Dragon Age: Inquisition

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 2975 Ratings

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  1. TonyTehTowel
    Jun 18, 2015
    1
    There are 2 things HORRIBLY wrong with this stupid game.

    1."Power". You have to roam around the open world endlessly in circles HOPING to find a rift to close, or a quest to do. Many quests require you obtain a significant amount of this scarce AF "Power" before you can continue to them. It only gets worse as you get further into the game. 10 becomes 20, 20 becomes 30, 40, 50.....    There are 2 things HORRIBLY wrong with this stupid game.

    1."Power". You have to roam around the open world endlessly in circles HOPING to find a rift to close, or a quest to do. Many quests require you obtain a significant amount of this scarce AF "Power" before you can continue to them. It only gets worse as you get further into the game. 10 becomes 20, 20 becomes 30, 40, 50..... Gaining "Power" is horribly set up. The game gives you ZERO sense of direction with this. Like I said, you just have to roam zones and HOPE you can scrape 1 freaking power point per half hour or so...

    2.Heals. THERE ARE NONE. HOW STUPID CAN THIS GET? AN RPG WITH ZERO HEALS? SERIOUSLY BIOWARE? REALLY?

    So in summary, F**K this game. DO NOT BUY IT.    … Expand
  2. kella
    Jul 16, 2016
    1
    I hope a lot of people got fired for this piece of unplayable piece of garbage. I don’t know if the fault lies with the designers, some arrogant, egocentric producer or executive, or if this was a design-by-committee that just checked off the boxes—dwarves without beards, check; glowing green goo; check—on the the way to launching undiluted trash. It doesn’t matter to me, the buyer of yourI hope a lot of people got fired for this piece of unplayable piece of garbage. I don’t know if the fault lies with the designers, some arrogant, egocentric producer or executive, or if this was a design-by-committee that just checked off the boxes—dwarves without beards, check; glowing green goo; check—on the the way to launching undiluted trash. It doesn’t matter to me, the buyer of your products—although I use that term loosely, because I will never buy one of your so-called products again.

    This is not an open world game and I have contacted the Federal Trade Commission to alert them of the fact that Electronic Arts is engaging in false advertising regarding this product. The character creator is adequate and the classes available are feasible, but as soon as you begin the game and are put on a bloody unilineal rail it becomes obvious that this not an open world game, this is not something you can explore and enjoy at your leisure, going your own way and doing your own thing, creating your own story with your own character.

    The essence of open world games is freedom to go where you want and do as you please. This is a crappy, bog standard 3D action-adventure game with some RPG elements that some soulless corporate executive decided to call an Open World game after Grand Theft Auto made a billion dollars. But you can’t just call a hamburger a steak and demand reviewers and gamers and players eat it like a steak. This is not a steak. This is a disgusting, rotten hamburger made up of entrails and snouts and filth vacuumed up off of the slaughterhouse floor. It’s a disgusting fast food hot dog made by an absolutely ill-managed and persistently incompetent game company, Electronic Arts.

    This is also brainless, mindless trash written and designed by people who hate fantasy, do not understand swords & sorcery, do not apparently even like or play open world games, and if you met them in person are probably overgrown hipster man-children without a clue. This conception is a bowel movement, the byproduct of a lifeless, corporate nine-to-fiver hack who thinks beard-less dwarves and glowing green goo is somehow innovating the fantasy genre. It’s not.

    Anyone involved in designing, producing and approving this farce should never be given a multi-million budget to make a creative product ever again. That is not an indictment of the programmers, artists, sound designers, voice actors or anyone else. But the creative, production and management team must be held accountable for their blathering incompetence. At the end of the day, I’m glad I only spent $10 to buy this game used at Wal-Mart, a serious lapse in judgment I will never make again.

    This so-called game is a crime against humanity and the perpetrators of this malfeasance and fraud belong in prison.    … Expand
  3. grigorijj
    Aug 7, 2016
    1
    Awful, just awful, it would be better it did not come out at all. For me, the last part of the series will remain Awakening ... It is better to go to Origins, and Awakening, what this misunderstanding .
  4. Puru
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    Первая часть классика, вторая часть была слабой, но третья часть оказалась... Просто неоптимизированным говном, из-за которого играть даже нормально невозможно. Играю причём на PS 4 Pro. Думал, что после PS 3 тоже с горой багов, здесь будет лучше или хотя бы чуть меньше. Но нихрена подобного.

    1) Я помню первые загрузки локации Скайхолд. Просто дичайше низкий фреймрейт, даже меню с    Первая часть классика, вторая часть была слабой, но третья часть оказалась... Просто неоптимизированным говном, из-за которого играть даже нормально невозможно. Играю причём на PS 4 Pro. Думал, что после PS 3 тоже с горой багов, здесь будет лучше или хотя бы чуть меньше. Но нихрена подобного.

    1) Я помню первые загрузки локации Скайхолд. Просто дичайше низкий фреймрейт, даже меню с дикими тормозами вызывалось.
    2) Сейчас, наверно, будет главная проблема этого издания. Значится... Дело в том, что после смерти у меня обнуляется весь уровень, пропадает вся броня, оружие, пропадает всё заработанное ранее. Мне приходится перемещаться в Скайхолд, чтоб у меня всё восстановилось. Вы серьёзно, как такое вообще можно было допустить?
    3) Такая же проблема, как во втором пункте, но теперь связанная с загрузками из игры. Вы серьёзно? Я теперь не могу даже нормально между сохранениями переходить, чтоб у меня такого говна не было.
    4) Как же это просто охренительно, когда твои напарники падают сквозь текстуры. Я просто не могу.
    5) Про наличие баланса на игре на кошмаре вовсе забыли. Когда для перехода на 14 уровень тебе надо 17,5к опыта, а тебе за противника выпадает лишь 10. Как прокачиваться - чёрт знает, если все противники либо слабые и дают мало опыта, либо сильные и убивают тебя.

    Так, а что там с сюжетом спросите? Ну ничего не могу сказать. так как на пять часов сюжетных квестов приходится десятки гринда, десятки однообразных побочных квестов/заданий/точек интереса.

    Как этому можно было поставить десяток я вообще без понятия. наверно, люди не играли в игру, либо полностью довольны её техническим состоянием. Лично я, покупал её за рублей 370 по акции. Больше за неё отдавать не готов. Спасибо.    … Expand
  5. visiblelight7
    Mar 4, 2017
    1
    Playing 2 hours already dissapointed....

    the story is extremely boring. at least dragons age origins pulled you in at the very begining and made it personal.

    but this... right from the first 5 minutes... you are bored. Who cares about the damn story? The devs didn't seem to care...
  6. wynams
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    Pure Bioware junk ...
    - nonexistant evil path (no real choice and consequences)
    - no direct way to increase character attributes, party covers all skills early on and skill checks are a joke - hence you can do everything everywhere without giving a single thought about your chars and their builds (this is a huge letdown imo) - story and NPC actions/reactions contradict each other too    Pure Bioware junk ...
    - nonexistant evil path (no real choice and consequences)
    - no direct way to increase character attributes, party covers all skills early on and skill checks are a joke - hence you can do everything everywhere without giving a single thought about your chars and their builds (this is a huge letdown imo)
    - story and NPC actions/reactions contradict each other too often, NPCs feel lifeless (daily routines and interaction between them is much worse than in Skyrim and the Gothics)
    - too few towns/settlements, not much live in them (he compared it to all the stories/NPC banter unfolding in front of your eyes when visiting a Skyrim settlement)
    - tactical battles cumbersome because of the low maximum zoom level, but there are no tactics except for some combo abilities anyway (like: one char freezes an opponent, the other hits him for huge damage bonus)
    - nearly no planning involved in fights, the most you can expect are fights where you have to kill some conjurer first before you can handle the summoned demon, nearly everything else is mindless button mashing and levelgrinding. (dunno what difficulty lvl he was playing at)
    - party member deaths are not a problem at all as long as at least one party member survives, they just play dead, you know, after all this is an RPG *larpedylarp*
    - strategic map nearly without meaningful decisions, just another huge grind
    - the wilderness/rural areas are full of MMO fetch quests and retarded treasure hunts (press button to follow marker or sth like that), side quests in general are subpar (he didn't mention the stronghold and companion quests, maybe they are an exception?)
    - lore is presented in a very unimmersive way through sterile codex menus (I remember that being a problem in DA:O too)
    - game doesn't reward exploration because you just have to get near something interesting to get codex entries and quest triggers fired, after a while you just ignore the noise
    - side content dialogues are often badly written (sometimes too silly or just uninteresting)
    - the removal of a healing skill tree for mages really kills combat tactics, kind of moot since the game is incredibly easy even on the hardest of difficulty settings
    - Underpinnings of new world engine still have signs of classic Bioware flaws ... you can jump up mountains in the Hinterlands, but in town .. you have to FAST TRAVEL IN THE SAME ZONE TO GO UP A FLIGHT OF STAIRS    … Expand
  7. 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.
  8. Ghoster
    Mar 24, 2016
    0
    That game is disappointment of the year! There is literally nothing good in it. From story, gameplay and specially controls. FPS is really bad on PS4 too. There should be "boring" warning on titles like that!
  9. Steyraus
    Feb 8, 2021
    0
    When i first played this game i enjoyed the combat and graphics , but found it completelt forgetable and boring. Dragon Age Origons is one of my favorite Games and Dragon Age 2 was a fun side game, but inquisiton left me very dissapointed.
    I didnt like a single character, while in previous games I had lived many of their cast. The stories were all as bland and uninteresting as the    When i first played this game i enjoyed the combat and graphics , but found it completelt forgetable and boring. Dragon Age Origons is one of my favorite Games and Dragon Age 2 was a fun side game, but inquisiton left me very dissapointed.
    I didnt like a single character, while in previous games I had lived many of their cast. The stories were all as bland and uninteresting as the characters. I didnt realise why at the time, but Bioware wokeification and downfall has made it very obvious why this game was trash.. It was a new PC Sjw team that made inwuisition and all their failures since The studio got woke and all the real tallent left. I have even heard they made deals with the devil herself, the Saresian, having her oversee the games and take out anything men might enjoy.
    Its a shame to lose Bioware, and there really isnt anyone making good rpgs anymore besides action rpgs    … Expand
  10. 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
  11. stuntpuickle
    Dec 21, 2014
    0
    Laughably abysmal game developed by the corpse of Bioware, which was revivified by EA aka Satan. That this crap-heap of a game has so many positive reviews and has won awards proves that the video game review industry is a wholly owned subsidiary of the game development industry, and the latter has its lackeys employed in falsifying user reviews.

    If you want a terrible single-player MMO    Laughably abysmal game developed by the corpse of Bioware, which was revivified by EA aka Satan. That this crap-heap of a game has so many positive reviews and has won awards proves that the video game review industry is a wholly owned subsidiary of the game development industry, and the latter has its lackeys employed in falsifying user reviews.

    If you want a terrible single-player MMO designed by the B team from Blizzard, if you want endless fetch quests with crafting materials for rewards, if you want largely ineffective skills that hit like a wet noodle, if you want a game so dumbed down that it used a group of cocker spaniels as a focus group, if you want a game with no healing, if you want a single-player game balanced for an MMO grind wherein every MOB takes a year to kill, if you want to continue after dying in the middle of a dungeon with your whole party having 1 HP, if you want to support the continued desecration of the Bioware legacy at the hands of gaming's greatest mediocrity, then you might want to get Dragon Turd Inquisition. Then again, you probably won't like it unless you have brain damage, like the persons who developed this POS.    … Expand
  12. dominicp1986
    Nov 22, 2014
    0
    ps4 ........loved it untill 10 hours in when it crashed and corrupted my game this game is broken beware the game is bug filled and at times unplayable my first and last dragon age game
  13. JackKasket
    May 17, 2015
    0
    Boring. That's the word I was looking for. Boring. I have no idea what happened to the creative minds at Bioware, but based on this game I would say they all got canned.

    Dragon Age series is one of those that has it's fanboys among the gaming community as well as the professional reviewers. However, only one of the groups is getting paid for their praise. As for me, I got this game    Boring. That's the word I was looking for. Boring. I have no idea what happened to the creative minds at Bioware, but based on this game I would say they all got canned.

    Dragon Age series is one of those that has it's fanboys among the gaming community as well as the professional reviewers. However, only one of the groups is getting paid for their praise. As for me, I got this game (finally) from PSN sales as I really didn't like Dragon Age 2 enough to invest in the next incarnation. First one was brilliant, though, I have to admit that much.

    So what is wrong with DA:I? A lot. Being a solo RPG, the story is remarkably uninspired, which leads the player to repeatedly ask themselves "Why am I doing this?".

    Secondly, the quests, and game world for that matter, are designed to emulate and MMORPG, namely vanilla WoW. That is, Step1: Get quest, Step2: Collect materials, Step3: ???, Step4: (Don't) Profit. This leads the player to repeatedly ask themselves "Why am I doing this?".

    Thirdly, the battle system is, for the lack of a better adjective, broken. You can basically cruise through the whole game by pressing R2. What makes it further infuriating is that the tactical view is just absolutely useless. If you loved the battle in the first Dragon Age, don't get your hopes up. The battle system in DA:I leads the player to repeatedly ask themselves "Why am I doing this?".

    Fourthly, have the times in RPG gaming really changed so much that character development is equal to ordering large fries with a happy meal? You cannot distribute any attribute points, and the only thing that "improves" the characters are better weapons and armor, as skill points are only spent on new combat abilities. As seen above, you only need one button in any battle, which leads the player to repeatedly ask themselves "Why am I doing this?".

    Final verdict: This game is a sandbox for killing time. It's an MMO that tries to be an RPG or vice versa, while failing to be either.

    Can we just pull the plug on Bioware already and let Player 2 take a shot at using the jaws of life on the dead RPG scene in next-gen gaming?    … Expand
  14. Nightlistic
    Mar 6, 2016
    0
    I wanted to love this game but the character models were atrocious. There is absolutely no reason a next gen game should have 8 different buzz cut hair styles for characters. On top of that you couldn't even make a female character that looked female, and Bioware acted like a bunch of spoiled diva's anytime you tried to confront them about it on the forums with threats of being banned.I wanted to love this game but the character models were atrocious. There is absolutely no reason a next gen game should have 8 different buzz cut hair styles for characters. On top of that you couldn't even make a female character that looked female, and Bioware acted like a bunch of spoiled diva's anytime you tried to confront them about it on the forums with threats of being banned. Guess they aren't as open minded as they claim to be. The best thing that could've happened to Bioware was David Gaider leaving. Unfortunately it didn't happen soon enough as he tainted the Dragon Age series. On top of that patching out anything that gave the player a chance to actually enjoy all aspects of the game for reason really showed how Bioware really thinks of its player base, and I will no longer be supporting any future projects by them.… Expand
  15. User3
    Jul 27, 2017
    0
    Dragon Age games have always been bad. The first one was extremely generic with lackluster combat and a boring story. The second was worse due to the removal of auto-attack. Somebody should put this franchise out of its misery.
  16. muertefx
    Apr 23, 2018
    0
    I am so glad bioware died, such **** game could create only an imbecil. Stronger difficulty means same AI but tons of hp and dmg for your enemies, lol, also your enemies same level as you, no clue why they making games. Such **** animations, shoulders forward on females, weapons in hands in fly. Omg, just fail. This company always had worst game devs. In this game still a lot of bugs butI am so glad bioware died, such **** game could create only an imbecil. Stronger difficulty means same AI but tons of hp and dmg for your enemies, lol, also your enemies same level as you, no clue why they making games. Such **** animations, shoulders forward on females, weapons in hands in fly. Omg, just fail. This company always had worst game devs. In this game still a lot of bugs but no patches, this game was created without love.… Expand
  17. aditlho0o
    Feb 20, 2018
    0
    Piece of crap. Huge letdown. No significant improvement from the previous games. I played DAO and DA2, they even had better AI configuration. I need my team to be aggressive towards approaching enemies when I put them on hold position, and guess what, my team just standing there, let the enemies pass, and won't attack until I attack. Seriously. Now those maps with **** tons of hills andPiece of crap. Huge letdown. No significant improvement from the previous games. I played DAO and DA2, they even had better AI configuration. I need my team to be aggressive towards approaching enemies when I put them on hold position, and guess what, my team just standing there, let the enemies pass, and won't attack until I attack. Seriously. Now those maps with **** tons of hills and elevation require you to walk long way around to reach destination in front of you is a goddamn waste of time (No, that slow-ass mount doesn't help). Why so cheap on fast travel? to make the players feel like the map is "huge"? NPC interaction always feel like job interview. Lousy animation. Overall the game looks cheap, amateur and somewhat irritating. Feel like finishing the game just because I paid money on it.… Expand
  18. Ryan4evergamer
    Feb 14, 2023
    0
    janky controls, jankiest story heated the characters. I spoiled the story for my self and checked the ending of the game and dlc results and all hard work all go to stupid characters and everything is meaningless. If the gameplay it self were fun I would skip the story and play but no redeeming quality. Failed Skyrim.
  19. Chmamaaadodo
    Jul 8, 2020
    0
    Одна из худших игр, в которые я когда-либо играл. Невнятные персонажи и их мотивация, ужасный игровой процесс, ужасный сюжет.
  20. Dibalin
    Oct 24, 2021
    0
    Отсутствует полная русская локализация. Нет озвучки!
  21. Scolari_Enzo
    Sep 12, 2022
    0
    It's the best game I've played on my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#6 Best PS4 Game of 2014
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#8 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2014
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#4 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2014

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Metascore
89

Generally favorable reviews - based on 43 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 43
  3. Negative: 0 out of 43
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Jan 13, 2015
    80
    A flawed almost-classic. [Jan 2015, p.84]
  2. Games Master UK
    Dec 30, 2014
    86
    Takes far too long to get going, but once it does you'll be hooked for the longest haul. [Jan 2015, p.64]
  3. Play UK
    Dec 18, 2014
    84
    An exhaustive and impactful world let down by predictable aesthetics and combat. [Issue#251, p.70]
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