Can DA4 even compete in today's quality of games?

Just watched a presentation of Ghost of Tsushima gameplay. The game looks like a cheap version of AC Odyssey.

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I think even looking at Inquisition you can look at systems for the same thing and how well some work and how some will bog the game down.  Just comparing the crafting systems for potions or weapons/armor to me the potion one would work great in a story based game.  The zone design for the smaller zones that direct you down a path that helped tell the story of the area worked better for the story then just having one large empty feeling zone that you aimlessly wander hoping to find what you want.  Even the amount of time the game is designed for is demonstrated well.  You cannot have a game that is designed to be a 20 hour or 80 hour experience, the 20 hour experience will always be the better one for the other content will always feel detached from that first 20 hours.  I know I enjoy Inquisition a lot more when sticking to the critical path and then it feels like the prior BioWare games because the story isn't sitting still while I go out and wander and that does include the more open world content or having multiplayer in the game.  Its about how the game incorporates them being the more important thing while keeping the story to be the most important thing and not the systems behind the story.

That is the problem with demonstrations of "what is possible" for it doesn't have all the variables yet such as NPCs, you and your party, other environmental content not to mention it probably wasn't running on the older consoles with the vastly more limited hardware at that point either.  That is why I don't understand why people want to know and see more thinking it would somehow be magically ready years before release.  Not everything has been balanced, tuned, or added to know if that vision of the game is even possible.

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Its like the Unreal 5 preview we don't know if that is really possible inside game without it turning out like The Order: 1886 where so much was sacrificed for the visual fidelity.

Yeah, I'd honestly say the issue is explicitly associated with trying to do too much; the scope of the game, the difficulties with Frostbite and other factors explicitly led to the budget for side quests to be thoroughly slashed. If they'd scaled back the number of areas they could easily have produced a smaller number of higher-quality quests. 

Thank you
Perfectly said

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Any other failures you'd like to mention ? I'm pretty sure I forgot a couple  

Yeah dude we get it, you love Gothic and pray at its altar but it's not accurate to say Bioware doesn't make the effort to create living breathing worlds. Obviously they have some faults as you point out but they also create complex societies with people that have specific needs and demands, all of which form the basis not just of the quests involved but also in the relationship between the player and the NPC's.

Then what are you waiting for dude ? Enjoy yourself   !