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 Sigvatr wrote:
The setting in DA:I is pretty tame compared to DA:O. DA:O was rather dark fantasy in some parts, and so far, DA:I feels very high fantasy.

Not sure how you're supposed to play "evil". You could play a super racist Shepherd who only did what he wanted, but I don't see how you would be able to do so in DA:I. Very tame answers so far and those have very little impact on the game. I don't even think that you can make people leave your party by a low friendship score...I have 1 party member I despite and would like to get rid of, but can't :(

Then play DA:I as a Dalish Elf. You gat *all kinds* of opportunities to be racist to Humans, or receive racist comments from Humans, and respond to the same. In fact, at least as a Dalish,there's chances to dedicate the entire Inquisition to the Elven Gods.

It's Oblivion's plot. You go around and close "rifts" that allow demons to enter the world after the war between templars and maniacs escalates.

Ehm... not very far into the game, are you? The Mage/Templar war is... resolved in, like, Chapter 2. At least in the choices that I made (and because I am a hell of a shot with a trebuchet.) I'm now dealing with a separate group entirely.

 Ratius wrote:
Im holding off on this due to time constraints currently but what are your guys overall impressions so far?

Im hearing its huge, good story, nice gfx and feel.
But on the negative, uninspired combat, poor PC controls (#sigh, again with this?) and a lot of wandering about?

Broken to feth. I've had all my saves corrupted once due to a crash. The dialogue breaks, freezing the PS4. Certain character selections render missions unfinishable.

I've had no trouble whatsoever on my Xbox One.

If you're on the PC and have the whole shiny hair issue, set your mesh quality to high. Should fix it.

Hu. Sidequests and such now give me +2 Power each. Neat!

 thenoobbomb wrote:
I'm a Warripr with shield, and always bring Blackwall. He's my tank, and also an all-round boss.

Aren't you th etank? or do you both have shields? If he's the tank, why not just go with two handers on yourself?

 malfred wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
I'm a Warripr with shield, and always bring Blackwall. He's my tank, and also an all-round boss.

Aren't you th etank? or do you both have shields? If he's the tank, why not just go with two handers on yourself?

I kinda put a lot of stuff into Sword and Shield before finding him..

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 malfred wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
I'm a Warripr with shield, and always bring Blackwall. He's my tank, and also an all-round boss.

Aren't you th etank? or do you both have shields? If he's the tank, why not just go with two handers on yourself?

I kinda put a lot of stuff into Sword and Shield before finding him..

You forgot Cassandra.

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 malfred wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
I'm a Warripr with shield, and always bring Blackwall. He's my tank, and also an all-round boss.

Aren't you th etank? or do you both have shields? If he's the tank, why not just go with two handers on yourself?

I kinda put a lot of stuff into Sword and Shield before finding him..

You forgot Cassandra.

Yeah, she's there too. Putting things mostly into Templar stuff for her.

I got bored and stopped playing for a bit. This has happened
before. We'll see if/when I get the bug again.

So, I've started playing the game.

And I'm having a whole heap of problems getting it going properly on my PC :(

I know the main box of my pc is getting a bit long in the tooth now, though I have been upgrading various bits of it in the last 6 years, however, considering I was playing games on 'high to ultra' a few months ago, it's quite a kick in the teeth to have suddenly dropped to 'very low' to low settings.

Well, to be honest, I'd not mind that, if Very Low to Low settings actually looked like games from 6 months ago+ but instead, they just make the game look fuzzy. And then there's the ultra shiny hair unless I put one specific setting up to high.

Ehm, would need to know your specs but, to give you an idea on mine:

AMD Phenom Black II 3.3GHZ
14GB system RAM
nVidia 660Ti 2GB DDR5 video card
Windows 7 64bit

And I run everything on High/Ultra using SSAO ambient occlusion and x2 MSAA multisample anti-aliasing. I could probably go x4 on that, but no real need to, as I've not yet encountered any tearing or anything.

... output to a 48" HDTV at 1080p.

 Psienesis wrote:


Ehm... not very far into the game, are you? The Mage/Templar war is... resolved in, like, Chapter 2. At least in the choices that I made (and because I am a hell of a shot with a trebuchet.) I'm now dealing with a separate group entirely.

Check the post's date.

 Psienesis wrote:
... output to a 48" HDTV at 1080p.

 Psienesis wrote:
Ehm, would need to know your specs but, to give you an idea on mine:

AMD Phenom Black II 3.3GHZ
14GB system RAM
nVidia 660Ti 2GB DDR5 video card
Windows 7 64bit

And I run everything on High/Ultra using SSAO ambient occlusion and x2 MSAA multisample anti-aliasing. I could probably go x4 on that, but no real need to, as I've not yet encountered any tearing or anything.

... output to a 48" HDTV at 1080p.

I hate you.

 Lord Bingo wrote:
If you're on the PC and have the whole shiny hair issue, set your mesh quality to high. Should fix it.

It is bad enough that I will be VERY grateful to have that work, thanks!

I checked out some spoilers online and apparently I'm about to start the last main story mission. I did most of my companion's special quests and stuff. Is it important to do all of the quests in the different zones? Like is the ending going to be dynamic based on which factions like you and what NPCs join you and all, like Mass Effect 3? I want to be able to get a happy kumbaya ending.

So, basically, this is how I've been playing Dragon Age 3 so far:



I've got Anti Aliasing up to high now (the first kind of AA, not the bottom one), but it's had no real effect that I can see on the general fuzziness of the character models.

As I said, I know my system is older-ish now.

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
6.00GB RAM
GeForce GTX560
1680x1050, 60Hz display

But it's not so bad that the guys in the background should look like models in Medieval Total War!

So, seriously, if someone can point out some setting that'll make it less horrendous, I'll be pretty darn happy.

 Compel wrote:
So, basically, this is how I've been playing Dragon Age 3 so far:

I've got Anti Aliasing up to high now (the first kind of AA, not the bottom one), but it's had no real effect that I can see on the general fuzziness of the character models.

As I said, I know my system is older-ish now.

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
6.00GB RAM
GeForce GTX560
1680x1050, 60Hz display

But it's not so bad that the guys in the background should look like models in Medieval Total War!

So, seriously, if someone can point out some setting that'll make it less horrendous, I'll be pretty darn happy.

Your system hits the minimum for everything easily,and your graphics card is better than the minimum, but everything is still below recommended levels.

Recommended are:

Intel Quad core @3.0GHz
8 GB Ram
GTX 660

So I don't know if you'll be able to get any better with what you using now.

You can play it, but it ain't gonna look pretty

I dunno the fuzzyness brings out the retro i like

 Compel wrote:
So, basically, this is how I've been playing Dragon Age 3 so far:

I've got Anti Aliasing up to high now (the first kind of AA, not the bottom one), but it's had no real effect that I can see on the general fuzziness of the character models.

As I said, I know my system is older-ish now.

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
6.00GB RAM
GeForce GTX560
1680x1050, 60Hz display

But it's not so bad that the guys in the background should look like models in Medieval Total War!

So, seriously, if someone can point out some setting that'll make it less horrendous, I'll be pretty darn happy.

Ehm, actually, I think you've pushed that video card to its limits, as Jebus said. You could maybe turn down the shadow resolution, but I don't think you're going to get that much more out of that card. Your CPU is a bit low-end for a modern game, too. Won't really affect the graphics much but can affect gamplay. From the screenshot, you're getting above-minimum performance, which is on par with what you've got to work with...

The problem you're having with those guys behind Cassandra is a CPU/GPU bottleneck issue. It's lagging on loading the art resources.


*Also*.... be very careful when picking Ember-whatever. The flower. 3 times last night damn near got struck by lightning while picking this damned flower.

... also, get that perk that gives you chances to double-up on harvesting materials as soon as you can, because it does more than double your intake (I can sometimes get 10 Elfroots or whatever at once off 1 plant) of materials.... and you will *need* those materials!

So. That mission in the Orlesian Ball. That was the mission that got me hooked. If they released a game where your inquisition was literally you being inquisitorial in that manner, I'd buy it and jack it onto the box.

May have an Xbox One soon so not sure what game to get for it. I am considering this one as it seems like you can play it for some time.

I'm still playing with my mostly rubbish graphics (though I have managed to turn a bunch of settings up to medium now. - Utterly smooth frame rates isn't an issue considering I tend to pause things loads anyway.)

I've just met Iron Bull, ironically, while I was trying to see whether I could find Black Wall.

I've got to say, I'm a little confused. Iron Bull's a Qunari, but he has already shown to have a great sense of humour. His first party conversation was with Sera and amounted to him suggesting he catapults her over the enemy ranks to perform a rear attack.

Even more strangely, Sera deemed this too chaotic a thing to try...

 Ahtman wrote:
May have an Xbox One soon so not sure what game to get for it. I am considering this one as it seems like you can play it for some time.

It makes my PS4 lag.

 Ahtman wrote:
May have an Xbox One soon so not sure what game to get for it. I am considering this one as it seems like you can play it for some time.

Great game. Haven't experienced any trouble yet. Crashed 1 time to Homescreen.

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
May have an Xbox One soon so not sure what game to get for it. I am considering this one as it seems like you can play it for some time.

Great game. Haven't experienced any trouble yet. Crashed 1 time to Homescreen.

Crashed like 3 times . and plenty of graphical glitches on the PC so far.

My favorite was a random background dude in a cinematic walking around without the upper half of his body

 Desubot wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
May have an Xbox One soon so not sure what game to get for it. I am considering this one as it seems like you can play it for some time.

Great game. Haven't experienced any trouble yet. Crashed 1 time to Homescreen.

Crashed like 3 times . and plenty of graphical glitches on the PC so far.

My favorite was a random background dude in a cinematic walking around without the upper half of his body

I've had the opposite experience. I've had a couple of glitches, nothing crazy, but it has crashed on me a lot. Like A LOT. Worst was during a dragon fight where the dragon was down to around 25% health.

I heartily recommend saving often if you're on PC.

 Desubot wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
May have an Xbox One soon so not sure what game to get for it. I am considering this one as it seems like you can play it for some time.

Great game. Haven't experienced any trouble yet. Crashed 1 time to Homescreen.

Crashed like 3 times . and plenty of graphical glitches on the PC so far.

My favorite was a random background dude in a cinematic walking around without the upper half of his body

My favourite was when my Inquisitor's arms popped into his torso. But his weapon didn't.