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I've had a lot of crashes and glitches on my Xbone. The worst was when the game wouldn't even load and crash every time I tried to start playing. I thought I was about to lose the last 80 hours of my life :( but I read online that if you shut off your Xbone and unplug it from the wall, wait 30 seconds, then reboot everything, that will fix it.. and sho'nuff it did. But it really sucked.
I did all the companion missions and other major side stuff. Gonna do the final (I think) mission tonight.
I have hit a wall on this one. I played up through getting the keep with my human male two-hander and right up to Your Heart Shall Burn with my Dalish female mage and ... ugh, maybe I just haven't made the right character yet or something. For some reason my interest in DAI just drained. I started a new character the other night but fell asleep before closing the breach. Anybody else find their interest tapering off? I doubt it is a problem with the game. I hope I have not totally become a "Bethesda RPG or nothing" gamer ...
Cheesecat wrote: Maybe the game is just too long for you, not every game need to has to consume tons of hours to be enjoyable.
Probably not -- I clock ~400 hours per Bethesda RPG. Granted, BioWare RPGs have a very different pace from Bethesda's games. But obviously that would be a pacing problem rather than rote length. And I think the pacing of DAI (at least up to the point I have gotten) is very good.
Manchu wrote: I have hit a wall on this one. I played up through getting the keep with my human male two-hander and right up to Your Heart Shall Burn with my Dalish female mage and ... ugh, maybe I just haven't made the right character yet or something. For some reason my interest in DAI just drained. I started a new character the other night but fell asleep before closing the breach. Anybody else find their interest tapering off? I doubt it is a problem with the game. I hope I have not totally become a "Bethesda RPG or nothing" gamer ...
Part of it might be the "starting over" bit. I generally like Bioware games (haven't played this one yet, though - because I can't), but I *really* dislike replaying through their introductory sequences. The first run through is fine. But I tend to find the subsequent run throughs of the prologue to be very tedious.
I made a human archer girl and it's been fun, it's kind of ezmode for me though, I just sit back and shoot with any mage I feel like, and I have cassandra and bull do the tanking. I made a Qun mage guy that I'll do for a 2nd playthrough, but I'm almost done the main story with my archer.
I still haven't tried the multiplayer, but if it's like mass effect 3 I'll probably enjoy it.
Desubot wrote: Still having fun with me dalish fem rogue archer. and i just finished your heart shall burn.
I dunno though it started feeling overwhelming though now that i hit skyhold. (that gakgotreal moment yaknow?)
Wait till the orlesian ball mission. SO GOOD. up till then I was on the fence. A game of nothing but missions like that is what I want. Where you have to take the time and caution to get it right.
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Desubot wrote: Still having fun with me dalish fem rogue archer. and i just finished your heart shall burn.
I dunno though it started feeling overwhelming though now that i hit skyhold. (that gakgotreal moment yaknow?)
Wait till the orlesian ball mission. SO GOOD. up till then I was on the fence. A game of nothing but missions like that is what I want. Where you have to take the time and caution to get it right.
Yeah gotta build up me power to go do that :/ but i only play like a 1-2hours a day rather than binge play
Desubot wrote: Still having fun with me dalish fem rogue archer. and i just finished your heart shall burn.
I dunno though it started feeling overwhelming though now that i hit skyhold. (that gakgotreal moment yaknow?)
Wait till the orlesian ball mission. SO GOOD. up till then I was on the fence. A game of nothing but missions like that is what I want. Where you have to take the time and caution to get it right.
Yeah that's the point when the game won me over fully as well
My laptop... runs the game. We'll leave it at that, and I was considering giving up on it through frustration but after the Ball I decided to just deal with it and play because it was a very enjoyable mission.
After some initial scepticism (I ended up enjoying DA2, but after DAO my expectations for the sequel were so high that this time I chose to be pessimistic), and a decision to wait until my P&P group has checked out the game, I finally caved in and got it as well. That was about a week or so ago. I also still happen to play Elite, so my spare time - or rather the amount of it I spend at the computer - gets ripped apart by these two games. Damn.
At first, I was incredibly disappointed by the abysmal control scheme, and my gamer nose immediately picked up that smelly odour of a bad PC port. I had no idea it was actually possible to make DA3 feel even more "consoley" than DA2, but here we are. To be fair, part of it is not just the controls themselves, or the flawed tactical camera, but also the "cinematic animations" that seem to have become a trademark of console RPGs and RPG'ish games nowadays (or so my perception goes). This whole bit about taking a full second to make a step, or having to finish a slow 30-second swing animation (hyperbole, but I swear it feels like that sometimes) before you are allowed to move again can be a jarring experience, and something that as a two-handed melee fighter has been responsible for a number of deaths already. Yes, it is realistic, and yes it looks more cinematic, but in terms of gameplay feeling and fun it is, simply put, atrocious.
In one particular encounter it actually went so far that I put the game away, not touching it again, but then ...
... then BioWare's strengths - the story, the characters, the cutscenes - kicked in and captured my interest like a siren an unwary sailor. *sigh* It's almost embarassing how much I'm a sucker for this sort of game, and what I'm willing to "endure" for it - up to a point where I considered that I might have liked the game better if BioWare simply made it an interactive movie instead, so I can skip the unengaging, and frequently frustrating combat encounters (and who was the genius that removed the healing ability from mages?!) and instead just jump from one dialogue and cutscene to another. Yet, here we are, and I have to admit I am actually having fun, so much so that I could see myself still playing this in a week from now, judging from what little I've heard about its length compared to my progress so far.
I'm playing a Human Two-Handed Warrior, by the way, with a custom greatsword. Tried to re-create my character from a Dragon Age P&P RPG party, and am quite satisfied with the result.
Spoiler:
Right now, I'm loving it. Half the characters available to my party are forgettable, but the other half I hang out with all the time. Even those I can not take with me, such as the ambassador. Just like in the previous games, the banter is brilliant, and the characters' interactions with one another keep me hooked just because I want to know what'll happen to them. Though I've come to enjoy the actual plot quite a bit as well. I'm pretty much feeling like Jeanne d'Arc now and, after some initial doubts and modest refusal, have fully embraced the religious role and attached responsibility that people in the game wanted to dump on me.
There were quite a few epic scenes already, and I have a feeling I'm in for some more. The Maker wills it!
Necros wrote:I still haven't tried the multiplayer, but if it's like mass effect 3 I'll probably enjoy it.
Sort of. It is "better" in that it isn't about getting swarmed from all sides by waves upon waves of enemies, but instead you get a co-op dungeon to fight a path through, meaning you'll have regular breaks in-between encounters and an opportunity for planning - which fits nicely to the slightly more detached and complex (= more abilities) controls compared to ME. An interesting bit is that depending on the class, people can open special passages, such as a rogue lockpicking a door or a mage dispelling a barrier. Also, the characters actually have a bit of party banter here, too, though it gets repetitive fast.
The biggest downside is probably that the characters aren't customised, as has been mentioned earlier in the thread. You don't get to name them, let alone pick their appearance or even their race and gender. Which ... can suck quite a bit if you had a particular something you wanted to play in MP with your friends. Such as a certain P&P group. *ahem*
Also, so far there really only seems to be one level, though its interiors seem to change slightly between playthroughs. They will probably add more with future patches, and more types of enemies as well (right now, I think there are three factions you may be pitted against).
I was going to do the last mission last night, but I had one last 5+ hour mission at the war table so I decided to let that play out and see how that ends. I decided to go dragon hunting instead, and I killed em all or at least the ones I know about. I'm level 22, and the rest of the team is 21. Iron Bull especially loves a good dragon fight, so bring him along if you kill em
They drop some really awesome loot, and their blood is great for making demon killing runes.
I found a gryphon bow that shoots 3 arrows for each shot, so that's also 3 arrows for each shooty power you do. I found out I can do a volley with leaping shot, that makes like 20 or so arrows go off and there's a sea of red numbers all over the place. I always forget to try it, but I have the assassin perk where every shot from stealth automagically crits. So that plus a leaping shot will prolly be pretty nasty.
I was going to finish up the hissing wastes, but I decided to just do the last mission. It was fun, I liked the ending and all. But since I grinded out a lot of levels before hand I think it make the final battle a little too easy. Still fun though
Some of the big decisions I picked was:
Spoiler:
I sided with the Templars
I let Hawke die in the fade (if he's really dead?)
I let Morrigan drink from the well instead of me.
I backed Cassandra as the new divine
On my 2nd playthrough I'm doing a Qun mage and I'm gonna pick pretty much the opposite for everything
Still kicking ass in the Emerald Graves. I want to claim this place in the name of the Inquisition and make it a Dalish kingdom again. Trying to figure out if the game will let me do that.
Also, found another dragon here. Have determined that Sera with a bow is one dragon-killing girl. Cassandra tanks, Sera plants herself behind a low wall of some kind (avoids the wing-beat effect that drags you in) and shoots in the head a lot.
It is best to be a pessimist. You are usually right and, when you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised.
Despite playing the game for many hois, I've just recruited the mages.
I can't help but think my circle mage that tries to be very good and is devoted to Andraste and the ideas behind the chantry is going to come a cropper...
I can't help but think she's going to end up launching a crusade... Half the time I'm trying to pick a conversation option that says 'I believe Andraste has a plan for me...' And I end up probably in game commiting blasphemy with, 'Andraste sent me here personally to save your souls.'
It seems what I'm shooting for with my character is too subtle for the dialogue wheels.
Compel wrote: Despite playing the game for many hois, I've just recruited the mages.
I can't help but think my circle mage that tries to be very good and is devoted to Andraste and the ideas behind the chantry is going to come a cropper...
I can't help but think she's going to end up launching a crusade... Half the time I'm trying to pick a conversation option that says 'I believe Andraste has a plan for me...' And I end up probably in game commiting blasphemy with, 'Andraste sent me here personally to save your souls.'
It seems what I'm shooting for with my character is too subtle for the dialogue wheels.
Considering it just one game of the year can't be that bad haha. Definitely picking it up for my ps4 now with far cry 4. Just hope I can avoid a lot of the bugs people seem to be getting. Been waiting for a while for a game I can put a lot of time into.
I got very little bugs on the PS4 until near the end. Every so often now the game just crashes, but it auto-saves so frequently that unless it happens in the middle of a boss fight then you don't miss much.
Just started my second playthrough now, but not feeling the Dwarf as much as my main human. I dunno why, but he just feels too fake.
Having a blast. It is annoying that when you start a new game, you cannot disable the tutorial mission (as I like to make many characters), and the game really starts to shine after the Val Royale Ball.
Graphics are excellent (running on ultra) and again the voice acting is top notch.
To people who complain about the dreaded MMORPG fetch quests; The items for the various quests can be gathered while you adventure. In the tutorial mission you get enough Elfroot and Iron to doe the first few fetch quests, and this also is the case in the normal game. Furthermore quest items can be picked up, before you even received the quest. This makes the fetch quests very doable.
Low_K wrote: Having a blast. It is annoying that when you start a new game, you cannot disable the tutorial mission (as I like to make many characters), and the game really starts to shine after the Val Royale Ball.
Graphics are excellent (running on ultra) and again the voice acting is top notch.
To people who complain about the dreaded MMORPG fetch quests; The items for the various quests can be gathered while you adventure. In the tutorial mission you get enough Elfroot and Iron to doe the first few fetch quests, and this also is the case in the normal game. Furthermore quest items can be picked up, before you even received the quest. This makes the fetch quests very doable.
Highly recommend the game!
Also the so-called 'MMO fetch quests' are actually a modern staple of many Open World games. I think people are spoiled by linearity and overwhelmed by Open World on the first outing. The likes of Elder Scrolls have had these sorts of quests in single player games for years, and more modern takes like Shadow of Mordor have such also. Simple fact is these haven't been simple just an MMO thing for awhile now.
And it's not like you are forced to do them. Indeed having finished the game and quantified the power gained from requisitions, they are completely unnecessary to advance in the game. They are simply to add a sense of realism.
I've been playing through a bunch of multiplayer matches this weekend and I have to say I'm not much of a fan :( I loved the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer but this one just feels repetitive and boring to me. I don't care about my characters enough to want to level them up and get cool stuff in the boxes. It feels like you just move through the same dungeony areas, just with different wall art, and fight the same monsters, just with different 3D models.
Shadowkeepers (4000 points)
3rd Company (3000 points) 
Death Guard 1.0: 8,500 points painted (Pics available in Gallery) P: 7 W: 1 D: 3 L: 3
Thousand Sons: 3,750 points painted P:1 W:1 D:0 L:0
Nurgle Daemons: 3,800 points painted P:2 W:1 D:1 L:0
Tyranids: 2,000 points painted
Tau 6,750 points painted 