I feel like I'm at a huge impasse with this game.
I loved DA:O for many reasons, but first and foremost were the characters, story, and writing. DA2 stripped the game down to mechanics until it may as well have been an MMO, but but the real problem was the story and writing. (It took what could have amounted to a side plot in DA:O and blew it up into a drawn out, uninteresting, poorly presented mess of a story.) I had similar problems, though to a much lesser degree, with ME3. TOR was disappointing as well, though I didn't have any real expectations for it.
So here I am, looking at DAI and thinking, "Well, that looks like it might be interesting." But the rational and skeptic part of my mind stops me and says, "But you know you thought that about the last 3 of Bioware's games and you were somewhere between disappointed and downright angry with how those turned out." So the pragmatic part of me says, "You'll have to make sure you wait on this one and look at the reviews." But then I'm reminded that the reviews of Bioware's last titles were overwhelmingly positive in an intensely bewildering way. (Particularly bewildering when you consider how much praise certain people heaped upon DA2). Obviously they are opinions, but I didn't see many outlets, at least initially, having anything near the reaction I had, and now many seem to agree people should have had, to the game.
So what do I do? Do I just sit it out because I feel like there's no one I can trust to give me a reliable suggestion about DAI? Or has the game industry's love affair with Bioware died down enough at this point that I can expect rationale, measured reviews to DAI?