Dragon Age III: InquisitionFollow

My main criticisms right now:

Apparently my computer is starting to show its age. I have everything turned down to Low, but there is still a noticeable jumpiness during cutscenes. The graphics are good, but the settings gives all hair an extremely bright shine. My Inquisitor looks like a plastic model as his hair is constantly shining. Gameplay-wise I'm still getting used to everything, but I wish they had a "Loot area" or "Run to object and loot" option. Respawning enemies have been slightly annoying at times. And I don't know if it's a bug but when I was around level 5 I ran across a level 12 breach (or at least a breach sending out level 12 enemies). It was right in the area I was questing in, so I'm not sure if it was a bug that enemies roughly tripled in strength. Ended up running away.

Other than that, all good. Haven't been bitten by the "if you clear out everything, it takes longer to respawn" mechanic. I loot EVERYTHING. And it usually seems to be back when I come back.

Oh, and the "Gather Coin" repeatable mission from the war table bites. I've done it twice and received 77 and 106 gold, respectively. Almost not worth the hour wait... but I have no other missions to send them on right now, I guess?

Edit:

And yes, load times are very long. I've been disconnected three times, and each time it feels like a 5-minute process to get back into it.

Edit2: Not sure if it's a DA: The Last Court result or not, but I did have the option to investigate Serault from my war map. I think it just gave me a Codex entry and some gold.

Edited, Nov 18th 2014 7:09am by LockeColeMA

If it'll help, we could peer pressure you into upgrading your PC first.

I made a human SnB he kind of ended up looking like my Sheppard which is cool. I always go SnB for my first run of these games. Not because I think it's safe, I just genuinely enjoy the fighting style.

As for the beards I found the Irish chin beard with stuble went well on my scarred gruff warrior guy. The smaller beards are not bad they kind of seem to crap out in the bigger fuller versions.

I let it set defaults on my 670TI and installed the new Nvidia driver this morning. I'm getting a bit of stutter in cut scenes. So I may have to adjust a bit. May finally be time for me to upgrade my GFX card. (Which frankly I like having an excuse to do anyway.)

Go on Kickstarter and say you need a new computer to search DA:I for anti-feminist sentiment. Instant gaming box!

Specs are actually fairly modest, especially compared to Shadow of Mordor or AC: Unity:

Minimum
OS: Windows 7 or 8.1 64-bit
CPU: AMD quad-core CUP @2.5 GHz / Intel quad-core CPU @2.0 GHz
System RAM: 4 GB
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 4870 / NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Graphics Card Memory: 512 MB
Hard Drive Space: 26 GB
DirectX 10

Recommended
OS: WIndows 7 or 8.1 64-bit
CPU: AMD six-core CPU @ 3.2 GHz / Intel quad-core CPU @3.0 GHz
System RAM: 8 GB
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7870 or R9 270 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Graphics Card Memory: 3 GB
Hard Drive Space 26 GB
DirectX 11

Can you believe I got this Packard-Bell for only seven dollars?! Came with a 13" monitor!

I could have my own garage sale with all the old computer pieces in my basement.

For the moment, GMG is offering DA:I for 13% off.

So far so good. Playing on ultra and getting 60 fps because my e-peen is bigger than all of yours. Game is quite pretty (yes, quite).

The only complaint I have (so far) is that cut scenes are locked to 30fps, which causes some stuttering. Just nitpicking, really.

I'm not too picky about fps rates, but when changes cause stuttering it really ruins my immersion.

I'm going to try the fix for unlocking the cutscenes from 30FPS tonight when I get home from work. Apparently it borks multiplayer sync but I can disable for multi-player, in about 200 hours or so when I actually get around to multi-player.

http://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/2mm319/dragon_age_inquisition_30fps_cutscene_framerate/

I might have just solved this at lunch by turning of post processing. I'm not seeing the stutter now. The framerate did not bother me just the stutter. Will test more after work.

Things accomplished in DA:I so far:

1. Acquired Elfroot.

What the Christ is this? Actually, it's fairly well done and certainly a trillion times better than that embarrassing video with Felicia Day but I still want to shout "Nerd!" at her