Dragon Age: Origins was notorious for being quite a challenging game (for a AAA mainstream release without the word "witcher" in the title, at least), whereas Dragon Age 2 was mostly notorious for being repetitive and transparently railroady. Dragon Age: Inquisition, however, will not only hearken back to Origins, but really kick it up a notch.
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In an interview with PlayStation Lifestyle, producer Cameron Lee let slip that "all difficulty in Inquisition means tougher than Origins, definitely tougher than Dragon Age 2." This was in reply to a question on whether or not gamers might conceivably finish the game without ever switching over to Tactical View, the over-head view Inquisition offers that freezes time and allows for battlefield control.
Lee: "[Tactical View]'s almost like a pressure release valve. So, if you're in real-time view and you're battling away, and there's just too much going on, you know, there's too many enemies or they're too tough or something's gone wrong, maybe, as you were fighting, a pack of wolves came along at the same time and decided to get involved in this three way fight. You could, that could be too much pressure for me, so I might want to go to the tactical cameras, but for you, you might be quite comfortable to keep banging away in real time. It really depends on the player, but we would expect from the majority of players playing on normal mode... that they would definitely find some of the more challenging fights easier if they use tactical combat - tactical view. But if they want to persevere, they can certainly do so."
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Dragon Age: Inquisition is coming to PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC on November 18 for North America and November 21 in Europe.
