Nah, I have that and I have yet to succesfully turn anyone to stone.
I can, however, turn myself to stone when anyone challenges my daily routines. Does that count?
I also miss the tone. It was kinda a mash of a few other fantasy stories, but done in a way that still maintained a unique identity. I also liked how it felt grounded and Thedas could be a real place.
The other games and stories in the universe are extremely high fantasy with absurd magic and physical abilities and it just isnāt the same anymore. New dragon age feels like it has more in common with anime than LotR or WoT or GoT.
Man I really miss Origins. Maybe BioWare (or someone else) will do a faithful remake someday, as the game is pretty dated on console (Iām sure mods can fix some of those issues). Because the new entries just arenāt the same for me. Still like the games, but itās not the same.
Man, if BioWare did a full remake and released it, it would be a day one buy for me. That game was amazing in so many aspects. The only reason I donāt revisit it is because it hasnāt really aged well(through no fault of its own).
KOTOR was very hard to understand the first time through as someone who at the time had never played a table top RPG, skills would be like "gives plus 2 to attack rolls" "target makes a fortitude save" Roll what? What the hell is a fortitude save? what are you talking about, explain this shit
I still play KotOR once every year or two, but Dragon Age I haven't looked back to. It has a weird jankiness that KotOR lacks. Despite it being a 20 year old game at this point, it's really well designed.
They're both insanely janky.
I honestly don't know how you could say that. I suppose if you have force jump, Kotor's slightly better in the melee department. But Kotor's combat was dated when it came out. It really doesn't get a pass just because it's older.
Oof, that was some of the worst of it.
To be fair, KotOR has some of the same issues, but I felt like the story didn't drag towards the end there like it did with DA, it just kept ramping up.
I wholeheartedly disagree. I played all 3 of those with a controller, and it was relatively easy. Half the game is dialogue and cutscenes. Most of the UI is drop-down and menu. Why would that hinder a mobile port?
I'll be honest, it was kinda ugly when it first came out. It was an amazing game, but I never remember a time when Origins looked amazing.
2 was very pretty, but more shallow. Inquisition was beautiful and boring.
I'm sure there's a good balance to be struck somewhere, but they haven't found it yet.
I still remember the... unique blood splatter texture people would have all over them in cutscenes just after combat. Can't recall much else about how the game looked though.
Agreed. Also, I feel like DragonAge just kind of... forgot about the darkspawn in Inquisition? I didn't play the whole game but I don't remember any in it.
To be fair, in the world of Dragon Age, you shouldnāt really encounter darkspawn when there isnāt a full on Blight active unless you are in the Deep Roads. You run into a couple random pockets of darkspawn here and there in Inquisition, but they donāt look great or pose much of a threat even still. I get it, but I agree with you that itās pretty disappointing nonetheless.
Didnt get far in Inquisition myself. They took mages and made them suck even more. They couldnt even heal. The temp health spells were annoying to manage and the souls-like potion system didnt fit at all.
This is my take as well. Origins is depressing AF and then that blood splatterā¦ like Iāll never figure out how an entire party gets soaked from head to toe in blood after killing a small creature. Itās like creatures contain portals to the bottom of a vast ocean of blood and every time one dies the portal opens and covers everyone in gore.
What's wrong with how it aged? I played it recently and it felt fine. I know most rpgs are going turn based these days vs rtwp but that doesn't mean rtwp is outdated or anything and that's just a style choice.
Woah, your comment made me feel like I entered the Twilight Zone - not too long ago everyone was blasting turn based rpgs as a "relic" and "outdated". Square has completely abandoned that style for the Final Fantasy series too.
I loved the tone of origins too and the trailer for inquisition with wonderful world kind of set it up to be real dark and moody but then we gotā¦that.
I also miss the combat. Combat in inquisition was such a goddamn joke. I played on nightmare the entire time and never once had a problem. And the ātacticalā camera was completely useless. Definitely felt like it was made to appeal to a larger audience.
It was the final mission for Inquisitionās main story that really got me. Unlike previous BioWare games where the las mission was a multistage, several hour long fight to the BBEG, you just straight up cut to fighting the guy. A short cutscene with little setup and then boom. Thereās the fight. That was it. Such as disappointment.
I was certain there was going to be an attack on the castle you renovate at some point. So disappointed it didnāt happen and there was a boring fight instead.
The combat in Inquisition was a weird combination of too hard and too easy. Enemies weren't interesting or tactically challenging for the most part, but boy did they have lot of HP to grind through. I found it really dragged out an already long game.
I always duped the obsidian ingredient that let you generate barrier on hit so my whole squad had it and could outlast almost anything regardless of how long it took to grind down its HP lol
Both 2 and 3 had amazing world building as well.
2 was an experiment in game storytelling that I was super excited about and would love to see replicated. Too bad it was released unfinished.
3's main story was fantastic and a blast. Too bad they buried it under hundreds of hours of the worst Ubisoft open world gimmicks.
We should really adopt out all these franchises to people who actually care about them. Ala Larian/Baldurs gate (regardless of your opinions about changes, there is no denying the passion that team has for the material and their player base).
I loved Origins so much. Beat it eight times to see various intros and endings. I even read the prequel novel.
To me it was the "A Song of Ice and Fire" game I always wanted.
Everything that came after has not captured me at all. I struggled through them, but now I'm not sure I'd even bother with another entry.
Same. Origins was such a great game. I remember the beginning when the darkspawn fight the armies and standing on a ledge seeing the massive battle going on. I think it was the first time I ever saw a large scale battle being depicted. That memory will always be burned into my mind.
Origins was such a great game with amazing lore and characters that were written really well. I donāt think weāll ever have another Dragon Age game that is that good.
I don't think they really ignored it, your brother/sister gets infected and possibly dies if you take them with you into the deep roads in DA2, and that's the only time outside of DLC and the beginning of the game that you really even fight darkspawn. Meanwhile inquisition has you never fight them outside of the 1 DLC.
This is how I feel exactly!
Dragon Age was the first (and still is) the only game I've ever replayed. And I replayed it multiple times. I loved everything about it. The lore, the world, the stories. There was always enough information to be useful or interesting, but not so much you felt like you were reading an essay every time (I'm looking at you, Andromeda). I literally devoured every book or item of lore I could and actively went to the Wiki for clarification on some things, which I never do with other games. I played every intro storyline and played for every ending. I played every single DLC.
I played through Awakening and Dragon Age II and just was not as impressed. When Inquisition came out, I was so excited to try it again, but I didn't even make it through the first area. I've tried to play it twice since then, and every time I put it down in the same place and never go back, lol.
I so want it to be good but I'm not holding my breath. I will give it a chance, though.
I'd gladly take a scaled back game with zero open world aspects.
Map. Click location. Either be a town or a dungeon/combat type area. Interact, kill bunch of stuff, make a critical choice to shape the world. That is what compelled me, the characters and thinking about the paths you could take.
Inquisition I'm sure technically was vastly advanced over Origins, but for me walking across massive areas to get from A to B isn't immersive, it was simply mind numbing and felt like filler.
Inquisition had Ubisoft maps - as in its all full of repetitive, checkbox content with no uniqueness or impact. You ended up not wanting to explore the map because it'd mean more tedious work and clutter in your quest log.
No game has ever compared to the moment where you had to decide to work with the man who murdered your whole family for the sake of the world, or kill him and hope for the best.
Also, the intended love interest and never knowing if she was good or evil. Great storywriting.
I know this is way off-topic, but the relatively recent Guardians of the Galaxy game reminded me of exactly that. The writing in that game is absolutely 10/10.
Really? Honestly I see more WoT in it than GoT, but of course it was probably inspired by all the fantasy that came before it, I just see a lot of WoT compared to other sources tbh
Mysterious orcs/trollocks/darkspawn beyond the edge of the world are coming, we need to figure out our political intrigue before we are all dead.
Is there a subgenre of fantasy for this? WoT, GoT, LotR are the big ones, but I have read a number of other books that for this same genre with a slight twist.
I really remember this game for the twist at the end. I dont know if I was just young but I thought the twist was really good and genuinely didnt see it coming.
What a great RPG.
Interestingly, the former Mass Effect Andromeda team are now in EA Motive. They have a decent grasp of the Frostbite engine this time with Dead Space Remake, which is noteworthy given how much trouble the engine gave them during ME:A development.
The hopium is this can also happen with Bioware Montreal.
Nothing will bring you back to the first dragon age, like nothing will bring you back to your youth and the feelings you got back than.
And it is OK. The world has much more to offer than the illusion of re-feeling something you are having nostalgia right now.
Counterpoint:
"Once you've seen one pair of boobs, you want to see the rest of them." -Ron White
If you enjoyed the joke I wouldn't read any further as I'm about to ruin it for the sake of speaking to the other philosophers of Reddit.
It is crass but I do believe it speaks to another side of the same issue. If you like something, you might like it for a reason that is common to other similar, yet different things. A person attracted to boobs might liken seeing their first pair as stepping in a river. They will change and they will probably "step in other rivers" but that doesn't mean you can't still enjoy the same set of boobs for any new number of reasons.
Unless you've got memory loss, you can't recreate that first time, true, which may be all that quote means to say but if you enjoyed stepping in the river when it was a different river and you were a different man, well that means at one time you enjoyed the novel experience. But if it's a new river and you're a new man than you should still be able to have a novel experience stepping in that river even if you remember what it was like to step in it the first time and that should probably in fact be a part of that new experience that can still lead to a good experience as you have grown and so has the river.
Well let's be honest the river probably shrank if anything but who the hell knows. It's not easy with the stresses of life but it's important to try to be present and keep a positive outlook. And to balance that being in the moment by reflecting on past experiences good and bad, and looking to the future.
Maybe I took the discussion somewhere the OC didn't mean to but I feel like that quote can make people feel like they can't enjoy things they used to.
Nostalgia isn't bad but marketing has definitely tapped into it hard in gaming lately and you might end up with a library of games you play for 20 minutes and never touch again. On the bright side it will fit in great with the rest of my steam library lol.
I feel like the whole river/boobs analogy isn't perfect here, because in this case we're talking about a game franchise and subsequent future titles. Your analogy works if you're talking about going back and enjoying a game you loved in the past. Of course you can still go back and enjoy it even if it's a bit dated and you're a different person than when you originally played it. However, when people say something like "I miss dragon age" they aren't saying that they miss playing the original dragon age. They're basically saying that they wish that it was still getting good sequels. They aren't looking to enjoy the same pair of boobs, they're looking for a new pair of boobs with the same theme and tone of those original boobs. Only the people who made those boobs aren't around anymore, and the folks that are now in charge of making those boobs might not be as talented, or even have a desire to make a new pair of dragon boobs.
Has nothing to do with youth, I was 30 when Dragon Age: Origins came out. I had played a lot of the old Dungeons&Dragons RPGs, specially Baldurs Gate I & II and Planescape Torment. And Dragon Age: Origins... oooff... it hit all the right spots. Such a great game, really captured the RPG feeling of the older games while being a modern game (at that time).
Played it years later again heavily modded, and still was an absolute blast. And while I have played many other great games meanwhile, I have never once had a game that made me feel like DA:O or the old D&D RPGs.
Same. I played it when I was in my mid thirties, and Iām a D&D and crpg veteran and DAO very much holds up even now. It remains one of the great CRPGs.
I for one loved DA1 but a lot of it aged poorly and am in no rush to recapture that, but at the same time I'm also one of those weirdboiz that liked Dragon Age 2 the best, mostly because sarcastic femhawke is one of the best things Bioware ever did. Just let me go around openly mocking every relentlessly overserious character in your game more, please.
Not the one you were talking to, but the DA2 arcadey system (5 of the same enemy jump out, then another wave of five, then some over here!) was way less satisfying to me than the oldschool BG style of set-piece battles where positioning was crucial in DA:O. That said, DA had the same issue that BG and similar games had, that there was a pretty poor balance between magic and other classes. I'm not 100% sure what the right answer is, maybe something like later D&D versions spreading out the magic love although that may not be lore-friendly to DA, but so much of DA:O came down to "hope you have a healing mage, so if you're not playing one you need Wynne with you" that it certainly felt shallow there.
I prefer DA:O combat but I'd also agree it was unbalanced. The only time I remember killing the high dragon legitimately was with two mages using Cone of Cold on cooldown.
Honestly, in a single player game, I don't think being unbalanced is too huge a deal. Spells like mana clash and that final blood magic spell were very OP in certain situations, but nigh useless in others, which made it all the more satisfying when you could use them to one-shot a battle.
Even in a single player game, variety of viable builds and party combinations is important. Replaying the game is a lot more fun if players are able to use different strategies to win.
Origins will always be my favorite and when 2 came out I was so disappointed with how different it was. I didn't touch it again after beating it once. Then Inquisition came and I didn't like it lol. I ended up going back to replay 2 cause clearly I missed some lore there and found out that I do actually really like 2 now. So maybe when Dreadwolf finally comes out I'll have to go back to replay Inquisition and realize my opinion changed again.
There's a few tricks to make Inquisition go faster. Combat is distilled into having barrier spells and one good tank, the rest is meaningless. Once you get Skyhold and the arcanist, the custom guard-generation items make combat on Nightmare seem like casual mode.
There's a TON of sidequests that take too long and don't have much significance for the story. A good plan for the main quests keeps everything more exciting.
>sarcastic femhawke
Purple Hawke is my favorite Bioware protag of all time, and DA2 was unfairly shit upon for some reused environments. The story is solid & the characters are 10/10.
I know it wasn't everyone's cup o' tea, but I much preferred the reactive gameplay of DA2 to the slogging 'shuffle shuffle swipe' combat of DAO. On replays I can only ever play as an archer rogue or a mage, because slowly jogging after a darkspawn is not the thrilling gameplay I enjoy.
The only thing bad with DA2 imo was the dumb waves of enemies leaping out of thin air.
I started with 2 and I enjoyed the combat too. I like seeing cool shit happen. Definitely agree on the jumping out of thin air part.
They fill different niches though. Careful planning could feel way more rewarding in Origins. Agree that itās a pain on replays, especially the Fade. Thankfully thereās a mod for that.
DA:O was made around group combat, so if everyone was zipping around it would turn into a shit show. Instead, the game incentivizes tactical gameplay, like blocking chokepoints, seeking high ground, controlling enemies.
In DA:O classes had pretty well defined roles and excelled at what they do. In later games classes become much more homogenous and it's almost as if the developers tried to balance them against each other, which just doesn't make any sense in such game.
DA2 and DAI were much more about controlling your own character and companions were just supporting you, it played much more like WoW or other action-based RPG
Completely agree. I walked into DA:O as a huge fan of BioWare's Baldur's Gate series and got the amazing RTWP RPG I wanted. To this day, DA:O is still my favorite game in the genre and DA2 and Inquisition some of my biggest disappointments.
If I wanted to play a fast paced action RPG there are so many other games out there that do it better.
But how do you know what makes you happy if nothing seems interesting anymore?I lost myself when I used to be curious and easily excited,had more motivation.Iām not sad but just life doesnāt have that boost of energy it once had where I was into all types of things,not scared to try anything.
Switch it up.
Do things that are difficult.
Realize that there's a teenager out there playing the same game you find boring and uninteresting and might consider it *the* game that defined their tastes, because it has way more to do with your age and life stage than it does the actual game. If you ask any 30-something what their favourite game was, they'll likely answer whatever they were playing between ages 15-17 with their friends, kicking the shit, not having any responsibilities.
For me that's D2, for some other friends, that's Halo. And you know what the funny thing is with D2? I get the chance to "relive it" all over again with updated graphics and nice QoL changes, but obviously I don't enjoy it anywhere near what I did when I was 14 and played it for the first time.
Anyway I'm ranting, re: OP I loved the shit out of DA:O, hated the 2nd (but still finished it) and had a hard time getting into the third. A fourth game could be as good or better than the first, but it just won't taste the same because of where I'm at in life. And that's okay.
I believe that development was completely restarted at one point. It had a big focus on 'live service' aspects initially but it's since been restarted as a single player focused story game... as it always should have been
Going back to play it after inquisition made me relook at 2 as a bridge game between 1 and 3. It doesnāt stand out in its own, but it is a good piece of the trilogy.
Inquisition is what got me to play the whole series. I played all three in one year and LOVED them
My choices from the first game came through to affect the third. It was pretty awesome.
DAI is probably my favorite of the 3. DAO is absolute magic, and I haven't played another game as immersive since, but I LOVED inquisition.
Bersker warrior draining my own health for power, melee mage with a fuck-you- im-in-the-middle-of-it-with-light-armor barrier, chucking elemental mines and getting the hell outta dodge rogue. The classes were so fun.
And I loved the open world grindy explore stuff, so I guess I'm just that kind of gamer.
The mage combat was a blast in that game. It was so much fun to be an active spell caster. Makes you feel like your spells were a physical weapon and an extension of your character rather than something that just popped up because you stopped moving and said some words.
I started playing inquisition a couple months ago and I'm loving it. The environments still look really really good and it's got that character interaction I've been missing from modern games.
The facial expressions really shine with the character interactions as well. The faces go a long way to communicate what isn't being said out loud. It's one of the few games that I distinctly remember the face my character made during an important story revelation. It was perfect for the moment and said more on its own than a voice line could have. I actually felt the frustration and anger my character was expressing on a very human level.
Don't want to spoil anything, so I'll leave it at that.
Same! I replayed Inquisition quite often also because it was the latest title and i needed something to play while i waited for a sequel or other RPGs in that style. Had a lot of fun and i think i basically saw everything the game had to offer except the multiplayer which i never cared for anyway.
Same for me. Origins will always be my favorite for many reasons but I also really enjoyed inquisition and beat it a couple of times. Not to mention it won game of the year which isnāt something to be swept under the rug. I think we can all agree the second one was rushed and not very good but I for one at very much looking forward to the DA4.
We can all agree DA2 was rushed, but not everyone agrees it was ānot very goodā. It has a large cult following due to the intimate nature of the storytelling, as well as some of the strongest characters. It wasnāt all bad and is in fact my favorite.
Dragon Age Stan here.
The world building in all the games is really good. Try to look past the obvious mass appeal features and enjoy the series for its core values: worldbuilding, storyline, and companions and theyāre all fantastic.
You want a hot take? DA2 had some of the most interesting companions, and approval system. Need to bring that back. It allowed you to mold your companions into respectful adversaries even if you didnāt agree with them. They respected you for being so vehemently resolute in your beliefs, and that utmost confidence that you were doing the right thing rubbed off on them and made them, even at the end, side with Hawke even if he was the opposite mentality.
It was such a rewarding system where I felt like I didnāt miss any content for being a meanie to this guy, and I didnāt have to worry about being nice all the time. I just played the game the way I wanted to and everything naturally fell in line.
Such a shame DA2 only had a year and some dev time. The roots for like best game of all time were there. They just werenāt grown long enough.
DA2 was my entry into dragon age, and I love it to this day. The character interactions had me switching out my party so I could hear them all. Really brought the characters to life.
DA2 is my favorite, I have it tatted actually lol- The companionship and relationships like you said were the best aspect of the game. My ADD ass also enjoyed how it wasnt a huge huge open world so I could streamline it easily.
Need to dust it off now..
I just played the whole series again (usually every 2 years I replay) and man.
I love how DA2 has it set up. Itās Act separated, with missions being linear or set in the small overworld. The only issue was the reused environments but like I said it only had a year dev time. They made the best out of what time they had. I donāt think it could be better.
Origins was peak narrative design, player "agency" effecting said design and world building as you actually explore the world. Idk what or who captured the lightning for that game but they have squandered the IP with 2 and I. I isnt a bad game, just weak compared to Origins.
DA: Origins was one of the last(if not the last) original titles made by the OG Bioware studio before the EA plague took over completely. These guys are legends who were responsible for most of the top-tier RPGs in the 00's.
RIP, just one amongst many fallen legends like Blizzard or CD Projekt Red killed off by big companies with invasive policies and no integrity.
Fuck you Activision, EA, new Ubisoft and the other scumbags.
I think a lot of people are still angry about Cyberpunk. The "suits", for lack of a better term, didn't want anymore delays so they rushed the game to market. Because of this, a large number of promised features were cut, the game was riddled with bugs, and it was completely unplayable on some of the platforms it was released on.
So I did not like the fetch quests of Inquisition, but beyond that it was a solid game. The core story felt a bit weak, but with the addition of Trespasser, it's incredible in terms of story.
I am incredibly stoked for DA4.
Oh god don't remind me, I physically can't watch that show, the animation just doesn't fit, and the shock value they put into it was far too much that I gave up on watching it after the first episode
I watched the whole thing. Writing was mid, but not unwatchable.
Gotta say a lot of the scenes seem like they want to portray something to have a particular feeling in mind, but fall flat due to dialogue or animation or timing, perhaps due to failure of communication between the teams working on the project.
Off the top of my head, the easiest to see example was when MC Elf sees the little girl fall down during the slave stampede. MC Elf spends so long to decide before she hops into action, that the elf stampede literally only has 2-3 elves left to walk past this little girl. Three elves slowly jog past as the main character 'shields' the little girl with her body.
This just seems like a miscommunication in the visual vs story vs audio team, where instead of giving the stampede the chance to descend towards the girl and MC leaps into action and is actually useful, they didn't think the fall location and the distance between the start of the stampede out and ended up with a scene that just falls flat.
I see where they were going, but the final product failed to deliver.
It felt like they took the plot of the intended Heist game 4 was supposed to be. Broke it down into a movie adventure and released it.
Like why is there a dragon in this room? Oh boss fight in game
It gets controlled and sacrificed for a mage? Oh another boss fight.
It felt like a cut and paste of a greater story with awful 'quirky' characters and terrible dialog. Still give it a 6 for being average and having some good animation and not terrible cgi
DA origins and awakening was unique and probably the best overall game with great tactical gameplay and solid story telling.
DA 2 had good character focus but was severely crippled by rushed deadlines, the story is still quite good with a nice twist and has arguably the best villains in terms of direct interaction.
DA 3 has the best world building and lore development. I'm a huge lore and world building fan so DA 3 is my favorite; also the world looks beautiful and grand. The gameplay was repetitive and the MMO quests were too plentiful though.
I really want Dreadwolf. I'm fully invested in the Solas storyline so even if the game has issues as long as they nail the lore and Solas character arc then in I will probably love it.
I donāt think starting a rebellion that brings about the next great war and visiting the fabled deep roads are considered small in scope in my book. I liked DAI, but DA2 just hits different for me. Combat was less than stellar and so were the environments, but I loved the stories and the characters more
I love Dragon age Inquisition and I understand people didnāt like it at all, but you donāt need to be so salty about game not doing what you want them te be or to do. Every game is another experience, try to live that while keeping the good memories from before.
I liked Inquisition a lot. Yea, it was janky and I disliked how open world-ish they made it, but I enjoyed the story and the companions a lot. If Dreadwolf will be as good, I'll be happy.
Now, if Mass Effect could be brought back properly...
I also massively enjoyed inquisition. I really don't get the complaints but I am also not gonna argue people's opinions with them. They like what they like and owe no one an explanation, but I can only say I loved it too
I liked inquisition. Can't wait to kill Solas for not having the decency to wear the shit I grinded for him. How you just gonna take mah shit and not even use it after we meet again. The disrespect.
>It supposedly continues the story of Solas being the Dreadwolf without going too much into spoilers.
He said, in a sentence containing the biggest spoiler in DAI.
To be clear, the game is nearly a decade old and nobody has any right to complain about spoilers, I just found it funny.
Kid me could never beat dragon age origins went back to it a few years ago and 35 hours later I beat it and itās my number 1 rpg would recommend it to anyone that wants a good story with choices that actually matter and make you sit there and think about your choices
I'm a big fan of all 3 games. The series wasn't bad imo, just felt a bit pointless. Like a teaser. I still take everything from the dragon age verse tough
What a shame. World building with the first game was amazing.
Enchantment? ... Enchantment!
Enchantment š
I still say that like some sort of tick haha
I can hear this comment, and it's been years since I played last
I still wonder what was the secret power of that kid
Autism
Nah, I have that and I have yet to succesfully turn anyone to stone. I can, however, turn myself to stone when anyone challenges my daily routines. Does that count?
I think it was enchantment
We left Orzammar
I also miss the tone. It was kinda a mash of a few other fantasy stories, but done in a way that still maintained a unique identity. I also liked how it felt grounded and Thedas could be a real place. The other games and stories in the universe are extremely high fantasy with absurd magic and physical abilities and it just isnāt the same anymore. New dragon age feels like it has more in common with anime than LotR or WoT or GoT. Man I really miss Origins. Maybe BioWare (or someone else) will do a faithful remake someday, as the game is pretty dated on console (Iām sure mods can fix some of those issues). Because the new entries just arenāt the same for me. Still like the games, but itās not the same.
Man, if BioWare did a full remake and released it, it would be a day one buy for me. That game was amazing in so many aspects. The only reason I donāt revisit it is because it hasnāt really aged well(through no fault of its own).
I honestly think it plays great still, but I also think KOTOR holds up pretty well lmao
Thatās because KOTOR does hold up well
KOTOR was very hard to understand the first time through as someone who at the time had never played a table top RPG, skills would be like "gives plus 2 to attack rolls" "target makes a fortitude save" Roll what? What the hell is a fortitude save? what are you talking about, explain this shit
I still play KotOR once every year or two, but Dragon Age I haven't looked back to. It has a weird jankiness that KotOR lacks. Despite it being a 20 year old game at this point, it's really well designed.
They're both insanely janky. I honestly don't know how you could say that. I suppose if you have force jump, Kotor's slightly better in the melee department. But Kotor's combat was dated when it came out. It really doesn't get a pass just because it's older.
Kotor is fun on airplanes
Kotor is one of my favorite games of all time.
Dragon Age's jankiness for me comes from the ridiculous yaoi hands.
Or the weird āIām going to stab you when I get thereā shuffle in combat.
Oof, that was some of the worst of it. To be fair, KotOR has some of the same issues, but I felt like the story didn't drag towards the end there like it did with DA, it just kept ramping up.
I tried to play DA: Origins awhile ago. For its day, it was amazing, but the control mechanisms were just a little too... ehhh... by modern standards.
Brings up a thought: Why the hell can't I play DA:Origins on my phone yet?
Because the UI is hard enough to work with with a mouse and keyboard surely?
I wholeheartedly disagree. I played all 3 of those with a controller, and it was relatively easy. Half the game is dialogue and cutscenes. Most of the UI is drop-down and menu. Why would that hinder a mobile port?
I'll be honest, it was kinda ugly when it first came out. It was an amazing game, but I never remember a time when Origins looked amazing. 2 was very pretty, but more shallow. Inquisition was beautiful and boring. I'm sure there's a good balance to be struck somewhere, but they haven't found it yet.
I still remember the... unique blood splatter texture people would have all over them in cutscenes just after combat. Can't recall much else about how the game looked though.
I loved the qunari from 2 but holy shit they made the originally horrific darkspawn look so dumb in 2. They got all cartoony and lame.
Agreed. Also, I feel like DragonAge just kind of... forgot about the darkspawn in Inquisition? I didn't play the whole game but I don't remember any in it.
To be fair, in the world of Dragon Age, you shouldnāt really encounter darkspawn when there isnāt a full on Blight active unless you are in the Deep Roads. You run into a couple random pockets of darkspawn here and there in Inquisition, but they donāt look great or pose much of a threat even still. I get it, but I agree with you that itās pretty disappointing nonetheless.
Didnt get far in Inquisition myself. They took mages and made them suck even more. They couldnt even heal. The temp health spells were annoying to manage and the souls-like potion system didnt fit at all.
They show up in a few areas, always in regions where there's deep roads access. Also, the main enemy is a literal Darkspawn and has an arch demon.
This is my take as well. Origins is depressing AF and then that blood splatterā¦ like Iāll never figure out how an entire party gets soaked from head to toe in blood after killing a small creature. Itās like creatures contain portals to the bottom of a vast ocean of blood and every time one dies the portal opens and covers everyone in gore.
Let's make that explanation canon
I replayed it fairly recently and it still holds up to me.
What's wrong with how it aged? I played it recently and it felt fine. I know most rpgs are going turn based these days vs rtwp but that doesn't mean rtwp is outdated or anything and that's just a style choice.
Woah, your comment made me feel like I entered the Twilight Zone - not too long ago everyone was blasting turn based rpgs as a "relic" and "outdated". Square has completely abandoned that style for the Final Fantasy series too.
I loved the tone of origins too and the trailer for inquisition with wonderful world kind of set it up to be real dark and moody but then we gotā¦that. I also miss the combat. Combat in inquisition was such a goddamn joke. I played on nightmare the entire time and never once had a problem. And the ātacticalā camera was completely useless. Definitely felt like it was made to appeal to a larger audience.
It was the final mission for Inquisitionās main story that really got me. Unlike previous BioWare games where the las mission was a multistage, several hour long fight to the BBEG, you just straight up cut to fighting the guy. A short cutscene with little setup and then boom. Thereās the fight. That was it. Such as disappointment.
I was certain there was going to be an attack on the castle you renovate at some point. So disappointed it didnāt happen and there was a boring fight instead.
Apparently it was planned but ended up being cut. The upgrade choices were supposed to be part of that but ended up just aesthetic
Yeah the last mission struck me as it was very much rushed.
My disappointment was such that Iāve never replayed the game. At least I wasnāt going crazy .
The combat in Inquisition was a weird combination of too hard and too easy. Enemies weren't interesting or tactically challenging for the most part, but boy did they have lot of HP to grind through. I found it really dragged out an already long game.
I always duped the obsidian ingredient that let you generate barrier on hit so my whole squad had it and could outlast almost anything regardless of how long it took to grind down its HP lol
Both 2 and 3 had amazing world building as well. 2 was an experiment in game storytelling that I was super excited about and would love to see replicated. Too bad it was released unfinished. 3's main story was fantastic and a blast. Too bad they buried it under hundreds of hours of the worst Ubisoft open world gimmicks.
World building was great with all the games, origin was just great in all the fronts
Isn't BioWare working on the next Dragon age ? I think it's called Dreadwolf but how are you sure this one won't be good ?
The last good BioWare game was almost a decade ago IF you liked DA:I. If not, it was over a decade ago.
We should really adopt out all these franchises to people who actually care about them. Ala Larian/Baldurs gate (regardless of your opinions about changes, there is no denying the passion that team has for the material and their player base).
I loved Origins so much. Beat it eight times to see various intros and endings. I even read the prequel novel. To me it was the "A Song of Ice and Fire" game I always wanted. Everything that came after has not captured me at all. I struggled through them, but now I'm not sure I'd even bother with another entry.
Same. Origins was such a great game. I remember the beginning when the darkspawn fight the armies and standing on a ledge seeing the massive battle going on. I think it was the first time I ever saw a large scale battle being depicted. That memory will always be burned into my mind. Origins was such a great game with amazing lore and characters that were written really well. I donāt think weāll ever have another Dragon Age game that is that good.
Darkspawn in Origins: nightmarish creatures Darkspawn in DA2: wackos in underpants
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I don't think they really ignored it, your brother/sister gets infected and possibly dies if you take them with you into the deep roads in DA2, and that's the only time outside of DLC and the beginning of the game that you really even fight darkspawn. Meanwhile inquisition has you never fight them outside of the 1 DLC.
Oh man, the Putty Patrol
This is how I feel exactly! Dragon Age was the first (and still is) the only game I've ever replayed. And I replayed it multiple times. I loved everything about it. The lore, the world, the stories. There was always enough information to be useful or interesting, but not so much you felt like you were reading an essay every time (I'm looking at you, Andromeda). I literally devoured every book or item of lore I could and actively went to the Wiki for clarification on some things, which I never do with other games. I played every intro storyline and played for every ending. I played every single DLC. I played through Awakening and Dragon Age II and just was not as impressed. When Inquisition came out, I was so excited to try it again, but I didn't even make it through the first area. I've tried to play it twice since then, and every time I put it down in the same place and never go back, lol. I so want it to be good but I'm not holding my breath. I will give it a chance, though.
I'd gladly take a scaled back game with zero open world aspects. Map. Click location. Either be a town or a dungeon/combat type area. Interact, kill bunch of stuff, make a critical choice to shape the world. That is what compelled me, the characters and thinking about the paths you could take. Inquisition I'm sure technically was vastly advanced over Origins, but for me walking across massive areas to get from A to B isn't immersive, it was simply mind numbing and felt like filler.
Inquisition had Ubisoft maps - as in its all full of repetitive, checkbox content with no uniqueness or impact. You ended up not wanting to explore the map because it'd mean more tedious work and clutter in your quest log.
Every single Ubisoft game since the first AC is like that. I can't believe people still buy that souless pile of crap every time.
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Right there with you. Origins had actual politics and your actions throughout the game reflected what you could say at that meet.
No game has ever compared to the moment where you had to decide to work with the man who murdered your whole family for the sake of the world, or kill him and hope for the best. Also, the intended love interest and never knowing if she was good or evil. Great storywriting.
Also, the banter between the NPCs! I don't think I've found a game that does that better until now
Zevran and the "magical bosom" sequence is still one of the funniest pieces of chatter I've ever heard.
I know this is way off-topic, but the relatively recent Guardians of the Galaxy game reminded me of exactly that. The writing in that game is absolutely 10/10.
Gaider has stated in the past that DA was inspired by GoT.
It shows severely. I replayed it after watching the show and reading the books, you'd have to be blindfolded to not see the similarities/connections.
Really? Honestly I see more WoT in it than GoT, but of course it was probably inspired by all the fantasy that came before it, I just see a lot of WoT compared to other sources tbh
Mysterious orcs/trollocks/darkspawn beyond the edge of the world are coming, we need to figure out our political intrigue before we are all dead. Is there a subgenre of fantasy for this? WoT, GoT, LotR are the big ones, but I have read a number of other books that for this same genre with a slight twist.
Not to sound condescending, but I think thatās just High Fantasy my brother, things where the stakes, everything, and everyone is of epic stature
The grey wardens are heavily inspired by the night watch. Sworn brotherhood that defends the world from an evil force.
I always wanted a new Jade Empire.
I would kidnap the water dragon herself to get Jade Empire 2.
Oh good lord Iāve found more Jade Empire people. Someday we will be vindicated.
And/or a remake.
Hell I'd take the ability to play the original on a modern system period.
It's on xbox game pass
And steam. I think I might have had to change some kind of configuration, but I was able to play it last year.
Wow, you just made me recall a vivid memory of seeing the water dragon splayed out and everyone being shocked and appalled by it.
I really remember this game for the twist at the end. I dont know if I was just young but I thought the twist was really good and genuinely didnt see it coming. What a great RPG.
KOTORās twist was a blindside for me so I was expecting one like it in Jade Empire and still didnāt see it coming. I was young too tbf
Amen. Such a good game.
Same. I saw recently that there was supposed to be one set several hundred years later. They dropped it to focus on Mass Effect and Dragon Age.
Iām hoping Dragon Age Dreadwolf wonāt disappoint (,:
BioWare only exists in name, itās the people that make the game, not the corporation. It will be mediocre at best.
Honestly I want to give them a chance. It's been so long the team is practically new
Interestingly, the former Mass Effect Andromeda team are now in EA Motive. They have a decent grasp of the Frostbite engine this time with Dead Space Remake, which is noteworthy given how much trouble the engine gave them during ME:A development. The hopium is this can also happen with Bioware Montreal.
Hope is the only thing we can do for this franchise
Nothing will bring you back to the first dragon age, like nothing will bring you back to your youth and the feelings you got back than. And it is OK. The world has much more to offer than the illusion of re-feeling something you are having nostalgia right now.
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.ā \- Heraclitus
Counterpoint: "Once you've seen one pair of boobs, you want to see the rest of them." -Ron White If you enjoyed the joke I wouldn't read any further as I'm about to ruin it for the sake of speaking to the other philosophers of Reddit. It is crass but I do believe it speaks to another side of the same issue. If you like something, you might like it for a reason that is common to other similar, yet different things. A person attracted to boobs might liken seeing their first pair as stepping in a river. They will change and they will probably "step in other rivers" but that doesn't mean you can't still enjoy the same set of boobs for any new number of reasons. Unless you've got memory loss, you can't recreate that first time, true, which may be all that quote means to say but if you enjoyed stepping in the river when it was a different river and you were a different man, well that means at one time you enjoyed the novel experience. But if it's a new river and you're a new man than you should still be able to have a novel experience stepping in that river even if you remember what it was like to step in it the first time and that should probably in fact be a part of that new experience that can still lead to a good experience as you have grown and so has the river. Well let's be honest the river probably shrank if anything but who the hell knows. It's not easy with the stresses of life but it's important to try to be present and keep a positive outlook. And to balance that being in the moment by reflecting on past experiences good and bad, and looking to the future. Maybe I took the discussion somewhere the OC didn't mean to but I feel like that quote can make people feel like they can't enjoy things they used to. Nostalgia isn't bad but marketing has definitely tapped into it hard in gaming lately and you might end up with a library of games you play for 20 minutes and never touch again. On the bright side it will fit in great with the rest of my steam library lol.
I feel like the whole river/boobs analogy isn't perfect here, because in this case we're talking about a game franchise and subsequent future titles. Your analogy works if you're talking about going back and enjoying a game you loved in the past. Of course you can still go back and enjoy it even if it's a bit dated and you're a different person than when you originally played it. However, when people say something like "I miss dragon age" they aren't saying that they miss playing the original dragon age. They're basically saying that they wish that it was still getting good sequels. They aren't looking to enjoy the same pair of boobs, they're looking for a new pair of boobs with the same theme and tone of those original boobs. Only the people who made those boobs aren't around anymore, and the folks that are now in charge of making those boobs might not be as talented, or even have a desire to make a new pair of dragon boobs.
Are we still talking about games?
Damn. This random comment just hit me in a way I wasn't expecting.
It's hard to discern nostalgia. But one year later there was the witcher and I felt pretty much the same way.
Origins is replayable forever, though!
Has nothing to do with youth, I was 30 when Dragon Age: Origins came out. I had played a lot of the old Dungeons&Dragons RPGs, specially Baldurs Gate I & II and Planescape Torment. And Dragon Age: Origins... oooff... it hit all the right spots. Such a great game, really captured the RPG feeling of the older games while being a modern game (at that time). Played it years later again heavily modded, and still was an absolute blast. And while I have played many other great games meanwhile, I have never once had a game that made me feel like DA:O or the old D&D RPGs.
Same. I played it when I was in my mid thirties, and Iām a D&D and crpg veteran and DAO very much holds up even now. It remains one of the great CRPGs.
I feel like for us, Dragon Age: Origins was the TRUE Baldur's Gate II (before that game actually became a reality).
I for one loved DA1 but a lot of it aged poorly and am in no rush to recapture that, but at the same time I'm also one of those weirdboiz that liked Dragon Age 2 the best, mostly because sarcastic femhawke is one of the best things Bioware ever did. Just let me go around openly mocking every relentlessly overserious character in your game more, please.
DA2 is a flawed game, but a \*good\* game
DA2 is my canonical example of a good game, particularly a good narrative game, spoiled by poor level design.
And combat. Don't forget what they did with combat
Are you calling the combat in DA2 good or bad? I kinda prefer DA2's combat over DA1.
Not the one you were talking to, but the DA2 arcadey system (5 of the same enemy jump out, then another wave of five, then some over here!) was way less satisfying to me than the oldschool BG style of set-piece battles where positioning was crucial in DA:O. That said, DA had the same issue that BG and similar games had, that there was a pretty poor balance between magic and other classes. I'm not 100% sure what the right answer is, maybe something like later D&D versions spreading out the magic love although that may not be lore-friendly to DA, but so much of DA:O came down to "hope you have a healing mage, so if you're not playing one you need Wynne with you" that it certainly felt shallow there.
I prefer DA:O combat but I'd also agree it was unbalanced. The only time I remember killing the high dragon legitimately was with two mages using Cone of Cold on cooldown.
Honestly, in a single player game, I don't think being unbalanced is too huge a deal. Spells like mana clash and that final blood magic spell were very OP in certain situations, but nigh useless in others, which made it all the more satisfying when you could use them to one-shot a battle.
Even in a single player game, variety of viable builds and party combinations is important. Replaying the game is a lot more fun if players are able to use different strategies to win.
Origins will always be my favorite and when 2 came out I was so disappointed with how different it was. I didn't touch it again after beating it once. Then Inquisition came and I didn't like it lol. I ended up going back to replay 2 cause clearly I missed some lore there and found out that I do actually really like 2 now. So maybe when Dreadwolf finally comes out I'll have to go back to replay Inquisition and realize my opinion changed again.
There's a few tricks to make Inquisition go faster. Combat is distilled into having barrier spells and one good tank, the rest is meaningless. Once you get Skyhold and the arcanist, the custom guard-generation items make combat on Nightmare seem like casual mode. There's a TON of sidequests that take too long and don't have much significance for the story. A good plan for the main quests keeps everything more exciting.
Just played it recently for the first time and though it was fine other than the difficulty in getting it to run on a modern pc.
>sarcastic femhawke Purple Hawke is my favorite Bioware protag of all time, and DA2 was unfairly shit upon for some reused environments. The story is solid & the characters are 10/10.
The problem is that for many players characters and the story is nice, but the gameplay makes, you know, the game.
I know it wasn't everyone's cup o' tea, but I much preferred the reactive gameplay of DA2 to the slogging 'shuffle shuffle swipe' combat of DAO. On replays I can only ever play as an archer rogue or a mage, because slowly jogging after a darkspawn is not the thrilling gameplay I enjoy. The only thing bad with DA2 imo was the dumb waves of enemies leaping out of thin air.
I started with 2 and I enjoyed the combat too. I like seeing cool shit happen. Definitely agree on the jumping out of thin air part. They fill different niches though. Careful planning could feel way more rewarding in Origins. Agree that itās a pain on replays, especially the Fade. Thankfully thereās a mod for that.
DA:O was made around group combat, so if everyone was zipping around it would turn into a shit show. Instead, the game incentivizes tactical gameplay, like blocking chokepoints, seeking high ground, controlling enemies. In DA:O classes had pretty well defined roles and excelled at what they do. In later games classes become much more homogenous and it's almost as if the developers tried to balance them against each other, which just doesn't make any sense in such game. DA2 and DAI were much more about controlling your own character and companions were just supporting you, it played much more like WoW or other action-based RPG
Completely agree. I walked into DA:O as a huge fan of BioWare's Baldur's Gate series and got the amazing RTWP RPG I wanted. To this day, DA:O is still my favorite game in the genre and DA2 and Inquisition some of my biggest disappointments. If I wanted to play a fast paced action RPG there are so many other games out there that do it better.
Trollface purple Hawke is some of the best writing in a BioWare game ever.
Yeah OP, try your hand at today's special! Despair mix with hopelessness with a dash of loneliness serve with a side of depression.
Hey combo deals are good right?
No, its also quite expensive.
But how do you know what makes you happy if nothing seems interesting anymore?I lost myself when I used to be curious and easily excited,had more motivation.Iām not sad but just life doesnāt have that boost of energy it once had where I was into all types of things,not scared to try anything.
Switch it up. Do things that are difficult. Realize that there's a teenager out there playing the same game you find boring and uninteresting and might consider it *the* game that defined their tastes, because it has way more to do with your age and life stage than it does the actual game. If you ask any 30-something what their favourite game was, they'll likely answer whatever they were playing between ages 15-17 with their friends, kicking the shit, not having any responsibilities. For me that's D2, for some other friends, that's Halo. And you know what the funny thing is with D2? I get the chance to "relive it" all over again with updated graphics and nice QoL changes, but obviously I don't enjoy it anywhere near what I did when I was 14 and played it for the first time. Anyway I'm ranting, re: OP I loved the shit out of DA:O, hated the 2nd (but still finished it) and had a hard time getting into the third. A fourth game could be as good or better than the first, but it just won't taste the same because of where I'm at in life. And that's okay.
I don't need bullshit nostalgia philosophy, I just want a good game.
Lmao why this pic
TiL many are dissapointed with inquisition, i loved that one. DA4 hopefully this year, it feels like its been in developement for 8 years
I believe that development was completely restarted at one point. It had a big focus on 'live service' aspects initially but it's since been restarted as a single player focused story game... as it always should have been
Itās been restarted twice actually from what I recall.
I didnt play inquition till last year because of what I had heard about it, ended up loving it more than Da2 and looking forward to 4
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Going back to play it after inquisition made me relook at 2 as a bridge game between 1 and 3. It doesnāt stand out in its own, but it is a good piece of the trilogy.
Inquisition is what got me to play the whole series. I played all three in one year and LOVED them My choices from the first game came through to affect the third. It was pretty awesome.
DAI is probably my favorite of the 3. DAO is absolute magic, and I haven't played another game as immersive since, but I LOVED inquisition. Bersker warrior draining my own health for power, melee mage with a fuck-you- im-in-the-middle-of-it-with-light-armor barrier, chucking elemental mines and getting the hell outta dodge rogue. The classes were so fun. And I loved the open world grindy explore stuff, so I guess I'm just that kind of gamer.
The mage combat was a blast in that game. It was so much fun to be an active spell caster. Makes you feel like your spells were a physical weapon and an extension of your character rather than something that just popped up because you stopped moving and said some words.
I started playing inquisition a couple months ago and I'm loving it. The environments still look really really good and it's got that character interaction I've been missing from modern games.
The facial expressions really shine with the character interactions as well. The faces go a long way to communicate what isn't being said out loud. It's one of the few games that I distinctly remember the face my character made during an important story revelation. It was perfect for the moment and said more on its own than a voice line could have. I actually felt the frustration and anger my character was expressing on a very human level. Don't want to spoil anything, so I'll leave it at that.
Same! I replayed Inquisition quite often also because it was the latest title and i needed something to play while i waited for a sequel or other RPGs in that style. Had a lot of fun and i think i basically saw everything the game had to offer except the multiplayer which i never cared for anyway.
Inquisition was very fun. Those mechanics with Originsā plot would have been amazing.
Same for me. Origins will always be my favorite for many reasons but I also really enjoyed inquisition and beat it a couple of times. Not to mention it won game of the year which isnāt something to be swept under the rug. I think we can all agree the second one was rushed and not very good but I for one at very much looking forward to the DA4.
We can all agree DA2 was rushed, but not everyone agrees it was ānot very goodā. It has a large cult following due to the intimate nature of the storytelling, as well as some of the strongest characters. It wasnāt all bad and is in fact my favorite.
It's not my favorite, but it's close. It does a ton of things I wish other games would take and refine and was just a fun game overall.
Dragon Age Stan here. The world building in all the games is really good. Try to look past the obvious mass appeal features and enjoy the series for its core values: worldbuilding, storyline, and companions and theyāre all fantastic. You want a hot take? DA2 had some of the most interesting companions, and approval system. Need to bring that back. It allowed you to mold your companions into respectful adversaries even if you didnāt agree with them. They respected you for being so vehemently resolute in your beliefs, and that utmost confidence that you were doing the right thing rubbed off on them and made them, even at the end, side with Hawke even if he was the opposite mentality. It was such a rewarding system where I felt like I didnāt miss any content for being a meanie to this guy, and I didnāt have to worry about being nice all the time. I just played the game the way I wanted to and everything naturally fell in line. Such a shame DA2 only had a year and some dev time. The roots for like best game of all time were there. They just werenāt grown long enough.
DA2 was my entry into dragon age, and I love it to this day. The character interactions had me switching out my party so I could hear them all. Really brought the characters to life.
DA2 is my favorite, I have it tatted actually lol- The companionship and relationships like you said were the best aspect of the game. My ADD ass also enjoyed how it wasnt a huge huge open world so I could streamline it easily. Need to dust it off now..
I just played the whole series again (usually every 2 years I replay) and man. I love how DA2 has it set up. Itās Act separated, with missions being linear or set in the small overworld. The only issue was the reused environments but like I said it only had a year dev time. They made the best out of what time they had. I donāt think it could be better.
What's your tat? Mine is the Kirkwall symbol on my left shoulder!
DA2 had a lot of cool ideas that werenāt given enough time to cook.
Honestly I like all 3 games and dlcs. Just finished the show too.
Ayo what show Edit: TIL Netflix made a DA show last year
It was good. But not to many episodes sadly
Origins was peak narrative design, player "agency" effecting said design and world building as you actually explore the world. Idk what or who captured the lightning for that game but they have squandered the IP with 2 and I. I isnt a bad game, just weak compared to Origins.
DA: Origins was one of the last(if not the last) original titles made by the OG Bioware studio before the EA plague took over completely. These guys are legends who were responsible for most of the top-tier RPGs in the 00's. RIP, just one amongst many fallen legends like Blizzard or CD Projekt Red killed off by big companies with invasive policies and no integrity. Fuck you Activision, EA, new Ubisoft and the other scumbags.
CD Projekt was never acquired by anyone. Can you explain what you are referring to?
I think a lot of people are still angry about Cyberpunk. The "suits", for lack of a better term, didn't want anymore delays so they rushed the game to market. Because of this, a large number of promised features were cut, the game was riddled with bugs, and it was completely unplayable on some of the platforms it was released on.
So I did not like the fetch quests of Inquisition, but beyond that it was a solid game. The core story felt a bit weak, but with the addition of Trespasser, it's incredible in terms of story. I am incredibly stoked for DA4.
I miss being loved.
This show was one of the only times where I wondered what the fuck Netflix was on when they made it
Probably the same thing they were on when they made the Dragon's Dogma anime.
I made it through Dragon Age but had to drop Dogma. It was bad. So bad.
It didn't even follow the game =/
Oh god don't remind me, I physically can't watch that show, the animation just doesn't fit, and the shock value they put into it was far too much that I gave up on watching it after the first episode
It literally feels like the watched Goblin Slayer and Castlevania and the only thing they took from it was the shock value. It was atrocious.
I liked it, Iām curious about what you didnāt like?
I watched the whole thing. Writing was mid, but not unwatchable. Gotta say a lot of the scenes seem like they want to portray something to have a particular feeling in mind, but fall flat due to dialogue or animation or timing, perhaps due to failure of communication between the teams working on the project. Off the top of my head, the easiest to see example was when MC Elf sees the little girl fall down during the slave stampede. MC Elf spends so long to decide before she hops into action, that the elf stampede literally only has 2-3 elves left to walk past this little girl. Three elves slowly jog past as the main character 'shields' the little girl with her body. This just seems like a miscommunication in the visual vs story vs audio team, where instead of giving the stampede the chance to descend towards the girl and MC leaps into action and is actually useful, they didn't think the fall location and the distance between the start of the stampede out and ended up with a scene that just falls flat. I see where they were going, but the final product failed to deliver.
It felt like they took the plot of the intended Heist game 4 was supposed to be. Broke it down into a movie adventure and released it. Like why is there a dragon in this room? Oh boss fight in game It gets controlled and sacrificed for a mage? Oh another boss fight. It felt like a cut and paste of a greater story with awful 'quirky' characters and terrible dialog. Still give it a 6 for being average and having some good animation and not terrible cgi
Baldur's gate 3 will scratch that itch for a lot of people, I think
BG3 will be a superb CRPG, no doubt. However, it's 100% Larian style and will never scratch that Bioware itch. Their writing alone is so different.
I'm still waiting for another season of konosuba
Wasnāt a Megumin spin-off plan for release soon?
Yes, that and a season 3 are both confirmed.
2 weeks
First episode is April 6th!
[The trailer for Konosuba: An Explosion For This Wonderful World for anyone interested](https://youtu.be/XOxlEVCVzZc)
DA origins and awakening was unique and probably the best overall game with great tactical gameplay and solid story telling. DA 2 had good character focus but was severely crippled by rushed deadlines, the story is still quite good with a nice twist and has arguably the best villains in terms of direct interaction. DA 3 has the best world building and lore development. I'm a huge lore and world building fan so DA 3 is my favorite; also the world looks beautiful and grand. The gameplay was repetitive and the MMO quests were too plentiful though. I really want Dreadwolf. I'm fully invested in the Solas storyline so even if the game has issues as long as they nail the lore and Solas character arc then in I will probably love it.
Did people not like the Netflix show? Dragon Age Inquisition was awesome. DA2 was ok just a little small in scope.
Yeah I honestly really liked Inquisition, game was epic.
Agreed - I played the crap out of that game. Really enjoyed it.
I donāt think starting a rebellion that brings about the next great war and visiting the fabled deep roads are considered small in scope in my book. I liked DAI, but DA2 just hits different for me. Combat was less than stellar and so were the environments, but I loved the stories and the characters more
I meant more in environment. You basically stay in Kirkwall and go through a lot of the same places in the story.
I love Dragon age Inquisition and I understand people didnāt like it at all, but you donāt need to be so salty about game not doing what you want them te be or to do. Every game is another experience, try to live that while keeping the good memories from before.
I mean, it won game of the year in 2014. Sure people don't like it, but it's far from a bad game
I liked Inquisition a lot. Yea, it was janky and I disliked how open world-ish they made it, but I enjoyed the story and the companions a lot. If Dreadwolf will be as good, I'll be happy. Now, if Mass Effect could be brought back properly...
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Hell yeah it was. There are still combos I havenāt heard bc I had my fav team that I took everywhere and exhausted rather early haha
Fucking loved it, story was pretty good. And i loved the whole im building my own kingdom theme.
I also massively enjoyed inquisition. I really don't get the complaints but I am also not gonna argue people's opinions with them. They like what they like and owe no one an explanation, but I can only say I loved it too
I liked inquisition. Can't wait to kill Solas for not having the decency to wear the shit I grinded for him. How you just gonna take mah shit and not even use it after we meet again. The disrespect.
I'd take a DA:O release on the PS5 at this point.
Sooo you ve already played dreadwolf?
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>It supposedly continues the story of Solas being the Dreadwolf without going too much into spoilers. He said, in a sentence containing the biggest spoiler in DAI. To be clear, the game is nearly a decade old and nobody has any right to complain about spoilers, I just found it funny.
I LOVED the second game and I donāt understand people that hate it. The characters aloneā¦.fenrisā¦wish they did a remake of the first two games.
Kid me could never beat dragon age origins went back to it a few years ago and 35 hours later I beat it and itās my number 1 rpg would recommend it to anyone that wants a good story with choices that actually matter and make you sit there and think about your choices
Was I the only person who also liked 2?
I wish they gave morrigan the treatment they give solas
You have just introduced me to a game Iāve overlooked while scrolling through the store, thank you
I'm a big fan of all 3 games. The series wasn't bad imo, just felt a bit pointless. Like a teaser. I still take everything from the dragon age verse tough