Dragon Age: Inquisition

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  1. HapaxHog
    Dec 9, 2014
    0
    My. God.

    This is perhaps the best looking RPG I have ever seen. Unfortunately, due to whatever pathetic attempt at optimization passed at Bioware it is practically unplayable. Before the moneybags with dual Nvidia Titans start whining, the fact that changing the graphical settings on this game changes almost nothing in terms of performance shows that Bioware made very little effort    My. God.

    This is perhaps the best looking RPG I have ever seen.

    Unfortunately, due to whatever pathetic attempt at optimization passed at Bioware it is practically unplayable. Before the moneybags with dual Nvidia Titans start whining, the fact that changing the graphical settings on this game changes almost nothing in terms of performance shows that Bioware made very little effort to properly adapt their game to anything resembling a range of machine hardware, I would indeed be extremely surprised if they even tested the game on anything other than the PCs used to create it.

    This is a very sad state of affairs indeed, and hopefully Bioware recognizes that they have an obligation to put equal amounts of effort into opitmizing the PC release of their game as much as the console versions.

    This is appalling for a series that found it's home on PC.

    Absolutely disgraceful and disgusting, it's sickening to see such little effort accompany such huge promises and ambition, truly disparaging to the very core.    … Expand
  2. JakeMartinez
    Dec 2, 2014
    0
    While an improvement over the terrible Dragon Age 2, the third installment of this series suffers from a plethora of faults, chief among these being a combination of trope ridden MMORPG style play contrivances such as theme park areas, fetch quests, every attack is SFX-AWESOME, and painless failure states. The narrative itself is about par for the course for Bioware these days, which is toWhile an improvement over the terrible Dragon Age 2, the third installment of this series suffers from a plethora of faults, chief among these being a combination of trope ridden MMORPG style play contrivances such as theme park areas, fetch quests, every attack is SFX-AWESOME, and painless failure states. The narrative itself is about par for the course for Bioware these days, which is to say, something a 13 year old fan-shipper might write in her spare time and entirely uninspiring - even the return of fan favorites from Dragon Age Origins isn't a big enough tide of good will to lift the leaky boat of this once well respected company.

    Multiplayer is pointless co-op (go play a real MMO!) with no PvP and gaudily offers you buffs for RL money, like health potions. Yes, EA has once again saddled another game with pointless multiplayer and micro-transactions.

    I'm really disappointed in this series, especially considering it started out with such an excellent title. It's fallen so far that they are even retconning their own lore at this point, as I had to roll my eyes at Iron Bull completely disregarding the Qunari caste system laid out in the first game in what I can only imagine is some bizarre "politically correct" need to make a repressive caste driven warrior race seem "less sexist".

    This game is going into the trash heap of "games I wish I had never bought", right next to it's predecessor and Mass Effect 3. I consider this title the final epitaph for what was once a respected and renown studio.    … Expand
  3. Incanatrix
    Dec 17, 2014
    0
    Typical EA quality, no surprises. I load up the game for the first time, and bam: poor optimization with low FPS despite having a triple SLI 680 set-up, using the correct driver intended for the game, flickering effects on bushes and trees, etc. I don't purchase a game to mess around with the settings and google search fixes, I just expect the game to work. This is why I never touchTypical EA quality, no surprises. I load up the game for the first time, and bam: poor optimization with low FPS despite having a triple SLI 680 set-up, using the correct driver intended for the game, flickering effects on bushes and trees, etc. I don't purchase a game to mess around with the settings and google search fixes, I just expect the game to work. This is why I never touch EA/Ubisoft games.

    On the plus side, the one thing that Origin has going for it is the "great game guarantee". Refunded this piece of trash in a matter of 1 hour.    … Expand
  4. Varnhagen
    Nov 27, 2014
    3
    Sunk roughly 50 hours into the game and nowhere near completion. Though that hurts my pride as a completionist, it's the perfect time for a review.

    Bioware had a lot to make up to their players, after the rushed disappointment that was Dragon Age II and the debacle known as Mass Effect 3. They took their time and it shows. And while they heavily improved on the shortcomings of    Sunk roughly 50 hours into the game and nowhere near completion. Though that hurts my pride as a completionist, it's the perfect time for a review.

    Bioware had a lot to make up to their players, after the rushed disappointment that was Dragon Age II and the debacle known as Mass Effect 3. They took their time and it shows. And while they heavily improved on the shortcomings of "Inquisitions" precursor, they opened themselves up for a whole world of stupid design decisions.

    The positive:
    ++ Graphics
    Frostbite shows it's teeth. Marvelous textures, great faces, superb lighting. The metal shaders are supreme and some scenes border on photo-realism. On the other hand, hair looks garbage. It's as reflective as a shiny armour and gives a super-greasy impression. It's beyond me, that no one noticed it during development, as it detracts from the immersion and ridicules many a serious scenes.
    +++ Sound
    Great Music, great effects. I especially like that allies under attack, are either calling for help or other allies try to draw your attention to their plight.
    ++ Level Design
    Large semi open-world maps are enticing players to be explored. Never a dull corner, always the urge: "Just that ridge." Only drawback, some areas are so thick with enemies, that fast enemy respawn and long ways to replenish supplies means, that you're fighting some battles 2 or 3 times, before you break through to a nearer camp site. Especially on higher difficulties, where you burn through your healing potions like water in the desert.
    ++ Characters
    Great NPCs, great allies. Good depth of character, and good character development for the main cast. We know that Bioware can create great characters, but their integration into the world lacks. It's mostly unimportant who you take on missions. No special story tidbits and only minor quibs that are interchangeable. Follower quests are mostly "Fetch Crap" missions.

    The mehs:
    +- Crafting
    Exhaustive system and every piece of equipment can be crafted and modified by modifieable mods. Stats and textures change based on the ingredients. But I'm not comfortable with having to grind for the resources as it leads to a lot of useless fights while farming. The ocasional armor and weapon can be crafted with the resources you gobble up while exploring. Having all your companions equipped to their best is a tiresome task to undertake.
    +- Items
    Most non-crafted items are vendor-trash, uniques are far and few between and mostly bland in appearance and stats. Merchants are garbage dumps, as they stock nothing of particular interest. I've got loads of cash with nothing to spend it on, so I'm thinking about investing in that Orlesian mad man.
    +- Story/Dialogues
    Won't spoil it for you. Just: I've seen better writing. It still occasionally shines, and Biowares past genius glimpses.

    The neeeeeeeeeeegs:
    --- Skill trees and leveling
    I hate it. No more sustainable skills. Everythings active now. Even basic attacks. I hate that mmo-crap. No influence over how the attributes are raised, instead buying some skills will raise them. No talents, no traps, no lockpicking, no coercion, no persuasion. Every chest opens, most doors are opened by all roques, no matter how they are skilled. Overall: Less possibilities for truly unique and great builds, more blandness. But hey: Players won't **** it up at least.
    -- Potions
    They are useless. You can equip at most 2 different potions per character in addition to healing potions. And since you can't enter your inventory mid-combat and adapt by swapping useless potions out and useful ones in it's pretty much pointless. Fill those slots with grenades and go postal.
    --- AI
    Tactics screen is gone, the alternative is ridiculous. Expect your mages to **** up your party with their aoe, lest you micromanage them. Expect your 2-handed guy to **** up your party then. Solution: Dumb it down, disable friendly fire. The rock, paper, scissors buffs from DA2 have been dumbed down even more...
    ---Combat
    Is ****ed up. Balancing is garbage. For a game that's mostly about fighting, Bioware sure messed it up.
    ---Camera
    A joke. How am I supposed to coordinate an attack, when it's impossible to get all your allies in one screen? Camera hangs on every corner, pray, that no chandelier whacks your zoom even closer.
    ---UI
    Console UI for a PC game. It's deficient, and it shows everywhere. Mouse not working on some menus unless you RMB first.

    9 in favour 17 against: 26% is my score. Sure, go ahead and buy it if you're a fanboy like me. But do expect to rage regularly, because there is a beautiful game buried underneath a pile of bad design decisions. And that grows ever more in you, as "Dragon Age: Inquisition" will be rubbing your nose into its deficiencies for a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.    … Expand
  5. Tebe87
    Nov 30, 2014
    4
    After 5 hour of playing, I finally gave up and dropped it. It feels like a big theme park MMORPG. Even Bioware admitted this game was originally meant as an MMORPG, then they changed their mind and developed it a single player game. But for what I have seen, this game can be called a single player only because you are alone in the game, but it keeps definitely a MMORPG structure.
  6. Parkergk
    Dec 2, 2014
    1
    Well, I was going to give the game a zero, but the voice acting is fairly good, and the graphics aren't horrendous, but certainly not what I was expecting..

    All metal in the game has really weird shininess.. And Skyrim still looks way better. Other people have covered the issues with this game in enormous detail by this point, so, there's not a whole lot for me to say.. The combat    Well, I was going to give the game a zero, but the voice acting is fairly good, and the graphics aren't horrendous, but certainly not what I was expecting..

    All metal in the game has really weird shininess.. And Skyrim still looks way better.

    Other people have covered the issues with this game in enormous detail by this point, so, there's not a whole lot for me to say..

    The combat is lackluster to say the least, you basically hold down the RMB or R key the entire time.. The tactical mode might as well not even exist.

    I really dislike all the MMO like cheesiness in the game (flashing text flying all around during fights, crazy spells and animations, how gold/items/chests are just laying around in random locations like the middle of the floor, etc.)

    Says the game is "open world", I don't know what they think open world is because I've been travelling along guided paths the entire time.

    I never played DA:II, but I was an enormous fan of Dragon Age: Origins, one of my favorite games by far. I had hoped this game would be a continuation of all that made DAO awesome, but I was wrong.    … Expand
  7. Nicholay
    Dec 6, 2014
    1
    I wanted to like this game. I went in with giddy memories of Origins after setting my save state on the "Keep" website. Dragon Age II didn't bother me as much as some. It was a step in the wrong direction, but Inquisition looked like a fresh start for the series. I could not be more disappointed. I hate this game.

    The only positives about DA:I are the nice and varied environments and    I wanted to like this game. I went in with giddy memories of Origins after setting my save state on the "Keep" website. Dragon Age II didn't bother me as much as some. It was a step in the wrong direction, but Inquisition looked like a fresh start for the series. I could not be more disappointed. I hate this game.

    The only positives about DA:I are the nice and varied environments and the music.

    Negatives:

    Piss poor PC port. Terrible controls. Useless tactical camera - I didn't even bother trying to use it after the tutorial. Non-mappable mouse buttons. 30FPS locked cut scenes (have to search online for a fix) in a "story" driven game. Lots of bugs and crashing: I had to create my character twice because of a bug.

    Mind numbing combat. Was this even play tested? Hold mouse button until the fight's over. That's it. Harder difficulty just means bullet sponge enemies. No tactics whatsoever. I was avoiding combat about 5 hours in. Alpha Protocol combat was better than this. Let that sink in.

    Fake open world exploration. Running around with a sonar ping telling people what items to pick up is not going to attract the Skyrim crowd. Paths are cordoned off using rocks and steep elevation making you run through a set path to get to the objective (which are all just listed on the map).

    80% of the game length is fetch quests. I just stopped bothering after a while. No payoff at all. The best you get is a Mass Effect 3 style conversation where you click on the NPC and get a couple dialogue lines back (not even in cutscene form to get a look at their face). Bioware seems to like that technique now because they use it on most of the companion dialogue as well. Just stand there and listen to the dialogue.

    No RPG elements. You cannot allocate stat points. Each skill tree is basically like a League of Legends character. All you do is put points in and end up with the same build as any other character of the same class. No meaningful choice of clothing. The Inquisitor outfit is very similar across all classes and if you don't like it (guess if I do...) then you're screwed wearing the Generic Adventure Gear(tm). Crafting is minimal and mostly just more grinding for materials. All it does is alter the arms/boots and colour.

    Anyway enough ranting about that stuff. Afterall this is a Bioware game so it's all about the story and characters at the end of the gay... I mean day.

    Bland main story that takes 20 hours to get going. 20 hours. I almost stopped playing right before that point. Antagonist with good potential goes nowhere. None of your (few) choices matter in the end and there's a sequel bait at the end of the credits. Worked out really well for Mass Effect 3 I guess so Bioware did it again.

    Main character is so flat that he/she makes Commander Shepard look like Hamlet. I'd rather just have a voiceless protagonist like DA:O or even Hawke with some personality role playing than what Inquisition has. No dialogue choices that create character, no morality or personality system, just click all the responses until the dialogue comes to a close. In most cases it would be better to have mass autodialogue to skip the process of pressing 1,2,3,4 in every cutscene. The choices you do make have no weight in the world. I know a lot about DA lore and it just had no emotional impact the way it was written. Just poor overall.

    Characters are cardboard cutouts at best and cringe worthy at worst. Complete hatchet job by the writers. I wanted nothing to do with some of these characters which is a shame because there was potential in their concept. I never thought I'd pine for the days of Anders and Zhevran, but even they would be preferable to these fanfic tier "characters." I found myself embarrassed at many points by the dialogue.

    Thought I'd just wash my hands of this game with my thoughts. Critic reviewers are either paid off of have poor taste. Either way have proven themselves without merit.

    1/10. The best entertainment value I got out of this game is when the cast breaks into song out of nowhere. Absolutely hilarious. Unfortunately the writers were trying to be serious.    … Expand
  8. inoxtomas
    Dec 19, 2014
    1
    first review, (forgive my English, it's not my mother language)

    this game is really too boring, seems like an MMO single player

    collect 10 of these, kill 7 of that, and go on..story is 'ok' nothing special, world is big, true but full of useless thing to do..

    combat is clunky to the hell..don't buy..if u want an rpg buy divinity instead of this crap..
  9. Pugnares1
    Dec 20, 2014
    4
    If you were a fan of DA:O, KOTOR or ME, and you use a PC, you'll probably be disappointed with this game. I had really high hopes for it, and really wanted to enjoy it, but it is to games what the Phantom Menace was to movies.

    For: Graphics are pretty and the music suits the style and mood. That's probably about it. Against: Wow, where to start....(takes deep breath). DA:O was    If you were a fan of DA:O, KOTOR or ME, and you use a PC, you'll probably be disappointed with this game. I had really high hopes for it, and really wanted to enjoy it, but it is to games what the Phantom Menace was to movies.

    For: Graphics are pretty and the music suits the style and mood. That's probably about it.

    Against: Wow, where to start....(takes deep breath).

    DA:O was superb in both it's story line and AI tactical scripting. It was a game where the decisions I made had consequences on things that mattered. Nothing I have done in two playthroughs of Inquisition has mattered. All dialogue choices seem to have the same final result, If a companion approves or disapproves it doesn't matter. If I finish any of the kill X of Y quests it doesn't matter. If I run around planting flags like the game wants me to, it doesn't matter. Whatever I do on the tactical table doesn't matter. It's hours and hours of looting, grinding and farming for no real reason at all. Well, that's not terribly satisfying.

    Then there's the watered down group AI which makes combat pretty unenjoyable. Call me old fashioned, but I like my tanks tanking, my healer healing, and my dps dpsing. As I can't instruct my group on how they should behave, I can either micromanage them (oh joy !) or let them follow their innate, and bizarre decisionmaking. The tanks doesn't care if a rogue is bashing on my mage, the ranged dps choose to get close and personal, every fight becomes messy and chaotic.

    Which also leads to the combat controls. This game would appear to have been designed with consoles and button-mashing in mind. The abilities you have are fairly uninspired and are frequently on cool-down which means that auto-attack something you're doing regularly. Except....to auto attack you have to move your cursor around with the mob and mash the left button. I'm flummoxed why Bioware would have thought this was a good idea. Sure, I 'can' do this, but I'd just as much prefer to stick hot needles in my eyes. It pretty much means that any melee character is nigh on unusable and is a real deal breaker.

    All in all, I can't help but be disappointed with this game. If you're after a console button masher with a lot of things to click, you might like this. But if you're after a fresh, shiny new DA:O, I'm sad to say that it's step in the other direction.    … Expand
  10. bohemond1944
    Dec 21, 2014
    0
    I have never been so disappointed with any game like DA:I. The game actually makes me concerned that people are following the evolution shown in the movie Idiocracy, because this is a completely dumbed down attempt at a single player RPG. Sure it's pretty, but it has no substance and actually destroys key elements that made DA:O and other Bioware RPGs so good, the leveling up/skillI have never been so disappointed with any game like DA:I. The game actually makes me concerned that people are following the evolution shown in the movie Idiocracy, because this is a completely dumbed down attempt at a single player RPG. Sure it's pretty, but it has no substance and actually destroys key elements that made DA:O and other Bioware RPGs so good, the leveling up/skill tree/crafting/ substitution of button mashing instead of tactical party management all seem aimed at a 12 year old audience. Absolute trash.… Expand
  11. Rasturl
    Nov 21, 2014
    2
    -Can't remap mouse buttons, extra mouse buttons not supported.
    -Can't ''click to move''
    -Can't ''click to loot''
    -No screen-edge mouselook
    -No mouseover ability tooltips on your action bar
    -No key to select all party members at once
  12. Muckbeast
    Nov 21, 2014
    0
    A game that could have been great is ruined by its horrible PC controls, camera, and UI.

    1) When you take your finger off the W key, you don't stop moving. You glide/skate for a while after. 2) The strafe keys don't strafe. Your character turns and kinda glides a bit (see #1) and it is motion sick inducing. 3) When you hold down RMB to start controlling the camera, it immediately    A game that could have been great is ruined by its horrible PC controls, camera, and UI.

    1) When you take your finger off the W key, you don't stop moving. You glide/skate for a while after.

    2) The strafe keys don't strafe. Your character turns and kinda glides a bit (see #1) and it is motion sick inducing.

    3) When you hold down RMB to start controlling the camera, it immediately jerks the camera and your character significantly

    It seems to treat wherever you hold down the RMB as if you held it in the middle of the screen and then moved it to that spot

    Instead of every other 3rd person game on the planet that doesn't start moving the camera until AFTER you hold down RMB.

    4) No lock on to targets. You have to manually follow them. This is particularly bad because of #1 through #3

    5) Terrible lack of visual indicators of your current target. It is a very tiny + symbol in the middle of its body.

    No circles on the ground. Nothing like normal.

    6) You have to hold down LMB or R to keep attacking.

    7) Only 8 ability slots. Terrible. Absolutely Terrible.

    8) No ability to swap between ranged and melee weapons.

    9) If you click on a lootable item from more than a few feet, nothing happens. Your character doesn't walk to it and pick it up.

    10) Searching is horrendous. You have to spam V to search. It highlights items for a half second. Brutal.

    11) In general, it is like they haven't played any MMO or 3rd person game from the last 10-15 years.    … Expand
  13. LD9000
    Dec 4, 2014
    3
    You won't believe how bad the tactical camera in this game is is until you actually use it.
    I've played dozens of games where a player controls multiple characters from a top down camera, and never had any issues before
    This game is a travesty when it comes to controls - the camera cannot be zoomed far enough, it cannot be angled to look up (as when I have to close a rift hovering 30    You won't believe how bad the tactical camera in this game is is until you actually use it.
    I've played dozens of games where a player controls multiple characters from a top down camera, and never had any issues before

    This game is a travesty when it comes to controls - the camera cannot be zoomed far enough, it cannot be angled to look up (as when I have to close a rift hovering 30 feet in the air). Ability targetting is so bad that I have trouble managing 12 abilities between 4 characters, while in other games I could easily manage 40.

    When a battle takes place in the woods, or in a cave or under a bridge, it turns into a clusterf*ck, where I can't really see who is who, and definitely cannot pull 4+enemies from my party using a single character with a taunt.

    Without tactical camera, this game can be played on easy, maybe normal difficulty, otherwise the party AI is retarded - it would rather blow all of it's load on a friggin sheep that got aggroed by an AOE blast than on actual enemies. But what is the point of all these RPG character advancement if I have to play a game on easy?

    Exploration seems good so far, faction management shows promise, dialogue is ok, but the combat system is dreadful    … Expand
  14. derbenji
    Dec 1, 2014
    0
    terrible characters, terrible gameplay, terrible bugs, terrible writing, terrible game.
    feels like some 10 year old wrote the dialogues for his gender studies class.
    also the love scenes are cringey as hell and most women look like men.
  15. LordRaijin
    Jan 23, 2015
    2
    I'm giving this game a low rating not because I hate Dragon Age but because I’m emotionally attached with the series, and story, and how hurtful I am to see such game go down the toilet.

    For an open world RPG you barely have any interactions with any objects whatsoever. You can't sit on chairs, you can't ask for a drink in the tavern, unable to climb up on rocks (I felt like I was    I'm giving this game a low rating not because I hate Dragon Age but because I’m emotionally attached with the series, and story, and how hurtful I am to see such game go down the toilet.

    For an open world RPG you barely have any interactions with any objects whatsoever. You can't sit on chairs, you can't ask for a drink in the tavern, unable to climb up on rocks (I felt like I was participating in a Slip N Slide pool party), you can't sleep in your bed, and now you can no longer have your character to enjoy the entertainment (humor mind you) of a prostitute in a brothel like you could the previous two games. For a game that is rated M for mature with nudity and sexual content (It indicates it on the box!) I am highly disappointed that theirs lack of it. The only nudity and sexual content you'll ever get to see is if you're finalizing your romance with one of your companions, and it's a one time deal the rest is kissing, that’s it!

    The amount of fetch quest is annoying and outrageous. Theirs a crazy ancient Darkspawn trying to destroy the world, and as the Inquisitor I am forced to do trivial task (to rank up power points to do main quests) of doing assistant work for a hunter too lazy to hunt food for his people. I must kill and gather up certain amount of ram meat to feed his villagers.... BORING!!!!

    If you go on YouTube type in “Digiexpo 2013 - Dragon Age: Inquisition Gameplay” and watch the entire 31 min and 40 seconds video. You'll see Bioware showing off the Pre-Alpha of the game. You notice that the none of the content that was shown on the video was ever released in the finial version of this game. What we purchased is a whole different game considering to what was advertised to us. They took all of the fun things out, and put nothing but boring fetch quests, and boring skyhold war table quests that you yourself are incapable of participating. This is fraudulent misleading and deception on the behalf of Bioware and EA to their consumers. I can only hope that a Dragon Age fan, who happens to be a good attorney, will step up to the plate, and uses his/her skills as lawyer to open a class action lawsuit against Bioware and EA for this deception.

    And whoever in Bioware/EA office thought that it was a great idea to run around Skyhold wearing undergarments (The infamous tan pajamas) is either suffering from a dysfunctional disorder of the mind or putting us all on. Either way were not given a choice to wear our regular armor in Skyhold.    … Expand
  16. Vilquar
    Dec 19, 2014
    3
    This game screams MMO, quests are boring and bland, npcs do not care in the least about you, and the armor looks like garbage until higher levels. Combat is ok honestly, not wow but ok. Dialogues make me want to stab someone in the eye, you feel like a total errand-boy for any peasant you have displeasure of meeting. I do not understand what's with DA approach to early game armors and howThis game screams MMO, quests are boring and bland, npcs do not care in the least about you, and the armor looks like garbage until higher levels. Combat is ok honestly, not wow but ok. Dialogues make me want to stab someone in the eye, you feel like a total errand-boy for any peasant you have displeasure of meeting. I do not understand what's with DA approach to early game armors and how pathetic they look. Just because it's low level doesn't mean it has to be an eyesore, just don't make it as flashy. I don't even want to comment on disgusting headgear, not really a surprise there too. Typical AAA game where all the budget went into cut-scenes, and romance rather than an actual gameplay. Would be 4/10 if it at least was on steam, but nope better make it as obscure as possible - Publisher's logic.… Expand
  17. zoimos
    Dec 10, 2014
    4
    Controls are awful making it really difficult to get into the game and gave up after a few hours, game was clearly made for the xbox and hardly any time or thought was put into the PC version. Tactics you can't give any conditions for use with abilities only the option to auto cast randomly.

    Graphics look good on high settings and the world looks fun to explore, as the controls stopped    Controls are awful making it really difficult to get into the game and gave up after a few hours, game was clearly made for the xbox and hardly any time or thought was put into the PC version. Tactics you can't give any conditions for use with abilities only the option to auto cast randomly.

    Graphics look good on high settings and the world looks fun to explore, as the controls stopped me progressing far into the game I can't really comment on story or characters.

    Hopefully controls will be in a future patch and it will be playable with a mouse and keyboard but I shouldn't have to wait weeks/(months?) after buying the game to be able to play it

    If you like RPGs like Origins you will be disappointed as this is a game for consoles and Bioware isn't the same company that will make games like that anymore    … Expand
  18. RoiDesCastors
    Dec 12, 2014
    0
    I have not even started playing, and I am already utterly aggravated by the game. I live in Luxembourg, and always like to play my games in the original version, which in this case would be english. Why, in 2014, is the developer trying to force me to play it with a french voice over pack? Why is it almost impossible to find a link to download an english voice over pack? Why was theI have not even started playing, and I am already utterly aggravated by the game. I live in Luxembourg, and always like to play my games in the original version, which in this case would be english. Why, in 2014, is the developer trying to force me to play it with a french voice over pack? Why is it almost impossible to find a link to download an english voice over pack? Why was the english voice over pack taken down from Origin? Is it really that complicated to allow players a choice about the language they want?

    I've been spending the last two hours looking for a solutions all over the net, but there is next to NO official response to this problem. Excellent way to show people you don't care a bit about them. As for customer support... no, I actually don't even want to start ranting about them...

    Thoroughly disappointed in you EA and Bioware. Making good games is not enough if you treat the players like that.    … Expand
  19. Skyrar
    Nov 20, 2014
    5
    I have played about 25 hours so far (mainly main story), so I think I have enough experience with this game to write a short review. I will keep this review spoiler free.

    Story: A typical bioware/fantasy story. You are the chosen hero and have to save the world from the big bad evil. A story that has been told thousand times and will be told thousand times more. While the story is    I have played about 25 hours so far (mainly main story), so I think I have enough experience with this game to write a short review. I will keep this review spoiler free.

    Story:
    A typical bioware/fantasy story. You are the chosen hero and have to save the world from the big bad evil. A story that has been told thousand times and will be told thousand times more. While the story is generic als always, the execution has been good so far. There are barely any twists or surprises (finished about 60% of the story) so far, but the presentation is good. I don't want to spoil anything so I won't got deeper into it. 7/10

    Gameplay:
    Overall I like the combat system. My fear was that the flashiness of the attacks would be immersion breaking, but I quickly habituated to it. I would have prefered a more "realistic" look first, but Dragon Age Inquisition doesn't try to be realisitc, so i think it fits the setting. I remember Bioware saying that Dragon Age want's to have a mature, dark and gritty series like of Game of Thrones before they released Origins,. I think they gave this up. Dragon Age Inquisition is 90% high fantasy (Lord of the Rings), so I can live with a unrealistic and flashy combat. Another point is the controls. I'm playing it with keyboard and mouse. There are some problems with it. Tactical camera doesn't work well, because you can't zoom out as much as it would be needed. Another problem is there is no auto attack. If you switch your characters outside of the tactical combat, your previous character will stop to attack. You should play with a controller, if you want to enjoy the game more. 6/10

    Graphics:
    They graphics are great fo a (multi region) big open world game. The landsacpe looks fantastic. There are only two problems here. First the face animations look bad and some of the faces look like their are made out of plastic. Secondly the walk animations for female characters in cutscenes are awkward. They have this typical bioware gorilla-men walk. Another point is the immersion of the world. The camps/cities (you can only visit a small area of a city) feel lifeless. Other games (witcher 2 for example) manage to give their citizens a daily routine. Why can't bioware do the same. Why are 90% of the people just standing there and doing nothing? It's kirkwall from Dragon Age 2 all over again. 7/10 (because of the lifeless camps/cities, otherwise it would be 9/10)

    Sound:
    Sound effects and music are great. Voice acting in my language (german) is decent. Don't know about the englisgh version. What I don't like is the way the people in Thedas are talking. Everybody is talking in the same well educated way. No matter if you talk to a mage, who studies his whole live or some peasent, who probably can't even write. They all talk in the same way. That's a bit immersion breaking for me, considering thedas was highly inspired by the european middle ages. 8/10

    Questdesign.
    That's my main complain. It's horrible. For every interesting main quest you have to do 9 pointless and boring fetch quests. You are the LEADER of a important faction. Why do I permanently have to be deliver boy for some peasents? Why do I have to kill 10x of this, bring 10x of that? Looking at the hinderlands map I felt like I was playing Assassins Creed. 3/10

    Characters: Well done Bioware. Most of the Characters are interesting. I don't like the look of most of the female characters, but that's my personal problem. But they are unique and have a lot to tell about their past, motivations and problems. 9/10

    Miscellaneous: positive: - big (multi region) open world with a lot of stuff to do (if you like mmo- style quests) -choices and consequences ( can't tell how big) -difficulty is well balanced (playing on hard) -combo system - a LOT of conversations - two voice actors for each gender - extensive character creator - a lot of customization -Skyhold and the possibility to change it's look - being the leader of a powerful organisation is unique in rpgs

    negative: - a lot of bugs: Some serious clipping issues. The voice of my inquisitor changed at a certain point of the game. Other (minor) glitches - hair looks awful. No long hair in the game. - Barely any reaction to you actions (I'm closing a breech and fighting demons in a small camp and nobody cares about it) - no attribute points - a LOT less skills than in Origins or even Dragon Age 2 - No punishment if you die - Some serious problems with the quality of writing

    After the first 25 hours, the game is a 7.5 for me. Depending on how the story continues it could get a 8. Unfortunaly i'm not only rating the game, but the whole product. EA/Bioware Anti- Consumer policy: - Origins (DRM) - Denuvo (DRM) - First Story DLC XboX One time exclusive - Xbox One/ EA Access exclusive early access - Not moddable game engine - Different ingame content depending on the game version you buy - Different release days depending on the region you live - microtransactions - 2.5 points Overall: 5/10 Collaps    … Expand
  20. brindle88
    Nov 20, 2014
    1
    I have never seen such a highly hiped up game rate so badly with user reviews. Critic reviews......blah what a load of corrupt lying wankers. They openly criticise games like this because they do not want to make enemies with the big gaming studios.....shame on you critics........your comments get more worthless as every year goes by
  21. Ivan665
    Nov 22, 2014
    0
    Dragon Age: Inquisition is the last game by EAware I ever cared to be interested in before its release. Every single thing in this game is the definition of cliché. Bioware were never good at creating a thrilling or fun game play. "Not boring" tactical fights and running around finding "secret" stashes, in between the cut-scenes and dialogue, were the highest point they could get some ofDragon Age: Inquisition is the last game by EAware I ever cared to be interested in before its release. Every single thing in this game is the definition of cliché. Bioware were never good at creating a thrilling or fun game play. "Not boring" tactical fights and running around finding "secret" stashes, in between the cut-scenes and dialogue, were the highest point they could get some of their games to. Anyone who played their old games did so because of the story and the characters. In DA: Inquisition both the game play and the story and characters are brutally degraded to a new level of low. This fact alone makes me... well not sad because I don't care about EA games, but it does bring some nostalgia for BG, IWD and Kotor in me. Which the game itself failed to do so. The game could be played at most once, and in a rush besides that, if the player can stoically withstand the horrible game play. Only to go through the lackluster story that doesn't bring up any emotion. The characters along the way are hollow and develop poorly if at all. I wont go into details because they are just a bad joke gone wrong and don't deserve your attention. Draw your own conclusions.
    TL:DR You better play something else if you want to have fun or want a rich characters and a good story. If you have played and liked any of the following: BG 1/2, Neverwinter 1/2, Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim, Kotor 1/2, DA: Origins, even Kingdoms of Amalur, Fable 1 or whatever, I sincerely promise to you, that you WILL be disappointed by DA: I.    … Expand
  22. buttergnome
    Nov 21, 2014
    0
    First, if you like good RPGs, then don't be fooled by the reviews. This is nothing like DAO, and not much like DA2. One reason the PC version is getting such terrible reviews is the controls (it is, basically, impossible to actually play the game. Bioware did nothing to make the controls appropriate for a PC. Kind of like Bethesda did with Skyrim, but much, much worse.) But there areFirst, if you like good RPGs, then don't be fooled by the reviews. This is nothing like DAO, and not much like DA2. One reason the PC version is getting such terrible reviews is the controls (it is, basically, impossible to actually play the game. Bioware did nothing to make the controls appropriate for a PC. Kind of like Bethesda did with Skyrim, but much, much worse.) But there are plenty of other reasons to give this game a big fat "0" if you want a good RPG. Things like wooden facial expressions. Things like poor cutscenes and dialogue that reads like it was written by a 12 year old. Wait, that's not fair to 12 year olds; it's like it was written by a 12 year old moron, not a normal 12 year old. The graphics, even set to max quality on every setting, are incredibly disappointing. Cutscenes are choppy even on a system playing the actual game itself of 60+ fps. If you want a basic unthinking and repetitive action game, then you might think this is OK, IF the fix the controls or if you already own a game console controller which you can plug in. There are already plenty of repetitive actions games (which can be incredibly fun, no doubt), but that's not what Bioware and Dragon Age were always about. With this realease I think we can safely say that Bioware no longer really exists. What exists where Bioware used to be is something else, maybe something trying to become ID software.

    It would be nice if Metacritic had a review system for their "professional critic" reviews, because just like DA2, it's completely obvious that these critics reviews had to be bought. The game is basically unplayable. How can an unplayable game get good reviews, period?    … Expand
  23. purtusufu
    Dec 22, 2014
    0
    I wouldn't describe this game as a disappointment. My expectations for this game were that it would be a terrible mess. The game came out and it's a terrible mess. Good job Bioware/EA, you did not disappoint.
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
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#16 Best PC Game of 2014
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#1 Most Discussed PC Game of 2014
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85

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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