So, as I was playing through dragon age: inquisition, there were many good aspects about the game to keep things going. The combat system was somewhat decent, though it annoyed me how limited my choices of active spells seemed to be. The music was wonderful. But something was missing.
I wasn't quite sure what it was until about the time I stopped the assassination, and then it became abundantly clear, I was playing Barney and Friends Explore Thedas, Not a bioware game.
The first thing that bothered me, the removal of blood magic. In previous games, every art discussed within the game was pretty much available, regardless of it's moral consequences. It was more or less up to the player to determine the morality of themselves. Now, blood magic has been portrayed as this ultimate evil that can never been forgiven. It used to be something that was a tool that was often used for evil.
Letting this little nitpick slide, I continue on with the game. As I complete the chargers side quest, the next one hit. None of my choices are really choices. Do I save a group of people who have fought by my side for a time, or do I keep my alliance with the qun? Both choices are morally good choices, either the good of the few or good of the many kind of choice. Where was my choice to steal the dreadnought and discover it's secrets?
Third, did morrigan develop breast cancer between dragon age I and III? In Origins, she was a well shaped woman without social inhibitions, or social stigmas. She was unabashedly and unashamedly intelligent, attractive, and manipulative. You should change this character's name and model and just be done with it. She was a selfish immodest thing in the first dragon age, and you've completely flipped everything about her personality. And yes, the model change does bother me. Why can't she have breasts? I could find you thousands of examples of female human beings that have lumps of fatty flesh on their chest. It is not that uncommon. Iron Bull has larger breasts than she does.
The inconsistencies with this character are so abhorrent, so jarring, that I couldn't get past it. It actually puts more light on the fact that every other woman in the game lacks any feminine qualities whatsoever. There are dozens of cases of men being portrayed, not just discussed, but portrayed as flamboyant or permiscuous, several instances of having overly sexualized models or attitudes, but no one woman in this entire game is feminine. Seriously? What kind of double standard is this? Hell, they've even removed the desire demons from the game completely, probably for the same reason. The sequences with desire demons in origins were interesting because of the situations that they put the character in. They are mature situations with extreme consequences and definite moral choices. It allowed players to give in to temptation in more than one way (example, learning blood magic). If anything, I think that this is the ultimate example of the removal of moral ambiguity from the game as a whole.
I made it halfway through the game before I realized this, but you can't make an evil choice in this game. Ordinarily I am a relatively moral individual when I play through the game, and tend to appreciate being able to see the option for something cruel or terrible, but then not taking it. Those options don't exist here. The story is sloppily put together. The enemies are bland, and the allies are all bumbling idiots. The grey wardens commit mass murder of themselves because they fall for a trick that they shouldn't have. Duncan would have been ashamed. I can see one group of people falling for this follow the leader bull, but the leader of every major power in the game? all at once? Convenient plot twist is convenient. It's too sloppy. I don't like it.
At any rate, that's why I won't finish the game. I've uninstalled it and origin (never liked origin anyhow). Bioware, Not sure if you take feedback well or not, but this is my feedback. Do what you will with it. I'm not going to be purchasing your games anymore.
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