Dragon Age: Inquisition

[viper37]

So far, I'm not impressed by the controls.

For those of us with an AMD card, we apparently need the latest beta driver wich include MANTLE support for DA:I.

Other than that, DX11 graphics are really nice.  It feels like, finally, 5 years after that API was released on PC, we get games that fully use it.  Thank you console world for 5 years of miserable gaming.

Anyway, so far, I've spent 30 minutes configuring the game and my character, 30 minutes playing, up to the first real mission after the intro.

My impressions: the controls are bad.  Really bad.  They are done for a console with a gamepad, not a PC.  And apparently, Xbox wireless controllers don't work out of the box with the game.

The characters seem nice enough for the little I've played.  The character approval is so far logical.  The story is a little bit weird.  It begins with my character being chased by some weird insect like creatures, a female like figure extending her hand, a giant green void/explosion and me dropping on the ground surrounded by soldiers, than shifts to me in a cell, in bindings, being by Cassandra and Leliana, arguing if I should die or not (obviously, none of the answers really matter, they aren't going to kill me, duh! ).

You need to use Dragon Age: Keep (www.dragonagekeep) to configure your world, since it does not import savegames.
This seems to work fine.

In 30 minutes, I managed to experience one crash/freeze when I tried quitting the game.  It does not bode well for the future.

Will try some more, will wait if there's a patch later today, then decide if I return it before midnight.

[Legbiter]

Yeah the gameplay's looked clunky for a while now. But I can overlook that if the story & characters are good. DA 2's were fairly bad for a Bioware title.

Also I'm not exactly thrilled with the seeming tumblrsexualization/SJW-ing of the franchise so I'm skipping this one by the looks of it. The new Witcher game will probably be more of a my thing. Well unless you guys rave about it constantly here. 

[viper37]

the seeming tumblrsexualization/SJW-ing of the franchise

and what would that be in plain english, the language you'd expect a 40 year old to understand on a mostly english speaking board?

[Legbiter]

and what would that be in plain english, the language you'd expect a 40 year old to understand on a mostly english speaking board?

In short, romance overload. The last DLC for ME 3 for instance basically turned it into a dating sim. Jars one out of the setting.

[garbon]

and what would that be in plain english, the language you'd expect a 40 year old to understand on a mostly english speaking board?

In short, romance overload. The last DLC for ME 3 for instance basically turned it into a dating sim. Jars one out of the setting.

Well that's DLC...so avoidable, no?

[The Brain]

In my day we were happy if we could romance a stone.

[viper37]

and what would that be in plain english, the language you'd expect a 40 year old to understand on a mostly english speaking board?

In short, romance overload. The last DLC for ME 3 for instance basically turned it into a dating sim. Jars one out of the setting.

Hmm, wasn't the last DLC the Citadel one?  I don't remember it like that, I really enjoyed it, in fact, with the silly humor

[Scipio]

I'm enjoying it immensely. The combat is superior to the first two games, and the controls are quite workable (especially the tactical camera with auto-pause). Still getting the hang of queueing up orders effectively.

[garbon]

Reading the reviews, this sounds pretty fun.

[MadImmortalMan]

Yeah it does. I'm not doing it though. I'll wait for a discount. They can't get away with taking me at full price after selling me DA2.

[viper37]

I felt the same.  But I was weak

[Martinus]

Now all I need to do is to convince my boyfriend to lend me the PS4. 

[garbon]

why did you take a photo of that?

[Martinus]

why did you take a photo of that?

Because we live in an instagram age?

[garbon]

Keep it to instagram then!