Was this game as bad as I read?

Was this game as bad as I read?
And in the case it sucks: Are the games before worth playing if I decide to not play this one, would I miss a chunk of storyline or are they standalone, so to speak?
I'm getting interested in the franchise but this title right here is fairly demotivating.

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Only dragonage worth a shit is the first one. The first one is essentially baldurs gate 3 because bioware didnt have the dnd licence.

It plays like an offline MMORPG, but it's a worthwhile play. Inquisition is standalone with a few cameos put in if you use a previous save game.

>Only dragonage worth a shit is the first one
pretty much, the awakening DLC is good as well

Was it good or should I not even bother?
This makes me a bit more interested. I may try the first one, I hope it has versions with all dlcs so I don't have to bother getting them one by one.
Well I may just try the first and if I like it enough give the second a try.

Imagine playing WoW except no raids or any sort of social interaction added in with horrible writing

Play DA:O and it's DLCs
Second one is decent if you just fuck around as sarcastic fem Hawke
Inquisition is just a joke, play it if you like single player MMOs

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That sounds pretty awful.

First Dragon Age is the best because it keeps to the old-school D&D games like Baldurs Gate. If they kept to that formula and built upon it Dragon Age 2 would have been amazing, but they didn't and the series massively changes after Origins.

at best there is an incredibly minor reference to the hero of the first game and a lot with the hero from the second
but the entire plot of the inquisition is completely batshit insane and vomited out at you at such a ridiculous pace you'll probably have trouble caring about the fuckton of information you get regarding some area's big bad before you fuck him up six ways from sunday and they never come up again
it's basically that; go somewhere, do MMO style kill this X a Y amount of times" "get me this thing from that place" "go bandage these guys" etc.
there are basically no unique quests in the entire game
the combat is boring and way WAY dumbed down from the first dragon age which itself was already pretty stupid easy

dont buy this crap game, you wont have fun