Ex Dragon Age Boss: Inquisition's World Was A Bit Hollow,Now I Would Make It More Like The Witcher 3

Former Dragon Age franchise lead Mike Laidlaw admitted that Inquisition's open world was a bit hollow, and in hindsight, he would now make it more like The Witcher III: Wild Hunt. He also said he feels bad about the cut features that didn't make it into the final version of the game.

[Imp0ssibl3]

Definitely true but Inquisition was still a great game, I hope DA4 can turn out even better.

[RpgSama]

It's not that DA:I was a bad game, it's just that TW3 was so much better, but at the same time it was after, so at the time of DA:I you didn't know what you were missing.
It's easy to say now how empty Inquisition was, because we already played both

[C4rnos]

At the time, Inquisition just felt like a single player Bioware MMO, felt very empty to myself at least- the story wasn't as entertaining as the first two, nor the combat.

Hopefully they go back to Bioware roots for a sequel, however Anthem is taking precedence currently.

[joab777]

Its a strange statement. It’s like someone playing GoW and saying, that’s how I wanted to make my game lol!

And yeah, TW3 makes every game feel hollow. It’s just so damn dense, and it’s side quests are better than the main quests. It’s nuts! My only issue, and it’s serious nitpicking, is the combat system, and 99% of games, including the Souls games and Bioshock, have this issue...the combat becomes too easy too quickly. And this makes anything related to progression somewhat irrelevant.

For example, what good is all the gear and crafting system once you start getting the main schematics? And a lot of the combat complexity is lost when you are rolling through enemies.

That said, it is a PHENOMENAL game, and almost unfathomable in CDPR’s evolution from the two previous entries.

It makes me very excited (and a bit nervous) for CP2077. Excited because they have shown to increase exponentially in their ability to craft a story and world in seemless fashion. Nervous, because they have yet to fail in their desire to take on almost insurmountable challenges. Oh...a full open world that maintains a story focus...no problem. Now, it’s a larger map, possible multiplayer and first person perspective.

Can’t wait! All the faith in the world. But a bit apprehensive tbh!

[PhantomS42]

It was only better than DA2 which isn't a very high bar to get over. It was a pretty lousy game and a hollow shell from the greatness that Origins brought us.

[KaiPow]

I'd love to see Bioware take a heavier approach to their melee combat. Never was much of a fan of CRPG's growing up and I thought there wasn't enough impact to the combat in DA2.

[Relientk77]

I hope Dragon Age 4 is more like Witcher 3

I loved Inquistion, but Witcher 3 is much better, especially the quests, and world with tons to do.

[PhantomS42]

If they could mix Origins and The Witcher 3 then it would be a fantastic game and a huge apology for the last two turds in the series.

[Segata]

I hope DA4 is more like Dragon Age Origins.

[ArchangelMike]

Let's get real for a second, EA would never allow for the time and resources needed to create a living world like The Witcher 3 (just look at what happened to Mass Effect Andromeda).

I'd love to see it too, but just don't see EA pouring the time and resources into a huge single-player open world world game, without some kind of hackneyed idea for loot boxes and monetisation.

[porkChop]

Probably not, but you never know. EA's apparently had a GTA competitor in development for years, and that hasn't even been announced yet. Star Wars games from most of their studios have been in development for years, and those also haven't been announced yet. So they're not always against taking their time, they just usually don't like to do so.

[execution17]

I believe Andromeda's fault was mismanagement, decent game but could've been a whole lot better

[Tru_Blu]

They'll go the route of the first dragon age and make you pay for storage for your loot :)

[Kashima]

Not like dark souls?

[PhantomS42]

The Dark Souls of the Witcher?

[Hardiman]

Yeah that would have made it a much, much better game!

[Armaggedon]

Inquisition was fine. It could be better, but dont try too hard to emulate CDPR. One of the main things that fans love about dragon age is the mystery of the world and lore. Bioware are masters of letting things gloss right over peoples heads. Look at how many theory videos there are on YouTube for dragon age. If you try to focus too much on what the Witcher does, you may forget the soul of your own game if not done correctly. Yes,learn from the Witcher, but understand that the Bioware approach to world building and questing in dragon age was to use the quests as red herrings to hide the truth of the lore.. Many people say that Dragon age 2 was bad, but many to this day are still mystified by exactly what happened in kirkwall. It's easy to just focus on a quest like the one for Sebastion Vael, and just focus on helping him avenge his family. But when going through the forgotten ruins of the quest, there are large mountains of bones all over the place. Someone who is really paying attention may have to ask, "What the hell happened here?"

[ILostMyMind]

A great game. 10/10 for me. Don't try to copy The Witcher, do better what you already do.

[narsaku]

I couldn't get over the ps3.5 visuals, weirdly shaped faces, ugly skin pigmentations and boring semi open environments.

I hope they can do better in those regards for the next DA game.

[showtimefolks]

It was filled with useless fetch quests fix that please. Provide quality content so much of the good content was held behind the fetch quests

[DafunkyRebel]

It came out too early in the gen cycle. It had epic dragon battles and was really fun. Could’ve benefited too from better graphics and coding if they had start the project two years after

[PhantomS42]

It wasn't just the world that was hollow in Dragon Age I, the whole game was.

[snkiworld]

i NEED RPG WITH GOOD BOW GAMEPLAY LIKE dRAGON DOGMA AC ORIGIN

[Felix313]

I just hope the do not use any mechanics whose sole purpose is to pad out the game play time like the table in DA:I.

[glennhkboy]

I think the issue with DA;I is-- there are 2 games that were rolled into 1 package: The Hinderlands & After Hinderlands. The Hinderlands part was dull & dragged on forever. It was only after you got to the other areas did the game got better. But the damage was done. Also, instead of a single, continuous land mass, the game was broken down into different individual sections. This diminish the feeling of scale of the game itself.

[Segata]

Combat sucked. World sucked. Story sucked. Characters were decent. Side missions were bad aside from the haunted house. I loved that one. RPGs have sorta abandoned the haunted house/ship trope but they did it well.