[Ebou Suso]

Same as everyone else with Nvidia card, display driver crashes at cutscenes. And countless of other minor bugs and glitches.

[City Swagga]

Do you know the best thing about the game? The Keep. Imagine going back and royally destroying the world. Make every bad decision/choose every bad end. Just the thought of it piques my interest. I've already seen the changes, the choices in effect that I've made. And that was for the good endings, just think what the bad ones will be like? Killing off Liliana in D:O making Logain King? The possibilities are mind boggling.

[Harry-James Payne]

I just did that too, for my second playthrough! I created the most useless Warden and Hawk I could think off, while being the biggest asshat possible. Haven't gotten too far to see any differences though.

[Kit Marsden]

Hmm... I have an Nvidia GTX 760 and have not had a single crash or glitch with graphics - there have been disconnects in multi-player but that is not a GPU issue

Am running 344.75 drivers which included optimization for DA I - have logged 83 hours in the game

There are some quest bugs I've encountered but nothing that is essential to moving the story along - am not dismissing that you or others are having issues however not everyone with Nvidia cards are having issues

On a separate note congrats to Bioware for winning Game of the Year at the Game Awards

[Alexxxxxx]

Same driver with GTX 660, and crash is common in a cutscene or war table. Just computers being computers, i guess

And i always generalize everything too much

[James Baldwin]

what are peoples Opinions on Inquisition?


I personally was not a fan of Origins (to me it seems when they Couldn't get the rights for a new Neverwinter Nights game they said "lets just take the last act of NWN2, change the names of everything, and put it out as a New game!".. gameplay and Story were nearly Identical, just with a few severely watered down mechanics and Different names)


However I loved playing Dragon Age 2 for the one playthrough I went through (Sarcastic female Hawke is best Hawke)..


just a little Curious on others opinions before I consider buying it.. Normally I would just bite the Bullet and try it myself to come to my own Conclusion.. but if it is Similar to Origins (which is (to me) one of the most Boring games I have played in the last 5 years.. it was just a watered down and shorter NWN2 IMHO), I would likely never forgive myself..

[Lil'.KiiDD]

Was unaware this thread existed lol.

I'm 85hrs into one character so far and I love this game. I'm playing on the PC and over the past 85hrs with one character I have only CTD maybe 3 times. And never in the same place.

My only issue so far has more to do with Origin then with DA and that is the stupid cloud sync thing. I often get a message saying my cloud data could not sync and the only way to load the game up then is to restart my computer.

I'm sure people have negative stuff to say about the game but I'm fine not knowing it. The more you focus on the negatives the less you will be able to enjoy the hard work put into the game. I've only done enough of the MQ to open up certain areas so I could explore them all. It can get kinda repetitive going into a new area and looking for shards or setting up claims. But it makes sense to me. Certainly not as bad as Assassin's Creed with each city. And the dragons... oh my the dragons. Lets just say encountering my first one in the Hinderlands while at a low lv was pretty terrifying. But now I am lv24 with my elf rogue and she has killed 9 out of 10 of the dragons so far. The only one left is the Storm Coast dragon. He seems to like attacking with lightening which is something I am not buffed against very well.

My favorite area so far is the Emerald Graves. So peaceful and beautiful. And yet so deadly for the unprepared.

Here is a few pics from my game featuring my elf.

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[WTW]

Eeek you are asking for opinions

Let's get some common ground then - I enjoyed DA2 so much I played it through 3 times as each of the classes - my Male warrior Hawke was the witty one while my female Hawkes were both Noble

With Origins I kept wondering when this game would end and especially dreaded the Deep Roads - I've only finished it once and am not sure if I would go back to it - not that's it a bad game just that it felt overly long.

Ok so now we are on the same ground...

DA I is unique - the world feels huge - and standing on the shore watching the foam on the waves wash over me is just great - Cassandra reprises her role perfectly from DA2 though Varric doesn't quite feel like the same Brother in Arms that he was in Kirkwall.

The pacing is different from DA2 as well - it's not slow but it doesn't have the same quick beats that DA2 had - as each Act had a real sense of urgency - I think you need to view it as a unique game on it's own merit

If you have a console try renting it first - I avoided DA2 for ages because of the hysterical net roar from Origins fans yet rented it one wet weekend and bought it the next week.

Honestly to play with http://1drv.ms/1A7F1eJ, Varric and Cullen again is just worth it - if you are an Elder Scrolls fans then you will enjoy the world - like climbing around a cliff and finding a chair set up to watch the sea and an empty bottle next to it - those little world touches make exploring fun.

So in summary - I don't find it like Origins and not like DA2 - it just is DA I and for me I've more than gotten my money's worth out of it and will happily play it through several times.

[Catherine Harte]

Welcome to the party Res. You always make pretty female characters. I actually just killed my first Dragon last night, the one in the Exhalted March. And god was She? Hard. I swear if Solas wasn't in my group we'd never had finished that thing off. It was my Mage, Lighting/Fire, with a hint of frost for fade step. So useful. And Knight Enchanter, though that was useless on the Dragon with only a single skill point.

Then I had Iron Bull and Blackwall. We were level 16 and by the Divines she took everything we had it was such a rush.

[Vicki Blondie]

This is very interesting to me. I too was not a big fan of Dragon Age: Origins. I tried to play it three times and was never able to finish it even once. I didn't buy DA2 because I heard it was even worse than DA:O. But reading your two posts makes me think I ought to try DA2. If you two like it better than DA:O then maybe I might like it better too. *ponders*

[Lynette Wilson]

My opinion is that Inquisition is the best game that I've played since Skyrim, which is my favourite game of all time.

[Elizabeth Davis]

oh dear the exalted march one is tough! I took it on with Dorian, Vivianne and Iron Bull. I used healing mist potions when I saw the others low on health. Or I would switch to them and use a potion. My rogue didn't take a whole lot of damage as I kept moving around and of course attacking from a distance with my bow.

I don't get why people hated DA2 so much and I'm glad I played it without reading all the net bashing about it. Sure it reused a lot of areas and combat was different from DAO. But I must have played through DA2 about 7 times, and DAO 10+ times and Awakening 5+ times.

I like the fact in DAI that the war room quests that take certain amounts of time to complete count your computer clock and not in game hours. I just sent Leliana to locate the Hero of Fereldan and that was a 15hr quest. I went to bed so next time I play, she should be done.

[Carlos Rojas]

I find that with the new version that they took the best parts of each game and then added more things to it as well. Sadly for me since I only have a small TV and trying to play it on the xbox 360 is difficult due to not being able to read a lot of the text which is needed for this game. Hopefully I have a new TV or Computer Monitor in a month or two.

The action I find is pretty close to Dragon Age 2 but the areas are quite large or at least as far as I got to in the game. Not very far yet. There are a lot of quests to do, Some of them are the standard fetch quests and such. The game world what I have seen looks very good and it is a place I can get lost in and just want to explore, But beware in the early stages of the game if you explore too much you might run into higher monsters and they will kill you even at casual mode. I am playing casual mode at the moment since I combat feels quite good at that setting since I do not really like friendly fire, especially when you have no healing skills and only a few health potions.

I have not finished either DA:O or DA:2, It was more of a time issue and I only have the non dlc versions of the game on PC. I liked DA:2 quite a bit better in regards to pacing and I find the story telling to be better as well, The downside was the repetitive areas and it felt like I had less gear choices. I suggest getting it.

[butterfly]

My tastes are different than yours, so keep that in mind. I thought DA:O was a light treatment of the old school RPG, and I was hoping that they would expand on that in future games. For DA2, they threw out inventory, tactical combat, and turned it into a button mashing action game (at least in terms of the combat) with anime-style animations. I hated all of that. But I thought the story and character interaction were fine.

Anyway, I just completed my first playthrough of DA:I, and my opinion has improved since I started the game.

Good:

• Story and extensive cutscenes (not top notch, but mostly good)
• NPC characterization and interaction (especially if you like Bioware)
• Dialog and voice acting
• Exploration (beautiful, big, varied, but not at the level of a BGS game)
• Minigames (IMO, much better than any previous Bioware title)

In Between:

• Still largely a linear corridor style approach to the game
• War Table: Interesting idea, so-so implementation

Bad:

• Occasional story/dialog/voice acting hiccups
• Combat, combat, and combat

Way too much exposition:

Spoiler

First, it's not really open world. Bioware, even their best games, have always made linear corridor games, and they seem to not be able to think outside that box (especially with dungeons), though it's more open than their previous games. The world is beautiful, and exploration seems to have potential at first, but in the end they're not in the same class as BGS in regard to exploration and world building. But it's not bad.

I liked the story, and the ideas behind the mechanics, though the implementation didn't entirely work. Similar to the Mass Effect games, and even DA:O, there's the idea of working to build a coalition of forces for the final confrontation. They integrate the concept into a lot of the subquests, and there's a fair amount of related NPC interaction. There's also a war table, where you assign goals to your councillors and they perform tasks or behind the scenes "quests" to further your agenda.

One aspect of the war table that's completely broken is that tasks work according to real world time, and a few of them take more than 8 hours. So if you don't manage your war table early in the game, you'll end up in a situation where you can't progress a real quest, because you have to wait for 12 hours. If you're on PC, you can set your PC clock forward to fix this. Horrible, jaw-droppingly bad mechanic, IMO, and also a sort of a BIoware staple (unbelievably bad gameplay idea). But there's only a few quests that take this long.

Dialog ranges from very good to cringeworthy. Some of the dialog and story elements don't make sense. Sometimes you get railroaded into a response that you don't want to give. But there are many more good moments than bad. I'm not sure if there were problems with editing and removed scenes, or if they just didn't have time to really tighten the various sequences, but occasionally you run into something that doesn't fit or is just nonsensical.

And the truly bad thing: combat. Combat is a mix of DA:O and DA2, and it doesn't work. The tactical cam is broken on PC, and awkward/clumsy otherwise. The use of tactics is kind of a joke, because the only real "tactics" are choosing from a small menu of abilities as you level up, then mashing buttons in a certain sequence during combat. Then to top it off, minor enemies have thousands of hit points, and boss types can have 200K hit points. Fortunately, near the end game an archer can deal 10K burst damage, so it's not as ridiculous as it first sounds. But combat is a button-mashing grind for the early part of the game, without any of the "charm" or whatever of a Batman or Shadow of Mordor (or Mass Effect) type game.

[TASTY TRACY]

Huge spoilers after finishing the game. Even in the game it was mostly a tease, but some of it turns the lore on it's head.

Spoiler

• Solas is Fen'Harel, the Dread Wolf that supposedly trapped all of the Elven gods.
• Flemeth is Mythal, the Elven goddess of justice, and she was possibly Andraste too. Which, if true, means that the Chantry was created by an Elven goddess.
• I took the epilogue to mean that Solas absorbed Flemeth's soul to gain more power in his quest to free the Elven gods. He says, "I'm sorry." She replies, "I'm sorry, too." Than he apparently kills her and absorbs her soul. Some people think she took over his body, but I don't think the dialog supports that.
• Some people are speculating that the Golden City (Black City) was the Elven city of Arlathan.

[Gemma Woods Illustration]

People don't see DA2 as worse because it is a weaker version of DA:O. It's worse because it does completely different things than Origins, and does most of them badly - either by flawed design or not enough development time. It's a prime example of squandered potential. Even so, because of those differences, it's quite possible you will like DA2 if you disliked Origins, as they are really not very similar. The story is more personal, local, it isn't your standard "fight ancient evil, save the world." I genuinely liked this approach. It might be the only thing I liked about that game (and Aveline. She was pretty great.)

I'm still miffed about how they handled that game, so I'm not going to try to sell you on it, but I think it wouldn't hurt to try it for yourself. It's rather cheap now. I just hope you enjoy fighting waves of enemies appearing out of thin air, because you'll be doing that a lot. On the flipside, combat is more fluid, for what it's worth.

[Ben sutton]

I like the war table. But there are times I wish I could actually go on the missions instead of sending agents. But I think they were on to something with this. The fact that I can come across an area that's not accessible. But then I go to the war room and have Cullen send some men to clear the path forward. That's a cool idea. I like the idea that the missions from the war table are timed. But I do get frustrated wondering why I can't do more then three missions at a time from the war table. I mean Cullen, Leliana and Josephine do have more then 3 agents right?

The locations. I wouldn't go so far as to call them linear but I will say as large as they are, everything about them is surface deep. Its not like Skyrim where you come across a lot of caves or forts and such. But as far as point A to B the areas are not quite like that. DAO and DA2 were like that but DAI got this part right I think.

I'm not all that far in the game but the interactions with followers are amazing. While there is no dialog with them on missions like in DAO, there is plenty to do with them back in Skyhold. I'm regretting having my elf girl start a relationship with Solas because Iron Bull is hilarious. The two of them got drunk together in celebration of slaying their first dragon. She ate and drank with the Charges. She finds him a lot more fun to be around then ol gloomy Solas who is absolutely the hardest person to please it seems.

And I liked the touches of really helping you connect with your followers/friends. I was surprised and delighted by the mini scene where Verric has you follow him and discover everyone is sitting around the table eating/drinking and playing a card game. Very nice. And Cassandra's Swords and Shields addiction. All very nice to help you connect with everyone. Though probably the follower I use the least is Sera. She's a rogue archer same as my character so no need to bring her along.

I really enjoy the weapons and armor crafting but wish more pieces could have attachments added. Example I have Dalish Hunter armor with stats no other armor can touch. However I can't apply leg or arm upgrades to it meaning its pretty much useless to me.

And I like how people around me see the irony that an elf woman is the herold of andraste, someone she does not believe in. And she has decorated Skyhold with dalish banners and windows.

[dell]

I have to agree with Res. Although the War Table has it's faults it's far more useful. Either way it's all up to opinion. Also Res and anyone else wondering. We talked about the Follower silence bug a page or so back.

Apparently they're working on a patch to fix it. But there are work arounds. Fast Traveling from the War Table and a few others I think?

[Lucky Girl]

Anyone know if there is going to be any DLC for Inquisition, and if so approximately when can we expect it?

[laila hassan]

Ok I need some help. I completed Here Lies the Abyss and talked to Cassandra to get her Inner Circle quest Promise of Destruction, but it never triggered. Is this some sort of bug or do I not have enough approval with her yet to start the quest?

[Janette Segura]

I don't think I encountered any silent followers. I did notice that after a while of using the same 3 guys that they didn't have anything new to say to each other. So I switched up followers for a bit and everyone was talking again. I will say I think Cassandra and Iron Bull need to get a room. Some of the stuff they said made me blush. And Solas getting into an argument with Vivienne over his training was hilarious. He shut her up pretty quick

Is this the quest you get from her to find the High Seeker? If so I know I got this quest but I'm unaware of the requirements. Didn't know there was any. But I did take this on after the Here Lies the Abyss. it may have to do with her approval rating. I know Solas's spirit one was.

I'm in love with the bard in this game. Who ever sings those songs has a lovely voice. I could sit in a tavern and listen to her sing all day.

Here is my elf girl getting rather drunk with Iron Bull

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[Floor Punch]

Seems like there's something like Tali's and Gaurus' romance from ME3

Spoiler

Dorian and the Bull get into a relationship if you don't romance any of them, let's just say the dialog between both of them is rather suggestive and detailed.

Oh right, I stated playing again, my friend gave me his old 360 with his games since he got an Xbox One, Right now I'm playing a female Qunari warrior who's romancing Sera(she's freaking adorable)

Also

Spoiler

If you have Cole in party with you with you Romance, well the banter is interesting.

[TOYA toys]

Well Iron Bull swings both ways

I have a female qunari mage. The 10% melee protection bonus works for a mage when your get ganged up on.

Just finished a certain quest where the Inquisition attended a party. Holy crap did I hate it. It was fun don't get me wrong. But I kept losing favor with the court on every turn. I think I finished the quest with 4 points out of 100 left.

[xx_Jess_xx]

Revenants. Of course Revenants

Though still kittens compared to the monsters they were in Origins.

Finally made it off the Hinterlands and into the Fallow Mire that seems to be considerably smaller. Are the majority of areas more like Hinterlands or the Mire?

[Deon Knight]

I made it out with 100/100 with my male mage Qunquisitor and felt so smug. I'll teach THEM to call me a pet ogre.

Don't worry, arcane horrors make up for revenants being a cakewalk.

There are more Hinterland sized areas than Fallow Mire sized areas, yeah.