After winning DICE Awards 2015 in Las Vegas last week, 'Dragon Age: Inquisition' continues to resonate its outstanding gameplay to avid players. The game won and named as 'Overall Game of the Year' beating other great games.
BioWare producer Mark Darrah revealed the ingredient that made the game outstanding compared to others is its return to its roots, to where the game really started. "I think really it's both the return to form, a return to what BioWare did in its roots: exploration, story-telling, character development," he said.
The game effectively resonated people to its return alongside its exploration to new areas for gameplay's possible improvement. "Also, us starting to explore new areas [being] deeper, open-world gameplay. I think just that combination is what really resonated with people," Darrah added.
Albeit its winning, the producer said that they didn't assume that they could achieve that because of too many competitors existing who also did so much efforts for their respective game's success.
"You can't assume you're going to win something like this when you've got so many amazing competitors who have done such hard work and are so believed by fans."
Inquisition achieved the unexpected winning because of good reviews from critics who also believed that the game effectively narrated such lengthy storytelling which gamers can have their journey to the magical world through a lengthy pilgrimage with "vital thematic ties to one we already know," as quoted from a critic.
With its reviews from critics, Dragon Age: Inquisition mostly got good scores. From one of the critic sites, Metacritic gave 85 metascore out of 45 critics involved in their survey with 5.8 user score based from 2,813 ratings given.
The same site also quoted from a critic named "DragonKnight" citing BioWare has done an excellent work in the modern gaming world through this RPG. Another site also noted that Inquisition is one of the best game that came out from the gaming industry.
They said that the game itself is making has its pre-planned challenging combats where players can fight against another foes which is constantly changing in terms of its pace. Thus, players should have a quick decision to make everytime during the game to prevent deadly situation where a mission, if unplanned, can end up with a mess.
DICE Awards was held by Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences in Las Vegas which is part of D.I.C.E. Summit 2015.
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