HELLO YES I HAVE FINISHED [crashes in like the Kool-Aid Man]
So, I think I agree with a lot of what you said; the bit about missing backstory/how did we get here is one of my major complaints with BioWare series, because allegedly most of that was in Trespasser, which is the DLC I didn't play, but had Important Things in it. Following on from Legacy having most of the plot of Inquisition seeded, and Mass Effect doing the same thing. I am extremely grouchy about it, because it makes me feel like I played Inquisition wrong (the only reason I knew what the haps were, was because of fandom spoilers.)
I managed the perfect ending through sheer doggedness of exploring everything, and I really liked it. You still lose a companion (either Harding or Davrin) but you can make everybody else's life better. (Also, Neve and Lucanis's romance if you don't kiss either of them? Ludicrously cute, as is Harding's with Taash.)
I think I was spoiled for the Varric thing so I played the whole game with suspicious squinty eyes at him, and it was an interesting experience. (I miss the days when people cared about not spoiling others.....though that one was probably my own fault.)
Overall this feels like an appropriate swan song for the series; it wraps up so very many things in such a tidy bow that I'm not sure what else they could do unless it was a prequel set in some other Blight.
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So, I think I agree with a lot of what you said; the bit about missing backstory/how did we get here is one of my major complaints with BioWare series, because allegedly most of that was in Trespasser, which is the DLC I didn't play, but had Important Things in it. Following on from Legacy having most of the plot of Inquisition seeded, and Mass Effect doing the same thing. I am extremely grouchy about it, because it makes me feel like I played Inquisition wrong (the only reason I knew what the haps were, was because of fandom spoilers.)
I managed the perfect ending through sheer doggedness of exploring everything, and I really liked it. You still lose a companion (either Harding or Davrin) but you can make everybody else's life better. (Also, Neve and Lucanis's romance if you don't kiss either of them? Ludicrously cute, as is Harding's with Taash.)
I think I was spoiled for the Varric thing so I played the whole game with suspicious squinty eyes at him, and it was an interesting experience. (I miss the days when people cared about not spoiling others.....though that one was probably my own fault.)
Overall this feels like an appropriate swan song for the series; it wraps up so very many things in such a tidy bow that I'm not sure what else they could do unless it was a prequel set in some other Blight.
I do want to replay lots, though.