is it good?

During a siege of mutated humans who turn into red crystal monsters that teleport around, throw force lightning and spit giga aids pule you get mad about a fricking trebuchet not being realistic?
How about the zombie dragon? Or you know, the giant fricking hole in the sky?

>medieval fantasy
>dyke haircut
UHH OHH

There's nothing fricking medieval about Thedas, it's a generic nu-american fantasy melting pot with no cohesive style, if anything it's closer to the renaissance all things considered and haircuts are the least of your issues when you got dwarves, elves and horned people roaming around.
But of course you have to complain about the dyke haircut, not about Hawke using war paint in 2, not about the comically angular armor design in the whole fricking series, not about the godwaful popart graffiti that plagues the entire franchise, not about "mosaics" being actually plaques...no, it's the dyke haircut of all things that breaks the immersion and isn't historically accurate in a fricking medieval fantasy world...
You people truly are the same exact thing as your boogeymen but somehow more hypocritical, it's absolutely grotesque how low this place has fallen.

Well yeah, that's how Bioware does thing.
If you want actually good games you certainly won't play this shit, or any big industry thing really, DA as a whole is casual shlock, comfort food tier entertainment at best when you have nothing left to play.

>UHHH THERE IS A MAGIC IT MEANS EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE moronic
moronic fricking moron. If you encounter a mage it is normal to expect mage to do all crazy shit. When you encounter a trebuchet it is normal to expect a trebuchet to work LIKE A FRICKING TREBUCHET. Ever heard of coherence? no? Then frick off to reddit.
>UHH ITS OKAY FOR DYKE HAIRCUTS EXIST BECAUSE LOL DARFS

Stop fricking typing its pathetic, you are only making shit worse for yourself by grasping at straws.

>Ever heard of coherence?
There's literally no possible coherence in a world with magic, the trebuchet and the dyke haircuts are the least of your worries, every single fantasy setting has this kind of issues, stop pretending you're more intelligent than you actually are.

Are you kidding me?
Mass Effect is just DA in space, except with somehow worse gameplay, more tacked in romance and less respect for its continuity, and for how bad DA is, it has nothing on the level of Andromeda or any ending as bad as MA3, for now, maybe Dreadwolf will change that though.
Neverwinter Nights was comically bad as an actual game, the OCs are all atrocious, its only value was in the editing tools, which were really not all that good on their own either and were mostly used for trashy ERP campaigns, because that's what Bioware's audience always wanted, it's not really a Nu-bioware thing.
KOTOR was a total shitshow and the game is only really remember for Kreia memes, for better or worse, surely not the godawful gameplay.
Baldur's Gate was THE game that cemented what you people nowadays call "Reddit humour" and "cringe writing" , there's no functional difference between Sera and Minsc as characters, outside of the latter having a hamster and not being a goblino looking abomination, the tacked on romance elements that you lament so much started in here, nothing really changed outside of being a bit more gay than in the past and well, less D&D, probably the only good thing they did.

>Origins and 2 weren't really any better than Inquisition in terms of gameplay or writing
Brain-dead take. Origins is miles ahead of both 2 and Inquisition.

Origins is a terrible game, to the point the most recommended mod for the game removes an entire portion of it due to how bad it is, something neither DA2 nor Inquisition can be accused of, in fact I remember dreading the fade quest in both 2 and Inquisition due to how godawful it was in Origins and was actually relieved when neither were nearly as bad, in fact Inquisition had the least offensive fade section in the series somehow.
All of the series is mediocre at best, none of the entries truly stand out or are better than another, partly because they're pretty different overall, partly because they come with their own unique sets of issues that makes them equally awful, just for different reasons.

>less respect for its continuity

>Sten later tries to rationalize this by saying the warden must not be a woman if she fights after all
Then Sten would have called her Aqun-Athlok. For a person that is getting BTFO'd left and right, this entire thread, one would think you have the common sense to shut the frick up.

>Sten is literally an expendable meatshield,
Nta, but not anymore. Guy has been the Arishok for years now in the comics.

It's hard to believe that there isn't a way for someone to rise up the ranks. I mean, imagine losing your leader and not being able to assign a new one because of the lack of a social latter.

>I still remember when the game came out and people here were lamenting the "consolization" of their precious WRPGs
They should have been lamenting that back when Neverwinter Nights came out.

>Nah, just saying it's the same shit in a different package
Which is an even more moronic statement to make since the games couldn't be more different.

Also, then you go
>Inquisition sold nearly double the numbers of Origins too, somehow, so I'm pretty sure most people don't think it's a worse game than Origins/Awakening, I don't think they'd tie the next game directly to Inquisition either if the reception was that bad, but you do you.
Which is you literally trying to rationalize with shitty arguments than Inquisition (a game you clearly like, but don't want to admit to here) is good. Most likely you think it's the best in the series.

You're not only a fricking idiot, you're as subtle as an atom bomb.

>But unlick you I don't go around crusading and having fits like you do and pretending Cisquisition is the worst thing on earth
It's pretty close. At least worse than communism.

>or Bull is just lying about the Qun which is also a possiblity
One of the devs was asked about it on Twitter and explained how it was possible, and the Aqun-Athlok actually makes sense, within the confines of Sten's conversation it doesn't, but whatever I forget who it was, but it must have, most likely, been either Gaider or Weekes, most likely Weekes.

I don't think you read it properly. Or maybe I didn't word it correctly. They basically confirmed that Bull is telling the truth, with an explanation that directly goes against what Sten says in Origins. Basically they said that the Qunari put ability over gender norms. Which couldn't happen in Qunari society, because, if only men could become warriors, the women would not be allowed to, and would not be able to develop the skill, therefore having no need for the term of Aqun-Athlok.

People loved DA2, what are you talk-oh ...

da2 was shat on for reused maps and enemies spawning out of the thin air

>red bar=marketing and virality
>blue bar=actual quality of the game
These are great. I think we should just stick to hard numeric shitposting like this from now on.

I just remember grogs writing DAO off because the advertising campaign
In the end it's a suicidally boring RTwP slog. It has some good elements like the origins but most games have some good elements

Ah yes, the edgy era of gaming. As cringy as it was, I miss this type of marketing.

It has some cool ideas, but they're all stuck in mediocre at best comics and unworthy sequels.

>implying Warhammer didn't steal its entire lore from popular fantasy and sci-fi works

>they had lots of original ideas and concepts
Such as what?

If you just want to come up with excuses for devs say that he was brain damaged or something

>Origins is a terrible game, to the point the most recommended mod for the game removes an entire portion of it due to how bad it is, something neither DA2 nor Inquisition can be accused of,

DAO has a tedious section (on replay) in the game, while DA2 and Inquisition are tedious as a whole.
The same has been done in other games, like Baldur's Gate 2.

>All of the series is mediocre at best, none of the entries truly stand out or are better than another
You're brain damaged. Origins and Awakening are the only good ones, the other ones are inhumane trash. For every blemish Origins has, the others have massive issues.
The "origins" part is also far more interesting than anything the ones ones did.

>UHHH THERE IS A MAGIC IT MEANS EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE moronic
moronic fricking moron. If you encounter a mage it is normal to expect mage to do all crazy shit. When you encounter a trebuchet it is normal to expect a trebuchet to work LIKE A FRICKING TREBUCHET. Ever heard of coherence? no? Then frick off to reddit.
>UHH ITS OKAY FOR DYKE HAIRCUTS EXIST BECAUSE LOL DARFS

Stop fricking typing its pathetic, you are only making shit worse for yourself by grasping at straws.

No you're not. You were busy eating crayons during 2007. You actually think DA:I is good so you are either a woman, a tourist, straight up moronic, or a combination of them all.

Terrible LARP. Go back.

It's amusing you have full confidence in your moronation. Try adding a bit of "Black person" next time you tourist.

holy based king

Why aren't you?

>you having a personal vendetta against Bioware doesn't change that.
You go through this thread, you see what is posted, you see the shape and quality of the game, and consider it a vendetta against Bioware? I consider you a crusader in favour of Bioware, you poor delusional bastard. You're the definition of Biodrone.

Do you even comprehend the levels at which Inquisition's problems exist? Because I don't think you do. Glitches and graphical inconsistencies are one thing. I can go so far as say that Amalur gets boring, after a while. But Inquisition is a test of patience, to the degree of how much bullshit you can stomach. The action is vastly better than anything Inquisition does, which is what you are doing in either game, for 75% of the time. The maps are more interesting, and encourage exploration, due to the secrets, and lore hidden around them. Inquisition is filled with huge maps that offer nothing. The dialogue in Inquisition ranges from boring, to embarrassing, to cringe. KoA may not have Hamlet levels of dialogue, but I never feel like the game is underestimating my intelligence, like Inquisition does. By the end of Inquisition, you will give no fricks about the characters, the lore, or the setting, because it is all so absolutely fricking terrible. KoA got me 10x more invested in its world, and the predicament of the ever resurrecting dark elves, than anything, or anyone in Inquisition. Inquisition was actively damaging to the DA franchise.

>Surely you're jesting, KoA is legitimately the most braindead western game in ages
You say that, compared to auto attack, then press skill, repeat for cooldown gameplay, of Inquisition. Yeah, no. This is the point I stop taking you seriously.

>Amalur is the same exact shitty gameplay
The point where I stopped taking you seriously, was over here

>The action is vastly better than anything Inquisition does
Surely you're jesting, KoA is legitimately the most braindead western game in ages, the very first Xanadu has deeper gameplay and I'm not joking, you can't fricking excuse this braindead QTE ridden trash and pretend it's better than DA:I.
>The maps are more interesting, and encourage exploration, due to the secrets, and lore hidden around them.
Factually untrue since again, there's no fricking verticality in KoA let alone a jump button, and literally every single dungeon is proctier nonsense made up of three recycled map tilesets for the entire fricking game including the DLCs, with the only exception being Teeth of Naros where they bothered making a new tileset, and a single dungeon that didn't completely suck like the rest of the game, the sewers.
Hunting down lorestones and and letters is the same exact fricking thing as Cisquisition except done worse because again, the map design can't compare, it's absurdly dishonest to even pretend it does if you actually played both games, Skyhold alone has a more interesting layout and is more interactable and explorable than anything in KoA and that's a fricking hub.
>but I never feel like the game is underestimating my intelligence
That's because you have none, I have no idea how anyone would seriously say KoA is better than anything outside of maybe unsalvageable gutter indie trash like Outward, then say he totally doesn't have a vendetta against Bioware.
This is absurdly pathetic.

You can stop trying now.

>The action is vastly better than anything Inquisition does
Surely you're jesting, KoA is legitimately the most braindead western game in ages, the very first Xanadu has deeper gameplay and I'm not joking, you can't fricking excuse this braindead QTE ridden trash and pretend it's better than DA:I.
>The maps are more interesting, and encourage exploration, due to the secrets, and lore hidden around them.
Factually untrue since again, there's no fricking verticality in KoA let alone a jump button, and literally every single dungeon is proctier nonsense made up of three recycled map tilesets for the entire fricking game including the DLCs, with the only exception being Teeth of Naros where they bothered making a new tileset, and a single dungeon that didn't completely suck like the rest of the game, the sewers.
Hunting down lorestones and and letters is the same exact fricking thing as Cisquisition except done worse because again, the map design can't compare, it's absurdly dishonest to even pretend it does if you actually played both games, Skyhold alone has a more interesting layout and is more interactable and explorable than anything in KoA and that's a fricking hub.
>but I never feel like the game is underestimating my intelligence
That's because you have none, I have no idea how anyone would seriously say KoA is better than anything outside of maybe unsalvageable gutter indie trash like Outward, then say he totally doesn't have a vendetta against Bioware.
This is absurdly pathetic.

BioWare employee/unpaid troony shill.

Selling 6 million copies, while heavily discounted, at $5 a pop, isn't an achievement. In fact, it means you are taking a hit, effectively, for every game you're selling.

>Good thing that's not what happened then?
So what happened, then?

>Unless you wanna imply EA is lying not just to their customers but all of their investors when they say Inquisition was the most successful entry in the series.
Well, the NPD certainly didn't lie. So what happened? Show me some concrete numbers.

>Ask EA, not me,
So you have nothing. That's what you're telling me.

It's not my word. It's the NPD's word. The NPD is the lead authority in tracking NA sales. Unless you want to say that in this one case, the NPD, out of all the possible cases, is wrong.

Right. So the defense, as per usual, is that NA physical sales of Inquisition account for only, what? 20% of its total sales? Say it is so. Do other games not have digital sales? Why was the Halo MCC the 10th game on the list? Why aren't the physical sales numbers of all the other games, on that list, lower? And, just a reminder, in the financial call discussing Anthem, Andrew Wilson called it “their most digital game”, by selling 51% of its total sales, digitally. So we know what it couldn't have been over. And extrapolating from digital sales of other games, it would be highly unlikely that Inquisition, an early PS4/XBONE title, would have sold that high, digitally, in 2014.

What are you trying to argue? The NPD isn't some random blog. You want to make a point that the NPD malevolently misrepresented DA:I's sales? You're going to have to explain the how and why that would happen. Now, you have no argument, and no proof, and resort to personal attacks. Just take the L and shut up.

>NO arguments
>More personal attacks
>Look at me guys, I'm the winner, I like being fed lies and believing them, like an idiot
I bet you think Biden was a good choice for president, too,

no wonder AAA gaming is such garbage quality

>If Bioware wants a Skyrim
I don't think they want a Skyrim given DA has nothing in common with Skyrim outside of its own flavour of garbage gameplay and art direction, I'd say they'd be more thank okay with another 3 to 6 million seller, the bigger issue here is EA and how they handle things.
I also don't think Dreadwolf is going to be an AAA kind of game at all, and with how barren the western "RPG" scene is currently I have little doubt they'll have to fight for some relevance at launch, as long as the marketing is on point they will succeed.
After all, the vast majority of people play these games for the character creation, self inserting and dating more than anything, so as long as they keep delivering on that they'll still find success no matter what, the concerns of people like you and I are irrelevant as we're not the actual target of these games, and I honestly give zero shit about Bioware or EA, I don't buy stocks and I don't work for them.

Honestly can't see the supposed Skyrim influences in Inquisition, as bad as it still is.