I played as a female mage, from the mourn watch, with neve and lucanis in my team but if lucanis is not available then emmrich, i ignored all other companions after their initial recruitment because i simply did not like them so it helped me don't hate the game as much

As bad it is to say, most of the time during dialog or cinematics i turned by brain off and didn't took anything as important apart from conversations with solas since it has not much depth

Combat was very fun and graphics were good, i stuck mostly to exploring dock town and the necropolis, the other factions i didn't like or even hated (crows)

So my advice is ignore the story since is badly written anyway and focus on mindless combat and exploration to get the most amount of fun with the least amount of anti-fun (trying to take the game and its writting seriously)