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Key · 09-08-2019, 07:50 PM

I played through Dragon Age: Origins and loved it a lot. There were a couple things that were frustrating about the game, but it did enough things correctly that the faults didn't matter too much. Now, it had been a while since I touched a Dragon Age games even when the new releases came out. Just didn't have much interest. Not that I was against the series in any way. I just had other games to play at the time. I decided to check the PS4 shop yesterday morning and got Dragon Age: Inquisition for about 10$. From what I've seen so far of the game, I'd have paid full price for it. Easily.

The game basically takes most if not all of what I didn't love about Dragon Age: Origins, and fixes it. The combat feels more free, the world is humongous, and most importantly, it has a much more free feeling than the previous game. While Dragon Age: Origins had a huge world, it felt very linear in a lot of ways. Dragon Age: Inquisition strips away the linear mindset and lets you decide what you want to do and when you want to do it. I've been making the comparison to games like Marvel's Spider Man and Middle Earth: Shadow of War where the quests are there, you can choose when and how to approach them as you see fit. And right off the bat, the game just throws you into it allowing you to take on anything that you can take on at your level. And as you progress, more things open up. To put it in shorter terms, I just started the game yesterday and I've already got 20+ active quests going on. But I love that aspect of these kinds of games. It will most likely share the list of games that I 100% for that exact reason.

The combat in this game is so much fun as well. The abilities are mapped to the buttons on my controller so it's a lot easier to use them while hack n slash fighting against the countless enemies. And god damn, there are tons of different enemy types. Undead, warriors, bandits. If you want variety in a game, this one certainly has it. I know I've only played the game for a few days, but man I'm already impressed with how much content there is right off the bat. It's pretty overwhelming sometimes but it works in its favor.

It's also got me comparing it to the KOTOR series for the way the party system works. The game has dialogue choices much like a lot of games of this style. But closely compared to the KOTOR games and Mass Effect respectively. The dialogue choices are pretty great too and you get access to more as you level up and progress through the game. I've only had the people I started the game with but I already like them a lot. They're pretty powerful and varied in their skillset and abilities. Makes it nice to take on large groups of enemies.

I'll certainly be looking forward to progressing through this game and seeing just how massive it really is. I know I've just scratched the surface but it's pretty amazing to think about just how massive this game really is.

09-08-2019, 07:50 PM	#114 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	I played through Dragon Age: Origins and loved it a lot. There were a couple things that were frustrating about the game, but it did enough things correctly that the faults didn't matter too much. Now, it had been a while since I touched a Dragon Age games even when the new releases came out. Just didn't have much interest. Not that I was against the series in any way. I just had other games to play at the time. I decided to check the PS4 shop yesterday morning and got Dragon Age: Inquisition for about 10$. From what I've seen so far of the game, I'd have paid full price for it. Easily. The game basically takes most if not all of what I didn't love about Dragon Age: Origins, and fixes it. The combat feels more free, the world is humongous, and most importantly, it has a much more free feeling than the previous game. While Dragon Age: Origins had a huge world, it felt very linear in a lot of ways. Dragon Age: Inquisition strips away the linear mindset and lets you decide what you want to do and when you want to do it. I've been making the comparison to games like Marvel's Spider Man and Middle Earth: Shadow of War where the quests are there, you can choose when and how to approach them as you see fit. And right off the bat, the game just throws you into it allowing you to take on anything that you can take on at your level. And as you progress, more things open up. To put it in shorter terms, I just started the game yesterday and I've already got 20+ active quests going on. But I love that aspect of these kinds of games. It will most likely share the list of games that I 100% for that exact reason. The combat in this game is so much fun as well. The abilities are mapped to the buttons on my controller so it's a lot easier to use them while hack n slash fighting against the countless enemies. And god damn, there are tons of different enemy types. Undead, warriors, bandits. If you want variety in a game, this one certainly has it. I know I've only played the game for a few days, but man I'm already impressed with how much content there is right off the bat. It's pretty overwhelming sometimes but it works in its favor. It's also got me comparing it to the KOTOR series for the way the party system works. The game has dialogue choices much like a lot of games of this style. But closely compared to the KOTOR games and Mass Effect respectively. The dialogue choices are pretty great too and you get access to more as you level up and progress through the game. I've only had the people I started the game with but I already like them a lot. They're pretty powerful and varied in their skillset and abilities. Makes it nice to take on large groups of enemies. I'll certainly be looking forward to progressing through this game and seeing just how massive it really is. I know I've just scratched the surface but it's pretty amazing to think about just how massive this game really is.