RE: Dragon Age Inquisition
January 6, 2015 at 7:19 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2015 at 7:46 pm by Napoléon.)
(January 6, 2015 at 5:24 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Also, DECISIONS THAT MEAN SOMETHING (looking at your ME3!).
Are you sure though? I mean, the characters you get to judge are largely inconsequential, and to my knowledge blackwall is about the only party member who can get killed.
From what I've seen the choices you get to make in Inquisition are just decisions that give the illusion of consequence, albeit very well done. They actually don't affect the gameplay much or even the story. From one review I read it doesn't even matter whether you fully upgrade everything in Skyhold, or even get to know your characters before the end of the story.
People bitched about ME3 but actually all of this stuff did matter. Even in ME2, if you didn't have the confidence of your crew they'd get killed in the final battle, or if you made the wrong call and put someone in position to do something they're not skilled to do they could die. In ME3 the whole point was to build up to a final battle, and it WOULD affect the overall outcome, despite what people say about the '3 coloured ending'. From what I've seen (I still haven't finished the story yet but I've read up on it), none of your 'choices' actually have much of an effect on the story. Certainly not as much as what ME3 did. Does it matter if you upgrade Skyhold? Does it matter if Solas disapproves of everything I do? I haven't seen anything so far to indicate that these things actually matter. There's actually no way of seeing what your companion's opinion of you is, so does it matter?
I don't mean to shit on the game, but if you're gonna compare the choice element to what's offered in ME3, I have to be honest and say that so far the choices don't seem to be making much of a difference to the actual story, unlike ME3.
