LostTrigger said:
thats the other problem i had lol critics loved dragon age, gamers seemed to have a mixed opinion it either is great or it sucked. it has a user meta score of 5 for the pc
Critics went very easy on Dragon Age Inquisition. Too easy, frankly, even by the exceedingly generous standards of gaming critics.
Things DA:I does better than Witcher 3:
1. Inventory management is a bit cleaner (albeit still awful)
2. System requirements are lower
3. You can roll your choice of character
4. Voice acting is consistently excellent, Witcher 3 has the odd mediocre/poor performance
Things Witcher 3 does better than DA:I:
1. Significantly larger world, which is largely seamless. Hardly any loading screens (DA:I is a nightmare slog of long loading screens)
2. Significantly longer main story that is significantly better written and better paced
3. Better graphics...DA:I looks comparable in still shots, Witcher's world has much better animation, dynamic weather, better facial acting, etc, etc.
4. Ridiculously better sidequests and optional activities...DA:I, outside of its relatively short and utterly uninspired main narrative...offers up some of the most tedious and regressive "content" in CRPG history. It somehow manages to be even more boring than "collect 10 bear asses". Prepare to spend a lot of time clicking on glimmering widgets and escorting lost Druffalo home.
5. Significantly better world building, and richer characterizations
6. Better combat and RPG mechanics (they're not fantastic, but DA:I is pretty rubbish)
7. Pretty much everything else.
I'm honestly speechless at the degree to which CDPR's game shits all over Bioware's, given their respective budgets and development cycles. The quality gulf between them is staggering. And I say this as a long time Bioware fan whose affection for them goes back to the original Baldur's Gate. I had high hopes for DA:I, given the extra development time they had and their seeming desire to make up for the mistakes of DA2 and ME3. Instead we got this stillborn...thing. It only sort of works as a narrative CRPG, and the "open world" aspects are a catastrophic failure across the board. They even crammed some Facebook timesink nonsense into it. I found it to be a passable but hugely disappointing title. Having seen what CDPR accomplished with Witcher 3, I now have trouble viewing DA:I as anything but a laughable flub.
If you like CRPGs and want to play em all, make sure you buy and play DA:I first. Otherwise you're going to have a hard time stomaching it.