Hype seems less than Inquisition?

the thing that turned me off for getting/buying inquistion was the lack of an offline save import

SJW is a prejorative term that makes fun of socially progressive ideals.

BioWare is an inherently canadian company right down to its values and arguably presented in the themes inside their stories right down to the pinnochioing of synthetics and spirits to make them included among everyone else on a social level. Even Patrick Weekes said in a panel that he considers BioWare to carry forth "canadian values", so this is true.

I've been thinking about it but, honestly, I know I won't have the time to finish ME1 & 2 before MEA comes out. And I really want to play MEA when it comes out!

It's less broken than Fallout 3 and 4 and the story is better, you at first have a true drive to go after somebody (revenge!), where in 3 and 4 it's "look for your father/child" (a father/child I have no real connection to and could care less about, this might have worked better if they had let us spend more time with either...hell, one of the most downloaded mods for Fallout 3 (I bet there's one for Fallout 4, too) is one that lets you SKIP the entire start of the game (!), so no vault, no daddy leaving, no breaking out of the vault etc. etc.!) and then there's the sub-stories (side-quests!) and companion quests!

I can still remember some of them (without checking the Fallout Wiki!), like say: "Come Fly with Me!" (where you help some ghouls fix and fuel some pre-war rockets so that they can go to some promised land that they want to reach...you can even fix some errors in their navigation data (or make them crash if you are an asshole!))

Then there's "Nothing but a Hound Dog" where you get to fix a robot-dog (who's part real dog and that part is decaying...well, at least the brain is!)

Or the quests revolving around the White Glove Society (former cannibals who, for the most part, don't want to return to cannibalism - you get to decide what they'll do while doing that quest!)

Or the companion quests, there was the one from Veronica (who's a lesbian Brotherhood of Steel scribe who prefers unarmed combat (she has a power-fist as a starting weapon)) where you look for lost pre-war tech (from a targeting laser to an orbital weapons plattform called Archimedes II to a handheld EMP-Gun (love that thing for destroying robots!) and lastly some farming tech (prefer the other two, more useful in the game ^^))

Or Arcade Gannon's quest where you get a nice suit of armor out of it if you do it right (ok, you still get armor if you do it wrong, but you get a second armor if you do it right) and you get support for the end-game (air-support even, well that and a squad of soldiers in Enclave Power Armor!)

Then there's non-bland factions (and you get the choice which to join and help out - and they will help you out in return (the NCR for example let's you call rangers for help if you are in good standing with them)) from the BOS (which is more in line with the BOS in Fallout 1 and 2), to the Boomers (explosion loving ex-vault-dwellers who have lots of guns and artillery - and if you help them: A B29 Bomber that's working (!)), the Great Khans, the Followers of the Apocalypse etc. - not to mention the big ones:

Mr. House, the NCR, the Legion and - suprisingly - yourself (!) (you can make Vegas your private Kingdom if you want to!)

Can't remember any good quests in Fallout 3...even little Lamplight didn't work (especially if you ask where new children come from if children leave Little Lamplight at 16 (don't see many pregnant teenagers there either!) if you start thinking about it ...there was the Institute foreshadowing (Synth Quest, but that one wasn't hard or long etc.), but that's it!

So over all? Best 3D FPS Fallout out there, the other two don't come close

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OMG, it is the reverse for me! I am running through the DA games before ME:A comes out. I gave up on playing Inquisition (unless Bio delays the Secret IP due in March 2018), but I want to at least finish the DA2. Miss playing ME: MP, but I feel that I at least *should* play DA:O and DA2 before the Andromeda. I find that I have to prod myself a little to keep playing DA games, otherwise I just drop off and stop caring. Mass Effect is such a wild ride in comparison, with always something I am burning to do....

I like them well enough, just have a hard time choosing the Dragon Age over Mass Effect every time I sit down to play. But, I have seen Mass Effect's story, and earning stuff in the ME3MP is pointless now, because ME:A is coming. So, it is a good time to play through the Dragon Age, really no better time for it than now (it's only getting more dated as years go by). And I want to know what people are talking about when they mention DA characters in the game convos. It is not bad, just not as exciting as the Mass Effect. I feel like I am missing out on playing Mass Effect, but I know that I will kick myself if I do not see the Dragon Age through, and I have already played MET twice.... Once I do get the game started, I normally like it. It's just starting it always takes a prod.

Ah, I gotcha. Yeah, I can see how DA might be a slower pace than ME. I only played ME3 once but it seemed like that game went by in a blink. Shooters are not really my thing but since it was Bioware, I gave it a try anyway. (Glad I did!) Thankfully there was a story mode option so I didn't have to invest too much time in combat.

I'm pumped and not so at the same time. I feel like we'll get the best overall action and gameplay we've ever seen with this franchise. However, the story and the purpose behind our Andromeda trip might be underwhelming. Also, I haven't seen anything that's pioneering or new as far as graphics or gameplay. I'm hoping I'm wrong.

There are "white knights" that are so eager to be progressive that they're reductive to their own identity and acts as if they're protecting someone that doens't need protection like people claiming to fight for the rights of the obese but they're not themselves obese and several fat people are kinda annoyed that someone makes a deal out of something they aren't themselves making a deal out of.

And then there are SJWs that IMO are the people that are on a bandwagon about feminism, that fight for gender equality and LGBTQ rights and whatever is hot at the moment. They're not always self-thinking and generally stick to groupthink, and then there are those that are genuine and generally there's nothing inherently destructive going on here, it's just a little bit uninteresting for me personally because so much of it spawns from socialism and people not thinking individually. Nothing wrong with it, I just don't associate.

And then there are people like Manveer that are just... pretty radical and crazy and intentionally provocative. Feminazis or exhibitionist propaganda-girls fit in here too, as well as the "all men = this and that" generalizers.

You want hype?


Sorry...you need Shepard for that

Don't get me wrong I'm hella excited for MEA but these days I like one stay cautious, even with great devs like bioware. 

To me games that don't have that much hype such as the witcher 3 see a lot better when they finally release.

How about you guys? You overflowing with hype or you keeping your expectations in check?

great devs like bioware

verdict: blue ending