I think it looks very good. The series is well on it's way to a more Skyrim'ish path and to be honest as much as most like Skyrim, there are many flaws in the vanilla non-modded version, that I can see many improvements to DA:I over stock Skyrim, which would take mods to do (waiting for them) and things that aren't available in mods. It's a huge open world game, really very little relation other than fantasy theme to D:OS.
Now surprising since Skyrim sold bukoo.
Well if you ask me Skyrim is the weakest in the Elder Scrolls series, as in the main numbered games, and you would have a good number of Elder Scrolls fans saying the same thing. Now I have been playing Elder Scrolls since Daggerfall and its possibly my favourite cRPG of all time but I did enjoy Skyrim for the most part but compared to even Oblivion I thought it wasn't as good.
So if Biowares ambition for DA:I is to be like Skyrim they haven't really set themselves a very high goal.
