Dragon Age Inquisition - Fantasy Commander Shepard (Zero Punctuation) 

6 years? This game isnt that old. *flashback to playing the game 4 apartments ago

i wonder how he would react to find out that Thedas basically just stands for The Dragon Age Setting. Because it does.

if you play DAI on pc you can cheese the waiting time by changing the date on your pc settings then switch back. it'll immediately complete the objective and you can do this repeatedly with no drawbacks. the 3-24 hour waiting time on some missions are just obnoxious

Is it just me or are Yahtzee's reviews getting better and more relevant? Lately he seems to be talking more about specific gameplay features and issues and making real and actionable critiques than just jokes.

4:45 For the record the crafting system does yield armor and weapons that will outclass anything you pick up for quite awhile, it'll take until at least the next story mission before you feel the need to replace it

'and i was afraid if i took part in one more disorganised melee my hairdo might fly off and interfere with someones clay pigeon shooting' the single best sentence to have ever been taken out of context ever

So what you're saying is that the compulsory pfaffing about made the game keep *Dragon* on... ... For an *age*... ...

One flaw in this review, you mention hawke defaulting to a specific way, you CAN customize hawke using the same face generator that you can create your own character with if you so choose

I will say this he gave the best synopsis of Dragon Age II that I've ever heard. "The daily life of some fuck and his neighborhood watch group."

I am Sir Shepard and this is my favorite store in Thedas.

I'm not a regular gamer, and haven't owned any console until I got a PS4 "for the kids" for Christmas. I bought DAI on a whim and got totally drawn in by it - even despite the fact that it crashes the console about once a day. I initially thought the whole crafting thing would be too much effort, but after a while it triggered my Aspie side, and it turned out to be the best way to get myself kitted out and able to actually win some battles. By the end though, looting had become pointless because my crafted weapons and armour were far better than anything I could loot, and I was so well equipped that I didn't even break a sweat (or use a health potion) during the final showdown. Nonetheless, this being my first foray into RPGs for over a decade, and despite not being a fan of the fantasy fiction genre in general (primarily because I can never be arsed to keep track of all the made-up Proper Nouns), I was blown away by the game's scale and beautiful rendering, found aspects of the story strangely compelling, and got 120+ hours of enjoyment out of it, which makes it pretty good value in my book.

So since Yahtzee is now a dad does that mean he now appreciates the methodical bits?

TBH. you did make a lot of excellent points, and a lot of these were true facts, and this video opened my eyes to a lot of problems the game has, but I still love the game faults in all. first because, while all the side missions that seem the exact same are very annoying, you don't have to do most of them, also I love having the other character arcs, unlike Skyrim, (which is still an amazing game) many characters have personalities, goals, faults, and actual depth and development. I love that the DA franchise goes so far to make the characters relatable and real, in Skyrim even your companions are merely weapons with no depth, the closest one coming to have any personality was Marcurio the sarcastic mage, and all he ever had to his character was his sarcasm. I love how this game goes out to make the world and characters relatable and connectable to the player. It makes you feel a more personal affects to your actions, in Skyrim I gave no fucks about going around and killing random people or robbing houses because it didn't really affect anyone most of the time. In DA most of your actions have an impact on other characters in the game, and in the world around you. Some people may not like that and just want to get to the action, which is fine, but I'm a girl who loves depth and story to the games she plays, so I find this game, despite its faults, a great one to play.

I can never tell when this guy likes something. It seems like the highest compliment he ever gives anything is not saying it's complete shit.

finnaly I'm not the only one who noticed that Dragon age wanted to be Mass Effect

The crafting system is really good. Most of my best gears came from crafting. I look forward to getting schematics rather than good gears while looting most of the time. The tactical view is very useful when you're playing on harder difficulties. Just putting it out there.

You can tell Yahtzee didn't play for long because he's complaining about the 2 hour war table missions rather than the 16 and 24 hour war table missions. Also, I've been wearing the same crafted armor and using the same crafted weapons for almost the whole game because I've yet to find anything more effective as a loot drop. Yahtzee didn't give the crafting system a lot of credit. He clearly was crafting with low level materials and schematics. You have to play more to get better stuff for crafting.

The crafting system is actually what I like most about this game. It isn't clunky or too specific, as you can use any material you had to change the color and for better effects, and I often found myself crafting gear that was better than what I was finding 3 hours later

4:20 The man handcuffed to a giant spider should be a story of itself.

How I haven't gotten bored of this comedy after so many years is unlike me. Brilliant.

NOBODY EXPECTS THE DRAGON AGE INQUISITION!

As someone who loves this game, this is all completely true. Except for 4:45. That is completely false. This is pretty much the only RPG in existence where you can't find great armor and weapons strewn all over the street and lying in trash bins. Crafting actually makes a difference. I don't think he played it long enough to realize that.

I'm honestly impressed he could somehow fit "urticating hair" into his spiel.

I LOVE inquisition so I was scared to watch the review but I basically agree with everything. I'm a bit shocked (and delighted) that this seems somewhat of a positive review! usually yahtzee fans get all pissy when he compliments a game.

This is why I like Yahtzee's reviews, I can count on him to speak about the game the way I would play it. I mean I would never use that freeze time aspect to play the game. That would require too much thinking and effort for it to be fun IMO. Thank you Yahtzee.

The side missions in this game are just... Notes. They have as much story as notes my mom would leave me, telling me to do chores. The game doesnt have quests, it literally has chores. Am i bitching about content i dont have to play? Yes, because its garbage content. Abundance doesnt make up for lack of quality. More than half the side quests are virtually the same.

Not gonna lie, I thought this video was a bit unfair. Not mostly, but I did got a vibe of a "too much content" complain, which is sad, because we already have an industry that gives us most of the time a 6 hour campaign in exchange for 70€, and this is one of the few games that actually deserves the money you pay for it. Also, It's understandable the facial animations are not the best on the industry since theres a TON of dialogue, mandatory and optional, and on top of that there's still the ark branching aspect, so if they did made facial capture to every single line, the budget of this game would be over the roof, so it's a compromise you have to make, and quite the fair one.

Yahtzee... you clearly did not play as a mage. You know how I know, because if you had played as a mage you would have mentioned the "light saber" perk for Knight-Enchanter. I do; however, appreciate that you noticed how DA Inquisition was so dreadfully similar plot wise TES Oblivion. You had a brief quip in there about it. :P

Inquisition was BEAUTIFUL on PC. So good.

The beauty of missions having a timer,is they can all be finished in a matter of seconds if you change your system clock. 24hr quest?...try 5 seconds.

See I thought Dragon Age Inquisition was going to get banned from the Next-Gen club because it's actually good, has loads of content, and generally adds on to and improves on the experience of the last-generation entries.

It took me three tries to really get into this game, and having just finished it (and enjoyed it) the solution to all my problems would have taken like 10 minutes to implement: Make it clear how little the power & influence gathering side quests matter. Huge, dozens-of-hours-long swaths of time that I dumped into getting every single portal closed, every single camp founded, and so on, turned out to have no impact whatsoever, despite the game making it seem like that was really critical stuff that needed to happen for the Inquisition to make its way in the world. I ended the game & DLCs with over 100 power left, and that was AFTER I decided to make my final attempt to enjoy it by only doing story or story-adjascent quests and leave the entire hundred-strong battery of mopping-up quests to rot. If I'd played it as the game strongly implied I should, it would be a 200-hour-long game (likely their real intent in making it that way) with little blips of content every 10 hours or so at best.

call me a crazy goat that eats bricks with jelly on top. but i recently played DA Inquisition and I still like DA 2 better

Just beat this. Gonna start it up again. I may be addicted.

Lol at your description of Hawke's story as the nightly forays with the neighborhood watch. XD So true!

3:12 *Yeets horse* Literally laughed out loud!

Well it's a good thing I was a qunari. My curly que horns were securely attached to my forehead. The most I had to worry about was someone laughing at my crappy face paint vitaar chevron pointing down to my tits.

My main problem with this game is how enemies/areas/ are set for certain levels, like in an MMO, as opposed to the enemies getting harder as you get better like in most RPGs.

You're getting really good at precise, efficient reviewing. Always been funny, even clever at the best of times, but you're becoming really good at this whole "being a critic" thing. Efficient at finding /the/ thing folks will probably not realize is that one thing that bugged them about the game in a non-specific way. Nice work man, been paying attention since the adventure games :)

Thank you for bringing up the MMO feel, because that really undermined the game for me. There's this set of good (but not great) companions, an engaging plot, a huge world... aaaaand you'll spend most of your gameplay picking flowers and killing random monsters that are standing between you and the plot relevant enemies. It felt like a single player MMO. Not a good feeling. The companions really didn't stick out to me, but that might just be personal taste. Still, their sub plots felt less like a part of the story, and more like a side quest, which was not good imo.

Dragon age: origins is still my favorite

JonTron has said that Dragon Age Inquisition feels like a ton of fetch quests

0:48s my god, that unity joke and the gaben joke together, too clever

I really liked DAI during my first playthrough. I had a fun time, the characters were entertaining, and despite much of the game looking as though it had been soaked in olive oil for a day, its landscapes were rather nice to look at. So, upon completion of my first game, I thought I might have another go at it with a new character to see how things changed depending on my decisions. Upon creating my character and getting through the tutorial, I began to realize that the only thing that had made the game entertaining to me was my sense of curiosity, pushing me toward completing the story and getting to know my companions. Now that I had already completed the game and done my companion quests once before, I started realizing that the game itself didn't really impress me. The combat was the most glaring issue. My first character had been a ranger, and I had used a bow the whole time. My second was a melee warrior, and I must say that DAI's combat is either incredibly unintuitive and boring, or I am a complete imbecile. I won't count the latter out, it's a possibility. That being combined with the incredibly frustrating MMO-esque resource gathering and crafting, I found that every instance of actual gameplay simply felt like a barrier between me and the actually interesting bits of the game. I would have a great time speaking with my companions, interacting with the lovingly written characters and uncovering the wonderfully entertaining story (which I did enjoy still, despite already knowing where it was all going), but then the game would toss me into this mess of seemingly unnecessary abilities and a tactical mode which I never had any use for, and I would get to watch my character and an enemy NPC wail on each other for a few seconds before one of us would drop dead and I would either finish the job with one of my companions or move on to the next game of "who-produces-the-biggest-numbers." At one point I just closed the game in the middle of a raid on an enemy encampment and started browsing reddit, because I had simply stopped having fun, and getting to the next tidbit of story no longer felt as though it justified me playing any further. I would have genuinely loved DAI if most of the game hadn't proven so prohibitively boring.

The main villein of DA: Origins wasn't a "nebulous force," it was the arch-demon. That was laid out plain as day by the end of the prologue.

next week is sonic boom. need I say more?

Wait... loading times are long? On my PS4 it loads in 2 seconds. That's when I'm transferring to a new area. I don't get any time to read the first 2 words of the hint cards when I load a saved game in the same area. And the crafting is actually really fun. I made a Battlemaster Coat armor for my WARRIOR that has a %10 chance to cast Hidden Blades for every hit I land, and a Shield that has a %10 chance to cast Immolate (a explosive fire spell) for every hit I land. So when I have Hidden blades casted, it adds the probability to cast immolate during the skill. It's fun smacking a enemy then see vague purple clones of me stab him 4 times then he explodes in fire panicking while his other teammates catch fire aswell

I'll probably never play it but I do appreciate how it fits into the Mass Effect Universe and I like the idea that if Shepard wanted to he could go there and be deemed a wizard (If he was biotic).

Sounds like Medieval Mass Effect to me. Mass Effect tech=Magic Satan=Reapers Protagonist=Shepard Green magic=Prothean cypher

I always enjoy watching Yatzee's videos, even if I don't agree with his opinion... it's just fun ! :D

I have never laughed harder at ZP than at 'fresh urticating hair' and I have no idea why...

So Yahtzee ... what about the multi-player :3

I'd love to hear your thoughts on bravery default. It's a jrpg without crazy hair and occasionally makes fun of itself in a well thought out manner.

I get the feeling that Yhatzee, for all his reviewing prowess, doesn't appreciate RPGs that much. I played through this in just over a week. Longest game I've ever played, and I nowhere near completed it. "Faffing about" is most of the game tbh. Its a lot of fun too. I don't really think the whole collection thing was well thought through, I admit, but everything they did was completely redundant.

Still so true, sends out my army of warriors to gather resources, and a entire army returns... With 2 flowers.

I was a little disappointed that being an archer just meant holding down the trigger button until my finger got tired. I don't know why but having to let go of the trigger to make the arrow go zoom is so much more satisfying. Maybe it's the string going thoop that really makes it work.

I finished at about 92 hours. Loved the game, but Bioware was clearly overcompensating for Dragon Age 2's shortness. Best of the series, I'd say. Companions are likeable, choices are actually a little difficult, combat is entertaining, and I am a sucker for self referential shit so.. There's that too

ah yahtzee you miss why people love dragon age! it's all about the politics of it, even if I wish my forces were more effective >.

2:20 Best than Mass Effect, where they introduce tons of new and interesting species/races and default you to “The Human”, because being “The Human Savior of the Universe”, is Shepherd’s full name.

One of these days I'll pick up an awesome series when it's new but for now I'll just continue my DAO and DA2 binge a little longer then finally grab the epic DAI because this game does look epic and I can't wait

Highly suggest playing this on Nightmare. I am nearly 80 hours in and I still love playing it daily and feel like there is tons more left to accomplish. Playing on nightmare makes venturing out to new areas punishing and forces you to use the crafting system and min/max your gear. This is hands down my GOTY this year. Don't even get me started on the MP. It is so damn good. HAve been having a blast with that in the tune of 30 hours or so. It's pretty deep and worth $60 alone imo.

Origins is the best DA game...

As a quick side note, the real time missions that you need to wait for still count the time that your PC or console is turned off (yes, off, not standby). So it isn't too bad. :P

"Urticating hair!" Arachnophile humour. Very nice.

DA:I is visually beautiful, at least in my opinion. That is literally the only good thing it has going for it.

I don't think Destiny has the right to tell anyone how to do things. basically the world's most expensive game gave you a cheap halo-knock off. And I haven't played Halo since the first one came out on PC and it still funnier than that chore.

4:22 The children weighing you down are Bayomaxes!

Am I the only one who actually enjoyed DA2 for the "Hawke and his neighborhood watch" aspect? The bantering was so well written that you can feell the growing friendship between them, and makes Hawke so much less "generic action movie hero", who everyone sees as a hero but really just an every person that happens to be at the right place at the wrong time

Dragon Age= Mass Effect in a fantasy world that has charachters with depth.

wait...so does he like it....or dont he?

I wonder if a day will ever come that I am not concerned that the incandescent reflection of the sun off of my hair won't make it look like a piece of lego on PS3.

"Watch out !! :-O Here come the fucking dragon's again !"

I do have one complaint about the game. Why on earth did you let me take on the templar quest as a lvl 5 who didn't yet explore the equipment crafting mechanics without warning me that I'd have a single supply crate refill for the next 5 hours of gameplay, *and then pinned me against an endless swarm of foes with 4 characters that don't have potions and are within 1hko range WHITHOUT GIVING ME THE ABILITY TO TURN AROUND AND SAY "FUCK THIS MISSION* ". If only someone had told me to have a back up save in Haven.

As someone who thought the first two Dragon Age games were rather ugly (the water/liquid textures and effects in DAO looked straight off a PS2), I actually think Inquisition is pretty beautiful, especially considering how big the environments are.

If they were going to include Hawke, they should have carried over your save file and used that. If that was too much work, then they shouldn't have bothered at all.

I'm glad there aren't any spoilers in this lol. I haven't finished it yet, and holy shit it is much better than some rpgs. Even though it doesn't have a first person view, I have been leaning more and more to the "tolerate" side of the spectrum. gr8 vid yahtzee

There are some things you just wouldn't expect to ever happen, such as, oh I dunno, an urticating hair joke in a game review.

My favourite of the 3 Dragon Age games is still DA:O by far. I just don't like the Mass Effect style.

You had me at "Horse utility belt"! ha.

o7 Outstanding sir,love the fact that you speak with out a bloody breath and that I half expect you to pass out causing a moment where the video just moves forward until we hear the sounds of clatter and broken glass as you stand back up, only to miss nary a beat and jump right back in..... great reviews sir......... Good God Man.... take a breath. o7

I really loved this game, but the first 10-15 hours were a bit of slog. The game takes a while to get off the ground and some of the side-quests are completely boring (collecting shards). The story is good, if a bit generic, and the characters are solid. I absolutely loved the Knight Enchanter class though. It's the only class that allows you to solo a dragon on Nightmare from what I've seen.

Yahtzee if it weren't for you i might have spent thousands of dollars on bad games. Now i've only spent a couole hundred on good games.

I'm a big fan of Bioware games and a lot of them tend to have similar problems, and unfortunately some of them could have been easily avoided and were finally avoided with Dragon Age Inquisition: 1. Bioware games are pretty much intense therapist simulators. I'm pretty confident that I could walk away with tons of cash as an expert in psychological and emotional therapy after playing through a single Bioware game or franchise and having to deal with the various characters' subplots and making them happy while subsequently making the rest of my team happy as well. Unfortunately while in KOTOR that was great in that the subplots were mostly private and exchanged with each other either in their private spot aboard the Ebon Hawk or in quiet whispers out in public while the others ignored you, dealing with subplots in the Dragon Age series can be in your face. Trying to get Morrigan amused enough by you to be able to get jiggy with her while subsequently keeping Leliana, Sten, Alistair, and the dumb dog happy as well is tough. 2. Bioware games pre-Inquisition are geared for Space Travel. This was a problem I had with Dragon Age: Origins. I feel like half of the game's potential was skipped over because instead of walking or riding a horse to get from Ostagar to the Dales, the Circle Tower, or Not-Ironforge I just open a map and click a button...and every now and again I get to run into a random starfighter battle-er, I mean, highwaymen or Darkspawn raiding party to remind me that I'm still in a fantasy world. I'm okay for fast travel but not if it replaces realism entirely. Thankfully to the best of my awareness Inquisition fixes this. 3. Sidequests galore...yeah. In Star Wars I can forgive this because you kind of expect an evil Sith Lord to wait until you are in view just to make it a point to be a butthead about things. However in other games sidequests can be a problem. Having just escaped from a massive horde of Darkspawn that have a potential headstart on me on the way to the rest of Ferelden you'd think that Lothering would be little more than smoke and ashes by the time we arrive, but not only did we manage to, somehow, get ahead of the Darkspawn Horde but apparently we have enough time to make traps for people, kill highwaymen, make a few healing potions, and not only recruit a couple of new companions but accomplish side-quests for the NPCs that led you to them to boot. In fact it's only after you leave Lothering that the Darkspawn show up at all, making you wonder if you were the force that drove them back...it's yet another reason why I feel side quests just get in the way and have become a bit of a waste of time rather than something fun to do on the side. Anyway, that's my two cents.

You nailed it. Well done. It's still a work in progress.

To be honest, I think DAI has the most boring combat out of the series. As terrible as the wave encounter design was (at first) in DA2, the actual act of killing people in it was REALLY fun. It was super entertaining to watch rogue hawke leap at a target when I clicked on them, and so on. Even mages had fun autoattacks with the staff, and I love how mages (and varric) would just club people with their weapons when they got too close. In Inquisition I just feel like I'm holding down a trigger. Because I AM holding down a trigger. It doesn't feel very involved. That plus having to manually chase targets down actually forced me to stop playing a rogue, for the first time in Dragon Age history. I LOVE Rogues, they are my favorite class by a mile, but this game made me not want to play one anymore, and that's really shitty. I ended up rolling mage because I didn't want to manually chase down targets, which is a really dumb decision to have to make, I think. It does GREAT at having loads of good characters (When you weren't losing out on banter due to a stupid bug, that is), and the story was wonderful. But there was inevitably going to be a reduced presence of the main character due to them going with a "pick whatever you want" type of character again, which inherently restricts dialogue options because they have to have a wider array of things available to say. Overall it wasn't too bad, though. And I was impressed at how well they interrogated your character background into how everyone speaks to you. I love how they just refer to me by my last name, and at particular points my background is a subject of conversation, in a way that feels natural. I liked that a lot. Overall, it's a good game. But I just don't enjoy it enough to pick it up a second time. Ah well.

i liked Origins more, Inquisition felt a bit dull, and the tactical view controls are horrible on PC -.- i've put it away pretty quickly.

4:23 THEIR LIKE LITTLE BABY BAYMAXES!

what's funny is this is his version of I really liked it

lol 3:50 You obviously haven't played Warframe haha

Don't really understand why they added real-time, it's feel like playing facebook farm game

Yup, I think he loves this game

i love this game, but the way he presents everything in his awesome voice always cracks me up even if theres points i disagree with xD

The game was better than 2. Trust me... I know.

Oooohh, taking a stab at Gaben are we? Le sigh, another 7 years added to the countdown to half life 3

fun fact the iron bull was supposed to be a rogue with a cannon for an arm but they thought it was to confusing.

take it from someone who's replayed this game several times, the only weapons and armor worth crafting are the ones titled "Masterwork" because they're the most powerful, and even then, if you look hard enough you can find them in the world

Too many shitty fetch quests. I remember playing up until your 1st home gets destroyed and you rebuild the abondoned castle. I thought to myself "Man that story quest was awesome and now I've got this sick castle, what's next?" before it piled on another load of "Fetch X herbs and Y minerals"

I thought myself to be senile but no, I'm not the only person who think this is WoW single player. I honestly can't see why people enjoy this game, I'm sorry but I just don't, there's a fuckton of free to play MMORPG's out there that do the exact same shit as DAI. Fuck that, I've seen games that do it far better, story AND gameplay wise.

2:20 Very strange this what happened to my huge qunari; i picked the slightly british voice and now she sounds like a weak schoolkid trapped in a basalt colossus

I can't help but to wonder what Yahtzee would have said about the last gen's (or at least the 360's) pop in problem? Where the pop in for textures are as bad, or sometimes worst, depending on the area, than Halo 2's! ... I had Cullen's lips melted together before, after sealing the Rift and was greeted by the final companion. Seeing his jaw move and his closed mouth stretch was... *shiver*...