This is a thread after my own heart.
I am currently switching between games a bit. I recently finished Dragon Age: Inquisition; without knowing about the plot twist at the end, I started off playing a female elven rogue archer and decided to romance Solas, since he was the only one I would not be able to romance under any other story conditions. In the end, I was so glad I did, despite the fact that your charachter gets *mild SPOILER* quick, scroll past!! No nookie! Aargh!! After all that effort?! Sigh.
But I felt like I learned a lot more about his character, the whole backstory involved, and lots of juicy foreshadowing. If you are into the story aspects of the game, I recommend the experience. It may not be totally immersive, but I did save and try some of the different convo options to see what the responses would be out of curiosity. I am disabled, so I have a LOT of time to kill. The game does punish you at tmes for being a Dalish elf (or an elf period), which is a bit weird compared to other fantasy worlds, where elves have traditionally been awesome. I might replay as a human noble and go with the Templars and Chantry bit (went with mages and freedom in my first go) just to see what changes. Besides, I got the game from a pre-order, and when I started, the Keep wasn't working so I was unable to import my world state. What a bummer after all the hype.
I LOVED the optional dragon battles, they did a great job making them feel very epic. I love dragons though, and some of them (the Sandy Howler stands out in my memory) I felt bad for killing, just because they were such magnificent creatures and I liked the world better with them still in it! It was a real twist of the knife for me that they made them be *sleeping* when you come upon them, lying curled up on their sides, at their most vulnerable, snoring gentle dragon snores... Nooo!! NOW you want me to KILL her??
The drops from the dragon battles made me wish I had done the earlier in the game, as they had some good loot I could have used. As it was, I pretty much crafted everything.
I thought it more than a little improbable, however, that these mother dragons which are supposed to be SO rare, would wait until they were low on health and start sending their babies into the fray to get killed by the team of bad-ass warriors first...? No self-respecting mother would do something like that. I guess if she lived but the babies died, perhaps she could make more...but what if she couldn't? After all, they are UBER rare, and we never did see a single male. Shouldn't she be protecting the babies rather than sending them to the slaughter?
I could go on for a long time about the intricacies of DAI, but I will *try* to spare you the endless text walls. Hey, YOU try being house/bed-bound for six years. It would make any reasonably sane person stir-crazy...and I make no claims on sanity.