I liked the game overall, and I am going out on a limb and assuming that everyone here has played it, but I'll just put up a spoiler warning just in case!
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Combat: The combat was alright, amazing even, but it did have its hiccups, such as the skill trees, I mean, I would have just a few skills I would use to wipe out a lot of guys, while others were completely useless to me. In my time playing, five runs through the game choosing polar opposite choices, I prefered the rogue over everything else, the mage and warrior were alright, but their skills were kind of lack-luster to me, and having sustainable skills became very hard to discern from instant skills when switching between characters.
Classes: The classes were awesome, though the only thing that changed was who came with you when going to Kirkwall, if you were a warrior or rogue, then it was Bethany, if you were a mage, you were stuck with Carver. I would have preferred being a mage and taking Beth along, or being a warrior or rogue and taking Carver with me, but that's besides the point. Everyone of the classes had nice skill trees, even though some became basicly useless when you maxed out most everything else. Even the spec classes were kind of stupid, but just for kicks I played a Templar and sided with the mages, or played as a Blood mage and a Spirit Healer at the same time.
Areas: This is one of the things I forgave about DA2, there were only a few maps for the dungeons, but that didn't make it bad, filling it with different enemeies, and goodies made them fun. The only part I didn't like was when you would run around Kirkwall every few years for new quests, finding where everything was again, and doing the same things did get tedious after a while, but I forgave it since the game was pushed out pretty fast.
Characters: Here is where things get a bit dicy, now I liked most of the characters, Varric always won the 'free hug' award, and Merrill was adorable, but all in all, the character flaws were a bit crippling.
Anders: With Anders he became more and more obsessed with killing the templars, and later in the game I really wish I could get him to shut up about the 'plight of the mages' I can understand being opressed and all that, sheesh, my family is opressing, but for the love of the Maker he should have taken it like a man, and if he didn't like it, then he should have left! Having a mage-come-terrorist wouldn't help mages in the least!
Isabelle: I didn't have a major problem with her, she was a theif, and almost a prostitute, but she didn't obsess over everything except for saving her own hide, which is done very well near the end of the game, with her pronouncing her love and faithfulness to you, along with you getting a nice amount of loot from her mission.
Merrill: I loved Merrill, she was adorable, awkward, everything you want in a fantasy game girl, but her major flaw, and what tore all of her cuteness away was that mirror! I couldn't stand the effing thing, and the more and more she wanted to fix it, the more I wanted to see how it would work flying off a cliff. I even had the choice of helping her fix it, but because I was the nice guy, I gave her the tool to fix it with, instead of pawning it like my instincts told me to. It was fun to be around her, but most of her talk involved justifying Blood Magic, and her mirror...Though when around Isabelle the hilarity ensued.
Varric: Alright, Verric was awesome, through and through, he had no major flaws, and he was always awesome to be around, when you switch out your characters, I always kept him as a teammate, because no matter what I did, as long as we got coin in the end, he was happy. The only crippling thing was when we came to the idol, and his brother, both were resolved easily, and he chilled out after that, so Varric= +10 to awesomeness.
Fenris: Now Fenris was one of the characters I liked the most, along with Merrill, Isabelle, and Varric. Fenris didn't whine a lot about his time as a slave, and he didn't try to kill the mages on your team, he may have been a bit moody at times, but I was able to forgive him because he was characterized very well, and his major flaws were covered up by him being an all-around good person to be with, especially if you are a mage, it may seem crazy to say that, but he'll be the best friend you have on there.
Aveline: I just didn't care all that mch for Aveline, she didn't have any obsessions, but not anything to make her a particularly good character to me, there was that instance in the second part of the game that was funny, but other than that, there wasn't anything else outstanding about her.
Dalish elves: Now here is something I hated even more than Anders, the Dalish. In Origins, they were a nice people, they were wary of you, and that was understandable. Now in this game you are around Dalish that are openly hostile to you, and try their best to not speak to you. Again, it's justifyable, but I just really hated how they looked like they had a permenant scowl, and looked down on everyone, and with Merethari there, the elf from the first game with which you made the Keeper of her clan, it just seemed like she had lost everything the other game had given her, shewasn't trying to bring peace between elves and humans, if anything she was sitting back and letting things happen.
Meridith: Now I'm not gonna talk about Orsino, because he is just kind of there, but Meridith needs some talking about. With Meridith some people would see her as opressive and all that, but it was justifiable because she saw there as being no other way to keep the mages in check, and after hearing about some of her past, I really did feel bad for her and wanted to help her a lot. It didn't help that the idol appeared, but as bad as she was, it's mostly the idol's fault.
Qunari: The qunari are awesome, no vital flaws or anything like that, what they did, they did out of the need for the Qun, and it raised a hot topic for religious extremes. The people, and some of the chantry feared them, even though they were just squatting near the docks, and they wouldn't have made a move had it not been for people pushing them on all sides, forcing them to act.
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Well there's my rant about the game, in short, it was good, but still had major flaws, it's equal to that of DA:O mostly because with all the flaws this game had, DA:O had one major one that made me despise the game, and please, tell me if I am correct here, but didn't you get tired of going through the Sloth Demon's lair in the Mage's Tower?
