Getting the year off right by forgetting to post this on Sunday, but better nate than lever. Anyway I watched the Fallout show so I am inspired to play Fallout 4 on survival difficulty. It's been slow going so far as I've died numerous times, often losing ~30 mins of progess. Hope everyone's new year has gotten off to a strong start.
Each game is pretty different so far in what they do well and what they do poorly. Like the combat in 2 isn't 'great' as far as video games go, but I do think it was better than 1 because of the faster pace, smoother animations, more fluid character movement. It's the encounters that are worse though, which in my other thread, I mention is mainly just the game throwing dozens of enemies at you.
Inquisition feels more like a very slow MMO because it's an open world game with large maps full of Ubisoft collectibles. The combat is simplified even further in that it's balanced around only controlling a single character instead of micromanaging your entire party like in 1 and sometimes in 2. Which you can still do, but isn't really necessary, at least in the early game where I'm at.
If you didn't like the first one, I think I'd agree that you wouldn't like the later entries either. I also haven't played Veilguard though, so if it that has more modern action combat like someone else described as being something like the new God of War games, it might be a better time.
It’s not like I don’t enjoy CRPG or tactical combat, I just thought it wasn’t done very well in DA:O. It felt like it was in a weird spot, where it was halfway between a modern version of that type of game and a retro version. Like I can go back and play Fallout 1 which is much clunkier, but you kind of expect that. I really wanna enjoy Dragon Age because I want to see how the story plays out and how your decisions carry over, like in Mass Effect.
I think that's kind of consistent throughout is that the gameplay never really comes together to feel 'good', just 'okay'. It's definitely clunky all the way through, at least up to Inquisition.
Inquisition ties directly into Veilguard, but Veilguard only lets you import like 4 big decisions from Inquisition. Inquisition has dozens of flags for what you did in Origins and 2. So worst case is maybe Veilguard plays way better and you can watch some lore videos on YouTube to at least get an idea of what was happening. You'll definitely miss the small references to past decisions, but I think there's relatively fewer of them than in Mass Effect outside of the big decisions.