Dragon Age Inquisition

Both Dragon Age: Origins and DA2 had their fair share of problems.

Dragon Age: Origins - Tedious, repetitive combat and large, repetitive dungeons. Most of the dungeon crawling dragged on for way too long. The Deep Roads section was one of the most boring and repetitive things I've had to force myself to sit through in any game, ever. Overall the writing was strong, it had great characters and it had a strong choice and consequence system.

DA2 - It had better gameplay and combat overall that didn't become repetitive, however it suffered greatly in the writing department. It didn't help that the characters were a lot worse too, with things as normal as turning down a character's advances politely earning you rivalry points. The reused dungeons sucked too.

Overall, I'm really not very excited for DA:I. I already feel that they're focusing too heavily on characters and possible romance options, which is not what RPGs are supposed to be about. I want to play an RPG, Bioware, not a dating simulator.
 
Graal said:
Both Dragon Age: Origins and DA2 had their fair share of problems.

Dragon Age: Origins - Tedious, repetitive combat and large, repetitive dungeons. Most of the dungeon crawling dragged on for way too long. The Deep Roads section was one of the most boring and repetitive things I've had to force myself to sit through in any game, ever. Overall the writing was strong, it had great characters and it had a strong choice and consequence system.

DA2 - It had better gameplay and combat overall that didn't become repetitive, however it suffered greatly in the writing department. It didn't help that the characters were a lot worse too, with things as normal as turning down a character's advances politely earning you rivalry points. The reused dungeons sucked too.

Overall, I'm really not very excited for DA:I. I already feel that they're focusing too heavily on characters and possible romance options, which is not what RPGs are supposed to be about. I want to play an RPG, Bioware, not a dating simulator.
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I agree with your Dragon Age: Origins viewpoint.

Combat becomes repetitive, very-- sometimes. Still busy with the Deep Roads quests though.
 
https://dragonagekeep.com/en_US/

Dragon Age Keep was announced last August. It allows players to change "as much or as little" as they want about how characters were modified, romance options, recruited companions and more. Cloud-based access also allows players to explore different scenarios from the previous game to examine the different consequences.
 
Crzwaco said:
https://dragonagekeep.com/en_US/

Dragon Age Keep was announced last August. It allows players to change "as much or as little" as they want about how characters were modified, romance options, recruited companions and more. Cloud-based access also allows players to explore different scenarios from the previous game to examine the different consequences.
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I've already imported both my DA:O and DA2 profiles and will not be making any changes to the decisions I've made. :)
 
Donisia said:
I must say i rather enjoyed dao...
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I do, I'm stuck stuck at a point and might actually need help online; YouTube walkthrough or something. Would like to finish it before getting Inquisition, but I don't think that will happen.
 
I played both Dragon age games on hard and really dig it ,makes you think about the strategies you are going to use.I can not wait for the new one.
 
Solitude said:
I couldn't find a thread so I suppose this is now the OFFICIAL ULTIMATE THREAD OF DRAGON AGE INQUISITION but I will refrain from calling it that.

I got an email from Green Man Gaming now for a 20% discount but I see that the game is not available to our country. :( So then I thought I would go look at Takealot and wow! The price for the game is ridiculous! Is that what new games cost these days? R600 on pc?

I thought I would pre-order but now I think I'll just wait until it gets discounted. I would love to play it but I don't think any game is worth that price.
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I opened this thread and thought it was a new one (even though I've replied on this thread before). Maybe I'm working too hard :p. Anyway, so I just read your original post again. Did you manage to preorder Dragon Age Inquisition?

It is currently on "special" from Kalahari.com for R500. Add one of those vouchers that expires at the end of November (http://mygaming.co.za/news/features/70326-this-weeks-best-gaming-deals-16.html) and the game is R400 already. Then if you have eBucks left, you can buy a Kalahari voucher from the eBucks shop and get 10-40% off depending on your level. So in a best case scenario you can pick the game up for eB2400 and worst case, R400.
 
Loved dao but da2 lacking. Looking forward to DAI like the fact that focus is back on story and characters, those are the things BW does well. Those aspects are as much part of a rpg as combat, ect.

Ps. Will be playing in about 8 hours.
 
Just found out this uses Denuvo DRM on top of Origin.

If there was any hope of me buying this, it's gone now. No thank you. I don't want DRM from the creators of SecuRom that fucks up the game for legitimate customers.
 
Graal said:
Just found out this uses Denuvo DRM on top of Origin.

If there was any hope of me buying this, it's gone now. No thank you. I don't want DRM from the creators of SecuRom that fucks up the game for legitimate customers.
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Not that I wish to give praise to DRM (goodness knows we all hate it), but doesn't this make "cracking life" shittier for pirates rather than that of legitimately bought games - whilst still giving legitimate buyers a bit of s**t anyway?
 
Graal said:
Just found out this uses Denuvo DRM on top of Origin.

If there was any hope of me buying this, it's gone now. No thank you. I don't want DRM from the creators of SecuRom that fucks up the game for legitimate customers.
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From what I read Denuvo isn't actually DRM per se, it prevents tampering of DRM by using some form of randomised encryption. As long as it doesn't affect performance (which it looks like it doesn't) and doesn't give me issues running and installing the game then good, because neither Fifa 15 or Lords of the Fallen have been cracked yet.
 
I simply don't trust any DRM created by the people who brought us the lovely SecuRom and Sony rootkits. Either way, this is currently showing up in a lot of places regarding Denuvo:

"Resource monitors for RAM and CPU consumption numbers, memory viewer for trying to figure out what makes it tick and track address issues, SSD analysis tools.
For those delicious dead blocks and data tracking. Wanna know average number of times parts of LotF exe code are tossed around between RAM and HDD in the span of one hour? 150000 copy/write iterations. That's about 10000 times more than usual. DRM constantly decrypts the game code into the memory and encrypts it back.
This is the most bullcrap usage of encryption software I've ever stumbled upon. And even though code chunks are quite small (couple of kilobytes per go at worst), they are all stored in one memory block. And playing the game for 4-8 hours (depends on SSD quality), means that you can say goodbye to that block."

No idea how accurate it is because the source doesn't seem to be verified anywhere. I'll just suggest you don't install this on an SSD and rather be safe than sorry. People though the Sony Rootkit scandal was a conspiracy theory too, and look how that turned out. The people who make DRM don't care about the consumer and neither does the publisher who uses these shitty pieces of software.
 
Graal said:
I simply don't trust any DRM created by the people who brought us the lovely SecuRom and Sony rootkits. Either way, this is currently showing up in a lot of places regarding Denuvo:

"Resource monitors for RAM and CPU consumption numbers, memory viewer for trying to figure out what makes it tick and track address issues, SSD analysis tools.
For those delicious dead blocks and data tracking. Wanna know average number of times parts of LotF exe code are tossed around between RAM and HDD in the span of one hour? 150000 copy/write iterations. That's about 10000 times more than usual. DRM constantly decrypts the game code into the memory and encrypts it back.
This is the most bullcrap usage of encryption software I've ever stumbled upon. And even though code chunks are quite small (couple of kilobytes per go at worst), they are all stored in one memory block. And playing the game for 4-8 hours (depends on SSD quality), means that you can say goodbye to that block."

No idea how accurate it is because the source doesn't seem to be verified anywhere. I'll just suggest you don't install this on an SSD and rather be safe than sorry. People though the Sony Rootkit scandal was a conspiracy theory too, and look how that turned out. The people who make DRM don't care about the consumer and neither does the publisher who uses these shitty pieces of software.
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Hm and I was planning to install it on my SSD, time for a rethink.
 
Graal said:
Just found out this uses Denuvo DRM on top of Origin.

If there was any hope of me buying this, it's gone now. No thank you. I don't want DRM from the creators of SecuRom that fucks up the game for legitimate customers.
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As someone who loves BioWare's games, this bites.

I despise invasive DRM.

Scumbag EA will never change...
 
Isengard said:
If it's working as well as seems to be the case then expect to see it in a lot of future PC titles.
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A lot of future PC titles that I'll refuse to support.

Am rapidly reaching the point at which I'll cancel my 1,500SEK collector's edition pre-order despite my love for the series. That's the best middle-finger I could possibly give to these asswipes and they're unlikely to even notice.

I refuse to support these bastard companies--both EA and the DRM companies profiting off of this idiocy.

It's like supporting homoeopathic quackery because some idiot thinks that a placebo affect is proof of DRM resulting in more sales. It doesn't, it only serves to profit the predatory DRM companies and screw with legitimate customers.

Fuck them, honestly.

I'd much rather exclusively support CDProjekt, who have done sterling work in proving the lunacy behind DRM than this ethical garbage.
 
That's the main concern for me right now. I'm really scared this is going to make it into all future titles because it seems to be very effective. Fifa 15 and Lords of the Fallen have not been cracked yet and to a publisher that's more important than the fact that the DRM is harming customers and their hardware.

Fuck customers, as long as pirates can't play. It's not like pirates would be able to play DAI properly without Dragon Age Keep anyway, but let's put another DRM requirement on top of Origin. Ugh.

This is one case where I really hope the scene develops a crack for this DRM measure, because it will benefit legitimate customers in the long run if Denuvo fails.
 
I am also considering getting Far Cry 4 tomorrow instead of DA on Friday because of this bullshit DRM. I am not decided yet but I will do some reading tonight on how much this DRM affects performance and make my decision based off that.
 
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