What are your thoughts how you enjoyed the Inquisitor's character?
To me he/she was boring compared to the many other Bioware characters such as Revan, Shepard, The Warden, and even Hawke. I think the Inquisitor is too 1-dimensional and is too diplomatic.
With Shepard and Hawke you can have jerks or saints as seen with the "Shepard is a jerk" type videos. With the Inquisitor I doubt you will see any such videos because the character does not have the same depth. Punching Solas was the most aggression I really saw in terms of conversations and dialog options. The Inquisitor is sort of like making Tim Duncan play a super hero for those who know who Tim Duncan is and the reference I am making.
This is contrast to the companions which are all rich in depth and personality. Even mute Warden and Revan had more excitement going for them.
What is your view on the Inquisitor?
This is a very binary way to look at character options. Diplomatic/Paragon Vs. Jerk/Renegade its simplistic and juvenile. Juvenile as in unsophisticated and overly simple. There is an incredible diversity in the Inquisitor but it is not along the the lines of nice or utter wanker. Yes there are limitations to how your character reacts to the world, just like Shepard was limited to binary choices in the ME series. You could not step outside this very narrow divide of all actions being pigeon holed into either Paragon or Renegade. Is Shepard a warrior poet? You can't really interact with the world based on this idea, Is Shepard a person of faith? Again you can't really react to the world based on that. You can headcanon all you want but you can't respond using those options.
The story requires that the Inquisitor be diplomatic because you are a fledgling quasi-religious quasi-military order. The inquisition is very much along the lines of the Buddhist Monks of Japan or the military monastic orders of Europe. In order to survive the Inquisitor can't have the character diversity be determined by how Diplomatic or how psychotic you choose to act. And this isn't the only way to make diverse characters. Your character needs to be someone deeply religious people will follow and someone who can work will other power structures within Thedas this precludes the ability to play a psychotic like Hawke or the warden could be because if you acted like this your own organization would arrest you. So no you don't get to choose to be an absolute prig. But you can choose many other different divergent character traits that can make for an interesting inquisitor that have nothing to do with binary morality.
With the inquisitor you can choose your diversity along the lines of Faith, how much do you believe in the Maker? Do you believe you are the herald? Was it providence as Cassandra says that delivered you into the hands of the only organization capable of sealing the breach? All of these Questions allow you to make very diverse characters with regards to FAITH.
How much of a hardliner are you? Will you be a traditionalist, reformer or a revolutionary with regards to the Mage question? Will you save the Templars but disband them? Will you save the mages but force them back into the circles? Who will you support as divine? Its not so important for you to answer these questions with the actions you take but more important to ask WHY you took these action in the first place these will very much determine the personality of your character again outside the narrow Realm of Just nice guy vs. mean guy.
Judgement seat
How do you dispense Justice? How do you punish the guilty? What steps do you take against those whom you have captured? Again there is a wide range of diverse actions that do not run along a rather narrow divide of this is a good/Paragon action and this is a bad/Renegade option. How you deal with these choice goes a great deal into how your personality can be shaped. Are you pragmatic and will use a tool to further the power of the Inquisition? Will your punish people knowing you could lose a potential tool? What punishments will you use? Will you show mercy? Or will you let all know if you cross the Inquisition your head will roll?
Will you be an Inquisitor who is scholarly? (aka invest in knowledge perks) Or will you trust in your own personal knowledge to see you through the challenges you face? Will you let your background dictate the direction you will follow or will you forge a new path separate from your heritage?
There are so many ways you can develop your character that have ZERO to do with the traditional binary morality that most games ham fistedly impose in games. I don't know what it says about gamers in general when they think they have no options for character development because they can't be a psycho.
The above said you may not like that you can't be a psycho but that is very different from not having any options for character development.
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