http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8xJMWRI-cA

It sort of looks like Dragon Age 2.0 with a hint of Skyrim (The Compass looks copypasted from Skyrim)

Once again leaving the Dragon Age Origins/Baldur's Gate influences that inspired the series :(

But sadly I might still get if only for the open world, but than again all the articles suggests its not like GTA/Elder Scrolls Open World.

And enough with the dialoge wheel what is it with them lowering the amount of dialoge choices I can have, KOTOR 1 did not have it and no one complained, I know I did not complained when I played it on Xbox.

EDIT

A much better video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381Di8Cw0-I

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/07/10/dragon-age-inquisition-e3-video-emerges-with-16-minutes-of-gameplay/

Watched it earlier today. It's the same gameplay demo they played a couple of months earlier. Like I posted then, this one has a tactical view and enemies don't appear out of nowhere which makes combat already better than DA2. Considering that they are going the open world route, I can also assume the world is better than DA2's sickening repeating environments? But that's just a video. I don't want to assume too much, I'm not expecting anything thb because I lost all interest after DA2.

Nice, thanks for the link!

Pretty much this. It's hard to give a fuck about Dragon Age anymore or Bioware for that matter. It's nice that BG2 EE comes out now and we can play the classics in an updated version but the Bioware we knew and loved are gone forever.

Yeah now they are doing a show about Beer. Strange change of career, went from game designers to beer enthusiasts : - \

Here is a much better Gameplay Video than what I originally posted in my OP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381Di8Cw0-I

Edit: to anyone who does not have a youtube account

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/07/10/dragon-age-inquisition-e3-video-emerges-with-16-minutes-of-gameplay/

Thanks for posting. The video is impressive, but I have heard a lot of bad things about DA2...I have not played any of the DA games yet...

DA2 suffered from over-reactions of fans of DA:O. In itself it's not a terrible game, but compared to the original it was really a let down. For the record I played through DA2 but was left feeling very disappointed, dissatisfied, and disillusioned (a little alliteration before my morning coffee - yay, me!) So, yeah, not the worst game on the planet, but I didn't like it. I love BioWare's games, and am a huge fan of DA:O but I doubt I'll ever play DA2 again.

As far as Inquisition goes, I'm encouraged by the changes they've made and will be watching it closely. Not sure if I'll grab it on release though. That depends on their plans for DLC - a crapton of DLC means I wait until the game is discounted.

So they've kept the awful DA2 combat I see. They should've just gone back to DA:O style, but I guess that doesn't work well on a controller and that's the real audience for this.

I saw in a different E3 vid where they showed off the Tactical Camara and in some kind of Dragon Age: Origins combat,, but different, But I am sure both you and me would first try this game out ourselves to see if it plays at least better than DA2 or not.

I borrowed Dragon Age 2 from my brothers girlfriend recently and I tried, I TREID, to play this game on its own merits, heck I try to play this as in action RPG, because thats what the designers sort of wanted me to play. But damn it I rememberd why I hated this game, even on its own merits. The action oriented combat is not even good when compared to Dark Souls, Dragon's Dogma, Kingdoms of Amalur, even the Witcher. It has this weird mixture of being a real time action while trying to preserve the Dragon Age: Origins style combat. One Perfect example is fighting an Ogre in DA2. When the Ogre did a charge animation, in an action game you would dodge roll out of the way, but no he auto-targets you you take a full hit. And thats where Dragon Age 2 fails as in action RPG, Its designed with the core Action RPG comabt, dodging, rolling away, Guarding, etc. And enemies fight like as if they were in dragon age origins, they just copypasted them.

Now on to a personal level when it comes to Dragon Age Origns and this. I hate the redesigned look of the fantasy world. I hate how the elves look, I hate the new look of the Darkspawn, they look like Skeletor's minions than the Tolkien-esque Orcs/Goblins even the Ogre in 2 does not look as intimidating as Origins. And the mindless blood splatter, Origins tries to make the blood splatter realsitcally, but here its ridiculous. Bioware stated they changed the look of the game to give it its own Identity and make it look less like Lord of the Rings. But I loved the Lord of the Rings look of Dragon Age: Origins, heck its distinct enough to tell the difference. For one the Dragons here looks nothing like what Dragons look like in Tolkien's world. And there is no emphasis in Political Intrigue and DA as Mabari War hounds.

And I hate the Mass Efffectification of the game, the Dialoge wheel and menu wheel, a talking protaginist, they runined the approval system which was GENIUS in DA:O so that you can do bad things to your friendsm but they won't leave instead they form some weird rivalry. Whats stupid about it is that means there is no concequences for your actions, you think the Merrill would stay with you after all the bad things you done.

TL;DR

I tried, repeat TRIED, to give this game another chance. But damn it the things I do not like are just too much for me. Do you agree with everything I said to Coelcanth Cros?

Ehhh, well all modern Bio games have that same "look" to them and the character models, not sure what it is - if it's deliberate art-style choice or it's the way the engine renders textures, character models look like their slathered in Vaseline or oil. It almost makes me feel Bioware try to make their characters look like actors in a movie, with make-up and stuff, not actual people in this fantasy world.

Dragon Age Inquisition Gameplay Video Part 2 - Redcliffe Castle (full video)

Or if you don't want to sign in to youtube, you can also watch it on this Tumblr post.

Also here is a link to the review on the GameInformer of the DA: I demo Mike Futter played.

I am apparently the only one here incredibly excited about Dragon Age Inquisition and I would have preordered it if only I had enough money currently. Unfortunately, it will have to wait. :(
Oh, well more time to replay DA:O i DA2. :D

Also, I would like to jump in with a different view about Dragon Age 2, to add a little positivity about this game to the topic. :)

First of, I would like to say that everything you listed as negative points about DA2, I loved, and it's their counterparts in DA:O that actually annoyed me. For instance, the voiced main protagonist, is absolutely wonderful to me, and even before I played DA2, I had been constantly annoyed that the main protagonist in DA:O wasn't voiced.

Second, I never though of elves in DA:O as elves until I installed a wonderful mod called Elf Update that transformed them to look closer to their DA2 appearance, they have always been to me oppressed mini humans that are for some weird reason called elves. Perhaps because when I think elf, I think something very exotic and elves in DA:O most certainly weren't exotic. Shallow? Perhaps. Just my personal opinion. That is why I did a happy dance when I saw the elves in DA2. Same thing for the Qunari, I prefer their DA2 versions. Generally, I prefer DA2 looks, for any and all characters, except Zevran and Alistair, but that was obviously because someone that has never seen their original DA:O models did the designing.

The dialogue wheel, menu wheel, new approval system, every and each one I preferred in DA2 over their counterparts in DA:O. Always hated that the only way to keep the companion in DA:O with you was to suck-up to them. I have friends that have a radically different viewpoints from me and yet we are still friends and we still hang out together. Could it have been done a little better? Of course, just as well as I can point out thousand other thing that I think could have been done better in DA:O (Thank god for mods).

I also preferred the action/fighting in DA2, DA:O fighting always felt slow and clumsy to me, and I could never get the companions to do what I wanted. I personally started noticing the repeating areas in DA2 during the third playthough, and yet I still find myself rather playing another 3 DA2 playthoughs then replaying the Deep roads in DA:O. Every single time I have to replay Deep roads, I find myself lamenting the fact that there isn't a skip button to the Branka's speech. It's the most boring, most tedious part of the game for me. The Fade part in the Circle comes a close second.

To be fair, I've seen a lot of Bioware fans bashing DA2 for being sub par. It clearly is inferior to DAO, but it suffered from the same fate that doomed Ultima 8. EA rushed a game which was like 50% completed. DA2 is a good action game, but everyone expected more DAO-like content and gameplay, which is sadly absent.
There are some themes and ideas present in DA2 that are interesting to me, but I don't think it's worth buying, especially considering that this game seems to be Origin only?

I'm not saying it was a great game, and I agree it was sub-par. Hell, I didn't even like it, but the reaction to the game's shortcomings was way over the top. The different points of criticism that many people brought up were fair in and of themselves, but the hyperbole and fits of rage were almost pathetic.

The game had some elements that showed promise, some interesting sections of story, and even a few characters that were enjoyable. But it definitely showed the lack of development time and the complete overhaul of the gameplay missed the mark, IMO. But I loved the first one.

Still, as I said, I thought the overall reaction was just way too much.