Dragon Age: Inquisition seems destined to be special but why is it not exciting? - VideoGamer

VideoGamer: "To this day I think Dragon Age: Origins is one of the best RPGs in the history of games. The sequel, however, didn’t strike the same chord. It wasn’t a bad follow-up – far from it – but the change in lead character and lack of influence from the first title meant in many ways it felt like a brand new experience. If you had never even heard of Dragon Age, II could’ve easily been your starting point. Because of this, Inquisition is suffering from the successor's hangover."

[ArchangelMike]

It's probably becasue you know The Witcher 3 is coming, and Dragon Age Inquisition can't stand against it.

[Cat]

I'm in the "gimme both" camp.

[MidnytRain]

Nope. Hafta choose.

[incendy35]

Haha, me too! Can't wait for some next gen RPG action.

[Aussiebeachbabe]

I think people are skeptical after dragon age 2. I will still buy this though.

[TheFutureIsBlue]

I am skeptical, considering all the previews of Dragon Age 2, and hell, even the reviews made the game seem better than it was...but from what I have seen of the third one its looks promising.

That, and like others have stated, it does not look as good as The Witcher 3.

[Cat]

totally agree with this - and honestly, with the EA factor. But even with DA2 I more than got my money's worth of fun out of it. Sure I wanted more from the environments and the rigidity of the main quest was...well. I'll just stop there. ;) I still want MOAR DA. :)

[NovusTerminus]

Because gameplay wise it looks like Dragons Dogma. That dragon battle during E3 looked like a cut and paste of the Drake fights, even down to the spells casted.

Not a bad thing per se, but that's all I can think about when seeing it.

[anticlimax]

I agree, although I do think it's a bad thing. It doesn't need to resemble DD or The Witcher, it needs to resemble Origins.

[Aleithian]

Several reasons I'm not excited. Not sure how widely felt they are. In no particular order:

1. Dragon Age 2

2. They dropped the central thread of the plot - the Grey Wardens. There is no coherency within the series.

3. Whether it was originally intended to be such, the central thread of the story has become the conflict between the mages and the church. This bores me.

4. There is no continuity of character in the series. *I* am not a personality throughout the events of the world.

5. There is no consistent obstacle to face. First it was the dragon, then the mage/church conflict, then "chaos".

In sum, the game lacks STORY, CHARACTERIZATION, and PLOT, and its THEME is boring. GAMEPLAY and GRAPHICS wise, it's nothing special. So, really, there's nothing much to be excited for.

[Cat]

I am disappointed that the Grey Wardens story has been dropped, with so few known surviving wardens it could have gotten really interesting. That said, if I were to try for a silver lining it would be that at least they aren't hamstrung by the Grey Wardens.

I agree with the Mage conflict. Plus, I really resented the way the line was handled in DA 2. I'm sorry, I'm not going to let Anders bully and manipulate, no matter my sympathies.

Personality/character, being stuck as human was a miss in DA 2, at least that's corrected here.

For the rest, if I'm being realistic I'll play it, I'll probably have fun with it, but I probably will have these same complaints in the end. At least the environments won't recycle...

[Aleithian]

I agree - I'll likely get it, eventually. But I swore after DA2 that I wouldn't buy another new. They got $60 of my hard-earned cash on Day 1 for the abortion that was DA2. Gamestop will get my business a year or two after release.

[just-joe]

This, so very much.

[ArchangelMike]

I completely agree with you. As a comparison, look at how Bioware handled the Story, plot progression and characterisation of the Mass Effect series. Most importantly there was continuity across the whole series.

You had continuity within the story, first introduce a Reaper, develop that story with an impending invasion, conclude with a full scale galactic reaper war. The characterisation and plot development is also consistent both with the main protagonist as well as the antagonists, same with the supporting cast.

Dragon Age seems to have lost all of that, no central story, no central charater, no overall continuity. I think while it still looks like a game worth buying, it looses it's edge and is no longer as compelling as it would have been.

[Aleithian]

Yup. And it's important to compare this to other RPGs that lack continuity between entries - Elder Scrolls for instance. There is only a vague historical continuity between games, yet we love ES. Why? I think for two main reasons:

1. We know what we're getting when we buy it.

2. Gameplay above all - we can get lost in each entry, creating our own story and characters. Heck, if we don't want to play the main story line, we can still carve a story for ourselves out of the secondary plot lines.

[greatcrusader44]

The fact that this game has almost had 4yrs of dev time (As opposed to me2/3s 2 yr dev time and da2 ridiculously short 15 month dev time and they made an dao expansion during that time) gives me hope. But if this disappoints then I'll have to move on from Bioware.

[allgamespc2012]

the game had hype, but then what they showed at e3 looked generic as hell, boring and with terrible combat. that dragon battle was so bad.

[Sketchy_Galore]

The thing that keeps me from getting hyped is the shift we saw in this series and in Mass effect, away from truly deep RPG to simple accessible action gaming, along with the fact that most previews of this game seem to be focused on the action and even when talking about interacting with the world it's in the sense of results of your actions (Meaning battle tactics).

I loved Dragon age Origins for its exceptional writing and deep world to explore. The action to me often felt like something to get through in order to meet more interesting characters and solve more tough ethical problems. That's just me. I'm sure many people prefer a good action packed quest but I love conversing and dealing with ethical and philosophical problems more,

Oh and the fact that it's cross-gen. That little fact is killing my hype for a lot of upcoming games, especially having seen what it clearly did to Watch dogs.

[sdozzo]

Witcher combat looked like Bound By Flame.

[NYC_Gamer]

Can the game whole game be played like Origin?because the tactical approach just seems like a little cheap snap feature in DA:I based on released vids.

[user9558903]

I'm pretty excited for it

[SpideySpeakz]

They love to compare it to other similar games, instead of enjoying it for what it is. One gamer compared it to Skyrim, another to Witcher. One had the nerve to say BioWare copied Skyrim's dragon mechanics, even though Dragon Age had that mechanic long before Skyrim. If anything, Bethesda copied BioWare. Who cares. Gamers tend to be over-dramatic if any game that doesn't live up to THEIR initial expectations.

DA:O was great, DA2 was good. Gamers, tbh, act like DA2 was the worst game in the world, if you heard some of the nastiest things they say about it.

[Blacklash93]

Whether or not it's exciting is entirely a personal viewpoint, first of all.

I don't really know why people have to size up this to other games like The Witcher, like they're mutually exclusive camps or something. I think The Witcher has very clumsy gameplay mechanics so I don't particularly care for the series, despite the good story. The combat is unresponsive, the UI is very cluttered, and the whole experience just lacks technical polish. It plays like a poorly-designed ARPG. But it has a good story and a lot of meaningful choices. I don't think it's a masterpiece of modern RPGs by any means, as some assert.

But The Witcher has a good, intrigue-driven storyline with a lot of meaningful choices, and very impressive production values. It has those things going for it, even I'll admit. Meanwhile, Dragon Age: Inquisition offers party-based CRPG-inspired combat and a lot of amusing character interaction. Skyrim offers and massive and highly-customizable open-world experience for player-told stories. These games are good for different things.