I’ve admittedly cherrypicked the worst offender, some of them look okay, but given how good other bits of the game look the beards are pretty disappointing.

Almost makes me regret picking a dwarf.

Also you haven’t ever said anything about combat system. I liked DA2 combat. It didn’t care about strategic placement anymore (pseudo-realtime RPGs are terrible with it anyway. Even if you are 10 meters away you still get a hit cause this guy started his attack when you were near him!) and embraced silly unrealistic combat. Looked like a JRPG with all those status effects, sustainable tanks and combos. What about Inquisition?

But yeah, DA2 had a really strong cast for such a terrible game. It’s probably my favourite of any of their recent games save ME2 — which is one of the reasons Inquisition is such a disappointment in that regard. Returning characters such as Cassandra and Varric are written well, and many of the non-party characters back at your base are also excellent; however, of the 7 new additions only Iron Bull comes across as a normal, well-adjusted person (which is odd considering he’s a seven foot tall horned giant). Well okay, Blackwall also wasn’t bad. Everyone else seemed to follow the lazy rule of having a personality composed of a single trait that was run into the ground. Maybe they would have been better if I’d actually included them in my party, but I didn’t *want* to.