It's beloved. Certainly we can find someone on the internet that doesn't like it. But in general a home run for Open World RPG's.
I loved the hell out of it. What I really liked was I could run around all over the place and ignore saving that whole world as long as possible or I could fork it's inhabitants over if I chose.
I don't think DA:I is going to be like that as I've heard you'll have to clear areas and complete tasks in order to open other areas up but I've also heard Witcher 3 will be like this. The one thing that gives me some hope about DA:I is that I did read one of the developers saying that after you completed quests you'd be able to run around in areas and have fights and do things unrelated to the main quest or keep playing after you'd finished that. Now that I do like to hear. It's one of the small disappointments about D:OS in that when it ends, baby, it ends! But since it wasn't billed as "open world" you can't get too broken-hearted about that.
