Interesting. Glad to see customisation return and the castle idea is a good if obvious one, but the way they're handling the Origin story sounds like it'll just be like in the original Mass Effect. NPCs will likely make reference but I don't see them making it impact the story in any meaningful way.

In before "OMG i hated dragon age 2 i'm not buying this." Yes, and thank you for that information, good to know, moving on.

Anyway. I'm pretty excited about DA3, love where the story is going. Companion customization kind of makes me nervous, though, as sorting and equipping was pretty tedious in DA:O. I hope they've improved upon that by a lot or it's going to be annoying.

Castle customization sounds interesting, though.