Dragon Age: Inquisition

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  1. KingKaz
    Nov 18, 2014
    4
    Clunky gameplay. Mediocre story. Hamfisted characters. Very big downgrade from DA2 which was considerably worse than DA:O. As a AAA title DA:I fails to deliver in a lot of areas. Any video game enthusiast would feel cheated paying full price for a mess like this.
  2. joesfiddle
    Aug 2, 2017
    0
    I love the series however, the game stoped working after several weeks of play on my PS3 and wouldn't load. I contacted electronic arts and ps store who told me I couldn't have a refund even though the game doesn't work. What a rip off! No time for this. I also have a ps4 and could have played it on there but if course you have to buy the game a second time to do this. Another rip off.I love the series however, the game stoped working after several weeks of play on my PS3 and wouldn't load. I contacted electronic arts and ps store who told me I couldn't have a refund even though the game doesn't work. What a rip off! No time for this. I also have a ps4 and could have played it on there but if course you have to buy the game a second time to do this. Another rip off. Customer relations very poor. Wouldn't recommend. Buy a game that works instead.… Expand
  3. chojimaroji
    Dec 30, 2014
    2
    Wow, the people giving the PS3 version of this high scores must work for Bioware or EA. No one is exaggerating how watered down the graphics are for the PS3. I bought this game knowing it would be a lesser version of the new system, but man the difference is down right shameful. I tried playing through my disgust but today I returned the game and got The Stick of Truth which is all ready aWow, the people giving the PS3 version of this high scores must work for Bioware or EA. No one is exaggerating how watered down the graphics are for the PS3. I bought this game knowing it would be a lesser version of the new system, but man the difference is down right shameful. I tried playing through my disgust but today I returned the game and got The Stick of Truth which is all ready a lot better. It's a shame because I wanted to get know the cute character I had created (that why it gets a 2) but sadly I had to leave her. If you really think this game is for you, wait and get it for PS4 it might be worth a try. If you think you can handle glossy skin and armour, npc that look like there straight out of PS1, and half rendered backgrounds, good luck!… Expand
  4. nexus6
    Feb 8, 2015
    3
    Game freezes constantly , contacted "customer service rep" and they barley spoke english. ask when the next patch was coming out to fix these huge issues. they didnt even know what a patch was lol. im completely shocked with EA/Biowares dedication to there customers . its crap. the game has huge chances to be one of the best games of the year for ps3 but they dropped the ball big time onGame freezes constantly , contacted "customer service rep" and they barley spoke english. ask when the next patch was coming out to fix these huge issues. they didnt even know what a patch was lol. im completely shocked with EA/Biowares dedication to there customers . its crap. the game has huge chances to be one of the best games of the year for ps3 but they dropped the ball big time on this one .. should of gave it out for free... o and one more thing ... my phone games has better graphics. and you dumb heads who are saying its good graphics for ps3 ..ha .. play Far Cry 4 and then come back and say that. they never should of even released this on the ps3 for the same price as the ps4 version . its a joke and there taking money from us gamers who live and breath this stuff… Expand
  5. jpjamc
    Nov 25, 2014
    4
    I was super excited for this game. The trailers looks beautiful and the story just seemed so incredible. All the hype could not have been more misleading. While the general game is pretty good, I am severely disappointed that EA put more work into promoting the game other than actually finishing it. Textures don't load, the mouth animation feels unfinished, the cut scenes are choppy, theI was super excited for this game. The trailers looks beautiful and the story just seemed so incredible. All the hype could not have been more misleading. While the general game is pretty good, I am severely disappointed that EA put more work into promoting the game other than actually finishing it. Textures don't load, the mouth animation feels unfinished, the cut scenes are choppy, the load screens take forever and the combat is a joke. This game had the potential to be great, but only if EA had actually finished what they were working on.… Expand
  6. JAGUAR10
    Dec 22, 2014
    1
    As others have said the graphics for the PS3 are bad - however my biggest complaint is that the game is boring as HELL!!!! This is not the Dragon Age I loved. The characters are boring - you don't really care about any of them. The quests are dumb, the tactical camera is a joke, the crafting is tedious, the sound is off in spots, etc. It's like Bioware simplified the important parts ofAs others have said the graphics for the PS3 are bad - however my biggest complaint is that the game is boring as HELL!!!! This is not the Dragon Age I loved. The characters are boring - you don't really care about any of them. The quests are dumb, the tactical camera is a joke, the crafting is tedious, the sound is off in spots, etc. It's like Bioware simplified the important parts of DA and made more difficult things like crafting. The world is like a Skyrim wannabe with shades of LOTR. Additionally, on the PS3 the controls go wonky during battle - for example, you press triangle to do a spell and the world map comes up!! Very frustrating. I've also had the game crash three times. Very disappointed. It's not tragic with funny characters merchants, it's just plain BORING!!! Can't even finish it.… Expand
  7. Trepadora
    Jan 6, 2015
    4
    I can honestly say I've never been so disappointed in a game. This thing no longer bears any resemblance to Dragon Age Origins. Where do I even begin?

    It's pretty obvious the devs feel so very proud of themselves for their new engine and "open world" gameplay. And you know what? It resembles an MMO perfectly: tedious, boring grinding and fetch quests. There's so many it's practically a    I can honestly say I've never been so disappointed in a game. This thing no longer bears any resemblance to Dragon Age Origins. Where do I even begin?

    It's pretty obvious the devs feel so very proud of themselves for their new engine and "open world" gameplay. And you know what? It resembles an MMO perfectly: tedious, boring grinding and fetch quests. There's so many it's practically a joke. If you play this game, this is 90% of what you do. It's every bit as tedious and boring and it seems. I've seen many people claim that the game magically becomes much better after you invest the ludicrous sum of 20 hours into the game. I'll tell you straight up: it doesn't. They try to throw a bunch of crap in your face to try and distract from it, but it's sure as hell still there.

    I have my gripes with the combat as well. Of course, there's no auto-attack. The tactical camera is almost worthless since micromanaging your team has been disemboweled. No longer can you stack commands and control every detail. Instead you can marvel at your teammates teleporting next to you and mages running into melee range. I played a 2H warrior, and it was honestly completely boring. Battles only really come in two flavors: ones that require no thought, but go on forever because they have ludicrous amounts of health, or battles in which you die instantly because the game makes no attempt to communicate enemy levels to you. Limiting potions seems to be a decision made solely to leash you and force you back to a camp all too often. It's hardly even worth mentioning how worthless the AI is in the game either.

    Graphically is where this game surprised me the most, by not surprising me in the least. They were pretty clearly pumping this up to be something huge, but it looks awful on previous generation consoles. Both of the previous games looked far better.

    The biggest issue of all is the optimization. This game is beyond broken. Over my 25 hours of play, I experienced countless freezes, more graphical glitches than you can shake a stick at and all kinds of wild and wacky bugs. Facial textures seem to often fail to load, and pop-in is horrendously slow, often only catching up near the end of cutscene. Slowdown is a very common occurrence as well. It really is a marvel of poor programming.

    The story is choppy at best. Most of it a fairly bland affair, but the characters get a few glimmers of interest here and there. However, it's only enough to make you hope you were playing a better game. Wholly, the characters just aren't very interesting or likeable. In general they'll be fairly one-note the entire game.

    The Dragon Age series deserved better. I can only hope that it'll be left to rest in peace, but given the slavemasters in control of the IP, we can expect to see it die a slow painful death as they wring every last penny out of it's once good name.    … Expand
  8. mp5
    Dec 24, 2014
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have played Origins and DA2 and liked both because the characters were interesting and the story was good.
    There is no story in Inquisition. It is unfathomable how boring they made it, I really tried to like it. I'm on my fifth play through and have only had one laugh in all the play throughs so far. Part of what I liked about the other 2 games was their comedy.
    Hawke is a snarling and sneering mess in this game. Varric has zero personality left, his story with Bianca doesn't even make me curious its so badly done. The only character remotely interesting is Solas. Cullen has some good scenes but truly uninspired by the lack of depth in all the characters.    … Expand
  9. Shakaw
    Nov 23, 2014
    1
    Very few spells, mediocre story and character development, combat is fast paced and not tactical anymore. This game has lost everything that defined the first Dragon Age game. This game is even worse than Dragon Age 2. It has, however, reasonable graphics, and a very large world. It has many things to do, but they are rarely entertaining because combat isn't fun anymore.
  10. Hyomoto
    Nov 30, 2014
    4
    I have never said this before, and I hope to never say it again: this game is so ugly it actually distracts me from being able to play it. I cannot even properly review it because of how awful the graphics are. It looks like an alpha build, they clearly just flipped the switch on some effects, halved the texture sizes and called it a day.

    No one expected it too look it's best here,    I have never said this before, and I hope to never say it again: this game is so ugly it actually distracts me from being able to play it. I cannot even properly review it because of how awful the graphics are. It looks like an alpha build, they clearly just flipped the switch on some effects, halved the texture sizes and called it a day.

    No one expected it too look it's best here, but it could have at LEAST looked DA:2 in quality. There are launch titles that looked better. There are PS2 games that looked better. I'm not just being facetious; texture resolution varies wildly, things pop-in everywhere, the lighting is a combination of far too dark and way too bright (how did that manage this?), people float around and animate through things, and there are tons of visual glitches like the screen tone constantly shifting for no discernible reason. At first I thought there was a day-to-night cycle, this is just tragically bad.    … Expand
  11. Myoddthoughtss
    Nov 19, 2014
    2
    I was super excited that they decided to bring this out for the last gen consoles. I didn't expect they would. That being said, I already expected that they would have to cut down on the graphics to make the game run smoothly. However, I didn't expect them to do a chop job on the whole game like they did. The pop-textures and the PlayStation 2 quality graphics were seriously distracting.I was super excited that they decided to bring this out for the last gen consoles. I didn't expect they would. That being said, I already expected that they would have to cut down on the graphics to make the game run smoothly. However, I didn't expect them to do a chop job on the whole game like they did. The pop-textures and the PlayStation 2 quality graphics were seriously distracting. It's pretty disturbing how bad they are on the PlayStation 3, considering how good their other games they've made were on the eyes. Example would be Mass Effect, the whole series. With that said, it felt like they just put this together and hoped it could be masked in, what I believe to be, a decent storyline. But it only detracts. I'm hoping some sort of patch will help this out, but I don't hold my breath.

    As for the story, its truly massive which is normally great for most games. Such as Elder Scrolls Skyrim. But in the case of DAI, I felt overwhelmed by all the info being thrown into my face all at once. It truly made me feel anxious and unfocused on any one task. Not a good thing, in my opinion. Nothing felt casual about these encounters - it just felt like an MMO scripted and forced.

    All that being said, I'm speaking in past-tense because I plan to stop playing this mess and wait until I get a PS4 in hopes that I can stop feeling nauseated by the terrible graphics and focused on what is a decent storyline. One can only hope.    … Expand
  12. cylian3
    Nov 22, 2014
    0
    Not on Steam: Check.

    Unoptimized pile of garbage that almost rivals Assassin Creed Unity: Check. Buggy mess: Check. Graphics from 2007: Check. Horrid attempts to fix the previously non-broken combat and fail epically: Check. Horrid DRM: Check. Moronic AI: Check. Annoying and dysfunctional camera: Check. MMO-Fication of a very popular and functional RPG down to a    Not on Steam: Check.

    Unoptimized pile of garbage that almost rivals Assassin Creed Unity: Check.

    Buggy mess: Check.

    Graphics from 2007: Check.

    Horrid attempts to fix the previously non-broken combat and fail epically: Check.

    Horrid DRM: Check.

    Moronic AI: Check.

    Annoying and dysfunctional camera: Check.

    MMO-Fication of a very popular and functional RPG down to a kill X enemies Y times for Z reward grinding monotonous mess: Check.

    Produced and developed by electronic arse: Check.

    Painfully obvious console port on PC painted obvious by lack of basic functions like click-2-walk or autoattack: Check.

    4+ days delay on getting response from EA support: Check.

    Biribed reviewers: Check.

    If you need even more discouragement to avoid this game, then there is no hope for you and I would recommend you to buy and play this so we can have all the gullible people in one place.    … Expand
  13. juicybullet
    Nov 20, 2014
    2
    I am a die hard DA fan and was sooo looking forward to this game. However, upon playing it it just feels more like a cheap Skyrim knockoff than a DA game. There are very few cut scenes to tell the story in an interesting way, no real character development, chunky gameplay and I find myself loosing interest rather quickly. Maybe it would play better on PS4 but I still paid $80 for the PS3I am a die hard DA fan and was sooo looking forward to this game. However, upon playing it it just feels more like a cheap Skyrim knockoff than a DA game. There are very few cut scenes to tell the story in an interesting way, no real character development, chunky gameplay and I find myself loosing interest rather quickly. Maybe it would play better on PS4 but I still paid $80 for the PS3 game. I think I'm entitled to a quality product for that price. They never should have released it for PS3 if it wasn't meant for it.
    I am sorely disappointed as I had such high hopes for this game. They should have stuck to what made the games great instead of designing it more for people who've never played a DA before. I only wish I could get my money back. Maybe I can sell it on Amazon.    … Expand
  14. NotAReptar
    Nov 19, 2014
    3
    The ps3 port is broken with crashes, glitches, cut scene problems, gameplay sound problems, awful rendering, bad player AI, clunky UI, etc. It looks awful and shouldn't have been released on non-next-gen consoles if it looks that bad. The story is very slow paced and bland. The characters are very one-dimensional. The game feels like it was made specifically for the DA:2 audience and needsThe ps3 port is broken with crashes, glitches, cut scene problems, gameplay sound problems, awful rendering, bad player AI, clunky UI, etc. It looks awful and shouldn't have been released on non-next-gen consoles if it looks that bad. The story is very slow paced and bland. The characters are very one-dimensional. The game feels like it was made specifically for the DA:2 audience and needs you to rely on it's bland back-story to fully appreciate everything around DA:I. It relies heavily on fetch quests or action gameplay rather then story and character development. Nothing really memorable about this game.… Expand
  15. Str0b0
    Dec 1, 2014
    0
    This is a masterclass in how not to make a port. I get that it's supposed to be for the current gen but this game is broken for the PS3. I expected some muddy textures and lower frame rate. What I got is sporadically loading textures, textures that flat out refuse to load in and a frame rate that looks like something out of a bad stop motion animation feature. I love Bioware games so thoseThis is a masterclass in how not to make a port. I get that it's supposed to be for the current gen but this game is broken for the PS3. I expected some muddy textures and lower frame rate. What I got is sporadically loading textures, textures that flat out refuse to load in and a frame rate that looks like something out of a bad stop motion animation feature. I love Bioware games so those by themselves would not be an issue. I've played buggier games for the story alone but, the straw that broke the camel's back came when I was climbing a ladder in the Forbidden Oasis area and the game decided to slow to a crawl. It took my character a good three minutes to slowly, agonizingly ascend the ladder. No big deal though I'll just keep moving and it will sort itself out. Ten minutes later it had not. I figured saving then reloading might be in order. How wrong I was as I reloaded the game only to find that the lag had been saved along with the rest of the game. I tried moving to a new location in the game world via fast travel. The lag now persists in the entire game world becoming more of a threat to Thedas than the rifts in the sky. I might pick this game up when I upgrade to the PS4 next year. In the meantime I would discourage anyone thinking of buying this game for the PS3 from doing so. If you enjoyed the other Dragon Age games then this one will just make you angry. It's nowhere close to the caliber of the first two entries into the series and has made me wish that they never even bothered to try to port it back to the former generation of consoles.… Expand
  16. corkorrn
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    I made an account purely so i can warn people. This game should not have been released on ps3. Absolutely unplayable. Insulting graphics and the worst game play i have had on this console. Shamefull. Pure Regret. If i could of given it a negative score i would. It shouldn't even be available for free.
  17. me-0815
    Nov 23, 2014
    0
    If you expect a Dragon Age, do not buy this game. If you expect a Skyrim, do not buy this game. If you expect a typical BioWare game, do not buy this game. If you expect a good RPG, do not buy this game.
  18. Lillepekka
    Nov 20, 2014
    1
    Feels like playing a beta. **** graphics, low frame rate, gamebreaking bugs like having to reload savegame to get npcs back, tactical view and combat is a joke. Graphics on ps3 is laughable at best, ironically the best graphics is when the cutscenes are on - the major complaint of pc users. Meh, bioware has become ****
  19. KaienShiba
    Dec 20, 2014
    4
    Gave it a 5 for 3 reason. 1 the lack of classes, 2) you can play as assassin or arcane warrior in multi but not in single player, 3) the game was built mainly as multiplayer with single game as a bone with not much meat on it and single player game is highly unbalanced against the player, right off the bat you a uber pride demon to fight with your level 2 team.
  20. X019Q
    Nov 21, 2014
    0
    Complete ****. We need to get our voices heared at EA and express our disapproval. Check online for the Petition againts EA and Bioware from X019Q and file againts them! Share with your friends!!
  21. naruto-simo
    Dec 4, 2014
    0
    for graphics(the most important thing) its more like a ps2 game not a Ps3
    I got Dragon Age: Inquisition and Assassins Creed rouge on the same day for PS3. I was stunned at the lack of quality on Dragon Age. Texture pop-in, missing textures. Some degree of downgrade is expected, but this was just lazy. Assassins creed looks like someone cared about the game. Much better frame rate, better    for graphics(the most important thing) its more like a ps2 game not a Ps3
    I got Dragon Age: Inquisition and Assassins Creed rouge on the same day for PS3. I was stunned at the lack of quality on Dragon Age. Texture pop-in, missing textures. Some degree of downgrade is expected, but this was just lazy. Assassins creed looks like someone cared about the game. Much better frame rate, better textures. It's hard to believe they phoned it in so much for inquisition. I understand they're trying to sell PS4s and XB1s but damn... we spent $60 too and deserve a little effort. Farcry 4 looks great on PS3 without looking like a disaster... I don't understand why dragon age would sabotage their own game. They should want to release a quality product on whatever platform they release it for.    … Expand
  22. CisScum
    Nov 18, 2014
    0
    A game that not only punishes the player for being a straight male but also makes them feel uncomfortable. This paired with a blatant disregard for story quality and gameplay makes this a terrible game. I got a full refund for this game and put it towards a copy of Witcher 3
  23. Topfpflanze
    Apr 29, 2021
    2
    At first, it looks as if DA:I consisted of an enormous world with virtually no boundaries. But it's just illusion. The truth is, the whole landscape is just a narrow hose, as is the story. The non-player characters are ridiculously one dimensional, and there are a few points in the story where you can make decisions. But it's nothing near DAO or DA2 and the story remains colourless andAt first, it looks as if DA:I consisted of an enormous world with virtually no boundaries. But it's just illusion. The truth is, the whole landscape is just a narrow hose, as is the story. The non-player characters are ridiculously one dimensional, and there are a few points in the story where you can make decisions. But it's nothing near DAO or DA2 and the story remains colourless and boring all the time no matter what (often repetetive) task is to be performed.… Expand
  24. starvid1
    Aug 16, 2018
    0
    Clunky gameplay. Mediocre story. Hamfisted characters. Very big downgrade from DA2 which was considerably worse than DA:O. As a AAA title DA:I fails to deliver in a lot of areas. Any video game enthusiast would feel cheated paying full price for a mess like this.
  25. gardoc1
    Aug 17, 2018
    0
    Clunky gameplay. Mediocre story. Hamfisted characters. Very big downgrade from DA2 which was considerably worse than DA:O. As a AAA title DA:I fails to deliver in a lot of areas. Any video game enthusiast would feel cheated paying full price for a mess like this.
  26. doomfist229
    Aug 17, 2018
    0
    1: At first I have to blow of some steam here...

    I own every Dragon Age and Mass Effect title with every DLC. And this game is another huge - monstrous really - letdown! I mostly play RPG’s. And Bioware know’s quit a bit about how to make a good one, or even a superb one. (granted, the ME series is more of a Shooter with an interactive Story because of the lack of complex combat…    1: At first I have to blow of some steam here...

    I own every Dragon Age and Mass Effect title with every DLC. And this game is another huge - monstrous really - letdown! I mostly play RPG’s. And Bioware know’s quit a bit about how to make a good one, or even a superb one. (granted, the ME series is more of a Shooter with an interactive Story because of the lack of complex combat… Expand    … Expand
  27. genji22
    Aug 18, 2018
    0
    Very few spells, mediocre story and character development, combat is fast paced and not tactical anymore. This game has lost everything that defined the first Dragon Age game. This game is even worse than Dragon Age 2. It has, however, reasonable graphics, and a very large world. It has many things to do, but they are rarely entertaining because combat isn't fun anymore.
  28. Dingytheman
    Feb 9, 2021
    1
    Should've been sold for 10$ on release since that's probably the amount they spent to optimize it for last gen. Makes no sense to have tree physics enabled when character's clothing textures look 64x64.

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