Dragon Age 3 Announced

[Mr. Laz]

Dragon Age 3 Announced: Dragon Age 3: Inquisition Coming In "Late 2013"

Dragon Age 3: Inquisition, the third game in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise, will be released on late 2013. According to BioWare and EA, the game will combines "the storytelling legacy BioWare is known for" with "deep RPG gameplay." It will be built on a new RPG game engine "underpinned by EA’s critically-acclaimed Frostbite 2 technology."

“The Dragon Age team has been working on Dragon Age 3: Inquisition for almost two years now,” said Aaryn Flynn, General Manager of BioWare Edmonton and BioWare Montreal in a statement. “We’ve been poring over player feedback from past games and connecting directly with our fans. They haven’t held back, so we’re not either. With Dragon Age 3: Inquisition, we want to give fans what they’re asking for – a great story with choices that matter, a massive world to explore, deep customization and combat that is both tactical and visceral.”

I'd love to be able to tell you more -- show some pictures and maybe a video -- but there is no more to tell at the present. As soon as we get any more information, we'll let you know.

Until then, though, check out our review of the last Dragon Age game:

[keg in kc]

Got in a couple hours before I passed out. So far it 'feels' more like DAO than DA2, but it's definitely its own thing. Really good.

[Ragged Robin]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Got in a couple hours before I passed out. So far it 'feels' more like DAO than DA2, but it's definitely its own thing. Really good.

So far... meh. I played for about 4 hours and got to clear out a chunk of the Ferelden region. Haven't really been wowed yet but it's still early and there's a ton of shit to do. The companions so far are pretty boring/uninteresting compared to Origins.

Also, I really really hate the "floating jetpack daggers" that they, for some reason, decided to have on the back of the model instead of the waist.. and with no sheathes? Looks really goofy (I know DAO was like this too but someone was able to mod this ASAP)

[hometeam]

sucks that origin has the secondary market on lockdown.. i cant stand buying anything retail.. will just have to wait until winter sale or GPU game giveaway etc

[keg in kc]

Two years after the announcement and I still can't get this out of my head

[keg in kc]

Game has completely taken over my life now.

[Beef Supreme]

I got sucked into buying this game because of all of the smashing reviews noted in this thread. Not one of them mentioned how ****ing god-awful the combat is, or how dumbed down the companion AI is. Nobody mentioned the absolutely ridiculous search key that you need to keep spamming. I have both of the other Dragon Age games, and I really enjoyed the first one. The second was pretty bland, and I never finished it, but even as mediocre as the combat was, it was better than this shit. And the character creation has a whole lot of sliders which seem to translate into a whole lot of ugly.

The story hasn't really done anything for me so far either. Wishing I would have grabbed FarCry 4 instead of this at the moment. But I'll play some more to see if it gets any better.

[Buck]

I missed like 5 weeks of work and have a healthy disability check headed my way. I think I'm gonna buy this when it arrives. Whenever the **** that might be.

[Buck]

Originally Posted by BigChiefTablet

I got sucked into buying this game because of all of the smashing reviews noted in this thread. Not one of them mentioned how ****ing god-awful the combat is, or how dumbed down the companion AI is. Nobody mentioned the absolutely ridiculous search key that you need to keep spamming. I have both of the other Dragon Age games, and I really enjoyed the first one. The second was pretty bland, and I never finished it, but even as mediocre as the combat was, it was better than this shit.

The story hasn't really done anything for me so far either. Wishing I would have grabbed FarCry 4 instead of this at the moment. But I'll play some more to see if it gets any better.

What system did you get it for?

[Beef Supreme]

Originally Posted by Buck

What system did you get it for?

PC

I tried using an xbox controller. It made it even worse for me, who plays almost exclusively PC games.

[cookster50]

Dell uses the slowest shipping possible.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

So I never played GTA V even though I bought it for my PS3. Now that I have it on XBO I can't ****ing put it down. I need to get some DA in.

[keg in kc]

The combat's my favorite in the series so far. By a long shot. DAO was a little too slow, DA2 was too hectic, although I liked it more than DAO. This is somewhere in the middle.

I play as a mage, however. I could understand it's maybe more frustrating for melee (talking on pc). Although I haven't had any issues on the few occasions where I've taken over Cassandra.

I see lots of bitching about the controls and UI on pc. I'm 16+ hours into it now, and have had zero issues with either. Although occasionally I do accidentally attack things since years of mmo and rpg play have conditioned me to think of the left button as part of movement, rather than attack. The tactical camera could be a little easier to use, but as I understand it's currently bugged on pc. We'll see after it's patched.

I can't really comment on the story, because I've barely started it. The hinterlands is so gigantic that basically all I've done is run sidequests for the last day. I saw in some video reviews where they were complaining about 'vanilla' sidequests like "kill x whatevers". I've run literally dozens of sidequests now and I've seen exactly one of those (collecting 10 ram meat for a hunter at the crossroads). There's been an escort quest (which was a little annoying, as escort quests generally are), fedex quests, a series of horse races, a quest that sent me into the deeproads, a quest that sent me to a desert temple (connected to the shard quest), quests finding constellations, all kinds of different stuff.

Not sure what people don't like. For me, this is (so far) the best Bioware game since KOTOR. But I'm barely at the beginning. Even though I'm 16 hours in. So who knows what I'll think a week from now.

[Beef Supreme]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

The combat's my favorite in the series so far. By a long shot. DAO was a little too slow, DA2 was too hectic, although I liked it more than DAO. This is somewhere in the middle.

I play as a mage, however. I could understand it's maybe more frustrating for melee (talking on pc). Although I haven't had any issues on the few occasions where I've taken over Cassandra.

I see lots of bitching about the controls and UI on pc. I'm 16+ hours into it now, and have had zero issues with either. Although occasionally I do accidentally attack things since years of mmo and rpg play have conditioned me to think of the left button as part of movement, rather than attack. The tactical camera could be a little easier to use, but as I understand it's currently bugged on pc. We'll see after it's patched.

I can't really comment on the story, because I've barely started it. The hinterlands is so gigantic that basically all I've done is run sidequests for the last day. I saw in some video reviews where they were complaining about 'vanilla' sidequests like "kill x whatevers". I've run literally dozens of sidequests now and I've seen exactly one of those (collecting 10 ram meat for a hunter at the crossroads). There's been an escort quest (which was a little annoying, as escort quests generally are), fedex quests, a series of horse races, a quest that sent me into the deeproads, a quest that sent me to a desert temple (connected to the shard quest), quests finding constellations, all kinds of different stuff.

Not sure what people don't like. For me, this is (so far) the best Bioware game since KOTOR. But I'm barely at the beginning. Even though I'm 16 hours in. So who knows what I'll think a week from now.

The right mouse button is part of movement if you want to turn with the mouse like any normal PC user would. The left is the auto attack button, which you have to hold down constantly to keep auto attacking. It's not that terrible if it was simply a single character action game. But it's not. And if it were, it needs better action. It seems like a bad console port and bad game design.

And then there's the search button ... I really always wanted to always have to run around spamming a button over and over again ... said no one ever.

I don't worry about the key bind layout because I have a razor orb weaver game pad, and rebinding keys is easy enough anyway.

But this game tries to be an action game and a tactical game at the same time and kinda fails at both. The AI scripts from DA:O were great. The AI control for this game blows. So it's difficult to set up your party to do what you want them to on their own, and the tactical camera mode is a ****ing disaster and pausing and switching between four characters for every single action they do is tedious.

So I just let the AI run wild and try to live with it.

I'm not very far into the game at all, and I may come to like the combat better than I do at the moment. But initial impressions are poor.

The story so far hasn't hooked me in any way. Might as well be the Charlie Brown Teacher talking during the cut scenes, as much as I give a shit about what they are droning on about.

I'm not totally writing it off. I'll give it more time and see if it becomes more satisfying.

[hometeam]

Wishing you bought an ubisoft game instead of DA3? damn, now im nervous it might actually suck~

[Buck]

I sorta want FC4 and The Crew but I guess I'm boycotting Ubisoft. I'll might find a free way to play FC4