Dragon Age: Inquisition Is A Fantasy RPG

Time: 2019-06-25

Dragon Age: Inquisition is a fantasy role-playing game. What this means: you can create a character, choose his or her race and class, and play your role through a series of cool fantasy adventures involving magic, elves, dwarves, and dragons. You make friends with a loyal following, get to know them, care about them, and make some tough decisions at key moments in the story. 
Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age 4
Developer BioWare has been doing this for a long time now, and Inquisition is not an attempt to re-invent their particular wheel—rather, it feels like a concerted effort to expand and fine-tune it. 

It's difficult to talk about the scale of Dragon Age: Inquisition without A) getting hyperbolic and B) invoking Skyrim. This game is massive. It's divided into areas that are unlocked when you go, and you can access them from the game's world map. There are vast deserts, lush elven forests, rain-eroded coastlines, war-torn plains, haunted swamps, mysterious oases and more. You are free to explore, as you wish, between more constrained, scripted story tasks.
So, Inquisition's segmented zones actually make the whole of the game feel grander than it would've had it been a straight open-world game.
Inquisition's size goes beyond acreage, too: There's an overwhelming amount of things to do in this game. Explore this time-frozen battleground, and see if you can find out what happened there. Visit your Inquisition's war-table to dispatch your forces and unlock new regions, or solve problems for minor characters. Solve constellation puzzles in each area to triangulate and unlock a treasure room. Use hand-drawn maps to scour the desert for a hidden Dwarven ruin full of powerful relics. Open a dam and venture into the caves beneath a lake to close an underwater demon rift. Go giant-hunting, or challenge and defeat a trio of extremely dangerous dragons. Survive the guardians of a hidden Elven ruin and re-forge a legendary sword. And on, and on, and on.
Dragon Age: Inquisition follows the established BioWare formula: Start with a few party members, meet a few more, go on some initial story quests, start to explore, get more party members, keep exploring. And, also true to the BioWare tradition, you'll have to make a lot of moral choices, each of which affects the story in a small or large way.
Dragon Age: Inquisition is an exceptionally good-looking game. BioWare has transitioned to using EA's Frostbite Engine—the same engine that powers the near-photorealistic Battlefield games—and while I sense that the engine is responsible for a lot of the previously mentioned technical weirdness, it compensates by offering some spectacular vistas. Every new area offers views that stretch off into the distance, with fog-shrouded castles and mountain-sized sculptures looming against the horizon. It looks much better in motion than it does in still shots, with the mist rolling through and the grasses and trees swaying in the breeze.
 
Combat in Inquisition hits an interesting balance between the arguably oversimplified combat of Dragon Age 2 and the sometimes too-fiddly combat of Origins. Basic attacks are tied to the right trigger, making melee combat in particular feel almost like an action-RPG at times. 
 
There is now a top-down tactical view in all versions of the game, which makes it easier to pause battles, narrow areas, and discreetly issue commands to teams. The tactical view is well done - you can press a button to advance time, then release it to pause the game again and issue more commands. This eliminates the origin of a series of crazy pauses and nonstops, allowing careful investigation of combat to feel like a turn-based tactic, if you will.

Dragon Age 4 should be coming soon. Let's wait together.If you haven't already started the Dragon Age: Inquisition, you can now purchase the Dragon Age: Inquisition Origin CD Key, unlock it, and complete its story. You can choose Sabetha Trevalyan as your heroine. Trust me, it's very interesting.

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