Oh God where do I even begin. I played this game through and I can confirm that you get a polished working product for the money you pay, does not crash, stable framerate, game is great to look at when you are looking at places, technically great. Unfortunately the issues is not with the framework of this game but it's swallow substance that should give the backbone of an "RPG". This is not an RPG, you have around one major choice before the very end where you get a plenty more. I feel like that the end was written first as the last 2 hours almost managed to immerse me. Sadly the 55 hours before that failed to do so. Your "choices", the dialogue wheel is complete joke and when something significant needs a choice the games TELLS YOU the consequences. Usually they are just stupid ♥♥♥♥ how your companion feels about a certain topic but still.. I've just recently replayed the Witcher 3 and imagine if every time you are sarcastic ahole with someone it would also have a giant warning attached to it (BE CAREFUL YOU MIGHT HURT THIS RANDOM PEASANTS FEELINGS!!!) Enough rambling I am 2 years late with this witch hunt any way.
Pros:
- Runs well, optimized
- Environments look gorgeous
- Last 2 hours of the main story was decent, some characters got decent closure
- I guess the combat as a mage can be fun at time, you can get broken real fast
- Some bits of lore that expends the Dragon Age universe (Probably also made sure that this franchise will never have a new game)
- DA lore nerds only: Visiting Tevinter, Antiva and other major places mentioned in previous games
Cons:
- Artstyle --> Funko pop characters are just pathetic, looks odd and plain ♥♥♥♥♥♥
- Quanri --> Wtf i am looking at
- Darkspawn --> Turned into a generic disneyfied resident evil knock off
- Anything that might give this game a rated M category, Make sure no blooooood, it's too edgy we might offend someone
- Blatant messaging about issues which were present in previous Bioware game too. There, they were written well, here they make more damage to said cause.
- Writing --> Whoever wrote these conversations never spoke with another human being
- Plot --> Dumb as f*ck. The only things that worth mentioning is related to Solas the other two whoever are mustache twirling evils..
- Only thing used truthfully from previous dragon ages is the reusing the same area for different quests (DA2 had an excuse it was made under a year...)
- Companion quests feel soo random and forced. I am solving a major crisis but my companions blatantly tell me that their personal issues that have nothing to do with the main plot should be solved as well
- Combat gets very samey after a while
- You can not control your companions
- You can not kick out your companions ( Oh I wanted to)
- Sometimes I just laughed at serious conversation as I couldn't tell how was this green lit. Great satire though, although I don't think that was the goal.
- Where are my choice, and why do you tell me what's going to happen if there is an insignificant one?!!!
- Why there are zero conflict between my companions?
- Why can't I initiate any conflict with anybody?
- Why are my companions behave like 5 years old and Rook is solving their kindergarden problems like a Mommy/Daddy?
- Why is this called Dragon Age? Why couldn't you make a new IP and ruin that one instead ?
TL;DR : Don't buy this if you are DA fan. It will upset you, not even with a discount. If you know nothing of the previous games than it's just MID as hell, I guess you can buy it if you have nothing better to do?
