Post by Steve Farrelly @ 07:06pm 11/11/14 | 37 Comments
Dragon Age: Inquisition is an epic experience that haunts you between play sessions, enticing you to come back for more. It may not hit the lofty heights of Skyrim, but it comes bloody close..Nathan "nachosjustice" Lawrence took the game for the review spin for us, and did not walk away disappointed.
Click here for our full, in-depth Dragon Age: Inquisition review.
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Posted 01:53pm 12/11/14
I'm pretty brutal when it comes to RPG's.
I have to play this, just so I can happily say The Witcher 3 is better when I play it.
The review was a pretty light on the details. It read more as a preview. You didn't bring any meat to the details, for example no details about the combat or anything really. Just touched a few subjects :(
It is asif reading everything there was about DA:Inquisition is a prerequisite to this review, and the review acting as a confirmation to say 'yeah it didn't fail on what you've previously read' Which is a problem if you haven't really read much about it.
Posted 08:34pm 12/11/14
I'm just gonna wait for some user reviews.
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Posted 11:00am 16/11/14
However, that all may be irrelevant now. The game uses Denuvo copy protection which is made by the same company that made SecruRom and Sony Rootkits... If you've forgotten about those, they had a habit of killing systems and requiring fresh installs. They also became system vulnerabilities exploitable by malware.
There were also plenty of issues with people being locked out of their games due to install-limits and unresponsive customer service.
So yeah, Buyer-beware this game is using what is likely pretty intrusive copy protection from a company with a history of bad press.
The copy protection also costs about 5% performance as confirmed by the devs themselves.
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Posted 03:19am 20/11/14
I played a few hours of this tonight and they really have no consistency with this series unlike Mass Effect. New menus, new combat and new controls. I haven't played enough yet to say whether any of that is bad or not but I am slightly annoyed at the default mouse button mappings, I'll have to sort that out next time I play. The achievement sound that Origin chimes in with now and then is pretty distracting as well, playing an epic dragons and magic type game and then a ringtone sound chimes in and you are pulled right out of any immersion the game manages to achieve.
Another issue I've struck is one that comes up in every bioware game, the character creation process. It's really hard to tell how your character will actually look in game and if the character that you thought looked like a normal human ends up looking like a mongoloid freak in game you have to go through the entire process again to fix it or put up with your monstrosity for the rest of the game. It'd be nice if they let you edit your character without having to start a new game.
Haven't really got into too much of the combat yet, same kind of pause system they had previously for the tactically minded. It doesn't feel as fluid as DA2 but that might just be the default control setup and not knowing all the shortcut keys yet.
Haven't seen much open world space yet either, that is something that I'm interested in seeing as bioware are usually epically s*** on that front.
Posted 05:24am 20/11/14
Can't wait to play this, it's been added to the backlog!
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Posted 08:48am 20/11/14
The biggest critism I'm reading is the control scheme/UI and Party Member AI.
Why was it not mentioned in the review of the game how clunky the controls are? No auto-attack (not without the tactical view) Party members doing silly things like a ranged dude staying in melee range? A clunky looting system? For an Action part of Action-RPG these are pretty big issues, it's like having bad gun-play for a FPS.
Just in case people are unaware, it doesn't work on most Duel-Core systems, you really do need a Quad. People are attributing this to the Denuvo DRM DA:I is using, there is no proof of that however, with people talking about BF3 (same engine) running fine on Duel Cores.
Posted 08:58am 20/11/14
I couldn't help myself with the collector's edition, please don't judge.
Posted 09:43am 20/11/14
I think you can turn that off in the origin settings.
Posted 08:09pm 20/11/14
Played for about an hour this afternoon thinking I'll do a bit of gathering in preparation for some serious questing tonight and I fell into an inescapable cavern while looking for iron nodes. Typical bioware and their s***** map design. Autosave popped just as I realised I was stuck so I lost an hours worth of talking to NPCs and killing some kind of armoured yak for it's leather. They have a fast travel system but I haven't yet unlocked anywhere to fast travel to.
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