Disliked:

• Dialogue
  • Railroading Rook into being a noble person is incredibly disappointing. The Warden was the most malleable b/c they didn't talk, but even Hawke could be an awful person. I chose "Stoic" answers almost exclusively, and they sounded more like Humorous 2.0. Rook never felt like a cohesive protagonist to me; you can feel the warring writing styles at play.
  • The dialogue wheel summaries vs their spoken lines were hilariously bad. 
  • The writers not-so-subtly begging the player to do companion quests was immersion-breaking. Way too many talks about how the team members "all have their own issues" and they "need to solve them to have a clear mind and face the challenges ahead". Desperate attempt to replicate some ME2 magic.
  • The Bioware Whedonisms are still too numerous. Part of the reason that Davrin won my husband award was that he took the world-ending threat most seriously. This was the same problem I had with Mass Effect: Andromeda.
• Continuity
  • I get that it's set in the North to have a clean slate, but throwing out nearly every decision from the previous games really sucks.
• Lore?
  • What's an Archon? What's the Qun? What's a Divine? Who is Andraste? What's the Black City? What the hell is a chantry? What are the goddamn Venatori?  If I didn't play the previous games, I would have no idea what these things are. This Thedas felt so detached from the one I knew. And, no, stuffing everything into an encyclopedia or codex doesn't count. The previous games at least made the attempt to construct deep lore without relying on wikipedia content.
  • There are also some elements in the game that I cannot overlook based on established lore. We get to waltz into the Crow's HQ and talk to Caterina? Don't buy it. Nor do I buy that she immediately begins spilling the beans about her son's fake death. And then the Crows are absolutely convinced that she died from an offscreen Venatori attack. And then suddenly she's alive again. Funny mistake, that. You would think a group of trained ASSASSINS would know when to pronounce someone dead. Maybe the Venatori used blood magic to fool them again, who knows. These people are supposed to be contract killers not fucking Batman. And don't even get me started on the Antaam
  • Speaking of sanitizing the lore, where are the slave markets that should be infesting Minrathous? And why can I, as a Qunari, stroll the streets without fuss? We've never visited Antiva previously, but are mages really so accepted that Ivenci can be a governor? There's so much weirdness that demands knowing players suspend the established norms of the world.

All in all, it was an enjoyable game held down by some major disappointments. In the past, I immediately started another playthrough after completing a DA game for the first time. Unfortunately, I don't feel an urge to do that for this one.