Add one thing, take one thing.

Intense agreement. I pretty much hated the vanish-in-plain-sight-stealth (and also the teleport backstab) as soon as it appeared in DA2. Did not manage to disable that butterknife-toting whacko 1.5 seconds after he dropped from the ceiling? Well, poof, he's gone "stealth" invisible (and even briefly invincible!) and good luck hitting that guy with sufficiently forceful effects to make him show up again before he leapfrogs the party into oblivion. DAI has the same issues even if the flushing out is somewhat easier due to the different targeting system, besides all that jumping and twirling still makes me sick. Even for the player, I just find it to be cheap, boring and inmmersion-breaking as well. I quickly came to think that the DA2-style assassins use some kind of Blood Magic due to the lack of direct counter options on the player side, like an attentive guard mabari or some kind of "True Sight" spell. I'd also want "stealth" to become more interactive and situation dependant hiding or at least similar to how DAO tackled it - "going stealth" in combat mode did not work at all until level 3 if I recall right, and even then success was subject to several factors like distance to enemies, their rank and I suppose threat level.

As already mentioned by Gileadan some posts ago, I would want no/less "magicky" abilities on non-magical characters. Besides vanish-style stealth, DAI has Hidden Blades. Sure it is rather useful, but how is that supposed to work? I throw a dagger at someone that... does what eaxctly? Marks it as a target for multiple attacks from hostile spirits? At least that is how it appears like (besides causing spirit damage). Could work for Cole, I guess, but not otherwise. It does not even come across as super 1337 rogue skill (Bioware likes to showcase this quite alot apparently, see Sacred Ashes Leliana and -especially- Tallis ), as the character in question does not even move (also hinted by the flavour text in the description), unlike DA-Awakening's Flicker (and Isabela's fancy-pirate-named variety in DA2) or even Kasumi's shenanigans in ME, which are basically pre-scripted automated attack sequences.



I do agree with the general notion that Cole as "device of disclosure" is off at times... on the other hand, there are some perculiar characters who can rarely be assed to tell me anything revealing so I would be stuck with their acting most of the time if it were not for Cole probing or creeping them out. Case in point for me: Madame de Fer. I have to say that I tended to only have her around together with Solas and/or Cole. Solas usually wins the snapping contests she always seems to instigate while Cole either tries to get past her facade or at least keeps her busy with defensive annoyance. Given that her whole behaviour is an act, I'm not sure if I could be bothered to try understanding her if it were not for Cole giving me ideas that she can be slightly more than a pretentious bitch at times. Cole does not help as much with Sera though. If I'm not agreeing to her "logic" in assessing things, I'm not even going to hear her personal justification for some of her "attitudes", i.e. the "Roof Cookies" scene. Even an Inquisitor of mine who a isn't Lavellan is not guaranteed to unlock that conversation.

That all reminds me of another thing:

Add: Have the player character explain bits of lore if it is reasonable for them to know those.

Remove: NPCs, like self-styled arcane advisors, lecturing a PC on things they are supposed to know, while all the PC can do is stand in attention and awe, especially if the content is questionable and highly opinion-based. Case in point: Morrigan's "shemsplanation" towards a Lavellan Inquisitor (have her shut up and let Lavellan give the rundown on elven mythology), Vivienne's questionable ramblings on how other cultures treat mages (with the writing effectively robbing the player of any sensible retorts, which makes them come across as extra stupid, Viv as extra arrogant and possibly the writers as pushing agenda, which is worst) and any frickin' time some mage NPC tries to explain a mage PC on how magic works; the party's resident circle mages are most prone to that for undestandable reasons.

Well, at least there's this...

I don't think you actually have to punch him to get that attitude from him; you just have to have low approval.

Speaking of Solas, I wish they would take him away, and the entire plot that essentially boils down to "Remember DAI? The game you JUST played? Yeah, we're doing that again."

Add? More musical numbers! Except this time they are also rhythm minigames, and you get different outcomes based on how well you tear up the dancefloor.

Sorry, I was just saying that the Trespasser situation gave me a similar feeling to what you were describing. I agree with you completely. 
As for my Let's Play (first off aww, thank you) yeah before that scene I had high approval with Solas so no punching him in the face. The lash out just seemed the best reaction of the options for how my character was feeling. 

Add. Dynamic weather + day and night.
Remove. Collecting. Or at least reduce it.

As long as said Murder Knife has an effect. I remember using it on Brother Genitivi in Origins, and that bastard STILL managed to tell the Chantry where the Ashes were. Such a let down. Lol.

Adds: more unique and challenging enemies

Takes: 50% of total enemy encounters

Remove: DAI fetch quests, go away... forever.

Add: Bow and arrows... AND sword !

"Mmo-style combat" is pretty vague, lol. But anyway.

Remove: well, I don't care that much, but I think the whole demons being named mostly after cardinal sins and spirits being named after virtues is kinda preachy and weird, I'd be fine with that going away.

Add: In contrast to everyone asking for more 'grounded/realistic' abilities, I would prefer them to be flashh and visually interesting and cool, even if it's not realistic. I miss watching rogues backflip and cartwheel around the place (that chain move is pretty sweet, though). I also think spells cpuld be more interesting, e.g instead of an ice rune that just explodes and does damage, a spell that makes the floor slippery and causes enemies to fall and whatnot would be more fun in my opinion.

Yeah, I hated it and gave up very quickly, but that was more to do with being poorly adapted to console (in fairness it was probably never a good fit), the terrible voice acting, and the very slow start dragged down by massive info-dumping. I never got far enough to get a good sense of how it played, though I found the few battles I actually did slow and painful.

Similarly, I had to give up on DOS:2, Torment:Tides of Numenera and... fucking, that other one where you get the power to talk to ghosts. Pillars of Eternity. And I tried the OG Baldur's Gate when they brought it out for Switch and the tutorial alone immediately made me wish for death.

I don't know if it's because I never played these types of games when I was young, and therefore don't have the nostalgia for them, but I find them excruciatingly slow, and the Kickstarted ones especially are over-stuffed and over-complicated.