"They tried to do just that with DA2 and look at what happened"

They made a game with a fantastic story, heads and shoulders better than the first dreary, generic plot, but with admittedly awful level design?

Dragon Age had some stellar mechanics, but the lore and utter lack of characterization for anyone except…

Oh good, so we get another generic, bland hero with no character development. Yawn. I'll trade some design choice for an actual, y'know, character, any day of the week.