I’m really sad that Inquisition never really got a true beginning like Origins. I know that the race you pick tells you the character’s background but I would’ve absolutely loved the starting mission to be arriving at the temple with your small team of your chosen background and mingle a bit with some characters before the main game starts.

I'm not surprised it was created with Human PCs only in mind. Especially when playing as an Elven Inquisitor during the Temple of Mythal quest. We get tidbits in the bigger scenes, but Morrigan acts like she knows more of Elven culture than us through the entire game, and literally explains what the Temple of Mythal is like I don't have "property of mythal" tattooed on my face 😭

I think the ending would have been a lot more well-received if Corypheus had attacked Skyhold, especially if all the decisions we made about how to build the Inquisition played into the final battle. As it is, I think a lot of us felt like the ending lacked some punch - like, his final plan is to try his first plan again? The one that already didn't work even when he had the Anchor? Come on, that's just sad. I do think that the Trespasser DLC finished the story with an appropriate bang, though.

I do believe that the last quarter of the story was very quick and it felt like everything was happening so fast. In other words it should've gotten more scenes or maybe an extra quest.. I feel like we needed to know more about Corypheus cuz after all he was the main villain. Anyways, great video and keep it up. And actually it's good to know that someone is still playing Inquisition and spending time to make content about it, it is us who should thank you ❤

I also recall one of the devs having said something about wanting to allow players to pick an outfit for the Winter Palace, but I don't think the idea went very far. It's a shame, but honestly it wouldn't be such a disappointing fact if Bioware hadn't decided that a bunch of Nutcracker uniforms were a good idea. Anything would have been better than that.

Absolutely disappointed how dragon age awakenings architect had been completely abandoned. He was such a compelling villain. Better than corypheus as far as I am concerned.

While the version of Here Lies the Abyss we've got sounds much more interesting, it's a real shame they keep completely ignoring the Architect. Really hoping they pick up on that plot point again.

I really liked the look of the pre-alpha camera, closer and angled down slightly whilst out of combat

I still can't believe this game is nearly 10 years old, it still holds up very well visually.

meeting the Architect would've been so cool! I'm glad he's still one their plans...i just hope they take their time with DA4 so they don't have to cut out anything. (ps: must protect Cole

At one point, I had an idea of Skyhold being attacked from Morrigan's eluvian and the player having to pick paths around groups of enemies, which would have been really cool, as it would reward exploration of Skyhold and getting to know its layout. Though, I do enjoy the codex entries that were strewn about and Lord Trifles Minutiae if he wasn't in the vault 90% of the time.

Out if all this interesting cut content my brain chooses to focus on, ANDERS, Where is my rebel mage Anders

Gasp! I can't believe Cullen was only added at the end! Wow. And Solas is such a tortured and awesome love story, I am surprised that wasn't planned all along. Thanks for such an in-depth look, very fascinating!

If the Architect isn't somehow involved in DA:D, I will riot. He HAD to know what was going on and somehow, I don't think he's gone. No way. Especially since he was responsible for the 5th Blight, why wouldn't he find his way to Tevinter and "correct the mistakes made by Corypheus's failure"? So much of this is awesome ❤️ Thank you for making these! I may or may not be including some of these things in my fanfic now .......

I'll admit I wish the third option for Cole had stayed. I really like the version of Cole we had in Asunder and feel like he got watered down a lot in Inquisition, and that third option in his quest would have aligned a lot more with his book-self.

Let us hope that all the time Bioware had for DA: Dreadwolf pays off with something close or just like Origins in both content and quality, fingers crossed!

regarding badass prosthetics for anyone, let alone our inky if anyone could do it' it'd be Dagna- and she'd absolutely RELISH the chance to make a lyrium-infused prosthetic that functions and moves like a normal limb don't even try denying that Dagna'd be all over it~

I’d really like if they bring in more customisation options to base building and character creation…especially hair 😂

Yeah it's sadly very obvious that the game was made for a human, and the other races were added in later. Playing Lavellan and getting schooled about the Elven gods by Morrigan was quite a moment lol

Once again, thank you for the great video! Apparently the Skyhold invasion was mentioned during a commentary on a stream done by Summerfall Studios on Twitch. Even then it was more of a side-note than anything else. Unfortunately, it has been 2 years, and the videos are long gone from Twitch. They tweeted it will be available on their YT channel, but only videos on their new game Chorus are present. There is a tumblr with summary of what has been talked, though it admittedly is paraphrased, so maybe not as good as concrete facts ^^

Burning the boats was also supposed to create a mission involving the red templars being cut off from escape, which would have had consequences on the surrounding areas. Inquisition promised a lot of player choices, and they failed to deliver. Also, I heard they were going to have a one on one fight between the Inquisitor and Corypheus in the sky, but they had to cut it. Some of the dialogues from companions still exists though.

The custom keeps and battle scenarios were you choose how certain troops responded wouldve adeded so much rather than just sticking a flag somewhere and calling it yours. Whish they could of kept one of those two things in the game even if they had to size down some of the maps to add it.

Side-eying a little over cutting taking Cole away in the final battle after I went into Trespasser with Iron Bull after not doing his personal quest…

Great video. Skyhold did to me always feel like another Haven attack waiting to happen, so was little disappointed when it didn't turn out that way. Oh and no Sandal too, but I think he might appear in DA:Dreadwolf.👀

This wasn't mentioned in the video, but I wished they kept the original opening at the beginning of the game. Where once the Inquisitor comes out of the interrogation, a whole sworm of people start to yell and scream at them to the point where one of the hecklers throws a rock at the Inquisitor that Cassandra had to apprehend him. It would've shown first hand how much disdain the people had for the Inquisitor at the start of the game. And would've made the progression from becoming the most hated person in Thedas to becoming a well-respected Leader more evolved.

Awesome video! Can’t believe it’s been so long since Inquisition released

The version of Here Lies The Abyss we saw in trailers shows Warden Commander Clarel fighting alongside Hawke and the Inquisitor as well, so it seems she was intended to be the Warden who accompanied us to the Fade instead of Alistair / Loghain / Stroud?

Should have kept the inquisitor divine thing would have been amazing especially since you basically control the world by the end anyway lol

The Inquisitor becoming the Divine is a massive missed opportunity. I remember way back when I was binging the series in preparation for Inquisition being extremely excited about Morrigan's words at the end of her DLC in Origins about a big change coming to the world and also there was all that hype of the Chantry being wiped out of by the Elder One (we only had theories about him being Corypheus back then). And that is not even talking about the mage revolution, the civil war in Orlais or Briala's elven uprising... everything seemed like a melting pot for a turning point in the history of Thedas yet by the end of Inquisition what we got was essentially a restoration of the status quo. To this day I think it's conclusion to be one of the biggest experiences in "blue balls" I had with gaming lol I believe the Inquisitor becoming the Divine would work in being one of the possible big changes in Thedas either that or finally letting the Chantry and the system of Templars and Circles die, replacing it with a more secular Inquisition.

I’m so glad I discovered your channel! Love the videos you put out so far, looking forward to more.

While it sounds great narratively, an attack on Skyhold like the attack on Haven would have meant designing the skyhold locations for combat: Big, open, visually-undistracting combat zones, with the hallways and offices being either off-limits or artificially larger and blander throughout. Something like the library would have been impossible in battle.

Thank god they included the extra races. Hated that you could only be human in DA2

Make sense there was meant to be an attack on skyhold. The one thing Inquisition lacked was a "darkest moment" before the victory. A moment of powerlessness. I would have like that.

Wow great channel, have you just started posting videos 4 months ago( by what youtube shows me) ? Quality content i am glad youtube recommended me your video. Keep up the good work !

I love looking at the what ifs in cut game content. So, much could've been better if the circumstances would have allowed it. If I could choose just one of these cut content ideas to be in the game with no issues it would definitely be the unique origins starts for the races. In the base game the Inquistor can feel apart from the world instead of in it and I feel that this could've made it so much better. Also if you need ideas for videos I think reviewing or go through the banter of each game to talk about the interesting dialogue in them. Not a lot of people have gone through it all and many people don't know the really great stuff in them.

Pretty much all the developer comments I've read from ex-devs claim that the move to Frostbite was forced onto them by EA, so a bit interesting hearing it being called Biowares choice. Regardless, nice video and glad I watched it.

Okay, another GLARING bit of cut content is the missing improvements for Skyhold. There are several sections of the fortress that clearly were meant to be improved by the player, but we just never get the chance to.

YES!!!!! God the idea of the Inquisitor getting a weapon prosthetic is so damn cool!!!! Honestly, in general, I'd love to have our Inquisitor implemented into DA:D somehow ;-; I really wouldn't mind being able to chose between our grey warden, hawke or inquisitor for the playable characters, instead of a new hero again.

9:50 shadows looks more like Hawke. he has the same staff Hawke uses in DA2 cinematic

I could be wrong about this since I'm only going off of personal expereice using mods to romance Solas as a male elf, but I'm pretty sure they cut that option as well, possibly due to it being too last second of an addition. Still some recorded lines of both male inquis remain in game for romancing solas, unlike how others are muted (ie iif you mod it for a male inquis to romance cullen, all the inquis dialogue will be silent as nothing was recorded for that option)

Huh, cool stuff again! 😁😁😁 Meeting the Architect would have been AMAZING, though I do wonder if they'd have used the 'body-hopping' technique of Cory's to explain his presence in the world states where Archie was killed! 😁 And the shadow of a possibility with Anders, oh my! Also very thought-inducing! Especially regarding what he woulda thought of the mage/templar situation in 9:40. Also, fully agree on the Skyhols attack front - having Cory and the dragon swoop down on all that we'd built throughout the game would really put things into perspective! Thanks for putting this together, will definitely be on the lookout for new vids once there is more info about DA:D! 😉😁

Controversial or not, divine inquisitor would’ve been a wonderful option. To outright say what you want to do with Templars and mages would’ve fixed a lot of the problems that are implied with asking for help closing the breach and who you end up with as divine and the loss of context about what they do as divine. As cool as the decision is in the base game, I just can’t comprehend the technicalities of Vivienne’s decisions as divine and same with Leliana’s free mages; we don’t really see how any of that turns out and nobody outright says anything about it. To add to the (minor) issues with trespasser, if Fiona is a free mage either through earning the circle’s trust with Vivienne or Leliana’s liberation, why wouldn’t she show up to discuss things with us or the elected divine? The fact that Vivienne and Fiona start rivalling circles is very confusing.

Wow i didn't know that we almost got a game without Cullen and Solas' romances ! As they are both my favorite romances (Cullen lover all the way haha) I think my experience of the game would have been much different x)

Interesting they removed the "Cole taken over by Corypheus" part due to combat balance... but then take Iron Bull away from you in Trespasser depending on how his personal arc played out. So you end up in a 3 vs. mob + Bull.

In my first playthrough I expected a siege on Skyhold, it would have been epic💀

Cory attacking Skyhold would have been interesting, maybe not him but his forces trying to pin the Inquisition down after he learns of their survival. Similar to how Loghain sends Zevran after the Wardens in Origins after he learns of their survival. Also Bioware using the same engine as another EA game is quite interesting, I wonder if that is another mess that EA made in an effort to use in-house stuff (so to speak) to maybe keep costs down thus turn more of a profit? But I'm glad they pushed it back a year, the 'Human Only' didn't really go down that well for DA2 after the awesomeness that is Origins. Hopefully EA loosing the sole rights to the Star Wars games will be a kick to their ego and will let Bioware take their time with DA4/Dreadwolf.

Honestly, it's stuff like this that gives me less and less hope for DA4. They never listen to their fanbase, and always cut out the content their fans want for the oddest of reasons. The only content they cut that I'm actually grateful for is the Exalted March DLC, where Varric was supposed to die. Honestly I'm just done with DA.

You should 100% do a "What do we know about Dread wolf" type video!

Bioware's primary idea was to make Cassandra advisor and Cullen a party companion instead of her. I wonder how that would've turn out.

Another piece of cut content I stumbled across when trying to mod the game is that you were originally supposed to go to the Grand Cathedral, which was most likely part of the pre-COTJ templar plot as a mirror to the pre-IHW Redcliffe part of the mage plot. There are references to the Grand Cathedral in relation to the COTJ plot, and Knight-Captain Denam's in-code description mentions that he guards the Grand Cathedral and won't let you in. I am very bummed that this didn't make it into the final cut, especially since it would likely have meant more characterization for Knight-Captain Denam, who got very little characterization and not even as much as a backstory.

Some of these sound so compelling, I really hoped when the last quest came that Corypheus would attack Skyhold. I mean, you spend all your time customizing it and talking to people there, to have that attacked would be so much more dramatic than just booking it back to Haven because he's yoinked the temple out of the ground like a shitty MCU Ultron gambit. Also think that Cole's third option would've actually been more interesting. We don't get enough opportunities for party members to turn on you like in Origins. They just begrudgingly put up with your shit. Iron Bull's arm canon should definitely be an Inky thing next game, even if we only see the inquisitor very rarely. Interesting that Anders had concept art like that. I wonder if that's for an Anders Hawke didn't keep around or an Anders that stuck around til the end or romanced. Had no idea about the Architect!! Such a cool character that has barely been mentioned since Awakening.

Can't remember if I commented this but recently found your channel and really like your Dragon Age content 👍

It's very unfortunate that they cut part of the story, the game definitely has an "intro, Act.I and Act.I,I" I felt like we needed an act.III, it doesn't needed to be as many things to do like 1 and 2, hear me out. On the first act, we crush half of his army in a single blow, in the second, we deal with his influence in Thedas politics, he them would've attacked Skyhold, but this time without success, now with no army, no influence, he would do the only thing left, to summon the darkspawn through his dragon, so we'd get a main mission in Orzammar, some new quests on the Storm Coast and Crestwood, and another main mission somewhere else in Orlais or the Free Marches (I'd prefer the later), not big, just to deal with a Darkspawn Horde on one and one of those darkspawn broodmother, then we'd proceed to Haven Again. That's why I gave the game an score of an 8.5, I felt like we needed more darkspawn centered missions, because Coryfenis is frickin one...

Frostbite really screwed Bioware. Was there any game they released after they switched, that didn't include the phrase "troubles during development because of Frostbite"? It's funny how Square-Enix faced the same problem. It seems RPGs are really demanding.

dang - that pre alpha build looked great.

I would've loved to meet the Architect in DA:I.

I understand the developers originally intended to give Cole a really weird looking hat. Too bad that got cut.

From everything I’ve been reading. Inky is coming back for DA4 Dread Wolf. Sooo, I’m like 90% sure they are going to do the one armed warrior thing. Much like Gutz from Berserk had one arm wielding a massive Sword and the other arm was mechanical that shot arms like a crossbow. I could see Bianca and Varric taking Inky somewhere, where Bianca could design a new mechanical weapon. Specifically for the use of the “Heist” missions. Such as a Grappling Hook launcher, a grenade launcher and a crossbow all in one.

meeting anders it woulbe amazing

I remember when I beat Inquisition I felt disappointed it felt like I had only beaten half a game so many storylines seemed to have been rushed or cut short especially the Mage/Templar War

All that aside, i'm still mad that we didn't had the chance to upgrade our companions quarters! I mean look at bulls and cullens bedroom! They fight alongside me/for me and all they get is a trash-hole with a collapsing roof 😅 wth??

I love your video, it is very well documented. Greetings from Spain. I m so sorry for my bad english xd

Man, hearing about Inquisition’s development gives me Andromeda vibes.

Huh, the Gatlok Bull.

I really hope they bring back our inquisitor I want to play them again because the whole solas romance drama would be so perfect for the game.

The fort stuff shown in the pre alpha demo seemed so cool and interesting. I felt like there was gonna be more dynamic fort stuff when managing the inquisition like you could see the results in more than just the war table text. Inquisition ended up being my least favorite dragon age game I'm hoping the next da takes more from origins and 2 than inquisition

A male Divine would've made no sense, but man, it would've been so cool and chaotic. Like, Thedas would've descended into utter chaos. I'm here for it, TBH.

Dragon Age: Absolution should be released this year. I think it will be good material for content. Maybe it will even be a good show

You sound like Collette! (From the Frostback Basin).

We didn’t get keep options that had it like MEA !!!

It recently come on x box game pass, and its my secound play through, brilliant game.

And the great content keeps coming

All these cut content videos from all the games makes me really optimistic for Dreadwolf. There's so many great ideas here, and if they were cut from previous games it's likely at least some of them will come back in the future. It's been almost 10 years since Inquisition, so they've had so much time to perfect it. Granted, it has been an insanely troublesome development cycle.

I Hi love your videos i have 2 questions do you have a twitch and will you do a walkthrough one day as I can't find any good walkthroughs of the trilogy

I hope they remaster the trilogy and we get all the cut content

I absolutely love your content, I could listen to you reading the phonebook with that adorkable accent, the fact you're talking Dragon Age is just the chefs kiss. Keep up the great work.

I thought the Solas section also deserved the mention of he was supposed to be bisexual, has recorded lines and everything, but they cut that out in the end

morrigan explaining everything to a dalish inquisitor is such an ick for me i can’t even begin to explain. it would’ve looked a lot better if in some scenes instead of morrigan inquisitor would explain things or translated some phrases that are written in the temple of mythal. like, come on, it’s that easy!!! i really like morrigan, but girl, do you really think you know more about dalish gods and culture than a dalish inquisitor, or formerly even clan’s first, if you play as a mage. WHO ARE LITERALLY NEXT TO KEEPERS IN PRESERVING ELVEN LANGUAGE AND LORE. and the scene when it is decided who is going to take a dive in a well of sorrows just infuriates me. like is that even a question, especially when you play as a dalish and morrigan says she is better suited to use the knowledge of the well. just no.

Great vid

Bioware should have cut the multiplayer. The pc divine should have been for only human female, like the human noble only can king/queen. I would have wanted to play only human with a deeper personal story for the inquistor. P.S. I like playing as an other race but dragon age 2 and Inquisition really didn't fit the story with different races.

God I knew there was messing content but not this much. Dang I hope the next game doesn't have any of these limitations.

Good to know! One more sub!

I'd be happy to see you play a DA game if you feel like posting it

its their own fault for choosing an engine that wasnt meant for what they wanted. but can't live w/out that multiplayer!

Very interesting. I have to begin saying that for me Inquisition is a game that failed to deliver, I loved DAO and DA2, and Inquisition simply didn't click that much with me. Some the many reasons are the Story, the companions, many of the mechanics, and the Protagonist itself, I totally felt connected with my Mage Warden and my Hawke, but the Inquisitior was just so bland and boring for me. Still, I don't think Inquisition is overall a bad game, just kind of mediocre. I find more interesting the Architect version of Here Lies the Abyss than the one we got (and that quest was one of the few parts of the story that I liked). But I still think that the Hero of Ferelden (or the Orlesian Warden) should had been the Warden character that joined you for that mission. I am curious about the Wicked Eyes Wicked Hearts different versions, because I loathe the one we got for completely. I am also curious about the third option with Cole, I would have also liked to see the option were Corypheus controlled him, but that's me, because overall I don't like Cole 😂 (the last playthrough I didn't even recruit him anymore). Corypheus is not even hard compared to his DA2 fight, so having 3 characters wasn't much of a problem. Cool video, tho.

Cut content are you gonna talk about the original mass effect dragon age ending they had or are you still stuck on the non important stuff?

If all of these had found their way into the game, I kight have even liked it.

I'm still salty about how they released keeps

I sad i wise had kept all cut content game would dragon age 3 so much better

This video only exemplifies why I hate EA, always ruining fantastic franchises for a quick buck.

Your inquisitor is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pretty

The game was initially pitched as being a direct continuation of dragon age 2, where you would have played as hawke again.this was changed after the backlash of 2.

huh, didn't make it into the game.... but fanfictions written by fans, now that's another story (pun intended)

I would've like it if Cory DID attack Skyhold or kill off one of the advisers

Does it have to be tea?

Thats not why Bioware picked Frostbite. They picked it because EA forced them.

I can't help but really dislike Inquisition in retrospect. It felt very out of touch with the previous two games. It's sad that the one game in the series I think is worth skipping is the biggest one

This game's development is truly a mess.