Originally Posted by Telephasic
Originally Posted by Abits

Abou DAi - it's super boring imo and even if you can stomach the story, there is both much and nothing to do other than that. You can go to many places and do many things, but it's just busy work with nothing particularly interesting happening.


I read an interesting critique of the game, which pointed out that the offscreen adventures your advisors have sound infinitely more fun than you traipsing around the forest collecting mosaic pieces and wine bottles. Which is - you know - a weird thing for the inquisitor to be doing.

I'm not sure how much of this has to do with Bioware chasing Bethesda's boring-ass single-player MMO format, and how much is just low-quality padding due to lack of time, since actual quality content would require more hours of work. Even Dragon Age: Origins had a bunch of stupid bulletin-board style MMO quests.

Yes I agree with this, but I'd also add that by the time Bioware made DA:I they had been working on six games in the same family-line: BG1, BG2, NwN1, DA:O, DA2, and DA:I. I think they were burned out and their creative juices had run dry by then. They needed to go do some other things, make some other types of games -- even if only RPGs in a different type of setting than high fantasy. So to answer @Abits' question, I do have some hope that the huge turnover of personnel at Bioware in recent months has been good for them. They badly needed new blood. Let's keep in mind that when they made BG1 they were still very much a nobody, a studio most gamers had never heard of. So it is very possible their next game can be akin to starting fresh. Since I love the DA franchise, its lore and its setting, I am keeping my hopes alive.