Dragon Age III: Inquisition

[kwebbvols4423]

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Check out the dragon age keep. It will let you build the world through the decisions of the previous games. You can then use this information to find youtube videos or things like that to help you with the background story.

Thanks! I also found this for the few of us new to the series:

http://kotaku.com/a-beginners-guide-...age-1658487212

[Pokes]

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This will be my first one; am I going to be completely lost in the story?

Honestly, probably, yes. The Keep allows you to build a custom world state from the previous two games, but it doesn't in detail explain the background/significance of each choice. A large amount of the story and lore in this game is filled in between the lines.

As a long time fan of this series, (DAO is in my top 5 GOAT) DAI is probably a good entry point control wise to a newcomer to the DAverse. This game may as be as actiony as the previous entry, but it is still foremost an RPG.

I would say certainly give it a go, but just know what exactly you're getting into. I feel like there's going to be many people getting this based on reviews and hype alone without ever playing a game this series before, and then are going to end up disappointed b/c they were expecting something like Diablo 3 or similar.

[kwebbvols4423]

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Honestly, probably, yes. The Keep allows you to build a custom world state from the previous two games, but it doesn't in detail explain the background/significance of each choice. A large amount of the story and lore in this game is filled in between the lines.

As a long time fan of this series, (DAO is in my top 5 GOAT) DAI is probably a good entry point control wise to a newcomer to the DAverse. This game may as be as actiony as the previous entry, but it is still foremost an RPG.

I would say certainly give it a go, but just know what exactly you're getting into. I feel like there's going to be many people getting this based on reviews and hype alone without ever playing a game this series before, and then are going to end up disappointed b/c they were expecting something like Diablo 3 or similar.

The reviews and hype got me interested, but I don't like to jump into games that I have no idea what is going on. That kotaku article I linked above has a good amount about the previous stories and it talks about using the dragons keep.

[Candyman5]

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The reviews and hype got me interested, but I don't like to jump into games that I have no idea what is going on. That kotaku article I linked above has a good amount about the previous stories and it talks about using the dragons keep.

Yeah the keep can help you decide the events of dragon age origins and 2 before inquisition.

Pretty good summary.

[KingTocco]

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Shouldn't have come to this thread, now I'm really interested in this game haha


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[Chizzypoof]

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This will be my first one; am I going to be completely lost in the story?

You'll be fine from what I read. I am sure some things will confuse you, but hop on here and ask what happened if you need to. Most of us here played DA:O to death.

Hopefully you get so hooked that you buy Dragon Age Origins. EA was giving it away for free on PC earlier this year.

[Candyman5]

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Okay my 6 hours are up so here are my impressions: (spoiler free)

When you start off you will watch a cutscene and immediately go into character editor. From what I seen you have a variety of options. There you select 1 of 3 races: Human, Elf, Dwarf and the new option Quinari. Each race has some forms of passive bonus to them. Afterwards comes the class select. You can choose: Warrior, Rougue, Mage or Archer. Then comes the facial details and stuff that look to be a pretty detailed area.

Then starts your journey. The first area after the prologue is huge. In my 6 hours of playing it felt that I only got about halfway through the area. Keep in my I am a huge explorer in these types of games so I was looking for lots of stuff and completing tons of side quests. There are secrets scattered around and note and maps that show you pictures of monuments and such to find treasure. It reminds me a lot of the treasure maps in Skyrim.

Also enemies do not level with you. At one point I ventured into a area that had a creature that absolutely wrecked my party. After the 3rd or 4th attempted I decided to switch up my approach. I went into tactical view and told my archer to go onto a cliff, had my shield and sword tank warcry and provoke the creature and myself and the other mage rained hell down upon him with lightning and Ice goodness. I was rewarded with the satisfaction of seeing my XP bar grow. This was all done on normal difficulty and I found it to be pretty tough.

The main thing that it seemed like I was fighting with was the inventory sysyem. Just seems a little clunky but after a couple of hours it becomes a secondary thing.

I also experienced enemies spawning on me and pop in occasionally but nothing major.

Overall I can see this game taking up a huge amount of time and can't wait until it releases.

[Mr.Smif]

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As someone that has never playing a Dragon Age game do you guys still recommend this? Watched an ign review last night, game looks really cool


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Coming from your typical action shooter gamer and from a guy who never played a DA game I do recommend this game for you. I am sick and tired of playing 6-8hr fps's where the campaigns are just long training tutorials to get you ready for online play.
The non-turn based mostly real time combat in DAI really makes this game attractive to a lot more people.

[Mr.Smif]

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Is their an online guide on how to use tatical view? Im trying ot use it but I dont know what the heck im doing, lol.

[bakan723]

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No you create your character. Watch the beginning of my archived stream. The character creator is pretty great.

He said characters, as in plural.

[Candyman5]

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He said characters, as in plural.

Like as create characters to use in your party?

[Skyboxer]

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Like as create characters to use in your party?

Personally if I was asking the question I would have worded it the same way. "Can you make your own characters?"
Meaning when I play the game do you create the character/s I'm going to use when I play..

So it could mean different things lol

[bakan723]

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Like as create characters to use in your party?

Yes, some RPGs let you create an entire party of your own.

[Pokes]

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The non-turn based mostly real time combat in DAI really makes this game attractive to a lot more people.

Meh. That's what DA2 did and it was the lowest received of the DA series. As I said earlier this game is foremost an RPG with actiony elements.

This is more like Origins with faster paced combat.



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[Candyman5]

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I shouldnt of played that 6 hours, lol. Now I'm going through withdrawals looking at the game on my dashboard cursing the 0 time remaining notification. Lol.