I was thinking about how I remember Maxis fondly, and I got to wondering what other people’s experiences were like!
Is your favorite still around? Are they still the same, or did they “change directions under new management?”
The 3 Bs, baby. Blizzard, Bioware, and Bethesda.
Blizzards dead to me, Bioware fell off after dragon age 1, and Bethesda refuses to take its limiters off anymore (no drugs)
I’m enjoying heavily-modded DA:I, but I do feel like DA1 had some better writing and direction.
The only thing I can remember from inquisition is trudging through some high level desert looking for high level rocks (which very blatantly cut their drop rate from earlier zones) so that I could make an armor and weapon that still sucked and looked like pajamas.
also that the party loves to litter
Any recommendations for mods? I’m putting together a new build for it ahead of my semi-annual replay of the trilogy
Yeah, definitely!
I’ll skip the skins, because I assume you’ll want to pick your own that fit your tastes, but you can find all of these at NexusMods. Some of my favorites are:
- Speed Launch
- 60 fps in cutscenes
- No fall damage
- Infinite Respec Amulet
- Party At The Winter Palace
- Shorter War Table Missions (75%)
- Party Banter Time (5-10min)
- All Bard songs for CC Music
- Stay still in CC - Natural Edition
- Face Ash Begone
- Bugs Be Gone
- Skills Enhanced by NinjaReborn
- Inventory Capacity
You’ll also need Frosty Mod Manager to set all those up (they seem to work for me in the order I listed) and Frosty Fix.
- Set up the mods and load order in FrostyMM, and close.
- Launch Frosty Fix.
- Choose the profile/pack you want.
- Mash go.
- FrostyMM should open back up.
- Open the pack you created.
- The game should launch automatically with the mods correctly enabled.
All these mods feel “vanilla-ish” and shouldn’t spoil the original experience to any significant degree.
