Should I play Dragon Age Inquisition before Veilguard?

[P0MK0NTHA1]

will it enhance my experience if I play Inquisition first or doesnt matter at all?

[Rambit]

for me i will say no you dont need to. the decisions dont carry over in a big way at all. inquisition is a long game big investment if you want to do that. i suggest playing inquisition on the easiest difficulty and play through the story if thats what you want. i would suggest mods, but since you havent played it, the mod suggestion probably wont make sense unless you played inquisition.

[kaffeend]

I did play Inquisition before Veilguard released, in anticipation of it carrying over, but at the end of the day I may as well have not bothered. For whatever that's worth to you.

[Magnum]

Originally posted by P0MK0NTHA1:

will it enhance my experience if I play Inquisition first or doesnt matter at all?

Hell tf yes. It may not matter to teh story but inquistion in every way is a superior game unless you want a partial modern action game with agenda writing and lost lore. Inquistion may not expand the lor like origins but it refrences enough and does its job to engage you with the politics of it.

[Archnemesis]

Yes. However, if you would rather just jump into Veilguard you don't have to play Inquisition to do so.

Only 3 choices were transferred from that game specifically. The only real annoying thing of Inquisition is the War Table missions. For a few of them you'll have to either save and wait for them to complete, adjust your computer timer to finish them out, or add the War Table mod to make all the mission timers on that table complete instantly.

If you want the achievements for Inquisition it has to be unmodded (unless there is another mod that some how allows you to still get them that I'm not aware of).

[DaisyRay]

To be honest, yes. You should play all the games if you want a better understanding of the world. You may have already, Inquisition would fine alone though. It's chunky, but pretty fun and is the prequel to this game.

A lot of new DA fans came from that game alone.

[St0nemender]

Unfortunately, Bioware has abandoned the concept of carrying over results from previous games. Which is a pity really, i absolutely loved the concept.

So there is basicly no reason left to play inquisition aside from the story line which is not that important, although you would get some more background on some characters and some concepts.

[Mewsha]

Yes, because the ending is the best part of the writing in this game and where it truly shines. I don't know if you'd appreciate it if you only knew Solas through Veilguard, because his inclusion in this game is rather minimal until the end and if I didn't play Inquisition, I don't know if I'd care that much about him either way.

People who are complaining about Inquisition decisions not carrying over are missing the point entirely, and truthfully that's nothing new for the DA series.

There's a reason Inquisition lost so many DAO fans, because they were upset that a lot of their choices weren't just not taken into consideration. I view these things as inevitable if you want to tell a good story, but there are a lot of retcons I take issue with in Inquisition. The point is you can't satisfy everyone.

The fact of the matter is that with choices matter RPGs, a decision has to be made eventually on what is cannon and what is not, and everyone's choices cannot be cannon. There is not a writing room or development team on the planet that is big enough and nuanced enough to handle that kind of project. I wouldn't be surprised if part of the development issues that occurred is because they tried to make everyone's choices carry over into this game, and it's a fool's errand.

It disappoints those that are upset that their choices were largely inconsequential (especially when they're built up to be like in the character creator), and it boxes you in a lot in terms of writing. It's the worst of both worlds, and I really wish they would have kept it at the Inquisitor being Elf female that romanced Solas to tell the most coherent story. It's largely been considered the most likely option by the community for years now, even by those that do not romance Solas or play an Elf female character (like me). It doesn't take away from Inquisition either.

I'll always prefer a more coherent story that stays relevant over the course of the game over a writing room that bites off far more than it can chew. In Veilguard it seems like they tried and then gave up, hid Solas for the majority of the game, and a lot of the writing throughout does seem like it's trying to play catchup to the new story direction. It's not really disrespectful to the lore, nor are there a myriad of retcons, but the tone for the dialogue is way off and the story is noncommittal and largely self-contained.

[CrazyOdd]

While the choices you do, dont carry over (outside a few selected in character creator), the Trespasser DLC is sort of the start of Dragon Age Veilguard.

Plus you sort of lose out on a lot of info related to Solas, if you dont play Inquisition or at least watch a story summary on it.

[Xazomn]

NO!
I played almost 3000 hours in DAI alone and 1000th of hours in all DA games. It doesn't matter playing it with only 3 choices you can choose from in DAV. Choose your options in DAV, forget the old games because they are obsolete now.

[DaisyRay]

I think this game was just a wrap up and closure for where the DLC of DAI. While it was a great game, like ME3, they kind of wrote themselves into a corner that they couldn't just back out of.

They tried that with Andromeda and people hated it. I loved it, but the majority didn't I think.

The could have done a better job pullings things from DA:I into this game, but I think DA:5 will be better.

[Darkrayne]

I'd say yes you should play it and it's DLCs.

What is going on in DA:V will matter more to you and make more sense to you. It's like only reading Return of the King, the last Lord of the Rings novel, without reading the two that came before it and The Hobbit. Still totally readable but you are missing loads of context.

Plus, Inquisition is a better game than DA:V so it should go first for that reason alone.

[Poppy]

No it doesn't matter as nothing you do in any of the previous games has any real bearing on veilguard

[Rocketman]

Neither. Both are trash compared to origins.