How would you rank this game compared to the first two?

Vote: Inquisition is a good game.

I am a huge fan of the first two Dragon Age games (played both billion times and still play): dialogues, atmosphere, tactics, characters, choices, outcomes and many other things.

Inquisition for me is not really a dragon age game as almost everything what made the first two games Dragon Age, Inquisition lacks. Many things are removed.
But Inquisition on its own, even if it is not really a DA game, is a good game. Great characters, VA, a good written villain.

Though now, after many PTs, I still play DAI for one purpose: try different builds, teams, combinations etc. But play it not for dialogues, choices and tactics.
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It is worth playing? Imo- yes, it is. DA Keep can help a bit to make the game more interesting in terms of choices.

Personal opinion: to play DAI for choices/dialogues/outcomes/tactics/combat - there is almost nothing like that as the first two game cover these things.
Whom how of course.

But DAI is still a good game and not waste of time. There are still some things reminding the first two games, the fan of which you, talyn82, remain.

I’m torn. I voted ‘good’, because the order for me is Origins, Inquisition, 2…but that doesn’t really do justice to a game where I rolled from 1st to 2nd to 3rd PTs without a pause. Literally creating a new character after completing the game each time.

It is very different in play style to the first two, and there is an unhappy - in my opinion - attempt to provide both action and tactical pause and play combat. The characters are great, it is - still, 8 years later - a beautiful game and some of the music is incredible.

The story works fine for me, and it does a lot of heavy lifting in terms of fleshing out Thedas.

If I were to offer two criticisms they would be redundant, almost embarrassing side quests (take flowers there, bring a ring back here) and to borrow a line from TotalBiscuit (may he Rest In Peace) - I wish they’d made half the number of areas and spent twice as long on each of them.

There are certain things to consider; such as compared to DAII....Inquisition was an actually finished game that got to go through the editing process.

For all intents and purposes, it might be more accurate to call DAII a prototype of what the game was supposed to be than the actual finished product.

I certainly enjoyed aspects of it but I think we all know about its flaws as well.

For me it is better than DA2 but not quite as good as origins. I would say that is the general consensus of DAI. That said I tend to play DAI the most of the bunch. I would love it if the older games got the MELE treatment with remaster. When it is at it's best DAI is about as good as anything bioware has made but I miss the more linear pacing that origins had and the darker atmosphere it had.

I voted "mediocre".

It had adorable characters and great voice acting, but awful combat and terrible side content.