Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

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Lanx said:
i started my wife off on DA2, i said the gameplay is great, the characters are "ok"

when she finished it, i said DA:O has amazing characters, but the gameplay sucks, so does the map.

she chugged through like a true goddess cuz she loved alistair and morrigan.

she played DA:I hoping Alistair would appear

she asked me about this new game, i said "it's just more gay shit", and shes like "is there Alistair at least"?

so? is there Alistair guys?
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He has a cameo in Inq

 
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I finally started playing DA:O last weekend and have been thoroughly enjoying myself, but goddamn the companion AI is pretty bad. I guess I need to get really into setting up tactics but even then I find they are standing still doing nothing way too often during combat.
 
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I found it so boring. I didn't care about anyone. Didn't care about the meaningless subquests. Combat was not exciting. In fact I question why people even liked it
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90% of the reason I loved DA:O was because of the way you could define the skills & priorities your AI teammates would use. That's it.
 
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I've brought it up before but I guess it bears repeating. DA:I was very popular, especially around here, right until Witcher 3 came out and blew it out of the water.
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Fair. But anyone shutting on a good game because it’s not as good as the greatest game of all time is silly.

If DAI came out a year earlier, do you think people change their tune?

This also dropped the same time as Destiny.
 
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I can't play any of the Witcher games because the combat is so bad.

They're great games to watch other people play.
 
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Fair. But anyone shutting on a good game because it’s not as good as the greatest game of all time is silly.

If DAI came out a year earlier, do you think people change their tune?

This also dropped the same time as Destiny.
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DAI wasn't good either

4/10
 
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Mist said:
I can't play any of the Witcher games because the combat is so bad.

They're great games to watch other people play.
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It's definitely not that bad. Combat would have sucked if the game had guns and the controls still felt the same, but it's not terrible with melee.
 
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Hated the ring-like event/encounters style of combat in Dragons Age II, but at least the combat was pretty-looking and somewhat engaging. DAI's combat, especially on higher difficulty levels, was just slow and tedious (more hit points, god help you if your party doesn't have a shield dispeller/sunderer). Dragon fights, while pretty looking, just drug on forever in disinteresting ways (e.g. don't let your party member with the debuff AE/kill the entire party).
 
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Binks said:
DAI's combat, especially on higher difficulty levels, was just slow and tedious (more hit points, god help you if your party doesn't have a shield dispeller/sunderer). Dragon fights, while pretty looking, just drug on forever in disinteresting ways (e.g. don't let your party member with the debuff AE/kill the entire party).
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You clearly didn't main a rogue. I played on the highest difficulty. The rest of my party was just set up to grab aggro, heal and control the fight while I fucking exploded shit. It was awesome. It was like building your own MMO dungeon group where you are just the all-star DPS machine.
 
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This game is gonna be a fucking mess. Oh how much bioware has fallen since origins.
 
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Binks said:
Hated the ring-like event/encounters style of combat in Dragons Age II, but at least the combat was pretty-looking and somewhat engaging. DAI's combat, especially on higher difficulty levels, was just slow and tedious (more hit points, god help you if your party doesn't have a shield dispeller/sunderer). Dragon fights, while pretty looking, just drug on forever in disinteresting ways (e.g. don't let your party member with the debuff AE/kill the entire party).
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There was some rogue build that had something to do with potions where the ultimate attack could be used to reset the cooldown on itself and would just wreck everything.
 
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Amod Amod can we have a thread title change to "Dragon Age: Dreadwolf", please? Mebbe with TM too if you'er feeling frisky.
 
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I SURE HOPE I CAN TAKE A BIG, MEATY HORNED HOG IN THIS GAME! OH, BOY!!!

oh boy dunk GIF
 
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Lanx said:
i started my wife off on DA2, i said the gameplay is great, the characters are "ok"
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I skipped DA2 when they said, "Push a button and something awesome will happen !!!1!"
Is there any reason to play it or I saved myself some eye-rolling ?

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gak said:
I skipped DA2 when they said, "Push a button and something awesome will happen !!!1!"
Is there any reason to play it or I saved myself some eye-rolling ?

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da:eek:rigins has the best characters/interactions, da2 characters are just so subpar i can't remember a single one besides the dwarf and thats only cuz they brought him back in da3
 
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The best part of Dragon Age Inquistion was letting all the Bull's Chargers die.

The Qun has no place for them.
 
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DAI was good for me at the time it came out because my son had just been born and I was tired as fuck and need to play something I could play completely braindead to pass time while he slept on me. I remember basically just walking around to points of interest and holding one button for the entire game. Don’t have any plans to need a game that braindead in the future, this one will be a pass from me!
 
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