Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

[Xenich]

Holy shit, invasive DRM in 2015 2014. I thought we have gone beyond such silliness.
And all future Warner Brothers published games are supposed to be using this? Does that also mean the North American version of supposedly DRM-free The Witcher 3? Because that would be somewhat hilarious.

Hopefully it will get patched out of DA:I in a few years - I am not in a hurry to play this, so I can wait.

I always shake my head every time I see these companies pull this crap. Didn't they learn that they can not keep people from pirating games with Diablo 3? You would think these companies would get a clue and stop pissing off their paying customers with these ridiculous systems.

I don't think Diablo 3 was ever pirated.

It was. I didn't even bother trying the pirate version, I knew the game was going to be shit. My friend tried the torrent version and ran the single player game for the whole 5-8 hours of game play it apparently had. /shrug

 

[Infinitron]

It was. I didn't even bother trying the pirate version, I knew the game was going to be shit. My friend tried the torrent version and ran the single player game for the whole 5-8 hours of game play it apparently had. /shrug

Well, these guys disagree: http://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1v263q/so_has_diablo_3_been_cracked_yet_or_not_im/

This seems like something of an urban legend.

 

[Angthoron]

http://www.4players.de/4players.php...est/32927/80791/0/Dragon_Age_Inquisition.html

One of my favorite German-speaking gaming sites. They're basically accusing Bioware of laziness, poor Bethesda plagiarism, and DA:I's world feels more like a MMO world.

Score: 59%

M'kay, that same site (it's even the same guy acutally) gave Risen 3 69%! (Which is a fucking piece of shit.)

Wow, it's worse than Risen 3? Holy shit.

 

[eremita]

Another review claiming DAI is really a "slow" game: http://www.gaming-age.com/2014/11/dragon-age-inquisition-pc/

On your first playthrough it’ll probably take about 9-12 hours before the game starts getting good,and about twenty hours before you feel somewhat engaged. Prior to that, it’s actually somewhat mundane — schlock & grind gameplay with unnecessarily confusing game world politics… Yeah, I know; you basically have to play an averaged sized game in order to get to a point where Dragon Age: Inquisition finally hits its stride, but if you’re a fan of the genre or franchise, it should be worth it. Not only that, but in the grand scheme of things, even twelve hours is a drop in the bucket for Inquisition. At around that time (apparently it’s about 1/3rd of the way through the storyline) your main objective is reinforced, for better or worse the peripheral “set-up” choices have been culled, and your party/gear has reached a decent level of well roundedness. Most importantly, at ~10+ hours in, you’ll surely have a decent enough grasp on the universe to know who’s who and what’s what, allowing you to really start molding the world the way you want.

 

[PhantasmaNL]

http://www.4players.de/4players.php...est/32927/80791/0/Dragon_Age_Inquisition.html

One of my favorite German-speaking gaming sites. They're basically accusing Bioware of laziness, poor Bethesda plagiarism, and DA:I's world feels more like a MMO world.

Score: 59%

M'kay, that same site (it's even the same guy acutally) gave Risen 3 69%! (Which is a fucking piece of shit.)

Wow, it's worse than Risen 3? Holy shit.

According to these guys It is better than Onechanbara Bikini Zombie Slayers though, but not much.

 

[Elim]

Jesus Christ, that 4players review was brutal.
Sadly, nothing new. The stuff was clear since it was announced.

We people in Europe seem to like our RPGs brutal, complicated and deep.
This is no Lebensraum for Bioware Dreck.

 

[eremita]

Jesus Christ, that 4players review was brutal.
Sadly, nothing new. The stuff was clear since it was announced.

We people in Europe seem to like our RPGs brutal, complicated and deep.
This is no Lebensraum for Bioware Dreck.

I have a feeling that guy didn't get pass those first 10 hours and called it a day...

 

[Branm]

http://www.4players.de/4players.php...est/32927/80791/0/Dragon_Age_Inquisition.html

One of my favorite German-speaking gaming sites. They're basically accusing Bioware of laziness, poor Bethesda plagiarism, and DA:I's world feels more like a MMO world.

Score: 59%

Thats a good review....Thankful I speak German... Even more reason to not spend a dime on this game and just leech it on release...

 

[Lhynn]

Holy shit, invasive DRM in 2015 2014. I thought we have gone beyond such silliness.
And all future Warner Brothers published games are supposed to be using this? Does that also mean the North American version of supposedly DRM-free The Witcher 3? Because that would be somewhat hilarious.

Hopefully it will get patched out of DA:I in a few years - I am not in a hurry to play this, so I can wait.

I always shake my head every time I see these companies pull this crap. Didn't they learn that they can not keep people from pirating games with Diablo 3? You would think these companies would get a clue and stop pissing off their paying customers with these ridiculous systems.

I don't think Diablo 3 was ever pirated.

Yes it was, pirated version comes with a server emulator ive heard. Not sure how it works tho.

 

[MrMarbles]

10-page review of typical German thoroughness. Nice scale too; 0-19% is inzufficient, 40-59% ja zat is zufficient, weil 60-74% is zatisfaktory. They probably rate porn the same way

 

[hell bovine]

Jesus Christ, that 4players review was brutal.
Sadly, nothing new. The stuff was clear since it was announced.

We people in Europe seem to like our RPGs brutal, complicated and deep.
This is no Lebensraum for Bioware Dreck.

I have a feeling that guy didn't get pass those first 10 hours and called it a day...

Nah, that's Germany for you, where most of the population seems to suffer from permament Sauerkraut poisoning. EDIT: I didn't make through the wall of text, since the review starts with the boring stuff (how characters look during dialogues and all the emotions), but the summary isn't that great either. Complaining that the world does not react to your character enough is valid criticism, but they compare it to Skyrim of all games.

 

[RPGMaster]

Story-wise vast majority of RPGs have always been decidedly young adult material. In book terms that's Eragon or Harry Potter territory for you. Lowest common denominator 2OP to resist.

Target demographic isn't an issue. Eragon had the same targeted demographic and almost the same story as A New Hope, but bi one un hua right mind would put them into the same category of quality. Same thing about HP, as I quite liked them (first 4 of them, as I hardly remember the rest), and if games on average would have been at least half as competently written as them, there wouldn't be a problem.

If you want make a point about demographic, much better to say that the younger targeted demographic is the more talentless mediocrities wrote for them, as it easier to make money spending much less effort. But not always, as there aren't many masterpieces for middle-aged housewives for example.

It's called STAR WARS. None of that George Lucas revisionist bullshit around here boy.

 

[thesisko]

RPS think it's the best RPG since Baldur's Gate II - http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/11/17/wot-i-think-dragon-age-inquisition/

 

[DragoFireheart]

Enemies re-spawn the moment you turn around,

Sounds like Firewine Bridge in BG1.

 

[Infinitron]

RPS think it's the best RPG since Baldur's Gate II - http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/11/17/wot-i-think-dragon-age-inquisition/

Actually, he says it's the Bioware game he enjoyed the most since BG2. Kind of a difference there.

 

[Grinolf]

It's called STAR WARS. None of that George Lucas revisionist bullshit around here boy.

Then Episode IV... oh, wait.
Don't be so picky as I don't see other way to refer only to this specific movie, as it both followed plenty of teenager fantasy tropes and title in question had a very "surprising" similarities to it. Not sure about how further books related to ESB and RotJ, as I only knowledgeable about the movie and only by some lulzy reviews, sunce I couldn't bring myself to watch it.

 

[Tacgnol]

Apologies if repost, The Telegraph slammed the game and gave it 60/100:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...s/11221041/Dragon-Age-Inquisition-review.html

I love the BDF (Bioware Defense Force) and their attacks on the reviewer:

Take a look at IGN/PC Gamer/Polygon/TIME, legitimate and professional sites, with top-notch reviewers, consistently ranking this game as one of the year's best, and you deign to give it 3 stars?

 

[Echo Mirage]

and you deign to give it 3 stars?

I can almost hear the spitting of tea in shock and disgust as the butthurt begins to set in.

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

http://www.4players.de/4players.php...est/32927/80791/0/Dragon_Age_Inquisition.html

One of my favorite German-speaking gaming sites. They're basically accusing Bioware of laziness, poor Bethesda plagiarism, and DA:I's world feels more like a MMO world.

Score: 59%

lol i stopped taking them seriously when they gave fallout 3 87? 88? or something like that same score for Oblivion. than couple years later they started bashing any AAA titles just for the sake of publicity.

 

[A horse of course]

Apologies if repost, The Telegraph slammed the game and gave it 60/100:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...s/11221041/Dragon-Age-Inquisition-review.html

I love the BDF (Bioware Defense Force) and their attacks on the reviewer:

Take a look at IGN/PC Gamer/Polygon/TIME, legitimate and professional sites, with top-notch reviewers, consistently ranking this game as one of the year's best, and you deign to give it 3 stars?

Isn't that almost exactly what one of the advertising plants that was caught out during DAII said?

 

[Tacgnol]

Apologies if repost, The Telegraph slammed the game and gave it 60/100:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...s/11221041/Dragon-Age-Inquisition-review.html

I love the BDF (Bioware Defense Force) and their attacks on the reviewer:

Take a look at IGN/PC Gamer/Polygon/TIME, legitimate and professional sites, with top-notch reviewers, consistently ranking this game as one of the year's best, and you deign to give it 3 stars?

Isn't that almost exactly what one of the advertising plants that was caught out during DAII said?

Yep, mirrors the BDF damage control when DA2 got slammed. They will be trying to pad the user score up on metacritic tomorrow.

 

[Morgoth]

lol i stopped taking them seriously when they gave fallout 3 87? 88? or something like that same score for Oblivion. than couple years later they started bashing any AAA titles just for the sake of publicity.

They have better consistency than most other sites. Also Fallout 3 was a good game, just not a good Fallout game.

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

Apologies if repost, The Telegraph slammed the game and gave it 60/100:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...s/11221041/Dragon-Age-Inquisition-review.html

I love the BDF (Bioware Defense Force) and their attacks on the reviewer:

Take a look at IGN/PC Gamer/Polygon/TIME, legitimate and professional sites, with top-notch reviewers, consistently ranking this game as one of the year's best, and you deign to give it 3 stars?

Isn't that almost exactly what one of the advertising plants that was caught out during DAII said?

Yep, mirrors the BDF damage control when DA2 got slammed. They will be trying to pad the user score up on metacritic tomorrow.

implying /v is not going to rape that score tomorrow

this is pure gold

lol i stopped taking them seriously when they gave fallout 3 87? 88? or something like that same score for Oblivion. than couple years later they started bashing any AAA titles just for the sake of publicity.

They have better consistency than most other sites. Also Fallout 3 was a good game, just not a good Fallout game.

sure it was. what did you like better : vampires, city built around nuclear bomb or settlement run by fucking brats?

 

[Morgoth]

The mushroom eating brats were retarded. Todd sperg levels of retarded. Still, I like Bethesda much more than Biowhore.

 

[Tacgnol]

How long do we give it till people that criticise DAI are accused of homophobia, transphobia or misogyny? I seem to remember that tactic being used a lot when DA2 was getting criticised.