All three games DO have good ones (should have said that better), but they are simply overshadowed by the absurdly amount of fetch quest and outright shit ones also I do like to separate companion quests from side quest mostly because companion quests are normally good quality.

DA2 pro was it's good side quest and certain companions, shame Kirkwall and the narrative are just...very bad.

The conclusion to the companion stories are the only reason why act 3 is even slighty bearable.

Act 2 was enjoyable mostly because of Hawke and Arishoks relationship.

Despite all its flaws, I definitely enjoyed DA 2.

The only way I enjoy Hawke is if I play her as an unstable, lazy, greedy, sadistic, selfish mage (and sided with Meredith for simply selfish reasons)

Kinda funny how this also had her appear fully in-character in DAi too.

The character interactions is what lifts DA2 above the others, they all just feel more realistic in that in other games most of the companions are just that - companions - but in DA2 they actually grow along with you as the game goes on and they feel more like friends.  Even in there banter with one another from act to act you notice that they open up more to each other and grow more as time goes on and even joke among each other and even if they don't exactly like each other they end up respecting each other (for the most part).

In other DA games I always have a character or two I just leave in camp or skyhold but in DA2 I rotate my party frequently to hear what they have to say about what is going on in the world and between each other.

I generally enjoyed DAI, and I felt it was a good game. It had good characters in my opinion, having it designed so that you couldn't be best friends with everyone like in DAO and DA2 was refreshing, and I genuinely felt like as sloppy as the story was, it was a pretty decent one as far as fantasy romps were concerned. I felt as invested in it as i did in stopping thee darkspawn or in doing whatever it was I was doing in kirkwall.

For me though, some of the problems I had were in certain characters. Mainly, the ones who didn't show up on screen or at all. All these books and such you read between DAO and DA2, learning about them, reading about what happened, getting hyped, and then half of them are no-shows, and the other half might as well have been no-shows. Gaspard, Fiona, Briala, all of them bland and boring, and you don't get even a cutscene with Imshael, the goddamn hyped up eldrich horror from Masked Empire. Makes me glad Lambert was dead, or his character would have been butchered to boring NPC status as well. It made it feel pointless to know all the info about this stuff, when the game just brushes over it like it as nothing. Also the main plot I enjoyed going through, for the most part. I felt like I was dismantling Corypheus's powerbase satisfyingly and I was happy with how the game was playing out.

But then boom, it doesn't matter anymore. The Eluvian was just a red hearing the whole time, didn't even matter a single fuck to the story. Corypheus could just tear the fade open at any time he wanted to it seemed, which made his gathering power and all that for what exactly? Why'd he wait till he was at his lowest point to do it if he could do it at any time? The whole thing felt like it was just a cheap way to get a boss-arena spawned for us to fight in.

It happens in all three games and I don't prefer any banter over another. They are always solid.

Yeah the banter was always strong. The companions in general, really.