Can DA4 even compete in today's quality of games?

It looks like you are looking at through gameplay reactivity and not lore and history being integrated so completely. I find “reactive” worlds to feel shallow and less immersive. BotW had a “reactive” world but was so flat, shallow, boring, and one dimensional that I didn’t care about doing anything in that world. Whereas I’ll wander the Hissing Wastes for hours simply because it feels real and that you could step through the screen and not be surprised it was a window all along.

As for random NPC interaction... not sure what ganes you play, but no game has deep interactions with random npcs. So not sure how you’re holding that against Inquisition.

Haha, I'd really rather not have the guards brought down on my head because my finger slipped and I accidentally killed the armor merchant. I don't think DA really lends itself to that kind of thing, even if they could do it.

Yeah especially i fyou were ther trying to byu something from him I' d rather be buyin grather than killing him. 

I remember accidentally dropping my controller in Oblivion once... the murder that simple mistake involved 0.0. The Butcher of Bravil was born!... because she tripped and her dagger went right through some poor sod’s throat.

Or trying to fight a vampire and accidentally clipping a guard...

Yeah, it can be a hehehe fun for a moment, but such reactivity gets tedious after a while.

I-Phone?

Oh, yes... "immersive town"... Were people step on a torch and die burning alive because they can't do a step to get out of the "fire", and no one bat an eye

'Immersion' is a matter of perspective. I don't really know what other people think they mean when they talk about being 'immersed' in a video game, I don't play games to be 'immersed', I don't consider 'immersion' to be the Holy Grail of good games. In fact, I think it can be a detriment.

If 'immersion' means a slip of the finger causes me to punch a shopkeep, which causes guards to come rushing to attack me, causing me to die, causing me to have to reload, which might mean I need to do a difficult dungeon or a boss fight again (which even with autosaves can still happen)... the game stops being fun.

I might have even lost so much progress that I get annoyed/upset enough to put the game down. And if I put the game down, I might not pick it up again, because doing the same three-hour quest I already did last night is generally not how I like to spend my evenings. In instances like that, 'immersion' has stopped me from enjoying the game.

I don’t think BioWare will make a game that would be similar to Bethesda’s game in regards of the topic discussed, but I do think that, if they’re going to continue with open world games, they could improve in their implementation (and regardless, I do hope they’ll build better cities then before. I’d have gladly traded off one major area in Inquisition for a better implementation of Val Rouyeaux).

We should consider that Inquisition was their first open world game, and other then the development problems and culture issues that plagued BioWare in recent years, they also had problems due to developing on 360/PS3 (which might have lead to the cut of the keep system, as it was shown the year before), and Andromeda wasn’t meant to be an open world game like DAI, but a procedural game like No Man’s Sky. They switched towards the world/s we got late in development.

I like exalted plains
There is also this great sound design bit happening from time to time in this area, and I really like it. It brings somekind of eerie feeling to the whole area and of course the elven nation history.

I think that’s the divide... I don’t want more “dense”. I want it to feel real instead of a gameworld filled with stuff.