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It’s not like I don’t enjoy CRPG or tactical combat, I just thought it wasn’t done very well in DA:O. It felt like it was in a weird spot, where it was halfway between a modern version of that type of game and a retro version. Like I can go back and play Fallout 1 which is much clunkier, but you kind of expect that. I really wanna enjoy Dragon Age because I want to see how the story plays out and how your decisions carry over, like in Mass Effect.
I think that's kind of consistent throughout is that the gameplay never really comes together to feel 'good', just 'okay'. It's definitely clunky all the way through, at least up to Inquisition.
Inquisition ties directly into Veilguard, but Veilguard only lets you import like 4 big decisions from Inquisition. Inquisition has dozens of flags for what you did in Origins and 2. So worst case is maybe Veilguard plays way better and you can watch some lore videos on YouTube to at least get an idea of what was happening. You'll definitely miss the small references to past decisions, but I think there's relatively fewer of them than in Mass Effect outside of the big decisions.