Dragon Age: Inquisition

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  1. pjmeyer22
    Nov 26, 2014
    1
    I totally feel screwed by Bioware. This game is all about console gaming and button mashing. I had to switch from my keyboard and mouse to a game-pad. The reason this so bad, is because the keyboard and mouse have about 95 programmable buttons. My game-pad has about 20. That leaves me 75 short of what I could have available to me. Which leaves me pausing the game just to swap controllers.I totally feel screwed by Bioware. This game is all about console gaming and button mashing. I had to switch from my keyboard and mouse to a game-pad. The reason this so bad, is because the keyboard and mouse have about 95 programmable buttons. My game-pad has about 20. That leaves me 75 short of what I could have available to me. Which leaves me pausing the game just to swap controllers. Having the mouse be free look would fix most the control problems. Sadly this option has gone AWOL since Knights of the Old Republic.

    The biggest problem though is that it is a button masher. Button mashers are all the same. WAY TOO EASY!!!!!!!!!! Hit the X about ten times. Then hit the Y for the finishing move. Battle is over in about 2.5 seconds. They only take about 9 hours to finish. To be fair I did hear it takes 20 hours to beat Inquisition. Dialogue and cut scenes mean that gaming time is closer to 15 than 20. I recently replayed Origins and Dragon Age 2 thinking I could have part of my story imported. ( Yes, I do realize it was all in vain.) Dragon Age 2 takes about 22 - 25 hours while skipping most of the dialogue and cut scenes. Origins takes about 28 -35 hours. In my opinion we are going in the wrong direction.

    Origin used to be an excellent game company. Now it's just a name for EA's download client. EA has wrecked more game franchises, and developer companies than I have fingers. Bioware, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age are not the first and won't be the last. EA's goal is not to make an excellent game that everyone loves. It's to make it to the Holiday rush. Is there a game franchise out there that you love? Pray to God that EA does not buy the developer.    … Expand
  2. emgie
    Jan 25, 2015
    2
    I registered just to rate this review. After twenty hours of constant pain with absolutely **** control & camera system you could imagine, I hit the 'uninstall' button and now installing DA:O just to remind myself how good game looks like. The battling with retarded controls will suck all energy and good feeling you may have for this game. The UI is clearly designed by and for braindead.I registered just to rate this review. After twenty hours of constant pain with absolutely **** control & camera system you could imagine, I hit the 'uninstall' button and now installing DA:O just to remind myself how good game looks like. The battling with retarded controls will suck all energy and good feeling you may have for this game. The UI is clearly designed by and for braindead. Combat system is absolutely crap with no tactics or skill required whatsoever.

    If you still thinking about giving it a try - wait a year. They'll have this crap game attached to popcorn for free. Giving it 2/10 for graphics thats not that bad (not that good either).

    It's funny seeing all these fake 10/10 reviews, clearly bought by EA marketing in a desperate attempt to cover bad user reception. If you played this game - you know that they have no other choice. Crap is crap.    … Expand
  3. NotAReptar
    Nov 19, 2014
    0
    The game is very underwhelming and feels like a mash up of a handful of others games (skyrim, mass effect, star wars the old republic, etc.) but never outshines what it has taken. The characters are mostly cookie cutter providing little entertainment to a very generic story that is derivative of DA:2, whom provided a good share of it's bland back-story that proceeds into it's predecessor.The game is very underwhelming and feels like a mash up of a handful of others games (skyrim, mass effect, star wars the old republic, etc.) but never outshines what it has taken. The characters are mostly cookie cutter providing little entertainment to a very generic story that is derivative of DA:2, whom provided a good share of it's bland back-story that proceeds into it's predecessor.

    I did enjoy the combat but had difficulties on normal with enemy level scaling and party AI. Had some problems with cut-scenes glitches, the voices and effect not syncing, and invisible walls that limited the partial open world they had. Nothing really memorable about this game except it's great graphics and good voice acting.    … Expand
  4. Alsou
    Nov 23, 2014
    0
    tl;dr: Another trash console port... and since it was a code redemption from a disk I bought, I can't get it refunded.

    There are very few games that I end up exiting out of within 10 minutes of attempting to play. Most of them are obscure indie games and a couple old games that at this point are an eyesore. Only games that came out within last 5 years that I can't play without wanting    tl;dr: Another trash console port... and since it was a code redemption from a disk I bought, I can't get it refunded.

    There are very few games that I end up exiting out of within 10 minutes of attempting to play. Most of them are obscure indie games and a couple old games that at this point are an eyesore. Only games that came out within last 5 years that I can't play without wanting to throw my keyboard across the room are from EA. This one is one of them.

    Controls in this game are absolutely atrocious. I can't even imagine who invented them and figured out how to lay them out. It's torturous, you might as well not bother. No click to move, movement responses are extremely slow, camera controls are probably the most unintuitive thing in existence. Tactical mode took me good 5 minutes of bashing my head against the wall to even try to understand how to navigate. In short?

    Graphics? I play on a 4k screen. 4k resolution is a double edged sword. It makes good games look better, it makes bad games look worse (because all the flaws become that much more apparent.) This game looks atrocious on my screen even with all graphics maxed out, textures are worse than the high-res stuff from DA2, animations are twitchy, they still can't figure out how to properly model/texture/animate hands, emotions and expressions pop out only briefly during the line being spoken and then faces return to their static self. It was definitely made for current gen consoles, so it's not as bad as most x360 or ps3 console ports, but nobody in their right mind would honestly say that consoles are anywhere near PC's in terms of performance when you examine high end (and 2x 290x in crossfire is high-end, no matter how you turn it.)

    Multiplayer is very similar to ME3 multiplayer, mostly a tacked on experience that has little to do with the rest of the game, but it's basically everything I said above x10. It looks awful, it's terribly gated (limited to 3 starting characters, very little modification, no cosmetic modification available)

    I'm sorry, but for a modern game this is absurd, EA/Bioware did literally nothing for the franchise, it's one of the most overhyped, unplayable games of the year, and the fact that it made it to PC is infuriating because there was obviously next to no adjustments made to port it over FROM console version.    … Expand
  5. tau
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    No free-roaming,the battle-system was taken from some old corean MMORPG,the graphics are a bit to-low for year 2014,lots of gays/bisexuals/lesbians -pervert propaganda,the females in the game are ugly,the red lirium weapons are look like they are made of plastic,the scenario was stolen from TES-4 Oblivion(the Daedra were changed into deamons).So,the game is casuall crap,not worthNo free-roaming,the battle-system was taken from some old corean MMORPG,the graphics are a bit to-low for year 2014,lots of gays/bisexuals/lesbians -pervert propaganda,the females in the game are ugly,the red lirium weapons are look like they are made of plastic,the scenario was stolen from TES-4 Oblivion(the Daedra were changed into deamons).So,the game is casuall crap,not worth playing.Better go and play Morrowind or Skyrim.… Expand
  6. TesterTrent
    Nov 25, 2014
    0
    I don't generally care enough to write a review but the video "Dragon Age: Inquisition - Made for PC Gamers by PC Gamers" gave me so much hope for this game. Maybe there would finally be a worth successor to Dragon Age: Origins, possibly my favorite game of all time. Alas, the video was a blatant lie!

    Starting off with the release bugs, endless loops of party members falling off the    I don't generally care enough to write a review but the video "Dragon Age: Inquisition - Made for PC Gamers by PC Gamers" gave me so much hope for this game. Maybe there would finally be a worth successor to Dragon Age: Origins, possibly my favorite game of all time. Alas, the video was a blatant lie!

    Starting off with the release bugs, endless loops of party members falling off the edge of the world to die over and over again, forcing you to reload. Party skills being used by the AI at such time you start to wonder if the Nightmare difficulty level only makes your party AI stupider than on other difficulties.

    These bugs however, are nothing compared to EVERYTHING related to the tactical camera! First off a bug (which still hasn't been fixed) changing characters actually focuses the view onto that character. This makes every attempt to setup the otherwise horrible tactical camera pointless as it constantly resets.

    Oh, yes horrible tactical camera and this isn't even a bug! It's the worst excuse for a tactical tool I've ever seen in a game, you can actually zoom out further when you're in third person mode.

    Continuing into the tactical mode, this is where the game designers have outdone themselves compared to even DA:II. You can't queue abilities. Doing things which aren't skills, such as reviving or closing a rift (which you will do quite frequently) can't be done if you select another character during the action.

    Actually! It rarely works even then, most of the time you have to switch into the "action mode" and hold down the mouse button being unable to do anything else while waiting for the seconds to pass. Doing this during an intense fight with high level enemies can easily wipe you out.

    I say you can be wiped out, but that isn't really true, you can always run away from the fight with your last conscious character, your party will follow you by falling from the sky once their unconscious bodies have been left too far behind. Following this they will regain consciousness and you can generally heal up and return to the already weakened rift/enemy group.

    Mob AI! Forgot this gem, if you just make your characters hold their ground, you can kill most melee enemies from a distance by just spamming your auto-attack from afar as they will not rush at you nor take cover. Not always true, but often enough for it to become annoying.

    Moving on to the new healing system, it's not horrible after you get into it, but it does make playing the game on Nightmare rather tedious. Not often do you get through an encounter without losing some health. By making sure the only way you can heal is via the dumbed-down potion system, you are constantly forced back to the main camp to refill and then walk an empty path for minutes at a time.

    Made for PC Gamers... Returning to this straight out lie, this is the worst PC port since Skyrim. Gone is the walk by clicking option, looting now forces you to painstakingly walk up to within a step of the loot, that is if you don't accidentally attack instead of loot. I swear I've spent 2 hours of my 30 hours in the game trying to get to the point where I can get at my loot.

    Again returning to the tactical camera, would you like to interact with that rift? "Yes I would, very much so, I close rift at least a few times per hour." Well you CAN'T! Ok, you can but fidgeting around with the camera so that it looks up on the rift takes a minute and isn't possible it the ground around you is flat.

    With that, let's return to the AI, I forgot to mention the way it moves while you're not giving it orders, not that you'll be giving it orders anymore a few hours in. Since it won't do what you tell it to anyway. What it will do, is suicide its way through every encounter. Armed with a crossbow, bow or staff? Why not head straight into melee range and get one-shot by this giant boss?

    Getting to the good, which I will not be adding any points for, simple reason being, the main focus of the game, the combat, is awful beyond reckoning. The story is amazing, the companions are incredibly interesting and customization and crafting are a grindfest yet fun. It also looks pretty good.

    If you're going to buy it, buy it for a console, play it on normal and only ever use action mode. If you can enjoy the combat that way, great, I'm sure you'll give this game a 10/10.

    "Dragon Age: Inquisition - Made for PC Gamers by PC Gamers" I hope they patch the game to such an extent that this actually becomes true. No one would be happier than me to be forced to change this review score.

    Finally, the Dragon Age servers can't be reached bug is still in effect as of writing this review, making sure I have been unable to import any of my choices from the previous games. Had the game not already been at a 0/10 this would've lowered the score further still.

    Tl;dr
    There is no tactical combat, this is the worst PC port since Skyrim, the camera doesn't work, the AI is horrible and Nightmare is frustrating yet too easy.    … Expand
  7. Dyneren
    Nov 24, 2014
    2
    I am disappointed in the game. The developers seemed to think that creating something new would imply messing up all the game basics. Navigation, movement, combat system, concept of healing - someone might think that in DA: Inquisition all these things are "revolutionary" and "realistic", but in my opinion, they are just screwed up. No fun playing the game at all.

    I don't even want to    I am disappointed in the game. The developers seemed to think that creating something new would imply messing up all the game basics. Navigation, movement, combat system, concept of healing - someone might think that in DA: Inquisition all these things are "revolutionary" and "realistic", but in my opinion, they are just screwed up. No fun playing the game at all.

    I don't even want to go into details. DA: Origins was a nice game; DA II had serious problems, and this one is a failure.    … Expand
  8. sn0w8
    Nov 25, 2014
    0
    I have signed up specially do write this review. I have never been impulsed to do this up until now. Bioware have really screwed this game up. It feels like a MMO. Thats a bad thing. Too many pickup collection quests. dumbed down inventory and character development. The controls are TOTALLY BROKEN. the game is unplayable for me. on top of that it is constantly crashing and freezing. ImI have signed up specially do write this review. I have never been impulsed to do this up until now. Bioware have really screwed this game up. It feels like a MMO. Thats a bad thing. Too many pickup collection quests. dumbed down inventory and character development. The controls are TOTALLY BROKEN. the game is unplayable for me. on top of that it is constantly crashing and freezing. Im playing baldurs gate on my iPad and that game COMPLETELY wipes the floor with this POS. Bioware... whats happened to you?… Expand
  9. schmunzel
    Nov 25, 2014
    2
    I just made this account to vent my utter disappointment.
    DA Inquisition is trivial meaningless - completely irrelevant
    The world is never immersing. Its clearly streamlined for a console audience. Including the hectic "click fest" fights. Quests are mainly for filler content as a time sink. While the cut scenes are usually of high dramaturgic quality, there is no sense of drama or an    I just made this account to vent my utter disappointment.
    DA Inquisition is trivial meaningless - completely irrelevant
    The world is never immersing. Its clearly streamlined for a console audience. Including the hectic "click fest" fights. Quests are mainly for filler content as a time sink.
    While the cut scenes are usually of high dramaturgic quality, there is no sense of drama or an immersive world outside of the cut scene.
    Did I mention the horrible combat ? There is no tactical depth whatsoever.
    And I really know now what all the other reviewers meant by "theme park MMO" look and feel
    I was looking forward to this so much - and now this disappointment.
    was für eine lieblos dahingerotzte Konsolenscheiße... *cries*    … Expand
  10. PsychoSimatic
    Dec 5, 2014
    0
    A friend and I bought this game for the PC, and after playing it for 2 hours she decided it was trash and returned it. I decided to play it all the way through because I was a huge DA1 fan and I heard from multiple sources that this was a return to that style.

    It is not at all. I wont even complain about the combat and how clunky it is, or how they just give you a cookie cutter group    A friend and I bought this game for the PC, and after playing it for 2 hours she decided it was trash and returned it. I decided to play it all the way through because I was a huge DA1 fan and I heard from multiple sources that this was a return to that style.

    It is not at all.

    I wont even complain about the combat and how clunky it is, or how they just give you a cookie cutter group to start the game with (lazy story design everywhere).

    But the RPG aspects of the game let me down so hard, they throw you into a crusader as this inqusition basically out of no where and have you running garbage peasant missions with little to no control over the choices you make. Its like a bad World of Warcraft questing system now where I go collect trash and drop banners everywhere to spread my crappy inquisition around. The dialogue with your characters is basically relegated off to the back end and you really only get to chat with people in haven. The camp fire chit chat and any sort of personal connection you could have made are completely dead and you really don't have the chance to grow on any of these characters because you just hate them so much. The game feels tedious and you'll find your self bored of doing nothing but running around looking for trash on the ground rather than anything epic or interesting. You'll get to level 10 before you even dream of meeting another person and you'll be in the same crappy mountain hinterlands the entire time unless you really try and find other things to do.

    This game was a huge let down and I wish i had returned it 2 hours after i bought it as well. Bio Ware is dead, and EA proves that anything it touches is garbage.

    Can we all agree that Origin is also the worst thing ever?    … Expand
  11. olejka
    Dec 6, 2014
    4
    "Made for PC Gamers by PC Gamers"? ROFL
    Interface and control are made for consoles.
    No settings in tactics as DA:O and DA: 2
    Only 8 active skills.
    This is not a complete list ^^
  12. mixoptical
    Feb 11, 2015
    2
    Perhaps the disappointment is so great because the expectations were so great.
    The story is dull, the choices have little to no impact on anything, the relationships, which were in my opinion, the highlight of DAO and DA2 here are almost non existent. Most of he characters are shallow and boring.
    The character development is extremely dumbed down. The quests, besides the main, are    Perhaps the disappointment is so great because the expectations were so great.
    The story is dull, the choices have little to no impact on anything, the relationships, which were in my opinion, the highlight of DAO and DA2 here are almost non existent. Most of he characters are shallow and boring.

    The character development is extremely dumbed down.

    The quests, besides the main, are VERY VERY boring. Go get some plants, some materials and get back. The Universe is big, but really empty and filled mostly with useless stuff.

    The war room, which could be such a nice tactical perk, is actually absolutely useless as well, and mostly a waste of time.

    The combat is very repetitive.

    The makers tried to combine Skyrim, WOW, Diablo and story into one and failed on all accounts. The only good thing in this game is the gorgeous landscapes, which unfortunately were wasted... Very sad.    … Expand
  13. Amorr
    Jan 14, 2015
    0
    Must be the biggest deception since Guild Wars 2. This game sucks so much it feels like you are working at the worst job out there. Really, i'd prefer lifting heavy things all day over playing this crap **** Who they make this game for? 4 years olds? 8 year olds? They think we are all retarted? No, only 90% is retarted.. not alllll people.. As long as it sells, right!! I just can't standMust be the biggest deception since Guild Wars 2. This game sucks so much it feels like you are working at the worst job out there. Really, i'd prefer lifting heavy things all day over playing this crap **** Who they make this game for? 4 years olds? 8 year olds? They think we are all retarted? No, only 90% is retarted.. not alllll people.. As long as it sells, right!! I just can't stand the people calling themselves professionals nowadays.. i bet they don't even like playing computer games themselves. sick **** all i got to say. 0/10 period… Expand
  14. dutch190
    Nov 21, 2014
    1
    I've been gaming for over 20 years and I have never left a review. I signed up for Metacritic to leave this one. This game was not made for the PC. The details below may seem rant like, but that's because I'm a big fan and was really disappointed with this release.

    It is painfully obvious that this is a game made for a console controller, and zero effort was put into adapting the    I've been gaming for over 20 years and I have never left a review. I signed up for Metacritic to leave this one. This game was not made for the PC. The details below may seem rant like, but that's because I'm a big fan and was really disappointed with this release.

    It is painfully obvious that this is a game made for a console controller, and zero effort was put into adapting the controls over to a mouse and key board. You are forced to move your character with wsad only. Which would be ok, if you could still click and drag to move the battle camera while auto attacking but that ability is gone. There is no ability to bind your own keys and make the controls what you want them to be, there is no click to loot function(so you have to manually WSAD it all over to explore and loot & you have to be right on top of the loot to pick it up. Moving the cam is difficult & annoying. The tactical cam is an after thought environment gets in the way, & does not zoom out far enough to be useful.

    I have no idea how any of the critics who demoed this game played on the PC and failed to mention these issues. I bought the digital deluxe version launch day for $79, and it is unplayable.
    I loved DA:Origin. This game, as it was released...well it sucks. Not saying it can't be fixed with some major patches, but when its a major release from EA you expect it to work. It is honestly unplayable as it stands. I would give it a negative score if I could for controls alone.    … Expand
  15. Vargh1
    Jan 24, 2015
    2
    I've loved Dragon Age Origins everything, and DA2's story, when I finished the game I felt wow, this was okay.. But it wasn't really. I've suffered many crashes, bugged game mechanics that still have persisted since day 1 of launch,

    the launch of their multiplayer was actually pretty fun but I had to leave close to 40% of the MP runs (as a result of a key failing to drop, a known bug    I've loved Dragon Age Origins everything, and DA2's story, when I finished the game I felt wow, this was okay.. But it wasn't really. I've suffered many crashes, bugged game mechanics that still have persisted since day 1 of launch,

    the launch of their multiplayer was actually pretty fun but I had to leave close to 40% of the MP runs (as a result of a key failing to drop, a known bug that has not been resolved). The response rate on the official Bioware forums is very lacking, compared to their personal unofficial subreddit page (meaning they invest more time at the reddit than the official bioware forum). If you are looking for balanced multiplayer experience, this is not your fantasy MP experience.

    The story itself is the least compelling it has ever been for the Dragon Age universe. Without spoiling much, it just felt like you were going through the motions. None of your decision actually felt like it mattered. Unlike in Dragon Age origins, you did not have an origin story, a reason that took you to the main event in the game. You were given a Ptarrot card with your background that is very flimsy at best.

    The character creation is lackluster for Qunari. You want long hair? No. They give you very short hair, and it looks like an oiled dolls hair from a action figure. They can make the hair of a horse fly up and down with physics as you ride in the wind yet you cannot have living hair as a character?

    Looking for good combat? Nope, don't count on your ranged characters to stay where you tell them to stay in combat. They have this "Let's stand in the bad" mentality which costs you your healing potions, one of the only options you have available to recover missing health. They simplified spells down toward glorified archery (drag and drop sure, but your spells will hit barely as hard as the melee hack and slash your rogues and fighters. Reaver crits for 4-5k damage a swing, no spell comes close to this. If you play a mage, plan on being a barrier caster and something else utility because frankly your character is just there to look like he's doing something. Mages used to be a core element in your group since DA:O but not anymore.

    Remember the dark setting they had for DA:O? Not so much in this game. political correctness killed anything truly unique about this game aside from the LGBT friendly characters (Which are the only saving grace IMO of the game, the conversations are funny, if they happen.. There is a bug that has yet to be fixed where you can have no dialogue for hours on end).

    Myself and I imagine quite a few others felt that this game was truly limited in scope. They promised us quite a bit at E3, "a pc game, for pc gamers". No, the controls are much more friendly console gamers. They limit you to 8 ability slots! Who does that to PC players? Tactical cam! remember that from DA:O and DA:2? How expansive that was, gave you good angles on the battle field. Not in this game. You can only lift maybe 7 feet off the ground. There, you can maybe see two people fighting but the battles usually range out quite a bit if you have flighty despair demons. The controls in tactical camera are not so responsive, AI doesn't seem to know how to remember a command you issued, like "Hold here" does not work at all! 2 seconds later, he's on top of your fighter that has the big dragon breathing in his face.

    RNG is a big factor in this game too! 1000 schematics, they don't tell everyone however you have to get your schematics from chests. They all have a low drop rate% too. So good luck crafting that badass set that you were wanting. I thought RNG was supposed to keep players playing longer for games they pay subscriptions too. I did not buy DA to play World of Warcraft. I have that game separate for a reason! You'd think, they wouldn't try to pull this on their fanbase, but they did.

    Have a bug? Reporting it on the forums, become ignored for a few months only to get unprofessional responses from the developer team itself. Someone recently flat out called someone who regularly makes videos for them a flat out sneaky liar. She never apologized for that remark. They just shut down the thread and banned the person who had the constructive video of the state of affairs for the multiplayer community.

    I will reiterate that the characters in the game are the only saving grace this game has to offer for a true DA:O fan. It's so, stuffy, in Thedas now. A good story should have everything in it, the highs and the lows, as well as the awkward humor that went along with it. Not anymore, and I'm sad to say this company has lost its edge on good story telling. It's a politically correct universe, that feels forced in every sense of the word. I really hope that they go back to their roots in the future, because the next game I get from them, I will be extremely wary of, if at all. I would not recommend this to a friend.    … Expand
  16. ElantriSand
    Nov 18, 2014
    3
    My major issue with the game is that it definitely feels like an MMO. Fetch quests, filler quests, tons of different bars and notifications on your screen. I would have been okay with the new Dragon Age being more like Elder Scrolls or venturing into new territory, but really the only thing they stole from Elder Scrolls was the open world concept. The first few hours feels very much likeMy major issue with the game is that it definitely feels like an MMO. Fetch quests, filler quests, tons of different bars and notifications on your screen. I would have been okay with the new Dragon Age being more like Elder Scrolls or venturing into new territory, but really the only thing they stole from Elder Scrolls was the open world concept. The first few hours feels very much like World of Warcraft to me, and not in a good way.

    It feels like the developers packed in as many concepts and areas and quest lines as possible to create a big world, but they ended up with a boring, derivative experience that lacks the wonder and character of Skyrim and some of Bioware's earlier games. I know that the combat is equally disappointing, but I could get over that if they story, characters, and world were immersive, but I have not found them engaging thus far.

    I have played through the intro and the first area of the map, and I'm not sure I have ever felt so betrayed by the professional reviews for a game before. However, I suppose I have myself to blame, since I pre-ordered it with optimism retained from memories of Baldur's Gate 1/2, Origins, and Mass Effect 1/2.    … Expand
  17. Subterra
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    Game runs like absolute **** teriible optimization and im **** sick of these developers getting away with this **** DO NOT BUY

    terrible optimization terrible optimization terrible optimization terrible optimization terrible optimization terrible optimization terrible optimization terrible optimization terrible optimization terrible optimization
  18. Burned
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!

    This game is one of the main disappointments in my entire gaming carrier which is 15 years and to compare mediocre dragon age 2 was a perfect sequel. I pre-ordered the game and I should never have done that, I couldn't play more after 2 hours and forced myself to 9 and it did only become worse. The plot is horrible, charachters are boring, conversations are    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!

    This game is one of the main disappointments in my entire gaming carrier which is 15 years and to compare mediocre dragon age 2 was a perfect sequel. I pre-ordered the game and I should never have done that, I couldn't play more after 2 hours and forced myself to 9 and it did only become worse.

    The plot is horrible, charachters are boring, conversations are tasteless as coal. The combat is another story...it is simple button mashing with no tactical reasoning involved. It is very frustrating because there are no auto-aiming or a auto gap closer which was an okay feature from DA2.

    Graphics are okay, but there are no facial expressions or different views.

    It feels like a free MMORPG from 2008.    … Expand
  19. Nagalos
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    I am gonna go straight to the subject because looks like the EA worshiping part of this so called game community is worshiping EA like they saved the humanity from destruction. Ok here is the view.

    This game looks like it was forced on the PC and laptop platforms and it was not thought through. Combat system is really painfully, graphics is omg what the hell is this. Plus let's not    I am gonna go straight to the subject because looks like the EA worshiping part of this so called game community is worshiping EA like they saved the humanity from destruction. Ok here is the view.

    This game looks like it was forced on the PC and laptop platforms and it was not thought through. Combat system is really painfully, graphics is omg what the hell is this. Plus let's not forget about the settings. I tried to set the graphics to have a very decent view without killing my eyes in the process of playing and focusing. But here the problems never stop. When I played 5 min my laptop shut down with no reason. I entered again the after 5 min again shut down. WTF I have a laptop which I payed 4500 Euros for (it has one year since I bought this laptop) and I made it especially for this type of games but after I saw that it shuts down my laptop for now reason I quit the game totally.

    For me having a state of the art laptop and it shuts down because of this game is just to ........ .

    To end this I saw the reviews and I want to say this: "Guidance from EA" pffff let's not forget what they did to DA2 plus EA is just looking for your money. As long as you give them what they want they do not give a damn about you sorry for the truth. WAKE UP PEOPLE AND STOP SLEEPING. Next gen games - if this is the example then it will collapse the game community totally.

    I can hardly believe that this game has high scores but I think the game reviewers where either drunk or drugged or both. Sorry for my bad language but they KILLED THE DA SERIES TOTALLY.

    Dragon Age: Origins - OMG game, amazing story, amazing in all that is amazing;
    Dragon Age 2: - big punch in the face of the DA lovers, Hardly to believe everyone says it was a cool game(yeah right)
    Dragon Age Inquisition: -big punch in the face and another big punch in the face and another one till the person gets bored of punching you in the face.

    GG Bioware to bad that you where bought by a game publishing company that wants to profit from you. Good titles wrong sponsoring company and the baddest company in the history.

    PS. EA lovers do not bother by bothering me with your angry reviews cause I am not giving a damn about what you say.    … Expand
  20. muhindra
    Dec 6, 2014
    0
    I am very disappointed by the game. I finally finished it. Why some People really hate it is, we bought a RPG and not an Action only game with very repetitive quests, badly adapted console to PC combatengine. Thanks to cheathappens, without that cheat I would never have played this game. It has bad Driver Adaption that leaves it unplayable in combat for like 30% of the PC users. And no, weI am very disappointed by the game. I finally finished it. Why some People really hate it is, we bought a RPG and not an Action only game with very repetitive quests, badly adapted console to PC combatengine. Thanks to cheathappens, without that cheat I would never have played this game. It has bad Driver Adaption that leaves it unplayable in combat for like 30% of the PC users. And no, we are not just weird, it is a bad Adaption to PC. The rogue turns the camera randomly on bowshots etc .... I am speaking of RANDOM, so no getting used or something, shots normal and then pouff. Since DAI is te only game hat ever had such Problems ... we don't have to discuss this further, my Computer is fine and reading the critics I see man others have exactly These Problems, so i am not a rare exotic exception. The speechwheel that makes many so happy is inferior to the full phrases in DAO since we often Chose the wrong Options and are shocked that the Phrase is almost the opposite o what we intended to say.

    Alo using a cheat for my character really opened the eyes for e, nothing you did in the warroom with the missions mattered for the Story, it just gave items or inquisitionpoints- Disappointing since I always carefully read and choose the politically wisest Option. Many "important" missions like the hissing wastes or empris de Lion are totally irrelevant for the Story. This is a total killer for roleplayers.

    The Problem is that EA disappointed hardcore DAO players. We are less after action than after RPG.

    However I agree, the graphic and the landscapes are really nice, the Music is great, the voiceactors marvellous, although I was not a fan of the cassandra voice actor. But that is a question of taste.

    Nevertheless, I give the game a 1 as a Penalty for cheating customers. EA clearly promised the game to be more like dao than DA2.

    What galls me is, this game could be even with a fighting engine I hate a pretty good game, if the quests would matter more and Requisition quests help the Inquisition strategically, if choices like who will govern Orlay would make more difference, if pacify a Region would give you more political weight etc.    … Expand
  21. Xarxan
    Dec 2, 2014
    0
    What a mess of a game. Barely freaking works half the time and when it does it feels like I'm playing a watered down SP MMO that got stretched out because they thought grind was a good replacement for writing or proper pacing.
    Also I don't see what people see in modern Bioware companions, I mean sure there's that chart floating around with all the cliches that they are known for when it    What a mess of a game. Barely freaking works half the time and when it does it feels like I'm playing a watered down SP MMO that got stretched out because they thought grind was a good replacement for writing or proper pacing.
    Also I don't see what people see in modern Bioware companions, I mean sure there's that chart floating around with all the cliches that they are known for when it comes to that part of the game but atleast they used to have better writing.    … Expand
  22. wawekar
    Dec 10, 2014
    0
    UPDATE 12/10/2104

    Few notes to add. "Will I play it again? Yes" Well I was wrong.... NO I said in my review below I probably would finish the game. I have not been able to do that. The game is so boring, same thing over and over and over. No flow. It feels like it was a cheap fast way to make a game. If each of the different zones had different quest, and/or a themed    UPDATE 12/10/2104

    Few notes to add.

    "Will I play it again? Yes"

    Well I was wrong.... NO

    I said in my review below I probably would finish the game. I have not been able to do that. The game is so boring, same thing over and over and over. No flow. It feels like it was a cheap fast way to make a game. If each of the different zones had different quest, and/or a themed storyline it would have been far better. I cant get passed the constant click, click, click battle either.

    I no longer need to buy the game for my granddaughter or my son. I let them get on my computer and they played for about a couple of hours each. That's all it took. Both had loved the dragon age series before this.

    ----- REVIEW -----

    I have over 40 hours played with this game, and I just had to stop. It became boring. The “different worlds” where the same things over and over. Will I play it again? Yes, in all fairness when I feel like hacking and slashing to pass time, I will.

    It's the flow of the game. Dragon Age Origins was fantastic and the flow of the game would always keep you playing. The flow in Dragon Age Inquisition is not there.

    As dendygar put it. TO MUCH SKYRIM and NOT ENOUGH ORIGINS.

    I give Dragon Age Inquisition a 0/10. I will get to that below. THIS IS MY OPINION.

    As a game in itself it plays like a single player MMO. The zones are graphical different but the quest and collections are the same thing. Find Shards, Solve the Astrarium (this is cool, sort of a rip off of Skrym), and numerous other collections. The story basically starts crawling after you get to the war table. If a tedious hack and slash game is what you like then this game is for you. Every zone is repetitive. So for this type of game I would rate it a 5/10, the 5 would be a 7 but the PC Controls are awful.

    My breakdown of the game as a sequel to Dragon Age. 0/10

    Does not feel like a Dragon Age story at all.

    This is not an RPG. It is a single player MMO. As stated above the story crawls after you enter the war room.

    Each of the open worlds are beautiful (sword coast ) but they have the same theme as stated above. Collect these, Find these, and solve this.

    No Major cities that I have come across yet. Its all open worlds. The only major city is just a place for merchants and has very little area to it. I can not recall the name of it.

    Having to scan for object. That is correct in order to find somethings you have to hit a key and scan for them. Some quest like find the wardens do this and the Beer bottle collections? Again this is my opinion I just don't like having to search and scan for things.

    The PC interface as stated above is awful. Dragon Age Origins was for the PC. Now it seems EA/Bioware is giving the PC market the back seat.

    Mages can no longer heal, instead they have a “wall” like buff. You have to rely on potions.

    You no longer get points to put up character stats. Your stats go up according to the skills you pick.

    Combat is the same thing over and over. No auto attack so you just sit there and click and click.

    Mouse. You can not loot select or do anything with it.

    Plastic Hair, Cartoon Portrait HUD and a Green Hand portrait for you. In a realistic world this really takes away from the game. It looks like the ripped the hair textures off an 80s game. Then took maybe a few weeks to make the Party HUD. So you have a cartoonish HUD over a realistic world.

    Multi-player is not cooperative, it has nothing to do with the story. You are unable to play through the story with your friend    … Expand
  23. tehace
    Nov 21, 2014
    1
    I've played several hours now and I can tell that the tactical camera is a joke. If there are people here wondering about getting this game I would not recomend it if you want to play it with M&K.

    My girl went down and see me play for a bit and she asked if those are my bodyguards ;) she's not into gaming but that sentence capture the whole feeling of the game I directly control one    I've played several hours now and I can tell that the tactical camera is a joke. If there are people here wondering about getting this game I would not recomend it if you want to play it with M&K.

    My girl went down and see me play for a bit and she asked if those are my bodyguards ;) she's not into gaming but that sentence capture the whole feeling of the game I directly control one character manually using all the abilities almost constantly while the rest of the 'team' just do their thing. Additionally I can't really set any meaningful behaviours for example I would like the mage to cast a barier (absorbs damage) not at the begining of the fight as he tends to cast it but 'when character drop below x% of life but nope there is no such thing and this apply to all spells/abilities. All you can do in tactics is set how many potions they can drink and when and how much stamina should they keep reserved...

    There is zero tactics so far as you cant even queue orders so if you want your rogue to enter stealth go around the enemy and than use his backstab you have to do it yourself or keep track of where he/she is and issue orders manually and thats just one example.

    This game is meant to be played with the controller 100%, pc controls (mouse/keyboard) works somehow in tactical camera but the camera itself is messed up to the point that its just painful to use. The angles you can work with are messed up completely, there is no free cam, you can either zoom max out and see everything from the top (hotline miami) or zoom in and get to the ground in 3rd person view, you cant have the camera up and just change the angle to not be on 90 degree, moving the mouse to the edge of the screen does nothing you have to move the camera around with keys... you dont have to spam the button or hold it to attack as in tactical view you only need to click attack once and the character will keep attacking it until the enemy dies but the way the camera works makes the whole mode very cumbersome and really painful to use. I just gave up on it as I was fighting more with the camera controls than with my enemies.

    Game would be awesome if they just implement the free camera and would look amazing if I can just move it around as entirely different entity. I would play the whole game in tac-cam than. The jumping is a fricking gimmick there are **** of invisible walls and you have to jump to get over 2cm objects like small rocks ;/    … Expand
  24. Fishersam
    Dec 3, 2014
    2
    The first issue I had is the DRM. The DRM is the protection a game uses to keep people from pirating their game. The problem is, people who purchase the game shouldn't notice the DRM. I did because I was unable to play it for the first week after shelling out my $50. I didn't leave a review then because I felt that would be petty.

    Once i finally got in, the game was clunky and boring.    The first issue I had is the DRM. The DRM is the protection a game uses to keep people from pirating their game. The problem is, people who purchase the game shouldn't notice the DRM. I did because I was unable to play it for the first week after shelling out my $50. I didn't leave a review then because I felt that would be petty.

    Once i finally got in, the game was clunky and boring. Blah, blah, blah, blah.. Something. Something. Something dragons. I have never been so disinterested in an RPG so fast. It was quite impressive how little i cared about whatever EA was trying to portray with their "story". The combat is "okay", but i'm not willing to endure the pointless filler missions to have combat. The writing was also "okay" but unfortunately, it also required that i endure more filler.

    R.I.P Dragon Age series. EA is the devil. I remember when I was young and EA was an awesome company that made awesome games. Their first act of evil was monopolizing NFL games so that they could produce piles of crap at a steady rate of once a year at the gamers' expense. Everything that they do is an attempt to maximize their profits. They fail to realize, if you take pride in your product and make sure that your quality is priority, the profits will take care of themselves.

    EA sure knows how to kill the things we love in a legal fashion. They should spend less money paying off critics to pretend like their game is good and more money on quality control and experienced developers. I honestly feel like a 2/10 is generous. All we can do now is hope that the project managers and executives at EA die in an awful car crash in which they don't succumb to the initial impact but succumb to the fire.    … Expand
  25. wisery
    Nov 20, 2014
    4
    Nice story, nice characters, but combat system is just awful. I set difficulty on 'Easy' just to skip battles faster. Exploration is nice, but navigation on storm coast or desert map is horrible. I don't want to jump on cliffs, I want to do quests. Mostly disappointed for now.
  26. mostlywater
    Nov 27, 2014
    2
    This is not made for a pc. There is no auto target, and you can end up tabbing through, or chasing after enemies with hand on mouse and finger on key to target them. This is not, repeat not exciting. Grabbing loot or targeting: please move with mouse or keys to a very specific area within range of the item you are trying to grab. yes, you will spend minutes running around a hill trying toThis is not made for a pc. There is no auto target, and you can end up tabbing through, or chasing after enemies with hand on mouse and finger on key to target them. This is not, repeat not exciting. Grabbing loot or targeting: please move with mouse or keys to a very specific area within range of the item you are trying to grab. yes, you will spend minutes running around a hill trying to pick up elf root. Then inventory interface. Ah, the old days, when a boxy square of squares could show you instantly what you have.

    Not this time. You will have set of symbols, you will click one of them, then you will drag down a list. then, and only then will you see - and only a few items at a time, what you have. The comparisons of similar weapons is nice, but I want to do this in a few clicks. I am not interested in faffing around with this.

    Do developers need to justify their existence by making it more complicated than it needs to be? I've played so many of these games for so long, that repetitive strain is now an painful reality. It limits the amount of time I can play games now. I resent every extra click, every extra key that isn't needed, and folks, this is by far the very worst game I have played for this. It is, literally wasting my time.

    It is pretty, but it is empty. It is not open world, it is badly written, the dialogue is random. I was delighted to see Varric, hoping for some wit, at least. But no.

    Might be ok for non pc players who want good graphics and fun without gum, but heh, some of us wanted what Origins had. Plot, characters, wit, fun, and an interface that didn't make your hand hurt after a few hours of use.

    Should really come with a health warning. Will ruin hand, will bore to tears. Will crush with disappointment.

    Really would not have preordered this, but at least I have learnt something. Won't be doing it again.    … Expand
  27. primarch1
    Dec 19, 2014
    2
    I won't rehash the myriad of well documented issues this game has on the PC. Suffice to say its a bad console port and a simplistic button mashing game with no tactical depth whatsoever. It does look pretty though. But looking pretty can't hide the shallow lackluster gameplay.

    At least the return policy enabled me to uninstall and get a refund. I'd me much more angry if I had actually    I won't rehash the myriad of well documented issues this game has on the PC. Suffice to say its a bad console port and a simplistic button mashing game with no tactical depth whatsoever. It does look pretty though. But looking pretty can't hide the shallow lackluster gameplay.

    At least the return policy enabled me to uninstall and get a refund. I'd me much more angry if I had actually lost money on this poor excuse of a game.

    Ultimately, If you like tactical RPG's and remember DAO fondly do yourself a favor and avoid this game.    … Expand
  28. Tomice
    Nov 20, 2014
    1
    I'm a huge Bioware fans since decades, having extensively played BG1+2, DAO, DA2 and the Mass Effect trilogy.

    I would realy love to enjoy DAI, but I can hardly force myself to play it due to the abysmal PC controls. They really break the game! The problem is: The current controls make it impossible to play the game in a similar fashion as DAO or Baldurs Gate. The game forces you to    I'm a huge Bioware fans since decades, having extensively played BG1+2, DAO, DA2 and the Mass Effect trilogy.

    I would realy love to enjoy DAI, but I can hardly force myself to play it due to the abysmal PC controls. They really break the game!

    The problem is: The current controls make it impossible to play the game in a similar fashion as DAO or Baldurs Gate. The game forces you to play a single character and let the AI control all other. That's not what Dragon Age stands for.
    "But what about the tactical view?", you might ask. Well - it simply doesn't work.

    Tactical view has extremely bad controls, especially indoors. You can't zoom out further than the ceiling, which is approx. 10 feet above the ground. If your lucky, you might even arrange the camera so well that you see 2 enemies at once *rolleyes* But it gets even worse: Once you somehow managed to get a good view of the enemies you face, you can only order a single enemy to attack. You can't select your entire party at once. And the moment you switch to another char, the camera resets a focuses on the selcted char. This is extremely stupid, because you need to click on enemies to attack, not on your party members!

    The tutorial already shows the worst of this system:
    Attacking 3 enemies in a cave from outside in a coordinated manner takes dozens of clicks in tacview. It's plain stupid, but see for yourself:

    - Switch to tactical view.
    - Bring camera focus into cave, try to somehow find an acceptable position.
    - Order your main char to attack
    - Switch to second char - camera resets
    - Find acceptable camera position again
    - Order second char to atatck
    - Switch to third char - camera resets
    - try to find acceptable camera position again
    - Order third char to attack
    - Switch to fourth char - camera resets again
    - Find acceptable camera position yet again
    - Order final char to attack

    But that's not all: Once your chars used their abailities as you ordered them, they continue doing what they want. If you want to follow with a second round of well-chosen abilities, you have to repeat all the above!!!

    In DAO or BG, the camera didn't reset after switching chars. You could keep your focus on the enemy and activate ability after ability. You cound also select multiple chars at once, making things much easier.

    I don't know why they destroyed a system that worked awesomely for decades.

    I also tried to view the gae differently, see it more as a relative of Mass Effect (where the party members were intentionally AI-controlled). But it doesn't work either!

    The game simply doesn't have the "feel" of natural third person games like Mass Effect or the Witcher 2. Normal attacks are boring, they don't have the dynamic feeling of sword strikes in Skyrim or The Witcher. You simply hold the mouse button to attack- no timing of individual strikes, no dodging, no nothing. Just trying to keep your char facing toward the enemy.

    I'm extremely disappointed. I'll continue trying to get into the game, but I doubt I'll be able to before something changes.
    My score may sound harsh, but until this issue is fixed, i can't enjoy any other aspect of the game.    … Expand
  29. bippyg
    Nov 22, 2014
    1
    Although advertised as an open-world role playing game, it is in fact nothing more than a third-person shooter. After three hours of playing, the game play is completely linear. There is no character interaction. The companions talk, but you cannot interact with them directly. You can only eavesdrop on their conversations, and if you miss something they say, too bad. Quests are one at aAlthough advertised as an open-world role playing game, it is in fact nothing more than a third-person shooter. After three hours of playing, the game play is completely linear. There is no character interaction. The companions talk, but you cannot interact with them directly. You can only eavesdrop on their conversations, and if you miss something they say, too bad. Quests are one at a time and must be completed in a particular order. Combat is about mouse clicks. The faster you click, the more you shoot (or swing a weapon, depending on your class). Like all arcade shooters, you find power-ups, er, I mean, health potions as you go. The camera never gets very close. At best it hangs well behind your character, which makes the game feel distant and impersonal. It's not role-playing at all, but a primitive arcade shooter. On a positive note, good graphics.… Expand
  30. seveian
    Nov 22, 2014
    3
    I was very hyped about this game and when the pre-download was released the soundtrack made me think - holy crap they've put a lot of work on this.. going to be worth the wait! And combine that with all the great reviews coming from all around.

    I've put about 10 hours into the PC version game and I really don't see myself spending much more. Much like many other's reviews, I really    I was very hyped about this game and when the pre-download was released the soundtrack made me think - holy crap they've put a lot of work on this.. going to be worth the wait! And combine that with all the great reviews coming from all around.

    I've put about 10 hours into the PC version game and I really don't see myself spending much more. Much like many other's reviews, I really dislike the controls. It shouldn't be a chore to loot a corpse (if you even happen to notice that there was loot left behind).

    There's nothing fluid about the UI at all. The weapon/armor upgrade system is confusing as hell.

    Maybe I'm splitting hairs but the skill tree doesn't feel exciting. The fact that I can fully upgrade a skill to its maximum potential within the first couple of skill points I am given just feels wrong.

    I picked a Mage character.. and the majority of the time in combat is spent waiting for my hotbutton skills to be active. I gave up on "auto attacking" way before. Besides, who has time to auto attack when you are trying to position the camera to see if a rift can be 'disrupted' for the 18th time before it closes?

    Have to agree with others that this might be better on console, and was likely designed FOR console. But I am wishing I could get my money back.    … Expand
  31. Saawatts
    Mar 24, 2015
    2
    This game has serious issues and the fact that it's getting such outrageously good reviews says far more about the reviewers than the game itself. It's not like its problems are hidden--no, they smack you in the face at every opportunity.

    A complete run of the game will take you something like 120 hours. 100+ hours of that will be travel time and bunny hopping trying to reach    This game has serious issues and the fact that it's getting such outrageously good reviews says far more about the reviewers than the game itself. It's not like its problems are hidden--no, they smack you in the face at every opportunity.

    A complete run of the game will take you something like 120 hours. 100+ hours of that will be travel time and bunny hopping trying to reach locations. Almost all of the remaining time is spent wrestling with the game's combat system--companions running into walls the entire fight, squishy companions dropping everything they're doing to run into melee with the big bad enemy, inaccurate targeting of AoE spells, companions having no clue how to utilize any of the abilities you've given them, etc... This game has NONE of the tactics options we loved so much in DAO and DA2 and it's...horrible. Almost as bad, there's no real difficulty to any of the enemies; you can 1-shot the "hardest" hidden boss in the game on the highest difficulty with tragic ease starting at a pretty low level. Because there's a lack of proper design for fights, all the difficulty is cheesy artificial difficulty (dealing with bugs, dealing with bad AI) and the same holds for most of the tactics you can use.

    Even if this game had the best story and characters in the history of gaming--which isn't remotely the case as the writing is mostly disappointing--99% or so if your playing experience would still be this horrible, chore-like gameplay. And the fact that so many professional reviewers completely ignore the game's extremely obvious shortcomings while they jumped on the flaws of DA2 and Jade Empire, controversial games that I think were both better than DAI, is a travesty. And bespeaks horrible incompetence.    … Expand
  32. sisho
    Dec 3, 2014
    0
    Dragon Age: Inquisition is another fiasco in the DA franchise and in Bioware history.
    An ambitious and expensive project, but in all the wrong ways. It was ambitious and expensive to develop for 5 platforms, to build on an engine that did not have support for the kind of game it was meant to be (and is copyrighted to the bone), to implement a complex DRM system which will prove useless in    Dragon Age: Inquisition is another fiasco in the DA franchise and in Bioware history.
    An ambitious and expensive project, but in all the wrong ways. It was ambitious and expensive to develop for 5 platforms, to build on an engine that did not have support for the kind of game it was meant to be (and is copyrighted to the bone), to implement a complex DRM system which will prove useless in the next month. Rivers of money and time spent on useless things while the actual game was left aside and is completely undeveloped, especially for PC. It is a shame, a real shame Bioware had the guts to release this joke of a game.
    I won't write another word about it because I'm speechless. Everything has been already said.
    Don't buy it.

    PS: The top 10 points review by "DragonKnight" sums everything you need to know about the actual game in a sarcastic way.
    The other reviews stating technical issues sums everything you need to know about the joke that is the PC port.    … Expand
  33. chiui
    Dec 10, 2014
    0
    boring and repetitive as a mmorpg but single player,
    many quests are bugged,
    story is lacking contest and characters have very little development,
    hair of the characters shine(graphical issues),
    your choices have little impact on the world,
    I was not transported to a magical world, while I was playing I was thinking about something else, bad sign
  34. ardast
    Nov 18, 2014
    0
    The game is not a bad one, but it is not Dragon Age Origins either, which is the standard I expect every Bioware game to live up to.
    The game feels somehow unfinished, not optimized and somewhat of a poor console port ( I own the PC version.)
    I played for about 10 hours and I can say that the strong points of the game are: 1. The story 2. The graphics 3. Awesome character creator    The game is not a bad one, but it is not Dragon Age Origins either, which is the standard I expect every Bioware game to live up to.
    The game feels somehow unfinished, not optimized and somewhat of a poor console port ( I own the PC version.)
    I played for about 10 hours and I can say that the strong points of the game are:

    1. The story
    2. The graphics
    3. Awesome character creator
    4. Audio, music and Voice acting are top notch.

    Weak or bad stuff:

    1. Clunky controls
    2. Bad console UI, too big, not scalable
    3. Very bad tactical camera,
    4. No Auto Attack - No auto loot. You have to go to a specific place just to attack or loot (so annoying).
    5. No action queue.
    6. The camera overall feels weird and poorly executed.
    7. Bad companion AI and the control of AI tactics is very much dumbed down.

    Cheers    … Expand
  35. Old-dvd
    Nov 19, 2014
    0
    So disapointed...

    - No big cities. - Battle mechanic is good, but visually fights look like a cheap Korean MMO. That's funny, yea... But that's shouldn't be funny! It's impossible to take the story seriously because of cartoonly ninja's style! Where did you find your "great" lead disigner, Bioware? - Design of armor and weapons is so awful... - Characters. I guarantee that none of    So disapointed...

    - No big cities.
    - Battle mechanic is good, but visually fights look like a cheap Korean MMO. That's funny, yea... But that's shouldn't be funny! It's impossible to take the story seriously because of cartoonly ninja's style! Where did you find your

    "great" lead disigner, Bioware?
    - Design of armor and weapons is so awful...
    - Characters. I guarantee that none of them won't become a cult hero. 100%.
    - Don't wait for a beautiful women like Morrigan or Isabela, in DAI we have ONE romansable girl and She looks like a man. Maybe, new Bioware lead disigner is Anita Sarkeesian?
    - Okey, there two girls, I just can't remember the adviser's name - is it Kelly or Samantha?
    - Find a cave, kill 100 mobs, find armor, read a note. Explorations are perfect XD
    - Elves are anorexic. Feed your elves, you cruel rasists! And dismiss the lead designer.

    I like the music and customization system, but it isn't enough... Not enchantment. Not good old DAO.    … Expand
  36. ElseWorth
    Dec 3, 2014
    4
    If this is the future of RPG games, then I need to lose some braincells. More and more it becomes a MMO. They didn't have enough story telling. so they added a load of Kill X of Y and Fetch quest. It seems like grinding is the new way to go in games, as if we don't have enough of those games.
    This is your typical console button smashing fest with a bit of story.
    I guess this is a new    If this is the future of RPG games, then I need to lose some braincells. More and more it becomes a MMO. They didn't have enough story telling. so they added a load of Kill X of Y and Fetch quest. It seems like grinding is the new way to go in games, as if we don't have enough of those games.
    This is your typical console button smashing fest with a bit of story.
    I guess this is a new market for Consoles because the RPG market is relative new on console. But on PC it go's WAY back, and most of us PC gamers expect more then just button smashing and Kill X of Y quests. Otherwise your better of playing WoW.    … Expand
  37. Derax
    Jan 22, 2015
    0
    i like skyrim and i like old rpg games like baldurs gate and dragon age 1 but i hate this mix :)
    can't really get accustomed too nthis mix :/
    Character development is almost not existent.
    Play fast foward and skip the smaller quests, they are just there to fill the game.
  38. kremit
    Nov 24, 2014
    3
    I was hoping for a Dragon Age in the spirit of 1 and 2. This game is basically Kingdoms of Amalur with a Dragon Age theme. Combat is now divided into 2 systems to accomplish what should be in one combat system. Combat is no longer tactical, it is just button mashing, as opposed to DA:Origins which was like 3D chess. If you are looking for Dragon Age 1 or 2 continued, this is NOT the gameI was hoping for a Dragon Age in the spirit of 1 and 2. This game is basically Kingdoms of Amalur with a Dragon Age theme. Combat is now divided into 2 systems to accomplish what should be in one combat system. Combat is no longer tactical, it is just button mashing, as opposed to DA:Origins which was like 3D chess. If you are looking for Dragon Age 1 or 2 continued, this is NOT the game you want.

    By the way, where are Sandal and Bodahn?    … Expand
  39. Ocelot113
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    PC controls... that's it.

    The rest of the is just to fill up the one hundred and fifty letter count that is need to post this on this site for some reason.
  40. Liangxianghong
    Nov 21, 2014
    1
    Like most of the other RPG fans here, I loved DA:O and loathed DA2. Never could I have imagined that I would hate DAI so much that I'm asking for a refund after less than 24 hours of playing it. Yes, it is obviously made for consoles with PC being an afterthought. Terrible controls, broken camera, bad animation, absolute lack of any tactical combat whatsoever... the list goes on. Shame onLike most of the other RPG fans here, I loved DA:O and loathed DA2. Never could I have imagined that I would hate DAI so much that I'm asking for a refund after less than 24 hours of playing it. Yes, it is obviously made for consoles with PC being an afterthought. Terrible controls, broken camera, bad animation, absolute lack of any tactical combat whatsoever... the list goes on. Shame on you, Bioware.… Expand
  41. WillGamer
    Nov 5, 2019
    3
    Update review Nov 2019. With the info coming out on the new Dragon Age I was curious to see if they fixed all the issues with Inquisition. Short answer is no. I tried to play this again and after about two hours all the reasons on why I abandoned this game in 2014 came back. The controls are a nightmare and well done to anyone who could stick with it to play this game on the pc. I willUpdate review Nov 2019. With the info coming out on the new Dragon Age I was curious to see if they fixed all the issues with Inquisition. Short answer is no. I tried to play this again and after about two hours all the reasons on why I abandoned this game in 2014 came back. The controls are a nightmare and well done to anyone who could stick with it to play this game on the pc. I will wait until there is plenty of user reviews before touching the new one.… Expand
  42. Many1509
    Nov 26, 2014
    0
    In my Opinion it is only a better version of DA2. My main criticism is the tactical view. Yes its back, but bad to handle. The area you could see in DAO with the tactical view was larger and better to handle. It feels like an better action game with a little bit tactic. It seems also that more and more games are designed more for xbox and so on.... I miss the feeling of DAO.
  43. bewildered
    Nov 27, 2014
    0
    Just finished the game after 84 hours playtime, and my thoughts afterwards? "finally over"

    It was such a disappointment. To begin with the game has a beautiful world, and damn good music in it, but that is the only positive i have to say. All these open world areas felt like a chore to get through, nothing remotely interesting. but the worst part were the main storyline. it was the    Just finished the game after 84 hours playtime, and my thoughts afterwards? "finally over"

    It was such a disappointment.
    To begin with the game has a beautiful world, and damn good music in it, but that is the only positive i have to say.

    All these open world areas felt like a chore to get through, nothing remotely interesting.
    but the worst part were the main storyline. it was the only part that was catchy at times, but it was just so damn short.

    DA:O was mainly one big mainquest walkthrough, with fewer sidequests if you bothered, however, this game is the complete opposite...

    It felt more like a boring action adventure game than a proper RPG, nothing had dept in this game.    … Expand
  44. DAOuser
    Nov 3, 2018
    0
    Como muchos, yo también me he sentido decepcionado por este juego, pero no demasiado porque llevaba meses siguiendo las noticias y la información que había al respecto y ya me imaginaba que me iba a encontrar con algo así.

    Lo más triste es que se nota que han invertido tiempo y esfuerzo en el juego, pero como viene pasando últimamente con Bioware, se han centrado en los gráficos y en    Como muchos, yo también me he sentido decepcionado por este juego, pero no demasiado porque llevaba meses siguiendo las noticias y la información que había al respecto y ya me imaginaba que me iba a encontrar con algo así.

    Lo más triste es que se nota que han invertido tiempo y esfuerzo en el juego, pero como viene pasando últimamente con Bioware, se han centrado en los gráficos y en intentar contentar a todo el mundo en materia de combates y jugabilidad, en lugar de apostar por un camino concreto y tratar (como pedíamos muchos) de recuperar el estilo y la presencia del DAO original.

    El resultado: siguiendo con la tendencia que marcaba DA2, han creado un juego donde los elementos de rol brillan por su ausencia, y donde los decorados y los gráficos son marcadamente mejores respecto a la entrega anterior, pero con una historia bastante sosa y que se siente inconexa con los otros títulos de la saga.

    El juego en sí es una especie de Skyrim (aunque con mucha menos libertad, eso sí) llevado al mundo de DA, poco atractivo para jugar en PC y en general, bastante prescindible. Si no fuera por la cantidad de gente que le da puntuaciones (en mi opinión) exageradamente buenas, probablemente le habría dado un 6. Por desgracia para aquellos a los que sí les ha gustado, creo en el derecho al pataleo.    … Expand
  45. joshan2
    Nov 26, 2014
    0
    How'd we start? Choppy gameplay, bugs everywere, very very short history (and boring)... And I though Dragon Age 2 was horrible, but this is totally worst!!

    Dragon Age Inquision should be named "Dragon Age Alpha Inquision"
  46. horheros
    Nov 19, 2014
    0
    I took the trouble to register to say that Dragon Age Inquisition is a shameless ripoff and a big disappointment. Previous Bioware games were controversial but enjoyable. This one isn't. I really wanted to like it but I couldn't, I spent 20 hours on it and from struggling with controls to random crashes all the way it was a path of sheer frustration. Combat is very MMOish. Characters areI took the trouble to register to say that Dragon Age Inquisition is a shameless ripoff and a big disappointment. Previous Bioware games were controversial but enjoyable. This one isn't. I really wanted to like it but I couldn't, I spent 20 hours on it and from struggling with controls to random crashes all the way it was a path of sheer frustration. Combat is very MMOish. Characters are one-dimensional and boring. Quests are tired and bland. Visuals are nice sometimes but this isn't a movie and good graphics doesn't compensate for boredom and godawful gameplay. Like I said it's one big disappointment.… Expand
  47. Hammarn82
    Nov 20, 2014
    1
    First time I ever write a review of any game since I first sat down in front of a PC (1992)
    However, when you wait years for, what suppose to be, one the best game you ever played, and it turn out to be complete rubbish I feel I have to write atleast something.
    If you plan to play this on PC, rethink or at least wait until Bioware makes some changes (as they just told us they are).    First time I ever write a review of any game since I first sat down in front of a PC (1992)
    However, when you wait years for, what suppose to be, one the best game you ever played, and it turn out to be complete rubbish I feel I have to write atleast something.

    If you plan to play this on PC, rethink or at least wait until Bioware makes some changes (as they just told us they are).
    I´m waiting to get my money back after my refund request and will wait until this game is playable on PC.
    This is without any doubt the biggest disappointment in my 20+ years of gaming.    … Expand
  48. DarthGnome
    Nov 20, 2014
    1
    I played and loved DA:O and am one of the few who enjoyed DA2. I loved the party banter in DA2 and really enjoyed the character interactions, even if the game play couldn't touch DA:O, which was by far the better game. I was hoping DA:I was going to be a marriage between the two, great game play couple with engaging story, characters, and dialogue.

    I play on a high end PC, and have    I played and loved DA:O and am one of the few who enjoyed DA2. I loved the party banter in DA2 and really enjoyed the character interactions, even if the game play couldn't touch DA:O, which was by far the better game. I was hoping DA:I was going to be a marriage between the two, great game play couple with engaging story, characters, and dialogue.

    I play on a high end PC, and have played about 15-20 hours so far, keep that in mind with my review.

    Graphics:
    The graphics are a mixed bag. The world graphics are good, but nothing special, more or less what you would expect a 2014 AAA world to look like. I was neither awestruck, nor distracted by a negative reaction.
    World Graphics: 5

    The character graphics are another matter entirely. What is with the plastic hair? How did professional reviewers, who were gaga about character creation miss the plastic hair? Is it dishonesty? Bad taste? Does the game not like my graphics card? THE MODELS' HAIR ARE PLASTIC!!! It's like looking at a combination of a 1980's action figure and a Mr Potato Head.
    Character Graphics 0

    Graphics overall: 2.5

    Story:
    No spoilers, fear not. First off, where to begin at how bad this is? The disjointed nonsensical story line? The complete and utter lack of believability (and this in a game with magic and monsters)? The flat one dimensional characters? Or to me, the most disappointing of all, the atrocious dialogue, which used to be the hallmark of the Dragon Age series. Seriously, did they find a C minus film school undergrad to write this stuff? Is Michael Bay moonlighting as a screenwriter for video games? "Heyyyy sh$t blew up, what a story!"

    The base story elements are there, and maybe that's what has me so cranky, this should have been amazing, but the execution is so clumsy and ham-handed it stymies the belief.

    That brings me to the biggest disappointment of all, the inter-party dynamics. The dialogue as mentioned above is horrible, both in cut scenes, dialogue choices, but most of all the inter-party banter. In the old games it made sense, was entertaining, and made you feel like you were with a group of friends - even if they weren't getting along well all the time.

    This game though, has all the charm of riding through Pirates of the Caribbean for the 5th time.
    Story: 0 (and that really hurt to type)

    Gameplay:
    Tried it with mouse and keyboard. Tried it with a Dual Shock 4 controller. Fail. Character and camera controls are mushy and non-responsive. Choosing targets in a fight is awkward, and combat quickly devolves into a keyboard mash.
    Controls: 1

    Combat feels like a sluggish, uninteresting version DA:2 which I thought was pretty weak to begin with. The game compensates this by throwing a lot of combat in the game. A LOT. Oh and just when you thought an area was cleared, there is a nearly instantaneous respawn. Did I mention that there was a lot of combat? oh, and controlling the party in a fight is so awkward and confusing I gave up even trying.
    Combat: 0

    What about the non-combat part of the game, like managing your stronghold and army? The war room? I honestly haven't felt their impact on gameplay 15-20 hours in. I've run missions to help things out, but it just doesn't seem to feel like I'm changing the direction of much of anything yet. That includes the story, the army, the base, whatever. I'm leaving this as incomplete, as I'm hoping things change moving forward.

    So far I have little or no connection to anything in the game, not even my own character. I cared about the Grey Warden in DA:O and really cared about Hawke and his family in DA:2. In this game, there is nothing. I'm giving this a 1 since it runs and hasn't crashed and is playable, but it certainly doesn't have the heart, soul, or technical execution of the first two entries of the series.    … Expand
  49. topender
    Nov 25, 2014
    2
    I bought this game thinking I would be getting a great tactical pc game like previous in the franchise. Instead I got a console port of a button masher. There's little strategy in combat now. Just run in and let your team cream while spamming attack button. So disappointing. Guess I won't bother with the next mass effect either.

    Graphics ok. Story bit lacklustre so far at 6 hours in.
  50. HopDop1
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    ppl should learn from making wrong decision to buy a game, now DA:I is such an live example
    me too not a graphics whore, what hold me back are the combat and camera views, tactical view is the thing from the 1st game and must be used for higher difficulty, i'm just not getting used to it; secondly the targeting and enemies highlighted display are quite annoying as well
    just do more    ppl should learn from making wrong decision to buy a game, now DA:I is such an live example
    me too not a graphics whore, what hold me back are the combat and camera views, tactical view is the thing from the 1st game and must be used for higher difficulty, i'm just not getting used to it; secondly the targeting and enemies highlighted display are quite annoying as well
    just do more findings before picking up any new titles come to light, especially under the current gaming standard    … Expand
  51. Stellen
    Nov 25, 2014
    0
    Very disappointing. Weak scripting, completely disposable quests, bad ability options and abysmal, broken controls.

    This is the worst title which Bioware have ever released, it's probably the end of the road for them as a studio.
  52. MorriganPet
    Nov 22, 2014
    2
    ...I played a bit more since my last posting...hoping...but what a pity , the negative reviews are true-this is not a PC game ! It hurts to play this game -both body and soul...and the characters ! they are repulsive...conversation? one can get better at the fishmarket....like many of you I waited for this game all pins and needles...I even prayed to the Maker to keep me alive and able to...I played a bit more since my last posting...hoping...but what a pity , the negative reviews are true-this is not a PC game ! It hurts to play this game -both body and soul...and the characters ! they are repulsive...conversation? one can get better at the fishmarket....like many of you I waited for this game all pins and needles...I even prayed to the Maker to keep me alive and able to finish this game...I am in mourning now ...I don't dare to continue playing perchance Morrigan appears eyes bloodshot spouting banalities...I could not stand the sight of that.… Expand
  53. Dawid1600
    Nov 25, 2014
    4
    This review will contain some spoilers, i will not go into detail on those spoilers though.

    I would like to start the review with the pro's of the game; -It has amazing graphics, I played it on PC, maxed it out and I thought it looked amazing. -The characters are pretty interesting, personally I only like Blackwall, Dorian and Varric, the rest just weren't my sort of companions if    This review will contain some spoilers, i will not go into detail on those spoilers though.

    I would like to start the review with the pro's of the game;
    -It has amazing graphics, I played it on PC, maxed it out and I thought it looked amazing.
    -The characters are pretty interesting, personally I only like Blackwall, Dorian and Varric, the rest just weren't my sort of companions if that makes any sense.
    -A large amount of the story is rather interesting. (Expanded in cons section)
    -The soundtrack is completely amazing, the tavern songs are really well done.

    And now to list some of the cons, keep in mind that some of this relates to PC and may not be a problem on console versions of the game;
    -The tactical camera controls are completely and utterly terrible. End Of. There's nothing to say about this, you have to hold both mouse buttons to move the camera.
    -Your decisions do not impact the outcome of the game AT ALL, I decided to put this in here as a big point of marketing for this game was 'Your decisions matter', to elaborate on this, no matter what decisions you make your ending will pretty much be the same, the only thing that will change is some extra or less quests and the epilogue narrative.
    -Horses are rather terrible, they do not feel very fast and they're more like skyrim horses (going up near vertical cliff sides).
    -A lot of the side quests are rather terrible (Note: I am NOT talking about companion quests, I thought those were rather well done), eg. the monotonous gathering of random things (Such as 30-90 different plants to upgrade a part of skyhold)
    -The port is rather terribly optimized, it does not do well with SLI set-ups (flickering textures, stuttering cutscenes, which were also locked at 30 fps, otherwise I only managed to get 40-50fps on near max settings with a GTX690).
    -The story feels really rushed near the ending, the first half of the story really intrigued me and felt very interesting, but after a certain point (3/4 of the way in~) I felt like the story just lost all meaning and just wanted me to finish playing.

    Now that i listed pros and cons I'll try to explain my reasoning behind some of them. Also keep in mind that these are my opinions, although I will try to give a summary at the end without mentioning my personal feelings towards the game. Firstly, Bioware has done something completely new, or at least that is how it feels, DA:I does not feel like DA:O and DA2 did. It is open-world so that is a large part of it but also the huge numbers of pointless quests, none of the companions drew me in like in the other games (Morrigan, Oghren, Leliana, Alistair in DA:O and Isabela, Merill and Varric in DA2). There are some people that are saying this isn't a valid complaint as 'Oh this isn't supposed to be DA:O2, it's DA:I', and while I agree to some extent, this isn't a new IP, this is a sequel to the Dragon Age series, it's supposed to feel like a Dragon Age game. Also, a few of the characters' personalities changed a huge amount from DAO and DA2 to this game. Cassandra suddenly becomes really sensitive to your cause and doesn't seem like the strong 'seeker/commander' (Idk) that she was presented as in DA2, Morrigan becomes all attached (If you romaned her in DA:O) and says things I definitely wouldn't think her saying. And Leliana becomes the heartless spy who 'does all the things noone else will do', coming from her 'religious' and caring personality of DA:O. The choices!, while they do feel important (I couldn't decide what to do when leaving the Fade) and some are heartbreaking, do not matter, no matter what you choose, you still go and kill Corypheus without the help of your army, just your part vs him, it doesn't matter who you rescued or helped in order for them to join the Inquisition, they won't be there to join you in battle. That part really made me feel like all my decisions in the game were pointless, since the only thing they change is the epilogue narrative. MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD: If you decide for Hawke to leave the fade with you, he simply leaves to go somewhere for the rest of the game, after trying to decide for 10-15mins on who should stay behind, they leave anyway. Lastly the controls are really weird, the complete removal of auto attacking (you have to hold a button in order to attack, if the enemy runs away, tough luck as you're going to be standing in one spot unless you're holding the forward key) and the terrible tac cam, but after a little while I got used to some of the controls it felt a little better. Lastly I want to mentioned the inability to be a sarcastic **** all the time, there are 'humorous' chat options, but they are nowhere as good as DA2, which made me love Hawke even though I disliked the setting/repetitiveness.

    TL;DR I think the game is rather good IF you want to play another skyrim-eque game, it does not have a lot of the elements that made DA:O and DA2 stand out. It has much more issues than good things about    … Expand
  54. menkaur
    Dec 8, 2014
    0
    Bioware really did it this time. Repeatative quests, mostly linear story line, horrific performance and lot's and lots of bugs and buggys (starting with invisible walls end ending with quests that don't complete).

    The control system feels like half done console port. You can't move character with the mouse. You have to be right above the item to pick it up. In combat, if you're melee    Bioware really did it this time. Repeatative quests, mostly linear story line, horrific performance and lot's and lots of bugs and buggys (starting with invisible walls end ending with quests that don't complete).

    The control system feels like half done console port. You can't move character with the mouse. You have to be right above the item to pick it up. In combat, if you're melee fighter, you don't know if your hits land.

    While the story itself is ok, the way it is told is much below what it used to be in ME and DE. First of all, they took away your charismatic ability to influence stuff. You just have 3 options to choose from, and they usually don't matter. As far as I can see, there is only one ending, and the story that leads to it is mostly linear too (besides the open terrain with repetitive quests (lots of fetch x of something))

    Savegame import is now exclusively via their website. You may or may not like this, but bioware doesn't give a **** about you. The same attitude goes if you want to play the game in a language other than the one where you bought it in (like, in english). Tough luck. In fact they go out of their way to make it difficult for you to do so.

    Than there is the Command Center, which is a place where you must go to unlock some next quests. The problem with that is that you never know when you are supposed to go to the Center and you often feel "hanging"

    I would venture to say that this is the worst bioware game. Ever    … Expand
  55. RogueDeus
    Dec 2, 2014
    3
    I'm 30 hours into Dragon Age Inquisition and I can't seem to get myself to log in and play the game any further. It isn't really very fun. I don't care about the characters. It is just another console based hack and slash game. If I were to review it from that standard, it is probably the best of that type of game. But as a true successor to Dragon Age Origins it is an utter andI'm 30 hours into Dragon Age Inquisition and I can't seem to get myself to log in and play the game any further. It isn't really very fun. I don't care about the characters. It is just another console based hack and slash game. If I were to review it from that standard, it is probably the best of that type of game. But as a true successor to Dragon Age Origins it is an utter and complete failure. I am a fan of DA:O and that is why it hurts me so much to see how much work Bioware put into this steaming pile. I'm sorry Bioware, you have abandoned your base to produce EA Crap TM. Please keep in mind that the only reason you are selling a lot of this game is because of the goodwill generated by Dragon Age Origins. You have failed us with this release. I hope all the new people your game design brings you is enough to support you building more of this kind of crap. Because I'm not supporting you any more. And I suspect I'm not the only one.

    To quote the immortal Scotty, "There's an old, old saying on Earth, Mister Sulu. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

    To those of you who believe this review is too harsh, that it is a great game, and I should enjoy it for what it is, instead of what it is not; you are right. I'll probably finishing the game, but I'll be setting it to easy to get through it, since there is very little to savor and no point in drawing out the experience. I just wish I had waited a couple months to purchase it for $10.00.

    So to summarize: If you want a console game to hack through bad guys with the occasional cut scene, this game is for you, and probably a 9. If you want something thoughtful, intelligent, with a deep plot, developed characters you feel connected to, and interesting content, this game isn't for you, and is probably a 3. I'm surprised Jar Jar didn't have a cameo.

    P.S. Nice review DragonKnight, I couldn't agree with you more.

    PPS Ok, I read through my review and decided it was a little too negative. Dragon Age Inquisition is a fair game. I'm going to play it through because I love the Dragon Age World, but I doubt I will forgive Bioware for turning something epic into something pathetic.

    PPPS Ok, I forgot to mention all kinds of bugs, bugs are to be expected I suppose, but there are many glaring bugs. I've had to restart my game completely because of one, had to exit and log back in for a couple, and been able to ignore the rest, mostly.    … Expand
  56. Aranor
    Dec 3, 2014
    0
    I will update the 0 score once the game actually runs! I've now waited for two full weeks for a patch, but there still isn't one. People everywhere are suffering from the same black screen issues. I can't get a refund either, because I bought a physical copy (silly me) that is now linked to my Origins account.
  57. alexjohn
    Dec 7, 2014
    1
    Where do I start?

    Poor graphics quality, I've seen games that look better and have lower system requirements that this one. Do we really need 8 GB of RAM and high end CPU and Video Card to display low resolution, console optimized, textures and have to put up with low and inconsistent frame rates? Come on EA, a PC can do a lot more than a console. Story Dialogues and characters could    Where do I start?

    Poor graphics quality, I've seen games that look better and have lower system requirements that this one. Do we really need 8 GB of RAM and high end CPU and Video Card to display low resolution, console optimized, textures and have to put up with low and inconsistent frame rates? Come on EA, a PC can do a lot more than a console.

    Story Dialogues and characters could have use a lot more development. Right now they're plain idiotic at times and I doubt they will ever do something about it.

    What's with all the MMO functionality like level based mobs/areas, resources/mob grinding, boring anoying filler quests, constantly respawning mobs and other stuff thrown at random? This is a single player RPG, we're not playing a subscription based MMORPG.

    The entire tactical system is broken, don't bother to assign commands to your team, they will forget them or get stuck. The camera is too close and trees, roofs and other objects will get in the way. Not to mention that you can no longer pause the game at any time to assign orders and tactics...

    Where is the open world that was promissed? I'm not really annoyed by this but having several enlarged areas and the only way to got from one to another being jumping using the world map or special transition points does not qualify as an open world. Skyrim got this right from the first time.

    Mouse and keyboard controlls are a disaster and there is no way I'm buying a Xbox gamepad just for this game (it doesn't recognize any other controllers on a PC, go figure...). Emulating a Xbox gamepad using some random mouse/keyboard keys and movements is not going to work.

    You have move your character every inch and you have to spam the R key or click all the time because they removed the mouse based auto-attack functionaliy (just becauuse consoles don't use mice anyway, right EA?)

    You want to move from one place to another and clicked on your destination in vain? Well, bad luck, now you have to navigate the character every inch of the way. The auto-movement system is completely gone.

    Remember when you could just click on some loot and the character would walk to it and well..loot it? well bad luck, that's gone, right now you have to actively walk to the desired item and if you are not almost on top of it you can't loot it...nice work EA.

    The mouse is practically useless, can't use it to select npc's, can't use it to target, and things go on like this forever, just because consoles don't use mice....

    Can't see the loot/objectives in the area or assign a key for this, you have to constantly "ping" the nearby area by spamming the V key (or whatever key you assign for this) and run around just to be sure you don't miss anything. (After all consoles don't use keyboards, right EA)

    In previous games the mini-map was displaying the general layout of the nearby area, now it's just a transparent mess with some icons on it.

    The area map is useless at this point. In DA:O and DA2 you could actually use it to find your way, something that is almost impossible now.

    The UI is 100% optimized for consoles, lots of deep nested menus for inventory, talents, etc. You can't even assign stats points anymore.

    Last time I ever buy a EA game, (DA:O was fantastic, I even liked DA2) but after wasting 60 euros on this poor excuse of a game and having been refused a refund I'm done with EA games.    … Expand
  58. Krenzin
    Nov 24, 2014
    3
    I've figured it out. It took me several days, and roughly 39 hours of gameplay to finally know the best way to describe DA:I, as I was slightly unhappy with my previous reviews. DA:I is Pac-Man. I know what you're thinking: "Did he seriously just compare an action RPG, filled with quests, characters, and story, a game released late 2014, to Pac-Man?" Yes, I did. Think about it.

    You are    I've figured it out. It took me several days, and roughly 39 hours of gameplay to finally know the best way to describe DA:I, as I was slightly unhappy with my previous reviews. DA:I is Pac-Man. I know what you're thinking: "Did he seriously just compare an action RPG, filled with quests, characters, and story, a game released late 2014, to Pac-Man?" Yes, I did. Think about it.

    You are Pac-Man; the maze-like setting of Pac-Man represents the "open world" filled with mountains, fallen trees, boulders, lakes, and such that you have to go around; the ghosts represent enemies (which, if you're like me, you usually avoid because the loot and experience isn't worth fighting consta-respawning enemies for); the pellets represent the quests (going around collecting things for no particular reason other than it's a part of the game); the power pellets represent the few times you do want, or have, to fight; points are experience; fruit is loot; new stages are new areas with more challenging monsters; and last, but not least, the world feels dead with an enormous lack of NPC interaction. The major difference is that all of this is more than acceptable in Pac-Man.

    But this is Dragon Age. This is BioWare. If I wanted to play Pac-Man, I would play Pac-Man. I want to play an RPG with all the charm that I love in previous BioWare games. I want to get quests from people who have an interesting story/reason for wanting you to do their not-collection quest. I want to go up to a dwarf named Worthy and tell him he has an ironic name because it's ****ing hilarious. I did not get what I want.
    I wanted so badly to love this game. I don't have much money, so I can only buy a new game every so often, and against Shadows of Mordor, against Divinity: Original Sin, various other titles that look interesting and got really high user reviews, I put my money on a brand new, no price drop BioWare, my first love. I can't stand the fact that 10-raters are calling low-raters mainstream haters and whatnot in an attempt to devalue our opinion. No, I did not get this game to hate it. I do everything in my power to love the games I buy. I even managed to find something I greatly enjoyed about DA2 (The humor was amazing. Just amazing.), the first DA letdown. I can't find anything in this game. The quests, the characters, everything is so awful. Waste of money. Dragon Age: Disappointment.

    Also, a note to another reviewer (and anyone who thinks like him/her), who compared reviewing a game with this much "content" *COUGH* after only 10 hours of play to reading 20 pages of a much longer book.... That comparison would work if the game actually had content. Imagine reading the first 15 pages of that book, and it's fairly decent, though not great by any means. Then on page 16, the author suddenly decides to go 'Hey, so I know you're reading my book, but I just felt like I wanted to type random nonsense in here for a while. Don't worry, there will be a bit more plot in 30 or so pages (which you can't skip to because magic, btw), but for now I'm just going to type nothing about nothing. Except it's not nothing. Because, you know, it exists, therefore it's something. Right? I've gone and confused myself, I think. Probably because I'm a bit of an idiot who used to write great books, then somehow started writing this terrible thing. Well anyway, how are you? Oh wait, you can't answer because you're reading. It would be neat if you could though. Blahblahblahblahblahblah......................................................." Once you've played 10 hours, you know exactly what's coming up next: More collection quests, a bit of badly written story here and there, maybe a new, only somewhat interesting party member to talk to for 3 minutes, etc. This coming from a guy who has made it far enough into the game to know this is fact, not just educated guessing.

    The game is boring. Still no idea how people can possibly rate it over a 5.

    -Kren (Currently 39 hours into this depressingly lacking Pac-Man wannabe)    … Expand
  59. Stecko
    Nov 20, 2014
    3
    I've never felt a need to write a review before but I had to with this game. I'm a huge Dragon Age fan. I loved Origins and tolerated DA2. I was stoked about Inquisition. Big world, epic story, new characters, etc. I have to say I'm extremely disappointed in this game. The controls are clunky, the character animations are horrible, the cutscenes stutter and lag, and the combat is nothingI've never felt a need to write a review before but I had to with this game. I'm a huge Dragon Age fan. I loved Origins and tolerated DA2. I was stoked about Inquisition. Big world, epic story, new characters, etc. I have to say I'm extremely disappointed in this game. The controls are clunky, the character animations are horrible, the cutscenes stutter and lag, and the combat is nothing more than a button mashing grind. It had the feel of a single player MMO. After 12 hours I couldn't play anymore. When I heard about Inquisition I said "there's no way it can be worse than DA2 so it will be fine." Sadly I was wrong. I'd much rather player DA2 than this mess of a game. Bioware is officially dead and I will no longer buy their games.… Expand
  60. Quental
    Nov 19, 2014
    0
    After the debacle of Dragon Age II, I didn't think that Bioware could mess up combat to a greater extent. Then they gave us Inquisition, boy was I wrong. If you plan on playing on a PC either 1. Give up. 2. Buy a gamepad. The PC controls are clearly a half-assed console port which make no sense at all if you are trying to use a mouse/keyboard.
  61. balvan64
    Nov 28, 2014
    4
    Broken camera, terrible controls and laughable tactical combat mode.
    This game is a mockery to PC gamers.

    This is another example of why you shouldn't get anything from EA.
    CD Projekt is the only company that makes worthy PC RPG titles, I'll be waiting for the Witcher 3.
  62. Krypto_Dogg
    Dec 19, 2014
    3
    PC controls are fine. Play with a controller.

    Warning: Bad dialog, terrible, childish writing. It's almost like they're trying to get the Nintendo demographic with this one. Naugthy little kids who want to have homosexual relationships that'll make them giggle in-game. I've made my character homosexual in Mass Effect, but from the onset here, even before the game has really started to    PC controls are fine. Play with a controller.

    Warning: Bad dialog, terrible, childish writing. It's almost like they're trying to get the Nintendo demographic with this one. Naugthy little kids who want to have homosexual relationships that'll make them giggle in-game. I've made my character homosexual in Mass Effect, but from the onset here, even before the game has really started to develop, it seems obvious who they're making out to be love interests and it's obvious whether they want them to be gay, straight, or bisexual. Lastly, the writing really is truly terrible. Dragon Age Origin's writing and dialog were boring, but not this bad. Not sure I've ever played a game with writing this bad and I've been gaming since Atari and Vectrex.

    I'll update this with only a slightly more mature review after about 20-30 hours of gameplay. Right now, it's a recommendation to save your money. Angry Joe and the lot of them have been paid off. Trust me, I don't blame them. You're a small time gamer who just wanted to vent and make friends. He meant to stay honest, but if he could make $50,000 a year just doing a few corrupt reviews a year, the marketing departments for EA, Ubisoft, Activision or whoever can save a little money and Joe doesn't have to worry about starving. Maybe he'll just do paid reviews for a living. Buy a house. Unfortunately that means he's no longer the people's champ.

    Final Edit: I woke up yesterday around 6 and gave myself until noon to find something interesting about the game. That's more than enough time. Instead, time just poured by without even so much as an interesting quest or bit of dialog. So I'm done.

    I still disagree there is anything wrong with the action, menus, or anything. Technically the game is fine and it's fairly obvious this is the game that was intended to be released. It's polished how they wanted it. It's an MMO, but a single player one but lacking the charm of how Bethesda does it. This game in no way seems to be related to competing with the Witcher other than enhanced graphics and larger world. This is an online MMO competitor/Skyrim competitor. It could be considered a Diablo 3 competitor if only the online component were allowed for 100% of the game, with single player only required for party banter and a side quest or two. As it stands, it's just really boring in pretty much every way. You could say mediocre mainly because nothing is essentially broken.    … Expand
  63. hir
    Dec 22, 2014
    0
    This section is for PC reviews.

    I wish people would stop coming in here, extolling the game and then give a 8/9/10 after revealing they are playing on one of the consuls.

    I think people who are coming here and giving the game a good rating after having played on another platform are younger players who don't really understand about the qualities that a genuine RPG should have.
  64. MCNoFunAllowed
    Nov 19, 2014
    3
    You would think a game with a critic Metascore of 87 would be pretty promising. But it is once again like Dragon Age 2 where the critics were obviously paid for their 10/10 reviews they gave when the user reviews gave it a 4.3 (I remember when it was once at a 2.3 at a certain point.) The gameplay is as clunky as a mediocre MMORPG and some cringeworthy writing. I can't believe the stuff IYou would think a game with a critic Metascore of 87 would be pretty promising. But it is once again like Dragon Age 2 where the critics were obviously paid for their 10/10 reviews they gave when the user reviews gave it a 4.3 (I remember when it was once at a 2.3 at a certain point.) The gameplay is as clunky as a mediocre MMORPG and some cringeworthy writing. I can't believe the stuff I hear in this game went through an editor. For me, a game with just mediocre, 'casual friendly' combat and poor writing really seals the deal that this game was not worth the purchase. How this game got so much hype and praise is beyond me.… Expand
  65. Krafty
    Jan 4, 2015
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After the possible dire consequences at the close of Mass Effect 2 and DA:Origins, followed by the travesty of ME3, BioWare played it ultra safe with the conclusion of DA:I.

    The 60+ hours I put into playing had my imagination ramping up wildly, with no specific expectations for what would happen, but envisioning countless possibilities for what could happen. When reaching the end, it left me with a "that's it?" moment of confusion, then a feeling of hollowness when considering how little your characters and your related interactions play into the climactic moments.

    Even ignoring the lack of player's choices and interactions impacting the closing moments, the crushing moment was that there really is no events or moments offered to be impacted. No turmoil, no internal struggle, no 2nd guessing any motivation/action/intention/alliance/etc that took place up to that point. A final battle in a bubble, isolated and shallow.

    Everything up till then though? Pretty fantastic, an amazing accomplishment on BioWare's part, but I would have traded it all in for one jaw-dropping moment and tough choice before the denouement.    … Expand
  66. Mr_Inab83
    Nov 18, 2014
    0
    As mentioned by other users, the marketing department at Bioware did a great job, I also pre ordered the game. After only 5 hours of gameplay I can say that the game controls were thought only targeting consoles and / or use of joystick: the use of keyboard and mouse set is bad (even after spending an hour remapping commands); many camera issues (there is no "free look" with the mouse, theAs mentioned by other users, the marketing department at Bioware did a great job, I also pre ordered the game. After only 5 hours of gameplay I can say that the game controls were thought only targeting consoles and / or use of joystick: the use of keyboard and mouse set is bad (even after spending an hour remapping commands); many camera issues (there is no "free look" with the mouse, the camera does not turn as you move the mouse left / right / up / down, it is necessary to press the right mouse button); lack of auto attack command / collection / open (you must go to the enemy / object / door and click on it, in case the enemies you need to stay close and hold the left mouse button to keep attacking if the enemy is knocked out or thrown backward, you must again move next to it and "restart" the fight); does not allow remapping of mouse buttons; lack of zoom when using the camera tactic; is not possible to remap the buttons on the joystick (the only way to play is with a joystick, it is possible to walk and change the vision of the camera together); the use of keyboard and mouse set is REALLY bad ( Diablo 3 despite several flaws possessed a unique combat system for PC and one for consoles)... adding to the fact the game display various performance drops (my configuration is i7 4770k / MSI GTX 780 Ti / Memory 16 gb, I play in high quality with various graphics options on Medium); uninteresting story and an oversimplification in terms of RPG (for easy access to people who do not Likes RPG!?!... several great options for configuration of gameplay and behavior of the characters they had in previous games were just thrown in the trash to facilitate the 'accessibility'... there are no healing spells and regeneration, just staying creating "shell" (barrier) and drinking potions all the time) ... Unfortunately I will have to request a refund and return to play Dragon Age Origins ... WHY BIOWARE!?! WHY LAUNCH AN UNFINISHED PRODUCT JUST FOR LAUNCH BEFORE "THE WITCHER 3" ... IS THE SAME STORY OF BF4 AND COD GHOSTS AGAIN!!!… Expand
  67. Bmane
    Nov 21, 2014
    3
    Urgh.... Yea, that's right, Urgh! Or is it Urg? Either way, that's my latest word to describe the new Dragon Age game in a nutshell...

    This is going to be a short one because I wasted enough time on Dragon Age that god forbid I want to waste anymore time writing about it! So lets start with the pros, because frankly there isn't many of them, so lets get those out of the way first:    Urgh.... Yea, that's right, Urgh! Or is it Urg? Either way, that's my latest word to describe the new Dragon Age game in a nutshell...

    This is going to be a short one because I wasted enough time on Dragon Age that god forbid I want to waste anymore time writing about it!

    So lets start with the pros, because frankly there isn't many of them, so lets get those out of the way first:

    Graphics: The graphics are not amazing, nor are they out of this world, but they are none the less suitable and impressive. They're good enough that they don't bog the game down, and they are decent enough that you can immerse yourself into the world. There has been some improvement in how the characters look (not creative wise, I'll get to that soon...) and the environments are pretty solid.

    Customization: The level of customization is impressive within character creation, and you get to design a character that should, in theory, feel 'personal' to you. However, a friend told me that the same customization is lacking in multiplayer, which I've not tried, so that was a strange one if true.

    And that is, sadly, it. The only two positive things I can extract from the game. Now, moving on!

    Plot: Lets start with the biggest criminal in the room. The plot. It is bad. I'm sorry but it is. It's like the devs just couldn't come up with something original or interesting - it doesn't have to be original but it does have to be interesting -and decided to go ahead and rip out the plot from Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and put a spin on it. Your central story revolves around you being forcefully cast into being the hero. I won't go into it much as I want to avoid spoilers, but lets say it felt weak. I couldn't help but smirk just how bad the whole setup is. I could go on but I want to keep this brief as possible. For a hyped up game like Dragon Age, I believe the writers have milked their last udder, and should hastily leave the building.

    Character Design: Urg... Yeah, this is it. This is what made me say, "Right, time for a refund!" I get it Bioware. You want to break away from tradition. You want your elf to look like Dobby from Harry Potter. You want beardless dwarfs (yet again) who go around cheekily trying to tell bad dirty jokes and chatting up the ladies, you want to support gay rights so you have a Big Bull Man (a Quanari that apparently now have horns) become a romancable option even though it makes zero sense for that particular character, but hey, you did it with Kaidan in Mass Effect, why not Dragon Age! Gah! The character designs, the look, the writing for them, are completely terrible. Bland and non-interesting. This is the nail in the coffin for the Dragon Age series, and this is what did it for me. The writing!

    RPG Mechanic: At no point in the game did I feel I wanted to waste my time with the tactics system or the leveling up system. Everything about it feels uninteresting, tedious and just an annoyance. In the games defense, I chose casual, as I wanted to enjoy the narrative. Since I quickly realized how bad that narrative was going to be, I tried to take some enjoyment out of the DA RPG system, and I frankly found nothing enjoyable about it. It's a cheap hack and slash but done in a way that its even more boring than most mmo combat mechanics. You just hold down the button and hack at everything. The first major boss fight that you'll find yourself in is a bore fest and most of the time the boss roams about not doing anything, as if disinterested. What a shame.

    Quests: "Lets put some interesting quests in this game for once that take effort backed up by good solid writing." - "Nah... Let's just pop letters around the world, books and have npcs give collection quests." Yay! O wait.. what? Yeah that's right, the old age method of introducing bland quests in an rpg is still live and well.

    All in all, Dragon Age inquisitions will be enjoyed by those who don't look too deep into a plotline and don't really care about the points I've made above because, if your the type of player that will drool over a large map and large environment then you'll be right at home here.    … Expand
  68. fonglet
    Nov 27, 2014
    2
    Game had some huge flaws and was nothing like the dragon age I have come to love. THE BIGGEST FLAW. Camera is impossibly zoomed in so you can't do top down tactical combat without huge frustration. Needs to be able to zoom out 3 times more. The action based fighting means hold left click to kill enemies while essentially ignoring positioning and skills. Characters don't auto attack whenGame had some huge flaws and was nothing like the dragon age I have come to love. THE BIGGEST FLAW. Camera is impossibly zoomed in so you can't do top down tactical combat without huge frustration. Needs to be able to zoom out 3 times more. The action based fighting means hold left click to kill enemies while essentially ignoring positioning and skills. Characters don't auto attack when you take control of them so multi managing your party is hair puzzlingly impossible. All the classes are simplified and skill trees leave you with very little meaningful choice, might as well set to auto level.

    All in all this game had great graphics and a pretty fun storyline. However as it is currently released the combat is the worst experience you will ever have. The side quests and enemies are boring and repetitive. If you're looking for a horrible skyrim this is it. Otherwise don't waste your money.    … Expand
  69. clavain
    Nov 19, 2014
    2
    MMO, console port, horrible UI for inventory and powers on PC, godawful codex with ridiculous numbered entries that appear out of order that you have to endlessly hunt and peck through to find what you are looking for, and in HUGE CONSOLE TEXT which doesn't even fit on one screen - you have to press a button to look at the image of a monster in the codex as the text and image don't fit onMMO, console port, horrible UI for inventory and powers on PC, godawful codex with ridiculous numbered entries that appear out of order that you have to endlessly hunt and peck through to find what you are looking for, and in HUGE CONSOLE TEXT which doesn't even fit on one screen - you have to press a button to look at the image of a monster in the codex as the text and image don't fit on one page? Really? How did Bioware forget the art of having a proper journal after NWN et al? On-rails introduction that is not open world at all, and plot (so far) that basically seems like the DA version of Oblivion. Kicking myself for not looking at user reviews here before buying this, Bioware has obviously lost the plot with RPGs, last one I will buy from them. Oh, did I mention the endless cutscenes?… Expand
  70. Barnabat
    Dec 25, 2014
    3
    Do not buy, wait a year and grab it when is 5$, if you come from DA:O you will hate what they did to the series. Listen to all the bad reviews because its true.
  71. Carnifexus
    Dec 1, 2014
    0
    Its a beautiful game the hour I played of it. However most of the systems are frustrating.

    Searching for loot with V, you can't pick it up unless you are within a meter of it. Combat seems very strange I played as a mage and they have removed all the previous spells and lore and instead gone with lighting, fire ice and spirit. No more Creation, Entropy. Holding down a button to attack    Its a beautiful game the hour I played of it. However most of the systems are frustrating.

    Searching for loot with V, you can't pick it up unless you are within a meter of it. Combat seems very strange I played as a mage and they have removed all the previous spells and lore and instead gone with lighting, fire ice and spirit. No more Creation, Entropy. Holding down a button to attack is frustrating!

    I read some other reviews and I agreed with them I have returned my version and got my money back thank you EA for allowing me to do this. I don't hold a grudge I just won't buy this game until its playable. I really am looking forward to the story I'm sure its epic but I won't panda to console driven games I'm a PC gamer always will be.    … Expand
  72. RedStorm
    Jan 28, 2015
    0
    Dragon Age Inquisition is a poor game.It lacks all the ingredients that made DA Origins an excellent game(read the reviews that rated 0 and you will understand why).Playing the 10 hours of this game was the worse experience of my ""RPG Player" life.I have only respect and apreciation for the games made by the "old" Bioware studio but the "glorious enlightment and guidance from EA" isDragon Age Inquisition is a poor game.It lacks all the ingredients that made DA Origins an excellent game(read the reviews that rated 0 and you will understand why).Playing the 10 hours of this game was the worse experience of my ""RPG Player" life.I have only respect and apreciation for the games made by the "old" Bioware studio but the "glorious enlightment and guidance from EA" is driving this awesome studio right into the ground.
    Do not kill the games we love only to maximise the corporate yearly profits!    … Expand
  73. downslope
    Nov 20, 2014
    3
    Like many here, I've never felt the need to leave a review before, but this game is heinously bad. I loved DA:O and avoided DAII when it was broadly panned. I was really excited when DA:I got a largely positive critical reception, but honestly can't guess what game those critics were playing. Clearly not the same as me.

    I'm playing on PC, which should be the native platform for any    Like many here, I've never felt the need to leave a review before, but this game is heinously bad. I loved DA:O and avoided DAII when it was broadly panned. I was really excited when DA:I got a largely positive critical reception, but honestly can't guess what game those critics were playing. Clearly not the same as me.

    I'm playing on PC, which should be the native platform for any true RPG. The most significant issue is the control scheme, which is completely broken. Awful. I honestly can't believe they released the game in this state - it's unplayable and unenjoyable.

    I'm about 10 hours in, and honestly can't play anymore - it's that bad. Other issues - the skill trees are weak and derivative, The menu system involves a million clicks and nothing works like you'd expect. The inventory system - don't even get me started. And my favorite - having to repeatedly hit 'V' (or whatever you bind to) in order to send out sonar pings for loot. Seriously? Who in the world thought that this mechanic would add pleasure to the game?

    I'm not an "EA ruined Bioware" hater, but I have to think after seeing this game that they either lost some serious talent in the acquisition, or EA is forcing the studio to sacrifice quality for profits. In either case, the current product is unacceptable and should not have been released. A post-release patch - if one ever comes - isn't enough to forgive the really poor product that they've aired.

    If you're thinking about buying this game, forget the critics' reviews - look at the user scores. And ask yourself if you're willing to take the approximately 50/50 risk of loving or absolutely hating this game (at the time of writing, 389 positive reviews, and 339 negative - not the mark of a stellar game, for sure).    … Expand
  74. Windoze
    Dec 19, 2014
    0
    The most awkwardly forced instances of inclusion I have ever seen in a game.

    Now that that's out of the way, the story in this game is horrendous. Quite literally horrendous. The gameplay is the complete opposite of smooth, and the animations are something from a 2003 F2P Asian MMORPG; Now that that's out of the way. Why in the world would bioware force homosexuality into a game.    The most awkwardly forced instances of inclusion I have ever seen in a game.

    Now that that's out of the way, the story in this game is horrendous. Quite literally horrendous. The gameplay is the complete opposite of smooth, and the animations are something from a 2003 F2P Asian MMORPG;

    Now that that's out of the way. Why in the world would bioware force homosexuality into a game. It's despicable. This game isn't worth a squat. It's actually a disgusting excuse for a game.    … Expand
  75. Exca
    Nov 25, 2014
    1
    Another saga straight to his tomb . There are a LOT of other options to put money in . Nice job Bioware. and i must say that i enjoyed past games .
  76. MagiChrist
    Nov 29, 2014
    1
    Never felt the need to write a review about a game like this but since I love this serie so much. Let's get started:

    Story 1/10 : Rifts are opening everywhere in Thedas bringing with them waves of demons. You're quickly put in charge of a newly created organization called the Inquisition which is in charge of dealing with this problem. This sounds pretty good, however nothing that    Never felt the need to write a review about a game like this but since I love this serie so much. Let's get started:

    Story 1/10 :

    Rifts are opening everywhere in Thedas bringing with them waves of demons. You're quickly put in charge of a newly created organization called the Inquisition which is in charge of dealing with this problem. This sounds pretty good, however nothing that you do has any real impacts on how you build this organization.

    This is the biggest problem with the story in this game, it's bland and all the choice that you make have no impact on the game overall. You ally yourself with this group instead of another, no impact on the story at all. You kill this person instead of let him go, nothing changes. I even tried to piss off Sera, a party member, has much as possible and she never even let a hint that she was annoyed with me. I remember games like Baldur's gate, Planescape Torment or Dragon age Origins where choices that you make could cause party members to leave or betray you. Massive disappointment here.

    The main enemy has a really exciting story behind him, however, Bioware screw this up since we see this villain during about 3-4 cutscenes for the whole game. For the final mission, I was expecting a big build up where you send your massive army that you worked for during the game against the enemy. Of course not, just a quick cutscene and your fightning against the last boss. What happened here ??

    Gameplay 2/10:

    Welcome to Dragon Age Inquisition the MMO. Almost all quests are fetch quests, close the same rift 100 times and kill this generic enemy. If you like MMO, this might be the game for you. The fact that the mining and the pick up animation takes a few seconds makes this task even worse.

    The controls are horrible on PC and when I mean horrible, it's bad. I had to go buy a Xbox One controller at the store because I was giving myself Carpal Tunnel just from playing. That tactical camera is completely broken and a mess, you can't zoom out.

    The main missions are quite good. However, there's not even 10 of them (i'm not even kidding).

    Sound 5/10:

    The soundtracks are fine but don't have the quality of the first game. I played this game for 100 hours and I can't even remember one song.

    Graphics 8/10:

    The graphics are good, if you a PC that can run it. The textures are good and the background looks impressive. The environment is also immersive and will bring you some wow moments.

    Bugs:

    The main reason why I game this game a 1/10. This game is buggy as hell to a point where it's almost unplayable. Here are a list of bugs that I encounter myself:

    Transgender bug: don't know what caused this, however the game will consider you a female even if you're male. Had to restart a 15 hours game because of this.

    Voice change bug: if you decide to customize Hawke in-game, you character voice changes forever. Learned this the hard way

    Infinite loading: sometimes the game will load forever.

    Epileptic NPCs: NPCs will float in the air, disappear in the ground and will be missing limbs. Funny but completely breaks immersion.

    Freezing cut scenes: approximately 10 % of the time, the cut scenes will freeze and I had to restart the game.

    Searching bug: by pressing on the left joystick (Xbox One controller) you can search your environment. Sometimes, you will not find anything even if you're searching directly on the object and you will have to restart your game.

    Solas quest bug: couldn't trigger the demon cut scene in Solas quest, had to restart again.

    Bad specializations: I was playing has a mage and was given warriors specializations. Had to restart the game.

    Multiplayer 0/10:

    Multiplayer is fun but unplayable at the moments due to numerous bugs. This looks like it wasn't even tested. Here are again a list of bugs but only for the multiplayer:

    Connection error: have fun with this 75 % of the game you join will result in this. Can't move: happens 25 % of the time when I join a game. Un-killable invisible enemies: enemies will go in stealth and refuse to come out of it. Furthermore, they will be invincible in this state. Respawning urns: you can get money from urns. However, most of them respawn as soon as you destroy them. Unable to progress: each stage is divided in 5 parts in which you need a key to go to the next part. Sometimes, if one of your party member dies and disconnect, you will be unable through progress. Extreme rubber-banding: happens to every one of my friends. The only way you can avoid this is by jumping. Final score 1/10: Could have been a fun game. Weak story and gameplay with massive game breaking bugs bring this game to a 1/10. Do not buy, I repeat do not buy until Bioware fixes the bugs.    … Expand
  77. anomander
    Nov 19, 2014
    0
    Good game if you're looking for Korean mmorpg dressed as a single RPG, unless you are looking for adult dark fantasy, so you're unlucky. In this case, I would recommend everyone to play again top of dark fantasy in recent years, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die or wait for Witcher 3 or Bloodborne. DA: I is embarrassing, cheap, cliché fantasy for teenagers.
  78. Hardtoohld
    Jan 12, 2015
    4
    Been playing for some 24 hours...Does not draw you in like the Original Dragon Age. You find yourself falling asleep pretty fast. Don't know who thinks this game is great but they need to go back to playing Frogger if they find this exciting. You spend HOURS running around finding useless pieces scattered everywhere. Game drags on and on and on. Once you start to try and get into it youBeen playing for some 24 hours...Does not draw you in like the Original Dragon Age. You find yourself falling asleep pretty fast. Don't know who thinks this game is great but they need to go back to playing Frogger if they find this exciting. You spend HOURS running around finding useless pieces scattered everywhere. Game drags on and on and on. Once you start to try and get into it you end up with the gay romance trying to jump in. Sorry.. I like woman. You just never get the feel that you had before with dragon age. Too much garbage mixed in. When I thought it could not get worse I end up at a party having to listen to gossip! Please...That was hours and hours of BORING garbage. I play a game for excitement and challenge, not to run around listening to gossip! Whoever came up with that, GET A LIFE! You already took part of mine I can never get back.… Expand
  79. post_no_bills
    Nov 24, 2014
    3
    This game is seriously flawed. Considering the price tag, I'm having a serious case of buyer's remorse. Here are my specific issues with the game:

    Controls. The controls are awkward and unintuitive. When you click on a target you don't move to it automatically, you have to "drive" to it. It's difficult to tell what you are attacking, if anything. Frustrating is NOT fun.    This game is seriously flawed. Considering the price tag, I'm having a serious case of buyer's remorse. Here are my specific issues with the game:

    Controls. The controls are awkward and unintuitive. When you click on a target you don't move to it automatically, you have to "drive" to it. It's difficult to tell what you are attacking, if anything. Frustrating is NOT fun.

    Gathering. An annoying, distracting waste of time. "Let me take a short break from rushing to save the world to go off in a different direction to scrounge for elfroot.". You are CONSTANTLY scrounging for crafting materials. It's BORING and pointless. What a stupid design decision.

    Search. In order to search for loot and gathering materials you need to press the "V" key to highlight the goodies in your immediate area. So you are constantly spamming the V key. Constantly. Seriously, it's like a manual SONAR that will quickly make your finger start cramping. Whatever designer thought that was a good idea should be working as a greeter at Walmart.

    Inventory. The inventory interface is useless. There's a reason most RPG inventories look similar - because they work. EA went for something different here...and in this case different is definitely not better. How is it possible to make an annoying inventory interface??? EA has somehow managed.

    Cursor. The cursor is so small that it is easily lost on the screen.

    Seriously, who playtested this thing??? These are really basic problems.

    Is there ANYTHING good about this game? Sure, the graphics look good, character creation is..."thorough" is the only word that comes to mind...and at least on my PC the installation was easy and the game runs smoothly.

    Keywords: Boring, frustrating, flawed.

    I really do wish that I hadn't spent my money on this, and I would recommend that you not spend yours.    … Expand
  80. Schizoid
    Nov 18, 2014
    0
    This game's interface is like trying to drive a standard truck with 27 different gear shifts and no hands.

    Do not buy this game. The UI (user interface) on PC is laughable. What was a great series of games has been ruined. The so called "tactical view" is useless - I lasted two fights. Uninstalled the game and then requested a refund. Anyone who gives this game above a 0 on the PC    This game's interface is like trying to drive a standard truck with 27 different gear shifts and no hands.

    Do not buy this game. The UI (user interface) on PC is laughable. What was a great series of games has been ruined. The so called "tactical view" is useless - I lasted two fights. Uninstalled the game and then requested a refund.

    Anyone who gives this game above a 0 on the PC side is crazy.

    Looks like it would have had a great story, and fun times. Just so sad.    … Expand
  81. lejdarn
    Nov 26, 2014
    2
    Probably the first and last time I write an "review", mostly because I usually dont feel the need for it.. but this game...

    first off, the story telling and the graphics is good, and the non repetive landscapes is also good, as expected actually after DA2.. but then starts the problem.. Im playing on PC, and the combat is just so incredible stupid with the    Probably the first and last time I write an "review", mostly because I usually dont feel the need for it.. but this game...

    first off, the story telling and the graphics is good, and the non repetive landscapes is also good, as expected actually after DA2.. but then starts the problem..

    Im playing on PC, and the combat is just so incredible stupid with the hold-down-a-button-to-slash-into-the-air-and-not-moving system that its not even playable if ur not playing a ranged character.. and I wish that was the worst part, but the so called " tactical cam ", its so utterly useless.. cant see anything if out in the open, and if you go inside a cave you will only see the ceiling.. I was happy when I read they were going to focus on PC, and then they release this seriously bad PC port.. and by the way, who wants to collect herbs and minerals EVERY 2 meters.. its not that fun.    … Expand
  82. Reignblazer
    Nov 22, 2014
    1
    Worst game I have been gullible enough to buy in years.

    - The UI and controls on PC are a nightmarish console port abomination - The graphics are not that great but still manage to cripple my fps (horrible optimization) - Pre-order or deluxe edition items are immediately outclassed by items you receive at level 2 (!) - Animations look rigid and jarring - Some game-breaking bugs    Worst game I have been gullible enough to buy in years.

    - The UI and controls on PC are a nightmarish console port abomination
    - The graphics are not that great but still manage to cripple my fps (horrible optimization)
    - Pre-order or deluxe edition items are immediately outclassed by items you receive at level 2 (!)
    - Animations look rigid and jarring
    - Some game-breaking bugs present such as not being able to spend your skillpoints

    Only positive thing I have to say about this travesty is the texture detail is very nice and the musical score is very good.

    All in all not nearly enough to save this game from being an absolute scam. Don't buy it, spend your money on something that's actually worth the premium price.    … Expand
  83. mindw0rk
    Nov 18, 2014
    4
    12 hours so far. Feeling bored already.

    1. Alot of bland filler content that they added just for timesink. 2. Tactical camera is terrible. Cant zoom high to see battlefield. 3. I hate a switch from traditional healing through spells and abilities to healing potions spam. This dumbed down tactical depth and made playing on Nightmare torture instead of challenge. 4. Looting is clunky    12 hours so far. Feeling bored already.

    1. Alot of bland filler content that they added just for timesink.
    2. Tactical camera is terrible. Cant zoom high to see battlefield.
    3. I hate a switch from traditional healing through spells and abilities to healing potions spam. This dumbed down tactical depth and made playing
    on Nightmare torture instead of challenge.
    4. Looting is clunky and bad. I want to grab stuff quickly and move on.
    5. Graphics is decent, but nothing jaw dropping. Believe it or not, my modded Skyrim looks way better.
    6. Main story - mediocre.
    7. Character development could be better. Some abilities are just not fun. And Id like to see more ranks of improving useful skills.
    8. Poor optimization. Battlefield 3 on same engine flies like a batterfly on my PC. DAI isnt smooth at all.
    9. Many annoying little things that they could easily fix before release but didnt care. Like when you run forward and press M, map appears but imediately scrolls up. Or your character doesnt autoattack in normal mode.
    10. Followers stuck and dont listen commands sometimes.
    11. Enemy patrols respawn constantly which I hate.
    12. Goddamn chests and gold piles put in random places ruin immersion for me. Skyrim did so much better job at treasures placement.
    13. Character creator is bad and doesnt offer variety in characters you can make. There are many sliders but I just couldnt make what I want.
    14. Crafting - I dont know where all those praises come from. THey just made you grind more resources, thats it. Not much real depth here.
    15. Multiplayer - boring grindfest where you forced to grind and grind and grind to even make class you like. Played one match. Never again I touch this garbage.

    There are good things too ofc.
    Follower characters are pretty cool and Id like to learn more about them. Music is awesome, especially bards. Also big bosses look cool until you realise combat is so **** that you dont want to fight them unless its easy difficulty.    … Expand
  84. Revan3000
    Nov 19, 2014
    1
    I don't care what the critics say,in the same way i don't care what politicians say, you just dont know who is controlling the strings that go tap-tap-tap. Its not like they pay for the game out of their own pocket...

    Now about the game, the new saga is bad, i'll go as far to call it worst than Dragon Age II . Game feels like a time-sink, 60% through the game and i don't even remember    I don't care what the critics say,in the same way i don't care what politicians say, you just dont know who is controlling the strings that go tap-tap-tap. Its not like they pay for the game out of their own pocket...

    Now about the game, the new saga is bad, i'll go as far to call it worst than Dragon Age II . Game feels like a time-sink, 60% through the game and i don't even remember the opening mission. I also fail to see the RPG elements in the game, it seems to me like i missed a seminar on what makes an RPG. I was with it, but then they changed what it was, now i'm just confused.

    Also for a 60$ game, i kinda wish I get a working game with most bugs sorted out. As is, it crashes,lags, bugs out and just pain dies out 2-3 hours in. Checked their recommended specs, i passed no problem, but it seems the recommended specs were discovered by a passing gypsy woman. Also note that I found the same frame stuttering in the versions for PS4 and XBONE.

    So yeah, wasted money on pre-ordering a disappointment. I blame the hype and the "Critics" who praised a bad game and continue to do so.    … Expand
  85. Exemplis
    Nov 18, 2014
    4
    Disappointment.

    Marketing department did their job well -> I preordered this..
    Developers (was it really Bioware?) ... well, they did what they were told to do.
    I rated 4 because this game is a nice-looking singleplayer mmo / dating simulator hybrid.
    It definitely ISN'T RPG, and only connection to DAO is the setting.

    I feel sad as i'm refunding this.
  86. RobotKitty
    Nov 19, 2014
    4
    Four words sum up my experience so far with Dragon Age: Inquisition - This is ludicrously broken.

    Negatives: - I am playing on PC, and haven't been able to make it beyond leveling up in the tutorial. After three new characters, I am still unable to level my character up. The game states, "press P to use your ability points," I rush to the screen to level up, and receive the following    Four words sum up my experience so far with Dragon Age: Inquisition - This is ludicrously broken.

    Negatives:

    - I am playing on PC, and haven't been able to make it beyond leveling up in the tutorial. After three new characters, I am still unable to level my character up. The game states, "press P to use your ability points," I rush to the screen to level up, and receive the following message, "Some features are currently unavailable"..Flabbergasted, I question, "I'm sorry, wasn't I just told to spend my ability points?"...and it appears as if users on Xbox One and PC are experiencing this issue, in which the "character record" (i.e. level up screen) is locked. Therefore, unless I wish to play the game as a level 1 character and experience NONE of the abilities beyond the base one or two offered, it's impossible to progress further. It's an insult to me as a fan of Dragon Age, as a Gamer, and as a customer, to have to put up with such a grievous flaw in a product. This issue is what primarily resulted in my low score; however, below are some other issues that are far less significant, but still contributors.

    - There's a "resource" system in which you essentially have to run around the area mashing the "search for resource/loot" button and listening to its obnoxious "ping-ping"..I don't want to have to hit a button to find resources, it's tedious and dull, and takes me out of the experience. Make the resources/loot stand out more against the environment like in Dragon Age Origins, instead of requiring me to mash a button if I want to gather resources in the environment.

    -On PC, the cutscenes tend to stutter as well, apparently, allegedly, due to a 30FPS framerate lock. I haven't bothered to look online for solutions, as it doesn't bother me that much. To those who would say, "It's your computer!!!" I can't really do anything to persuade you otherwise - please go give your, obviously superior, über rig a hug.

    - Character creation is not all that in-depth. I found the menus for customizing to be clunky and counter-intuitive. For certain options there's a slider, such as for face shape (there are about 8 or so options), and for others there's a weird crosshair system in which you drag a kind of orange cross across the grid and it changes your character's eye rotation, nose bridge etc., reminiscent of the Saint's Row weight slider system, except the corners are labeled in that. I found this clunky because none of the corners are labeled. Essentially, you just drag the odd cross around until you find something you like - it's a bit haphazard. I would like to have seen more options for hair styles, tattoos et al., as well, but that's just me.

    - Another negative of Character Customization; there are no "starter story" options. You can't decide your character's background, you're assigned one automatically depending on your choice of race (of which there are 4) and class (rogue, warrior, mage). Also, everyone starts in the same exact spot...so starting a new game as a dwarf, or an elf, compared to a human, lacks the unique immersive sensation of, "Wow! There are actually different races and classes in this world, and I will be treated differently based on where I come from."

    - One last note on Character Customization: There are two voice options. Yes, two. "Average" female voice and "rather manly, not-sure-what-you-are" female voice. Again, perhaps a bit petty, but I'd have liked to see a few more voice options..even just one or two more.

    - They still haven't recaptured the beautiful elegance of the tactical view that we had in Dragon Age Origins. Still no surprise finishers (from what I saw, and I do so miss those..) and the combat feels far less brutal than that in the rather lackluster Dragon Age II.

    - Tactical view is still...rather odd. If I left click an enemy, for example, a "basic attack" icon might, or might not, appear over my selected character's portrait...so I am unsure if he/she will actually attack the target. It's also odd to move around in the tactical view with "wasd"..it feels unnatural for some inexplicable reason.
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    Positive:

    + Looks and sounds great. From the crunch of your feet in the snow to the dazzling effects of spells (from the two I saw, as a result of the error mentioned above with leveling up), the game does a great job of immersing you in the action and world.

    + Abilities feel like they have "punch" to them. When a spell impacts, or a greatsword hits, you can see the enemy flinch and it actually feels to a point, as if your actions impacts the target. However, as mentioned earlier in the negatives, the combat doesn't feel brutal, despite that feeling of impact. I'm not sure why this is, perhaps it's because the enemies in this game, as far as I have gotten, have been shades and wraiths.

    + Characters interact more than they did in 2.

    +/- It has some form of class-based multiplayer, but I haven't tried it out yet.

    Conclusion: I suggest waiting for patches.    … Expand
  87. Grim5i
    Dec 1, 2014
    2
    If you see a review of this game that starts by talking about the graphics or framerate issues or pc port issues, stop reading immediately. That is not why you buy a bioware game. If you wanna know how the game runs, go watch Totalbiscuits port report. If you wanna know whether you'll want to play this game, then look no further. The answer is: almost certainly not.
    If you are after a    If you see a review of this game that starts by talking about the graphics or framerate issues or pc port issues, stop reading immediately. That is not why you buy a bioware game. If you wanna know how the game runs, go watch Totalbiscuits port report. If you wanna know whether you'll want to play this game, then look no further. The answer is: almost certainly not.
    If you are after a master-class in how NOT to write fantasy, then this is the game for you. Never has it been more obvious that bioware has become nothing more than a logo EA stamps on rpgs. All the writers and developers and, you know, PEOPLE who made previous bioware games good, have quit the company and moved on to indie studios or craft beer breweries to escape the wretched tentacles of EA.
    The games writing is slapped together from boring stereotypes and stale cliches to create an exquisitely unimmersive story of the world being about to end and YOU are the ONLY ONE who can STOP IT. The faint glimmer of an interesting conflict set up at the end of Dragon age 2 is stamped out in the first act to be replaced by an increasingly vague and half-assed antagonist whose about as menacing and complex as a kitchen sink.
    I was thinking of mentioning the few parts of the game I liked, and there were a few, but I won't because that might fool someone into thinking there's value in this game. If you can pick it up for a dollar or pirate it, then go ahead, but it's not even worth your time, let alone your money. **** this game. Don't play it.    … Expand
  88. Jebbadiah
    Jan 4, 2015
    2
    The game is a modernized "RPG" which means that there is nothing to do besides mindlessly killing mobs and observing the pretty graphics. The game is soulless and does not have any kind of substance or whatever. Thousands of shallow quests, horrible controls. Every damn mob takes 3 min to kill even if its just a wolf or bear. Don't waste your time and money on this game. I gave the game aThe game is a modernized "RPG" which means that there is nothing to do besides mindlessly killing mobs and observing the pretty graphics. The game is soulless and does not have any kind of substance or whatever. Thousands of shallow quests, horrible controls. Every damn mob takes 3 min to kill even if its just a wolf or bear. Don't waste your time and money on this game. I gave the game a 3 score just for the graphics, besides that just a typical(bad) game for consoles.… Expand
  89. greg999
    Jan 8, 2015
    0
    Bioware has lost its way....Simplified combat bad story.. It feels like an mmorgp they must have lost a lot of key staff after EA bought them up..

    Massive disspointment compared to BG2 and Dao
  90. disgruntlegame
    Jan 6, 2015
    0
    The Good

    • Voice Acting isn't too bad and improved from DAO The Bad • The dialogue is beyond cliche • Horrible AI (i.e. they're dumb as mud) obviously not improved from the last 2 games • Camera & controls could use some work it was obviously designed for Consoles in mind • Forgettable recruit characters and end boss • The hair cuts of varnish wood are back as well as    The Good

    • Voice Acting isn't too bad and improved from DAO

    The Bad

    • The dialogue is beyond cliche

    • Horrible AI (i.e. they're dumb as mud) obviously not improved from the last 2 games

    • Camera & controls could use some work it was obviously designed for Consoles in mind

    • Forgettable recruit characters and end boss

    • The hair cuts of varnish wood are back as well as the dopey facial expressions like they're all on drugs

    • Graphics look like something from 2007 Someone should tell Bioware this is 2015

    • Pacing is horrible it gets better after about 20 hours sort of like Final Fantasy 13 but that's not really a strong suit

    • Multiplayer is like Dead Space 2 multiplayer in that it's boring and forgettable.

    • Quests are MMO type quests once again not a strong suit especially for a single player game

    • Bugs, bugs and oh yeah bugs. You'll need to keep a few saves. This is a beta, not a release. Don't listen to what they say - the quality of this game is late alpha or early beta quality at best.

    Conclusion: I wouldn't pay full price for this It will come down in price shortly so wait    … Expand
  91. PhobosAres
    Nov 19, 2014
    3
    Do not buy this game. It is a abomination and there needs to be a consumer inquisition that puts EA to justice for destroying yet another great video game studio. EA will continue to do this terrible conduct of business, so long as they get enough hype on the market and continually grab fan bases from recently acquired studios. This is a disgusting mockery of what true capitalism stoodDo not buy this game. It is a abomination and there needs to be a consumer inquisition that puts EA to justice for destroying yet another great video game studio. EA will continue to do this terrible conduct of business, so long as they get enough hype on the market and continually grab fan bases from recently acquired studios. This is a disgusting mockery of what true capitalism stood for.

    DA:I doesn't follow Dragon Age Origins nostalgia at all. It is basically a glorified DA:2 with simplified controls. The only real good area are the graphics, but even those are poor to my standards. RIP Bioware. The story isn't even that appealing, it has drastically changed and offered no decent story bridges from DA:O.

    Plus, you need Origins to run this software, because EA doesn't like to share their games with other software distribution services. Typical self-serving attitude of a giant like EA.

    The question is: How much longer will people allow EA to suck in their favorite franchise and then burn it out into ash? I gave it 3 stars instead of 0, because the Graphics and Voice acting seem to be the only good thing about this game.. Everything else is a insult to what Bioware stood for, and what they created.    … Expand
  92. wynams
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    Pure garbage ... why?
    - nonexistant evil path
    - no direct way to increase character attributes, party covers all skills early on and skill checks are a joke - hence you can do everything everywhere without giving a single thought about your chars and their builds (this is a huge letdown imo) ... and you can respec in the middle of the game? Really? :lol: - story and NPC    Pure garbage ... why?
    - nonexistant evil path
    - no direct way to increase character attributes, party covers all skills early on and skill checks are a joke - hence you can do everything everywhere without giving a single thought about your chars and their builds (this is a huge letdown imo)
    ... and you can respec in the middle of the game? Really? :lol:
    - story and NPC actions/reactions contradict each other too often, NPCs feel lifeless (daily routines and interaction between them is much worse than in Skyrim and the Gothics)
    - too few towns/settlements, not much live in them (he compared it to all the stories/NPC banter unfolding in front of your eyes when visiting a Skyrim settlement)
    - tactical battles cumbersome because of the low maximum zoom level, but there are no tactics except for some combo abilities anyway (like: one char freezes an opponent, the other hits him for huge damage bonus)
    - nearly no planning involved in fights, the most you can expect are fights where you have to kill some conjurer first before you can handle the summoned demon, nearly everything else is mindless button mashing and levelgrinding. (dunno what difficulty lvl he was playing at)
    - party member deaths are not a problem at all as long as at least one party member survives, they just play dead, you know, after all this is an RPG *larpedylarp*
    - strategic map nearly without meaningful decisions, just another huge grind
    - the wilderness/rural areas are full of MMO fetch quests and boring treasure hunts (press button to follow marker or sth like that), side quests in general are subpar
    - lore is presented in a very unimmersive way through sterile codex menus (I remember that being a problem in DA:O too)
    - game doesn't reward exploration because you just have to get near something interesting to get codex entries and quest triggers fired, after a while you just ignore the noise
    - side content dialogues are often badly written (sometimes too silly or just uninteresting)    … Expand
  93. BSim500
    Nov 18, 2014
    0
    When they say "It's a blend of DAO and DA2" what they really mean is "it's 5% DAO + 45% DA2 + 50% even more dumbed down for consoles!". GFX aren't bad, neither is the sound - but it's the controls & combat that tear the heart out of the Dragon Age franchise. The PC version of this game is simply NOT made for a keyboard + mouse. Period. It's a badly consolized port in all but name. Can'tWhen they say "It's a blend of DAO and DA2" what they really mean is "it's 5% DAO + 45% DA2 + 50% even more dumbed down for consoles!". GFX aren't bad, neither is the sound - but it's the controls & combat that tear the heart out of the Dragon Age franchise. The PC version of this game is simply NOT made for a keyboard + mouse. Period. It's a badly consolized port in all but name. Can't remap mouse buttons, extra mouse buttons not supported. Can't "click to move" (because consoles don't have mice), can't "click to loot" (because consoles don't have mice), no mouseover ability tooltips on your action bar (because consoles don't have mice), no screen-edge mouselook (because consoles don't have mice), there's no key to select all party members at once (because consoles don't have keyboards), etc. Spot the pattern yet?

    As for combat, the hyped "tactical view" is too close / zoomed in to be useful. Inside caves it's literally totally useless. It's also rather pointless since you now can't pause and issue commands to party members one after the other as the game auto-unpauses when you switch team-members! Order party members to attack someone in real time, and they'll take ONE swing at the enemy then sporadically run off doing something else at random. It is absolutely nothing like DAO's combat and the whole "we promise we've included tactic mechanics, honest!" obviously consists of little more than an adding an overhead camera on top of half-DA2 / half-console "action adventure" game mechanics in a failed attempt to fake "strategic depth" to woo both crowds (DAO fanbase + the "casuals"). That combined with replacing auto-attack / queued actions with mindless button mashing feels more like you're playing Gauntlet and the "arcadey" input controls now bear no resemblance whatsoever to Dragon Age Origin's...

    It's so blatantly obvious DAO's perfect combat system (and 40x quickslot mouse-based HUD on a 1080p screen) has been stripped out for one single reason - consoles don't have mice - therefore instead of doing what they did with the original DAO and creating a seperate optimized PC keyb + mouse + 2ft HUD, now anything that relies on a mouse will be stripped out, and replaced with a Lowest Common Denominator "simulated console controller" input. Throw in oversized HUD elements in the PC version (that are obviously designed for 10ft TV's), and the massive negative backlash against DAI (both here and on a dozen forums including Bioware's own) really is justified.

    Overall rating : 2/10 (+1 for GFX, +1 for sound & music, -8 for broken lazy consolized port and "designed for young children" button mashing "tactical combat" mechanics).    … Expand
  94. jakoowho
    Nov 19, 2014
    2
    I had big hopes for this game(being a fan of Dragon Age: Origins) but, in the end it was a huge let down. Combat was boring and repetitive. writing was not engaging in any way, I found myself forcing myself to continue through the story not because I was curious about what was going to happen but, because I really wanted this game to get good. After 20 hours I finally gave up. I would notI had big hopes for this game(being a fan of Dragon Age: Origins) but, in the end it was a huge let down. Combat was boring and repetitive. writing was not engaging in any way, I found myself forcing myself to continue through the story not because I was curious about what was going to happen but, because I really wanted this game to get good. After 20 hours I finally gave up. I would not recommend this game to anyone who enjoyed Dragon Age: Origins or anyone who enjoys entertaining games.… Expand
  95. WHOSEBANE
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    The combat is dull and far too simple with a single button to attack, the characters have almost no personality and look like **** the loading times take far too long and areas look terrible with bloom shooting off of everything. Just get origins if you want a game that is even remotely fun to play.
  96. phasmatic
    Nov 24, 2014
    2
    This game is horrible to play on a pc. It's clearly designed for consoles and dumbed down. If you thought dragon age 2 was bad...just be prepared. I wish i could return this game.
    For instance there is no auto attack, so you have to hold down the left mouse button constantly.
    The user interface is so clunky to navigate it kills the game for me. General movement in the 3rd person(you    This game is horrible to play on a pc. It's clearly designed for consoles and dumbed down. If you thought dragon age 2 was bad...just be prepared. I wish i could return this game.
    For instance there is no auto attack, so you have to hold down the left mouse button constantly.
    The user interface is so clunky to navigate it kills the game for me.
    General movement in the 3rd person(you more or less forced to use this) is slow, and annoying.
    The top down view is so zoomed in you cn hardly see three characters on screen at the same time.

    Why even call this dragon age, it bears no semblance to the previous games, besides the setting.    … Expand
  97. elsanqui
    Dec 5, 2014
    2
    Dragon age origins was great and dragon age 2 was OK so I gave this one a try that was a mistake. luckily I was able to return it. for one thing the battle system is very annoying. also I really didn't like the lifetime special feel of the game where everything is daddy's fault. Bioware just lost a customer for ever
  98. defive
    Nov 20, 2014
    3
    Deeply disappointing.

    DAI is another dumbed down, consolised mess of an 'RPG' (it's really just an action game in disguise). Specifically 1. PC controls are an abomination - if you're going to play it on a PC without losing your mind get a gamepad. 2. No auto-attack - non-nonsensical decision apparently to give the button mashing console kiddies something to do. 3. Tactics    Deeply disappointing.

    DAI is another dumbed down, consolised mess of an 'RPG' (it's really just an action game in disguise).

    Specifically

    1. PC controls are an abomination - if you're going to play it on a PC without losing your mind get a gamepad.

    2. No auto-attack - non-nonsensical decision apparently to give the button mashing console kiddies something to do.

    3. Tactics are gone - meaning you've no way of modifying your party's behavior meaning you either have to rely on the crappy AI or micromanage every single action.

    4. Tactical camera is appallingly bad.

    Easily the worst of the 3 Dragon Age games - avoid.    … Expand
  99. kharaa
    Nov 18, 2014
    3
    I really wanted to enjoy this game, I mean really. It was the game i've been waiting for all year. Unfortunately it did not live up to the hype, the world and story behind this game are excellent, the only reason i did not rate this a 1.

    The problem with this game is it is a BROKEN mess. Clunky controls, and an unintuitive interface. Then there is the bugs, the game feels like    I really wanted to enjoy this game, I mean really. It was the game i've been waiting for all year. Unfortunately it did not live up to the hype, the world and story behind this game are excellent, the only reason i did not rate this a 1.

    The problem with this game is it is a BROKEN mess. Clunky controls, and an unintuitive interface. Then there is the bugs, the game feels like Neverwinter Nights 2 when released, getting crashes every 5-10 minutes. It needed another 6 months of polish and bug work, +player feedback    … Expand
  100. LordoftheDance
    Dec 10, 2014
    0
    I hace had very few if any glitches playing this game. I'm giving it a zero because it is bad. It has zero depth, and is insulting to any DA:O fans. The gameplay and quests are awful. Do. Not. Buy.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 45 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 40 out of 45
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 45
  3. Negative: 0 out of 45
  1. Hyper Magazine
    Feb 9, 2015
    90
    Best Dragon Age so far, hands down. Pity about the naff writing. [Issue#257, p.51]
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  2. GameOver.gr
    Jan 22, 2015
    100
    The masters over at Bioware have done it again. This epic journey into the world of Thedas will steal more than 100 hours of your time, hours so full of superb gaming that you'll never forget them.
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  3. Eurogamer Portugal
    Jan 14, 2015
    80
    Despite numerous shortcomings, the new BioWare project is undoubtedly worth your attention. One of the best RPGs of 2014.
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