Play it on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows (Steam Deck YMMV)
Current goal: Brew all the Elfroot
Yeah, I know, I know, I’m like one of those people who discovered Fallout 3 for the first time because there was a TV show. But, for what I believe to be really good reasons, I never played Inquisition. That’s odd to me, given Dragon Age: Origins is one of my all-time favorite games. I was, in fact, the very first person in the world outside of BioWare to finish it! I spent 120 hours playing it for its world-exclusive review, and I adored it. I was even one of the few people who didn’t hate the second game on its release. But by the time Inquisition came along, things were different. It came out the year I had a kid, and boy did I no longer have time to play a 700-hour RPG. And when I looked at it, and saw it didn’t even vaguely resemble the first two games, I had no inclination to try to fit it in.
Working with people at Kotaku, I’ve learned just how loved Inquisition truly is. First the dearly departed Ash Parrish, and now completely besotted Kenneth Shepard, has been enough to make me believe I’m missing out on something, even if the stupid game doesn’t let you zoom out far enough to satisfactorily control battles with its third-person action game delusions. So I’ve installed it on my Xbox, rather than the PC on which I would otherwise play any and all RPGs, in the hope that a controller will convince me to embrace its heresy. I’ve already closed a few green flickering portals, and plan to spend any spare moments I get over the weekend seeing what’s what. I’ll admit, in a sneaky 10 minutes playing this morning before dropping the boy off at school, I found some Elfroot behind a building, and that suckered me in hard. —John Walker
And that wraps our picks for this weekend. Stay cool out there!
