The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt vs Fallout 4 vs Dragon Age: Inquisition

Guess what I voted for char.

@khoofia_pika: Dragon Age?

I actually liked all the games for different reasons. Witcher is probably going to take it though

I voted Witcher 3. I can't even begin to list the many ways that this title raised the bar for the wrpg genre. Fallout 4 and DAI both a good/great games in the genre, but neither really "raised the bar". While they do many things right, I just wouldnt consider them genre defining like the Witcher 3.

The Witcher 3 does have faults, though. Maybe not faults to the Witcher franchise, but it has faults that is keeping it from being a perfect wrpg. As great as all the quests are (story and side), in a wrpg, i want guilds like Oblivion/skyrim, but with the attention to detail that all quests in the witcher received. I want the ability to buy many homes...build my own home. Things that other wrpgs have done, but never perfected. These elements really doesnt mesh with Geralt, so it is understandable why these are not in the game.

What they could have done was to allow players to sort of... build and maintain Kaer Morhen as a settlement. You know, invest money into rebuilding it, investming money in defenses, armory, maybe have merchants set up shop there, things like that. Like how Xenoblade or Assassin's Creed did it. That would have been fine, and would have also gone along with Geralt's character too.

**** off char

Can't get into Fallout 4. Recently bought Dragon Age: Inquisition. Played it for a bit, but I don't see it beating The Witcher 3.

@charizard1605: Witcher 3 VS. ... Fallout 4 and DAI .... well

Fallout 4

Witcher 3 was damn good, Inquisition is one of the most overrated games in recent memory. That map layout is fucking atrocious. Can't count how many times I had to backtrack or went in the complete opposite direction of my goal.

Lol Dragon Age Inquisition.

Well, this poll is extremely one sided.

Guess that is what happens when you pit a great game vs two bad ones.

Lol dragon age inquisition. Anyone who calls that game 8+/10 losses any hope

The Witcher 3 >>> Dragon Age: Inquisition >>>>>>>> Fallout 4.

This is an overkill.

TW3 by miles

Yeah Witcher 3 is going to win easily. Haven't gotten to play W3 a lot yet but I do have it. I really enjoyed Fallout 4 and DA:I. They definitely have big problems, but they were pretty interesting and fun RPGs.

From a purely gameplay standpoint all of these games are just sorta "okay."

Fallout has better shooting mechanics but really gimped character progression. Dragon Age has decent combat variety but the encounter design is incredibly boring. Witcher 3's system is just a bit too simple and easy to be compelling.

My vote goes for Witcher III though because unlike the other 3 it manages to tell an incredibly engaging story with really great characters and some fantastic twists. Fallout 3 and DA:I just feel like they're going through the motions.

There isn't a gif in my entire reaction folder that can sum up the entirety of the "lel" that has built up inside me.

So I'm just going to be ironic and vote for Fallout 4.

Witcher 3.

Why would you do dis? DA:I was as shallow as it gets. The most mediocre title i've played in years. If that is what's to be expected from ME4... please no. No. Please no. Don't do it Bioware. I don't want to have huge open world filled with braindead quests every 5 feet.

Did we need to do this? One of the best RPGs of all time vs 2 mediocre games. The vote(s) for Fallout 4 are probably from mems and someone must have voted for Dragon Age as a joke.

I think my choice will be Witcher 3 but I need to actually play it first.

Why no Divinity Original Sin option? Lots of people seem to like that one.

The Witcher 3. I am enjoying Fallout 4 now and I am enjoying it. I tried DA when it was free on EA access. My subscription ended and it didn't grab me enough to make me want to keep subscribing or playing the game. The Witcher series is one of my favorites and 3 was near perfect imo.

Played all three ganes for at least 100 hours and for me it's Witcher 3 >>>>Fallout 4>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Dragon Age Inqusition.

I enjoy Fallout and Witcher for what they tried to achieve. Witcher 3 is a story driven rpg with strong writing and a lot of intereesting and memorable characters in a very believable and dark world full of difficult choices.

Fallout is a sandbox game with fun gameplay and a (for me personally) very addicting base building (spent about 60 hours only with my settlement)

Dragon Age on the other hand didn't really impress in any way. .It's closer to the Witcher 3 with a similar focus (story/character driven rpg without any sandbox elements) but it does almost everything worse. It's writing isn't as strong, it's world isn't as interesting and lively, it's characters aren't as believable, it's questdesign isn't as good, it's music isn't as memorable, it's choices aren't as difficult and so on. I guess if people prefer to play a customizable character they could like Dragon Age more but Geralt is so much better written and interesting than the Inquisitor, so it's not really an argument for me.

Fallout>Witcher>Dragon Age

Dragon Age's world is way more interesting than the witcher's though.

Fallout 4-Witcher3-DAI

All good games for different reasons. Hated the filler content in both W3 and DAI though, both assume you have zero attention span and have to be doing really pointless things scattered all over the map every time you move.

I liked all of them really...

Havent played Fallout 4 yet but definitely NOT DA: Inquisition. The game is beautifull to look at but helluva boring to play more often than not. I had to force myself to finish it. Uninteresting plot, bland characters (with some very rare exceptions), riddled with fetch quests and other boring sidequests (seriously, the game bombs the player with meaningless and trivial stuff to do just so developers can say "hey, the game is 200h long!"), convoluted lore (the game constantly shoves strange names and terms down our throats and expect us to know wtf they're talking about... Thats not "deep", its just lazy writting), basic combat... etc, etc

I will say this again, I enjoyed more the 7h I spent with The Order: 1886 more than I did the 60h+ of DA: Inquisition. And guess what? The same reviewer who gave a 5 to the order gave a 9 to DA:I... goes to show how irrelevant "professional" reviews are when it all comes down to opinions

Not sure how you having a minority opinion makes professional reviewers irrelevant.

Another day another W3 destroying FO4.

"professional" reviews are irrelevante cause they're ALWAYS subjective. Majority or minority they dont have a final saying on what the player will like

simple

This is embarrassing (and not at all surprising).

Emberrassing how? gamespot community is pretty small compared to the gaming world in general (i mean 50 votes, lmao) Fallout 4 is the best selling game on steam. Most gamers on here are also playstation fans, and a cinematic game like the witcher 3 is right up their alley but the numbers don't lie. Fallout 4 is the best selling game for a reason.

also this

I voted for The Witcher 3.

Dragon Age was great though. I had a lot of good moments in that game, especially when I accidentally romanced The Iron Bull. Lol. I just had fun with his quests and convos then suddenly the dude shows up in my bedroom. I awkwardly turned him down and it was just really funny.

@commander:

That would be true but we actually have a good idea on what game is more better according to general population

We don't have to have the entire gaming community come and vote. We have a big enough sample size from Steam, gamefaq, game spot, meta critic Etc to know which game is better. This includes both critic and user review

The Witcher 3. Of those games, it was the far better option.

Embarrassing because TW3 is winning by such a large margin here. And when I said "this is embarrassing", I was referring only to the results of this specific poll, not the reaction of the entire gaming community at large.

However, even outside this community, critical reception for The Witcher 3 is vastly superior to that of Fallout 4. The hundreds of GOTY awards TW3 has gotten and the massive lead it has over FO4 (and every other game in 2015) illustrates that point rather well, I think.

And you're mistaking popularity for quality. A game like Call of Duty sells much, much better than a game like, say BioShock. Does that man CoD is better than BioShock? If you think so, I really don't know what to say. FO4 is the best selling game on Steam and is selling so well everywhere else because of the massive hype surrounding it, because it's Fallout, because it's published by Bethesda. The same reason Assassin's Creed sells well even now, despite being mediocre at best.

I'm not saying Fallout 4 isn't good. I'm just saying sales are in no way a proper reflection of quality. Fallout 4 is a good, solid game. You get your money's worth- at least I think so. You get enjoyment out of it and you can play it for dozens of hours. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have flaws. It's a buggy game that is clearly unfinished- like all Bethesda products, actually. Sure, The Witcher 3 has flaws too, but not as many- or as blatantly obvious- as Fallout 4 does.

Witcher 3. It has made other games that would've been considered great last year, seem mediocre/average this year. Games are going to have to step up if they want to stand out against Witcher 3 at this point. Not saying these other games aren't good, but after playing Witcher 3, the rest just don't really compare.

Lol Witcher 3 is the only good game on that list.

This vote is unfair...

Neither DAI nor F4 are really next-gen.

Pillars of eternity is the better WRPG so far this gen, IMHO, followed by the Witcher 3, followed by Shadowrun: Dragonfall, followed by Wasteland 2, followed by Divinity: Original Sin.... Inquisition is definitely at the bottom of my list.

Even Sword Coast Legends ist better than DA Inquisition. And Fallout 4 isn't even a real RPG anymore, I agree... :P

Have you played SR: HK yet?

You may as well just blurt out what you're trying to say 'games on PC are betterer, so there' though I suppose if it's the only platform you play on you have no real point of comparison.

Divinity OS is a great game, Pillars is an ARCHAIC game which the devs made even worse by listening to the fools on Kickstarter (no doubt you were one of them) who demanded you could finish the game without combat forcing them to make combat completely pointless and you get your exp from 'roleplaying' i.e. talking through the whole game. The combat fucking blows as well and the voiceovers are the most embarrassing I have ever come across, I turned the sound down immediately someone came into the room while I was playing.

Wasteland 2 blows chunks as well, horrible interface, dull gameplay, laughable 'story' and terrible graphics.

Shadowrun is a great game because it does NOT try to be Baldur's Gate 2 or Fallout 2, it's just a great game on its own merit.

How you can rate Pillars above Witcher 3 well I am floored, I guess it just goes to show how completely subjective it all is. It seems to me though that you should stick with living in the past if you can't see the appeal of games like Witcher 3. It's not perfect at all, far from it despite people jizzing all over it on here, but fucking Pillars, it is LIGHT years ahead of that trash.

I liked fallout 4 but the game is only a 7 in my book. Writing was bad, game is glitchy and it uses a very dated engine. Between the witcher 3 and DAI I have to go with the witcher 3. Way better game when you compare them. It didn't end in a cliff hanger, didn't finish all my character arcs with a slide show, and didn't force me to do all the fucking leg work for a whole organization that apparently forces it's king to gather all the resources.

Unfortunately I've only played Dragon Age, and it was shit.

I really really need to get onto the Witcher one of these days though

Pillars of Eternity is the best WRPG I've played this gen, and a new favorite in general...

It doesn't seem you have an idea about it since you're comparing two vastly different games. One is a sci fi shooter that mostly focusses on character customization, exploring and interaction between environment , AI characters and the player. While the other is a fantasy game that focusses on animation, story, cinematic gameplay and cutscenes.

You can only be a battlemage in the witcher 3, if you want to be a stealth character or a commando you need to look somewhere else. The game surely has better graphics than fallout 4, that is true but who cares about that if you want to come out guns blazing or pickpocket someone.

You might as well compare fifa and fight night champion because they're both sports games and it doesn't end there. The witcher 3 may have the better eye candy but the amount of content in fallout 4 crushes what's in the witcher 3. Fallout 4 has more enemies, more dialogue, more objects, more storylines and a lot more weapons.

The reason that the witcher scores slighty higher in reviews is because of its graphics and that has always have been a big scoring factor in game reviews.

Kind of sad by how much hate DAI is getting here. It certainly not a top tier RPG, but the Dragon Age series never was that. Still, it's a very good game.

No real point of comparion?

So how many console-only WRPGs were released in 2015?

Stop talking nonsense, please. That PC is a bastion for WRPGs since well, pretty much always, is no secret. It's just a fact.

But well, let me guess, you're another one of that sort of people who thinks that turn-based gamplay was out-dated, 2D games were out-dated and that graphics defined the overall quality of a video game. You guys never fail to amuse me. :D

Who said call of duty isn't good in its genre, bioshock is a vastly different game than call of duty. You can compare call of duty and battlefield but comparing cod to bioshock is comparing apples and oranges.

I'm not mistaking popularity over quality. We're looking at the same price tag here. Fallout 4 may have a lot of bugs but the game is a lot more complex than the witcher 3 in terms of AI. The witcher 3 focusses more on set pieces while fallout 4 relies more on AI. The witcher 3 is of course a lot more advanced in terms of animation and graphics but that won't make the game more prone to bugs.

Witcher 3 easily. It isn't even close.