hate. I originally played on xbox 360 so was a big difference playing on series x with fps boost
I replayed DAI for the third time and did pretty much a completionist playthrough of the game earlier this month. It was better than I remembered it. It also made me think that there hasn't been a decent RPG release in terms of storytelling outside of Japan except Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 in the last 10 years since DAI. At least not as great as Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk. Outside of indie games like Disco Elysium of course. The main story, companion interactions and quests (i'm talking quest and interaction not characters, outside of couple of exceptions Origins and DA2 still had better companions imo) were genuinely some of the best Bioware has done. The main quest sections in DAI was genuinely some of the best Bioware has ever done. The sad thing all the good stuff was brought down by some terrible quest design in the open world. That is not to say there weren't bad areas. Exalted Plains, Emerald Graves, Emprise Du Lions and Crestwood were some of the better done zones where the main conflict in those areas actually had some impact in the world and fit the role of the inquisitor. The main negative is the lack of cutscenes which we have been so accustomed to in Bioware games. The lack of cutscenes in dialogue was a major let down. Also the random collectibles that this game had. Why did they think this was a good idea? I also felt that this was the best iteration of Bioware's dialogue wheel. Honestly if not for the open world fluff I think it would have thoroughly deserved the GOTY award that it got. 2014 was an awful year for gaming though. The other game I remember being nominated was Shadow of Mordor. A good game making innovations with the nemesis system, but should be nowhere near GOTY. They really needed to cut down a lot of the fluff, the quests in the Hinterlands and the Hissing Wastes was horrible. 90% of it was a complete waste of time. HInterlands was a pretty looking area but that was about it. All the DLCs were great, though Jaws of Hakkon had some of the open world issues the base game had. It was a bit better but not really that much better. DAI was always a good game, not Bioware's best, not the best DA game but it was always good. It just had to live up to extremely high standards because of DAO and is constantly compared to that. But it was never a bad game. I am personally very critical of DAI but I still liked it. Also as a lore nut and especially going into it hoping for some lore into the Dreadwolf going it it back in the day during launch, this game is great. Lorewise DAI adds a ton to the franchise and probably the most important game.
I do agree with anyone that says Inquisition has a lot of horrible fetch quests and collect-athons that cheapen it to the point it can seem low effort in places. But at the same time, for a general 50-60 hour playthrough, all the garbage you don't want to do absolutely can be skipped. It seems people let their desire to want to "do everything" completely take over their mindset in certain games, and this is one of them. You want some extra coin or exp points? Go do the meaningless side quests. The side quests like "find a ring" are only there if you want to do them, they aren't required to progress anywhere so just move on with your day. What I do dislike is how many side quests are left out of this conversation that are actually amazing. The temple you can find in the desert area which has tonnes of interesting lore, as well as a really cool fight at the end to return a time warp to normal and get a cool necromancer staff...Where's the mention of that? There are loads of quests like this all over the open areas. The Mayor flooding his people? Fixing pathways in the desert and gaining entry to the darkspawn infested keep? The demon that's taken over the keep in the snowy area that you can bargain with? This is all really great stuff, but it's side content that is never touched upon because people like to focus on the fetch quest rubbish that can be skipped over completely.
This game is 20$ cheaper than the new game; it's already complete (you don't need to worry about them releasing 5 new dlcs), lets you slot x2 skills compared to Veilguard, and it has like 150+ *PAGES* of mods in Nexus alone to tweak the experience as you'd like it, add new stuff etc. Vote with your wallet.
I thought about replaying inquisition before veilguard's release but I have a full time job now and it would probably take me a year to finish that game as the completionist that I am (I have a decent amount of free time but the energy isn't always there). Which is why I'm very thankful they ditched the big open world concept for veilguard.
Honestly I think expanding the keep choices in Veilguard too far would have been a bad idea because trying to remember my past choices would get annoying. But a few choices like your Origins love interest should have been in the game since one of the choices appears in Veilguard..
I personally really liked Inquisition, I liked that I truly felt like I was in a war and could see the results of my actions throughout. The skills trees were meh but it makes up for it with building your party
I genuinely love Inquisition, the companions in particular. And because so much carry over from earlier games through the Keep, it enhances this feeling of this being an interactive experience like very few others.
We need a "Remembering Dragon Ball" video such as Dragon Ball Origins, Origins 2, Advanced Adventure, and Revenge of King Piccolo. Those games are so underrated and overshadowed by DBZ.
Rift mage you can spam power almost unlimited. However, Artificer, Tempest, Templar, and Reaver are also busted as hell in Inquisition. In the middle of nightmare with trials run in the descent dlc as a necromancer. Necromancer is not as shinny as Knight-Enchanter or as flashy as Rift mage but with fire and ice mines, energy barrage, and Walking Bomb masterwork those Walking Bomb denotation chains are glorious. Simulacrum with low health makes a Necromancer with barrier almost unkillable.
I got dragon age inquisition very late, in 2019-20 an Xbox one and the disc couldn’t download. Since it was a lot of games from goodwill online I didn’t worry about it. The amount of games I got broke it down to almost 6$ a piece. I’ll have to go back and check it to see if it was ever fixed.
I don’t mind the fetch quests really. The game throws so much of the power currency at you that it’s trivial and the total play time of the game can be as long or as short as you want. I’m working on a “worst world state” run where I’m trying to pick all the worst options/avoid helping the world and with only “The Final Piece” and “Doom Upon the World” left, my total play time is only 35 hours
Man I loved Inquisition, firts DA that I played. Remebers didnt like it at first because I came from dark souls and wanted a similar combat. But after learning how some attacks compliment each other something clicked and rlly love that feeling of a perfect combo. I even got the platinum on ps4. Also wanted to add. The armor desing in this Game 10/10 just look the amount of mods that retro fit the grey warden armors in DAO
That's become a trope now; people warning new players to get out of the Hinterlands asap. I guess they have a point. The map is pretty big with a lot to see and do. God help you if you decide to take on the level 14 dragon. I usually take down the rebel mages and templars and go see the horsemaster for my mount, maybe close a couple of rifts for power, *then* get out of there.
I think Origins and 2 would need more than just a rerelease at this point, especially on PC. In particular they both desperately need actual controller support. The PC control scheme for 2 in particular is kind of awful and horribly unwieldy.
I hopped back on this weekend to one of my characters that was still in act 1, a female Qunari Mage (I completed the main game and DLCs with a few characters - including of course my first Inquisitor from 2014 and she'll be my Veilguard imported Inquisitor - A Sera romancing Rogue who disbanded the inquisition and vowed to redeem Solas). Just one short re-visit to Inquisition's world (I'm certainly not finishing this character's story this coming week!) before I'm taken to the story 10 years later. I genuinely love Inquisition (and Origins), and enjoy 2. I have hope for Veilguard, I do suspect it'll be more like 2 for me than the lofty heights of Origins and Inquisition. There's some elements I like returning from 2 too (the purple Hawke dialogue choices, and the friendship/rivalry system!)
I tried playing DA:I for 3 separate occasions. And, I never could. The story was boring, the combat was janky, the world was boring. People said I had to go past certain part for it to get good, but man it was a chore to play.
character classes in DAI heh in my opinion the best are rogue archer and mage with the knight enchanter spec which can make you basically an immortal magical tank
I'm trying to play dragon age inquisition again but no matter what solution I try, it just won't connect to servers so I can log in to dragon age keep. I wanted to upload all of my previous files from the games but now I can't. And the game just isn't the same if I can't make all my previous choices matter.
Downloaded it today and wasn't really feeling it during the prologue after playing origins and 2 but I will give it a try again. Also i see that Trails from Zero poster in the back. You are cultured.
If the gameplay is a struggle i'd suggest trying another combat style (you can do this by controlling a companion instead even). For example, i find 2H insufferable to play but I quite enjoy sword and board feel. It's really drastic difference in feel depending on weapon/class for basically every friend I have that played it.
@@violetbliss4399damn you really don't know how to play if you think 2h is insufferable. Templar 2h is probably the most fun you can have in inquisition
Only Dragon Age 1, Mass Effect 2, or older Bioware games are worth playing. Inquisition is designed like an MMO to waste your time. Tell your friend to play something like Hogwarts Legacy instead.
I thought DAI was the weakest of the DA games at release, and I still fell that way. On the other hand DAV has made DAI look a lot better in comparison. Say what you will about the gameplay or the story, they put a hell of a lot of effort into making as many of our previous choices matter as possible.
I came in blind to DA:I last year having never played the previous games. It was pretty good, but not captivating enough to make me want to replay. The only gripe is the DLC was TOO seamless and I accidentally finished the dreadwolf and completelt skipped the deep roads portion without realizing.
Originally I liked this game but later on I grew to hate it, not just because of the mmo fetch quest of it but also so many bland characters compared to origins. Everything good about this game exist outside of it and even those are not enough (how did leleina and morrigan turned out for exmaple) And as bad as veilgaurd seems I feel I will like it more than inquisition. But none of them will be near enough as good as origins.
I really liked inquisition it’s the first game I 100% and it took forever. The whole series I think has been pretty good overall each one has its own style. I’m hopeful for veilgaurd although it’s hard to get over the art style
Loved Origins back in the day, like the second one quite a bit actually although it was a watered-down version of the original but never got around to playing this back at launch. Decided to also install and play it now before The Veilguard releases and I honestly could not get into it at all. It felt like playing an ancient relic from the past and having just come off The Shadow of the Erdtree expansion for Elden Ring, Inquisition was a dull bore. Dropped it a few hours in.
I will give the internet credit they were saying single player mmo back at launch but I couldn’t relate ocularums and shards didn’t catch my attention but closing all the rifts seemed like something my inquisitor should care about ppl reference the hinterlands when talking about the games questing issue but the inquisition was just founded I look at the hinterlands quests as the world’s introduction to the inquisition just helping the small folks get them bedding food set up watch towers it gave my herald and the inquisition credibility you can obviously identify the pointless quests that have no more value then simply get me this and you get gold and you can literally just decide your inquisitor doesn’t have time to escort a druffalo I didn’t feel overly forced into a majority of the games filler just felt like even if loot and gear from a lot of these quests rewards were underwhelming they fed and supported my role playing same outlook helped me appreciate the war table and actually read out and think through which advisor to use only way I could understand the frustration is if you were going for the 100% trophy😂
I could never make it past a few hours into DAI, no matter how many times i tried. I was considering trying it again on console but there was no enhanced patch (ps5).
I can do all the hinterlands quests in like five hours, once you know where you’re going you can 100% it quickly and it doesn’t become a hole, the western approach and hissing wastes are the problem not the hinterlands
I think people never mention Hissing Wastes because they likely didn't get that far into the game but, yeah, if the Hinterlands bug you, you're gonna HATE them.
I really like hissing wastes. Yes I agree it's a big empty area but the caves the gear and the dragon fight makes up for it. Hinterlands is nice too because the quests Actually make sense instead of many others in other areas. The worst area by far is the exalted plains
I remember finishing the game and finding out about the true ending being behind a paywall (Trespasser dlc). Then I actually became pretty salty about it
I played Origin after two was already out. I enjoyed it. But I wasn't a fan of the dialogue list, I was more a fan of radial dialogue like in Mass Effect. So I was told I'd like 2 more, never played. Still haven't. I ended up playing Inquisition and re fell in love with the series. Still need to play the dlc which I will. But when I get to it, currently playing through the entire franchise to get ready for Veilguard.
Where DA:I truly thrives is in its writing. The gameplay loop has issues, the banter is too far apart, and too many fetch quests (at least early on), but the character writing, and the twists and turns are great. To truly appreciate it, you need to play trespasser. Solas suddenly became my favorite character in the series, going above Morrigan and Alistair. Which is a real achievement.
I played this earlier this year. Lucky people warned me of the Hinterlands so I didn't stay there. Just did a few stuff each time I visit through out the game and it wasn't so bad.
I have tried to play this game a handful of times but i just cannot get past how slow it feels and i absolutely despise the combat...it is SO boring...you nailed it with calling it a Single Player MMO. I hate traditional MMO's and it honestly feels like im playing one when I play Inquisition.
Maybe if you tried to do ability combos instead of just holding r2 or r then it wouldn't be boring at all. This game has insane combo potential and no game has such fluid combos and animations. The warrior in origins and inquisition is a correct example. The warrior in origins is the most boring thing iv played
@@johnpantag472 Ability combos is how Inquisition is meant to be played, except Bioware left us to discover this by ourselves. Otherwise, yeah, combat is a chore.
I just finished the main quest after 120 hours with 10 years between Playthroughs. I still think the graphics are still good and on series X 60fps. I love the characters/story and ended up romancing Cassandra. Should have skipped all those damn shards!
I genuinely loved Dragon Age Inquisition, even as a fan of Origins. I didn't mind the open world and found the combat incredible. But the highlight were the companions. I loved Cassandra.
Also i completely agree with you on Solas. My first playthrough, i thought absolutely nothing of him. Even the ending teaser of him had me scratch my head as to what was going on. But Trespasser dlc really added alot of depth and made me pay attention to him on my replays of the game.
I'm sure you have already, but if you haven't you should check out Dawn of the Seeker. Mandatory for Cass fans. She was always meant to be a hot religious chick that totally kicks ass. 😂
Couldn't agree more, I loved the companions too. Cassandra and veric were the best
What’s special about the combat? I agree with everything you said but the combat is pretty normal to me.
@James-u1y you can get pretty deep on builds with gear and skill crafting, trespasser takes it to a new level also.
@@theotakunatebiggest problem I had with Inquistion, is all the best gear was crafted. Meaning there was little to no excitement for any interesting armor or weapons you found on the way.
DA Inquisition was always kind of a vibe for me. I like the leadership choice stuff like in the Pathfinder games. You hold a court and you make choices that impact the realm or keep.
Same
But like other bioware titles, the choices mean nothing.
@@threestars2164 that may be true but I don’t really care. I like it anyway
@@threestars2164 True, the game world is incredibly static aside from a few visual changes in the maps as you progress. It doesn't matter who you pick to rule Orlais, nothing changes in the Exalted Plains as both sides remain there forever. You can choose a judgment option to have Mistress Poulin supposedly rebuild Sahrnia but that never happens in game.
Even those aspects of the game I'd say Awakening did better. You actually had to put effort into diplomacy and upgrading your keep in Awakening.
Regarding Jaws of Hakkon, I do think that the side content is an improvement over the base game. I really liked how a lot of it tied to the central story of the zone as well. The story of the first inquisitor and how it was kept quiet by the Chantry was amazing lore.
Playing through it for the first time and gotta say, yeah it's worth it. I've enjoyed it every step of the way
Same! Played through every game for the first time this year and loved all of them for different reasons. 2 is actually my favorite
Better than playing Vielguard.
@@MuffHam Games not even out yet 😂 I'll save my criticism for when the actual reviews for the full games out. Instead of the 7 hour reviews.
Don't let this idea that "all side quests are fetch quest rubbish" put you off looking out for them. So many side quests in inquisition are incredible. Yes there is a lot of MMO type fetch quest ones, but we humans have brains and we can tell when something seems worth our time or not haha. If it doesn't seem interesting to you just move on :D There is many ways to get exp/loot and stuff.
@@MuffHam Oh did you finish it already? So cool you got it 5 days early!
9:51 Something I don’t like about Trespasser is that the big reveal that he’s Fen Harel is not a reveal at all because you already know that thanks to the Solas/Flemeth scene, it would have been such a cool reveal if in that scene Flemeth simply hadn’t called him “Dreadwolf” but only “old friend” because that way you would have learned that he might be someone very powerful without knowing exactly who he his and then the big reveal at the end of Trespasser
You have to remember tho at the time DA:I was finished (not shipped and sold but just done with development) trespasser hadn’t even been developed or written yet. It was the last DLC dropped so they hadn’t thought that far ahead just yet. But yes it was a bit of an early reveal. I think however the big surprise isn’t that he’s fen’harel but the lore for the veil and what he plans to do to bring back the golden age of the elves.
Finished Trespasser this week and the music blew my mind, on the last convo especially. The setup for the antagonist has been so lit. Veilguard shows a lot of promise in this regard.
Solas ISNT the antagonist of veilguard though
@@Gastro_ Inquisition has my favorite soundtrack of them all, I'll admit.
Inquisition was a fine wine that got better with time.
Nothing will make you question things as much as only giving a sense of speed on the horse when it's not actually moving any faster and people fell for it.
One of the bests RPG Open World ever. I finished it 100% in PS4... platinum trophy, baby!
Inquisition is my favorite Dragon Age.
Inquisition was the first and only Dragon Age game I have ever played. It was a 10/10 for me upon release. Nothing that has been released since has kept me interested at all in the ip. I may check out the new one on a deep deep sale.
Why not check out the original? That seems to be the one that everyone agrees is great.
Well, they would have to remaster it first. It isn't on PS4 or PS5. I'm in the same boat as the OP. I've played Inquisition three times, but never the first two.
*shrugs*
Who else played on PS3/Xbox 360 with 15 FPS in battles?😂
I first played on xbox 360 and recently played on series x and has 60 fps boost and made it so much better lol
lol, yep. My last 360 game. Those battles and the generally insane load times told me it was time to move on.
me lol
Me. Good memories😊It was one of the first games I got for my PS4 later. Sadly on PS4 FPS is not above 30
We share core memories lmao
I played all three early this year anticipating the new one, and then that reveal trailer, crushed my soul.
I’ve been replaying it lately to have a save prepared for the next game and I almost forgot how good it was. I highly recommend this game
Veilguard won’t read any saves from inquisition. Instead the game will ask you about which important decisions you made in inquisition and you choose the corresponding dialogue options
@@andruerodriguez393well at least he will have those decisions fresh in his head
@@vintageoriginallegit true
@@vintageoriginallegitnone of those decisions aside from the three they wanted will matter
@@vintageoriginallegit Won't be hard to remember as there are only 3 and two of them are all in Trespasser.
As someone who has played all three DA games recently, Inquisition has surprisingly not held up as well as I remember it. I much prefer DA Origins and 2
Totally agree, played it last month to upload on my channel and it felt like a chore after the first 5 hours
i bought it for 2$, gave it a go.................................. didnt enjoy it at all.... i tryed to, but it just felt................. not great...? the story also was really boring at the start, i tryed to give it a go, but then i felt kind of lost after the begining. and i just moved on to a different game... i should probably give it another go, maybe when im done with other games i enjoy.
The only Dragon Age that has held up was Origins.
@@adeptdamage3669 Yup. Inquisition was and will always be a pile of shit for me.
Forced myself to play 12 hours until I realised the game was literally bloatware. Whatever decent story people claim Inquisition has, it's buried underneath bloat and boring gameplay.
6:16 -6:20 the Song of Ice and Fire. Dragon Age was originally inspired by those novels and was supposed to be a game about the Wall. So, not their own BG, but their own GoT. I really loved that inspiration. Rendon Howe was the true villain... such a Roose Bolton...
Pity Bioware lowered the tone in the Awakening.
Nightmare mode is not that hard if you have the right builds. There are mage class combos that synergizes with specific party members that makes all enemies very easy to defeat even on the hardest difficulty. But you need to build all characters perfectly to get there. Not just your own character but also micro manage the leveling of all the other characters as well. I have not played the game sense maybe 2016 so don't remember all the details but it was something with lightning and stunning that was so OP.
Ability combos is really how this game is meant to be played, especially in higher difficulties. Bioware, in-game, does very little to explain this, leaving it to the player to discover the mechanics by themselves.
Enemies are all just damage sponges and not using combos just makes combat a chore.
just downloaded it on my ps5. going for the plat. However, the last achievement I need is nightmare mode. Are there any recent videos on tips for nightmare mode. Haven't played DA3 for years
Veilguard made Inquisition seem that much better in retrospect. I'd play Inquisition over Veilguard any day.
Is Dragon Age: Inquisition WORTH IT In 2024?! I say yeah its definitely worth playing since The Veilguard exist.
I played all Dragon Age games ( excluding Veilguard) and read some books that explained a lot of Alistair origins ( his mum was an elf and this woman appeared in Inquisition as the elf that the king criticised - the king being Alistair himself - in the Hinterlands).
I replayed this year with all dlc and i made sure to not let hinterlands and side stuff bog me down as playing and just did a lot of it later and was way more enjoyable. My romance with Sera was also great. Lol love her even if you hate. I originally played on xbox 360 so was a big difference playing on series x with fps boost
i know im late, but the "sprinting" in dai is there. its the mount you get from the horse trainer
Picking Loghain over Alistair as king is crazy
I replayed DAI for the third time and did pretty much a completionist playthrough of the game earlier this month. It was better than I remembered it. It also made me think that there hasn't been a decent RPG release in terms of storytelling outside of Japan except Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 in the last 10 years since DAI. At least not as great as Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk. Outside of indie games like Disco Elysium of course.
The main story, companion interactions and quests (i'm talking quest and interaction not characters, outside of couple of exceptions Origins and DA2 still had better companions imo) were genuinely some of the best Bioware has done. The main quest sections in DAI was genuinely some of the best Bioware has ever done. The sad thing all the good stuff was brought down by some terrible quest design in the open world. That is not to say there weren't bad areas. Exalted Plains, Emerald Graves, Emprise Du Lions and Crestwood were some of the better done zones where the main conflict in those areas actually had some impact in the world and fit the role of the inquisitor. The main negative is the lack of cutscenes which we have been so accustomed to in Bioware games. The lack of cutscenes in dialogue was a major let down. Also the random collectibles that this game had. Why did they think this was a good idea? I also felt that this was the best iteration of Bioware's dialogue wheel. Honestly if not for the open world fluff I think it would have thoroughly deserved the GOTY award that it got. 2014 was an awful year for gaming though. The other game I remember being nominated was Shadow of Mordor. A good game making innovations with the nemesis system, but should be nowhere near GOTY.
They really needed to cut down a lot of the fluff, the quests in the Hinterlands and the Hissing Wastes was horrible. 90% of it was a complete waste of time. HInterlands was a pretty looking area but that was about it. All the DLCs were great, though Jaws of Hakkon had some of the open world issues the base game had. It was a bit better but not really that much better.
DAI was always a good game, not Bioware's best, not the best DA game but it was always good. It just had to live up to extremely high standards because of DAO and is constantly compared to that. But it was never a bad game. I am personally very critical of DAI but I still liked it. Also as a lore nut and especially going into it hoping for some lore into the Dreadwolf going it it back in the day during launch, this game is great. Lorewise DAI adds a ton to the franchise and probably the most important game.
Playing through inquisition on Nightmare difficulty was some of the most fun I’ve had in DA. Like fighting the dragons was a rush!
I do agree with anyone that says Inquisition has a lot of horrible fetch quests and collect-athons that cheapen it to the point it can seem low effort in places. But at the same time, for a general 50-60 hour playthrough, all the garbage you don't want to do absolutely can be skipped. It seems people let their desire to want to "do everything" completely take over their mindset in certain games, and this is one of them. You want some extra coin or exp points? Go do the meaningless side quests. The side quests like "find a ring" are only there if you want to do them, they aren't required to progress anywhere so just move on with your day. What I do dislike is how many side quests are left out of this conversation that are actually amazing. The temple you can find in the desert area which has tonnes of interesting lore, as well as a really cool fight at the end to return a time warp to normal and get a cool necromancer staff...Where's the mention of that? There are loads of quests like this all over the open areas. The Mayor flooding his people? Fixing pathways in the desert and gaining entry to the darkspawn infested keep? The demon that's taken over the keep in the snowy area that you can bargain with? This is all really great stuff, but it's side content that is never touched upon because people like to focus on the fetch quest rubbish that can be skipped over completely.
i enjoy it, there is a lot of filler content to pad play time which is the main critique i have
How the fuck do you have filler content ina game? There's no such thing as filler content in a video game lol
This game is 20$ cheaper than the new game; it's already complete (you don't need to worry about them releasing 5 new dlcs), lets you slot x2 skills compared to Veilguard, and it has like 150+ *PAGES* of mods in Nexus alone to tweak the experience as you'd like it, add new stuff etc.
Vote with your wallet.
It is awful. Hundreds of far better rpgs out there.
I was loving this game when it first came out, then I got to the war table and never finished it.
Yup, same.
Holy crap, I’m listening to this review and wondering why I drifted away from it and I saw your comment and remembered why lol
I thought about replaying inquisition before veilguard's release but I have a full time job now and it would probably take me a year to finish that game as the completionist that I am (I have a decent amount of free time but the energy isn't always there). Which is why I'm very thankful they ditched the big open world concept for veilguard.
when a bethesda fan tells you the ennemies are too spongy. Your ennemies are too spongy man.
Honestly I think expanding the keep choices in Veilguard too far would have been a bad idea because trying to remember my past choices would get annoying. But a few choices like your Origins love interest should have been in the game since one of the choices appears in Veilguard..
I personally really liked Inquisition, I liked that I truly felt like I was in a war and could see the results of my actions throughout. The skills trees were meh but it makes up for it with building your party
I genuinely love Inquisition, the companions in particular. And because so much carry over from earlier games through the Keep, it enhances this feeling of this being an interactive experience like very few others.
DA INQUISITION is one of my favorite games!
The lack of 4k and 60fps on PS5 hurts me.
One of the main things that always holds me back from fully playing it
We need a "Remembering Dragon Ball" video such as Dragon Ball Origins, Origins 2, Advanced Adventure, and Revenge of King Piccolo. Those games are so underrated and overshadowed by DBZ.
Rift mage you can spam power almost unlimited. However, Artificer, Tempest, Templar, and Reaver are also busted as hell in Inquisition. In the middle of nightmare with trials run in the descent dlc as a necromancer. Necromancer is not as shinny as Knight-Enchanter or as flashy as Rift mage but with fire and ice mines, energy barrage, and Walking Bomb masterwork those Walking Bomb denotation chains are glorious. Simulacrum with low health makes a Necromancer with barrier almost unkillable.
The inability to sprint is torture.
I legit dream of that TMNT arcade machine. Amazing
I got dragon age inquisition very late, in 2019-20 an Xbox one and the disc couldn’t download. Since it was a lot of games from goodwill online I didn’t worry about it. The amount of games I got broke it down to almost 6$ a piece. I’ll have to go back and check it to see if it was ever fixed.
I don’t mind the fetch quests really. The game throws so much of the power currency at you that it’s trivial and the total play time of the game can be as long or as short as you want. I’m working on a “worst world state” run where I’m trying to pick all the worst options/avoid helping the world and with only “The Final Piece” and “Doom Upon the World” left, my total play time is only 35 hours
Man I loved Inquisition, firts DA that I played. Remebers didnt like it at first because I came from dark souls and wanted a similar combat. But after learning how some attacks compliment each other something clicked and rlly love that feeling of a perfect combo. I even got the platinum on ps4. Also wanted to add. The armor desing in this Game 10/10 just look the amount of mods that retro fit the grey warden armors in DAO
IN TODAYS VIDEO!! Something about you saying that gets me hyped lol
That's become a trope now; people warning new players to get out of the Hinterlands asap. I guess they have a point. The map is pretty big with a lot to see and do. God help you if you decide to take on the level 14 dragon. I usually take down the rebel mages and templars and go see the horsemaster for my mount, maybe close a couple of rifts for power, *then* get out of there.
That’s exactly what I do as well. Almost in that order too 🙏🏼
I think Origins and 2 would need more than just a rerelease at this point, especially on PC. In particular they both desperately need actual controller support. The PC control scheme for 2 in particular is kind of awful and horribly unwieldy.
@@magusjiro i definitely don't think Origins needs a remake. I just think it and 2 both need qol improvements rather than just a straight rerelease.
I hopped back on this weekend to one of my characters that was still in act 1, a female Qunari Mage (I completed the main game and DLCs with a few characters - including of course my first Inquisitor from 2014 and she'll be my Veilguard imported Inquisitor - A Sera romancing Rogue who disbanded the inquisition and vowed to redeem Solas). Just one short re-visit to Inquisition's world (I'm certainly not finishing this character's story this coming week!) before I'm taken to the story 10 years later. I genuinely love Inquisition (and Origins), and enjoy 2. I have hope for Veilguard, I do suspect it'll be more like 2 for me than the lofty heights of Origins and Inquisition. There's some elements I like returning from 2 too (the purple Hawke dialogue choices, and the friendship/rivalry system!)
Definitely. Just finished it again and really enjoyed it. Plenty of good quests and I enjoyed building Skyhold up. I would recommend it.
I tried playing DA:I for 3 separate occasions. And, I never could. The story was boring, the combat was janky, the world was boring. People said I had to go past certain part for it to get good, but man it was a chore to play.
I played on the PC version, with mods to add a sprint button/do the war board quests whenever.
What a coincidence you made this video, I just started to replay this game again ^.^
I liked every DA game for its own reasons. I’ve played DA:I the most of the 3 because it’s fun to just get lost in for a while.
DAI was my favorite of the three but it’s hard for me to go back to this
I spent 100 hours playing it again. Loved it like I did 10 years ago.
You don't have to make me feel this old 😂 by releasing this video reminding me this game is a decade old.
character classes in DAI heh in my opinion the best are rogue archer and mage with the knight enchanter spec which can make you basically an immortal magical tank
Dragon age Inquisition is like a giant pie. That does not have any filling.... but its still a giant pie so its kind of worth it.
matty i didnt know your other channel was your main one 😭
have been watching stuff on here for a while now
Great game! The online was solid. At least for me. I respect the game.
I'm playing Inquisition now for the first time. I'm about 40 hours in and I'm really enjoying it.
I'm trying to play dragon age inquisition again but no matter what solution I try, it just won't connect to servers so I can log in to dragon age keep. I wanted to upload all of my previous files from the games but now I can't. And the game just isn't the same if I can't make all my previous choices matter.
Good hype for Veilgaurd for me 😤
Inquisition is my personal fav in the series, and I love origins too. Aside from the hinterlands I found the game great
Absolutely loved this game when I played it in 2017
Downloaded it today and wasn't really feeling it during the prologue after playing origins and 2 but I will give it a try again. Also i see that Trails from Zero poster in the back. You are cultured.
Yeah, it worth it. I'll replay that any day before I touch Veilguard.
my friend loves inquisition and I've never played a bioware game. I'm really trying to connect with it for him but man I hate playing so far lol
If the gameplay is a struggle i'd suggest trying another combat style (you can do this by controlling a companion instead even). For example, i find 2H insufferable to play but I quite enjoy sword and board feel. It's really drastic difference in feel depending on weapon/class for basically every friend I have that played it.
@@violetbliss4399damn you really don't know how to play if you think 2h is insufferable. Templar 2h is probably the most fun you can have in inquisition
Only Dragon Age 1, Mass Effect 2, or older Bioware games are worth playing.
Inquisition is designed like an MMO to waste your time.
Tell your friend to play something like Hogwarts Legacy instead.
I just came across my PS4 disc version of this, and was really thinking about playing through it again. Definitely going to now
Played all the DA games and by far in my opinion Inquisition is the best love the open world, expansive lore, and the crafting mechanic.
im willing to put money, you guys will do the same thing with veilguard. it’ll be the nee underrated game of the decade
I would say you will have a better time with inquisition, than failguard 🙊
I loved this game! I don’t think there’s a bad installment in this series.
MMO fetch quests or RPG fetch quests?
If they do a remaster for the first three games I’m definitely buying.
One of the best rpg out there. it will still be worth playing for many many years to come!
I thought DAI was the weakest of the DA games at release, and I still fell that way. On the other hand DAV has made DAI look a lot better in comparison. Say what you will about the gameplay or the story, they put a hell of a lot of effort into making as many of our previous choices matter as possible.
Will play this again and avoid the new abominagion at all cost
I came in blind to DA:I last year having never played the previous games. It was pretty good, but not captivating enough to make me want to replay. The only gripe is the DLC was TOO seamless and I accidentally finished the dreadwolf and completelt skipped the deep roads portion without realizing.
Originally I liked this game but later on I grew to hate it, not just because of the mmo fetch quest of it but also so many bland characters compared to origins. Everything good about this game exist outside of it and even those are not enough (how did leleina and morrigan turned out for exmaple)
And as bad as veilgaurd seems I feel I will like it more than inquisition. But none of them will be near enough as good as origins.
I liked the game but there was one side quest that was game spanning and once completed.....it really really was not worth the effort
I really liked inquisition it’s the first game I 100% and it took forever. The whole series I think has been pretty good overall each one has its own style. I’m hopeful for veilgaurd although it’s hard to get over the art style
Loved Origins back in the day, like the second one quite a bit actually although it was a watered-down version of the original but never got around to playing this back at launch. Decided to also install and play it now before The Veilguard releases and I honestly could not get into it at all. It felt like playing an ancient relic from the past and having just come off The Shadow of the Erdtree expansion for Elden Ring, Inquisition was a dull bore. Dropped it a few hours in.
Best game in the franchise by far
I will give the internet credit they were saying single player mmo back at launch but I couldn’t relate ocularums and shards didn’t catch my attention but closing all the rifts seemed like something my inquisitor should care about ppl reference the hinterlands when talking about the games questing issue but the inquisition was just founded I look at the hinterlands quests as the world’s introduction to the inquisition just helping the small folks get them bedding food set up watch towers it gave my herald and the inquisition credibility you can obviously identify the pointless quests that have no more value then simply get me this and you get gold and you can literally just decide your inquisitor doesn’t have time to escort a druffalo I didn’t feel overly forced into a majority of the games filler just felt like even if loot and gear from a lot of these quests rewards were underwhelming they fed and supported my role playing same outlook helped me appreciate the war table and actually read out and think through which advisor to use only way I could understand the frustration is if you were going for the 100% trophy😂
Absolutely just got done replaying it about to start trespassers dlc
I could never make it past a few hours into DAI, no matter how many times i tried. I was considering trying it again on console but there was no enhanced patch (ps5).
I can do all the hinterlands quests in like five hours, once you know where you’re going you can 100% it quickly and it doesn’t become a hole, the western approach and hissing wastes are the problem not the hinterlands
I think people never mention Hissing Wastes because they likely didn't get that far into the game but, yeah, if the Hinterlands bug you, you're gonna HATE them.
@@ironwolf56 that’s fair lol I just finished the wastes again and I could have finished the game without going at all 😂
I really like hissing wastes. Yes I agree it's a big empty area but the caves the gear and the dragon fight makes up for it. Hinterlands is nice too because the quests Actually make sense instead of many others in other areas. The worst area by far is the exalted plains
It's better than veilguard. Love dai
I remember finishing the game and finding out about the true ending being behind a paywall (Trespasser dlc). Then I actually became pretty salty about it
I played Origin after two was already out. I enjoyed it. But I wasn't a fan of the dialogue list, I was more a fan of radial dialogue like in Mass Effect. So I was told I'd like 2 more, never played. Still haven't.
I ended up playing Inquisition and re fell in love with the series. Still need to play the dlc which I will. But when I get to it, currently playing through the entire franchise to get ready for Veilguard.
Where DA:I truly thrives is in its writing. The gameplay loop has issues, the banter is too far apart, and too many fetch quests (at least early on), but the character writing, and the twists and turns are great. To truly appreciate it, you need to play trespasser. Solas suddenly became my favorite character in the series, going above Morrigan and Alistair. Which is a real achievement.
I played this earlier this year. Lucky people warned me of the Hinterlands so I didn't stay there. Just did a few stuff each time I visit through out the game and it wasn't so bad.
I have tried to play this game a handful of times but i just cannot get past how slow it feels and i absolutely despise the combat...it is SO boring...you nailed it with calling it a Single Player MMO. I hate traditional MMO's and it honestly feels like im playing one when I play Inquisition.
Maybe if you tried to do ability combos instead of just holding r2 or r then it wouldn't be boring at all. This game has insane combo potential and no game has such fluid combos and animations. The warrior in origins and inquisition is a correct example. The warrior in origins is the most boring thing iv played
@@johnpantag472 Ability combos is how Inquisition is meant to be played, except Bioware left us to discover this by ourselves. Otherwise, yeah, combat is a chore.
Inquisition is my favorite one.
This game have an LOTR wibe. And Veilguard just buried series
Dragon Age Inquisition is my favor in the trilogy. The companions are good. I liked the gameplay and progression. Cassandra is the best.
I’ve bought this game on every console idk why
I just finished the main quest after 120 hours with 10 years between Playthroughs. I still think the graphics are still good and on series X 60fps. I love the characters/story and ended up romancing Cassandra. Should have skipped all those damn shards!
This was what got me into dragon age
I loved this game. Still do. It's my #3 game of the last 10 years, behind Witcher 3 as #1 and Cyberpunk 2077 as #2.
rare to see a witcher #3 lover loving degaon age inquisition. lovely
@@gamernextdoor23 Inquisition was probably my favorite game until I played Witcher 3 released.