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Topic	Is it worth it to replay Dragon Age: Origins and II before Inquisition?
ParanoidObsessive 12/27/17 8:36:21 PM #18:	Chiming in late, but I agree with the sentiment that DA:O is always worth replaying, but DA:I really isn't very good and you'd be better off skipping it entirely. I always disagree with people who shit on DA2, though - it's a much better game than most people give it credit for. People crap on it for not being DA:O, but considering it had half the development time and BioWare had already given up all pretense of wanting to make actual RPGs by that point (see also the shift from Mass Effect to Mass Effect 2), it's surprisingly better than it has any right to be. Inquisition is like the worst of all possible worlds, though. They tried to cover every base to please everyone, and wound up producing a mess that pleases no one. Not helped by their openly admitted infatuation with Skyrim during its development process, which resulted in them mostly incorporating all of the worst aspects of Bethesda game design philosophy into the game without any of the offsetting charm that makes playing Elder Scrolls games tolerable (people who accuse DA:I of feeling more like a shitty MMO aren't entirely off the mark - that's mostly the Bethesda creeping in). Nor does it really help that the DLC for DA:I reverses pretty much every single major decision you make in the core game, making it a more or less meaningless waste of your time if you care about the narrative (which you presumably do, since you're asking if you should play the other games first). By the end you've basically accomplished jack shit of lasting value, so they can start the next game (And honestly, the whole "Dragon Age Keep" thing is pure bullshit. They easily could have incorporated Varric's whole prelude and presetting story flags into the game itself akin to how Mass Effect: Genesis worked, but EA wants to push Origin so they slaved the whole thing to their website, which becomes absolutely worthless the moment EA decides they don't feel like maintaining the website anymore - which is a problem Saints Row players may already be familiar with, since THQ basically broke the character uploader from SR3 to SR4). About the only reason I can't say that DA:I is the worst BioWare game ever made is because Mass Effect: Andromeda exists. I was a huge fan of the franchise prior to DA:I. Post-DA:I, I pretty much have no desire to ever play a new DA game again. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:892974473] in Is it wort... [t:76140655]...</cite> <quote>Chiming in late, but I agree with the sentiment that DA:O is always worth replaying, but DA:I really isn't very good and you'd be better off skipping it entirely. I always disagree with people who shit on DA2, though - it's a much better game than most people give it credit for. People crap on it for not being DA:O, but considering it had half the development time and BioWare had already given up all pretense of wanting to make actual RPGs by that point (see also the shift from Mass Effect to Mass Effect 2), it's surprisingly better than it has any right to be. Inquisition is like the worst of all possible worlds, though. They tried to cover every base to please everyone, and wound up producing a mess that pleases no one. Not helped by their openly admitted infatuation with Skyrim during its development process, which resulted in them mostly incorporating all of the worst aspects of Bethesda game design philosophy into the game without any of the offsetting charm that makes playing Elder Scrolls games tolerable (people who accuse DA:I of feeling more like a shitty MMO aren't entirely off the mark - that's mostly the Bethesda creeping in). Nor does it really help that the DLC for DA:I reverses pretty much every single major decision you make in the core game, making it a more or less meaningless waste of your time if you care about the narrative (which you presumably do, since you're asking if you should play the other games first). By the end you've basically accomplished jack shit of lasting value, so they can start the next game (And honestly, the whole "Dragon Age Keep" thing is pure bullshit. They easily could have incorporated Varric's whole prelude and presetting story flags into the game itself akin to how Mass Effect: Genesis worked, but EA wants to push Origin so they slaved the whole thing to their website, which becomes absolutely worthless the moment EA decides they don't feel like maintaining the website anymore - which is a problem Saints Row players may already be familiar with, since THQ basically broke the character uploader from SR3 to SR4). About the only reason I can't say that DA:I is the worst BioWare game ever made is because Mass Effect: Andromeda exists. I was a huge fan of the franchise prior to DA:I. Post-DA:I, I pretty much have no desire to ever play a new DA game again. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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