Dragon Age: Inquisition suffers major issues on Xbox 360

Gamereactor experiences a wealth of technical issues with the old-gen version of Inquisition.

Dragon Age: Inquisition is most obviously not as good looking on the old consoles as it is on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. We spent the last two days checking out the Xbox 360 version at Gamereactor for quite some time, which is struggling with severe performance problems. The graphics are much worse, the textures being especially underwhelming.

Additionally the game crashes frequently. You can see it coming when you can no longer interact with properly with NPC game characters or enemies and objects appear or disappear spontaneously. Also you have to live with long loading times beyond 30 seconds, which seem to appear anytime with any sequence containing more than three characters. The loading screen with background information appears, but only about ten seconds and then you stare at a black screen.

What has your experience been like with Dragon Age: Inquisition for Xbox 360 and PS3? Maybe this should have been a new-gen exclusive?

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MK2015
2014-11-22 04:26

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On the PS3 the graphics are incredibly hideous! I would everyone advice to give that puchase a wide birth!!! I wasted 70$ on the US PSN store to get a digital deluxe edition as early and as cheap as possible - because I am a huge Origins fan. It was the first game I pre-oredered in my life and I am far from happy. The game only seldom crashes but I have so many graphic bugs (and other bugs...) and cut scenes that do not play correctly it is very sad. On LastGen I would honestly say it is unplayable. That game was pushed out the door much too soon and unpolished! This title also has no right to be puplished on PS3 and Xbox 360 because it is a rip off on these consoles. The Graphics and therefor the atmosphere is not really present on PS3. Which translates into: The game is not present on PS3! Considering what they build here in this title, an atmospheric fantasy world of beauty and wonder, these are things that are really troubling for PS3 owners and Xbox 360 owners...
I was so much looking forward to playing this title (after Da2 happend), but I am far from happy with this title. But I won't say more ... I could, but ... let's leave it at that!

(Hey Gamereactor-UK: Can you tell me if there is a way to read an english translation of your swedish review of this game ?! I would really like to take a look at that.)

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ZeroBlood89
2014-11-24 02:48

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I've been having my own issues out of the game besides the long loading times and such which is....total bull plus every time i go to respec my character or do something wrong the game just crashes on me i paid $70 for the Dragon Age Inquisition Deluxe Edition on PS3 and honestly i've noticed problem even when going into the multiplayer....such as my Deluxe Editions multiplayer chest NOT BEING ANYWHERE IN SITE EVEN AFTER DOWNLOADING THE ITEMS

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ostry_max
2014-11-25 12:38

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I wish I have only these troubles )
Actually, game doesn't install on my (and not only my) xbox360 slim internall hdd. At this moment, there is still no solution of this problem.
I simply can't even start playing.
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/Can-t-install-dra
gon-age-inquisition-on-xbox-360/td-p/4006439

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AndyB
2014-11-29 17:51

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I have the digital download of the PS3 version. Apart from the horrendous character graphics (shiny hair, etc) there are some major bug issues. I played for over 17 hours had multiple saves and then couldn't load any of them. Every time it would lock up the PS3. Frustrated, I started a new character and 2 hours into it I get a lockup in the character dialogue window and have to restart a PS3. Every time I go into the tactical battle view, I get a black screen for about 5 seconds before being able to anything. There are so many other bugs glitches I can't see how any of this stuff made it through QC. I can understand problems on a pc where everyone has different configurations. But on Xbox 360 and PS3 there are very few configurations and there is just no way this crap should have made it through. It only shows to me that EA and/or Bioware could care less about the older generation consoles even though we paid the same price as the new console.

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Laniakea
2015-08-06 20:02

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I experienced a lot of the same issues on my Xbox 360. The loading time between rooms is incredibly long and there are constant glitches in the scenery and with bystanders. Sometimes when NPC characters are talking to me, their words are so glitchy that I can't understand them. Always have your subtitles on just in case this happens. The game has frozen multiple times and become completely unresponsive. I've had to force the system to shut down and restart from my last save point many times. There are certain points in the game where it will freeze every time I try to get through it. For example, sitting in judgement of the mayor of Crestwood; I sentenced him to death but then the game froze. I restarted the game several times but every time it would freeze at the same point right after I sentenced him but before the executioner finished the job. I ended up having to select a different punishment for the mayor before the game would finally move on! It did the same thing when I was judging Alexius - again I wanted to sentence him to death but it froze every time I tried. Is this game against capital punishment? I still play the game because I have over 100 hours into it, but I save frequently. I love the game though, I just wish I had the money for an Xbox One.

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Demonknight
2015-12-14 11:02

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I play Dragon Age Inquisitions on xbox360 as i too can't afford the Xbox one, I'm having a glitch every time i try to do any judgement it completes but i get no load up screen after just a black screen and a freeze so i have to restart the game and can't do judgements at all. i also get freeze up in game play along with camps and bandits doing a disappearing act. I have played all the dragon age games so was really excited about Dragon Age Inquisitions until i started to play and feel cheated for paying for a game that doesn't work..

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