Quest varity for DA4

Inquisition is known for its side quest basically being unchained fetch quest that left little to be desired while Origins probably had the most variety in actual Quest types. Its easy to forget sometimes because there was so many quest in Origins that certain quest chains were complete different from Mage Collective to Chantry to Slim crime wave to Crows. I would love more lore solo play moments meaning not just soloing the game with a good build but actual moments were are characters have to do something solo. For a game that leans so heavy to party based combat it really stands out when you have to do a mission alone or with a limited party.
Some examples of Quest.


-Solo boss duel. I was disappointed Our Inquisitor is the only main character without the option to solo a boss fight. I think that would have been a good alternate choice for the Winter Palace mission when we have the option to expose Flo and murder knife or arrest her. Instead of murder knife a one on one duel would have worked or maybe if Flo had the Freeman General duel on her behalf to expose the Inquisitor as a fraud something of that nature. It was a really cool and badass moment in my opinion that the Warden had the choice to duel Loghain and Hawke the Arishok. While the Arishok fight was hard thats just game mechanics that could have been worked on for DA:I to make a solo duel against a boss much better.



-Duo missions. Again via lore not taking out 2 party members but when Warden and Alistar had to escape the Fort or 2 party members had to rescue them or Hawke and Tallis duo adventure in the DLC. DAI kinda had this with Mage Quest and Dorian but not really because that moment didnt last as long as the others that was more similar to the Sloth Mage quest just a smaller scale were you was displaced from your companions and had to find them. But this type of missions should return.



-Tournament Quest. Something both DA2 and DAI missed out on. Origins took advantage of the Proving very well and showed how important it was to Dwarven culture. While DA2 and Inquisition didnt exactly have a chance to do a Proving because they never went there but I see no reason the Champion or the Herald was not invited into the Grand Tourney. That is like the biggest event in the Free Marches and we have yet to precipitate it just became apart of Blackwall background story. But I did hope that DAI would release a DLC with the Inquisition invited to the Tourney I mean a new major power why wouldnt the Inquisitor be invited. It didnt have to be a serious DLC or quest and possible could have included us fighting companions like Blackwall and Iron Bull or Sera. I hope DA4 takes advantage of the Huge Proving Arena in Tevinter great chance for Solo fun.



-Roguish type missions. Gladiator type Tournaments come off as very warriorish quest even though any class can do it just like any class could do the thief and assassin missions but they are still more roguish in nature. Origin once again had these type of quest sneaking thru the castle or estate to steal and DA2 did have sneaking in mark of the assassin if not done better because of actual mechanics involved. Inquisition missed alot of opportunities with Orlais to the point it never really felt like we were interacting with the culture we heard about in previous games. Given the Game and Bard influence in Orlais some sneaking missions throughout the city would have been a nice touch for the game. Hopefully DA4 brings this back to the player as well especially if Dorian words are true about how it is in the North.



-Monster Hunting. This was in neither game so far but instead of just killing Dragons just because we can I would like to see more unique monster return like the Oak tree monsters and werewolves and whatever is native to the North. Let there be a Bounty Board of sorts or a type of Guild hall that will pay us for hunting these epic beast eventually each chain building up to Dragon Fights for the big bucks.



-Dungeon Expedition and Treasure Hunting. Again not really apart of any game but to define these things more would help out the series. Instead of just exploring a ancient temple or dungeon or Deep Roads path there should be something of known value we searching for. The closest to this was in DA2 deep roads expedition. But instead of making it a major plot point actually having a quest chain were we save up money to do this expeditions to different dungeons and ruins creates a risk reward type quest. Spend a certain amount to either get something that triples what we spent or maybe nothing there but a giant spider either way its a good unpredictable different type of quest the series neeeds.



Basically Origins is always the best of the 3 games for me because of Quest variety. Types of quest were different and Inquisition actually got hurt by its supposed strength having a spymaster to send people to do it for you. In Inquisition we always sent someone on a wartable mission to do the fun stuff for us we just reacted to the after effect if best. Hopefully DA4 moves away from that or uses something like a wartable just to be something to allow us to start the quest ourselves vs just send people while we do he boring quest. More Quest variety is good and at least one epic Solo boss battle should return.