I'll probably pick it up... eventually.
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So my Herald is totally male but the plebes in haven refer to 'her' and 'She'. First boss fight took me three tries, tpk on first and DirectX crash on 2nd. Liking the mix of style Bt origins and 2 for combat. A bit more tactical, but still has the action feel that I like in games. Not past the redcliff mission, but the war table thing seems very cool.
* Although it is possible for software to affect hardware: STARCRAFT 2 infamously caused certain graphics cards to overheat on release until Blizzard rushed out an emergency fix.A-yup.
What's more likely - you were the one guy out of the millions who played it who managed to encounter the bug that causes your 360's hard drive to self-destruct (something that is, itself, essentially impossible), or that you experienced a relatively normal hardware failure incident and ended up blaming it on the software instead?
First real glitch of my game. There's horses in it, which you can make jump. For some reason, a combination of jumping, dismounting, and talking to someone while inside a building makes the horse vanish into a pocket dimension, forcing you to restart if you want it back. Otherwise, I'm having loads of fun playing it. Just got it today.
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Well, I at least got to the part where you first get control of your character but everyone looked like they had hair made of some strange colorful metallic substance so I exited to fix it and now the game won't load past the "Connecting to EA Servers" thing.
GG Bioware, you win. You would think that making sure the MAIN F++#ING MENU works would be the first thing they'd check, but what do I know?
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Well, I at least got to the part where you first get control of your character but everyone looked like they had hair made of some strange colorful metallic substance so I exited to fix it and now the game won't load past the "Connecting to EA Servers" thing.
GG Bioware, you win. You would think that making sure the MAIN F~!~ING MENU works would be the first thing they'd check, but what do I know?
This is one of the two reasons that I decided to never ever buy a game near it's release date. So many of them are full of frustrating glitches and bugs in the first months of their release that I don't see the point of wading through all that instead of waiting a while and letting the other suckers do the dirty work for me. Honestly, I'd rather wait a while longer and actually have fun playing the game, instead of eagerly plummeting into every little bug that sneaked it's way to the released version.
Second reason I always wait is price - I can get the game now for 50-60$... or I can wait a year or two and get it essentially for free at a Steam Summer Sale or something. This policy saved me a lot of money over the years which, consequentially, means I could afford more games. It's not that I ever lack for games, I'm just lagging a couple years behind the rest of the gaming community.
It's different with Biowere, though. Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age 2 I bought after waiting only a couple of months to make sure any major bugs were fixed. I liked the respective first games for both of those so much that I reckoned waiting for them to get cheap will drive me crazy. However, dragon Age 2 was such a blunder, and the gameplay videos of Dragon Age 3 I saw seemed like the game was adoption a style I don't appreciate as much, that I think with Inquisition I'll wait and see. If it gets really high praise, I'll get it. For now, I'm completing my n-th playthrough of Mass Effect 2 with the intention of getting Mass Effect 3 and finishing the series this time.
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People had a problem with DA2's ending?
It was basically the best part of the plot. Something important actually happened, and it made sense within the game world (the only problem was which character they decided to do it with).
For a really interesting and entertaining argument of the good and less good aspects of the DA:2 story, check out this video.
This is the first game I've bought Day 1 in about 2 and a half years. Maybe more. When did Dishonored come out again?
The experience is not inclining me to do so again.
Well, I at least got to the part where you first get control of your character but everyone looked like they had hair made of some strange colorful metallic substance
In your Graphics settings menu, turn your Meshes setting up to High. The Frostbite engine does weird things with shiny surfaces at low-ish poly levels.
The problem with that is it requires me to be able to access the options menu.
But thanks, though. I found that suggestion somewhere else but wasn't sure how accurate it was.
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Good Lord. I sat down to play after the kids went to bed and before I knew it, eight hours had passed.
Fantastic game. So far, everything I enjoy in FRPGs, Dragon Age lore, and Mass Effect-style interaction. LOVING this game so far....
.....just so tired. :)
Only a few hours till i close my claws on my copy.....waiting has never been so tormenting.
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I picked it up for Xbox 360 yesterday. I let my husband play first, because 'patience' is not in his vocabulary. ;)
It looked quite good, especially the openness of the world for exploration, the character dialogue trees, and the character generation options.
I was amused to see that you can adjust things like earlobe size and eyelash color. I enjoy those little details; that's the kind of thing I was disappointed to lose in Skyrim. But I'll have to wait a week or so for my husband to have some time with Inquisition before I get to try it out. Knowing me, I'll probably spend more time fiddling with the character creation options than actually playing the game.
I did see a few minor oddities of the programming. Characters occasionally would blink out of the image, or blink back in. A mage my husband's character was talking to kept gesturing with her hands a lot while speaking, and because she was holding a staff it made the staff wave around in quite a ridiculous fashion. There was also a goat that appeared to be having a seizure when we spotted it climbing a nearby rock outcrop. But thus far no flying horses or tumbling trolls a la Skyrim.
Haven't had a chance to get at it yet; this is my week where I have Friday night off, but have to work Sun. night - Fri. morning to get there, so hopefully I can log some time in on Friday. I've been watching my fiance play & it looks good so far. I'm really enjoying the storyline greatly.
I picked it up for Xbox 360 yesterday. I let my husband play first, because 'patience' is not in his vocabulary. ;)
It looked quite good, especially the openness of the world for exploration, the character dialogue trees, and the character generation options.
I was amused to see that you can adjust things like earlobe size and eyelash color. I enjoy those little details; that's the kind of thing I was disappointed to lose in Skyrim. But I'll have to wait a week or so for my husband to have some time with Inquisition before I get to try it out. Knowing me, I'll probably spend more time fiddling with the character creation options than actually playing the game.
I did see a few minor oddities of the programming. Characters occasionally would blink out of the image, or blink back in. A mage my husband's character was talking to kept gesturing with her hands a lot while speaking, and because she was holding a staff it made the staff wave around in quite a ridiculous fashion. There was also a goat that appeared to be having a seizure when we spotted it climbing a nearby rock outcrop. But thus far no flying horses or tumbling trolls a la Skyrim.
:lol: I can relate; my fiance is the one who bought it, so I figure he should get the first go (it also helps me get ideas of what to play, how to interact, where not to go and get massacred XD)
I'm in love with their character creator as well; I have a feeling I'll be spending more time with it than playing :)
Course eyelash color tends to be moot when you go around in a helmet or are coate din the blood of your foes.
What about The Keep? I want to try that but heard it is still in beta.
So, for anyone else running into the same problem I am, I stumbled across a fix.
When you launch the game, bring up Task manager, and find DragonAgeInquisition.exe under Details (easiest way to do that usually is to right click n it and hit Got to Details since the Details tab usually has a bajillion things running).
Right click on it, hit Set Affinity, and turn off one of your cores. The main menu will now work. Go back in and turn on your core when you get into the actual game, and it runs perfectly.
F~+% if I know WHY this works, but it worked for me.
So my Herald is totally male but the plebes in haven refer to 'her' and 'She'. First boss fight took me three tries, tpk on first and DirectX crash on 2nd. Liking the mix of style Bt origins and 2 for combat. A bit more tactical, but still has the action feel that I like in games. Not past the redcliff mission, but the war table thing seems very cool.
Concerning the DirectX error. If it's similar to the problem reported here using the advice found in the same thread fixed it for me:
Change Language for non-Unicode programs To English(US)
What about The Keep? I want to try that but heard it is still in beta.
It has been in open beta for a while - I would highly recommend to go and set your world state (remember to export it to DAI when you're done). It's also a very nice way to remember the highlights from DAO and DA2. Note that you can set a lot more options on your "tapestry" than the choices you can alter while viewing the story.
Enjoying the game thus far. I did encounter an issue that was mentioned earlier in that my characters all looked like glossy barbie dolls, but narrowed the issue down to the Mesh setting being set to Medium.
I love some of the mechanics they've introduced, specifically Guard and Barrier - both of which are reminiscent of armor and barrier from ME3. Cassandra just turns into the tankiest of tanks when she has a full bar of Guard. It's really satisfying to see her be able to shrug off so much damage while my archer inquisitor busies himself maniuplating a rift.
Speaking of rifts, I got absolutely HOSED in the Hinterlands. Mistakingly presumed everything in a particular Zone was suitable for the same level range. Triggered a rift near the Redcliffe Farms and then realized with alarm all the demons had giant red skulls floating over them. Didn't even have a chance to run away since I'd waded in too close (to try and detonate the rift).
I'm a lot warier now when exploring and just got to the Storm Coast. Went down to the beach only to find
Mostly, I love the sense of exploration and discovery that's been injected into the game. They've done a good job of creating a world that seems lived in with a long and violent history and it's been fun finding evidences of conflicts long past. There is, for instance, a collapsed entrance to the Deep Roads on the Storm Coast, and seeing the giant dwarven statue looming in the distance above it sparked a sense of "whoa! what's over there?!" Arriving to find the whole entrance an impassable collapse, with bones littered about and a scary monster roaring in the distance was really satisfying.
I like reading all the bits of lore scattered about in books too!
One, for instance, is a brief discussion on Andraste's children.
The book explains that Andraste is classically believed to have had 5 children, 3 sons and 2 daughters. It corrects this view by explaining the sons had been born to her husband's concubine and that Andraste later raised them as her own. This means that Andraste only bore daughters. One of the daughters died before she had any children of her own. The other daughter went on to have a daughter, who herself only had daughters. The books ends with a speculation that Andraste's line of descendants were only ever able to bear daughters.
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Or even better:
But that is a decent theory, but my biggest problem is that
Also, I think I figured out who the bad guy in the Memory at the Breach was within the first hour after getting to Haven,
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Course eyelash color tends to be moot when you go around in a helmet or are coate din the blood of your foes.
What about The Keep? I want to try that but heard it is still in beta.
My settings from Dragon Age Keep seemed to load in just fine so far. I stayed up pretty late last night playing the game. Amazing game, but I am trying hard to not fall asleep at my desk atm.
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So now the game is completely unplayable because all the terrain is intangible. Persisting across all saves, and even new characters.
F#*+ this game, and f*+* Bioware for making it.
I guess I'll wait for the patches.
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I feel bad for people experiencing technical issues with Dragon Age Inquisition, but I have only encountered one minor issue with a quest. Other than that minor issue, the game has been absolutely great.
I have two friends also playing Dragon Age Inquisition without significant issues. I have switched over time towards consoles. Two of us are using an Xbox One for this game while the other is using a fairly high end PC.
However, I remember how poorly Skyrm played on my buddy's PS3. When a game has technical problems for you, yeah it does blow.
So now the game is completely unplayable because all the terrain is intangible. Persisting across all saves, and even new characters.
F*#! this game, and f%$% Bioware for making it.
intangible as in no clipping or as in you can't interact with anything?
When I step on any patch of normal ground I simply fall through it. Rocks, when I can land on one, are apparently still solid. Which doesn't help when 90% of all the game's terrain is dirt.
I've seen more of under the map than what's above the surface.
Every other character reacts to it the same way. I watch it happen once scripted scenes or spawn-ins finish.
"We're here!"
*Falls through ground*
I've bumped into a handful of issues myself, but nothing so debilitating as what Rynjin's encountering. Holy crap, man, that blows!
I've had the response wheel go dead during conversations so that I couldn't use the mouse to choose my reactions. I was able to use the keyboard to navigate through though, so it wasn't a huge setback and it's only happened in one conversation so far, but it was for the whole length of it.
I've also run into some really strange spawning behaviors for the enemies. I've been fighting groups of bandits only to have a bear suddenly appear out of thin air in the middle of the fracas, as if the bear too stepped out of a breach to the fade. This has happened a number of times. Sometimes a bear appears, sometimes a bandit, one time it was a drake even. The worst though was during a huge bandit fight in the Hinterlands and a pack of mabari popped into existance surrounding Solus.
Still, none of that comes close to comparing to intangible dirt. That is so nuts!
When I step on any patch of normal ground I simply fall through it. Rocks, when I can land on one, are apparently still solid. Which doesn't help when 90% of all the game's terrain is dirt.
I've seen more of under the map than what's above the surface.
Every other character reacts to it the same way. I watch it happen once scripted scenes or spawn-ins finish.
"We're here!"
*Falls through ground*
Hahaha I went hunting through Bioware's tech support forums for clues as to what might be causing your problems, and the only post on it I found was yours...with no replies. Sorry, man. It sounds like you're one of maybe a handful of people experiencing the falling-through-world bug on a consistent basis. Have you ruled out issues with your hardware? Did uninstalling and reinstalling the game change anything?
I just reinstalled but haven't had time to run it again yet. I'll try it later this afternoon.
I updated my graphics drivers immediately after the new ones for it came out for AMD. I'll run a benchmark if it's still broken when I check it later.
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AMD may be a problem. ATI cards can have issues with new games until some tweaks and exemps are added to the drivers. I know I will never again by an ATI card. Awesome raw power but crappy drivers.
Had the same problem with the new Alien vs Predator. Wouldn't work for a month till a driver update came out that fixed the issue.
When I step on any patch of normal ground I simply fall through it. Rocks, when I can land on one, are apparently still solid. Which doesn't help when 90% of all the game's terrain is dirt.
I've seen more of under the map than what's above the surface.
Every other character reacts to it the same way. I watch it happen once scripted scenes or spawn-ins finish.
"We're here!"
*Falls through ground*
that's bizzare in the extreme.
Reminds me of the time I blew up a star destroyer from the inside due to an in game error in x wing vs tie fighter.
Instead of through a porthole no bigger than a wamprat?
Playing this on PS4 and I've had some issues with lagging and freezes, but the graphics are gorgeous. I'm not a big fan of the hybrid combat between Dragon Age 1&2, but mostly because the stop and slow top down combat doesn't really scratch my turn based itch. That's a pretty minor complaint this far though.
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Digital foundry ran a bunch of tests on some of the different versions of Dragon Age Inquisition (PC, PS4, XB1). The results are at Digital Foundry . All in all, the game performed pretty well across all platforms.
Hm. Thank you.
AMD may be a problem. ATI cards can have issues with new games until some tweaks and exemps are added to the drivers. I know I will never again by an ATI card. Awesome raw power but crappy drivers.
Had the same problem with the new Alien vs Predator. Wouldn't work for a month till a driver update came out that fixed the issue.
I used to try the ATI cards once every several years, lol. Always driver issues even waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back then.
I had the ATI Rage Fury Maxx (or whatever their first dual GPU card was in the 90s), every game had visual artifacts, tearing, and/or missing textures. Dumped the card and went back to Nvidia. Several years later (maybe 10) I gave them another shot with their 9800XT. My beloved Unreal Tournament games worked great, all other games were the same driver wise. Every updated driver that fixed one game, broke all others.I came within a hair of buying/trying an R9 290, I'm glad I didn't, I've read of numerous driver bugs still existing in recent drivers.
Bottom line, Both cards I bought in the past were ATI top of their lines back then and $300+, and today's R9 series seems to repeat the trend. My advice stay away from ATI/AMD in general if you are any kind of gamer. In 20+ years their drivers have not improved. Period.
AMD is currently a pale shadow of their former selves. Athlon processors used to be insanely fast and low priced. Now some of their strongest CPU offerings are barely par with the I3.
Late Edit and back to topic, lol. :)
I pre-ordered it, pre-loaded it, but still haven't played it. I was busy leveling to 100 in WoW:WoD and doing guild stuff (I GM a horde raid guild on the Thrall server). I was going to try to play tonight, I'll post later if I do. I have a few errands to run first.
I loved the first DA, but hated the second from my few hours in and admittedly the poor reviews (for some reasons the negativity of the reviews got to me, usually I ignore reviews of my staple-type games).
I disagree. ATI drivers have gotten better over the past dozen years, and now days are better running then they used to be. In fact, there are very few games I run into where I have problems anymore.
NOW...when Windows 8 was first released, it was a headache. At THAT particular point it seemed like Nvidia was a better choice, and I had real problems with some of the games and ATI/AMD drivers overall.
In fact, now, they are running most things.
Now, with graphic card problems with Dragon Age were resolved first with AMD with Nvidia taking longer.
AMD admittedly had the repair out with beta drivers...however it was a fix out there faster than Nvidia.
Neither of them solve ALL the problems to tell the truth, but in tackling the problem, it would appear AMD/ATI was faster.
In regards to AMD/ATI It runs better if you have both their cards and processors...when you mix and match I think there can be a bunch of problems (not tech enough to be able to tell you why).
Of course, ironically, most of my computers have Nvidia cards, and only my 2 laptops have a poor AMD (because that's what it came with). In that light, despite what I told you, if you want to judge on what one chooses instead of what one says, I suppose that means I'm a solid NVidia guy anyways.
I like to change up graphics cards almost every year, currently I use a Gigabyte GTX 780 "Ghz Edition". I bought this after chickening out on pulling the trigger for the Radeon R9 290. In my 40's, I'm appreciating the dollar more every day and it feels risky leaving the Nvidia comfort zone.
I was hoping for another good chipset option like the old S3 Virge chipset, 3DFX Voodoo, Rendition Verite or Hercules Tile-based rendering solutions. All these were great in back in their days. ATI just fails.
I've head little to no issues with Nvidia drivers, and I'm even fine with the non-hql Beta drivers. All my games run and look great, once in awhile a driver issue pops up with a specific game, but it's squashed very quickly with the next driver release (and they release these fairly quickly beta or otherwise). Maybe, I'll look into another ATI ten years from now, they seem to pique my interest every decade :) .
Got the game, have started playing it yesterday. I am, I think, 60-70% through the Hinterlands and have just decided to advance the storyline a bit, so I went to Orlais, where I recruited Sera just before leaving for work.
I had a visceral reaction of dislike to her immediately. Huh. Well, I wonder if this will keep up.
This game is amazing. I was skeptical of Bioware's "open world" claims on this one. Is it as open or varied as Skyrim? No. However, as with Skyrim, it does a fantastic job of enticing me to explore around just one more turn or over just one more hill. It's fantastic. Even though I know they are self-contained, they don't feel small the way earlier installments in the series did.
I'd say it's similar to the Witcher 2 but with much larger free-roaming areas. Nice balance of story and exploration.
My only quibble thus far is that it maintains the Dragon Age tradition of douchey elf companions (Zevran, Fenris, Sera). I was sorely tempted to not recruit her given my immediate dislike of her.
Solas, however, is awesome so far.
LOL! I felt the exact same, magnuskn! I think any future playthroughs I do I'll have her not join, I find her that irritating. It's a credit though to how well she's written that I so sharply disklike her.
I've bumped into a couple more glitchy things over the weekend, twice now the dialogue wheel hasn't come up during coversations so I wasn't able to start or complete quests. Fortunately, exiting the game and reloading shook whatever the issue was out and I didn't lose any progress, just had to hop on my elk and ride across some hills to a farm house to cash one quest in.
I also seem to have left the interior of Skyhold too quickly at one point, as the outside had not yet rendered. I stopped moving almost right away to let the game catch up to my movements, but I apparently stopped inside a set of stairs. When the outdoors finally sprang into being around me, I was fused within a flight of stone stairs - a permanent fixture of the stronghold.
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The glitchiness hasn't really impacted my enjoyment of the game. This is quite possibly the prettiest game I've ever played, and the views of far off mountains and ocean vistas that await at the crest of every tall hill make exploring instensly satisfying. I mean, I like and enjoy just riding around and looking. That's crazy!
Also, I'm impressed that the dialogue and companion opinions seem much more nuanced. Yes, with it being the 3rd installment they don't have to establish the basics as much but Vivienne's view on Circle life and the Tempars was surprising and refreshing. Similarly, Solas' opinions on the Fade are intriguing rather than off-putting which is no small feat given the Breach.
The conflicts and political situation are also much more nuanced than the "us-vs.-them" mindsets I was expecting to see. Great stuff and great inspiration for my own Pathfinder campaigns.