Dragon Age Inquisition: Snake was Right, y'all gonna Love this Game

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Krylo

I diagree entirely. Across the last two games the Templars and Chantry have basically taken a bunch of people with bombs wired into their chests, push them into corners, and then act surprised when they go off.

Actually, I'll agree with Greed on this one: I went into Inquisition fully anticipating a lop-sided pro-Mage story like in DA2, but characters like Vivienne really actually fleshed out the conflict into shades of grey and I find I'm not incredibly fond of either side of that conflict this time around.

Mind you, I still prefer the Mages over the Templars because fuck odious restrictions on personal freedom based entirely on stereotypes, but this game at least tries to present the other side of the coin. I'm not sure whether I ultimately prefer the shades-of-grey over DA2's rather bold stance on an unambiguous conflict against oppression, and in the end Inquisition seems to have this weird thematic focus on nearly every organizational structure, outside of the ironically-named Inquisition, falling apart at the seams.

I'm still impressed at how much I'm loving just about everyone in the main cast. I'd honestly say Leliana -- one of my favorite characters in Dragon Age Origins! -- is one of my least favorite characters in this cast. And it's not even that Leliana has necessarily gotten much worse, per se, it's more so that Bioware's really stepped up their game with writing these characters. Even Sera, who I was fully prepared to be inclined against, has proven to be deceptively awesome if you can look past her strange behavior (personality disorder?) And, while I don't agree with Vivenne on most things, she's basically a less self-loathing version of the Hawke I envisioned when playing DA2, which is cool to witness.

Iron Bull, of course, is awesome, but y'all already knew that.

Also: Varric has a couple of lines in his dialogues where Bioware is hysterically using him to defend DA2 against haters: Be sure to ask him what Kirkwall's really like when you're lounging around in Haven. (I suppose if you don't love DA2 as much as I do you'll just find it over-defensive.)