Gaming Diary: Dragon Age Inquisition Off the List

That’s right, I finally sealed the deal in Dragon Age Inquisition. I honestly tried to put it off as long as possible. I looked to complete all of my collections. I searched for new sidequests. Even kept pushing the envelope with the war table operations. I had personal quests I could do for Iron Bull and Sera, but I wasn’t that desperate. I’m not sure why I bothered recruiting them at all.

When I couldn’t stall any longer, I begrudgingly set out to complete the last few story missions. Thank you, mutant ability to avoid all spoilers, because I have no idea how I avoided such huge reveals for the last four years. I didn’t expect any of the twists at the end, especially the final reveal. Fairly certain my mouth stayed dropped open for quite some time after that. And then I stayed up a few hours later going over everything.

But before that, I bawled like a baby.

When my Inquisitor climbed the courtyard stairs at Skyhold with everyone clapping below, and her War Council bowed to her, I lost it. Yes, the story was incredible and it kept me thinking (and still thinking) for hours afterward. But that’s not why the tears flowed. I was devastated that the game was over. No more putting it off. No more restarting. It’s no longer there waiting for me with fresh gameplay. No learning big reveals for the first time.

I usually feel relieved when I finish a game or elation that it’s over. With long RPGs, I always get to a point when I’m done with the grind and I’m ready for it to be over. I didn’t have that this time. At all. I was never tired of it. I didn’t want it to end.

Thank God for DLC, right? I finished Jaws of Hakkon last night, and I hope to finally wrap up Descent this week. I’ll most likely put off Trespasser as long as possible, since that is THE very end. That is, it is unless I start a new game, which I have been considering. With everything I learned, I think it would be nice to try playing as an elf. Perhaps an elf who really doesn’t care about much else aside from elves and mages. Oh and Dorian. Must romance Dorian. I can’t romance Cullen again because he’s with my main Inquisitor, and it shall stay that way.

So there’s one game from the past done. And it was loooong past. So now I need to pick an unfinished game that released a little sooner, probably in 2017. I’m leaning toward either Wolfenstein II or Assassin’s Creed Origins. I think the shooter would be shorter, but the first game was fairly long for a shooter. I have no idea what other game from the past I’ll play after that, though. I’m kind of scared of really looking into my backlog. I see Dragon Quest Builders, Dragon Quest Heroes (the first one), Final Fantasy XV, Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness, and World of Final Fantasy at a first glance. Oh, wait, I forgot about The Last Guardian and Witcher 3. And then there’s Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess on the Wii U. I keep forgetting I own one.