You impose that you are in the majority without concrete fact, which frankly is a bit of a silly assumption. Rather than trying fool people you should bring a compelling argument and leave the rest of your condescend as it has no place here.
Personally I enjoyed DA2, and I will tell you why. First of all I play a game for the story mostly and not the game play, and I certainly would not buy a Bioware game if I went for such, I have Blizzard for remarkable gameplay. So understandably I put more weight to how the story is built and how the game pace it along.
Let us take it from the start, where we are introduced to Mr. Dwarf who tells the story, and that he does so is visible in the game itself. First example when you are playing the small tutorial intro, he just made that up. I personally found that a cool feature, how often do you get to see such a thing? Twice in the game, so that is something. Point is, I find this a very interesting way for the game to tell the story. Yes, it is less traditional, but do understand this is not DA:O 1.5, this is Dragon Age 2, a different game, but in the same universe.
Pacing along now to the actual story I find it refreshing that you for once have to work your way up in the world, it feels realistic to the setting that you do not just jump from nothing to being the boss. You make your name, and the story itself explores other areas of the setting other than just darkspawn, namely Qunari, other nations than Ferelden, Chantry/Mage tensions. That a setting has more to offer, and can make entire games with a different focus than the last is healthy. It fleshes it out, it keeps the darkspawn from going tame.
Dragon Age 2 certainly is not a masterpiece, but it is a good game in my opinion, just like Dragon Age Origins was a good game, that one was not a masterpiece either I think. They are two different games with two different focuses that they perform to a remarkable level.
So if I am to go on to what I find bad about Dragon Age 2 it is not the story or the way it is told, it would be the gameplay. That has fault. Repetitive areas, mobs appearing out of nowhere and bugs all serve to lessen immersion to the story, but it is nothing I cannot live with. I understand the first of my concerns, but still find they should tone it down just a little, the second I understand too, yet still find a little annoying and the last is to be expected from a new game, if you do not you are just fooling yourself.
A thing I think people get very wrong is that DA2 should be better than DA:O or else it is just a blight to the world of man. It is a different game with a different story told in the same setting. All that DA2 has to do is to be a worthy successor, not better or worse. Worthy, that's all there is to it. In my opinion it is, it evolves the setting and fleshes it out, and presents several compelling plotlines.
I personally find that some people let themselves be swayed by journalists, some of which have only played the demo, and thus make plainly ignorant opinions. I am not saying that is everyone and of course respect the opinions of those who have played the game through and dislike it now, I just hope those can learn to grow and at least tolerate it.
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