Thing's that's missing in DAI

1. My Inquisitor was an elf and orlesians were pretty racist in his regards.
2. It's been more than a decade since the Blight ended and Grey Wardens aren't exactly the order of heroic warriors everyone makes them out to be. I thought that Origins and made it pretty clear.
3. Yes, and...? Not every game needs to feel like The Witcher. Skyrim certainly didn't, and it was a success nonetheless.
4.Again, my Elf Inquisitor was frowned upon, especially by Orlesians. The Chantry's main argument for denouncing the Inquisition was that its supposed Herald of Andraste was an elf. And yet people saw him walk out of the Fade with a woman behind him, people saw him return after an avalanche fell upon him, people saw him sealing rifts when no one else could. Regardless of what he said, people believed that he was Andraste's herald, and I frankly don't blame them, lol.
5. Agreed. In DAI's defense, however, its character creator was top notch in every way but that.

Those stuck up Orlesians at the Winter Palace called Inky an elf savage. 

2.

What have that to do with the key motivation of DA:I? Also why are the inquisition forces fighting darkspawn they would be infected by them.



3.

Sure I understand it's not any of those titles but I feel DA:I fail it processors when it comes to more mature content.

I found personally feel DA:I to Disney made.

It's the difference of seeing Interview with the vampire or Blood: The Last Vampire


4.

They talk they never do even if I roleplay my elf into absolute hater of Andraste yet I was forced on this path bad game chooses to design it like this.

As for the rest it's not critique consider it's already released long ago. It's just feedback for future releases of DA.

Imshael and the abomination in Jaws of Hakkon. 

I've made an evil run of all 3 games so I have a pretty good idea about it. Sure you cannot be as evil as in you were in Origins but the role playig flexibility of DAO doesn't exist anymore in any game.

I thought the same thing as far as those videos, but that doesn't mean I agree with your larger point as far as playing an evil character. Or at least, I don't completely agree with it.

I cut a deal with Imshael (leading to an exemplary knight's death) and killed all the Sentinel elves in my last playthrough. And I would have killed the merchant who'd made the mistake of buying Dorian's amulet and using it to blackmail him (which I had the option to do) except that it would have ended the romance... so instead, I made the decision to trick him into thinking he was getting what he demanded as his price for it, which effectively meant I was getting it for free. I also considered using Cullen's soldiers to bully the people who'd made supplies for my Tempest concoctions into dealing with me despite a recent accident which led to them wondering how safe the supplies were to handle. I think I proved that the accident was due to them being misused instead, but the point remains that I didn't have to do that; I could have bullied people into making what they believed to be dangerous business transactions.

Then there's my first playthrough, where I allowed Heir to kill a man for no other reason than because the woman he was supposed to marry wanted to marry someone else; as far as I know he'd done nothing to actually deserve being killed. There was also my second playthrough, where I allowed Ser to train more templars for the Inquisition and didn't allow Cullen to prove that the addiction their powers come with can be broken. (I also did the Imshael thing in my second playthrough, but lets not retread that ground.)

I acknowledge that there's less opportunity to be villain in this game than there was in DA:O, but there are opportunities. You just need to look for them.

What would serious Grey Wardens have done in the situation Clarel's men believed themselves to be in, then?

I surely hope so.

They set him up in DA2. Then DAI came and it was a big fat raspberry. Don't get me wrong it was nice to see Dagna, but, I prefer Sandal and his pa.

Whats missing? Oh that's really easy. The entire city of Val Royeaux  

No instead of that wonderful, gorgeous city, we get everyone's absolutely favorite Zone that is 100% relevant to everything. The GOD DAMN HISSING WASTES!

Entertainment value. The game is boring.

I prefer the settings without sexism and racism, b/c there is plenty to go around in real world, and I want something different, and a focus on different problems, etc.
I liked how the spiritual believes were integrated into the entire DA franchise, imo was its highlight.
Agree on hair, hair is awful. And, overall, character appearances are dreadful, particularly the NPCs imo.

In answer to the original OP.

1) There was racism in the game but it was more subtle than previously. It was very apparent at the Winter Palace if you played a non-human character. My main issue was that you couldn't challenge it fully or you would risk failing the mission, so you had to grin and bear it. Got my revenge in putting an elf over them with their precious Chevalier Emperor as her puppet.

2) Many people were unhappy with the portrayal of the Grey Wardens. It wasn't the fact that they were prepared to use blood magic or sacrifice their own; that seemed perfectly in keeping with the Warden mentality. It was the stupidity of all but one of them (your contact) failing to question why everyone was suddenly hearing the Calling. Why summoning a demon army and going in search of the arch demon in the Deep Roads was a good plan (demons may not eat but they can be eliminated)? In fact why they didn't pick up on the fact that the false calling was not coming from the Deep Roads. Also the fact that the arrangement of Clarel being in charge in Ferelden and having to request Teagan's permission (not the monarch) to enter the place ignored everything that happened in Awakening. Basically the whole Grey Warden plot was a mess.

3) Whilst the Inquisitor may not have been able to do things as evil as in previous games, other people could, so it was hardly Disney (see above blood sacrifice for an example). The fact is that if the Inquisitor was too evil people just wouldn't work with them, or the more upright members of the Inquisition would have taken them in hand. You can still close rifts when you are in chains - look how Solas forced you to close the rift the first time. They weren't to know that Corypheus would open up the Breach again, so after you closed it, you could effectively be held under house arrest whilst people issued orders in your name. So I think the writers thought it would be simpler just not to let you do anything too shocking.

4) The explanation for why they would allow a non-human Inquisitor was covered in conversation. Essentially the Maker moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. Where they made a real mistake was in allowing the possibility for a mage, Vivienne, to be made Divine. She should never even have been on the ballot sheet given Chantry teaching on such matters, let alone people vote for her. That really spoilt the credibility of their fictional religion for me.

5) Absolutely agree. I want to go back to the variety of styles we had in DAO and DA2. Also I see nothing wrong in having some styles that are gender specific. The unisex look may work with the ME setting but it seemed wrong to me in Thedas and some styles did not seem to look right on certain genders. Somehow they just didn't seem to fit the face shape. Also far too many bald/buzz cut options.

First let me put the obvious first, Demons and darkspawn are not the same a arch demon (is not a demon) it's a fallen god or so they claimed or just a corrupt dragon.

Wardens only hear the calling if a Arch demon is in play and not even all of them, so if all of them are called and they arrive at this place imagine this.

Yo bob you hear the calling? John, yea me to but I not seeing a blight! This is weird. A hour later Jan arrives and look at John and bob and say's this is weird I get the calling.

See how unbelievable stupid this plot line is?.

And then the whole group of the Inquisitor can fight darkspawn without getting infested sorry it's just trashed can on the own game lore.

DAI is so huge in scope, things had to be cut out if they wanted a realistic release date, lol