The Dragon Age: Inquisition Thread

[Roguey]

I couldn't stand the MMO-like "Collect all 5 McGuffins", "Active All 8 Activating Things" or "Kill all 3 Whatevers" quests the game was constantly spewing at me,

You don't have to do any of those.

while making me run around giant levels filled with trash mobs to complete said boring quests.

Most of them had a good exploration:combat ratio (better than the previous games), moreover, you can avoid a great deal of them by keeping your distance or running past them while disengaging.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

For the next one I really hope they don't scrap all their systems and start over a third time. Work with this foundation to make the best single player MMO with AI companions they can.

I really hope they scrap the whole team. The lameness must end.

I couldn't stand the MMO-like "Collect all 5 McGuffins", "Active All 8 Activating Things" or "Kill all 3 Whatevers" quests the game was constantly spewing at me, while making me run around giant levels filled with trash mobs to complete said boring quests. The characters were poorly written and unlikable, as was the story. SJW influences nauseated me. Other than that it was ok. I quit maybe 2/3 into the game. Final score: Meh out of Meh.

what sjw elements

Scroll up.

:incloosive:
Social justice. Inclusivity. Blah blah. Maybe you don't mind the idea of Iron Bull wanting to forcefully have your male character while his male-identifying gender-queer lieutenant watches, but I find the whole business repellent and long for the days when this sort of nonsense was rarely mentioned and treated like the joke it is when it was.

Cole is an emo, Dorian is a gay mage with daddy issues. Josephine and Liliana are ex lovers. The list goes on. It really was nauseating to sit through.

 

[Roguey]

what sjw elements

Dorian's personal conflict is about how the Tevinter magisters believe in eugenics, so his father was deeply disappointed over his son being full-gay and unwilling to share his seed with a proper female mage. He concocted a plan to use blood magic to change Dorian's sexuality, which sent him running off.

I didn't see anything wrong with this plot, but Dorian is totally a David Gaider self-insert. So much sass.

Iron Bull's lieutenant is also a transman. When he brought it up with a joke about chest binding, I chose the dialogue option that immediately changed the subject to the rest of his team. Later, when presented with the options to question this matter further, I chose not to pursue them.

If you want to, you can choose to have Iron Bull let him and the rest of his team get slaughtered later on.

Vivienne, the black mage, is actually anti-sjw. She's the most conservative character on the team, wanting to restore the Circle to how it was before the rebellion. Cassandra wants some of that, but with a few reforms, and Leliana ia "full socialism now."

 

[kwanzabot]

guys what was everyone's favorite dragon age moments?


mine was playing dragon age origins and i saw morrigan in a swamp and it made me super horny how she was dressed in a swamp


my 2nd favorite was uninstalling it around 30 minutes after that

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

okay so, if you see gay people in a video game, it's SJW?

Gays and lesbians and bisexuals and gender-queer man-women etc etc. It's not just the fact that they are in the game, but that there are so many of them. The actual percentage of the population that is LGBTBBQ is quite small, but around half the join-able NPCs are deviants? It breaks verisimilitude to have them be so prevalent and is a clear sign of an agenda being not-so-subtly pushed. SJWism as I see it.

SJWism also typically implies a level of forcedness.

Thanks for the input, Meriam Webster. I forgot that you were the one that defined words. Please update your dictionary so that I will not make such errors in the future.

You can tell companions you dislike to fuck off.

Or just not play this boring tripe and save yourself the effort.

 

[Mustawd]

People here are actually playing this game. Disgusting. You should all be ashamed.

 

[Roguey]

thats weird, in my ending, Leliana intentionally got her enemies to go to war with her troops and then destroyed them all.

Yeah, I softened her up so she wouldn't do things like that anymore.

Seriously I don't get Sera, was she written to be mentally retarded or something

Yes. Also religious because she's afraid of being nothing.

 

[Xor]

Both lesbian romance options sucked 0/10




Also, the LGBT stuff was more subtle this time around than it was in ME3 despite there being more of it, so that's something, I guess. Still shameless fucking pandering that ultimately adds nothing to the game, though.

People here are actually playing this game. Disgusting. You should all be ashamed.

At least I didn't pay for it.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Lern 2 quote, inquisitor.

I don't care what is or isn't deviant in make believe sjw land. And the few shitposts I've made about the game were a better use of my time than actually playing it.

But hey, continue to enjoy your Single-Player Social Justice Fantasy MMO-Like. I wouldn't want my negative attitude to disturb your fetch quests or your wanking off to hot man-bull on male-bodied elf action.

 

[Makabb]

So is it worth getting the goty edition with everything included?

 

[InD_ImaginE]

So, a question. If a game has terrible characters but is a straight white male power & porn fantasy, is it as shit, better, or worse than a game with terrible characters but with SJW elements?

My point is if the writers are shit,no matter whether there is SJW element or not, then the writing and characters would be shit too. A straight Sera and Dorrian would still not be a good characters.

 

[Makabb]

All i want to know is the combat not as shit as witcher 3.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Combat is MMO ish. Your tank agro, dps use skills from behind. Some enemy will jump around the back (like phantom things from PoE). Some enemy have more unique pattern of attack that can't be shrugged off in higher difficulties, requring you to move around.

Basically WoW ifyou control the whole party.

 

[Rev]

All i want to know is the combat not as shit as witcher 3.

It's way worse.
Combat in DA:I is even worse than Dragon Age II, in Inquisition all you have to do is keep the attack button pressed with the occasional hotkey to use some magic power or ability, and the only difficulty in that is to have the patience to endure that shit for minutes even to kill the shittiest trash mobs because each enemy has thousands of HPs.

 

[Roguey]

Mobs went down pretty quickly for me, of course I played on normal after glancing at the hp-inflation of hard/nightmare (plus it's mentioned as the one that's balanced).

The number is irrelevant, given the dps of your entire party when focused on a single enemy.

 

[Makabb]

Who the hell announces a DLC one day before it launches?

Someone that isn't happy with DA Inquisition sales and want to get rid of the parts that were cut to be made DLC and are useless now.

would be correct if not the fact that

Dragon Age: Inquisition had most successful launch in Bioware history

http://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-inquisition-had-most-successful-launch-in-bioware-history/

 

[DeepOcean]

Deceptive lenguage is deceptive lenguage. EA loves to manipulate what successful launch means. The lack of information on units sold after all this time is something very, very fishy.

 

[Akratus]

 

[pippin]

would be correct if not the fact that

Many village idiots fell for that one. If you have more than one point invested in Reading Comprehension you'll understand that's basically the same thing than Bethesda claiming they shipped x ammount of copies of FO4: good preorders, nice retail store deals, but poor initial reception when it comes to sales (which is what really matters in the end).

 

[Infinitron]

DA:I's sales look to be on par with past Bioware games. The question is whether or not it was expected to sell more than that.

 

[Xor]

DA:I's sales look to be on par with past Bioware games. The question is whether or not it was expected to sell more than that.

Considering EA gave them 3 years to develop it and the emphasis on "open world" in the marketing, I suspect they were trying to go after the Skyrim audience. I doubt the game lost money, but EA probably views it as a failure regardless if it "only" sold a few million copies.

 

[pippin]

I remember some person uploaded a picture of an amazon or at least an amazon-like list for top selling gaming items, and the Link amiibo outsold DA:I on the latter's launch day.
But corporate peoplelike money and numbers, so you could take an absence of gloating about numbers as a problem. On their normiebook page, CDPR constanly kept the numbers updated for The Witcher 3.

 

[J1M]

Did they bring the other classes up to par with the mage as a player-character choice in this one?

 

[Mustawd]

I doubt the game lost money, but EA probably views it as a failure regardless if it "only" sold a few million copies.

Don't think it lost money as they mentioned that DA:I led their gross margin growth when it was released. But agree with your overall point. Success of the project is based on how well it performed according to their forecast and in comparison with alternative projects they could have invested the money in.

 

[Roguey]

Did they bring the other classes up to par with the mage as a player-character choice in this one?

They did that with II, and this continued that trend. On the normal difficulty, both are balanced with the expectation that you only control your character and let AI handle your companions.