My explanation for why it fell apart for me first of all, combat in Dragon Age 3 just like Dragon Age 2 it goes on forever with spongey enemies on every difficulty no matter what you personally do. (Especially during the DLCs) The inability to allocate your own character's stats. Gear rarely ever being better than what you can make by yourself. Skyhold never cleaning itself up completely even after upgrades and 200+ hours.
Rarely any opportunities for roleplaying with most things either relegated to the War Table, or often characters we know nearly nothing about, if you're lucky enough to not get something that amounts to nothing more than a fetch quest with one outcome. Twee quirky party members that are not funny. Completely flat camera direction, and rarely any music or ambience specific to the said scenes, if you're lucky enough to get traditional camera work at all instead of the constant lazy overhead type perspective thing. No matter what shit you might give II, lots of scenes are obviously hand crafted and directed with some style, that certainly can not be said of III.
A utterly mediocre score, apart from the genuinely lovely songs, despite romancing them "Sera Was Never" ultimately endeared me more to that character than anything they did or said.
A absolute cartoon villain with no discernible depth you could have done so much more with. Oh and where's the prior heroes and the military force? I am to buy that Alistair sat on his ass with Darkspawn running amok because I really don't.
It does indeed have bright spots, I really enjoyed it for around the first half but, the flaws really become considerably more apparent as it goes further on. I think Solas and Dorian in particular are real highlights, and I can't wait to hopefully see them in a better story, Varric and Cassandra are good also, and Sera and Rainer bounce nicely off one and other when in the party that they often were on Nightmare.
Also with such huge amounts of exploration the banter doesn't trigger nearly as often as it ought to.
So how anyone could consider this Bioware's best's beyond bizarre to me.
I am once again asking for something closer to Dragon Age Origins and I hope that frankly 4's nothing like 2 or 3 in the tone in particular, also I don't get the big deal with Trespasser either, it appears to be roughly of the same quality as the rest of the story or perhaps a bit above.
As you can see, I really gave it more than enough of a chance.