First, I should say that, while I did enjoy DA 2 once I did break down and play it, about a year after launch, I'm not trying to paint it as anything other than what it was. I don't think it was the best thing since sliced bread, but, it was an enjoyable romp, even with some disconnects after Act 1. It just wasn't as bad as what the BSN initially painted it as, and that was my point. When Inquisition was announced, however, the BSN totally shifted gears on Hawke, which I found simply hilarious. They'd rather have a protagonist that they, at launch, hated, than continue with the "New game, new protagonist" theory that DA has. Let's not get started on the "The Inquisitor is the OGB" (Old God Baby) threads.

I played Jade Empire, but despite not being able to remember much about it now, I don't recall that I thought it was "bad". I eventually played both KotoR games, but more because I was playing swtor, and characters were being referenced, either through gear sets, or otherwise, and I had no idea who they were, so I played them, once. While I loved KotoR's plot twist, there was nothing in the game that motivated me to play it over and over. Maybe, if I'd played them while they were new, but again, it's not that they were "bad", just that they didn't motivate me to play over and over again.

Here's a controversial position: I couldn't bring myself to finish any of the Witcher games. I own all three, and all the respective DLC, where applicable, but I just couldn't finish them. I found Geralt too dry, for whatever reason, and just couldn't keep going. I did, however, finish CP 2077. I couldn't tell anyone why, but I did get through it. Maybe because, as with Andromeda, where I couldn't reproduce a lot of the graphical glitches I saw on YouTube, I wasn't getting a lot of the bugs, despite playing on an XBox 1S. I've even considered buying it for PC, now that mine's above the specs for it. This despite some of the shady stuff that went down prior to release. More because despite my track record with the Witcher series, I was always impressed by how CDPR treated the players, and hope they find their way back to that level of trust again.

My post about DA 2 however, was more drawing the parallels between what was going on with the BSN and DA 2, and Inquisition, and what's going on here. Unlike the BSN, however, I'm not overly invested in these discussions. Lots of threads have flown "under my radar" because, frankly, I'll post while I'm looking at some changes, but I'm not actively playing the EA enough that I'm concerned with saving my old character files when an update requires me to delete them, or with seeing too much of the story yet. I don't want to burn myself out on it in EA, and I know that I would, if I didn't make myself stop. So, I'm not overly concerned with keeping track of all the threads. The premise here caught my attention, and led to my initial post, but as I become invested in other games while I wait for launch, I'll disappear from here, again. As an amusing aside, the first game to get reinstalled once I got my PC back up was BG 3... I couldn't say why, perhaps to benchmark it against my new hardware?

The banter here does remind me of DA style party banter, and I hope that it gets built upon as the game progresses. It's nice to have comps that aren't just there to fulfill a role, even if I'm not overly fond of them. Our current batch isn't rubbing me the wrong way, per se, but I'm not ready, at this juncture, to join any of their fan clubs yet either. As I've mentioned previously in other threads though, we're playing in Act 1 of what amounts to an Alpha build. I'd be surprised to find out that I'm finding everything perfect. That people aren't finding it perfect is both glaringly obvious, and expected, at least by me personally.