Hitchen onto Snees wagon...Inquisition

On 09/13/2015 at 11:48 PM by asrealasitgets

If you haven't read Snees last blog about Disliking Good Games, then I recommend you do it right now. Responses are quite interesting.

I've recently started my first playthrough of Dragon Age:Inquisition. Don't panic y'all, I aint saying the game is bad, but I am touching on the the subject of the effect of playing too many games at once that was brought up in Snees aforementioned blog's comment section.

You see, I loved the last two Dragon Age games, and even played the last game before the new game launched and loved the story, all 65+ hours of it. However, I started playing Witcher 3, then Arkham Knight before, and they are both very large open world games with quests lists that are very time consuming and massive, Witcher 3 in particular is much longer I think. So of course, now that I've started Inquisition, I am dropped off into a very large open world and checking quests off of my list. Needless to say, the open world and fetch quest design is making me feel overwhelmed already and I feel pretty intimidated by the amount of time this game seems to be implying will require for me to finish. The story and characters have drawn me into the world once again, but so far I've been 'killing all the things' for the last 10 hours or so and I'm feeling quite the burnout. So far I feel like I prefer the 2nd game already, if only because it was constant with story content, whereas here there seems to be story content after tons of grinding. I am getting FF12 dejavu. I will probably finish the game on through next year.

I also tried the Destiny beta, and thought it was quite fun, although it felt quite empty early on, which I think is a bad thing. After reaching level 7, the level cap, I wasn't sold on playing more of it to justify buying the next expansion. The game looks gorgeous and plays smoothly on PS4, but I've had my fill of it.

I also finished playing another visual novel called Amnesia: Memories, its a girl game dating simulator teen anime thing on PSVita and Steam. It is what it is.

~asreal

I put a hiatus on that scary game blog as I've been finishing Witche 3 and starting up Inquisition, but so far I've played 'Layers of Fear' on Steam and Resident Evil 0 on gamecube, so it is incoming.

Machocruz

09/14/2015 at 06:17 AM

I can't do the long quest list thing anymore. Most of them don't even qualify for the term "quest". Delivering a letter or bottle of wine to someone isn't a quest. Searching for the Tree of Life or the lost city of El Dorado are quests. Going halfway across Middle Earth to destroy the one ring of power is a quest. Lara Croft went on quests. Killing rats in a basement or goblins right outside town are not quests.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

09/14/2015 at 10:41 AM

hey I like that rat in the basement quest!

asrealasitgets

09/14/2015 at 08:31 PM

I've only ever done side quests if they are required to push the main story, although many of them in Witcher 3 were very good and kind of outclass every other RPG. I'd say that what I've played of Pillars of Eternity is also really well done.

jgusw

09/14/2015 at 05:48 PM

I finished The Witcher 3 a couple months ago and I'm now playing through DA:I again. DA:I is fun, but I think The Witcher 3 is the better game.

09/14/2015 at 08:29 PM

Yes. Which is why I feel I should have played DA:I earlier. Witcher 3 stands out even more now. Outside of cutscenes, DA:I feels rather dull, fun combat, but very padded.

09/14/2015 at 11:42 PM

My history with Dragon Age (the world, characters, & story) is what keeps me playing it. I'll not a big fan of the combat. I feels like I'm just holding a button down and ocasionally pressing 3 other buttons for specials moves. W3 is more satisfying in the it's combat. DA has the potential to be the better game. There is so much in the world that can be explored and it's not shackled down with specific characters or story. And with it's different races and warrior class systems.... if the combat in DA was like The Witcher..... OMG!! DA:I feels like there's a lot of unnecessary material, which is funny because DA2 felt like there wasn't enough. DA:O is a nice balance. IMO, DA:I is a fun game, but it loses focus in some areas, which makes the game boring if you're not invested enough.

09/15/2015 at 01:41 AM

Yeah, I pretty much agree with this. Witcher 2 & 3 outperformend DA 2&3 by a large margin, even though I still defend DA2. Also, there is already an MMO out called 'Rift' that has the same game mechanic, closing rifts on the world map so I kind of feel like I've seen it all before. The story is interesting though.

09/15/2015 at 11:22 AM

Yeah, I defend DA2 too. I think it's a good game and I still enjoy playing it. I only wish there was a physical release of the game with all it's dlc (like they did with DA:O).

I didn't know there was another game out about closing rifts. I don't play MMOs, so that's probably why I missed it.

goaztecs

09/16/2015 at 10:42 AM

I can't get into Destiny. The demo on the PS3 when it was first announced was fun, but after buying the game I was over it in a week. The trade in special GameStop had last week was tempting but I knew that I wasn't going to play much more of the game even with the fixes. Maybe if I get the itch again I'll pick up the game.

KnightDriver

09/17/2015 at 03:48 PM

I'm obsessed with completion times in games right now. I organized all my games according to completion time and am playing them in order of shortest to longest. Longest is probably going to be Skyrim at over 200 hours. This is completionist time, not story time. Howlongtobeat.com lists Dragon Age Inquistiion completionist time as 121 hours. I'm on games under 12 hours at the moment.

PixlBit