"No Brothels to be in DA4" as per Mark Darrah Tweet.

Did you play DAI ? I doubt, because if you had played DAi you should know that Lucius and Servis are not random villains you meet in one zone, and you should know that as the inquisitor you can forgive all their crimes and recruit them.

You should also know that Hawke and Stroud are not random people you meet in one zone, and that you have to decide who will die. So you can kill your former hero, which is at last in the same emotional range as seeing a relative killed.

Seeing your last sentence, I think you can't stand yourself, because if you played the game, you are very good at feigning ignorance.

It is not at all about being selective over what is or isn't dark elements. How "dark" a story/game is clearly involves the accumulative effects of dark themes and dark elements. The scaling back of dark themes will therefore result in a lessening of how dark a game really is, and so the scaling back of dark themes in Inquisition (and remember, Origins had so few dark themes and elements in the game it was called "pseudo dark" or "dark lite") is obviously going to effect the dark atmosphere of the game as a whole. There may still be dark elements in Inquisition, but they are undeniably fewer than the limited amount we got in Origins. And if they're trying to create a dark game, they should either go dark or just go back to normal fantasy (which is their trademark.)

What the? No no no no no

Worldbuilding is similar to character building. When building a character if all the reader (or gamer) knows about, oh say, your thief is information that is relevant to the plot, then what you have on your hands is a 100% 2 dimensional character. So if all the reader knows is your thief can pick locks with her thumbnail, and she joins forces with the protagonist because the protagonist is looking for her sister, and she's also looking for her sister and what a jolly coincidence that is, then that's a 100% 2 dimensional character. Obviously this is a sliding scale, so the more you know about her outside of what is needed to reveal for plot purposes (she likes apples, she almost drowned as a child while trying to give her pet cat a bath in the river, she broke her leg horse riding and now walks with a limp, she detests insincerity) the more rounded that character becomes.

Same thing with worldbuilding, if all you know about a world is what needs to be revealed for plot/quest purposes (I'm looking at you Val Royeaux) than that is a 100% 2 dimensional place, it is as far away from a living city as you can get. The more you know about a world that isn't plot related, the more rounded that world becomes. Bioware needs to balance this demand for worldbuilding with narrative and character concerns, because they've built their reputation building stories and narratives (not so much worlds.) Bethesda games, on the other hand, are almost 100% exploration games with some semblance of a plot tacked on to keep certain people happy. Because of this their primary focus is world building, they need to create as well rounded a world as possible. And so there is no way on this green, green earth that the tavern in Skyhold should be scrapped. 

fun·ny
ˈfənē/
adjective
1.
causing laughter or amusement; humorous.
"a funny story"
synonyms: amusing, humorous, witty, comic, comical, droll, facetious, jocular, jokey; More
2.
difficult to explain or understand; strange.
"I had a funny feeling you'd be around"

No. I find it difficult to understand why people like you can't enjoy a game that has *enough* rape in it.

*rolls eyes*

This exchange seems rather fruitful and productive.

*Eyeball spins out of socket
and plops on the table

rolls off the table
and on to the floor
and then your poor eyeball
rolls out of the door

it rolls in the garden
and under a bush
and then your poor eyeball
was nothing but mush

the mush was as tasty
as tasty could be
and then the next summer
it grew into a tree

The tree was all covered
All covered with moss
And on it grew eyeballs
And tomato sauce*