@joselouis7407 I never finished the game, I got the last mission and stopped playing it because I didn't want to pay for game pass. I also didn't want to finish the game without the dlc because I heard the story continues in it I've since bought it on pc the game of the year edition for 5 dollars with all of the dlc included, I plan to go back and try to play with my new character this summer after I install mods on it that is. Although after dumping 200 hours into baldur's gate 2 I'm not sure how I'll feel after going back to inquisition with how empty the world can be, though....I did love exploring and finding random quests that had to do with old elevn artifacts and searching through the ruins.
Believe it or not my favourite thing about this game was the feeling of political influence and power it get you. People called the side content busy work, but I found it engaging, the alliances you secure, all the things you do at the war table and even the mines you mark down. No game since has given me the same feeling of earned influence.
Exactly what a got from the game. I love games that gives you the feeling like you're having some sort of impact. I especially love this in Assassin's creed 3 homestead.
@@yungwells6549 a game that imo gives you this feeling is Owlcat's pathfinder:kingmaker. There are some design decision that are questionable, and it is based off pathfinder 1st edition which is a complicated system, but its a crpg(like baldurs gate or dragon age origins) that really lets you feel like you're growing from a small 1 town barony to an entire kingdom, while not being a strategy game but a party based rpg that with a wartable like mechanic similar to DA inquisition. Their 2nd game pathfinder:wrath of the righteous adds in a simple heroes of might and magic like combat for unit v unit army battles separate from the party rpg system. I am a big fan of both these games for rpgs that also feel like you're leading a kingdom but are not directly strategy games like totalwar, starcraft or crusader kings.
Nope, looks garbage but hey my opinion. I tried it to play it since I was intrigued but couldn’t even play for 15 secs before I quit and delete the game….
And it doesn't hold a candle to DA:O. Good game, but lacking something. Emotional investment? With the world and characters. Also too much collecting and ticking boxes in Inquisition, instead of encouraging you to play the game however you want, which DA:O had nailed.
Played it for the first time this year, the graphics look amazing and the dragons are so damn beautiful! Repeated DA2 a couple of days ago, I wouldn't choose any other franchise over this.
Thinking back on it, the strongest point of the game is definitely the story, especially the interaction you have with your companions. There's a lot of memorable moments I enjoy. Kinda what got me into Baldur's Gate 3 which has that same energy and more. I really hope EA and Bioware don't mess up the next dragon age
Unfortunately there has been a ton of layoffs from BioWare earlier this year. IIRC one of Iron Bull's writers (and she's even one of the main writers; had been for years) had been laid off from the DA4 team as well. Would love to keep my hopes up but hearing that really bums me out.
I’m replaying the game right now and I can’t stop being enchanted by the animation! Not necessarily the cutscenes, mine you, prior DA games do much better since they have more dynamic camera movement, but the animations of the characters while you’re playing them is amazing- like the walking and running animation is good, but the way they lean to the side with their hand out when walking along a steep slope, or lift their knees higher when going up steep hills. Hell, I’m playing a two handed warrior and the way he braces his great sword against his knee is so cool to me. Idk it’s such a small think but it makes gameplay so pleasing to look at, especially for a decade old game.
I still have Inquisition in my top 10 games ever. Maybe top 5 too. I aknowledge the character dialouge was weaker than previous games, and the characters too in a few ways. But holy shit the story and plot and just figuring out the truths to the world and Solas and the Titans building up to this huge world event. It's peak bioware
@@wwe12153 the seemingly endless dialogue and the fetch quest that require you to run across the whole map just to deliver or get something. Plus the "basic" combat. There is not much variety is what I'm trying to say.
@@omen3789 I can agree on combat thing since it becomes pretty boring after a while. But I never considered long conversations to be a bad thing. The Witcher 3 is my favorite game every so I am used to it
I loved DAO and completed it multiple times in Nightmare difficulty. Even loved DA2. However I couldn’t get into this one. The combat was not challenging but what turned me off were the countless hours of just walking and grinding generic quests just to stack numbers
Me too. I loved Dao and awakening. I loved the DA 2 same . While DaO and awakening was simply next level , DA 2 had that unique feeling of being a duo of brother and sister in a chaotic world.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone say something positive about DA2 before. The entire game consists of slogging through the same exact two caves over and over again. Every battle is just a stream of basic enemies spawning in and charging. The story is pretty decent, but that's the only positive aspect.
I’m actually about 25 hours into a new playthrough of DA:I right now and am astonished about how much this game gets *right* ! The inventory and party management system is elegant, logical and intuitive. The story, voice acting, companions and dialogue are memorable and motivating. Combat, while not earth-shattering, is respectable, engaging and occasionally challenging. Graphics and art style are amazing! Geographic regions and maps are stellar. Hell, even most of the minor side quests tie nicely into the narrative flow/momentum of the overall story and power curve of your character. It’s always been a 9/10 game for me - my recent return to it only reinforces that opinion…if anything, it’s aged remarkably well!
I'm playing through currently. I agree with most of what you said. But the inventory system needs a full overhaul. It's unnecessarily tedious and way too much work. Normally, I love changing gear often, but it makes it too much of a job. Don't get me started on crafting. You can't check your current armor specs while crafting. You have to exit crafting and open the inventory, then go back into crafting. Then you have to do this for every character. It wasn't well thought out. Great game tho, I only have minor issues tbh. Like how dark they make the background while tinting armor. I can't tell half the time bc it's too dark, then it in the world it's a completely different color. If they can make some quality of life improvements for dread wolf, it' could be perfect.
My biggest gripe is the gameplay and that's only because I wanted a more crpg experience. It was admittedly decent at what it did and I did enjoy it enough to put in a few hundred hours I think
I prefer an action-precision based Combat. It doesn’t have to be perfect but can’t be an auto attack based combat. Kinda ruins the immersion. what would have been 9/10 story, gameplay brings it down to 6/10
I just want to say in this game YOU DO NOT have to do any side quest and you'll be completely fine. There are many fetch quest that amount to good lore but not much to the present conflict at hand. Once you get inquisition level 6 you can get power for coin and skip doing side quest from that point on. Almost all the side quest are just lore material. If you just wanna play the game casually I'd say do your Companion and Main Missions and for challenges fight the High Dragons in each region. None of the side quest outside that impact the story the way they do in mass effect. Also DO NOT neglect your companions lol actually talk to them for your sake.
"Actual dev time" as in not script writing, or sketching. Frostbite 3, the engine DAI runs on was only released in Late 2013, the game was ported and went through Alpha & Beta within 12 months! What the Bioware dev team pulled off with a new combat system, the tactical menu and an expansive world on the previous game was a phenominal feat.
In honor of Veilguard, I went back and replayed Inquisiton for the first time ever since 2015 (which was the first time I played it). I barely remembered anything other than major story deets and not loving it or remembering it too much, especially compared to DA Origins and DA2. Now, especially as a fully grown adult instead of a broken hearted teen, this game is so much better than I remembered. I don't know if it's really weird that I enjoyed this game so much to the point where I really think it's changed my GOTY for 2014 (which was previously Shadow of Mordor). I just absolutely adore it now - the writing, the characters, the environments, the main quest and most of the side quests, the crafting and the sheer amount of detail, the Solas romance and even the gameplay was mostly fun as a dual-wielding rogue. It has it's quirks and downsides, but honestly it's part of the charm - the Hinterlands and all the fetch quests are so TAME now compared to today's action/RPG open world games - just avoid the shards, of course. It was a very well-spent 70 hours in reconnecting and affirming my love for the third game in a series that I hold in very high regard.
Cutscenes are capped at 30fps thats why they feel different than smooth gameplay, they can be made to 60fps, but in DLC you may get infinite loading screen with elluvium gates.
Maybe I’m crazy but I kinda like a lot of the busy work quests? I wish they were a little more relevant to the story but like it makes the world actually feel alive. My favorite part of the game is that it actually works your character into the world- the race and class you pick actually determines your backstory
We absolutely need more info about Dreadwolf to drop. We have had very short clips since it has been announced and apparently we have only now had it confirmed that the full reveal will be in summer next year.
Idk if someone said this already, but the reason why the cutscenes don't run as smooth as the game is because the cutscenes are capped at 30 FPS no matter what. When modders tried to uncap it, it apparently makes the timing on all the animations just wrong. Now you know! :)
You don't have to auto attack, you can just mash the button manually, and it is in fact better to do so as you go much faster than the auto attack does so have far superior DPS that way
after a few mods i can verify that, "skip war table wait time" and "More fade rift power X10" carried the entire game. I can only imagine playing without mods and having to wait hours and hours to keep playing through the story
I loved this game! I decided to replay it again at the end of December and it was a blast all over. My main complaint was the lack of dialogue from the companions in the open world and it’s honestly still fairly bug filled.
It was one of my favorite games that year. Good world building, good story, decent writing, great companions, combat is good enough etc. Just a bit too... Ubisoft-ish in some respects. I kind of liked the combat system where you auto attack and have spells to deploy. Controlling the entire party etc. Good stuff. And they do a very good job of giving the feeling of building up an organization. But yeah, the horses are slow for same reason in Skyrim, one, I'm not sure the engine and hardware of the time could stream it sufficiently, and two, you'd realize how small the world actually is. There's actually a decent amount of great side content in the game. Just tons more fetch quests and crap like that.
Dragon Age Inquisition is to this day my favorite game. It definitely has its issues, namely its combat and some of the side quests, but the world building, story, and the characters made this game so good to me. At this point this game is so nostalgic and comforting to me. I still go back every so often to start a new playthrough. I only worry about the next game considering the issues at Bioware currently.
Personally i have a special place in my heart for DAI. This is one of the game that i have a lot of fun playing. The music is amazing. And to me the best thing about DAI is the crafting system. I wish more game use the same crafting system as in this game. The only game that use the system is GreedFall. Please don't let it die.
Love this game and the whole DA series! (Fingers crossed for Dreadwolf making an appearance at the Game Awards) But I didn’t know Inquisition had a rushed dev cycle.
Thanks for doing this,had a great time watching your video. I played this for countless hours and when it was finished i restarted again,absolutely amazing game.
I've beat Inquisition at least 4 times and I think its worst quality is that it's impossible to know how to pace yourself on a first playthrough. Once you know which content to skip you can create a path that's actually... good. The mandatory story moments are mostly great, but so much of the side content was pointless busywork.
This game is amazing if you run the mod that removes all the tedious grinding for power and waiting for war council activities to be done in real time.
I started a new playthrough the other day, a Qunari mage, this time I WILL get past the Hinterlands. It's a mark of shame that I've owned this since release but really never got far.
It definitely gets better if you spend as little time as possible in the Hinterlands in the beginning. Just do the bare minimum to grind up your power and you should be good. Once the game gets going it’s pretty easy to snowball your power.
One thing that I found Origins did better is failure. In Origins, if you are outnumbered / outmatched, you WILL eventually die, and had better head elsewhere. In inquisition, its viable to simply run away until your teammates auto-revive and then wack the rest of the baddies. So you end up beating the encounter, but not feeling like you beat it :(
Hot take; but Dragon Age Inquisition is my favorite of the series. The customization, the story, the grand scale, romance, and the post dlc. I had a great time playing game through atleast 10 times
If only this game was made not on the downfall time of BioWare, when EA forcing devs to use that Frostbite engine on every game and influence too much on the development process of those game.
The cutscenes in this game are locked at 30FPS so if you have anything resembling a decent PC, or even a mid to low range PC by 2023 standards, the difference between regular gameplay and cutscenes is shocking.
FYI chat: DAI runs on Frostbite 3, Frostbite 3 was released in Q4 2013, DAI released to public November 2014. The game went through Alpha and Beta inside 12months. DAI was GOTY because that Bioware dev team poured their souls into Inquisition
It’s unfortunate that the leaders saw that and believed it would work every time. A good game generally needs more than 1 year in the programming and development cycle.
@@magnusprime962 oh I wholeheartedly agree, Anthem and the state of Mass Effect are examples of how they thought that development plan would work. DAI was only as good as it was because the devs really went hammer and tong at it. Now though, they’ve had a solid decade to make something that will hopefully be really special.
I played this as a warrior tank. So fun to charge at them, build your wall up so they can't really 'hurt' you. But definitely the harder route to go, as your AI party members will never be able to do burst damage the way you can on a sick rogue build, or mage for that matter. Can't believe this game is that old. It still holds up well graphics-wise. I'm getting a bit nostalgic. I couldn't crank that game up to ULTRA MAX everything, but I think the 4070 I now have will be up to the task! lol
I started playing it this year and it’s actually amazing. I’ve never played any Dragon Age game, or really and game like it, and I bought it years ago not knowing what it was. But it’s really really good. I haven’t finished it yet but I love it sm and want to do multiple play throughs
Highly recommend to play two previous games as well. The thrilogy has quite The Cameos that strike right in your heart if you play the games chronologically. Also your actions reflect how the next games' worlds look like. It is such a heartwarming touch! The second and the third games even mention your previous protagonists. In some cases you can hear something about your previous protagonists (playing as a next game protagonist) from their love interests! This is mindblowing! For example, Leliana is your companion in the first game, and Inquisitor's spymaster, as you already know. I was so happy to see her in DA:I, I can not express it!
Unfortunately, the game is locked to 30 FPS in cutscenes. This was the very first thing I changed when I started the game. You just gotta go into the files and change a number, there's a bunch of tutorials out there.
i just watched your character class starter guide video 😂. Thanks for the help so far with the game, just bought it, at last, and i hope to enjoy it like i enjoyed The Division 2, or TLOU2, or something like that haha
The one thing this game was missing was the DA2 mechanic for archers and mages that had them switch their fighting style when someone was in their face
@@FeliPeltier 😭 Man, I dropped it after finishing the mission where you get trapped in the dream. It was such a long sequence that it discouraged me from continuing, lmao. That part was so boring that I don't think I'll ever do a ng+ But I will finish Origins for completion though!
There’s been bunch of criticism over the years about DA:I’s “fetch” quests. First, these quests are rarely part of the main story and hence, skippable. If they annoy you, don’t do them. End of problem. Second, DA:I takes crap in this area when other open-world games don’t. Case in point: RDR2. That game is the king of fetch quests. There are hundreds of nitnoy things you need collect or do to 100% that game-some of which you will never find without a guide (I’m looking at you wall paintings). Yet I’ve never seen RDR2 get slammed for this-just praised about “world building” and “immersion.” It’s legit to complain about b.s. things you have to do to progress the story but if it’s optional, feel free to just move on down the road.
Dragon Age is a way better series than The Witcher, which is itself a 10/10 I've never felt like my choices made such a difference in any game. Things that felt irrelevant in Origins become meaningful in Inquisition and that's just absolutely bonkers. There are so many branches on the story tree, it's such a massive undertaking from a game developer
I loved it when it came out, I really enjoyed the fact that you had to make political decisions and I liked the different class options and specializations, also I was blown away by the graphics and particle effects at the time.
How would they keep the tactial mode when it is confirmed the new dragonage is going full action combat? When God of War is being referenced I think it is fair to assume tactical modes aren't exactly their goal :p
I personally recommend just doing the companion quests (including recruiting them obviously), war table stuff that doesn't include traveling and story quests, plus killing the 12 or 14 dragons. Any of the other stuff imo doesn't really affect the story in any way and it's forgettable. The only side quests I enjoyed were the one where you fight the avvar guy and using the shards to open the doors in the forbidden oasis
Also, let's be honest, a large aspect of this and other Dragon Age games is the relationships system and who are you going to bang. The correct answer is Cassandra, anything else is wrong.
That’s definitely the one I’ve done every time I’ve gotten that far, but I do still want to play through some others. My Qunari Warrior definitely wants to ride the Bull at some point, and I do want to see how things work with Solas, Cullen, and Josephine.
You're still going on with the same weapons and armors your group had in the prologue. At this time I usually have used the Golden Nug (after you've beaten the game the first time) and forged the best weapons in the game. That way it becomes extremely easy
Just found your content, thanks for it. I am a casual gamer who just got into this game. I am loving it. I have been looking for content to help me enjoy the game as much as possible. Thanks for running this gameplay recently as I only seem to find old content. Again thanks
I don't think DAI has unfavor criticism. Even the creators have come out saying they were pushed into cutting down on story content and beefing up filler content because story cost too much. Most long time Bioware fans did not like DAI at the time. It's just that the game going in a more generic direction appeased non Bioware fans and the general gaming community who had a much larger voice. Now that the general public moved on the long time fans have a bigger percentage of the voice being heard.
My favorite memory of this game is one night playing one of the sidequests in the Emerald Graves that involved reading multiple letters around the map and after reading the last one, a huge ass spider comes out of nowhere and I screamed "HOLY SHIT!" I woke up everyone in the house 😂
Solas’s story is one of the best of all time IMO. I truly hope DA:D can pull a solid story out, I’ll be willing to overlook a lot if the narrative is tight.
Dragon Age Inquisition is an amazing game. It won various game of the years awards and was actually received extremely well at launch. Essentially making a big step back towards Origin compared to DA:2. It got crapped on retroactively and mostly unfairly. Sure there's a few warts but still fewer warts than even the best Bethesda game ever. I honestly think the characters, story, dialogues, and quests in this game are potentially the best of any game ever. Dorian has to be my favorite companion character out of any game too. Most of the little nitpicks you had were the genre itself. Like Auto attack, it's because it's a DA game and since Origin that's how it works. Essentially DA:I is the combat system of Origin made to look and feel sort of like an Action RPG but it isn't. I honestly think it's a fantastic system and the crafting and gearing system in this game is basically second to none (well beyond even Origins). Honestly there's so much about this game that is far better than other excellent RPGs like the Witcher 3, and even in some areas better than Dragon Age Origins. I really don't think you can say the Witcher 3 is a "better" RPG... these are both essentially more bounded open world RPGs... but really the sub-genres split drastically from there. The Witcher 3 is intended to be a fully Action RPG with DA:I being like all of them, the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate (the originals) meaning a pseudo-turn based combat system. Even from there they diverge even more where the Witcher 3 is a static singular hero RPG (great tangents into secondary characters of course, but still you're Geralt). While Dragon age again harkens back to the CRPGs like DA:O and it's influencer Baldur's Gate being a create your own character more D&D style and then companion driven RPG. To me companion driven RPGs are simply my favorite ones, period. So as good as the Witcher 3 is DA:I is indeed quite a bit better to me. They are apples and oranges in a lot of ways like that though for those reasons. I think the mainstream audience liked action RPGs that were more simply based around a static single hero at the time. FOrtunately with the rise of CRGPs recently that has shifted, especially with BG3. Where DA:I mostly faulters is a bit of quality issues... Not too much really, even at launch it had fewer launch issues than most games that launch. Honestly BG3 especially with Act III was far more buggy than DA:I at launch IMHO. The biggest mistake of DA:I was the filler fetch quests. Not the notes that you find. Those are classic CRPG things and good things. They encourage you exploring the world etc. Though the ones to go do X things etc. Very MMO style. Honestly the game doesn't need them and you CAN ignore pretty much all of them. There are actually TONS of excellent quality side quests in Dragon Age. Some are simply outstanding in fact... they really just needed to delete the MMO style quests which weren't really needed in the first place and once you know that you just ignore them and move on and it's not really an issue.
The combat in Inquisition is not better, only the animations are, and the fact that its more hands on (yet loses to Dragon Age 2 in that regard). Origins, despite some glaring issues, like an RNG hit system (that make the attack animations seem goofy), still has better combat; better multicharacter character control, better strategizing, better combat diversity and diversity of scenarios. All of which practically don't exist in DAI, perhaps due to engine limitations. The Dragon Age Inquisition story however, has no excuse for being so bad. The antagonist is an ancient magister that has control of the blight. What are his goals? Nothing concrete. Then there's the matter of the Inquisition. How in tarnation is any of this supposed to make sense? The Inquisition would essentially be characterized as a religious extremist terrorist cell and attacked by various armies if this had taken place in Dragon Age Origins, and it would have been a much more believable reaction than everyone just patiently holding back and looking, while you go fucking exploring the Hinterlands. So this Inquisition picks up a complete stranger that has the magical ability to close the rifts, and decides to make them leader of the Inquisition? This bum they know nothing about, potentially from a culture hostile to their own... And even worse, they take this leader, the only one with the capability to close rifts, to fight on the front lines, not even after extensively scouting it out, no, they become the expeditiary force too. Nothing about this scenario makes fucking sense. Its shite world-building built on a foundation of possibly the worst chosen-one story trope ever conceived. It feels like the only part of Dragon Age Inquisition that counts is the DLC. You get an actual villain with clear goals you have to discover and eventually fight, interesting plot twists and a secret enemy. THIS SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN DLC, It should have been the main story. Corypheus was a lame distraction that too much time was spent on in order to excuse the extremely bland open world sections. If the only open-world segment had been the flooded village, this would have been great and not felt bloated, because there was an actual story being told there. But even the game treats its own content as disposable with their power score system, so this actually good open world segment, is completely missable/skipable. So a person might have only experienced all the worst parts of DAI.
@@Yodalemos Origins has god awful combat. I actually cannot fathom that people like you exist. I like Origins but the combat is not it's strong suit and Inquisition is objectively better in terms of combat.
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A dev confirmed on twitter that the horses dont move any faster when you sprint. They just added the air lines.
The horse caused more problems thats why people forgot about it
This has been disproven time and time again
@@gamerhex7335How so?
The only thing keeping me back from beating it for a third time is doing ALL those fetch quests again
It was more of the map size for me
Especially if you’re going from a role playing instead of completionist perspective, it takes so long 😭
@@joselouis7407 Exactly, last time I wanted to replay the game I just looked at the map and went 'pfffffff'
@joselouis7407 I never finished the game, I got the last mission and stopped playing it because I didn't want to pay for game pass. I also didn't want to finish the game without the dlc because I heard the story continues in it I've since bought it on pc the game of the year edition for 5 dollars with all of the dlc included, I plan to go back and try to play with my new character this summer after I install mods on it that is. Although after dumping 200 hours into baldur's gate 2 I'm not sure how I'll feel after going back to inquisition with how empty the world can be, though....I did love exploring and finding random quests that had to do with old elevn artifacts and searching through the ruins.
@@Name.......... just play baldurs gate 3, goty 2023
Believe it or not my favourite thing about this game was the feeling of political influence and power it get you. People called the side content busy work, but I found it engaging, the alliances you secure, all the things you do at the war table and even the mines you mark down. No game since has given me the same feeling of earned influence.
Most of that content was cut out, the war system was meant to be much more fleshed out
Exactly what a got from the game. I love games that gives you the feeling like you're having some sort of impact. I especially love this in Assassin's creed 3 homestead.
@@yungwells6549 a game that imo gives you this feeling is Owlcat's pathfinder:kingmaker. There are some design decision that are questionable, and it is based off pathfinder 1st edition which is a complicated system, but its a crpg(like baldurs gate or dragon age origins) that really lets you feel like you're growing from a small 1 town barony to an entire kingdom, while not being a strategy game but a party based rpg that with a wartable like mechanic similar to DA inquisition.
Their 2nd game pathfinder:wrath of the righteous adds in a simple heroes of might and magic like combat for unit v unit army battles separate from the party rpg system. I am a big fan of both these games for rpgs that also feel like you're leading a kingdom but are not directly strategy games like totalwar, starcraft or crusader kings.
Then you send your minions to get you herbs and they pick half a dozen flowers and go home. It had good parts but others were annoying
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The writing for the Trespasser DLC was amazing
The story was excellent, they showed the strength and determination of the qunnari and the tragedy of the fall of elves
Good news then: Dreadwolf's lead writer is Patrick Weekes, also the lead writer for Trespasser ;)
Yeah, the only good writing in the game
@@RevanSurikThank god
@@RevanSurik If this is true, this just made my day then.
9yrs old, damn.
This game still looks amazing.
environments at least. Character model and animations... well...
@wojciechciagaa7723 OK you got me there 😆
Looks like shit on my ps4
Nope, looks garbage but hey my opinion. I tried it to play it since I was intrigued but couldn’t even play for 15 secs before I quit and delete the game….
@@GokuBlackRose978 So why ru watching a video about it?!?!
Who's here after Epic games gave it away
That would be me
Haha same here 😂
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You can set each follower to ingest a health potion at whatever amount of health you decide.
Still remains one of my favorite rpgs of all time. Some of the best companions in any game. Hope the next one lives up to the hype
And it doesn't hold a candle to DA:O. Good game, but lacking something. Emotional investment? With the world and characters. Also too much collecting and ticking boxes in Inquisition, instead of encouraging you to play the game however you want, which DA:O had nailed.
Really? I thought it had Bioware's weakest cast of companions(until MEA). Dorian and Solas were S tier though
Whatttttt, I loved Vivienne and Sera, and Cassandra. Idk their personal quests were made me invest sooo much. @@CoopHawke
@@CoopHawke Solas, Dorian, Iron Bull, and Varric is S tier
@@Neromaxgg I think Varric was in DA2. They dulled him down so much in DA1
Played it for the first time this year, the graphics look amazing and the dragons are so damn beautiful! Repeated DA2 a couple of days ago, I wouldn't choose any other franchise over this.
I loved the feelings this game gives you. Like when Haven gets destroyed and they start to sing
Seeing this, I really hope they can remaster dragon age origins. That was an awesome game.
Thinking back on it, the strongest point of the game is definitely the story, especially the interaction you have with your companions. There's a lot of memorable moments I enjoy. Kinda what got me into Baldur's Gate 3 which has that same energy and more. I really hope EA and Bioware don't mess up the next dragon age
Unfortunately there has been a ton of layoffs from BioWare earlier this year. IIRC one of Iron Bull's writers (and she's even one of the main writers; had been for years) had been laid off from the DA4 team as well. Would love to keep my hopes up but hearing that really bums me out.
@@iwaslikenope1070 Yeah, it's pretty grim
Feel like Origins heavily inspired bg3 in art style. If Origins was made today they would have very similar art. Really hope we get a 1:1 remake of it
@@Soupy_bassThere will not any remake. EA will absolutely butcher any games.
@@Vynne96-jg7erThe Dead Space remake was great though.
The party banter was my favorite thing in the game. I liked how the characters really cared about each other when the Trespasser DLC came out.
Anyone here after the veilguard came out?
I love this game, always thought it gets a bit unfairly hated on, as in you don't have to be a completionist and grind all the collector stuff.
I’m replaying the game right now and I can’t stop being enchanted by the animation! Not necessarily the cutscenes, mine you, prior DA games do much better since they have more dynamic camera movement, but the animations of the characters while you’re playing them is amazing- like the walking and running animation is good, but the way they lean to the side with their hand out when walking along a steep slope, or lift their knees higher when going up steep hills. Hell, I’m playing a two handed warrior and the way he braces his great sword against his knee is so cool to me. Idk it’s such a small think but it makes gameplay so pleasing to look at, especially for a decade old game.
I still have Inquisition in my top 10 games ever. Maybe top 5 too. I aknowledge the character dialouge was weaker than previous games, and the characters too in a few ways.
But holy shit the story and plot and just figuring out the truths to the world and Solas and the Titans building up to this huge world event. It's peak bioware
agreed.
THANK YOU. Couldn't agree more.
Not on the same level of greatness as Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity Original Sin 2, Dragon Age Origins, etc...
My issue with this is that the story its being praised for is in its DLC's. The main game's story was terrible and bloated.
@@Yodalemos Exactly!
I absolutely love this game......I don't care what other people have to say.....I just love this game.
Same, I have over 300h in this game, but I can understand why some people don't like it. The game is not for everyone.
@@omen3789 what’s in it that is not for everyone?
Agreed
@@wwe12153 the seemingly endless dialogue and the fetch quest that require you to run across the whole map just to deliver or get something. Plus the "basic" combat. There is not much variety is what I'm trying to say.
@@omen3789 I can agree on combat thing since it becomes pretty boring after a while. But I never considered long conversations to be a bad thing. The Witcher 3 is my favorite game every so I am used to it
I loved DAO and completed it multiple times in Nightmare difficulty. Even loved DA2. However I couldn’t get into this one. The combat was not challenging but what turned me off were the countless hours of just walking and grinding generic quests just to stack numbers
Absolutely, I couldn't agree more.
I completely agree, that being said why do I have 250 hours in this game 💀
True, most of the side quests are just meh..
Me too. I loved Dao and awakening. I loved the DA 2 same . While DaO and awakening was simply next level , DA 2 had that unique feeling of being a duo of brother and sister in a chaotic world.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone say something positive about DA2 before. The entire game consists of slogging through the same exact two caves over and over again. Every battle is just a stream of basic enemies spawning in and charging. The story is pretty decent, but that's the only positive aspect.
I’m actually about 25 hours into a new playthrough of DA:I right now and am astonished about how much this game gets *right* ! The inventory and party management system is elegant, logical and intuitive. The story, voice acting, companions and dialogue are memorable and motivating. Combat, while not earth-shattering, is respectable, engaging and occasionally challenging. Graphics and art style are amazing! Geographic regions and maps are stellar. Hell, even most of the minor side quests tie nicely into the narrative flow/momentum of the overall story and power curve of your character.
It’s always been a 9/10 game for me - my recent return to it only reinforces that opinion…if anything, it’s aged remarkably well!
I'm playing through currently. I agree with most of what you said. But the inventory system needs a full overhaul. It's unnecessarily tedious and way too much work. Normally, I love changing gear often, but it makes it too much of a job. Don't get me started on crafting. You can't check your current armor specs while crafting. You have to exit crafting and open the inventory, then go back into crafting. Then you have to do this for every character. It wasn't well thought out. Great game tho, I only have minor issues tbh. Like how dark they make the background while tinting armor. I can't tell half the time bc it's too dark, then it in the world it's a completely different color. If they can make some quality of life improvements for dread wolf, it' could be perfect.
My biggest gripe is the gameplay and that's only because I wanted a more crpg experience. It was admittedly decent at what it did and I did enjoy it enough to put in a few hundred hours I think
Wow, I couldn't have disagreed with you more on practically every aspect you praised it for...
I prefer an action-precision based Combat. It doesn’t have to be perfect but can’t be an auto attack based combat. Kinda ruins the immersion. what would have been 9/10 story, gameplay brings it down to 6/10
I just want to say in this game YOU DO NOT have to do any side quest and you'll be completely fine. There are many fetch quest that amount to good lore but not much to the present conflict at hand. Once you get inquisition level 6 you can get power for coin and skip doing side quest from that point on. Almost all the side quest are just lore material. If you just wanna play the game casually I'd say do your Companion and Main Missions and for challenges fight the High Dragons in each region. None of the side quest outside that impact the story the way they do in mass effect. Also DO NOT neglect your companions lol actually talk to them for your sake.
Or do 2-3 side quests per area....or google the important side quests.
Why not? Absolute ripper of a game. Re-played it back in 2021. Loved every second.
Great video.
Trash game
Dunno where you heard that DAI only had a year of dev time in it, that was Dragon Age 2.
"Actual dev time" as in not script writing, or sketching.
Frostbite 3, the engine DAI runs on was only released in Late 2013, the game was ported and went through Alpha & Beta within 12 months!
What the Bioware dev team pulled off with a new combat system, the tactical menu and an expansive world on the previous game was a phenominal feat.
3/4 of team went to help anthem same with mass effect the last one
Want to feel old. This game came out ten years ago. And I have over 1200 hours in this game.
The fact I've played this so much I have a majority of the dialogue memorized...
This game has such an special place in my heart
"The Tactical mode is something that's still unique to this game"
Every CRPG ever: 👁👄👁
This is one of those games that every time i see a video on it i end up reinstalling
Was my first DA and I still think it’s my fav
I still remember the legend of my dwarf Inkldinkle Von Ginkl
R.I.P
In honor of Veilguard, I went back and replayed Inquisiton for the first time ever since 2015 (which was the first time I played it). I barely remembered anything other than major story deets and not loving it or remembering it too much, especially compared to DA Origins and DA2. Now, especially as a fully grown adult instead of a broken hearted teen, this game is so much better than I remembered. I don't know if it's really weird that I enjoyed this game so much to the point where I really think it's changed my GOTY for 2014 (which was previously Shadow of Mordor).
I just absolutely adore it now - the writing, the characters, the environments, the main quest and most of the side quests, the crafting and the sheer amount of detail, the Solas romance and even the gameplay was mostly fun as a dual-wielding rogue. It has it's quirks and downsides, but honestly it's part of the charm - the Hinterlands and all the fetch quests are so TAME now compared to today's action/RPG open world games - just avoid the shards, of course. It was a very well-spent 70 hours in reconnecting and affirming my love for the third game in a series that I hold in very high regard.
An extremely polished good game buried underneath a billion hours of tedium
can you elaborate?
@@cosmicrevenant7103 70% of the game is packed with inconsequential side quests that are:
“Kill this many things:….
Collect this many things:….”
@@cosmicrevenant7103 Maybe he means the grind required
This game was amazing I remember having a stag as a horse with horns was pretty cool . Excited for the new game 😊
As someone who was a diehard da o and 2 fan, this one always eluded me
Cutscenes are capped at 30fps thats why they feel different than smooth gameplay, they can be made to 60fps, but in DLC you may get infinite loading screen with elluvium gates.
yes by adding this line -GameTime.MaxSimFps 60 -GameTime.ForceSimRate 60+
Maybe I’m crazy but I kinda like a lot of the busy work quests? I wish they were a little more relevant to the story but like it makes the world actually feel alive.
My favorite part of the game is that it actually works your character into the world- the race and class you pick actually determines your backstory
We absolutely need more info about Dreadwolf to drop. We have had very short clips since it has been announced and apparently we have only now had it confirmed that the full reveal will be in summer next year.
Idk if someone said this already, but the reason why the cutscenes don't run as smooth as the game is because the cutscenes are capped at 30 FPS no matter what. When modders tried to uncap it, it apparently makes the timing on all the animations just wrong. Now you know! :)
You don't have to auto attack, you can just mash the button manually, and it is in fact better to do so as you go much faster than the auto attack does so have far superior DPS that way
That's not true 😂
cutscenes are by default locked to 30 FPS, that's why they don't run smooth, but there is a launch command to fix that on PC
after a few mods i can verify that, "skip war table wait time" and "More fade rift power X10" carried the entire game. I can only imagine playing without mods and having to wait hours and hours to keep playing through the story
I loved this game! I decided to replay it again at the end of December and it was a blast all over. My main complaint was the lack of dialogue from the companions in the open world and it’s honestly still fairly bug filled.
It was one of my favorite games that year. Good world building, good story, decent writing, great companions, combat is good enough etc. Just a bit too... Ubisoft-ish in some respects. I kind of liked the combat system where you auto attack and have spells to deploy. Controlling the entire party etc. Good stuff. And they do a very good job of giving the feeling of building up an organization. But yeah, the horses are slow for same reason in Skyrim, one, I'm not sure the engine and hardware of the time could stream it sufficiently, and two, you'd realize how small the world actually is. There's actually a decent amount of great side content in the game. Just tons more fetch quests and crap like that.
Crazy back then we didnt know the next game was gonna be 10+ yrs later
Bought game of the year edition lawl game starts way better than anything in veilguard and it stil had offensive language and blood
Dragon Age Inquisition is to this day my favorite game. It definitely has its issues, namely its combat and some of the side quests, but the world building, story, and the characters made this game so good to me. At this point this game is so nostalgic and comforting to me. I still go back every so often to start a new playthrough. I only worry about the next game considering the issues at Bioware currently.
I’m sorry to hear that
Personally i have a special place in my heart for DAI. This is one of the game that i have a lot of fun playing. The music is amazing. And to me the best thing about DAI is the crafting system. I wish more game use the same crafting system as in this game. The only game that use the system is GreedFall. Please don't let it die.
Love this game and the whole DA series! (Fingers crossed for Dreadwolf making an appearance at the Game Awards) But I didn’t know Inquisition had a rushed dev cycle.
Steam page says "reveal" next summer
For now there's just a teaser and some screenshots from the teaser
@@ChristmasLore I saw, can’t wait finally learn more about DA:D!
Thanks for doing this,had a great time watching your video. I played this for countless hours and when it was finished i restarted again,absolutely amazing game.
I've beat Inquisition at least 4 times and I think its worst quality is that it's impossible to know how to pace yourself on a first playthrough.
Once you know which content to skip you can create a path that's actually... good. The mandatory story moments are mostly great, but so much of the side content was pointless busywork.
Played the trilogy a lot as a kid can't get back into it. Completely single player games but most mechanics are like an MMO.
Its free from epic as Vault Mystery Game of 16 May 2024 .
How'd you know that?!!
How the hell did u know
Is it good or trash >???
@@haidarf99 i work there
@@busteryt6996 i work there
This game is amazing if you run the mod that removes all the tedious grinding for power and waiting for war council activities to be done in real time.
4:17 that did not age well
I started a new playthrough the other day, a Qunari mage, this time I WILL get past the Hinterlands. It's a mark of shame that I've owned this since release but really never got far.
It definitely gets better if you spend as little time as possible in the Hinterlands in the beginning. Just do the bare minimum to grind up your power and you should be good. Once the game gets going it’s pretty easy to snowball your power.
i could watch you play this whole game and not get bored, side quests included.
Awesome Game. The last great BioWare RPG. Playing again for the third time on series x now and having fun.
I remember liking the story, but the gameplay felt basic when compared to a lot of others
Yeah, you need to research about good builds inorder to have enjoyable gameplay
One thing that I found Origins did better is failure. In Origins, if you are outnumbered / outmatched, you WILL eventually die, and had better head elsewhere. In inquisition, its viable to simply run away until your teammates auto-revive and then wack the rest of the baddies. So you end up beating the encounter, but not feeling like you beat it :(
Hot take; but Dragon Age Inquisition is my favorite of the series. The customization, the story, the grand scale, romance, and the post dlc. I had a great time playing game through atleast 10 times
4:20 excited for the next dragon age...hoo boy lol
If only this game was made not on the downfall time of BioWare, when EA forcing devs to use that Frostbite engine on every game and influence too much on the development process of those game.
The cutscenes in this game are locked at 30FPS so if you have anything resembling a decent PC, or even a mid to low range PC by 2023 standards, the difference between regular gameplay and cutscenes is shocking.
FYI chat:
DAI runs on Frostbite 3,
Frostbite 3 was released in Q4 2013,
DAI released to public November 2014.
The game went through Alpha and Beta inside 12months.
DAI was GOTY because that Bioware dev team poured their souls into Inquisition
It’s unfortunate that the leaders saw that and believed it would work every time. A good game generally needs more than 1 year in the programming and development cycle.
@@magnusprime962 oh I wholeheartedly agree, Anthem and the state of Mass Effect are examples of how they thought that development plan would work.
DAI was only as good as it was because the devs really went hammer and tong at it.
Now though, they’ve had a solid decade to make something that will hopefully be really special.
I played this as a warrior tank. So fun to charge at them, build your wall up so they can't really 'hurt' you. But definitely the harder route to go, as your AI party members will never be able to do burst damage the way you can on a sick rogue build, or mage for that matter.
Can't believe this game is that old. It still holds up well graphics-wise. I'm getting a bit nostalgic. I couldn't crank that game up to ULTRA MAX everything, but I think the 4070 I now have will be up to the task! lol
I kid you not i bought this game like 2 days ago and now i feel the need to install it
I started playing it this year and it’s actually amazing. I’ve never played any Dragon Age game, or really and game like it, and I bought it years ago not knowing what it was. But it’s really really good. I haven’t finished it yet but I love it sm and want to do multiple play throughs
Highly recommend to play two previous games as well.
The thrilogy has quite The Cameos that strike right in your heart if you play the games chronologically. Also your actions reflect how the next games' worlds look like. It is such a heartwarming touch!
The second and the third games even mention your previous protagonists. In some cases you can hear something about your previous protagonists (playing as a next game protagonist) from their love interests! This is mindblowing! For example, Leliana is your companion in the first game, and Inquisitor's spymaster, as you already know. I was so happy to see her in DA:I, I can not express it!
Love the dragon age universe! It's my inspiration and what had gotten me to start writing novels the way I do now
Unfortunately, the game is locked to 30 FPS in cutscenes. This was the very first thing I changed when I started the game. You just gotta go into the files and change a number, there's a bunch of tutorials out there.
This showed up in my gaming backlog raffle! Level 8 quarni or however its spelt, two handed warrior. Never played this style before
Fighting the dragons when this came out really made you feel like you were a badass
So good
i just watched your character class starter guide video 😂. Thanks for the help so far with the game, just bought it, at last, and i hope to enjoy it like i enjoyed The Division 2, or TLOU2, or something like that haha
The one thing this game was missing was the DA2 mechanic for archers and mages that had them switch their fighting style when someone was in their face
It was missing way more than that.
@@CasepbX well, I didn't wanna get too nitpicky lol
4:27 almost the same situation, but in my case it actually was DAI, i played abot 500-1000 hours during 2015-2018
2014?! I just started this again yesterday and I could swear it was released in 2017. Holy fucking shit I’m old
i thought you might be thinking cause of tresspasser but googling that it was 2015... I feel old now too
One of my favorite games ever. The only game that’s Made me feel like I did when playing inquisition has been baulders gate 3
Is the combat similar?
@@BigR62Far better.
@@Vynne96-jg7er I’m excited to try it once I finally upgrade to next gen
My first DA was Dragon Age 2 (which I already loved just for Fenris
Oh man, origins is the best! I hope you enjoyed it
@@FeliPeltier 😭 Man, I dropped it after finishing the mission where you get trapped in the dream. It was such a long sequence that it discouraged me from continuing, lmao. That part was so boring that I don't think I'll ever do a ng+ But I will finish Origins for completion though!
@@Blasphemousa Yeah, the fade mission does suck. People mod their game so in their next playthroughs they can avoid that part.
My biggest gripe with this game is the combat. It just feels so mindless to me.
There’s been bunch of criticism over the years about DA:I’s “fetch” quests. First, these quests are rarely part of the main story and hence, skippable. If they annoy you, don’t do them. End of problem. Second, DA:I takes crap in this area when other open-world games don’t. Case in point: RDR2. That game is the king of fetch quests. There are hundreds of nitnoy things you need collect or do to 100% that game-some of which you will never find without a guide (I’m looking at you wall paintings). Yet I’ve never seen RDR2 get slammed for this-just praised about “world building” and “immersion.” It’s legit to complain about b.s. things you have to do to progress the story but if it’s optional, feel free to just move on down the road.
Dragon Age is a way better series than The Witcher, which is itself a 10/10
I've never felt like my choices made such a difference in any game. Things that felt irrelevant in Origins become meaningful in Inquisition and that's just absolutely bonkers. There are so many branches on the story tree, it's such a massive undertaking from a game developer
I’ve never understood why people bash the Witcher and praise DA or praise DA and bash the Witcher. Like seriously, these two games are GOAT’d!
I just love the look of these "older" rpg-s, they are more stylized, not going for the full realistic look. Hence, the graphics age slower
I've loved dragon age for years and I still love inquisition since you have more impact in the game if you play a mage which is what I do
I loved it when it came out, I really enjoyed the fact that you had to make political decisions and I liked the different class options and specializations, also I was blown away by the graphics and particle effects at the time.
How would they keep the tactial mode when it is confirmed the new dragonage is going full action combat?
When God of War is being referenced I think it is fair to assume tactical modes aren't exactly their goal :p
I personally recommend just doing the companion quests (including recruiting them obviously), war table stuff that doesn't include traveling and story quests, plus killing the 12 or 14 dragons. Any of the other stuff imo doesn't really affect the story in any way and it's forgettable.
The only side quests I enjoyed were the one where you fight the avvar guy and using the shards to open the doors in the forbidden oasis
Doesn’t have anything on Origins but fun enough in its own right. The base game was a bore but the DLCs were great.
Also, let's be honest, a large aspect of this and other Dragon Age games is the relationships system and who are you going to bang. The correct answer is Cassandra, anything else is wrong.
That’s definitely the one I’ve done every time I’ve gotten that far, but I do still want to play through some others. My Qunari Warrior definitely wants to ride the Bull at some point, and I do want to see how things work with Solas, Cullen, and Josephine.
the game is a fun game. my only issue is that it is really way to long, like overstays its welcome long
28:55
"Its not a Game of the Year game"
Check out the Game Awards 2014
You're still going on with the same weapons and armors your group had in the prologue. At this time I usually have used the Golden Nug (after you've beaten the game the first time) and forged the best weapons in the game. That way it becomes extremely easy
Just found your content, thanks for it. I am a casual gamer who just got into this game. I am loving it. I have been looking for content to help me enjoy the game as much as possible. Thanks for running this gameplay recently as I only seem to find old content. Again thanks
I don't think DAI has unfavor criticism. Even the creators have come out saying they were pushed into cutting down on story content and beefing up filler content because story cost too much. Most long time Bioware fans did not like DAI at the time. It's just that the game going in a more generic direction appeased non Bioware fans and the general gaming community who had a much larger voice. Now that the general public moved on the long time fans have a bigger percentage of the voice being heard.
I’m a long-time fan and I enjoy Inquisition quite a lot. We’re not a monolith.
@@magnusprime962 I did say "most" not "all"
My favorite memory of this game is one night playing one of the sidequests in the Emerald Graves that involved reading multiple letters around the map and after reading the last one, a huge ass spider comes out of nowhere and I screamed "HOLY SHIT!"
I woke up everyone in the house 😂
my first(and only) dragon age game. I remember it having long loading, but then again it's on my old ass potato pc back then
Dorian walked so Astarion could run. Or, Dorian sauntered so Astarion could saunter even harder.
This game will always have a special place in my heart just because of the Skyhold cinematic alone.
I went with a Mage character and never looked back. Mage just suited me more than the other classes
Solas’s story is one of the best of all time IMO. I truly hope DA:D can pull a solid story out, I’ll be willing to overlook a lot if the narrative is tight.
oh man this video made me miss this game, it still looks good to this day (shiny humans aside) kinda considering starting a new gameplay now😌
Dragon Age Inquisition is an amazing game. It won various game of the years awards and was actually received extremely well at launch. Essentially making a big step back towards Origin compared to DA:2. It got crapped on retroactively and mostly unfairly. Sure there's a few warts but still fewer warts than even the best Bethesda game ever.
I honestly think the characters, story, dialogues, and quests in this game are potentially the best of any game ever. Dorian has to be my favorite companion character out of any game too.
Most of the little nitpicks you had were the genre itself. Like Auto attack, it's because it's a DA game and since Origin that's how it works. Essentially DA:I is the combat system of Origin made to look and feel sort of like an Action RPG but it isn't. I honestly think it's a fantastic system and the crafting and gearing system in this game is basically second to none (well beyond even Origins). Honestly there's so much about this game that is far better than other excellent RPGs like the Witcher 3, and even in some areas better than Dragon Age Origins.
I really don't think you can say the Witcher 3 is a "better" RPG... these are both essentially more bounded open world RPGs... but really the sub-genres split drastically from there. The Witcher 3 is intended to be a fully Action RPG with DA:I being like all of them, the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate (the originals) meaning a pseudo-turn based combat system. Even from there they diverge even more where the Witcher 3 is a static singular hero RPG (great tangents into secondary characters of course, but still you're Geralt). While Dragon age again harkens back to the CRPGs like DA:O and it's influencer Baldur's Gate being a create your own character more D&D style and then companion driven RPG.
To me companion driven RPGs are simply my favorite ones, period. So as good as the Witcher 3 is DA:I is indeed quite a bit better to me. They are apples and oranges in a lot of ways like that though for those reasons. I think the mainstream audience liked action RPGs that were more simply based around a static single hero at the time. FOrtunately with the rise of CRGPs recently that has shifted, especially with BG3.
Where DA:I mostly faulters is a bit of quality issues... Not too much really, even at launch it had fewer launch issues than most games that launch. Honestly BG3 especially with Act III was far more buggy than DA:I at launch IMHO. The biggest mistake of DA:I was the filler fetch quests. Not the notes that you find. Those are classic CRPG things and good things. They encourage you exploring the world etc. Though the ones to go do X things etc. Very MMO style. Honestly the game doesn't need them and you CAN ignore pretty much all of them. There are actually TONS of excellent quality side quests in Dragon Age. Some are simply outstanding in fact... they really just needed to delete the MMO style quests which weren't really needed in the first place and once you know that you just ignore them and move on and it's not really an issue.
The combat in Inquisition is not better, only the animations are, and the fact that its more hands on (yet loses to Dragon Age 2 in that regard). Origins, despite some glaring issues, like an RNG hit system (that make the attack animations seem goofy), still has better combat; better multicharacter character control, better strategizing, better combat diversity and diversity of scenarios. All of which practically don't exist in DAI, perhaps due to engine limitations.
The Dragon Age Inquisition story however, has no excuse for being so bad. The antagonist is an ancient magister that has control of the blight. What are his goals? Nothing concrete. Then there's the matter of the Inquisition. How in tarnation is any of this supposed to make sense? The Inquisition would essentially be characterized as a religious extremist terrorist cell and attacked by various armies if this had taken place in Dragon Age Origins, and it would have been a much more believable reaction than everyone just patiently holding back and looking, while you go fucking exploring the Hinterlands.
So this Inquisition picks up a complete stranger that has the magical ability to close the rifts, and decides to make them leader of the Inquisition? This bum they know nothing about, potentially from a culture hostile to their own... And even worse, they take this leader, the only one with the capability to close rifts, to fight on the front lines, not even after extensively scouting it out, no, they become the expeditiary force too. Nothing about this scenario makes fucking sense. Its shite world-building built on a foundation of possibly the worst chosen-one story trope ever conceived.
It feels like the only part of Dragon Age Inquisition that counts is the DLC. You get an actual villain with clear goals you have to discover and eventually fight, interesting plot twists and a secret enemy. THIS SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN DLC, It should have been the main story. Corypheus was a lame distraction that too much time was spent on in order to excuse the extremely bland open world sections. If the only open-world segment had been the flooded village, this would have been great and not felt bloated, because there was an actual story being told there. But even the game treats its own content as disposable with their power score system, so this actually good open world segment, is completely missable/skipable. So a person might have only experienced all the worst parts of DAI.
@@Yodalemos Origins has god awful combat. I actually cannot fathom that people like you exist. I like Origins but the combat is not it's strong suit and Inquisition is objectively better in terms of combat.
@@theobell2002 No. You just like action over strategy and that's fine.