What would you accept for a "better" DA4?

Exactly ther'salways been so called fetch quests ebven in DAO for example I had one to get 10 lyruim potions to hand ove rt othe Knight Commander in Redcliffe kind of quests. As a mage I need every lyrium potion I can get to kep my mana tpoped up quiet often. But it all adds to the world we are running around trying to save. It can be argued whether they mean anything or not to people. But if yo udon't wantto do them or they mean nothing to you hten simply ignoer them as you don't have to. Most of the time I can sign most of them off with minimum fuss anyway because I'm always collecting materials and such for more potionsor better armour and weapons as it's pqart of the game. Quite often it's more whether I can spare what I've got for the requistion rather than whether I want to do the task because quite often the tasks already done by the time I pick it up as I've already gathered it for other purposes.

Chose Fetch Quests and 'Other'.
By Fetch Quests I'm particularly thinking of the Shards which were just nightmarish. things like the goat meat were OK as they had a purpose. Never felt the shards did.
'Other' is combat. It would shorten the game, but combats are the uninteresting parts of DA - and pretty much any cRPG (excepting Divinity:Original Sin 1/2)

So nice to see DAI love from you and others in this thread. It's my fav game . Too often it seems that the negative voices are loudest.

Inquisition is my favourite game too. And while the loud minority loves to scream, enough people count it among their favourites and it did well enough that DA4 is one of the more wanted games coming in the next couple years. Don’t let the few dedicated trolls on the internet try to cover that fact up.

1. Playersexual romances
BioWare has put WAY too much emphasis on romances lately, especially making sure everybody feels included. Just go back to making everyone romanceable and throw in a few variations depending on player sex and how far the player wants to take it and that's good enough for me personally.

2. Fewer voice options for PC
It was a nice idea but that's probably the least important thing. I never experienced half of them in DAI anyway since replaying was not too appealing after spending so much time with my first PT. Yet I have actually more use for it than gated romances technically, so that's why it's in second place.

3. Smaller world
Could be in first place because I think BioWare does not understand the appeal of open world. But I guess if they finally learned to fill the huge maps with interesting things, then going back to a smaller world may not be necessary.

Basically,I would be totally fine with a more refined version of DA2...

Which doesn't mean I didn't like DAI. I liked it a lot. But somewhere in between the two extremes lies the key to something potentially amazing.

Yeah ea would have hardly refused to give bioware budget for any feature other than additional voice actors.

The Shards. *Shudders*
That whole fetch quest cost me two controllers for my Xbox when completing that quest for the first and only time.

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Ah... got it.

I’ve been wondering about this as well, but I’m not really sure how you envision it. I might even look at it another way entirely, and think about removing the idea of “main quests” and “side quests” completely, and think more in terms of plot points.

Might start another topic, as there’s a lot to consider.