The Witcher 3 vs. Dragon Age: Inquisition

[Wariowokecancel]

I wonder if this poll has a different results a few months later. Witcher 3 being the more recent release might be affecting this poll.

Naah.

You might as well pit Mass Effect 2 vs 3.

And you don't get 80% via a couple of months later.

 

[Bob Gray]

I wonder if this poll has a different results a few months later. Witcher 3 being the more recent release might be affecting this poll.

Late response, but also the Witcher series has long been a PC darling and criticisms can be overlooked. In W3 the combat still isn't "Good", but it's been upgraded to "OK" but it gets far less flak than the DA I combat, which is much more fun imo.

Also, I feel like DA: I has far more replayability, with it's different classes and extensive choices and quest branching. I don't really long to replay W3 as a slightly different Geralt, and make quest choices that result in a different ending, but little else. I feel like I can go back and play DA: I again with have a fairly different experience than my previous playthrough and I don't get that vibe playing through W3.

 

[The Clamburglar]

Witcher 3 all day.

Superior quests, characters, and story.

 

[method115]

Late response, but also the Witcher series has long been a PC darling and criticisms can be overlooked. In W3 the combat still isn't "Good", but it's been upgraded to "OK" but it gets far less flak than the DA I combat, which is much more fun imo.

Also, I feel like DA: I has far more replayability, with it's different classes and quest extensive choices and quest branching. I don't really long to replay W3 as a slightly different Geralt, and make quest choices that result in a different ending, but little else. I feel like I can go back and play DA: I again with have a fairly different experience than my previous playthrough and I don't get that vibe playing through W3.

I felt like that with Witcher 2. Although I enjoyed the combat I never felt like I would replay this. I've always felt like I could replay the Dragon Age games except for #2 that was a one and done game. After I beat ME3 I'll be buying Witcher 3 and then I'll give my opinion on which is better.

 

[Blayt7hh]

Easily the Witcher. Easily

 

[Madmick]

I wonder if this poll has a different results a few months later. Witcher 3 being the more recent release might be affecting this poll.

I don't know. DA:I has been regarded as a relatively weak GOTY winner since the day it won the award. It's very rare that games that aren't better than 90% on the meta-rankings win the grandaddy DICE. I think DA:I floats around 89%. Its main rival in the year was Shadow of Mordor which hovers around 86%. Compare that to the winner from the previous year, which happens to be the historic record-holder for all time wins, The Last of Us, for example, which registers at ~96%.

 

[Breakitdown]

witcher is better but both are overrated. Really bad combat systems in both games, DA is just a snooze fest combat wise and in witcher you can get by via mashing quick strike over and over. Neither of them are a match for the elder scrolls games.

 

[Hawk7389]

witcher is better but both are overrated. Really bad combat systems in both games, DA is just a snooze fest combat wise and in witcher you can get by via mashing quick strike over and over. Neither of them are a match for the elder scrolls games.

You talk about them having bad combat systems, then talk about neither being a match for Elder Scrolls games, wow the irony.

 

[Breakitdown]

You talk about them having bad combat systems, then talk about neither being a match for Elder Scrolls games, wow the irony.

elder scrolls far superior. witcher and DA are simply shallow games by comparison.

 

[method115]

elder scrolls far superior. witcher and DA are simply shallow games by comparison.

To each his own then. I literally can't use any melee character in the elder scrolls series. The combat is horrible. I go all mage and then it's semi fun. The story is never that great though so I end up losing interest at around 40 hours in this is for both the Fallout and Elder scrolls series.

 

[thedemolitionis]

I don't know. DA:I has been regarded as a relatively weak GOTY winner since the day it won the award. It's very rare that games that aren't better than 90% on the meta-rankings win the grandaddy DICE. I think DA:I floats around 89%. Its main rival in the year was Shadow of Mordor which hovers around 86%. Compare that to the winner from the previous year, which happens to be the historic record-holder for all time wins, The Last of Us, for example, which registers at ~96%.

I avoided Dragon Age 3 after Dragon Age 2 until it started winning GOTY awards. I caved and bought it on a discount.

It had really strong moments when the story was moving(but still a pretty weak, magical power is going to destroy the world). The story moments were too few and far between though. There is so much filler crap to sift through to find the good parts. After 10 or 15 hours I had to stop.

 

[Hawk7389]

elder scrolls far superior. witcher and DA are simply shallow games by comparison.

Elder Scrolls has some of the most shallow combat out there. You could say the exploration or enviros are superior (although I think Witcher 3 beats Elder Scrolls in this). You could say the story might be better (in my opinion the stories in Elder Scrolls are pretty weak). But the combat is shallow as hell. Its just hit the left mouse button till something dies, with enemies that just rush at you and don't really do much else.

 

[dawnslayer]

apples an oranges really

W3 you are Geralt, whether Geralt is a douche or not is up to you but thats basically it. Great game, great story, they rushed it at the end since theres a zillion plotlines (particularly in novigorad) that don't lead anywhere.


DAI is party based, you create your own character, male or female, instead of stepping into a preset guy, there's tons more dialogue due to the nature of the dialogue trees, and the

Downside of DAI was it was hamstrung by needing to adhere to older consoles and it's main story lacked focus unless you played it all the way through which cut out 80% of the content, and they also didn't make the side areas particularly engaging unless you read everything.


People claimed DAI was all fetch quests but really, so was W3. Go fix the idols. fetch quest. Go into the dungeon, kill x, bring a trophy. Fetch quest. Go swim and get me some pearls. Fetch quest.


Overall though TW3 is great, and i was pleased with the news that DAI is getting more DLC and older consoles won't have access due to technical limitations.


Oh, and finally replayability. Yeah DAI wins here since there's many permutations you can take the storyline, granted in this age of youtube you could easily look any changes up but there's still more to experience. TW3, well, you can do almost everything in a single playthrough. I loved the hell out of it but i have no desire to pick it up again except to show off to friends.

 

[Blayt7hh]

I wonder if this poll has a different results a few months later. Witcher 3 being the more recent release might be affecting this poll.

Hah no, all I see is 7 people that didn't play the Witcher 3

apples an oranges really

Nah, more like delicious juicy apple vs an apple that's not as good. They are similar games and can easily be compared.

 

[Bob Gray]

Hah no, all I see is 7 people that didn't play the Witcher 3



Nah, more like delicious juicy apple vs an apple that's not as good. They are similar games and can easily be compared.

Honestly, they feel more different than alike. Comparisons are difficult. They might both fall under the RPG umbrella but they really do feel like vastly different gameplay experiences reliant on a very distinct core set of attributes that the other game may lack.

DA: I is largely about building your party of distinct characters, each with a branching development path that leads to much more variety in your playthrough. Whereas W3 goes all in on building a distinctive world and giving the player a very specific place in it. DA combat is quick, responsive and visceral whereas W3 is clumsy and unforgiving, some of which is intentional. Geralt is a very specific character while in DA you build your own, etc, etc.

They may both be the same genre, but theyre very different games and experiences.

 

[BJPenn2012]

The tactical camera empty side quests and tedious micro management of the inventory really turned me off from DA I. It wasn't a bad RPG by any means, I just found those things made the game very time consuming, I respect the depth, but the game didn't respect my time. I found I could play The witcher 3 for an hour, do a few ?s and maybe a side quest or two and feel much more accomplished than playing DA I for an hour.

 

[Torrid]

elder scrolls far superior. witcher and DA are simply shallow games by comparison.

If there's a slight chance you're nostalgically referring to Marrowind, you get a pass. Otherwise, vanilla Skyrim is as shallow as you can get. Bears stronger than Drakes, cave after cave filled with the same Draughr, radial quests that just have you show up at a house on the other side of the map to kill a mountain lion inside someone's house, etc.

Oblivion was so broken that you couldn't even do a melee character at later levels. The leveling system for enemies was just idiotic.

I love Skyrim, but I'm not going to pretend it's not full of problems. Luckily for them, they have a devoted fan base that does almost all the work for them post-release. When you mod the shit out of the game with stuff like: Deadly Combat, Deadly Dragons, SkyRe, Frostfall, Intersting NPCs, etc you get a real vision of how great the game could be.

 

[CPA]

Thanks to this thread, I booted up Dragon Age and started a new play through. I just finished Witcher 3 and thought it might be about time I finished DA:I, but I wanted to start fresh.

This really is a case of "different strokes for different folks" because DAMN am I not into DA:I right after playing Witcher 3. The game looks super basic and shallow by comparison. Character models, mouths, animations, etc. are all poor. Atmosphere and world feel much more generic and bare, etc.

And the big one....combat. I know Witcher 3's isn't perfect, but it really shows me that I'm not a fan of the tactical camera and party play in DA:I. I got bored almost immediately with the combat style.

People say the story is good, but I'm not sure I'll ever finish DA:I now. This game, for sure, if one of my most misguided day one purchases. Reviews were great, hype was big, people told me to go for it. I did, and it's just not my thing.

 

[method115]

Thanks to this thread, I booted up Dragon Age and started a new play through. I just finished Witcher 3 and thought it might be about time I finished DA:I, but I wanted to start fresh.

This really is a case of "different strokes for different folks" because DAMN am I not into DA:I right after playing Witcher 3. The game looks super basic and shallow by comparison. Character models, mouths, animations, etc. are all poor. Atmosphere and world feel much more generic and bare, etc.

And the big one....combat. I know Witcher 3's isn't perfect, but it really shows me that I'm not a fan of the tactical camera and party play in DA:I. I got bored almost immediately with the combat style.

People say the story is good, but I'm not sure I'll ever finish DA:I now. This game, for sure, if one of my most misguided day one purchases. Reviews were great, hype was big, people told me to go for it. I did, and it's just not my thing.

After I beat ME3 I've thought about going back and starting from Dragon Age origins and playing all the way until DAI and waiting a bit until more expansions and stuff come out. I still need to play TW3 though so I'll think I'll go that route first then Dragon Age.

 

[method115]

So I got the Witcher 3 and I'm about 15 hours in. I can already tell this game isn't going to be as good as DAI. First off the combat is bad like really bad. They took a step back IMO. The Witcher 2 got a lot of complaints but I didn't agree I thought the combat was good. In 3 they changed some things and I don't like it. It's so bad that nothing can make this game better than DAI from here on out.

The story has become a little annoying honestly with the way it's playing out in the beginning. Doing all of these senseless tasks for the baron just for him to slowly give me info. They should have gone a different route with that. I also don't like switching to Cersei during the game and playing her parts. I hate when games do that. The Batman games started doing that and it was annoying. I'm really hoping this whole game doesn't become me chasing the girl down and switching between her and Geralt. I'm enjoying the game but like I pretty much thought without playing it this isn't going to beat DAI. I understand I'm in the minority with that opinion.

To me though DAI's combat is just amazing same with the whole series honestly. I just enjoy controlling a group of people and pausing the combat like that. I feel like it's a modern day take on the JRPG combat. Honestly I feel it's how all JRPGS should be from here on out the old style of combat is so dated. Legend of heroes was the last game I played with that system and I did it but it's rare for games like that to keep my interest now and days.