Dragon Age: Inquisition Contains 200 Hours Of Single Player Content

[BlackMageBob]

EA is trying to change and doing a fairly good job at it

Battlefield: Hardline

OT: I'm gonna wait until I can see a review or two before I buy this one. My pre-order/hype days are long gone.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

I have a hard time believing it, when Mass Effect and the like averaged out at 40-50 hours with all the side quests completed.

So is it going to come on five discs like Baldur's Gate? It would be amusing if they end up coming full circle with this...

 

[Risingblade]

Meh probably kill x amount of x/fetch quests.

 

[ColdinT]

It'll be interesting to see if it lives up to those claims. It may all be fetch quests, but it may not. They've had a lot longer to work on this than DA2, and I think as long or longer than Dragon Age Origins. The amount of dev time alone does give me a bit of hope the game will meet expectations.

 

[Slash2x]

200 hours of choices and at the end....... "Ok Dragon Shep you need to pick the red, the blue, or, the green potion to determine what ending you get."

Yeah sorry Bioware after all the shit you have done under EA, IF I get this game it will be MONTHS after it comes out and only if I do not see a massive wave of people screaming "what the fuck was that?" at your end game.
You will never get another full price sale(maybe none at all) from this guy and others like me again.

 

[Silence]

I don't like this news. It is not indicative for quality.

Dragon Age: Origins was already too long.

 

[Vault101]

obviously how that time pans out depends on the player and certain subjective factors

that said I'm glad I didn't give in to the temptation to get isolation or Shadow of mordor

 

[Sniper Team 4]

One more point in the 'must-buy' box for me.

I'm excited about this game. I'm one of the rare people that enjoyed Dragon Age II despite its huge flaws, and I saw that the team behind it listened to the criticisms and did their best to address them in the DLC. I also greatly enjoyed Mass Effect 3 up until the ending. I also understand that this is a different team working on Dragon Age than the ME one. So I'm still super excited about this game and will be picking it up at launch.

But God help you if you fail me like you did with the Mass Effect 3 ending, BioWare, because then I will jump on the bandwagon and be done with you. But from everything I've seen, read, and heard, it does sound like they are trying their absolute best to make sure that doesn't happen and that this game does become epic.

 

[Bat Vader]

always fun to go to a thread and see the first page of post littered with uninformed people who work so hard to see both EA and Bioware fail..........

DA2 was rushed and the ending of ME3 had issues nether though validate the constant hate spewed by people.
EA is trying to change and doing a fairly good job at it so why cant people just give it a rest, maybe go after ubisoft for their blatant bait and switches and bullshots?

OT: cant wait for the game got to play it and its every thing I wanted.

Best not to even pay attention to posts like that. If people want to irrationally hate on a company that has been steadily improving their image I say let them.

On Topic: After reading the article I can't wait to get Dragon Age: Inquisition. I think it is going to be awesome.

 

[BaronIveagh]

Not buying it as long as Origin is attached.

 

[the_maestro_sartori]

Not buying it as long as Origin is attached.

Why?
Origin is more progressive than Steam, these days.

 

[small]

Not buying it as long as Origin is attached.

Why?
Origin is more progressive than Steam, these days.

at least origin give away free games and have a return policy

 

[J Tyran]

200 hours of single player content. 150 of which are locked behind DLC, each ranging from 5-10 hours I bet. I wanted to get the free Origin copy of Dragon Age, but then I realized that it still has DLC missing, which roughly costs up to 20 bucks, and I think the awakening thing is separate content in and of itself, for another 20 bucks. it's better to get the full package then try to gather the DLC on it's own. and I won't even go into Sims Territory.

Thats a daft attitude, you're cutting off your nose to spite your face here. Dragon Age: Origins is a long fulfilling game without any of the DLC, the DLC doesn't really make difference either. Most of the in game ones are chances for loot and a short quest that doesn't really affect or change anything, the rest where completely separate campaigns you launch from the main menu.

One was some foreshadowing for the events in later games, one was the origin story for NPC that was already well explained except you get to play as them in a separate mini campaign instead. Another was an "alternate ending" where the bad guys won and you get to play as the bad guys, fun but not necessary to the game itself.

 

[Sanunes]

Not buying it as long as Origin is attached.

Why?
Origin is more progressive than Steam, these days.

at least origin give away free games and have a return policy

I can only speak for my personal experience, but Origin also has better customer support. I had an issue with one of my games and using Origin chat support I had my issue fixed in under a hour, but after two months I gave up with Steam support trying to get another problem fixed. I also prefer how Origin handles DLC, for when I buy it and since BioWare games are generally the only ones I buy DLC for its something I appreciate.

Origin is still missing a few things, one thing I really like about steam is the ability to create a backup installer for it, especially with the new games going to become bigger. The other thing that I dislike about Origin is their storefront and I am really surprised they haven't made any changes to it yet, then again I dislike Steam's as well its just easier to use. I know a friend of mine would also like to have the ability to gift games, but I never did that on Steam, so its a feature I wouldn't use.

Origin is also missing a backlog of games from publishers besides EA, but that took time with Steam as well, so I can only imagine that will be something that changes over time.

 

[softclocks]

Not buying it as long as Origin is attached.

Why?
Origin is more progressive than Steam, these days.

Nothing progressive about Sims DLC.

 

[Quellist]

EA ruined Bioware long ago, its an empty husk of what it once was and when something an EA Zombie company says sounds too good to be true it very likely is.

After the shitfest that was DA2 I'm gonna take a lot of convincing that EA haven't just made another overblown DLC filled pile of fail

 

[ron1n]

Meh, still looking like a poor man's Witcher to me.

 

[mjharper]

"see your decision have an impact and take shape in the world."

The problem is, this was exactly the line they used to justify the framed narrative structure of DA2, saying that having those time skips would allow you to see the consequences of your actions in a way you wouldn't be able to in a continuous narrative.

I detested the early screenshots showing the new 'artistic' direction, and this idea was the only thing that began to get me hyped for DA2.

And the final game had less 'impact' or 'consequence' than any of the individual recruitment stories in DA:O.

I loved DA:O, and DA2 was a crushing experience for me. You're about to convince me that DA:I is any good by using the same marketing spiel that I fell for last time.

Guilty until proven innocent on this one, I'm afraid.

 

[Username Redacted]

200 hours of single player content. 150 of which are locked behind DLC, each ranging from 5-10 hours I bet. I wanted to get the free Origin copy of Dragon Age, but then I realized that it still has DLC missing, which roughly costs up to 20 bucks, and I think the awakening thing is separate content in and of itself, for another 20 bucks. it's better to get the full package then try to gather the DLC on it's own. and I won't even go into Sims Territory.

When EA promises something, I ask how much DLC is it buried under, and how much could have been on the disc at launch.

I got the ultimate edition of DA:O, new from my local GAME store for £2.99

Try the shops dude xD

To the best of my knowledge that doesn't really work with any Bioware game since DA:O as while the game is sold to you by EA the DLC is sold via the (IMO) highly obnoxious Bioware points. For example I just went on eBay and a PC copy of Mass Effect 3 can be had for less than $10. Now if I want all of the DLC for the game I'm going to have to go through Bioware and shell out an additional $40 because I'll be paying in Bioware points and the DLC has never been discounted nor has there ever been an 'Ultimate' edition released. So given all of that and the...lackluster entry into the series that DA2 represents then, for me, Dragon Age: Inquisition is, at best, looking like a year one purchase.

 

[teh_Canape]

that's cool and all
but didn't they say the exact same thing about kingdoms of amalur? and that turned out to be like 5 horus campaign and then 195 of MMORPG-level sidequests?