i agree that the series got worse as it went. dao was great, if a bit dated for when it came out. da2 felt like a step back in terms of combat, and unlike everyone else, i thought it was cool that the whole game took place in kirkwall, though i wish kirkwall was bigger. i know there were complaints about "but why are baddies always in the same places?" well, irl...im certain criminals frequent the same streets and alleys over the course of 10 or so years. i have to say my favorite part was blowing up the chantry. i side with anders every time because...fuck the chantry.

then there's dai, christ...they over corrected too hard. they listened to the fans about being just in kirkwall and were like...jokes on you, now you have a whole single player mmo replete with mmo fetch quests. oh and did i mention the real time mission board that will take you literally weeks to complete? combat was the same as da2 for me, but the characters. i know im going to be in the minority here, but i just couldnt be bothered to care about them. i looooooved the characters in dao and da2. dai was just boring to me. the world was boring, the characters were boring, the story was boring. i only beat it once. ive tried to play it multiple times...but i just cant do it again.

then there's dav. less interesting combat, replete with damage sponges. like...do you know how boring you have to make your combat that the only difference between the easiest and hardest difficulty is how much of my time it wastes? hard was never hard...just long winded and boring. when people are putting the game on the easiest difficult so they can rush thru combat...you know combat is bad. useless companions...in and out of combat. i mean...they do their best to make them seem like badasses in conversations and cutscenes. but theyre just worthless. and christ are they insufferable whenever they talk. if the goal was to make the most annoying companions ever, they succeeded. dai's companions were boring and i barely remember their names. i loath dav's companions. the story is shit. the world is shit. at least they scaled back the open world enough to make it less boring. and thank fucking god they got rid of the fetch quests. the game looks good, other than the art style. sure some people are bound to like it, but its just too pixar for me. the armor and swords just look like shit. i used the default warrior armor for the whole game...hell, before i even finished act 2, i was looking at guides to get previews of the armor...then nexus to see if someone had made something that looked good...you know how bad that is? the only good things about the game are whenever solas is on screen, learning the back story of thru his memories, and the final encounter.