Dragon Age - Origins vs Inquisition

TechQuila compares Dragon Age: Origins to Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Weak Side-Quests

Dragon Age Origins had superbly well written side-quests and activities that encouraged exploration but also had fat chunks of story-content associated with them. Dragon Age II had fewer of these and Inquisition has almost none. All the side-quests in the latest game are there just to promote exploration, regardless of whether the vast areas of the map have anything worthwhile to experience.

This is another one of the faults most open-world games such as Assassins’ Creed and Far Cry suffer from. The developers design massive worlds but comparatively spend very less time coming up with interesting content that is essential to motivate the player towards exploration.

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