Dragon Age: Inquisition Review Thread

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From the Polygon review:

However, each of those zones is gigantic in and of itself. In the 80 hours I spent playing Inquisition, I only fully completed two zones, and each of them took me around 20 hours of exploration, questing and monster-bashing.
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Wow.
 
Cyborg said:
Go for 900p.....I see you like inferior things!
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I can live with 900p, only thing holding me back from going PS4 is carrying over the EA access save file and more importantly, finding out what the DLC exclusivity entails.

I also wonder if the EA access save file can carry over to the physical version of the game.
 
Any of the reviews talked about if you need to play DA1 & 2 first to get full enjoyment from this one? After all the fall AAA disappointments, kind of want to play a good AAA game like they're making this sound like, but still haven't gotten around to playing the first two.
 
Dragonborn said:
I can live with 900p, only thing holding me back from going PS4 is carrying over the EA access save file and more importantly, finding out what the DLC exclusivity entails.

I also wonder if the EA access save file can carry over to the physical version of the game.
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You know the DLC is coming to PS4....who cares about the wait? Seeing how good the PS4 sells and how much EA love money the DLC will come sooner than you think
 
Bebpo said:
Any of the reviews talked about if you need to play DA1 & 2 first to get full enjoyment from this one? After all the fall AAA disappointments, kind of want to play a good AAA game like they're making this sound like, but still haven't gotten around to playing the first two.
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The Kotaku write-up mentions that people who are not familiar with the events in the previous games and DLC may be a little lost.
 
Cyborg said:
You know the DLC is coming to PS4....who cares about the wait? Seeing how good the PS4 sells and how much EA love money the DLC will come sooner than you think
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True, and PS4 will look better. I'll really have to think this one out.. beside, on the 18th I'm picking up Farcry 4 for the PS4, and probably GTAV, so maybe I should pick up DAI on X1 to even it out.

Who knows, hard decision.
 
Bebpo said:
Any of the reviews talked about if you need to play DA1 & 2 first to get full enjoyment from this one? After all the fall AAA disappointments, kind of want to play a good AAA game like they're making this sound like, but still haven't gotten around to playing the first two.
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My impression from most of the reviews is that if you haven't played the first 2 games or you don't have any exposure to any of the Dragon Age lore, the game just sort of dumps you in and doesn't do a great job of explaining the significance of things or really helping you out in game to understand what's going on. You have your codex and so forth but its not like Origins where they do a nice job of introducing all of the elements of the world to you.

While if you've played the first 2 games and know a bit of the lore, the game is probably going to come across much more rewarding story wise.
 
Dragonborn said:
Now the only question is, do I get this on PS4 or Xbox.
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I'm going Xbox One for that 6 hour head start, as well as the 10% discount on EA digital titles. The save file should transfer to a physical copy, since the only substantial difference is that the physical license requires the disc to be in the drive; they're otherwise identical.
 
Jibbajabbawockky said:
You can sort of see the wonkiness of the Tactical View in some of the streams anytime they're trying to move the camera around trees or any sort of elevation. The camera at it's most zoomed out just does not seem zoomed out enough, which I think one of the reviews mentions.

The tactics menu downgrade is annoying since that was so robust and great in Origins if you wanted to engage with it and now its sounds really bare bones.

From the PC Gamer review:

Control over the party’s tactics has been simplified. In previous games, orders resembled absurd algebra puzzles. If Morrigan drops below 25% health, should she turn into a swarm of insects? Sure, but only if she stops being insects at lesser than or equal to 50% mana. In Inquisition, you have some agency over when healing items are consumed, but skills can only be enabled, disabled or marked as preferential—giving them priority over other skills.

I miss the fine-tuning the old system enabled. Controlling Inquisition’s party requires either accepting the inefficiencies of the AI, or spending a lot of time micro-managing. Choose the latter, and you’ll find the tactics battle screen—used to assign orders to the party members you’re not currently controlling—has its own issues, all of which are with the camera. It gives you a top-down view of the battlefield, but is awkward to move and doesn’t zoom out quite far enough. There are times when it shines, such as during battles with dragons where there’s a large space and a single target. Against multiple enemies, things can get confusing.
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I can deal with tactical cam issues, but the tactical menu options being simplified is a big pain. I love crafting tactics, and from the sound of it, it seems like it's dumber than ffxii's which was hard to go back to after DA2 which was deeper than DA:O's. Oh well, I'll be spending a lot more time in Pause it seem. Crap!
 
Usually buy Creed games every year ...never bought a DA game.

However, this year its bye bye Creed, hello Dragons...on ps4.

Looks good.
 
geordiemp said:
Usually buy Creed games every year ...never bought a DA game.

However, this year its bye bye Creed, hello Dragons...on ps4.

Looks good.
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Same here. Was going to get Unity today but now I'm putting my money down for DAI. Looks way too good to pass up right now and Unity sounds like it has too many issues that need to be sorted.
 
Dragonborn said:
True, and PS4 will look better. I'll really have to think this one out.. beside, on the 18th I'm picking up Farcry 4 for the PS4, and probably GTAV, so maybe I should pick up DAI on X1 to even it out.

Who knows, hard decision.
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I always treat one console as my main and one for exclusives. Get through my games faster that way at least for me and all my trophies and stuff under one profile. I really don't care about trophies/achievements, but friends have told me it's nice to see what games i really enjoyed enough to compete thoroughly and what I've only played for a day or two.
 
Dawg said:
Might be personal preference.

I just think the camera works better with the joysticks from the gamepad. It's kinda difficult to explain. I'll just wait and see what you guys think of it once the game is out.
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Is the touchpad on PS4 used effectively at all?
 
I guess I might as well get 1 month of EA access ($4.99) since it gives me 10% off ($5.99) the digital game and I'll be able to play the first 6 hours a week early? (Is that right/how it works?)
 
Bebpo said:
Any of the reviews talked about if you need to play DA1 & 2 first to get full enjoyment from this one? After all the fall AAA disappointments, kind of want to play a good AAA game like they're making this sound like, but still haven't gotten around to playing the first two.
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They're not overly long games if you skip fetch quests and the inconsequential secondary stuff. You could even just play the main games and read the most important stuff from the dlcs...not many have essential story information. Maybe just play DA 2 Legacy because it's the best part of the game and it seems it will be important in Inquisition to some degree
 
Grayfox341 said:
I saw a couple of people wondering where the GameTrailers review is. I (Ben Moore) will be doing the review and it will likely go up Thursday or Friday this week. Sorry for the delay, but so far I've absolutely loved it. It's the Dragon Age game I've been waiting for.
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So Bosman, Bloodworth, Damiani, and now Ben....now to figure out the rest of the GT cast usernames muhahahahah
 
Bebpo said:
Any of the reviews talked about if you need to play DA1 & 2 first to get full enjoyment from this one? After all the fall AAA disappointments, kind of want to play a good AAA game like they're making this sound like, but still haven't gotten around to playing the first two.
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Here are impressions by someone new to the series:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/11/7193647/dragon-age-inquisition-pc-ps4-impressions

It's very positive and he doesn't seem to feel lost, but he's only 20 hours in.
 
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