Fair enough. That is a rather big missed opportunity. Clarification question though, did you have more issues (outside of the bugs) with Cullen's romance arc, or the game in general? I just want to understand people's experiences with the game.
I adored Cullen's romance arc as a whole, it was very sweet and tender which was a wonderful contrast to all the years of hell he'd been through and was still going through with the lyrium issues and nightmares of his torture etc, however there wasn't enough content for it, especially if you take the romance part out of his story arc. The lyrium addiction plot would have felt more impactful had it played out through the game beyond just 3 scenes and the odd mention (once in the romance and once at the war table) but that seems to be the case with all the characters, issues get resolved in a few short scenes and one or two personal quests which would have been fine in a smaller/shorter game, but with a game as big as DAI in felt thinly spread.
That aside my biggest issue is with the final two quests (the Arbor Wilds push and the final battle). I'll quote something I posted earlier:
My issue was that the final battle itself felt very underwhelming, what with all that craziness going on with the breach he'd just reopened and the floating platforms, I thought for sure that we'd be getting some mad Salvador Dali sh*t happening during the battle, like making our way up to Corypheus by walking upside down through the environments, or having him/the Inquisitor make use of his surroundings and the Fade's bizarre gravity during the fight. We know the fade can leak out into "the real world" since we saw it in the pro-mage quest, the devs could've taken full advantage of that.
I was also disappointed that all the hours I'd sunk into the game preparing for what I thought would be a dramatic final battle was kinda pointless. Even with the Arbor Wilds push to the Temple, which for all intents and purposes served as our "epic" clash of both sides accumulated forces, it didn't take into account whether or not I'd bothered to strengthen the Inquisition's troops at all, there were no pros or cons to what choices I had or hadn't made. There's no point in me filling out requisitions or getting them better armour/weapons etc if it's not gonna make a difference either way. To be honest, I found that whole Arbor Wilds quest incredibly lacklustre, sure I could hear people fighting but I couldn't see them in action around me, and the npcs and enemies you do encounter fighting are few in number... it didn't feel like a war zone, which is a shame because the beauty of that area mixed with the blood bath happening within it could've made for a very poignant and striking experience. I suppose the same could be said with DA:O's "light the beckon" quest in Ostagar but you could still see the battle happening around you so it gave the illusion of urgency, desperation, and most importantly atmosphere.
Don't get me wrong, I fully understand that this was Corypheus' last ditch attempt at entering the Black City/getting rid of you, thus for him it was ideal to call you out whilst you had no troops to assist you... it just wasn't executed as well as I felt it could have been. I'd presumed that at the very least not completing the companion/advisor quests would result in the possibility of them dying or ditching you and it was a shame that the rest of your companions played no part in the fight at all. You may not have your troops to hand, but you've got 9 companions and 3 advisors, 2 of which are seasoned fighters, plus who knows how many civilians hanging around at the Skyhold, they could've helped knock back a few demons or something since reopening the breach would've caused them to start dropping out of the sky again.
In the end it felt like all I was doing was beating a broken, deformed, deluded old man suffering from a god complex with a stick... which actually makes me feel kinda bad for him, now that I think about it LOL!
I think the main problem is that it peaked too soon by closing the breach so early, leading to the attack on Haven. Maybe they felt a full scale attack on the Skyhold would be repetitive, or that the typical epic battle with all your troops and assets being put to use was overdone? Either way, I was disappointed.
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