Space Cowboy
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Sarcastic Hawke and Varric were always a joy to have together.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition Review Thread
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Sarcastic Hawke and Varric were always a joy to have together.
tbh I'm more unhappy about the other character shown in that screenshot. Also the
nudity
I had more fun roleplaying Hawke than any of my Wardens or Commander Shepard.
ooooh. i totally forgot who that was, i was making a joke because the name sounds dumb
eh, i don't think the descriptors are indicative of your interactions with the npc are. at least i hope not...
Not everybody liked it, but I did enjoy feeling like I had greater control of who Hawke was, if only to flavor his reactions.
Of course, this boiled down to choosing the sarcastic reply for almost everything, but still.
only time i liked having varric in the party was when i was using aggressive responses. he lived in constant fear of hawke murdering everyone in the room.
Turdburger
Member
of course
is in this game. How could you possibly play the other two games and assume that character would have no part in this game?
flemeth
Reluctant-Hero
Member
My dude, I feel you. I already have the deluxe edition ordered on PSN when I bought the standard PC version from GMG. Then I played through the EA Access demo and I was super close to buying a third copy on Xbox. But I've remained strong and have just decided to start over on PS4 tomorrow night.
I've just caught up on the last 15 pages of thread. Good lord, the hype has driven is insane. Meta critic worries, DRM concerns and moronic untagged spoilers. This damn game needs to release already!
Intheflorsh
Banned
Hawke is a cool name.
Haha wishing I never played the early access now its made the wait even more terrible!
Soren01
Member
Cant wait to know Hawke role in inquisition
PSN will go down later due to all AAA preloads
Snkfanatic
Banned
Do we have a PC thread for this? Couldn't find one. Curious how well my system will run this.
i7 930 OC'ed to 3.2
660 TI
8 GB ram
i7 930 OC'ed to 3.2
660 TI
8 GB ram
Jimmyfenix
Member
Heh Dragon Age pre load should be up soon. Just finished my GTA V preload!
You should be fine.
From what I've heard on the stream / in other threads you should be at or near ultra settings at 1080 with those specs.
Jawmuncher
Member
Pretty sure you'll be good to go.
Recommended:
OS Windows 7 or 8.1 64-bit
CPU AMD six core CPU @ 3.2 GHz Intel quad core CPU @ 3.0 GHz
System RAM 8 GB
Graphics CARD AMD Radeon HD 7870 or R9 270 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Graphics Memory 2 GB
Hard Drive 26 GB
DirectX 11
Seriously? They better ship to places other than the U.S. I hate when they region block items
Phat Michael
Banned
This game is great so far. The sound in particular is amazing.
Snkfanatic
Banned
Thanks for the responses! Diving in and doing a preorder then
I really know nothing about the game except after reading some stuff recently and people on GAF hyping it. Loved Origins though but never touched 2.
Really? That's awesome. Amazon has about a billion more options than my local Target.
Wonder if that could work with existing preorders...
Yeah, someone on the PS4 subreddit talked to CS about price-matching the Target deal, and said they would be doing a similar deal in the next few days. What that deal exactly is unknown...I know last year they had a B2G1F promotion during this week
Things I've noticed I don't like from watching streams:
- AI is very retarded still
- tactics is incredibly dumbed down, only 4 tactics options (more don't unlock later) total
- conversations that aren't "main" conversations are barely zoomed in when they should be like normal conversations, they're more akin to ME ship banter where you can pick an option
- you can fuck yourself out of asking questions if you choose another option (what do you think of hawke/what do you think of the hero of ferelden, picking one or the other locks you out of asking the other if you investigate deeper down a path like you normally would in ME/DA games). I'm sure some will like that, but that is an absolute unquestionable negative for me.
- some things that are clearly bugs, like dropping out of combat because of distance during a dragon fight results in your dead party members rezzing to half health but you're still in the fight.
- people are fucking retarded. "Oh you can't use this weapon? I don't get why??" *weapon is red in color, also the tooltip is in red with a clear level restriction. Cue 60 seconds later* "ohhh there's a level requirement" It's staring you in the goddamn face!
-animations are janky, some clear re-using of resources from ME like "walk side by side then the talker spins around to face the player while it zooms in on the player's face and offers a dialogue choice"
- the "orliesian/french" accents are really cringe worthy. even lilianna did better in da.
- dialogue choices have tooltips showing what the consequences of dialogue choices are. I hope this can be turned off because the answers in dialogue choices have always been fairly clear to me, if you've been paying attention to the context of the conversation at all. This too is a huge negative.
- 30fps in directed cutscenes is a huge drop, especially when the other part of the game is 60fps+. Technical bugs aside, it's a huge negative and locking the game to 30fps as a whole is not acceptable.
- I hope there is a way to turn the vignette off of everything, because that shit is always ugly
- Kind of disappointed at the fact the MC has really high res textures for clothes, and everyone else is just kind of bland. Like come on. Like varric's chest hair for example :V
- conversation wheel switches location of what is an "exit" conversation option from left to right and vice versa.
- no subtitles for party banter? yuck
- tactical camera on the pc is really touchy compared to origin's
- certain folks have armor on during cutscenes where they clearly shouldn't have, seems lazy to me
That's what I've seen so far, even so, the positive outweigh my current negatives.
- AI is very retarded still
- tactics is incredibly dumbed down, only 4 tactics options (more don't unlock later) total
- conversations that aren't "main" conversations are barely zoomed in when they should be like normal conversations, they're more akin to ME ship banter where you can pick an option
- you can fuck yourself out of asking questions if you choose another option (what do you think of hawke/what do you think of the hero of ferelden, picking one or the other locks you out of asking the other if you investigate deeper down a path like you normally would in ME/DA games). I'm sure some will like that, but that is an absolute unquestionable negative for me.
- some things that are clearly bugs, like dropping out of combat because of distance during a dragon fight results in your dead party members rezzing to half health but you're still in the fight.
- people are fucking retarded. "Oh you can't use this weapon? I don't get why??" *weapon is red in color, also the tooltip is in red with a clear level restriction. Cue 60 seconds later* "ohhh there's a level requirement" It's staring you in the goddamn face!
-animations are janky, some clear re-using of resources from ME like "walk side by side then the talker spins around to face the player while it zooms in on the player's face and offers a dialogue choice"
- the "orliesian/french" accents are really cringe worthy. even lilianna did better in da
.- dialogue choices have tooltips showing what the consequences of dialogue choices are. I hope this can be turned off because the answers in dialogue choices have always been fairly clear to me, if you've been paying attention to the context of the conversation at all. This too is a huge negative.
- 30fps in directed cutscenes is a huge drop, especially when the other part of the game is 60fps+. Technical bugs aside, it's a huge negative and locking the game to 30fps as a whole is not acceptable.
- I hope there is a way to turn the vignette off of everything, because that shit is always ugly
- Kind of disappointed at the fact the MC has really high res textures for clothes, and everyone else is just kind of bland. Like come on. Like varric's chest hair for example :V
- conversation wheel switches location of what is an "exit" conversation option from left to right and vice versa.
- no subtitles for party banter? yuck
- tactical camera on the pc is really touchy compared to origin's
- certain folks have armor on during cutscenes where they clearly shouldn't have, seems lazy to me
That's what I've seen so far, even so, the positive outweigh my current negatives.
Just got done setting up my world state. Have one where I romanced Morrigan and went with her through the Eluvian mirror. The other is romancing Leliana and staying. I did my best to keep everything else similar to the choices I made in the previous titles. Though there were a few things I never did or missed out on.
I was surprised to see that my three Warden files were on there. Thought I had to stick with one of Bioware's crappy looking Wardens. They didn't show up when I was in the beta. Only my Hawkes did.
I was surprised to see that my three Warden files were on there. Thought I had to stick with one of Bioware's crappy looking Wardens. They didn't show up when I was in the beta. Only my Hawkes did.
you can turn off the hint/explainer text for dialog and there are subtitles for ambient conversation.
shinobi602
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UnObtainium17
Member
Is getting the Deluxe edition over the normal one worth the extra $10?
You can change that in the menus.
CrichtonKicks
Member
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- the "orliesian/french" accents are really cringe worthy. even lilianna did better in da
Well. Leliana's voice actress is French, so I would hope so.
Atraveller
Banned
Depends on if you like CD quality soundtrack.
DeviantBoi
Member
Dammit... I doubt I'll be able to play this at launch. I don't think I can download 40GB by Tuesday.
Why wouldn't they let us pre-load a couple of days in advance? They did it with COD.
Why wouldn't they let us pre-load a couple of days in advance? They did it with COD.
DylanTackoor
Member
The mexican origin version is worth the -$25.
Space Cowboy
Member
Oh wow. Thanks for mentioning this! I was also using a default Warden because my character was not showing up, but now she's there. Awesome.
Recommended:
OS Windows 7 or 8.1 64-bit
CPU AMD six core CPU @ 3.2 GHz Intel quad core CPU @ 3.0 GHz
System RAM 8 GB
Graphics CARD AMD Radeon HD 7870 or R9 270 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Graphics Memory 2 GB
Hard Drive 26 GB
DirectX 11
You should be good.
cjp
Junior Member
That sounds horrendous.
Facism
Member
sound looks like i'll make a trip to Mexico tomorrow.
Tell me about it, its maddening. I was in Haven speaking to all the regular crafting folks and understanding all the game mechanics and then BAM I get kicked out. I am sooooo going to change my region tomorrow and play when it goes up in East Asia.
EA Access right? Yes the sound track (and sound in general) is superb.
DylanTheVillain
Neo Member
Is anyone knowledgeable in graphics cards? I have a 3 year old Radeon HD 6950 and I'm worried I won't be able to play DA:I on ultra =(
I saw the graphics card that's recommended, is like a Sapphire radeon 7870 but I don't know how they compare.
I saw the graphics card that's recommended, is like a Sapphire radeon 7870 but I don't know how they compare.
UnrealEck
Member
7870 is a lot faster, but you might get away with very high/high settings and 30-40 FPS.
BF4 runs at around just over 30 FPS on the 6950 on ultra at 1920x1080 and DA:I is a little more demanding.
Ultra's probably out of the question. I also have an 6950 and from what I've gathered the 7870 is quite a bit faster. I'm expecting a playable framerate at medium-high settings.
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