I think only Dragon Age Origins knew what it was.
I think DA2 knew what it wanted to be, EA just decided to not let Bioware have the time or manpower to do it.
I personally think that it still has the best overarching story, environ and atmosphere in the series so far, and (controversial opinion) I LIKED that I played as Hawke. The Warden and the Inquisitor are the typical “thrown into a world changing even they have tenuous connections to”, and feel a degree removed from anything but the main event sometimes.
But Hawke? They are in the thick of it. Does not matter what class Hawke is, my guy/girl is going through it at every (repeated dungeon) stage of the game. I honestly felt more for Hawke in my playthrough of DA2 than my personal avatars in Origin and Inquisition. Kirkwall sucks soooo bad, man.
The more reflection I give it the better DA2 is and the worse Inquisition is. DAO was a good turn based with pause of its era but it was 2 that was the best. My biggest problems with 2 are that it wasn’t finished (I want the Sera it was supposed to have not the one inquisition gave dammit) and Isabella’s lack of survivability/force mage just sucking. Meanwhile Inquisition fucking attempted to rehabilitate Cullen… and it had no Isabella or Merrill
You get it. I agree with all of your complaints (but another unpopular opinion, I didn’t mind Sera we got lol)
Inquisition is actually my least favourite in the series, and I hate the pivot to hyperfocus on the “super special elves” and getting the most out of the story ONLY if you play a specific type of elf. I’m also not absolutely gaga for Varric (I like him, I just don’t think he should be everywhere). I felt really fatigued by the end of the game tbh.
All of the characters look like they came straight outta Shrek 2.
Are they fucking high?
It looks like just another AAA slob
BG3 exec-bro played it well with the words.
truly knows what it wants to be could mean different things depends on how you spin it.
A lot people are liking it because the people who didn’t during the early preview didn’t receive their early access copies.
I’ve only seen Skill-Up review but it looks like this guy assumes BioWare is toast and won’t be sending many early copies in the future. I’m confused at who’s the target audience of this game. Is it the League of Legenda crowd? It kinda looks like Arcane now that I think about it. Low hardware requirements also suggest it’s aimed at younger players but I can’t reconcile it with how dorky it is.
Just guessing, but maybe a 6.4 / 10 customer score. More copies sold than Concord, but not enough to go net positive. It looks polished so I doubt it’ll be overwhelmingly negative, but it just won’t be that interesting to gamers so most will probably just not buy it.
It’ll probably be review bombed in both directions.