There is a fairly frequent common theme among critiques that compare DA: Inquisition to ES: Skyrim that may be misleading.
Good game design is good game design, if you will forgive the tautology. All known game designs are necessarily designed for human beings. Human beings are similar to one another. It follows that we should not be surprised if there are similarities between these games. Wherever you have more than one good game designed for humans, especially where they share a theme (like heroic fantasy), it should not surprise anyone to see some design similarities.
This doesn't mean a game design stole anything from another game design, it means that the designers were similarly proficient and designing for the same audience.
Given agreement, it should be thought singularly uninformative to say one good game is like another. What may be helpful for a future game would be to point out excellence wherever it might be found.
But saying DA took X from Skyrim only betrays failure to recognize that two systems designed for the same purpose in the same environment for the same end user will be in some ways similar wherever well designed and executed.
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