If it goes the way DA: I, it'll be cheap second hand. I mean, the PlayStation store has Inquisition five pounds most months of the year. And that only started a year after release.
What's funny is that Zevran isn't actually gay. He's barely even bisexual, and only because his duties as an assassin forced him to literally suck it up to get close to some targets. He's tepid about gay sex with the protag, and basically treats it as prison or Army gay. I'm not surprised women would schlick to the quasi-rape undertones of his boss asking for gay sex.
Ah, I only remembered him from DA
. Never really played the second one, thankfully.
My guess is that they bought the hype of "muh deep lore" and decided to base the series about the lore rather the actual plot of the first game. That's why the sequels are about uncovering ancient ruins and learning about the Elven pantheon - something that redditors will really appreciate, while the majority of players, who won't read a novel worth of lore, will have zero idea what's going on.
From what I remember of DA
's reception most people felt the Darkspawn (Blightspawn? I can't remember) and dragons in general were a boring, generic plot that served as the inciting incident for much of the intrigue in the game. I felt similarly and still do, at least for what they did in Origins they were mostly just orcs with another title. There were good pieces of lore and background on the Blight that made it more than that, the way they 'reproduce' being notable and creepy. Not to mention how the various races upon infection turn them into the variants of the horde. It was a good impetus for your character to continue on since that's also how they were wrapped up in the situation too.
Ah but price is just one cost. Time is the other. One of the things I enjoyed in Origins was exploring all those extra little bits and unearthing extra bits of hidden lore. But Inquisition was absurdly huge. It was at the point I couldn't get that nice feeling of completion with it because to actually complete it would mean literal hundred and fifty years of my life.
Agree heavily on the time investment but in DA: I much of its content is very much something that would be relegated to a sidequest in an MMO let alone an actual RPG. That or collecting widgets along the map a-la Ubisoft games. If you don't feel compelled to fill all the bars you can safely cut out a huge portion of the open world. The game makes no effort to hide that it was meant to be some form of multiplayer project before getting re-railed into a purely single player affair.
You are completely right and I don't disagree at all. BUT, I am someone who enjoys seeing I've filled all the bars, so to speak. So making the number of bars absurdly high and making many of them very repetitive moves it to being a chore rather than a joy. If they'd made it a little smaller it would have been better.
I'm glad they went with Adam Howden as opposed to Greg Ellis because the later is a mentally ill schizo. Cullen is ruined.
That's pretty much where I am at. Inquisition was not nearly as good as origins, but it had some decent stuff in it. Solas, Blackwall, the mercy killing spirit and more intricate missions like the one in the winter palace were enough to overlook a lot of the dumb shit that game did.
Well, there was a small boom since then, and crpgs with top-down perspective became rather numerous over the last years.
