That confirms it. Now I have to marry you.

My preferences between the three games are similar, do you have to marry me too?

Inquisition had massive potential with regards to main story.

Corypheus was so interesting in Legacy but just became a Saturday Morning Villain. That stuff at Calpernia version at The Shrine of Dumat should have been available regardless of path chosen and there should have been more of that.

I love the elven lore and find it interesting but I feel they kinda jumped the gun. There was just so much to explore with the Magisters and now, who gives a shit about them when you've beings that are even more ancient and powerful?

Loved DAO... never finished DAII didn't care for it. Inquisition was okay... bored by it a lot but the awesome characters like Dorian and Ironbull carried me to the Finished Line.

I feel like I'm the only one who loved Sera because she's such a troll. I rarely like troll characters but for some silly reason, she grew on me like a lonely person who only wanted to have a family or fit in somewhere. So my Inquisitor adopted her as a sibling and in the end of the Trespasser DLC, joined the Red Jennies while he would visit Dorian occasionally in Tevinter before he'd set up with him for the rest of their lives. My Inquisitor got along most of the companions, though he had to keep Vivienne close and choose his words carefully as he knew she could be a menace later due to the Mage Rebellion. He didn't particularly supported the Circles but hypocritically tried to keep Viv in his good graces until she left the Inquisition a few years later. Her help brought along a lot of diplomacy support to his Inquisition. His best friends were Cassandra, Sera and Dorian. He was a dual-wielding rogue assassin.

Dorian was the best character in the game.

I completely agree. They even had hats in da2, it looked so silly lol. In origins they looked like the real deal, not like a joke. You felt a sense of dramatic every time one appeared because there was something about the wibe they gave off right before attacking. I miss that.

If they had taken the concept of Origins and gone further with it, involving more reactivity and unique content, the sequels would have had the potential to be masterpieces.

As is, they are just another RPG. Which is increasingly treating it's own lore with writing that could be categorized as abuse.

Eh. I've been thinking about this recently... some classic, older RPGs I've played, which I would undeniably classify as RPGs, had similar levels of action (or lack of character creation/agency). I think the RPG genre reach great heights in the late 90's/early 2000's, so many grognards like myself had hoped it was going to be the new standard of what RPGs would be... but that was not the case.

So I don't know... the argument of "what is an RPG versus a X game with RPG elements" doesn't seem as important any more. Mostly because I'm not sure the definition of an RPG was ever that firm to begin with, despite my rose tinted glasses on the matter.

But regardless - I think, besides the actual heart and care taken with DA:O in its creation and execution, it's other singular quality was the Origins themselves. The ability to play your unique intro (and have variation/options within that story to further define your personality) was unlike anything else on the market. Remove that, and it's just another game.