Dragon Age Origins

yeah its not as good but it was sure as fuck at least trying to be more like baldurs gate than every """"rpg"""" now

and I'll never understand how when it had fucking MMO-tier grinding

Bottom tier is somewhat hyperbolic, I'd say

>not like it had much competition that year
This idiotic argument. People are STILL gushing about Wolfenstein: The New Order. Alien: Isolation is still widely regarded as one of the best licenced games ever made. You had fucking Far Cry 4. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. People liked DA: Inquisition. Critics liked DA: Inquisition. It was the best selling game Bioware ever made. Its DLC is regarded as probably the best thing they've ever created as a studio.

But no, people with amnesia pretend that "There were no other games in 2014" so they can pretend that DA Inquisition didn't rake in the awards because it was a smash hit game that was critically acclaimed.

It's crazy how asshurt PS4 fans have managed to spin 2014 as a bad year for games because they'd bought a console in late 2013 but there were no exclusives worth mentioning for a long time. All the best games of 2014 were multiplatform and cross-generation.

It was so woke

Were you around for the Dragon Age 2 release, buddy? Are you going to tell me that that also deserved all that fucking praise?

>and I'll never understand how when it had fucking MMO-tier grinding
Inquisition's approach to game design was a very crude prototype for something Ubisoft would later perfect. The idea is that you present the player with a huge open world and tell them to go do whatever takes their fancy. The bulk of the game is spent wandering around doing little quests.

Go play AC: Odyssey, or more importantly Far Cry 5, and take note of how much they take from Inquisition. Instead of a linear series of missions, you complete random tasks around the world that form meaningful progression based on milestones such as a resistance meter. (A power meter in Inquisition's case.) The only real issue with Inquisition was that the terrible engine and troubled production meant that a lot of the quests were rushed and borderline placeholder at times. The Hinterlands was created first, with barely functional tools that crashed constantly, and that's why its quests are the worst by far.

What's the best race to play as in DAI? I love dwarves but apparently you have to play a fucking surface dwarf who was born on the surface?

and that contradicts him, how?

>Were you around for the Dragon Age 2 release, buddy? Are you going to tell me that that also deserved all that fucking praise?
Dragon Age 2 is a curious game. Its writing quality is overall very good with the exception of the shitty Mage vs Templar plot. Its chief problem is being CRAZY rushed resulting in probably the worst recycled level design of any AAA game I've ever played. I think it deserved praise for what it did well, but it was clearly unfinished. By years. Haters were too harsh. Fans were too defensive.

EA and the real devs left.

good opinions desu

DA4 con-fucking-firmed for EA Stream
Make your predictions for disaster

If a game is "poorly reviewed", it doesn't enjoy MC scores in the 85-59 region and the status as the best selling game the developer has ever created.

Fuck they really had no competition.
Also it doesnt matter that alien is regarded blah blah blah. GOTY is given exclusively based on hype and the ability of a game not to let down the hyped. That's it, only normies opinion count (when talking about game awards)

>play inquistion
>enjoy it
>complete it
>try and play again on numerous occasions
>cant even get past the first mission without quitting

Why is this?

DAI won awards because of all the LGBTQXYZ shit

Dunno but I had this with Witcher 3 despite liking it

>all the LGBTQXYZ shit
Name all of it that you are required to deal with please

>No response
youtube.com/watch?v=bG8haS86x1k

It was the start of the era of games where people tried to reach the broadest possible audience. So they figured they'd get returning players off name alone and so changed everything to try to get people that didn't like the first one into it.

Grey wardens see much better protagonists and grey warden lore is miles better than anything else they've come up with

A game about a previous blight would be good

You're a fucking retard and Ubisoft had been doing that for ages already before DA3 even came out.

at least you got other games

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I can't imagine Bioware managing to pull off another Ancient Evil Awakens storyline like a Blight when it's a prequel and we already know The Good Guys Win, so they can't pull out the same old 'no seriously guys shits so fucked this time'

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>EA has never paid for awards before

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Maybe a future blight then or anything else to do with wardens doesn't even need to be a blight. Maybe a game about the dwarves and the darkspawn

THIS.
You go WOKE you get GOOD REVIEWS never mind the game.

recently finished origins, just started inquisition
good fucking lord what the fuck happened? how is it possible to fuck things up this badly

DAO brought in new fans who were more interested in self-inserting and romances than good story or interesting RPG character-building
Turns out there were more of that new type of fan than the old BG fans.
So when Bioware got scooped up by EA, they were told to focus more on the new fans' appeal.
DA2 was loved, generally, by these newer fans (you can check the fanart to tell that).
DAI was similarly loved and made a ton of money.

But then that undermines the entire "poorly reviewed" part of it.
Especially since even a lot of casual fans seemed to review it well.

>DA2 was loved, generally
What the fuck am I reading

No, it wasn't "woke". Gay characters have been in vidya for decades, while the whole "Qunari accept trannies" was Iron Bull literally bullshitting the degenerate.

DA2 got shit reviews and was hated by the majority of players though. That doesn't add up with the majority of players being the ""new people"" that enjoy the changes.

I personally enjoyed the game while realising that it's very flawed. If anything, this is the only RPG I know of where a party member's character arc is him becoming both crazy and less likeable.

since you enjoyed it is there a way to play hawke that makes them bearable?

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>DA2 was loved, generally
>I personally enjoyed the game
Ok, not everyone has the same opinion as you, you fucking autist.

I remember playing DA2 at release, pirated ofc. I was at home after a septoplasty and couldn't laugh at how bad the game was without bleeding profusely from the nose.

Best thing about this game is Alistair

>beats witcher 3 in rewards
if that dosent convince you the system is rigged, i dont know what will.

Then get a thicker blanket.

You mean awards? Pretty much nothing beats Witcher 3 in awards

Real talk how do I undo that bra it looks weird

Magic

>poorly reviewed
This game was very well received

Origins was shit. Don't act differently

>>Its writing quality is overall very good with the exception of the shitty Mage vs Templar plot
>The writing is very good with the exception of 90% of the game :^)

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>Don't act differently
Practice what your preach

Yeah, I'm sure none of the good "reviews" were marketing.
At all.

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same for me, but I always quit by the time I get to Emprise du Lion or whatever it's called

it's so fucking mind numbingly boring, it has great mechanics and everything but the writing fucking sucks and the game just lasts foreverrrrrrrrrrr how can anyone play this shit, let alone do multiple playthroughs, wow

>and the game just lasts foreverrrrrrrrrrr
I wonder if your post can be reported for underage

>a lot of casual fans seemed to review it well.
the tumblr audience only cares about fags and muh romance, so of course they are gonna review it well.

Man, look at all this review bombing just to bring down the high reviews the game deserves.

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Just Cause 2 did that in 2010 you retard

>hurf durf feggtz git off mai vidyer

>destructoid gave a higher score to DA2 than TW2
And people still listen to (((vidya journalists)))

>want to replay dragon age inquisition
>remember the engine
Fuck those loading times.

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And everything is sweaty

TW2 might be better than DA2 but it's not good either

Playing this for the first time, got to the village so far and did all the side quests

But holy fuck, I can't get the hang of gameplay

How the fuck am I supposed to play it exactly? Pause the game every goddamn time I want to use an ability?

Either that or set up tactics

>Pause the game every goddamn time I want to use an ability?
yes

this

>literally hundreds of GOTY awards.
lol, no, it didn't

What better month than pride month to reveal DA4

>just killed shale and got the golems on my dwarf noble
I feel bad bros, but with the blight and how fucked orzammar constantly is because of darkspawn how could I not do it

>mfw they never fixed the beard/cheek bug in the character creator

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It's a shitty mod that adds the bra as far as I know.

What bug is this

In Origins, if you change your characters beard in the editor, his cheeks get sunken in and the beard just kinda floats on the characters face.

Yea Forums only hates da3 cause they added trannies and female warrior qunari

>female warrior qunari
>Hating on literal sex goddesses

I'd pay to see that

Considering zevran is a faggot elf twink he has no right to be as based as he is

DA2 was a multi-level disaster. I can name only 3 good things that came out of DA2:
>Varrik
>Arishok
>that one (1) optional dragon boss
The marketing courted an audience that didn't care about RPGs generally or DA in particular. Day 1 DLC withheld an essential character. The writing frequently blasted holes into sensible characters and plots; not in a way to create drama or a twist, mind you - these were nonsensical narrative train wrecks. The combat and character management was excessively simplified, as was the art direction, level design and itemization.

DA2 proponents will try to downplay this catastrofuck with EA meddling. No matter the excuse, you can tell from DA:I how much they backpedaled on DA2's "hotrod art style" and "press X to awesome" principles of design. Inquisition may not be a good game for other reasons, but it's at least a good apology for DA2.

>is a faggot elf twink
only if you make him. Zevran is bae

>Day 1 DLC withheld an essential character
though I liked sebastian he wasn't all that essential

Sebastian's involvement was clearly diminished because he was excised from the game and sold back to consumers for six bucks. He's the only member of the party that's pro-Chantry in the slightest. Don't you think local royalty would have a bit more sway in the outcome of events if they weren't practically written out?

the cinematic trailers for DAO and DA2 were fucking stupid

>Don't you think local royalty
he's not local - he's from starkhaven, and he's in exile - his entire family's been butchered. He has no political clout to influence anything

That's retarded when you see in-game how much the Viscount is a chantry bitch.
The only people in power were Hawke due to popularity and not long and didn't even want it, Aveline with the City Guard who stuck around due to responsibility and her 2nd husband, and Elethina who wanted her satin throne.

why would anyone side with mages, every time you run into them they are breaking the world

It's very odd. They want you to feel sympathy for the mages and set them up to be oppressed but every encounter with them is awful.

hack writing?

Maybe?
I was thinking hack directing.

why not both

why did he do it

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He really hated the french

Starkhaven is part of the Free Marches and not far from Kirkwall. He's not exactly a foreigner. Moreover, while his claim to the throne is disputed during the events of DA2, his family's reputation didn't vanish down the memory hole as soon as the other members died. The sole-surviving Vael would carry some weight in the Free Marches and in the Chantry especially. Surely the guy could've mustered support during the DA2 time skips at least - hidden fortunes, an old alliance, Vael sympathizers, something. He had the most advantageous position of the whole party from the outset and any sensible approach to his character vanished the moment they cut him out. Just think: Hawke could have fucked off Kirkwall for a couple weeks, reclaimed Starkhaven and returned to quell the Arishok and blood mages with the backing of a pro-Chantry city-state. Would've made a better game, but instead we got magic rocks.

Is ferelden supposed to be england

Why compare it to Baldur's Gate, when it's more like an updated version of Neverwinter Nights?

because it was advertised that way, and its not more like an updated NWN 1 at all, and NWN 2 is just another crpg like baldurs gate

shitaku unironically has two articles about anthem and DA4 that sum up why the studio is shitting the bed recently
friendly fucking reminder we were going to get a DA4 set in Tevinter where we were going to be spies and shit and ditch the inquisition bloated worlds, but they canned that idea and have some new shit in its place

also lets not get into that fucking dlc with the mary sue qun following elf thief, that story makes me rage even now
asshurt Caelin was leaving his daughter for the french bitch so decided to nothin personal him and take it all for himself.
basically, and Orlais is 100% France

what are we getting instead

then whats orzammar

no idea, though if you believe this article it'll get some forced "game as service" shit because of papa EA
kotaku.com/the-past-and-present-of-dragon-age-4-1833913351

Generic dwarf mine city with generic Scottish accents like all vidya dwarfs

DA4 will be the final nail in Bioware's coffin.
How many more failures until they get put down anyway?

>friendly fucking reminder we were going to get a DA4 set in Tevinter where we were going to be spies and shit and ditch the inquisition bloated worlds, but they canned that idea and have some new shit in its place
WHAT?! ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT I WON'T BE GETTING EGG'S DICK AGAIN????

dwarves and elves don't really have anything like that
though Tevinter is absolutely Rome and Antiva is Venice. Nevarra and the Free Marches though I can't think of a IRL equivalent

All the dwarves have american accents in dragon age

I wanted to like DA2 because I love DAO and have played it through multiple times, but I can't get into it.

It just feels so cheap and bad.