The combat is next level bad in this game.

[a Gabriel! Santos, Mariano.]

I loved everything else about it. But this alone just wasn't enough to keep me playing. Dropped it entirely after a couple combats. I think this takes the cake for worst modern game combat, like, for real. I will not even mention any souls-like that trumps this. Even the witcher 3 completely annihilates dragon age inquisition's combat. And that's too bad. I was ready to love it in its entirety. But bioware dropped the ball on this section, I'm not gonna lie.

[LukanGamer]

If by modern you mean 7 think nearing 8 years ago sure....

Good basic take though that has been brought up .. again for passed 7-8 Years.

[barzai]

<shrug> In the absence of specifics, it's very hard to address your issues.

I have over 800 hours on the game with many playthroughs as different races and types (fighter / mage / rogue), and I guess I never found the combat to be particularly bothersome.

YMMV, and evidently does.

[Ceivous]

I'm not saying the combat in DA:I is great or anything but after a couple of fights you don't even have any abilities yet. That's like dropping a Final Fantasy game because you can only use Attack.

[AstralSaiyan]

The combat is much better in this game than the other DA games. Honestly everything about Inquisition is better.

[2StinkyFeet]

People that btch about combat like this always insert dank souls combat somewhere. But never really says anything about why they don't like the combat. People like OP just likes having full control of combat; rather button mashing instead of AI controlled. I love playing with the AI in games like this and ffxii and watching the AI do it's thing. Not for everyone.

I'm all for the customer is right mentality, but AAA developers catering to gamers when they rage about stupid sht like this is turning gamers into whiny babies when they don't get their button mashers dork souls like combat.

[periurban]

If you only tried "a couple combats" you never got to try out the full range of combat! Did you even experience the tactical mode? To me, it's the best combat mode in any tactical RPG ever.

[Vermilion]

Lol it's like you're mad at the new RTJ album because it doesn't have as good guitar solos as Led Zeppelin IV, like dude, completely different kind of music, you're totally missing the point

Yeah, the fast-paced reaction-based dark-souls style combat isn't really good in Dragon Age because Dragon Age isn't that kind of game lmao

[Cruddy]

I would enjoy the combat more if you had more than 8 abilities to use, it makes the classes more generic and blend together instead of making them more diverse and play differntly, Mages in RPGs almost always get more spells than Rogues and Warrior types do and have more utility because of it but here it's just a flashy way to kill. Speaking of I don't like how bright and disorienting many abilities are, it looks cool from a graphical standpoint but when my abilities frequently obstruct my view in combat it gets frustrating.

The combat also feels very floaty and hits lack impact, I don't feel like I'm hitting anything with swords and the magic projectiles feel like Nerf darts.

[Ceivous]

Originally posted by Cruddy horse:

The combat also feels very floaty and hits lack impact, I don't feel like I'm hitting anything with swords and the magic projectiles feel like Nerf darts.

2h abilities and shield bash feel pretty impactful tbh

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Somberlain:

Originally posted by Cruddy horse:

The combat also feels very floaty and hits lack impact, I don't feel like I'm hitting anything with swords and the magic projectiles feel like Nerf darts.

2h abilities and shield bash feel pretty impactful tbh

Out of all of them 2H for sure feels the best, but not by much.

[a Gabriel! Santos, Mariano.]

I'm playing the first ori right now, the one with the much criticized combat system. And frankly, I'm loving it. So when I say dragon age inquisition's combat is next level bad, I don't say that lightly.

But yeah. Thank you all for the responses. I may give this a second go someday, but I doubt.

[TheKris]

Comparing Dragon Age combat to the Witcher 3 is jaw droppingly ridiculous... they are completely different games, but I agree that the combat in DAI is pretty awful, to me it just feels super-clunky because they tried to combine Origins and "normal" combat from other hack-n-slash games, and that just doesnt work for me... My character keeps getting "stuck" because I have to move him with WASD and the others is click to attack, just really weird