If you play and like all kinds of games and have fun with them it is kind of obvious that most changes will not bother you. If you are used to play action and adventure games then you are probably into real time combat, puzzles, jumping and so on. But it is obvious that what we mean by "played DAO" is liked Origins for being Origins, not just for being a good game.
Anyone can love any kind of game, that much is obvious. So there is nothing forbidden in liking, let's say, My Little Pony and Inquisition and GTA and FIFA, you can, of course. You can also like the next DA game if it does have a colorful pony playing soccer with car thieves but you can't expect people who loved DAI for what it is to love this ficticious new game.
It is the same with Origins, people who loved Origins for the combat, the stat system, the different origins, the way your origin affected your story, the interaction and so on will obviously not be pleased by all the changes Inquisition made. But it does not apply when a person just played Origins and did not love the game for the specifics.
Let's think love... if you love a blond guy it is ok to love a ginger guy, but it makes no sense when you loved the blond guy for being blond. Specially if you already tried to be with guys of different hair colors and found that you can only love the blond ones. Then one day your boyfriend says he is going to die his hair, he promises you that it is going to be even more blond than it was, a blond hair for blond lovers he says, and you become soooooo happy. Later, at night, when you meet him, he is ginger, no, worse, blood red hair... LOTS of people will love it, he may even be selected as the most handome man in your city, still, even if it is true, you can only love blonds... so, no deal for you.
I know, it is ridiculous but perhaps people understand it that way? If hair color is not enough think gender for non-bissexual people. If you completely dislike man and is disgusted by the thought of having sex with a man, how good it is if the most beautiful man in the world loves you? A lot of people will claim you are crazy for not being with him but, whatever, you would rather die than having sex with him. Any average woman is better than the most beautiful man if you hate man. That's it, Origins is a woman, Inquisition is a man. A person who loved Origins (as I said before in this post, for loving its specific mechanics) playing Inquisition is like Sera having sex with the manliest man ever, it is cruel, it is rape.
Again I know people will keep on claiing they love both. Yeah, for different reasons, than it is ok, You can like cake and hockey. One is food, the other is a sport. But I would love to understand people who claim that they loved Origins and do love Inquisition and will insist that it was for the specifics. If you loved Origins stat system, for being what it was, how can you simultaneously love not being able to assign stat points? How can you claim to love something you do not miss? As far as I know loving something means missing it when its gone...
So you want me to believe you loved Origins for its specifics and still believe you do not miss everything that was gone in DA2 and now in DAI... What kind of love is this that makes you care not for not having that which you love?
Again, I accept you saying you love both, as great games, as amazing games, in other words, loved them generically, as games. But I do insist that when we come to discuss fans we are talking about specifics, not the general quality. So again, for people who will try to tell that is possible to love them both in depth, please explain me this stuff of loving without missing... Because as far as I know loving or even liking somethings means to connect with that thing at some level so you tear that connection apart with no pain at all still you claim you loved it? So you all claiming to love Origins just happened to play Inquisition and think "hey, yeah, great, I can't put points in cunning, or anywhere for that matter, oh skills llok like DA2 not DAO, great, oh! action-like combat, good, kung fu lightsaber mages, yeah, fetch quests, amazing, adventure game exploration, that's it, good..." and so on? Do you realize you did not love Origins? You liked it because it was good, not because it was what it was, obviously, if you did, you would miss what you had.
Exceptions are:
You loved Origins but you love DAI more, in this case it is ok, in fact you always loved Inquisition but it did not exist so you never loved Origins but it was the closest that was to Inquisition before Inquisition was made. Like thinking you love to drive a porche until you pilot a supersonic jet. The other exception is when you change, my preferences concerning games changed completely around 26yo, it is a possibility, so what was amazing may become boring or just regular.
No, I'm not imposing these things, it is just how we USUALLY define love. USUALLY we miss things we love. USUALLY. Perhaps your definition of love/like is very different from mine. Perhaps you do not miss Origins because you still play it and it is enough for you so my whole point of "missing what we love" is a fallacy because for you, you do still have what you love. Perhaps you see it as death, you miss you beloved ones but you know they will not return from the dead but it does not keep you from meeting new, different, people and learning to love different kinds of people. So I'm not saying you can't argue, not at all, I'm just saying that for me, loving is missing what we love.
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