Saturday Morning Gaming: Dragon Age: Inquisition – Game of the Year Edition is Epic Game Store’s Free Game this week.
A million years ago, Mass Effect 3 came out and there was a weird backlash to it. (I wrote about some of it here back in 2012.)
I found the game unplayable out of the box because it wouldn’t let me import my face from the other two games. While I waited for the face importation patch to come out, I was subjected to the debate over the game’s ending and found myself spoiled. Part of the problem was that the ending of the game didn’t really run with the themes established by the previous games. Worse, the people criticizing the game found themselves accused of making bad faith criticisms and the criticisms were left unaddressed because, hey… if a criticism is made in bad faith, you don’t have to deal with it, right?
Well, this eventually resulted in Bioware shutting down their own discussion forums after a somewhat disastrous group of arguments over the ending of Mass Effect 3 that had one of the Bioware employees tell players “fine, don’t buy our games then.”
I know that *MY* response was to say “FINE! I WON’T!” and, since then, I haven’t so much as given them a cent.
I *DID* buy a copy of Dragon Age: Inquisition – Game of the Year Edition, though. But a used copy.
If you found yourself in the same boat, thinking that you didn’t want to give money to a company that didn’t want it, you should know that the Epic Game Store has Dragon Age: Inquisition – Game of the Year Edition as its free game this week. (Warning: You’ll have to install the EA App.)
The original Dragon Age was an amazing RPG, Dragon Age II was an RPG that tried to do new things but was the first indication that maybe the sale to EA was going to result in a bumpy ride, and Dragon Age: Inquisition was a weird culmination of Bioware’s mistakes.
But the Prologue is very good indeed. And, hey, you won’t have to give Bioware any money.
So… what are you playing?
(Featured image is “Jay’s Dwarf”. Screenshot taken by the author.)
Steam sale: Fantasy General II for $11 for those of you who loved the original.
Which is kinda funny because the original was 1996.
I haven’t finished it, but it plays true to form… the idea is to mass forces and kill units before they retreat… but in doing so you always have edge units that the enemy will attempt to overwhelm.
What makes it fun is that you keep your units from mission to mission and they get better — well the ones that don’t die when you need to make that last attack to kill the enemy’s unit — so the goal is to try to make an elite army by gaining experience *and* giving them upgrades along a skill tree (this is new, I think? I mean, it has been 30yrs and all).
There’s some light branching where you can chose to attack Clan Green or Clan Red, but if you attack one, you can’t do the other path. It doesn’t feel like it adds anything because you can’t really tell what you’d get either way, so you just pick one and go.
Mostly just a good old fashioned turn based hexagonal fantasy army game with some DLC.
(One thing I remember from the original is that it had a really good instrumental version of Let all Mortal Flesh Keep Silent playing ominously in the background. They did not keep this to my chagrin).Report