Getting captured trope

I cant really say I'm a total fan of that specific trope, I do like it if it works with the story and sometimes it is a useful tool to make the character not look so annoyingly invulnerable and infallible.

With DAO part of the fun was who you said would rescue you and then seeing how they managed it. If you played a female city elf of course you'd already had the capture and escape plot as part of your origin story. Then we had it again with the Architect. I thought all these worked in the context of the story, although it was hard to understand why they only imprisoned the Wardens in Fort Drakon rather than a summary execution.

What I didn't appreciate was how they dealt with it in MoA. We had the comic interlude with our companions trying to find us the same as DAO but then Tallis just opened the door to our cell. How did she even do that? Then her constantly pointing out the fact to our companions really annoyed me.

So escaping from somewhere is okay provided it is believable that we are merely locked up rather than executed and either we or our companions genuinely have to work at managing the escape.

You know I must have not been paying attention with the options because I never did this but it would have been fun to have tried it at least once. May be I'll go back and find an old save and try it now.

What if the main character lets him/herself be captured to gain entrance into the baddies base to rescue someone who can help deal with Solas? Or to infiltrate the base to find a weak point? To rescue a companion who was taken by the baddies. Because the plot demands the main character be captured.

Maybe. What might happen is the guards leave the main character for a bit to do whatever giving time to escape.

That only works if the enemy knows who they captured. If the main character commits some petty crime, he/she might be taken by low ranking guards without knowing who they captured. They throw the main character in a cell to be dealt with later.

Of course, there is many ways how it could work out, its just that I simply think its too dangerous for a plan. Even if you are imprisoned for a petty crime you have to consider getting caught by zealots or extremely dangerous sadistic men that could do who knows what to you. Its way too much of a gamble, it would not feel believable for me if the protagonist did that, unless there were VERY convincing circumstances. 

Heck, just think of Game of Thrones, you be unlucky and get Jaime'ed.  Think of it, for the rest of the game you'd have to scratch your back with your non dominant hand. 

I'd say only if it fits with the narrative, taking it on just to tick a box wouldn't be as good in my opinion

Okay, for the most part, I've never liked this trope. Usually, because it's handled so poorly.

You're mowing down hundreds of enemies when suddenly out of nowhere you get conked on the head and you're a prisoner. And often it's a failure both mechanically (Bypassing Health? Enemies teleporting out of nowhere behind you? Etc.) and narratively (almost never a good reason for sparing the protag).

However, in this specific DA:O example, I think it's one the better ones. Hell, I'll even say it's one of the best. First up - it's your choice to surrender or not. That's a big one. And you do have a suitably big battle on your hands if you choose to fight it out. Also, they went above and beyond on the "rescue" options if you chose to surrender, and it pays dividends later if you were looking to spare Ser Cauthrian.

But that's really the only time they did it well. I think they handled poorly in DA: Awakening - a magic glyph powerful enough to auto-incapacitate such HL characters? Also, you literally cannot progress without getting captured.

Also in DA2: Mark of the Assassin. When those 20 or so chevalier marched in, how many of you thought - Pfft, this is nothing. I can take these guys.

So no, I don't want this trope to return in the future.

What if we start off as a prisoner, and we were caught trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us and that thief over there.

They should do that one thing they did on a Stargate episode once, where our protagonists let themselves be captured in order to make contact with a spy in the enemy fortress but then, two idiots from the b-team who don't know about the plan come to the heroic rescue and mess up the whole plan.