#3: Regarding Bioware's strengths with character development and expanding in a 100% spoiler free manner on what you said (and pretending for a moment I don't know who some of the DAI cast will be), I would be *shocked and dismayed* if *ANY* future Dragon Age game (not just Inquisition) didn't have the following:
- A gender-balanced set of recruitable characters - Female character who are believably female, and who play out as if actual women make up a notable portion of the writing & editing team (shock! in the gaming industry!). - The ability to configure an all female party that passes the bechdel test with flying colors (best bechdel test moment in DA2: meeting up Meredith to storm the Keep at the beginning of the final quest in Act2 with fem!Hawke and an all female party, and everything feels like normal business as usual in Kirkwall). - Each character has a life of their own, concerns of their own, reasons to disagree with the PC, reasons to care about the things they care about, and reasons to hate the things they hate. - Characters who feel like people, failings and all. - Women who are bigger and taller than some of the men and can wield a broad sword like I can wield a pen. - Men who can cast spells. - Character who laugh, make jokes, feel vulnerable, come close to tears and/or rage. - Women who have fallen down in the past and have the strength to pick themselves up and move forward without anyone rescuing them. (Three best scenes in DA2 for this: Rivaled Merrill yelling at Hawke about how she doesn't need to be rescued. Aveline's battle response to darkspawn attacking Wesley. Aveline LITERALLY rescuing "damsel in distress" Donnic.
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- A gender-balanced set of recruitable characters
- Female character who are believably female, and who play out as if actual women make up a notable portion of the writing & editing team (shock! in the gaming industry!).
- The ability to configure an all female party that passes the bechdel test with flying colors (best bechdel test moment in DA2: meeting up Meredith to storm the Keep at the beginning of the final quest in Act2 with fem!Hawke and an all female party, and everything feels like normal business as usual in Kirkwall).
- Each character has a life of their own, concerns of their own, reasons to disagree with the PC, reasons to care about the things they care about, and reasons to hate the things they hate.
- Characters who feel like people, failings and all.
- Women who are bigger and taller than some of the men and can wield a broad sword like I can wield a pen.
- Men who can cast spells.
- Character who laugh, make jokes, feel vulnerable, come close to tears and/or rage.
- Women who have fallen down in the past and have the strength to pick themselves up and move forward without anyone rescuing them. (Three best scenes in DA2 for this: Rivaled Merrill yelling at Hawke about how she doesn't need to be rescued. Aveline's battle response to darkspawn attacking Wesley. Aveline LITERALLY rescuing "damsel in distress" Donnic.