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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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 ^^
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. Schm2616
    Nov 18, 2014
    5
    I am only about an hour in, but as someone who has over 300 hours in origins I can say my first impressions are not top notch. The graphics are fairly difficult to work around, at times you can physically see blocks in the scenery, it is very difficult to call this game next gen. The skill tree's seem lacking as well. Part of my love with DA:O was the deep entropy/blood mage tree's. AtI am only about an hour in, but as someone who has over 300 hours in origins I can say my first impressions are not top notch. The graphics are fairly difficult to work around, at times you can physically see blocks in the scenery, it is very difficult to call this game next gen. The skill tree's seem lacking as well. Part of my love with DA:O was the deep entropy/blood mage tree's. At this point, no such tree's exist.

    At most, even if the story is 150% better than what I expect (which I can say is also lacking at this point) I would have to rate this no more than a 7. At this point, until finished I would have to leave it at a 5.5    … Expand
  38. dendygar
    Nov 20, 2014
    5
    Too much Skyrim, not enough Origins.

    You have essentially no control over your party, unless you want to completely shut off their auto-abilities. Yes, you can manually switch between everybody and use the "tactical" camera view, but it is clunky and of limited use. Unless you turn AI off, they will spam all of their abilities as their invisible AI deems fit. For a game that is    Too much Skyrim, not enough Origins.

    You have essentially no control over your party, unless you want to completely shut off their auto-abilities. Yes, you can manually switch between everybody and use the "tactical" camera view, but it is clunky and of limited use. Unless you turn AI off, they will spam all of their abilities as their invisible AI deems fit.

    For a game that is supposed to have a high standard of writing, it doesn't. The plot is generic, many characters have no personality, and your responses are incredibly limited. If you liked how many sidequests in Origins had at least a token decision involved with them, don't make the mistake of expecting that from this game. All sidequests I have encountered so far are fetch quests, taken and turned in with no input from me other than "Do you want this quest? y/n" No decisions or choices to speak of, not even a token dialogue choice that doesn't affect the quest outcome.

    I am not going to pretend the game is totally worthless, however. Some (SOME) of the party member dialogue is acceptable, and exploration can be kind of fun. Origins continues to roll in its grave, however.    … Expand
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. JKCH
    Nov 21, 2014
    5
    I guess I'm disappointed enough to create an account to make a review, I want this to change badly. Huge DA:O fan, enjoyed DAII as well. Spent about an hour tweaking my tapestry so it was as I remember, created a character and boom. The WORST CONTROLS I've ever experienced in an RPG ever. Game breakingly bad.

    The controls are so bad I can't believe they've released it like this. Why? I    I guess I'm disappointed enough to create an account to make a review, I want this to change badly. Huge DA:O fan, enjoyed DAII as well. Spent about an hour tweaking my tapestry so it was as I remember, created a character and boom. The WORST CONTROLS I've ever experienced in an RPG ever. Game breakingly bad.

    The controls are so bad I can't believe they've released it like this. Why? I can't understand it, this was marketed as a tactical combat RPG for us PC people and it is genuinely unplayable with the current control system. When they were trying something new in DAII it was at least fun, they at least told us that it would be different from Origins. With Inquisition, they are trying to do something they'd already mastered!

    Even without using the tactical camera, this is barely playable using PC controls. I can't believe that critics haven't seen this as more fundamentally game breaking? What I was expecting to be a refined tactical experience has not turned out that way. I'm struggling to even properly attack, why no auto attack?! Why no click to move? This is basic basic basic! This is Bioware?! What the hell happened? I wanted to spend a hundred hours in this world and everything about the game seems awesome, I'd be ecstatic except for the fact that I can't actually play it.    … Expand
  43. Subterra
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    Game runs like absolute **** teriible optimization and im **** sick of these developers getting away with this **** DO NOT BUY

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  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. TheMeph
    Nov 18, 2014
    5
    I have to admit, i am slightly disappointed.

    The scenery looks good, but all the characters are shiny and look like they have a thin coating of Teflon or varnish making them look like plastic and unappealing. The combat is meh. I don't like that I have to keep the button pressed to attack. Give me back auto-attack any day and a real tactical view. the one they have here is bad and    I have to admit, i am slightly disappointed.

    The scenery looks good, but all the characters are shiny and look like they have a thin coating of Teflon or varnish making them look like plastic and unappealing.

    The combat is meh. I don't like that I have to keep the button pressed to attack. Give me back auto-attack any day and a real tactical view. the one they have here is bad and limiting. The screen zooms out just a few feet above the characters, and you only get a good view of the immediate area. You will have to try to drag the camera around to find the targets and give commands, and it snaps back to the characters making it annoying to have to refind the target.

    Magic.. where did all the other schools go? How did we go from 4 schools of magic to just 4 spells? Bleh... Not impressed.    … Expand
  48. 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
  49. endertargaryen
    Jan 2, 2015
    7
    Updated Review:

    So I bought DA:I for $60 on Origin's 24 hour guarantee. I played it for about 5 hours, loathed it, and returned it, leaving a score of 1 here (with many reasons listed). Now, after playing it again for 30+ hours, my thoughts have turned around quite a bit. Instead of go through my previous review, I will try to sum up my feelings at this point: 1) They did not    Updated Review:

    So I bought DA:I for $60 on Origin's 24 hour guarantee. I played it for about 5 hours, loathed it, and returned it, leaving a score of 1 here (with many reasons listed).

    Now, after playing it again for 30+ hours, my thoughts have turned around quite a bit.

    Instead of go through my previous review, I will try to sum up my feelings at this point:

    1) They did not put a good foot forward for the first, oh, 10 hours or so of the game: boring story-line, dull scenery, dull quests, etc. After you finally get to a point where you have to the "choosing" quest, the game's story line improves dramatically. Once you are able to unlock more than 3 areas, the scenery is greatly diversed as well.

    2) This is still my #1 complaint: they removed the tactics. The AI is NOT smart enough to handle some of the more complicated spells, this should be rectified in a mod.

    3) The attention to detail graphically (textures and meshes) are astounding in some parts: one example are the stone walls, it doesn't matter how close up you get the camera to them, they all look like individual, well textured rocks stacked on top of each other to build a wall. The character work is excellent and high-mesh quality minus the hair, which is rather sad considering the quality of the rest of the people.

    4) #2 main complaint: if you start off with a KB+M, (just like the previous DAs), you will hate this game. It will leave quite an awful taste in your mouth. For PCMRs, the thought of HAVING to use a controller to enjoy a Dragon Age came is just pathetic. Well, I had to get over it, and when I finally did, it was much more enjoyable.

    Summary: The primary reason I am going from a 1 to 7 is because this is a good, enjoyable game, but when you combine the awful KB+M with the dull starting story and fetch quests, the neutering of tactics and healing magic and gimped ability trees, it gives an awful first impression for a DA game.

    Now, with 30 hours under my belt, I can say it is a worthy successor to the series, although I am still skeptical on whether the combat is going in the right direction (and for hardcore cRPG players, the combat will take 20+ hours before you get used to it).    … Expand
  50. 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
  51. 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
  52. 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
  53. 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.
  54. 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
  55. 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
  56. 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
  57. 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
  58. 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
  59. 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
  60. 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
  61. 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
  62. 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
  63. Armis
    Nov 28, 2014
    7
    What's that? No regeneration, no healing abilities whatsoever? Also, a micro-transaction economy built around buying healing potions in multi-player? I'm sure this was all designed in order to be a more immersive experience. Or, you know, in order to milk their players utterly dry. Bioware, you sicken me.
  64. 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
  65. 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
  66. 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.
  67. 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
  68. 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.
  69. 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
  70. 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
  71. 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.
  72. 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
  73. 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
  74. sedoi
    Dec 3, 2014
    5
    This game robs everything that made DA special and replaces it with generic quests and generic characters. Sadly I don't see much of a future for a franchise after it. It just fails to deliver on almost everything except visuals. Combat feels to repetitive and boring, while whole leveling system and upgrading is to blown out of proportions and feels more like time-waster than clever madeThis game robs everything that made DA special and replaces it with generic quests and generic characters. Sadly I don't see much of a future for a franchise after it. It just fails to deliver on almost everything except visuals. Combat feels to repetitive and boring, while whole leveling system and upgrading is to blown out of proportions and feels more like time-waster than clever made system. In the end i don't think i give it anything aside 5/10. That is NOT DA game. It's just generic MMO with DA references slapped on top of it.… Expand
  75. 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"
  76. ttmx
    Nov 21, 2014
    5
    Really, really disappointing game. Probably the only RPG I've stopped playing halfway through out of complete disinterest. The plot is boring and you basically grind doing MMO style quests for hours and hours so that you can advance the story with another 2 minute badly lip-synced cutscene. It's not even worth it, it just feels hollow and uninspired and is just a waste of time.

    I loved    Really, really disappointing game. Probably the only RPG I've stopped playing halfway through out of complete disinterest. The plot is boring and you basically grind doing MMO style quests for hours and hours so that you can advance the story with another 2 minute badly lip-synced cutscene. It's not even worth it, it just feels hollow and uninspired and is just a waste of time.

    I loved both DA: Origins and 2. The stories were good and the combat was somewhat enjoyable. You could just get on with the story like a proper RPG without having to dick around doing "collect X" quests. This game has THE WORST combat system I've ever had the misfortune of using. It's a complete snooze fest, you basically either just spam-click or hold the attack button. I've got about 13 hours wasted on this game and not once was I entertained in combat. Your AI companions need constant hand-holding to not get themselves killed, the tactical cam is useless.. the controls are just horrible. Don't get me started on looting, like REALLY BioWare?

    I would not recommend this game to anyone, ever. And shame on all the "critics".. obviously all of them were paid off. It's like taking a bite of cardboard and saying it tastes good. You're either a liar or an idiot.

    AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE. BioWare is now officially a joke and if you buy their next game you deserve the pile of **** you get for your hard earned cash.    … Expand
  77. 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
  78. 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
  79. 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
  80. Shelledfade
    Nov 18, 2014
    5
    Some really big problems with this game. It really is like a single-player mmo. Get me X amount of item, return it to complete quest. Then the quest themselves become repeats after only 3 hours of gameplay. Bring back 10 wool and 5 lockpicks.... rinse and repeat multiple times, literally. Find a message lying on the ground and deliver it to person in X location. Okay sure, soundsSome really big problems with this game. It really is like a single-player mmo. Get me X amount of item, return it to complete quest. Then the quest themselves become repeats after only 3 hours of gameplay. Bring back 10 wool and 5 lockpicks.... rinse and repeat multiple times, literally. Find a message lying on the ground and deliver it to person in X location. Okay sure, sounds reasonable. Bout time we get something interesting going on here.... NOPE! 1 hour later and 3 more lost messages delivered and you start to wonder if every single thing around you is just lame filler. I mean at least skyrim had actual real quests for you. This just screams out tacky mmo while you're playing it. It's so sad.

    If you thought that was bad, there are bigger problems with the tactical camera. It doesn't zoom out far enough and you cannot adjust the angle of it at all the more you zoom out. It's retarded, origins tac cam was way superior than this. It's just awful... The A.I custom controls are also inferior in regards to dragon age inquisition.

    As of righting this I am seriously considering getting a refund while I still can. I'm not sure if its even worth it to continue playing this.    … Expand
  81. 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.
  82. 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
  83. 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.
  84. 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
  85. 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
  86. 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
  87. 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
  88. 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.
  89. 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
  90. 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
  91. 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
  92. 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.
  93. matt79
    Nov 13, 2015
    8
    Despite its problems at the launch day when it was unplayable for me, it turned out to be a very good game. I still don't like its combat mechanics and PC control scheme (forced me to play on a gamepad), but other than that, it is pretty solid. The story is good, so are the companions. Presentation is nice. I've spent about 150 hours playing, that clearly stands for something.
  94. 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.
  95. 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
  96. 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.
  97. 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
  98. 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
  99. Andrew1175
    Nov 19, 2014
    5
    Disappointed in the game and refunded. If I wasn't able to refund then maybe I'd be more upset. This game was definitely designed for consoles like Skyrim sadly... I got annoyed fast that I had to go walk up to items using WASD and then use the action key instead of just right clicking and auto moving there. The attacking is clunky when it comes to targeting enemies. Again, it seems as ifDisappointed in the game and refunded. If I wasn't able to refund then maybe I'd be more upset. This game was definitely designed for consoles like Skyrim sadly... I got annoyed fast that I had to go walk up to items using WASD and then use the action key instead of just right clicking and auto moving there. The attacking is clunky when it comes to targeting enemies. Again, it seems as if they did this for console players and us PC players have to pay the price. I never got farther in than 2 or 3 hours before I requested the refund, so I can't give my opinion on whether or not the dialogue/story is good. I never used tactical view (I never used it in DAO either) so I can't give my opinion on that. Overall? I won't be buying the game again until it reaches about 30 bucks on those cheap CD key websites because I honestly don't think it's worth it. I really am disappointed with the game and won't be getting it. I'd recommended waiting a month or two for (hopefully) patches to make it more of a PC game like DAO was.… Expand
  100. 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
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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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#1 Most Shared PC Game of 2014

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Metascore
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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