This would look 75% less cool in the Hinterlands. The busywork is more frequent the real meat of the game yet to be revealed. The story has barely begun, and so there's little of import to do. You're not a cohesive unit, but rather a collection of bystanders embroiled in a potentially heretical order. You're playing Dragon Age: Bunch of Chancers Who Aimlessly Wander About. If you haven't left the Hinterlands, you're not really playing Dragon Age: Inquisition yet. Trivial tasks that, when completed a bit at a time, provide a nice reward when they're finally pieced together. You'll find surprising stories out there, but you'll also find objectives that you can build upon on each return. You're meant to get a feel for them and move on-coming back later as you hop around the world. Inquisition's locations are places to return to over tens, maybe even hundreds of hours. That's an awful lot of fetching to quest, and it's absurd to think you could do it all in one visit. Inquisition's developers claim that the Hinterlands alone are bigger than the playable areas of Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 combined.
They're filled with fetch quests and uncomplicated challenges-both as a way to easily teach the game's core combat and mechanics, and as pace-changer between the Big Important Shit found elsewhere in the campaign. There's deserts and beaches and snow and a sort of brighter, greener woodland that's much prettier to look at.Īs the game's opening region, the Hinterlands fill a very particular role. Or there's the Fallow Mire, an area built to hold a linear, standalone ghost story separate from the main campaign.
Outside of the Hinterlands is the Storm Coast, where you can watch as a dragon fights a giant. Inquisition is wonderfully varied, and filled with interesting scenarios and locations-most of them not a sort of dull green woodland. The problem isn't that the Hinterlands are bad it's that they're vast but specific in scope. Abandoning the game because you're sick of the Hinterlands is like walking out of a restaurant because you ate too many breadsticks. It's heartbreaking to see it happen, because the Hinterlands are the antithesis to everything that makes Inquisition great. Look at all of these places that aren't the Hinterlands!
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