TBH play less for the story more for the collective experience.The gameplay was good,the story was decent for the sifi channel,the characters were amazing - I only disliked Anders because he went from cool,suave and slightly gay into really emo.The abundance of real actors doing the voices was really noticable sometimes a bit too much.Like male Hawke having different voices for all 3 dialogue paths.It just broke the flow of the discussions since he asked questions calmly and then next second he's ready to pull out something sharp and nasty.I thoroughly enjoyed it still.
As for the gameplay discussions...I think people are biased by the subpar story in Bioware standarts.The DA:O gameplay was a bit like bumrush pause drop 3 abilities and hope for the best.A lot of spells were unusable for me leading me to playing the same way over and over again.In DA2 the flow of battle is largely impacted by how well you manage each of the characters and the synergies between them.
As for the gameplay discussions...I think people are biased by the subpar story in Bioware standarts.The DA:O gameplay was a bit like bumrush pause drop 3 abilities and hope for the best.A lot of spells were unusable for me leading me to playing the same way over and over again.In DA2 the flow of battle is largely impacted by how well you manage each of the characters and the synergies between them.