Inquisition is another one of those games that's too big and bloated for its own good. The sheer amount of MMO-like "filler" quests and the scope of the sandbox areas is overwhelming and tends to drown out the more traditional Bioware goodness. The characters and such are fine, but don't measure up to some of the great stuff Mass Effect pulls off.
What a sad game. So much writing. So much world-building. So much work.
And yet it doesn’t add up. Every likeable character, every piece of content, feels so isolated, disconnected. It’s the world as buffet. Everything, all of the time. Pile it high, go back for seconds, tenths, hundredths. But the fundamental structural problem remains.
I play not a female Qunari mage, shot down by Vivienne and Cassandra, settled down with Josephine, but an ever-quester, check-lister, loot-manager, skill-spammer, icon-follower, detail-gawker, conversation-exhauster, fool.
And lover? Not really. In Inquisition, love is just another quest. The reward? A canned scene. Also, despair.
And yet it doesn’t add up. Every likeable character, every piece of content, feels so isolated, disconnected. It’s the world as buffet. Everything, all of the time. Pile it high, go back for seconds, tenths, hundredths. But the fundamental structural problem remains.
I play not a female Qunari mage, shot down by Vivienne and Cassandra, settled down with Josephine, but an ever-quester, check-lister, loot-manager, skill-spammer, icon-follower, detail-gawker, conversation-exhauster, fool.
And lover? Not really. In Inquisition, love is just another quest. The reward? A canned scene. Also, despair.
sim vadias segundo melhor dragon age ja feito e sERA VOCE EH FODA E
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here's the thing. i enjoyed it! i think it got a lot of things right ie the way they did a dozen or so large contained areas is infinitely better than open world for me! i think many of the characters are incredibly likable and interesting! i liked a lot of the side quests! that said, it has an incredibly contrived plot and one of the weakest villains in not only dragon age history, or even bioware history, but video games as a whole because of how little sense it actually makes. honestly i could dock a whole nother star off for the hissing wastes existing at all LOL
Roleplaying wise it's better than 2, but it's worse than the previous games in most ways. The story is interesting at certain points and most of the characters are decent (except Sera fuck Sera), but the antagonist is pretty weak. Exploration is now based on a bunch of big open worlds, which makes it a slog to get through. It's made even worse by most sidequests being boring fetchquests. It feels like a single player MMO, which makes it the worst in the series. Yes I like 2 more than this, fight me.