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Some mild spoilers:

I'm about 40 hours in with the string of end game story quests left, but I want to explore more of the optional areas & slay the remaining 3 High Dragons first. I mostly agree with you on Inquisition, but there are points we disagree on. I was surprised you spent so much of the review praising the story - I honestly think the plot is passable at best with the likable characters enhancing it mostly. I only like about half the party members (Dorian, Varric, & Iron Bull have been with me most of the game). I wish there were more returning characters who actually joined the party. I'd rather have Lillian & Morrigan fighting with me than Sera & Solas. I felt Origins had a better cast, but it's still a huge improvement over 2's cast & plot. One thing that did bug me was how little NPCs reacted to my player character vs Origins. I played as an Elven Mage and very few people made note of this. Likely due to the sheer volume of voice work in the game.

I love the combat, but I agree the tactical camera is inconsistent in its effectiveness. There are a ton of awesome spells & skills to play around with. The game world is stupidly huge and I'm a sucker for open world RPGs like that. The best part of the game is just exploring and finding interesting areas and bumping into quests. I do feel the RPG elements are a bit watered down much. Gone are the stat-checked persuasion or locking picking you'd see in older Bioware games replaced mostly with crafting and skill trees. You can't even distribute your stats on level up. That's not to say these are bad, but I can understand why some dislike the game. Inquisition is definitely more of a new school RPG. The quest quality is all over the place - a lot of MMO style fetch quests. Visually it's one of the more impressive next gen games and the soundtrack is great. It's a really massive, strong RPG, but it has a lot of flaws (& glitches). It's still probably my favorite PS4 game - at least until The Witcher 3 comes out.

Oof, sorry it took me so long to respond. Didn't even see until now that a thread had been made.

Yeah, I honestly never liked the cast of Origins much -- most of them felt utterly forgettable to me, save for Morrigan and Shale (who's DLC-only, and thus kinda doesn't count). I wasn't even that big on Leliana until Inquisition. I do remember praising DA2's cast for being a bit more likable, though I don't remember most of them, either. Whereas I think everyone in Inquisition had some major value (save for Solas, though at least there is that one interesting tidbit about him at the end there).

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