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[cormack12]

 

[Sleepwalker]

DA: Veilguard: Now watch this.

 

[drganon]

That's sad considering what a lousy game it is.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I thought it was a great game. I think most people had low expectations after DA2 and were pleasantly surprised.

 

[StereoVsn]

Note that a lot of those numbers came during last few years where it has been literally like $5.

Edit: I also quite disliked the game and it would have driven me crazy on consoles where I couldn't cheer the time requirements on that damn table.

 

[Zathalus]

I thought the base game was alright, but it really improved in the DLC.

 

[TrueLegend]

It's a great game.

 

[dmaul1114]

I thought it was a great game. I think most people had low expectations after DA2 and were pleasantly surprised.

Yeah, I enjoyed it a ton too. Too much open world bloat, but a lot of it was easily ignored by just getting out of the Hinterlands and focusing more on main quest and party member quests etc. like a lot of open world RPGs from around that time.

 

[Metnut]

New one will be lucky to sell 1/4 of what Inquisiton did.

DA:I was flawed but had a lot going for it. Shame they went full r*****d rather than try and build on this and ME 3 (aside from the ending).

 

[Ultros]

Is there a reason for writing r*****d the way you do? As if it's some sort of swear word? It's written like this: RETARD

 

[Draugoth]

The last good Bioware game

 

[Investor9872]

I thought it was a great game. I think most people had low expectations after DA2 and were pleasantly surprised.

And here I thought I was alone in liking the game. I have always thought it was great as well!

 

[Lokaum D+]

The last good Bioware game

that was ME2

 

[Kacho]

I remember thinking 2014 was a lousy year. But looking back Inquisition, Far Cry 4 and Shadow of Mordor was fucking ballin.

 

[adamsapple]

It's a great game.

Once you get out of the Hinterlands.

 

[mayham2199]

I thought it was a great game. I think most people had low expectations after DA2 and were pleasantly surprised.

I loved the story in DA2 and that was it. I've always loved the Templar vs Mages story line in DA. I think it's an interesting take in the fantasy world that you pretty much don't see anywhere else.

DAI was great and I loved it. I've put over 150+ hours into it. Something happened after it released though where it went from good to everyone hating it.

 

[Pelao]

First Dragon Age I ever bought.
Last Dragon Age I'll ever buy.

 

[AJUMP23]

I just didn't gain any interest in this one. I loved DA:O though.

 

[LectureMaster]

I liked the game, even recently 100% it. The RPG core systems were quality: in-depth choice branches, companion approval system, a good amount of build variety, and overall the story was compelling (you are required to play the Trespasser DLC to fully enjoy the story tho). The hinterland was undisputedly egregious at the time, but retrospectively, especially after years of Ubi's open world bloatedness, it becomes less unbearable.

But to be fair, the game sold much is probably because it is on sale for 5 dollars every month for last 5 years.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Dragon Age has pretty consistently outsold Mass Effect despite the latter seemingly having a larger profile and more culture cachet.

 

[mayham2199]

Dragon Age has pretty consistently outsold Mass Effect despite the latter seemingly having a larger profile and more culture cachet.

That's surprising I love DA but it doesn't touch Mass Effect (IMO).

 

[Mister Wolf]

Inquisition is a good game.

 

[llLeonhart]

That's sad considering what a lousy game it is.

I think you've taken it a bit far, though no Bioware game reached DA:O levels of good for me personally, I do think DA Inquisition is pretty solid and I think most people would agree.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Yeah, I enjoyed it a ton too. Too much open world bloat, but a lot of it was easily ignored by just getting out of the Hinterlands and focusing more on main quest and party member quests etc. like a lot of open world RPGs from around that time.

Definitely too much open world bloat. It got a lot better when I learned to just do the stuff that seemed interesting and skip the rest.

 

[Pop]

I thought Inquisition was a very good game. Wish Bioware back then cared about those co-op missions more.

 

[SkylineRKR]

It was pretty good when it launched. I eventually beat the game. It was however filled with useless fetch quests, and sadly BioWare took this boring open field template and inserted it into Andromeda as well.

But I did enjoy this game, you just had to skip a lot of useless shit.

 

[Chronicle]

Great game

 

[Icymanipulator]

It was better than DA2, but that's not saying much. I hated all the character designs. Not a single appealing one in the lot of them. Couldn't be bothered to finish it.

 

[SJRB]

Once you get out of the Hinterlands.

..you can get out of the Hinterlands?

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Well they'll at least have that success to point to in a few months.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Note that a lot of those numbers came during last few years where it has been literally like $5.

It's a 10 year old game, majority of sales happened in the first year before W3, before Anthem, before ME:Andromeda.

 

[Bartski]

up next Veliguard bomba to even the scales

 

[Little Chicken]

Fun game with good visuals and well written characters. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would've.

 

[Flabagast]

Yet witcher 3 releasing 6 months after sold 50 millions+

 

[balls of snow]

Inquisition is a good game.

Just not as good as Witcher 3.

 

[Shifty1897]

Yeah the narrative changed on Inquisition. Everybody was really big on it back in 2014, it was and still is a great game.
Veilguard, however...

 

[nemiroff]

I enjoyed it for 5-6 hours until I forgot to continue to play it. I have a feeling it was Witcher 3's fault.

 

[Dr.brain64]

Bought it for 5 bucks. Still on my backlog.

 

[Majukun]

the only thing i can muster is "why?"

admittedly i played it out of his time, but damn it was shallow

 

[CompleteGlobalSaturation]

I hope they kept the money from how well this game sold because Veilguard looks atrocious.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

It's ten years old now

 

[DussyPestroyer]

Meh they won't tell us how many they sold at the bargain bin 20$ GOTY edition they shit out, The game released in 2013 and selling 12 million in 11 years across 3 generations is nothing to brag about.

Dragon age and Bioware both are washed up which is to be expected as the IP's only USP is allowing you to have digital make out scenes with fantasy races which is why it is pretty popular on the purple site

 

[brenobnfm]

Best Dragon Age by far, after all.

 

[DeepSpace5D]

Not trying to shit on the game, I've never played it. But I have seen this game on sale for 3-4 dollars and I believe as low as $1.99 for the deluxe edition recently. It's been on extreme sale many times over the course of many years now.

It's a great number still, I'm just not sure it can be used as an accurate measure of success when it's on sale for dirt cheap so often.

 

[pudel]

EA should put DA2 and Inquisition on gog. Maybe more people would try these games than before Veilguard comes out (or after they played Veilguard). Still insisting on the Origins launcher for these two games is somehow stupid. Especially as it was mentioned that Veilguard wont have any launcher requirement.

 

[Superkewl]

I think I tried like 3 or 4 times to get through this game, but could not. It's not that it's bad...it's just not Dragon Age as far as I am concerned. Al I ever wanted was a proper sequel to Origins.

 

[Mownoc]

Need to play this again. Didn't have DLC when I played it.

 

[StueyDuck]

It wasn't the worst game. It just wasn't interesting in any way.

That was one drab release year though

 

[EDMIX]

I thought it was a great game. I think most people had low expectations after DA2 and were pleasantly surprised.

Same.

I think people legit exaggerate a bit too much with DA I, that game was great and I think it gets a wild amount of unnecessary hate.

Just not as good as Witcher 3.

I actually disagree, I think W3 is good, but I think DA I is a better RPG overall, by a lot.

 

[Kings Field]

I would hope so, it's been on sale consistently for like $5 for the past 7 years.