It's the year 2531. People are still whining because the latest DA game is not DAO.
Jfc, get a grip, you're all a broken BORING record. Acknowledge that DA:I is not DAO or DA2 and doesn't have to be, and that not every player plays the game for the same reasons, or enjoys the exact same elements. I personally don't care for the 8 abilities limit, find it to be more challenging actually, and never cared much for tactics, not even in DAO, because that's not my main focus on these games. Simple as that.
There's always room for improvement, sure, with any game (including DAO, i found the guilds quests boring and unnecessary for my game, much like many think of DA:I's fetch quests), but getting your heads stuck up in the past is not what anyone would call improving. You guys always want everything right now, but it doesn't seem like the ones complaining so vehemently care for an objectively good game, just for what you think makes a good game. Complaining a game isn't how you want it to be, and then pretend your personal opinion is undeniable unquestionable fact, that's just hilarious.
I'm on console, the DAO tactics didn't work well for me in console as they later did on pc, for what little use i had for them anyway. Bioware is clearly trying different things, new things, things people might not like much or at all, but that's the joke, isn't it? In order to find what really works you have to try different options first. Whether some of you want to admit it or not, there is no one right way of making a DA game be a DA game. You know who decides what's a DA game? Bioware. You only get to decide if you like it or not. It's 2015, how about you get your arses back from 2009 for a change???
For OP, my advice is just keep playing the game, keep exploring and seeing if it works for you, and try to judge it as its own game and not "the DAO that wasn't" lest you want to reach your 70's still bitter DA:I isn't like DAO. Asking other players for opinions or guidance is fine, but letting others define your own thoughts on the matter is not something i'd recommend, ever. DA:I has its strengths and flaws, like any game. Keep playing and discover them yourself.
Wow, such a useless post. Everybody knows it. Nobody cares. I fight for what I want. Each one fights for what they want. This is the true "as simple as that". You like a thing? Great. Dislike? Great. It is not that everybody need to want DAO, or that everybody should hate DAI. It is that I, the only person that matters in my life, from the day I was born till the day I will die, want X so I fight for X. This is true for everybody else. I said it countless times here before, nobody thinks they know what is better or what is the best, and it ABSOLUTELY doesn't matter, it only matter what you want.
Going deeper and further so that you understand it better, nobody cares about reality, about possibility and so on. We complain about what we want, we demand what we wish and we make topics and posts about what we want to talk about. Of course people personalities are different, some are more polite and civil, other are more offensive and rageous but conditioning apart one does what one wants.
But in case you didn't notice, it is not, and was never, about people thinking they know or even believe that there is some objectivity into play or that other should like what they like. And I guess everybody here knows it since when they were little children and they realized the world wouldn't work the way they wanted. Some people like me react childishly, live the existence like a tantrum, other learn to let it go, others work to make it happen, but no one is stupid enough to think they know what other should be or think, nobody is retarded, nobody thinks everybody would like the same game, but most of us DON'T CARE.
So fight for what you want, or don't, other people will fight for wat they want or won't, but again, nobody is stupid and dellusional to think their personal preferences are somehow "better" or "the best".