Dragon Age Inquisition
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I have everything ramped up to Ultra except a couple of things which are at fade touched, seems to run pretty well for me except for glitches here and there which I think are due to the game rather than the gfx card.
How have some of you guys managed to play through the game twice? I'm hitting over 70 hours and still not completed the game :S
Did it at level 8 as a mage. Sneaked past all the dragonlings, went to the dragon 'arena' place, and just spammed my staff at it from far away. It was taking damage but not responding. I just put something heavy on the mouse left button and went for lunch. Came back to a higher level and some awesome loot
Did similar with my lvl10 mage (with Varric, Viv and Blackwall) and wondered if it was bugged a bit, as I stood in the "arena entrance" and spammed magic from the longest distance I've ever done, whilst the companions kinda went on a conveyor belt from me to dragon without ever loosing health or dying!?!
I did it at level 10 with a party of 4 mages with ice staffs. Plenty of barriers and cold damage. I got a rad grand enchanter staff out of him, but it's level 18 so I can't use it yet
I got this too, a lvl18 staff and I got a message you need to be lvl15 to equip. Doesn't make much sense.
Gonna shelf this game now. The more I play it, the more tedious it reveals itself to be. I left 3 areas to last and did two of them yesterday...The areas are well made, but there is nothing worth doing in any of them. The side quests are really poor.
For example, I just arrived at the Exalted Plains. I had heard talk in-game of a battlefield where two sides are fighting a civil-war. Great, I will do some quests for each side and decide who to support...this is what would happen in DA:O. No, you just run around collecting 10 letters, shards etc. There are hardly any NPCs there and no cutscenes at all. It is just soulless tbh.
If I could sum this game up in a phrase it would be this- A mile wide, an inch deep.
For example, I just arrived at the Exalted Plains. I had heard talk in-game of a battlefield where two sides are fighting a civil-war. Great, I will do some quests for each side and decide who to support...this is what would happen in DA:O. No, you just run around collecting 10 letters, shards etc. There are hardly any NPCs there and no cutscenes at all. It is just soulless tbh.
If I could sum this game up in a phrase it would be this- A mile wide, an inch deep.
I know where you're coming from but don't you get any sense of wonder as you explore new areas? I think that's what's keeping me going. I think I've done all the side quest areas now, it's just a case of cracking on with the story.
Oh the areas are good, and it is fun exploring them...or rather it would be if it wasn't just a case of walking to the next star on your mini-map only to find a letter, or some kind of item which updates your journal with 'quest complete' without any kind of interaction with anyone.
Outside of the main story is there even a cutsene in the game?
The game is just 'by the numbers' tbh. Even the areas...We need a green area, a desert, a snowy one, a dark, gloomy one, a barren one etc. The whole game is just a checklist of what they should include but there is no heart in any of it....and so little effort in detail in most of the game.
Yeah, that is annoying. In one of the areas, you're supposed to meet up with a guy at a marked location but after my wandering about exploring, I found him elsewhere and thus skipped half the quest unintentionally.
Started killing a few dragons now since I hit level 18 and upgraded my potion capacity to 12. Just got over 50 hours clocked on this game so far. Thought I cleared most areas, then realised I missed one completely. Feel a bit like a demigod at the moment with all the enemies around about level 11 
Anyway so far amazing game, love it and its GOTY for me easily.
Anyway so far amazing game, love it and its GOTY for me easily.
That pretty much sums up the game. It's disguised pretty well and most fall for it by instantly claiming it to be greater than it is, but there's actually not that much worthwhile content if you keep playing it.
It shows quality in bits and pieces. Some of the main story quests are excellent, but they're too few and far between. I pretty much don't care about any of the characters the way I did in previous Bioware games, especially DA:O, KotR or the Mass Effect games. Everything is all so safe and politically correct as if a bunch of politicians got together and decided to make a videogame, nothing is offensive or attempts to go somewhere that's risky and have you on the edge of your seat. It's all pristinely beige and rather quite boring.
Soldato
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Frankly, I don't think they'll ever top the Mass Effect series.
Despite how rickety the third entry became in terms of branching mechanics, it's an almost flawless storytelling experience.
Dragon Age has become much too broken up throughout the series due to the radical departure of the second game.
A shame, as the first was an excellent groundwork that hasn't been done well by.
Despite how rickety the third entry became in terms of branching mechanics, it's an almost flawless storytelling experience.
Dragon Age has become much too broken up throughout the series due to the radical departure of the second game.
A shame, as the first was an excellent groundwork that hasn't been done well by.
Check the geforce forums, some saying Vsync disabled in game and enabled via control panel.
I haven't had a chance to experiment yet but I see it with sli 680's on ultra.
Similar issue with DA Origins on high video settings sorted by a driver fix I think.
Andi.
Kind of.... It is one of the most disappointing things about the game. All 'Inner circle' quests become unavailable(companion quests) and worst of all, for absolutely no reason, companions will not speak to you at all!
There's a beta Geforce driver 344.80 that is supposed to fix flickering.
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3607/~/geforce-hotfix-driver-344.80
Andi.
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3607/~/geforce-hotfix-driver-344.80
Andi.
Soldato
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Cheapest place to get this currently?
Wait till later there more of a pain then that particular dragon.
I am 8/10 on dragons now