What does DA:I in space mean, and why is it so horrible?

- Fetch quests, literally 98% in the game are fetch quest. This is not even so much the problem because all rpgs have them. However in DAI they were all uninspired. "Go fetch my husbands ring templars stole it* *walks a few feet gets ring* "You found my ring, kthanxbai" *mission complete*. That's lazy, there's no other word for it.
- Locations that were pretty but otherwise empty
- Terrible combat (worst in the DA franchise). Played like an MMO. No matter what class you played. This was made worse by the fact almost all of the classes were broken.
- Shallow characters, with shallow banter revolving around sexual acts, looks or fashion or otherwise engaging in petty highschool arguements (looking at you Dorian/Viv). With the exception of characters like Solas or Cassandra. Can't forget Varric, I probably wouldn't have played the game for as long as I did if not for him.
- Subpar main story and cookie cutter villain.
- True ending released as dlc.
- Poor balancing, especially when it comes to difficulty. It seems the idea to make the game harder was to turn archers into tanks and give mages god tier barriers. Nightmare mode was actually more of a chore than a challenge. If you were say a reaver, it just meant spamming the same dragon rage button for longer just to kill 1 mage/archer.
- Terrible AI. While many games have bad AI few are as frustrating as DAIs. Ranged characters who charge tanks. I once spent around 15 minutes closing a fade rift because those frost demons actually hopped outside of the vacinity and had I followed, it would have reset the fade rift lol. Closing fade rifts just became a game of waiting because of those demons. I'd usually just stand at the rift and press X repeatedly to disrupt the thing until the squad could kill the demon.

To this day I only went through the story once, a first for a Bioware game. I installed Trespasser but never actually got around to playing the game to that point. It got to a point where I just couldn't tolerate the combat. By the time of Trespasser better games were also out. Also winning a few awards doesn't mean much. If I remember correctly DAI didn't have much competition around the time it came out. It was a bit of a dry spell for wrpgs then. Fallout 4 wasn't even out yet, neither was Witcher 3.  Still I don't think it was that successful, it was nowhere to be seen in NPDs top 10 sales literally 2 months after it came out, strange for a game that launched on around 5 platforms, and EA never disclosed it's sales which is very telling.

Depends on what's respawning, though. Promoted Black Wolves are a bit ridiculous, and annoying.

Not trolling... I spent 2 years ranting about DAI on a daily basis because they destroyed my favorite franchise, if getting butthurt is trolling then ok... now I do this more rarely so perhaps it is trolling since it doesn't hurt me that much anymore, so it is less honest and more "attetion whorism", but the scars DAI left on my soul are deep enough for me to say that it is not 100% trolling. I'm more of a mentally sick person than a troll. My investment on DA is serious, I still play DAO, meaning I am currently playing,I am alyways playing, it is (was) really of a big deal  for me. The only reason I am not making a thousando topics on every forum ranting about DAI now is because of PoE and Tyranny, Obsidian saved my soul (and 2018, PoE2 will keep me alive another year). Tyranny is probably the first game I finished 4 times straight, not even DAO was that good (I usually finish games dozens of times, but rarely more than once at launch, I usually get into games a year or years after release and then I never stop playing them, but Tyranny is so godlike it captured me right there, love at first sight), but other than that I would still be obsessively talking about how awful DAI is, and I mean crazily crazy obsessive.

Very true

When it came out it was mostly loved. Reviews by Critics and Players where overall very good. 

Then The Witcher 3 came along and turned the whole RPG Genre on its head. Before TW3 you had a bit of an excuse "Well it is open world so Quests(Especially Side Quests) will propably not as great." 

Before they Witcher 3 you usually had either great story,Characters and Side Quests.. OR an Open World.. You basically had either Skyrim OR lets say Mass Effect 2 or Dragon Age Origins.. The Witcher basically was both. An Open world with a great Story AND great Side Quests and great Characters..

If you go back to DA:I after playing TW3 all its flaws that werent as bad at release only are so much worse.. The Side Quests, The Combat System, the "Sterility" of the World..

On its own DA:I is still a great game.. Its just that The Witcher 3 while not absolutly perfect itself set new Rules what a AAA RPG has to look like. 

Obsidian is fucking divine. They're what everyone thinks BioWare is.

How would that be cosidered a bad thing? and wouldn't skyrim with guns just be fallout lol.

I'd take DAO combat over DAI any day of the week. Same with DA2. DAI to me was the worst in the franchise by far.

FF15 is a bit of its own animal. That game went through dev hell and the guy who finally took charge to get it done had a Duke Nukem style job of stitching a zillion things together to make a final game. And they did a pretty damn good job on FF all things considered, especially when you compare it to Lightning Returns.