10p EST? CST? PST?
10p PST would suck…
I wish I could go to sleep now, Then wake up at midnight and get in a good session before work 
This reviewer notes a distinct preference for the PC version (both in controls and looks) but is happy with all version. Take it FWIW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_orIN8K0_k&feature=player_detailpage#t=133
Big hard drives make coders/publishers lazy. A lot of games go out with full, uncompressed audio files in five different languages, huge uncompressed soundtracks, etc. Max Payne 3 was 30gb owing largely to 4 hours of 1080p FMV cutscenes.
According to the Origin web site it’s currently 7 hours until unlock, which puts it at 10pm mountain time (my own time zone), so 9pm PST. Looking forward to this one, though I never did finish the 2nd one unfortunately.
Buying it now… told myself I wouldn’t after Dragon Age 2, but…
On that note, I started replaying DA2 yesterday because I realized I remembered very little from it (hadn’t glanced at since the week it came out). At least I’ll have it’s flaws fresh in my mind as I go into DA:I.
If, like me, you have forgotten a lot of the lore of Dragon Age this YouTube series may help re-acquaint you with some of it (about an hour or so all told): Dragon Age Inquisition Lore: Prologue - YouTube
Already played 3 hours given my IP somehow mysteriously changed to a Korean one for a while. Would probably still be playing but my alarm clock went off, which I guess means I should head to work instead.
Made a 2h warrior, kinda regretting that already. Melee combat feels kinda clunky, it’s easy to attack empty air and moving feels a bit sluggish. Maybe if I turn the graphics down a bit it gets better, dunno. At least I get a harpoon attack to drag a guy to me, that was fun to use. But still, combat so far has been fairly disappointing - on the other hand, talking to people is fun.
Also everybody uses hair grease and lip gloss in this game.
Finally!!! Civilization comes to a medieval world. 
Can’t wait to get home. I lean towards dual-wield rogues or mages.
I can’t wait to buy the next Dragon Age one or two years from now when it’s in the bargain bin! At least, that’s what I did with the other ones (and I’ve liked them all so far).
I played the Xbone early access demo and started playing my PC version just a bit ago thanks to Korean VPN 
The game runs well for me on a GTX 780 ti and i7 3770k at 2560x1440p at 65+ FPS. EXCEPT the cutscenes have been locked at 30 FPS 
Mouse and keyboard controls appear to have been designed by monkeys. Monkeys on hard drugs. They are unintuitive, appear seriously randomly assign at times and the entire combat is super fast paced since it appears to have been designed from the ground up for button mashing.
NOT happy about combat, NOT happy about controls. I’m using a gamepad, because it’s the only viable control mechanism for me right now. I will try doing some rebinds and see if maybe I can make it work somehow. But it’s a mess. Other than, the story and the few characters I’ve encountered so far are super interesting. The graphics and areas I’ve played in (only a couple) are all amazing in terms of detail.
I think I’m going to restart and play as an elven rogue archer I played that same character in DA:O though so I’m feeling like I should try something different… Qunari mage???
I had a bit of a panic. I just got an email of the new trailer, but the title at the top said “Dragon Age:Inquisition, available Nov 20th”
But I’m assuming it is only a typo.
By the way thanks for reminding me my graphics card is getting long in the tooth, gotta start setting aside a fund for that
So is the combat closer to the interesting baldur’s gate style tactical combat of DA1, or the button mashing retardery of DA2?
I totally don’t understand the rush to buy single player games on PC. You’ve probably got 100 games that you haven’t even touched yet to entertain you now, and down the road you’ll get a better game because it’ll have been patched and have mods, and it’ll cost you a lot less.
And there-in lies the issue. I haven’t touched them because they don’t enthuse me. They aren’t able to entertain me now because, I don’t feel like playing them.
The same reason I go grocery shopping when I already have a fridge,freezer and pantry full of foods that would nutritionally sustain me. I don’t want what I got, I want something new, and most importantly, something good.
Yes, because nothing good has come out in the last 10 years or so that you could play. The only game that’s good that could entertain you is the $60 game that’s coming out tomorrow.
I mean, suit yourself - in an abstract sense I’m happy that people are willing to pay $60 for games, because it certainly helps keep the game makers profitable - but it just seems like poor impulse control to me. But then maybe you could spend $1500 a year on gaming and not feel it - I don’t know. But the game will get better and cheaper over time.
Multiplayer games, on the other hand, I understand - there’s a community that will thrive and ultimately die off, and there’s a competitive aspect of not wanting to come into a game after everyone else has months of experience playing it and possibly unlocking stuff. Timing is important, so it can be justified to pay more to get it right away.
But single player - if you’re always 9 months behind the times, you’re playing the games that would’ve appealed to you to play for full price 9 months ago, except you’re playing them with improvements in the form of patches, mods, etc, and you paid $5 for them instead of $60. And then when you’re done with that, you’ll have the game that would’ve interested you 9 months before that point, etc.
What Wolfman said…
Plus…
I am a big fan of RPGs. I love Skyrim and its ilk. I feel it has been far too long for something similar to come along so I am excited about it.
Could I wait two years to play it and it’ll be cheaper and patched and have all the DLC in one bundle? Sure.
But to me that’d be like telling my 12 year old self to skip The Empire Strikes Back and wait 30 years for the upgraded version that’d be cheaper.
Just not gonna happen.
That said I do wait on a lot of games for the reasons you suggest (Telltale games leap to mind). Just not this one.
Always nice for someone to come on in and threadshit, passive aggressively calling everybody body idiots for looking forward to something they want to enjoy.
To return the favor, I have a couple suggestions for how you can go entertain yourself.
The movie comparison isn’t really apt, because seeing a movie when it comes out is the best experience. You get to go to the cinema (better than watching it at home, generally) with likeminded excited people.
Games, on the other hand, improve with age. They’re often released in a poor, broken state and then gradually patched into being decent. Mods are developed for them, etc.
If you want to go with a movie analogy, it’s more like seeing a movie a couple months before it has completed post production and is still unfinished, but paying 10 times more for the privilege, compared to seeing it later as a finished and polished product for cheaper.
I mean, yeah, in an ideal world, games would be released in their optimal state, but that almost never actually happens.
Well, one could say that about most products. You could simply wait for a few years instead of going out to get the new iPhone or Android, for instance…yet people wait in line, even spend the night in line to get the latest one when it comes out in some case. 
Personally, there are a few games that I really, really want to play and I’m willing to pay full price for those games to play them when they ship. If you don’t get that, well, different strokes and all that.
Personally I think multiplayer is the bane of gaming.
That’s not to say it can’t be fun (it certainly can) or that it has no place in gaming (it certainly does) but rather that it has become a check box for all games and I think that is a shame.
COD:AW has a six hour single player campaign that is apparently on rails. It is all about the multiplayer which, by all accounts, is the same shit it has always been (free-for-all-whoever-shoots-first-wins) but now with jet packs.
Evolve was really cool…I loved the asymmetric gameplay and team oriented design but they want $60 bucks for it? No way…it is fun but bores pretty quickly.
You know I suck at multiplayer. You seem to love it. You can drop $60 for Evolve if you want. I’d rather drop $60 for a 100 hour RPG. To each their own.
I do not think there is a right or wrong here. Just what each of us prefers and that can be different things.