Dragon Age 4: The Veilguard - out October 31st

[Sly Boots]

If you didn't play the Trespasser DLC before... play Trespasser. Hard to believe it wasn't part of the base game, given how fundamentally important it is to everything in Dragon Age.

Seems like the devs agree lol:

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/dragon-ag ... base-game/

[Sly Boots]

My Inquisition playthrough has slightly run out of steam lol.

TBF I've played it this time for upwards of 50 hours I think, but the issues I've had with it in the past still persist - while the story content is good, there's just too much of everything else and the side content isn't good enough to justify how much of your time it takes up. In other words, it suffers hugely from bloat. There's too many maps of too great a size with too many collectibles and side quests of the 'go here, pick up that' variety.

What I'll probably do is give myself a week or two to recoup and then just go for the rest of the DLC and story content to prepare for DA4.

I'm even more glad Veilguard is basically dropping the open world thing in favour of smaller, more impactful areas and story beats, and while the combat in Inquisition is fine (I'm playing a mage this time and... ehh...) I'm equally glad it's another area they've apparently concentrated on making fun.

[Wrathbone]

I'm even more glad Veilguard is basically dropping the open world thing in favour of smaller, more impactful areas and story beats

Absolutely this. Inquisition is a great 30 hour Bioware game draped over 100 hours of busywork. In some ways I prefer DA2 to Inquisition, as despite its many flaws it's a much tighter game. It'll never happen, but a remake of DA2 without all the repeated areas and some more life injected into the city would be superb.

[Sly Boots]

Yeah. I still maintain PCG's 94% review of DA2 was lolworthy, but it's telling that despite its flaws I've still played it to completion half a dozen times down the years. It keeps up the pace pretty well and at a breezy 30-40 hours doesn't outstay its welcome.