After four days of trying really hard to give this game a chance, I am officially giving up. There are way too many factors that render it unplayable to me (or at least reduce the joy of playing it to a minimum).
For starters, the awful menu navigation. Everything takes at least three times as long to find and skill or equip than in the previous DA games, and it gets even worse when you try to use the crafting windows. Whoever came up with this awful navigation system, shame on you! (Probably someone who plays only on consoles.) Then there are the general movement controls and the combat system. Are you kidding me? Staggering and sliding through the terrain is not my understanding of a fun time in a PC game. As for fights, normal mode feels like hard mode here, because there is no way to apply tactics whatsoever. Also, there is no real precision to be found in melee combat (again staggering around and somewhat uncoordinatedly swinging at your opponents).
And last but not least, the missing details on the area map. It's bad enough that the radar is a blank piece of pin-pointing quest locations and nothing more. But the fact that you lose orientation in those relatively big areas due to a lack of terrain drawing on the map? It becomes more of a game of, "Hey, haven't I been here before?", which isn't helped by the fact that enemies and prey alike respawn in a relatively short time, so that doesn't help you either to determine whether you have already been to the current site. This map system seems to be trying to forces you to leave exploration be and just focus on reaching the quest locations, which is a shame regarding the size of the area maps and the many secrets hidden within.
So, all I can say about Dragon Age: Inquisition is that this is not a worthy successor to the Dragon Age series. It feels more like a frustrating chore than an exciting adventure across Thedas. Sure, the graphics are nicer than in DA2 and the face editor is superb, but that doesn't make up for any of the aforementioned flaws.
Unfortunately, obviously, there won't be any updates to an "old" game like this ("old" by today's standards, set by greedy publishers like EA), because nowadays publishers don't care about making customers happy, just about selling more products. One can only hope that the next installment of the series will do better in all those regards. (Hint: There was nothing wrong with the UI, controls, skill system, and combat system in Dragon Age 2.)
