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Title: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on August 18, 2014, 10:41:45 am
I used the search and was surprised there's no thread yet...

Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Wolfsblood on August 18, 2014, 01:45:19 pm
I really hope this game turns out be good. seems like it will at least be decent.


cant be worse then da2...i hope
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Overdriven on August 18, 2014, 02:42:18 pm
Im excited for it but won't be buying until I have seen a good number of reviews or the price drops. Learnt my lesson after da2 and hoping they have as well :)
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on August 18, 2014, 03:43:31 pm
I am not a big fan of that button mashing camera but I guess it's cool to use when you're done with the tactical view which looks way more fun and exciting.
I'll probably be going for release day cuz I suck at being patient and I am a huge sucker for Dragon Age. Pretty hyped, especially it really looks pretty decent.

Let's hope for a good depth on the story and I'll be peachy! :D
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Nehvar on August 18, 2014, 05:20:27 pm
I used the search and was surprised there's no thread yet...


That's because we're not expecting much after the second game (or Mass Effect 3 for that matter).
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on August 31, 2014, 12:40:36 pm
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Voso on September 01, 2014, 07:15:09 am
I certainly hope its good. I absolutely loved Dragon Age Origins but yeah, I am afraid of another DA2.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Falka on September 01, 2014, 03:49:48 pm
I loved DA Origins and hope that DAI will be as good as DAO, but I have a few concerns about it. From my point of view the strongest point of DA Origins were distinctive, memorable companions. Sten, Morrigan, Leliana and this dwarf, whose name I forgot, loved them all. So far, from what I've seen, DA Inquisitions companions seem to be pretty dull. But we will see I guess  :wink:
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Mala on September 01, 2014, 08:50:37 pm
Oghren was his name , everyones favourite (well, at least for me because he was the pure stereotype of a dwarf).
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Falka on September 01, 2014, 09:16:06 pm
Oghren was his name

Oghren, you're right. Zevran was okay too. From DA2 I really liked only Varric, the rest of them were somewhere between passable (like Isabella and this elf girl) and mediocre. And Sebastian was a my old friendcher, so nothing more needed to say  :wink:
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Falka on October 02, 2014, 12:17:36 am
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Voncrow on October 02, 2014, 01:04:16 am
That's because we're not expecting much after the second game (or Mass Effect 3 for that matter).

There's no way it could be as bad as DA 2, I'm so happy I just borrowed that from a friend. Best achievement I've ever got was explore ten different caves. Although I'm a bit worried about how they say they are gonna put some focus on co-op. Either way, I'm always up for a little friendly inquisiting, bring your stakes and torches boys.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: darmaster on October 11, 2014, 04:30:29 pm
900p on xbox one 1080 on ps4: luckily we is pc master race
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: bilwit on October 14, 2014, 02:38:43 am
I just pre-ordered this and ordered a GTX 780 in preparation :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Dalhi on October 14, 2014, 06:12:22 pm
For the price of GTX 780 you could get the GTX 970 which performes slightly better but has much lower TDP  :shock:.
Anyway, after watching few minutes of gameplay I am not sure if I want to play this game. I am not really a fan of dragon age series, I treid DA 1 and after few hours I was already bored, never actually bothered myself with the second part. As there is nothing really to play these days, most likely I'll waste some cash on that title  :rolleyes:... or maybe on this one: http://lordsofthefallen.com/ (http://lordsofthefallen.com/) but 15-20 hours of gameplay is a joke  :rolleyes:
Graphics is nice, but really impressive so rather low requirements are not surprising.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: bilwit on October 15, 2014, 02:36:51 am
For the price of GTX 780 you could get the GTX 970 wich performes slightly better but has much lower TDP  :shock:.

shiiiit :mad:
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Christo on October 17, 2014, 11:03:38 am
shiiiit :mad:

Send it back if you already have it :D

If you didn't order it from some douchebags, they'd help you out with it.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on October 18, 2014, 01:56:27 pm
21 November release date :o so excited
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: bilwit on November 18, 2014, 04:42:53 pm
bump.

So far... meh. I played for about 4 hours and got to clear out a chunk of the Ferelden region. Haven't really been wowed yet but it's still early and there's a ton of shit to do. The companions so far are pretty boring/uninteresting compared to Origins.

Also, I really really hate the "floating jetpack daggers" that they, for some reason, decided to have on the back of the model instead of the waist.. and with no sheathes? Looks really goofy (I know DAO was like this too but someone was able to mod this ASAP)
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Smoothrich on November 19, 2014, 01:51:03 am
Great game. On pc use a controller and look up the 60 fps fix and update your drivers and it's really good. MP seems broken atm but any bros who want to party up sometime and try it out post your Origin tag. I'm Smoothrich
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on November 19, 2014, 07:26:39 am
Great game. On pc use a controller and look up the 60 fps fix and update your drivers and it's really good. MP seems broken atm but any bros who want to party up sometime and try it out post your Origin tag. I'm Smoothrich
I was wondering if it's actually nice to play it with a controller instead of the classic m&k. How is the transition between fps and tactical view with a controller? Is it okay in tactical view or do you get this "aiming at anything with controller is shit"-feeling?
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: SeQuel on November 19, 2014, 08:16:52 am
I was wondering if it's actually nice to play it with a controller instead of the classic m&k. How is the transition between fps and tactical view with a controller? Is it okay in tactical view or do you get this "aiming at anything with controller is shit"-feeling?

You don't really need tactical view anymore, but the transition is fine.

I agree, the M&K controls are really funky and pretty stupid. I have some complaints about the game such as the pinging to highlight items is fucking retarded and the side quests feel a lot like a MMO with no plot behind them. However I'm still enjoying the game a fair bit and I even started over because I found Archery boring and switched to Mage instead, combat is a lot better than previous Dragon Ages in my opinion and the cut scenes are beautiful. It's definitely not a top tier game but it's not terrible either, I bought it off Nuuvem (Brazillian website it's the fucking bomb to buy new releases on as its half price usually) for 40$ so I got my moneys worth.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Ujin on November 19, 2014, 09:09:29 am
You don't really need tactical view anymore, but the transition is fine.

. It's definitely not a top tier game but it's not terrible either.

That's like, your opinion, maaan. I actually think it is top tier and a great comeback for Bioware.

And you DO need the TV if you're playing on harder difficulties.

P.S. love it , except for the retarded bug that makes my male Qunari be recognized as a female by the npcs . Here's hoping a quick patch will fix this.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: SeQuel on November 19, 2014, 09:46:23 am
That's like, your opinion, maaan. I actually think it is top tier and a great comeback for Bioware.

And you DO need the TV if you're playing on harder difficulties.

P.S. love it , except for the retarded bug that makes my male Qunari be recognized as a female by the npcs . Here's hoping a quick patch will fix this.

I'm playing on Hard and I haven't used TV once yet.

*shrug*
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Polobow on November 19, 2014, 12:54:42 pm
What's the most fun class to play if you go for real-time only?
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on November 19, 2014, 01:23:45 pm
Looks like an mmo to me, the UI is terrible, sidequests are lame and just the general feel of it reaks of mmo. It's like they were going to compete with TESO but noticed how shit it went so they changed course halfway through.

Oh well.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on November 19, 2014, 02:14:21 pm
Looks like an mmo to me, the UI is terrible, sidequests are lame and just the general feel of it reaks of mmo. It's like they were going to compete with TESO but noticed how shit it went so they changed course halfway through.

Oh well.
Have you played it or are you just commenting based on videos?
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on November 19, 2014, 02:43:45 pm
Have you played it or are you just commenting based on videos?

Based on watching a twitch stream so i guess i cant really speak for it completely, doesnt at all give me the vibe that the first one did.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on November 19, 2014, 04:08:15 pm
What's the most fun class to play if you go for real-time only?
Angry Joe mentioned in his video that he plays archer cuz that is the only character that can move while attacking. He mentions that there is even a skill that let's you move a bit faster. So I guess that would be the most active choice.

Looks like an mmo to me, the UI is terrible, sidequests are lame and just the general feel of it reaks of mmo. It's like they were going to compete with TESO but noticed how shit it went so they changed course halfway through.

Oh well.
That's Angry Joe's impression too. Summarized it was like "Looks great, shit tons to do but story falls a bit flat, companions are a bit flat and the world is not really consequent (player's race and gender only affecting dialogues but not normal gameplay reactions...)
It sounded to me that the world is barely improved, apart from graphics, compared to Origins. That would be a valid complaint.
Another thing I've read is that side quests are kinda stupid. You're the mighty leader of the Inquisition and the saviour of all... but you still need to get wood logs, iron ore and other tiny shit for single encampments... >_< That is kinda stupid but... well... RPG basics... so... meh...

I hope for a solid story, some good companions and good combat in a nice environment. Then I'll be happy.
What made Origins awesome for me were the companions and their characters. I actually had some I completely disliked and hated on during dialogues, never using them in party... If I get that sensation again, they have their purpose for me fulfilled :D
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: bilwit on November 19, 2014, 04:38:20 pm
Looks like an mmo to me, the UI is terrible, sidequests are lame and just the general feel of it reaks of mmo. It's like they were going to compete with TESO but noticed how shit it went so they changed course halfway through.

Oh well.

I've played 8 hours of this so far and it does feel like an mmo in the plethora of cheap, grindy sidequests and the like. Companions and supporting characters are kind of lame and the story has been meh so far.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on November 20, 2014, 09:42:06 am
I'm fucked.

Lately I ran into quite a lot of issues regarding newer games, related to them being not well optimized or my cpu (Intel E8400 dual core) being to slow. But at least, I could always start them and try to get it running.

Dragon Age: Inquisition refuses to start on any Dual Core. Just a black screen after "this symbol for saving bla bla". :(
EA support said "If you bought over Origin, we'll give a refund." Well, fuck me, I didn't :P

Guess I have to seriously consider an upgrade now :?
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Kafein on November 20, 2014, 11:34:42 am
I've heard that EA actually follows up on Origin refunds, they refused?
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on November 20, 2014, 12:27:42 pm
Read Molly's post again Kafenoob
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Kafein on November 20, 2014, 02:42:11 pm
EA support said "If you bought over Origin, we'll give a refund." Well, fuck me, I didn't :P

To be honest the "I didn't" could mean "I didn't get a refund", which is what I read.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Leshma on November 20, 2014, 02:45:06 pm
He bought the key somewhere. That is why people should buy Origin games on Mexican Origin. Involves some VPN gymnastics (EA doesn't give a fuck, unlike Valve) but it is an official store where games are half the price of NA/EU Origin store.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Ard. on November 20, 2014, 03:51:01 pm
Trying my very best to sympathize with people who still buy games from EA in 2014 but I'm failing. Especially considering that it was rather well known that this is going to be the usual biowarian garbage.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on November 20, 2014, 04:01:17 pm
Trying my very best to sympathize with people who still buy games from EA in 2014 but I'm failing. Especially considering that it was rather well known that this is going to be the usual biowarian garbage.
Rather well known? Really? It's getting a lot of good reviews.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Ard. on November 20, 2014, 04:34:42 pm
Yeah, IGN 10/10 etc.

Edit. Actually

Quote from: The Escapist
BioWare has created a role-playing game which feels like a massive monument to our culture. 100/100

 :lol:
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Smoothrich on November 20, 2014, 04:40:12 pm
Trying my very best to sympathize with people who still buy games from EA in 2014 but I'm failing. Especially considering that it was rather well known that this is going to be the usual biowarian garbage.

Its a good game. It uses the Battlefield engine though which makes full use of multiple cores, even 8 core AMD cpus. Its a giant bloated buggy game running on Frostbyte 3 or w/e which is optimized for new PC technology.

You'd be crazy to sympathize with people who thought it would run well on a dual core box. Its seriously time to upgrade, and not very expensive either.

My i5 4670k and Radeon HD 7950 run almost everything maxed out hitting 60 FPS, and my recent SSD purchase makes load times and hard drive streaming texture pop in bugs and such ancient history. Will probably be another year before I need to upgrade my years old, super cost-effective GPU, and the i5 effortlessly handles shit like DA I.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: AntiBlitz on November 21, 2014, 12:15:32 am
game crashes before i even get out of the character editor screen, gg.......

apparently a nvidia driver issue with my gfx card and many others

GTX 690 for anyone that cares


Error message:

Directx function "Get device Remove Reason" failed with dxgi_error_device_hung (the applications device failed due to badly formed commands sent by the application. This is a device_time issue that should be investigated and fixed) GPU: Nvidia GeForceGTX 690; Driver 34475

Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Overdriven on November 21, 2014, 10:52:39 am
Will probably get this one for Christmas. So far it's looking reasonable and I've never been fussed about using Origin even if it is a piece of shit.

Need to start upgrading my PC though. GTAV and Witcher 3 will probably make mine explode, although I've only just come to the point with games where I've needed to turn shit down from ultra to high and knock off the fancier effects. When it starts hitting medium (probably with those games) it'll be time.

I'm running a Radeon HD 5750 and Phenom II x4 955 with 8GB RAM. Still perfectly capable, but I've had the graphics card for 5 years now and the CPU for 4.

I'm definitely looking at investing in an SSD and a new 1tb drive as well. My current old 500gb hard drive is around 7-8 years old and no idea when it's going to pack up.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Leshma on November 21, 2014, 02:14:19 pm
BioWare has created a role-playing game which feels like a massive monument to our culture. 100/100

Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Nightmare798 on November 21, 2014, 02:54:19 pm
I would honestly like to see more of the melee gameplay footage. Those mage effects and spells are sure nice, but I get this feeling they are deliberately trying to hide something.

I hope I am wrong.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Tibe on November 21, 2014, 03:28:54 pm
Im quessing its basically RPG MMO melee. Whats there to see? Press on enemy to attack, press some power to do some stronger swing.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Overdriven on November 21, 2014, 03:36:36 pm
Yeah never been a big fan of the melee combat in Dragon Age. It's pretty standard and not all that interesting even with the skills. May have changed here but Mage is where it's at if you want big shiny skills. Though I always liked going the archer route as well.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on November 22, 2014, 09:31:57 pm
I always chose the manly route of 2H or sword and shield with the heaviest gear I could find. Was a walking truck basically
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Kafein on November 23, 2014, 01:25:41 am
Yeah never been a big fan of the melee combat in Dragon Age. It's pretty standard and not all that interesting even with the skills. May have changed here but Mage is where it's at if you want big shiny skills. Though I always liked going the archer route as well.

In DA:O some of the more interesting spells (e.i. invulnerability bubble) could become gamebreaking when used with some creativity, that's why in my opinion the best team was three mages and one thief guy for locks.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: SixThumbs on November 23, 2014, 03:45:53 am
I was a human 2-hander with Alistair, Morgan, and Leilana. A vanilla and boring line-up, I remember having trouble a handful of times if I didn't pick my targets properly and CC correctly but thinking back I probably also didn't character build efficiently.

When I tried to replay it I couldn't get further than the origin stories without losing immersion and interest thinking about the dwarf and fade part while also having no interest in the other playable characters.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on November 23, 2014, 07:41:06 am
thinking about the dwarf and fade part
Yep, this +1000.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: SeQuel on November 23, 2014, 11:17:00 am
The game gets WAY better past the Hinterlands. I ended up going Rogue Assassin though, it's pretty much big numbers and the skills are really cool. I got this one skill that throws a dagger and a shadow of me appears and attacks the target on really quickly and disappearing to reappear on a different side, it does this like 9 times doing some pretty good damage. One thing I noticed though is that 1hand shield seems really fun in this game, it seems like a lot of reaction/active gameplay since you gotta block attacks in order to get guard and manage your stamina.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: SeQuel on November 23, 2014, 11:19:01 am
Opps, double post meant to edit, it's late.... -.-. If a mod sees this you can delete this post.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Tor! on November 23, 2014, 07:04:26 pm
Hinterlands was to time consuming and "meh", weird choice of starting zone..

Game gets alot better after you ditch that place  :)
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on November 23, 2014, 08:26:23 pm
Hinterlands was to time consuming and "meh", weird choice of starting zone..

Game gets alot better after you ditch that place  :)
How much better Tor? As good as DAO? Better than DAO? As good as Divinity? BETTER?
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Leshma on November 24, 2014, 02:52:46 am
As good as Divinity? BETTER?

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Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: SixThumbs on November 24, 2014, 03:07:03 am
Divinity is/was a lot of fun but the initial few hours (and several character remakes) were a bit harsh and once I actually got into a stride of killing mobs and bosses I stopped playing after arriving at the second town. If I play something too much in too short of a span any repetitive sounds/music really start grating.

I also want to play Inquisition but don't want Origin.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Smoothrich on November 24, 2014, 09:11:57 am
I also want to play Inquisition but don't want Origin.

Whiny little bitch PC gamer spotted.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Dalhi on November 24, 2014, 12:00:55 pm
Well, I uninstalled the game after about one hour of gameplay.
While the visuals are good, combat (wtf is that), audio, story just pushed me away from playing. Not a game for me I guess  :rolleyes: or maybe it's just really that bad.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: SixThumbs on November 24, 2014, 04:33:35 pm
Whiny little bitch PC gamer spotted.

Leave my goat alone. I got, like, 30 gigs left on my HDD, dude.

I had a 360 and have a semi-working PS2. What the hell am I going to do with these next-next gen consoles?
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Kafein on November 24, 2014, 06:45:45 pm
As good as Divinity? BETTER?

I have Divinity and I can't bring myself to play it. The density of chitchat during the first few hours makes me want to commit suicide. Everything is slow, even the UI. Somehow DA:O didn't manage to bore me to death despite having a lot of chatting as well.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: bilwit on November 25, 2014, 05:57:25 am
OK guys, I didn't play #2 but if you've finished The Fade part in this game and Alistair is king..

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Smoothrich on November 25, 2014, 04:27:10 pm
The combat is actually real fun as a melee class. But you gotta use a controller and play it like Mass Effect. It'd all prob feel real bad with a mouse and gamepad and focusing on the tactical map instead of just positioning yourself and blowing shit up with swings and abilities.

Its no Warband but there's a lot to like with reactive counter-attack abilities, managing guard, and real pleasant animations and weight to things that MMOs and many RPGs don't get right. It just isn't really a tactical RPG anymore that a mouse is good with like DA1 could be, but way more Witcher 2/Skyrim/Diablo hack and slashing.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Nightmare798 on November 27, 2014, 11:11:20 pm
Im quessing its basically RPG MMO melee. Whats there to see? Press on enemy to attack, press some power to do some stronger swing.

Basic RPGMMO melee is "click and wait for whatever you are attacking to die"

Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on November 28, 2014, 03:33:06 am
The combat is pretty fun for a RPG.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on November 30, 2014, 10:17:34 am
The combat is pretty fun for a RPG.
I have to agree. And the fun thing is that I can enjoy the rather fast pace in close view but still need to use the tactical cam sometimes due to some heavy hitter and low hp. That mixture makes combat pretty good imho.
Especially surprised how good they made sword and board. Probably the less appealing play style in 1 and 2 seems to be now the most rewarding to me. And for me it runs really well and bugless considering the size of it. Although I am still more or less stuck in the Hinterlands... damn, that's huge. But it looks nice and you can get inside buildings w/o loading and stuff. I am pretty impressed by the game...
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Taser on November 30, 2014, 10:25:45 am
Friend of mine had this on his ps4 and I tried it out.. it was fun as fuck for combat. I was pleasantly surprised and glad to see it. Origins had meh combat and an awesome story. Dragon age 2 had.. meh for both but apparently the foundation for the story in Inquisition. So no clue on the story for Inquistion so far since I was just in haven and part of the hinterlands (I just got to the crossroads and that was it).

Definitely seems like they put a lot more effort into this one than 2. I was glad to see that.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Patoson on November 30, 2014, 07:48:37 pm
Is there an option to disable those weird visual effects like "weapon attack traces" and "wind behind you" as you gallop? I was looking at a couple of videos and it looks nice, but I don't like those unnecessary effects.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Utrakil on November 30, 2014, 07:59:49 pm
Thanks to this thread I am curently downloading Dragon Age: Origines Ultimate edition (5€ on steam)
lets see what it is all about. If good I might get the inquisition as well.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on November 30, 2014, 09:12:26 pm
Thanks to this thread I am curently downloading Dragon Age: Origines Ultimate edition (5€ on steam)
lets see what it is all about. If good I might get the inquisition as well.
2 completely different games honestly but the universe and lore is very close to each other...
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Voso on November 30, 2014, 11:26:27 pm
Thanks to this thread I am curently downloading Dragon Age: Origines Ultimate edition (5€ on steam)
lets see what it is all about. If good I might get the inquisition as well.

Yeah it was a really good game for its time, I felt. I fucking loved Origins when I first played it, I can't even touch it anymore though. Just keep in mind it came out in 2009 and Inquisition just came out.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on December 01, 2014, 12:23:24 am
Yeah it was a really good game for its time, I felt. I fucking loved Origins when I first played it, I can't even touch it anymore though. Just keep in mind it came out in 2009 and Inquisition just came out.
Yep. Really good when it came out, but whenever I've tried to replay it later on I haven't gotten further than 5 minutes in.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Kafein on December 01, 2014, 11:42:21 am
I'm in the middle of a DA:O replay and I still love it, although as in most RPGs there are too many blablablah downtimes.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on December 01, 2014, 12:00:20 pm
I tried to replay shortly before Inquisition came out and I just couldn't stick with it... :?
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Kafein on December 01, 2014, 12:51:02 pm
Alas, I find myself mourning the bonuses I miss each time I take an evil decision. The curse of minmax.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: darmaster on December 01, 2014, 03:27:05 pm
do not even compare kotor to dragon age, those are two different bioware, those are games on completely different leagues
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: darmaster on December 01, 2014, 04:55:19 pm
i'd honestly sacrifice the whole dragon age saga for a kotor 3 tbh :(
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on December 01, 2014, 05:31:25 pm
Whatever you do in DA:I, stay away from Knight Enchanter. Or at least don't spec "Fade Shield."

DW Rogues are the most fun to play, IMO. Requires a lot of maneuvering and fast evades, but does high DPS.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Patoson on December 01, 2014, 05:49:39 pm
Is there an option to disable those weird visual effects like "weapon attack traces" and "wind behind you" as you gallop? I was looking at a couple of videos and it looks nice, but I don't like those unnecessary effects.
Does anyone know? I'd like to try this but not with all those animeish effects.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Tor! on December 01, 2014, 06:08:05 pm
Does anyone know? I'd like to try this but not with all those animeish effects.

I couldnt find any way to reduce that horse thing in particular, but I did set down some settings to low that removed some of the overdone spell effects and moves in combat.

Thanks to this thread I am curently downloading Dragon Age: Origines Ultimate edition (5€ on steam)
lets see what it is all about. If good I might get the inquisition as well.

You are downloading the better game, I still think DA:O is superior to inquisition in all parts except for animations and graphics. This "open world" in DA:I is just to mmo'ish, and it's clear the quest writers couldnt keep up with the world size, hence all these pick up this and kill 10 of this quests around.

Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on December 01, 2014, 06:31:42 pm
I couldnt find any way to reduce that horse thing in particular, but I did set down some settings to low that removed some of the overdone spell effects and moves in combat.

You are downloading the better game, I still think DA:O is superior to inquisition in all parts except for animations and graphics. This "open world" in DA:I is just to mmo'ish, and it's clear the quest writers couldnt keep up with the world size, hence all these pick up this and kill 10 of this quests around.
The thing with DA:I sidequests is that you don't have to do the ones you don't want to do. There's plenty of good ones, and they're usually obvious from the quest description. If the quest is "fetch 3 fur for the villagers so they don't freeze", you can safely ignore it. And looking at DA:O combat gameplay on Youtube makes me glad to play Inquisition again, combat is 100 times more fun.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Logen on December 01, 2014, 06:45:24 pm
animations
no
that animeish style ruins all
like, every visual aspect of the game
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Tor! on December 01, 2014, 09:01:05 pm
no
that animeish style ruins all
like, every visual aspect of the game

I guess I agree, should have stated a thing in between DA:O and Inquisition animations. Origins are to slow, Inquisition are overdone.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Ujin on December 01, 2014, 09:36:13 pm
i'd honestly sacrifice the whole dragon age saga for a kotor 3 tbh :(
If they use the experience they gained making DA:I , take all the good things , the graphics, the vast open worlds, the  improved combat (and hopefully improve ai), the scale ... and blend it with the KOTOR story/charm... mother of god.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: darmaster on December 01, 2014, 10:01:16 pm
there should be like a sort of wizardry that allows that, like take 3 virgin blu ray discs, two expensive VGA, 32gb of ram while pronouncing a certain witchcraft like 0010100010100101 etc and then DA is deleted from history and kotor 3 is released
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on December 02, 2014, 09:51:49 am
Who cares about Gaytor, Witcher 3 is gonna be out soon. DA:I is good, but just an appetizer. TW3 has real cities and looks like it'll have great sidequests.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Smoothrich on December 02, 2014, 10:20:34 am
no
that animeish style ruins all
like, every visual aspect of the game

Haha this guy is a Melee: Battlegrounds developer? Glad to know I shouldn't bother supporting the Kickstarter if bad-opinioned Russian shitposters are making actual decisions on how to spend thousands of other people's dollars.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: lombardsoup on December 02, 2014, 10:38:34 am
Witcher 3 is gonna be out soon. DA:I is good, but just an appetizer. TW3 has real cities and looks like it'll have great sidequests.

CD Projekt RED's no DRM policy is enough to make me buy this no matter how the game actually turns out.  Says many good things about a dev that doesn't force you to use a certain distribution platform or shove DRM up your ass.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Patoson on December 03, 2014, 01:53:19 pm
I'm glad I decided to buy the game. The "anime style" isn't as exaggerated as I thought, and the combat is indeed a lot of fun. The graphics are awesome and it runs quite smoothly. And I love the fact that you can jump over stuff.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on December 03, 2014, 04:20:59 pm
2 hand got a cool skill:

Active skill for Parry, you press the button, dude takes a deflecting stance while holding, stamina runs, when an enemy hits you he's going to counter-attack and knockback... so much fun to play like this... :D I love it. Careful with those crush-through guys tho :?
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on December 03, 2014, 07:19:32 pm
And I love the fact that you can jump over stuff.
This is a surprisingly big deal.

DW Rogues are the most fun class in the game. Everyone should play them.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Angantyr on December 06, 2014, 01:55:44 pm
Yeah, jumping sort of adds an extra dimension. Remember talk about TW considering not including jumping during WB beta, really glad they didn't go through with it, just imagine it.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Utrakil on December 06, 2014, 02:03:22 pm

You are downloading the better game, I still think DA:O is superior to inquisition in all parts except for animations and graphics. This "open world" in DA:I is just to mmo'ish, and it's clear the quest writers couldnt keep up with the world size, hence all these pick up this and kill 10 of this quests around.
I really enjoy it! but combat is surprisingly hard. even though I play "normal" I am failing so often that I sometimes want to give up. but then it tells you you'r way back is closed! :D  So I keep trying until I win.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Patoson on December 12, 2014, 08:53:59 pm
Is anyone else getting CTD all the time after the last patch? I can't play in DirectX, and, with Mantle, it doesn't crash so much but loading times take 2 minutes minimum.

I bought the game without even looking at the minimum requirements (I hadn't done that in a long time), to then see that it requires Quad Core! I have a Dual Core i5 so maybe that's the problem. How about you guys? Is anyone able to play it without Quad Core and crashes?

EDIT: OMG! I'm a retard... I just found out after so many months having this i5 that it's actually Quad Core, and I always thought it was Dual Core.  :rolleyes:

So I'm guessing the problem is they just screwed up the game with this patch or the hotfix. I'm not the only one complaining about crashes in their forums either.

Still, do you guys get constant crashes too now?
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Siiem on January 21, 2015, 06:44:29 pm
I nearly rolled my eyes out of socket from this BS dialouge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd8b3fl6tMY#t=44
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on January 21, 2015, 06:54:20 pm
It's actually spelled "dialogue."
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Overdriven on January 21, 2015, 07:43:43 pm
Ha I literally got to that same point in the game yesterday.

Enjoying it thoroughly so far.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Siiem on January 21, 2015, 08:02:44 pm
It's actually spelled "dialogue."

Skriveleif.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Polobow on January 21, 2015, 09:25:02 pm
So, the third patch is out. Is it still advisable to wait, or is it playable now?
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on January 21, 2015, 09:40:34 pm
It has been playable since it came out.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Patoson on January 21, 2015, 10:07:34 pm
It's been unplayable on DirectX since Hotfix for Patch 2 - constant CTD and bad resource allocation. You can play it on Mantle if you have AMD GPU, but zoning load times are very long.

I don't see any mention to stability on the patch notes.  :|
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on January 21, 2015, 10:08:39 pm
No, it hasn't been unplayable on DirectX. It has been unplayable for you.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Kafein on January 21, 2015, 10:09:57 pm
It has been playable since it came out.

Nobody expected it.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on January 22, 2015, 12:37:16 am
Had no problems with it dude so as xant says...must just be you :P
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on January 22, 2015, 09:32:41 am
Same here. No issues. Neither on DX nor Mantle. Tho for the sake of loading times, I use DX.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Patoson on January 22, 2015, 11:33:24 am
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/bd-p/DAInquisition

Just have a look at all the threads. There are a few that have loads of pages with plenty of people having issues. More specifically, this thread (http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/PC-Ongoing-investigation-poor-performance-crashes-resource/td-p/4126271) contains a lot of info about the problems.

You guys are just lucky.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on January 22, 2015, 11:58:53 am
Do you know what "vocal minority" means? I can assure you, we are not "lucky", people with problems are unlucky. If only a few lucky ones had it working on DirectX - it's absurd I even have to mention this - there'd be a massive uproar EVERYWHERE about it, gaming news would be full of "DRAGON AGE INQUISITION - UNPLAYABLE!", "DRAGON AGE INQUISITION FLOPS ONLY 10 PEOPLE CAN PLAY IT" "BIOWARE DESPERATELY LOOKING FOR A FIX!"

But guess what? That's not a thing. Because just like every PC game, some people have trouble running it. Most people don't.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Patoson on January 22, 2015, 01:11:09 pm
Chill out, dude! lol No one is attacking you.

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Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on January 22, 2015, 01:25:07 pm
I would be sad too if my retarded claim got squashed.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: LordBerenger on January 22, 2015, 03:32:13 pm
So...what ever happened to the Warden?
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: darmaster on January 22, 2015, 03:37:35 pm
like the game, looks cool, vast and well made overall, the thing is tho, i happen to find it boring :l never thought i'd come across this but yes, it's boring to me :( at least settings are much better than dragon age origins, fucking awful desolate city, hated that.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on January 22, 2015, 05:24:48 pm
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Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on January 22, 2015, 06:04:56 pm
You can use "The Keep" (that website they made) to get your former stories straight.
I don't have any old saves but I took like 30 minutes to customize my game world like I played it in DA and DA2. Haven't seen anything wrong yet.

https://dragonagekeep.com/
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on January 22, 2015, 06:15:10 pm
You can use "The Keep" (that website they made) to get your former stories straight.
I don't have any old saves but I took like 30 minutes to customize my game world like I played it in DA and DA2. Haven't seen anything wrong yet.

https://dragonagekeep.com/

Fuck....

EDIT: That's pretty awesome.

Gonna have to replay the 2 previous games now to customise this to the fullest xD
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: LordBerenger on January 22, 2015, 06:20:48 pm
You can use "The Keep" (that website they made) to get your former stories straight.
I don't have any old saves but I took like 30 minutes to customize my game world like I played it in DA and DA2. Haven't seen anything wrong yet.

https://dragonagekeep.com/

Welp....this is cool as shit. Thx. Now i can play like a retard and go all evil and not feel bad about it and start on a clean slate with perfect choices.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on January 22, 2015, 08:22:42 pm
I think I broke the game just now.

Just found some random masterwork material in the western approach. Slapped it on my new dagger design... Now I get 5 guard with every hit x) I am unstoppable lol
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on January 22, 2015, 08:31:10 pm
I think I broke the game just now.

Just found some random masterwork material in the western approach. Slapped it on my new dagger design... Now I get 5 guard with every hit x) I am unstoppable lol
Ideally, rogues shouldn't even be getting hit, but that masterwork is good if you want to play as a pseudo-warrior. What difficulty are you playing on? I recommend Nightmare, it's really not all that Nightmarish in DAI, more like the mode where you actually have to play your class like it should be played.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on January 22, 2015, 10:20:21 pm
I'll post a screen of my gear soon.

Got like the best armour rating on dragon gear (killed all the dragons  :oops:)

Some elvish sword and a host of other stuff
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Siiem on January 22, 2015, 11:27:36 pm
Nobody expected it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqreRufrkxM&feature=youtu.be&t=6s
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Overdriven on January 23, 2015, 01:22:53 pm
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/bd-p/DAInquisition

Just have a look at all the threads. There are a few that have loads of pages with plenty of people having issues. More specifically, this thread (http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/PC-Ongoing-investigation-poor-performance-crashes-resource/td-p/4126271) contains a lot of info about the problems.

You guys are just lucky.

Meh it plays on my shitty machine ok. Loading times aren't that bad. Actually not as bad as I found DAO and I still have the same graphics card, just better CPU and more RAM.

The only issue I have is once every few hours it will CTD with the display driver not responding, usually just as it loads a new area. But otherwise fine.

Specs: Radeon HD 5750, Phenom II x4, 8gb RAM. Have to have most of the settings on medium and plays well. Took me ages to get the combo of settings right though. Previously it was CTDing just as I came out of the create character page every time. Annoyingly before it's possible to save. So had to re-do my char about 20 times.

You can use "The Keep" (that website they made) to get your former stories straight.
I don't have any old saves but I took like 30 minutes to customize my game world like I played it in DA and DA2. Haven't seen anything wrong yet.

https://dragonagekeep.com/

Thing is it still doesn't work. I did it manually through the keep and set it up how I wanted with the equivalent of my original DAO hero. But Morrigan still refers to the 'Hero of Feraldan' as a she for some reason. There were a couple of other annoying references earlier in the game as well that were completely wrong. Naturally they can't get everything right but it does somewhat irk when your DAO character suddenly changes gender  :)

Ideally, rogues shouldn't even be getting hit, but that masterwork is good if you want to play as a pseudo-warrior. What difficulty are you playing on? I recommend Nightmare, it's really not all that Nightmarish in DAI, more like the mode where you actually have to play your class like it should be played.

I'm playing with a mage on normal and it's ridiculously easy. I'm definitely going to restart and probs go rogue and put it on nightmare. I found DAO hard on normal, DA2 easy and DAI is even easier. At level 20 the only things presenting any form of challenge are the tougher Dragons.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Siiem on January 24, 2015, 12:31:22 am
I'm playing with a mage on normal and it's ridiculously easy. I'm definitely going to restart and probs go rogue and put it on nightmare. I found DAO hard on normal, DA2 easy and DAI is even easier. At level 20 the only things presenting any form of challenge are the tougher Dragons.

Only hard dragon in my experience was the electricity one.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Xant on January 24, 2015, 12:47:17 am
Only hard dragon in my experience was the electricity one.
I'll show you a hard dragon.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Siiem on January 24, 2015, 02:26:21 am
I'll show you a hard dragon.

A steely one, maybe?

Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Utrakil on May 10, 2015, 01:51:40 pm
I just watched this (sorry it's german)

And I would like to hear from you guys if the console optimized menues are that annoying while playng ( in origines I never had to micromanage my inventory to an extend that those menues would have killed the game for me) and how gamebreaking is the fact that you only have 8 skill quickslots?
because these consoleoptimization could be a reason not to buy the game.
obviously I am talking about the PC version.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Patoson on May 10, 2015, 06:35:45 pm
The combat is just too tedious for me to enjoy the game. It feels more dynamic at first, since it's more direct and faster than Origins, but I got stuck in animations not being able to move and having to wait a couple of seconds, and very often. And the animations are too anime-like for my taste. I enjoyed Origins a lot more, especially because it didn't crash all the time and I could play it.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on May 10, 2015, 06:41:07 pm
I think it's an excellent Dragon Age game and I got used to the menus.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Mala on May 10, 2015, 10:25:46 pm
i had no issues with the controls, but i had never used the tactical view, too.
yeah the ui is not great and optimised for controllers.

combat-wise i still prefer da2. it had a nice flow there (and lots of exaggerated animations :P )
dai is more the middle ground of dao and da2 with less control over your party, at least the ai is not that stupid as before.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Jesse on May 11, 2015, 12:35:47 pm
You know when you get tired of fighting dragons because of the tedious combat which is the most awesome thing to do in the game you won't be playing it again.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Overdriven on May 11, 2015, 01:01:14 pm
To be honest I just played this with my 360 controller on PC anyway. Was nice just to sit back and play.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Molly on May 11, 2015, 01:57:24 pm
To be honest I just played this with my 360 controller on PC anyway. Was nice just to sit back and play.
Me too.
Title: Re: Dragon Age Inquisition
Post by: Mala on May 11, 2015, 07:36:18 pm
You know when you get tired of fighting dragons because of the tedious combat which is the most awesome thing to do in the game you won't be playing it again.
well, there were too many dragons. in origins and da2 dragon fights were some highlights of the game.
in dai it was just another encounter.