Despite loving mid-2010s open-world RPGs, I ignored 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: Inquisition for a decade. A few weekends ago, it was going for two bucks on the PlayStation Store, so I finally picked it up – and I've been having a good time. It isn’t striking me as an all-time great or anything, but it does have me nostalgic for my first ventures into games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Witcher 3 and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Horizon Zero Dawn. There’s something about that🔯 era of RPG t👍hat really hits the spot.
Unfinished Business With Baldur's Gate 3
With its long-awaited sequel, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: The Veilguard, fast approaching, now seemed like a good time to finally find out what exactly an Inquisition was. The problem is, I hadn't anticipated that finally starting Dragon Age: Inquisition would remind me that there was something else I needed to do: finish 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate 3.
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Larian's RPG is already one of my all-time favorites. I went deep on it when the game launched on PC last year, putting in the hours to slowly, but surely, work my way toward the titular city. When the PS5 version was released, it was the perfect excuse to up my intake, and I enjoyed it even more from the comfort of my couch.
But getting through the Shadow-cursed Lands took a lot out of me. The depressing, dark, dangerous region where your party spends all of Act 2 was long, more narrow and linear than Act 1 or Act 3, and culminated in a seemingly endless series of boss battles that made The Return of the King's last 40 minutes seem like The Sopranos’ finale. By the time I actually emerged into the city of Baldur's Gate — which had taunted me from the title screen for months — I was pretty excited, but even more exhausted.
My Long Break From Baldur's Gate 3
So, after playing a bit of Act 3, I stepped away from Baldur's Gate 3. I’d intended to return, but as 2023 turned into 2024, I kept finding excuses not to go back. It would only take a couple dozen hours to finish the game, but that was a couple dozen hours I could be using to play new releases. Time stretched on and on, and as August began, I had only actually gone back to the game for one or two short sessions. It only got harder to justify spending time on a game that came out a year ago.
But when I started playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, something in me snapped. Here I was starting a decent party-based RPG when I still needed to finish what is arguably the best party-based RPG of all time. Here I was doing unimaginative side quests and scouting out locations for watch towers, when I could be confronting Cazador or finding Karlach's family in a nondescript city cemetery or taking down the Steel Watch. Here I was choosing between simplistic Fist and Brain dialogue options, when I could be making significantly richer and more complex role-playing choices that built on decisions I made 150 hours earlier.
So, I went back to Baldur's Gate 3. As an RPG fan, this isn't really an either-or decision, and I'll get back to DA:I in a few dozen hours. I can play and enjoy both games. The problem was that I was letting a game I consider a masterpiece sit unfinished while playing something that couldn't measure up. I decided to rectify that.
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