Might be a bit off an unpopular opinion, but...I didn't care for Dragon Age; Inquisition.
Now, I freaking loved Dragon Age; Origins, it's probably one of my all time favorites and I even enjoyed DA2 a bit, though that could be I lowered my expectations accordingly due to it's rep of being "the bad one", but I still enjoyed the fast pace combat and the story and characters (while a mess) had there moments. It's not a great game by any means, but if you divorce it almost entirely from DA
and treat it as a mediocre spin off in the DA setting, I think it's at least a solid time killer.
But Inquisition, everyone raved about it, said how it got Dragon Age back on track and was even better then Origins! I...have never finished it, and that's not jut because it's a long ass game (Origins is just as long and I've played through it and the Awakening DLC twice) but the game just feels like such a grind at times. The "Quest Area's" are way to big and are not populated with enough "random encounters" to avoid feeling empty, and yeah they give you horses to get around but that doesn't help to much when you got to dismount every 20 second to gather herbs and ores to make stuff.
The combat also feels like a downgrade. In Origins the combat moved at just the right pace to give you just enough time to swap over to another character to chug a healing poultice, cast a spell, or use an ability that could save a character from being knocked out. In Inquisitions, aside from the combat rarely being a challenge, you can revive someone in the middle of combat whenever they get K.O'd if you screw up, not like that's likely to happen as the games easy as hell. Speaking of dumbing stuff down, I hate how they actually took away the option to allocate ability points for the characters, even your own. In the old games you could have a Warrior with high dexterity or a Mage with high strength and there were even special class archetypes you could take to compliment these builds. Inquisition just allocated the points automatically, and that's not to mention the nerfed talent tree's. Not only are there less talents in Inquisition compared to Origins (though a bit more then DA:2) they also took out skill trees, leveling up stuff like Persuasion, Herbalism, Trap Making, ect., it's all gone. I mean, people gave Fallout 4 shit when they took away almost everything that wasn't combat related, why should Inquisition get a pass? It's not a good thing when your open world single player RPG has less character customization then freaking World of Warcraft.
The characters were...alright, not as good as in Origins, but still decent enough. I think they might have spread it too thin by having so freaking many significant characters, though that's just my opinion. Also the female character models are ugly, at first I thought it was just me, but then, well, Mass Effect Andromeda came out and it was revealed that Bioware gradually making the females less attractive was a legit thing that they were doing! Guess that's what happens when you get advice from Anita Sarkessian (or however her name is spelled) of all people.
Anyways, I've tried to finish DA:I twice, and while I start off strong I always end up running out of steam before I finish it. The super-blighted zombie dude (forgot his name, Corphius or something?) didn't get me nearly as hyped to stop as the Blight horde lead by the Archdemon or Logan. Though, I heard a good chunk of the people who worked on Origins had little to no involvement with Inquisition, and with Bioware kinda in the shitter, we'll probably never got another good Dragon Age game. But hey, at least we got Origins, a man does that feel like a complete and satisfying game that doesn't end on a cliff hanger...unlike some
other games...
