Lago PARANOIA wrote:So. How is Dragon Age Inquisition so far? It seems people are by and large saying that while the game is by and large improvement, EA destroyed too much goodwill for people to really get excited about this series as much as they used to.
25 hours in and I like it. My OCD gaming habbit is killing me though, because the first area (Hinterlands) has something like 30 sidequests, and you are supposed to leave it before you've finished them all and then come back later. And that's the same for every area.
Also there's a distinct lack of good romance choices for male heterosexual Inquisitors. Only three out of nine companions are female, and out of them one is a lesbian (Sera) and one is old* and bitchy (Vivienne). Cassandra and Josephine seem to be the only choices.
*Not old in terms of appearance, old in terms of how she acts and talks to you.
The action is good and actiony (although it plays nothing like DA:O). Soundtrack is good. The end of act 1 is very epic.
Classess seem to be reasonably balanced. Warriors excell at tanking, rogues excell at dealing damage, mages control the battlefield and inflict status effects.
The downsides are mainly in the interface. Like I said before, it wears console DNA like a japanese pornstar. The inventory is terrible. It's a list of items split into to four categories (weapons, armor, accessories, parts), very much like Skyrim's inventory. It's hard to navigate.
The tactical mode is fit for analogue stick, and controlls poorly on the keyboard+mouse. I haven't used it once though, so whatever.
Also a lot of sidequests (including the quests to get a specialization) involve grinding for materials. One of the quests in Hinterlans involves hunting down ten rams. Neutral animals who die in about 5 seconds and never attack you, even in retaliation.
However, companion quests and plot quests are very good, involve a lot of talking and other fun RPG stuff. Grinding is limited to sidequests.